black historee month

[jah_yout]

garvey ting?

didd natt garvey cawl imm wurst

oww iss itt yuh qwestian carter g woodson motives fe blakk histaree month ann natt dubois motives fe naacp

dubois was da oyinbo man misleader woo putt blakk pon da wrang course. talented tenth= lite skin elitism, naacp = oyinbo created ting fe cantrol ann direct blakks

because unlike you i form independent thought...i don't base all my judgements based on what garvey said...
..
nor have i questioned carter g woodson's motives in 1925...
i questioned gerald ford's motives in 1975

[blugiant]

...they never even talk about haiti...what culture are you claiming when someone else controls the parameters of what is allowed to be discussed?

accidental? NO
..

tekkinn a page fram jy. woo iss dey?


Dutty” Boukman


“Dutty” Boukman. If they do, they might know he was a houngan or vodun priest. Or they might even know that it was his anti-slavery activism that sparked an initial revolt of slaves into a full-scale uprising.



In this, Boukman was the historical descendant of Nat Turner, the enslaved Black American who had also sparked a rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831. Prior to the American Civil War, this revolt resulted in the largest number of fatalities then to occur. Turner’s revolt, like Boukman’s, was met with death: Boukman beheaded; Turner lynched.



However, Turner’s courage also inspired the White abolitionist, John Brown, two decades later. In 1859, Brown tried unsuccessfully to seize the federal armoury at Harper’s Ferry. His subsequent trial, conviction and hanging further increased inflammatory racial tensions. These led to Secession, which led to Civil War. One year after he was hung, former Black slaves marched into war singing, “John Brown’s body lies a-mouldrin’ in the grave, but his soul goes marchin’ on…”



So, too, with Boukman. His death did not kill the chantuelles he had taught his followers; chants they sang, fearlessly running into the jaws of death: of cannon, grapeshot and musket fire. Ill-armed, barefoot, hungry, but organized and led by Toussaint, they defeated huge odds: Britain’s armada of 218 ships.



Even fewer people know that Boukman was not Haitian, but Jamaican. A Maroon. And possibly a Muslim. His name is probably derived from the nickname, “bookman”, a term used to describe slaves able to read the Quran.



Boukman had been a slave in Jamaica. There he had been caught, not only being able to read, but also teaching other slaves to read. The moniker, “Dutty” was not complimentary. It summed up how slave owners viewed slaves who were literate. Before being sold off from Jamaica to slave owners in Haiti, he was punished by lashes with thongs to his back.



As cruel as this punishment was, it was nonetheless mild, relative to what could have occurred had he been caught being able to read in Barbados. In the same way gunpowder was rammed into the mouth of a cannon before an attached fuse was lit, so was gunpowder and fuse rammed up the anus of literate slaves; a punishment called, “blowin away the arse of a n_ _ _ _r”.



But who was Boukman? And who, apart from being a Jamaican, a houngan, a Maroon and the slave who lit the fire that blazed into freeing Haiti of slavery, thus hastening the ending of slavery in this hemisphere from the Carolinas to the Cayman Islands; from the Blue Mountains to Cerro Aripo?



He was described as someone huge, imposing, with a volcanic temper, magnetic influence, vast leadership skills, and as courageous as he was fearsome. Bought and brought into Haiti, he had been made slave driver on a plantation. This position gave him room to create secret meetings with the slaves.



What Boukman sparked started at Alligator Swamp, or in Creole, Bois Caiman. What occurred there is now talismanic, epic, mythic. Something not unusual for details magnified when a single action results in such vast and irreversible consequences.



However, what is clear is who called the meeting of slaves, why, and what followed? Boukman demanded that each one present take a blood oath: “end slavery or die”. A date, set for beginning the uprising was moved up because some of the conspirators had been caught. In addition, there were other forces at play, ironically from within Republican France itself. The “metropole” created conditions which would ironically free “property” in the “hinterland”. The fervour of the slaves for freedom had been stirred in particular by the National Constituent Assembly of Republican France adopting “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen”, on August 26, 1789.

[jah_yout]

tekkinn a page fram jy. woo iss dey?

