Today the white world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day in remembrance of the six million Jews who were killed by Hitler. The Jews, assisted by the west have meticulously recorded for posterity every detail of what happened to them during this time. They have relentlessly hunted down and punished all who were culpable for this heinous act. They also entered an agreement with Germany for reparations in 1952. I have nothing against all that, but juxtapose that against King Leopold II of belgium who killed an estimated 10 million Congolese! Note the use of the word estimated, meaning the number is not even known today. He forced them to work in his farms and those who were not able to meet his demands were either killed or had their limbs amputated. Today to the best of my knowledge, there is no date set aside to remind the world of this atrocity. There has never been any reparation either. Leopold is a national hero in Belgium today and not a villain. He was never vilified or hunted down and the world moves on today. His statue still stands proud in Brussels today.Ironically a minister in DRC tried to put back Leopold’s statue in the streets of Kinshasha in 1985. I think we as Africans will have to get off our butts and start writing our history from our point of view. We will have to take our destiny in our own hands and guide it the way we desire.
something of this nature happened to the Mau Mau but so many fake joined the bandwagon and the process went under (if am not wrong)…
True my brother, what I know is almost all of the world history as is right now is fake.
Especially where it includes the white man, or colonialist. In our case , Kenya is in the same position but the benefactors include our very own Kenyans.
The problem is Africans choose to bring each other down and oppress each other.
Seeing this issue here is a breath of fresh air. Now this a discussion worth having. To be honest the behavior of modern day Israelis is gradually eroding any sort of pity I had for what they underwent during WW II. Hiyo holocaust day wataobserve tu pekee yao because they are repeating the sins of their oppressors.
This is the only thing that matters because most of our leaders collaborate with the west and east to fleece us.
Watakuita anti-semite
Its not that history is fake its just that people are tuned to see it differently.
Nobody will deny forcible deportation of africans across the world. Murder, conspiracy to exterminate, torture and such.
However, mzungus just tune everyone to see it differently. For example:
According to US and her mother, you should see hitler’s, Mao’s, Mussolini’s and Stalin’s crimes as huge atrocities. on the other hand, you should see british empire’s genocidal tendencies, genocide of africans, genocide of the original Americans, genocide of original Australians, bombing of dresden, firebombing of japan, firebombing of vietnam, nuclear bombing of japan, etc, as little skirmishes. And indeed they have employed media and propaganda to that effect and thats how people see these things.
In other words, the idea is to exhort in other people’s crimes while you downplay yours. And as you can see, the world is numbed by this technique. Attempting to use direct lying is less effective and highly risky. Only low life fools resort to direct lying.
Writing our own history begins with you!
If everyone interviewed their own living older relatives e.g your grandparents, you will gather some serious first hand information that you will never read anywhere.
And if you don’t do it,then they die with all that informationand the future generations are then left to rely on fake news as their only source of knowledge and history.
Add to it that the voice and picture industry is dominated bu the Jews. So there are able to package there views and bring them to un right into your sitting room inform of entertainment.
Believe or not, some of the news that have been coming to us from Syria, are just scripted and played in Hollywood.
Hii mambo ya mwafrika ku whine now and then should stop. The Negro should understand ‘NO ONE IS GONNA HAND IT TO HIM’. Sitting there and claiming our ancestors built the pyramid ain’t gonna earn u a spot at the world Arena.
Tuwaroge??
S0me 0f the people here don’t even observe Mashujaa day. Hiyo ni siku ya pombe na malaya.
What’s wrong with that? Hao mashujaa walikufa wakiwa maskini, money is used in remembrance but there wasn’t a token of appreciation when they were alive.
Bildad Kaggia was ridiculed by Jomo Kenyatta for his failure to grab land.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. But, let’s not point a finger at those remembering atrocities that were directed at their people, while us back in .ke have a day to remember the same, but we don’t.
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Watching a documentary about Leopold in Belgium was an eye opener for me. That man is glorified back home and his family still bathes in the fruits of plunder their forefather oversaw. Saitan for real.
You have hit the nail on the head in an eloquent and elucidate manner, bro. When some Kenyans moved to sue Britain for atrocities committed during the Mau Mau war, one of the defences pro-offered by the British Foreign Office was that the crimes against inhumanity occurred so long ago that it was impossible to establish the truth. The same British have however been pursuing cases against Nazis that had occurred 15 years earlier, and supporting the case for the Armenian genocide, which had taken place in 1915!
The fact is, non-Caucasian lives are still considered to be worthless by much of the West. This is why Bush and Blair can start wars that kill millions of Arabs and they are not prosecuted.
I think the Internet is redressing this bit by bit. You can imagine what the situation would have been if the WWW was not there - we prolly would have seen a full-page Reuters commentary in the DN by a White professor about the evils of the Nazis, and the civilising grace of the British Empire. At least now we can expose the hypocrisy here!
This is a lie that has been repeated for far too long. Kindly put up the exact quote by Jomo, because I can.