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An historical and systemic look at the slave trade in Libya today
Dear Editor,
For over 500 years Sub-Saharan Africans have been victims of brutal exploitation in some form or another on a continuous cycle to present day. It started with Arabs, Indians and Europeans and now this exploitation has transformed into a complex systemic approach where blacks are exploiting themselves along with almost every major countries and corporations worldwide.
The Arabs traded slaves across the Sahara desert into modern day Middle East and castrated them, therefore turning blacks into disposable commodities. The Indians traded slaves from East Africa to the West Coast of India as fighters and slave labor and we all know the Europeans traded slaves to the Americas to work the plantations of which we are descendants of.
According to Walter Rodney, in his canonizing book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, the slave trade was rooted in economic dominance driven by European global control of which they enjoy to this day. And a disastrous spin off is the concept of racism, which was created by white people to place themselves as better people over others and of course we know that this is pure nonsense.
The shocking images of my black brothers and sisters being auctioned and sold in Libya is a culmination of three main factors; the desire to have a better life in Europe, the destruction of Libya and Europe’s push to stop migrants coming to their countries. Again like Rodney said, it all spins on the axis of economics and distribution of wealth.
The majority of Sub-Saharan Africans have been living in perpetual poverty and despair ever since white people set foot on that continent 500 years ago with the sole intention to rape Africa of its wealth and oppress its people.
After Africans gained their so-called independence, the White superpowers used Indians, Arabs and other Africans to maintain economic exploitation that resulted into numerous civil wars and genocides on scales that dwarf the Jewish Holocaust. Therefore, this backdrop sets the stage for African wanting a better life in Europe, just like the migration taking place on the Mexican – US border.
Libya spans the largest borderline along Sub-Saharan Africa and the Mediterranean Sea that leads to Europe. And its current state of anarchy is perfect for trafficking. The sad state of Libya today is by design and careful planning by the USA and Europe. They both have a vested interest to kill Gaddafi and take control of Libya’s oil and other resources.
Gaddafi was hard to control and he wanted to move away from the US Dollar as a backed currency and go to the gold standard since Africa has the largest deposits. He further wanted a stronger African Union with a monetary union, like that of the Euro currency.
Libya is now void of an effective Government and rule of law; the country is in total lawlessness littered with Warlords who were armed by the US during the fight against Gaddafi. In this environment, the Africans are being smuggled in route to Europe.
The third factor is Europe’s desire to stop the flow of Africans to their shores. It can be argued that Europe is benefiting from the slave trade in Libya because it deters the migrants. News reports have shown Africans stating that the UN is paying the Warlords for holding the migrants in detention camps where they are being beaten, murdered and traded as slaves for an average cost of US$450.
The sad part is that the final decision to kill Gaddafi and destroy Libya was made by a black man named Obama. Of course he was acting on the orders of the powers that be. These are the same powers that control the Guyanese Government.
Malcolm Watkins
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