"they" are the global mass media and education systems..public schools and publications and public discourse

Dutty” Boukman

it's great that we know about him, and we didn't (at least i didn't) learn about him due to "black history month"...

so "they" are gerald ford, the media, the school systems and slave-minded knee-grows

[blugiant]

"they" are the global mass media and education systems..public schools and publications and public discourse



it's great that we know about him, and we didn't (at least i didn't) learn about him due to "black history month"...

so "they" are gerald ford, the media, the school systems and slave-minded knee-grows

yuh xxpekk oyinbo media ann miseducatesham system fe doo da wukk blakks too lazee fe do

oww religions can be used to enslaved ann free tings. voodoo iss great religious psychologikkal tool

[blugiant]

British colonial official with Islamic slave traders in Zanzibar. On the far right is Hamad bin Mohamed bin Jumah bin Rajab bin Mohamed bin Said al-Murghabi, more commonly known as Tippu Tip. He was the most notorious Islamic slaver. al-Murghabi died in 1905.

http://www.reunionblackfamily.com/british%20arabs%20slavery.jpg

The single most effective White propaganda assertion that continues to make it very difficult for us to reconstruct the African social systems of mutual trust broken down by U.S. Slavery is the statement, unqualified, that, "We sold each other into slavery." Most of us have accepted this statement as true at its face value. It implies that parents sold their children into slavery to Whites, husbands sold their wives, even brothers and sisters selling each other to the Whites. It continues to perpetuate a particularly sinister effluvium of Black character. But deep down in the Black gut, somewhere beneath all the barbecue ribs, gin and whitewashed religions, we know that we are not like this.

This singular short tart claim, that "We sold each other into slavery", has maintained in a state of continual flux our historical basis for Black-on-Black self love and mutual cooperation at the level of Class.

The period from the beginning of the TransAtlantic African Slave so-called Trade (1500) to the demarcation of Africa into colonies in the late 1800s is one of the most documented periods in World History. Yet, with the exception of the renegade African slave raider Tippu Tip of the Congo Arabs(Muslim name, Hamed bin Muhammad bin Juna al-Marjebi) who was collaborating with the White Arabs (also called Red Arabs) there is little documentation of independent African slave raiding. By independent is meant that there were no credible threats, intoxicants or use of force by Whites to force or deceive the African into slave raiding or slave trading and that the raider himself was not enslaved to Whites at the time of slave raiding or "trading". Trade implies human-to-human mutuality without force. This was certainly not the general scenario for the TransAtlantic so-called Trade in African slaves. Indeed, it was the Portuguese who initiated the European phase of slave raiding in Africa by attacking a sleeping village in 1444 and carting away the survivors to work for free in Europe.

Even the case of Tippu Tip may well fall into a category that we might call the consequences of forced cultural assimilation via White (or Red) Arab Conquest over Africa. Tippu Tip s father was a White (or Red) Arab slave raider, his mother an unmixed African slave. Tip was born out of violence, the rape of an African woman. It is said that Tip, a "mulatto", was merciless to Africans.

The first act against Africa by Whites was an unilateral act of war, announced or unannounced. There were no African Kings or Queens in any of the European countries nor in the U.S. when ships set sail for Africa to capture Africans for profit. Whites had already decided to raid for slaves. They didn't need our agreement on that. Hence, there was no mutuality in the original act. The African so-called slave "trade" was a demand-driven market out of Europe and America, not a supply-driven market out of Africa. We did not seek to sell captives to the Whites as an original act. Hollywood s favorite is showing Blacks capturing Blacks into slavery, as if this was the only way capture occurred. There are a number of ways in which capture occurred. Let s dig a little deeper into this issue.

Chancellor Williams, in his classic work, The Destruction of Black Civilization, explains that after the over land passage of African trade had been cut off at the Nile Delta by the White Arabs in about 1675 B.C. (the Hyksos), the Egyptian/African economy was thrown into a recession. There is even indication of "pre-historic" aggression upon Africa by White nomadic tribes (the Palermo Stone).. This culminated as an unfortunate trade, in that, when the White Arabs attacked, they had the benefit of the knowledge and strength of Africans on their side, as their slaves. This is a significantly different picture than the propaganda that we sold our immediate family members into slavery to the Whites.

It becomes a kind of racism; that, while all ethnic groups have sold its own ethnic group into slavery, Blacks can't do it. When Eastern Europeans fight each other it is not called tribalism. Ethnic cleansing is intended to make what is happening to sound more sanitary. What it really is, is White Tribalism pure and simple.

The fact of African resistance to European Imperialism and Colonialism is not well known, though it is well documented. Read, for instance, Michael Crowder (ed.), West African Resistance, Africana Publishing Corporation, New York, 1971. Europeans entered Africa in the mid 1400 s and early 1500 s during a time of socio-political transition. Europeans chose a favorite side to win between African nations at a war and supplied that side with guns, a superior war instrument. In its victory, the African side with guns rounded up captives of war who were sold to the Europeans in exchange for more guns or other barter. Whites used these captives in their own slave raids. These captives often held pre-existing grudges against groups they were ordered to raid, having formerly been sold into slavery themselves by these same groups as captives in inter-African territorial wars. In investigating our history and capture, a much more completed picture emerges than simply that we sold each other into slavery.

The Ashanti, who resisted British Imperialism in a Hundred Years War, sold their African captives of war and criminals to other Europeans, the Portuguese, Spanish, French, in order to buy guns to maintain their military resistance against British Imperialism (Michael Crowder, ed., West African Resistance).

Eric A. Walker, in A History of Southern Africa, Longmans, London, 1724, chronicles the manner in which the Dutch entered South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope. Van Riebeeck anchored at the Cape with his ships in 1652 during a time that the indigenous Khoi Khoi or Khoisan (derogatorily called Hottentots) were away hunting. The fact of their absence is the basis of the White "claim" to the land. But there had been a previous encounter with the Khoi Khoi at the Cape in 1510 with the Portuguese Ship Almeida. States Eric A. Walker, "Affonso de Albuquerque was a conscious imperialist whose aim was to found self-sufficing colonies and extend Portuguese authority in the East&He landed in Table Bay, and as it is always the character of the Portuguese to endeavor to rob the poor natives of the country, a quarrel arose with the Hottentots, who slew him and many of his companions as they struggled towards their boats through the heavy sand of Salt River beach." (Ibid. p. 17). Bartholomew Diaz had experienced similar difficulties with the indigenous Xhosa of South Africa in 1487, on his way to "discovering" a "new" trade route to the East. The conflict ensued over a Xhosa disagreement over the price Diaz wanted to pay for their cattle. The Xhosa had initially come out meet the Whites, playing their flutes and performing traditional dance.

In 1652, knowing that the indigenous South Africans were no pushovers, Van Riebeeck didn't waste any time. As soon as the Khoi Khoi returned from hunting, Van Riebeeck accused them of stealing Dutch cattle. Simply over that assertion, war broke out, and the superior arms of the Dutch won. South African Historian J. Congress Mbata best explains this dynamic in his lectures, available at the Cornell University Africana Studies Department. Mbata provides three steps: 1) provocation by the Whites, 2) warfare and, 3) the success of a superior war machinery.

There are several instances in which Cecil Rhodes, towards the end of the 19th Century, simply demonstrated the superiority of the Maxim Machine Gun by mowing down a corn field in a matter of minutes. Upon such demonstrations the King and Queen of the village, after consulting the elders, signed over their land to the Whites. These scenarios are quite different from the Hollywood version, and well documented.

It has been important to present the matters above to dispel the notion of an African slave trade that involved mutuality as a generalized dynamic on the part of Africans. If we can accept the documented facts of our history above and beyond propaganda, we can begin to heal. We can begin to love one another again and go on to regain our liberties on Earth.

Respectfully,

Oscar L. Beard, B.A., RPCV

http://www.reunionblackfamily.com/apps/blog/show/11782086-we-did-not-sell-each-other-into-slavery

[jah_yout]

"they" are the global mass media and education systems..public schools and publications and public discourse



it's great that we know about him, and we didn't (at least i didn't) learn about him due to "black history month"...

so "they" are gerald ford, the media, the school systems and slave-minded knee-grows

yuh xxpekk oyinbo media ann miseducatesham system fe doo da wukk blakks too lazee fe do

that's exactly my point...blacks need to educate themselves and their own...not beg the shytstem for a month out of the year in their schools & media...this is ultimately self-defeating...what we need is year-round true history, not month-long black history..."black history" can not be separated from american nor world history...on any continent...

oww religions can be used to enslaved ann free tings. voodoo iss great religious psychologikkal tool

exactly---religion (which vodoo is also a form of) can be used to enslave or to liberate...

the greatest tool the oppressor has is the mind of the oppressed

[Tropicana]

I used to do exactly what blugiant is doing but in pre-internet days. Every February I would assemble Black history packages and distribute a variety of articles and lists of resources. I would offer them to people I knew who were not conscious. No one ever turned me down. I did that for years with lots of information about African history as well as the contributions of Black people in the diaspora. It is not an either or proposition. We can't erase slavery from history and pretend it didn't happen. The totality of our history has to be covered. Research takes a LOT of work. Used to have time for it, not so much any more though the Internet has made it easier.

Glad to see blugiant taking this on.

[Wahalla]

tekkinn a page fram jy. woo iss dey?


Dutty” Boukman


“Dutty” Boukman. If they do, they might know he was a houngan or vodun priest. Or they might even know that it was his anti-slavery activism that sparked an initial revolt of slaves into a full-scale uprising.



In this, Boukman was the historical descendant of Nat Turner, the enslaved Black American who had also sparked a rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831. Prior to the American Civil War, this revolt resulted in the largest number of fatalities then to occur. Turner’s revolt, like Boukman’s, was met with death: Boukman beheaded; Turner lynched.



However, Turner’s courage also inspired the White abolitionist, John Brown, two decades later. In 1859, Brown tried unsuccessfully to seize the federal armoury at Harper’s Ferry. His subsequent trial, conviction and hanging further increased inflammatory racial tensions. These led to Secession, which led to Civil War. One year after he was hung, former Black slaves marched into war singing, “John Brown’s body lies a-mouldrin’ in the grave, but his soul goes marchin’ on…”



So, too, with Boukman. His death did not kill the chantuelles he had taught his followers; chants they sang, fearlessly running into the jaws of death: of cannon, grapeshot and musket fire. Ill-armed, barefoot, hungry, but organized and led by Toussaint, they defeated huge odds: Britain’s armada of 218 ships.



Even fewer people know that Boukman was not Haitian, but Jamaican. A Maroon. And possibly a Muslim. His name is probably derived from the nickname, “bookman”, a term used to describe slaves able to read the Quran.



Boukman had been a slave in Jamaica. There he had been caught, not only being able to read, but also teaching other slaves to read. The moniker, “Dutty” was not complimentary. It summed up how slave owners viewed slaves who were literate. Before being sold off from Jamaica to slave owners in Haiti, he was punished by lashes with thongs to his back.



As cruel as this punishment was, it was nonetheless mild, relative to what could have occurred had he been caught being able to read in Barbados. In the same way gunpowder was rammed into the mouth of a cannon before an attached fuse was lit, so was gunpowder and fuse rammed up the anus of literate slaves; a punishment called, “blowin away the arse of a n_ _ _ _r”.



But who was Boukman? And who, apart from being a Jamaican, a houngan, a Maroon and the slave who lit the fire that blazed into freeing Haiti of slavery, thus hastening the ending of slavery in this hemisphere from the Carolinas to the Cayman Islands; from the Blue Mountains to Cerro Aripo?



He was described as someone huge, imposing, with a volcanic temper, magnetic influence, vast leadership skills, and as courageous as he was fearsome. Bought and brought into Haiti, he had been made slave driver on a plantation. This position gave him room to create secret meetings with the slaves.



What Boukman sparked started at Alligator Swamp, or in Creole, Bois Caiman. What occurred there is now talismanic, epic, mythic. Something not unusual for details magnified when a single action results in such vast and irreversible consequences.



However, what is clear is who called the meeting of slaves, why, and what followed? Boukman demanded that each one present take a blood oath: “end slavery or die”. A date, set for beginning the uprising was moved up because some of the conspirators had been caught. In addition, there were other forces at play, ironically from within Republican France itself. The “metropole” created conditions which would ironically free “property” in the “hinterland”. The fervour of the slaves for freedom had been stirred in particular by the National Constituent Assembly of Republican France adopting “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen”, on August 26, 1789.

This exactly y I don't like black history month......

The statement that Boukman was the historical descendant of Nat Turner.....is nonsense and ignorance by the writer....who sees the world from a yanki paradigm..... And his statement that the term Dutty......

What Boukman achieved is the mass mobilisation of a society across every stratum....

Boukman was a Obeahman....the oath was pure obeah....and in my mind the claim that he was a Muslim based on his name is an attempt to hijack his legasy.....no way a believer in Islam would have made people take the oath...

I learnt of Boukman he was either a recaptured Runaway of mixed ethnic heritage and that is important...he was sold for teaching others to read and write.....an offence at the time...
The other tale was he was the son of an African chief who had sold him or born him into captivity....another he was a maroon who had been captured....pick ur myth!

The one thing that is enigmatic about Boukman....he was a runaway of multiethnic origin this is important or a captured maroon..and he was badly scarred...yet a runaway who ends up not as only as a driver....(a whipper of blackmen, who had been whipped....not like UncleTom who refused to whip another human)....but he like the saintly Tossaint was a factor......I can understand Tossaint being trusted but a runaway .........but Boukman..???????

I never forgot that some one a popular member who constantly trumpeted his consousness criteria posted on here the claim that Haiti was cursed because of oath of Bosque Caiman..that Haiti had done a deal with the devil....
That is unforgivable.....

[Blackstar*]

This exactly y I don't like black history month......

The statement that Boukman was the historical descendant of Nat Turner.....is nonsense and ignorance by the writer....

Chronologically stupid as Boukman preceded Nat Turner.
Historically stupid as Boukman founded the revolution that led to Haiti's independence from the greatest power in the world at that time.

But from the writer's ignorance, it looks like Black History Month is still needed especially for black people!

BTW, the article appeared in a Canada paper. If the writer is Canadian, he really ought to know better. Shame on him.

[Wahalla]

Chronologically stupid as Boukman preceded Nat Turner.
Historically stupid as Boukman founded the revolution that led to Haiti's independence from the greatest power in the world at that time.

But from the writer's ignorance, it looks like Black History Month is still needed especially for black people!

BTW, the article appeared in a Canada paper. If the writer is Canadian, he really ought to know better. Shame on him.

Kannada= northern yanki!

[blugiant]

This exactly y I don't like black history month......

The statement that Boukman was the historical descendant of Nat Turner.....is nonsense and ignorance by the writer....who sees the world from a yanki paradigm..... And his statement that the term Dutty......

What Boukman achieved is the mass mobilisation of a society across every stratum....

Boukman was a Obeahman....the oath was pure obeah....and in my mind the claim that he was a Muslim based on his name is an attempt to hijack his legasy.....no way a believer in Islam would have made people take the oath...

I learnt of Boukman he was either a recaptured Runaway of mixed ethnic heritage and that is important...he was sold for teaching others to read and write.....an offence at the time...
The other tale was he was the son of an African chief who had sold him or born him into captivity....another he was a maroon who had been captured....pick ur myth!

The one thing that is enigmatic about Boukman....he was a runaway of multiethnic origin this is important or a captured maroon..and he was badly scarred...yet a runaway who ends up not as only as a driver....(a whipper of blackmen, who had been whipped....not like UncleTom who refused to whip another human)....but he like the saintly Tossaint was a factor......I can understand Tossaint being trusted but a runaway .........but Boukman..???????

I never forgot that some one a popular member who constantly trumpeted his consousness criteria posted on here the claim that Haiti was cursed because of oath of Bosque Caiman..that Haiti had done a deal with the devil....
That is unforgivable.....

wahalla sound like carter g woodson criticism aff blakk histaree month

doan limit boukman to "the mass mobilisation of a society across every stratum?"

cah yuh saw oww da european countrees united fe contained haiti. itt watt da french, iinglishs, spanish.etc woo figgit dem own individual interests fe unite fe cantained haiti. doan figgit sum aff da french move dem enslaved africans fram haiti to addar countrees ann dat cause more rebellions inn dose countrees too. look att Louisiana largest slave rebbellion inn merikka ann yuh will see dat itt was tarted by former slaves fram haiti. juss seyinn boukman influence was a latt greater cah sum enslaved inn addar part aff de wurld heard bout dat ann started fe tand upp.

ar yuh figgit dat more dan one third aff da enslaved afrikkans inn ja were muslims woo were sold inna slaveree by dem muslim arab brothers. wen muslims enslaved afrikkan dem forced dem fii give upp dem indigenous religion ann canvert to islam under treat aff death. sum afrikkans canverted to islam wild still maintaininn dem indigenous afrikkan religions. look att christianitee ann yuh will see indigenous afrikkan woo were force to canvert to oyinbo christianitee used sum aff de oyinbo saint woo favored dem indigenous idols fe cantinue warshippinn dem indigenous afrikkan religion like santeria. islam teaches peeps fe die fe dem beeleefs ann combininn itt widd voodoo blood oaths showed da genius aff boukman

doan tink imm origins ar myth cah dem contained seeds aff trooths cah de whole storee natt known

pact widd da devil pat robertson argument fe haiti earthquake. da joke iss da blakk man mekk pact widd blakk god ann dem cawl de blakk man god a devil cah itt led to blakk man beatinn oyinbo ann dem enslavers god

[blugiant]

that's exactly my point...blacks need to educate themselves and their own...not beg the shytstem for a month out of the year in their schools & media...this is ultimately self-defeating...what we need is year-round true history, not month-long black history..."black history" can not be separated from american nor world history...on any continent...



exactly---religion (which vodoo is also a form of) can be used to enslave or to liberate...

the greatest tool the oppressor has is the mind of the oppressed

y yuh tink mii used da storee boukman dat chatt bout voodoo? oyinbo ave made blakks fear voodoo even dough itt a afrikkan system aff beeleef like christianitee. y didd dem muslim peeps force blakk fe give upp dem indigenous religions ann accept islam dat justify slaveree wild chattinn nunsense bout a religion of equalitee ann brotherhood. diss goes against yuh argument dat blakk histaree began widd slaveree cah yuh kno arabs were enslavinn afrikkans 500 ears fore oyinbo

blakk histaree must be separate fram wurld histaree cah deer iss natt wan wurld histaree

so iff dem brainwashed da mind aff da appressed dat mind dat blakk peeps can awlso use brainwashinn fe liberate da mind aff da appressed

[Tropicana]

y yuh tink mii used da storee boukman dat chatt bout voodoo? oyinbo ave made blakks fear voodoo even dough itt a afrikkan system aff beeleef like christianitee.

Just because it is an African belief system does not make it right. How can we expect. Got to bless us if we disrespect Him? There is no culture that is perfect. We need to evaluate African cultures and take what is of value. There is no need to just swallow everything.

[blugiant]

Chronologically stupid as Boukman preceded Nat Turner.
Historically stupid as Boukman founded the revolution that led to Haiti's independence from the greatest power in the world at that time.

But from the writer's ignorance, it looks like Black History Month is still needed especially for black people!

BTW, the article appeared in a Canada paper. If the writer is Canadian, he really ought to know better. Shame on him.

innaccuracies need fe be carrected butt clever writers kno oww fe use inaccuracies to create futher discussions pon a tapic

y yuh tink canadians fe kno bettar wen mii doan see canadians usinn diss tredd fe poas bout canada histaree aff slaveree

nuttinn bout da underground railroad, slaves woo dem shipped to canada fram addar islands

mii wood luv fe see canadians chatt bout da indigenous indians woo enslaved blakks

[blugiant]

Just because it is an African believe system does not make it right. How can we expect. Got to bless us if we disrespect Him. There is no culture that is perfect. We need to evaluate African cultures and take what is of value. There is no need to just swallow everything.

True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages
Ancient Egypt teaching



right ar wrang based pon moralitee fe judge right ar wrang is circular reasoninn

da afrikkan mind been taught to defend oyinbo beeleef systems wild qwestianinn da afrikkan beeleef system

woo iss imm? ar yuh chattinn bout religious systems aff beeleef woo beelive inn a god dat legitimized da enslavement aff afrikkans ann da supremacee aff oyinbo ann arabs. cah dat realitee iss boat islam ann christiany warship da same god.