Reply With QuoteOh hell no!Originally Posted by Primavera
Damn, I bet Barbados doesn't have a Navy big enough to run off one of China's super fishing megaships.
Them things are like "War of The Worlds" level.
Oderint dum metuant
Doesn't everyone?
Semolina comes from wheat
Oh hell no!
Damn, I bet Barbados doesn't have a Navy big enough to run off one of China's super fishing megaships.
Them things are like "War of The Worlds" level.
cancel2 2022 (12-01-2021)
Canceled
He's attempting to rewrite history yet again, the Russian blood is strong in this one.
In Brazil the wounds of slavery will not heal
By Thomas Milz | 13.05.2018
Brazil abolished slavery 130 years ago, but its society has failed to deal with the crimes that took place. Many Afro-Brazilians remain trapped in a cycle of violence and slave labor, legacies of Brazil's slave trade.
Evidence of the massive crime remained hidden for a very long time. Before his Italian bride arrived in September 1843, Emperor Pedro II of Brazil ordered the wharf at Rio de Janeiro's old harbor filled in. Between 1774 and 1831, some 700,000 slaves disembarked here, more than any other place in the world. Yet the emperor wanted nothing to do with that fact.
Africans who died during the passage to Brazil were often carried up into the nearby hills, where their bodies were thrown into piles stacked between household refuse and dead cows. In 1996, a family discovered the remnants of this "Cemetery of New Blacks" (Cemeterio dos Pretos Novos) under the foundation of their house. The commemorative site they created is now about to be closed. Brazil's government hasn't given them a penny in years.
Rio's Valongo wharf, on the other hand, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site a year ago. The excavated slave docklands are the heart of a neighborhood known as "Little Africa." It is a model tourist magnet. Still, reminders of slavery seem to be unwelcome on an official level in Brazil, even today.
Forced decision
The Golden Law, issued by Princess Imperial Isabel on May 13, 1888, officially ended slavery in Brazil. Its abolition came without a bloody civil war as in the United States (1861-1865) or a slave rebellion as in Haiti (1794). When England prohibited Brazil's transatlantic slave trade by passing the Aberdeen Act in 1845, Brazilian plantations were faced with a labor shortage. That shortage was compensated with European immigrants, who did not have to fight for their freedom as slaves often did.
Brazil did not end slavery until the economic system it was based upon could no longer be maintained. It was the last country in the Americas to do so. The legacy of 350 years was staggering: Half of all slaves that crossed the Atlantic landed in Brazil; two million of them in Rio alone, another 5.8 million along the coast.
Brazilian plantations exhibited a ravenous hunger for human flesh throughout the era of slavery. It is estimated that 1 in 10 Africans died during the transatlantic crossing. When ships arrived, families were split up. The men were sent to work the fields of the country's most remote regions, while the women, raped by their white masters, brought forth generation after generation of new Brazilians. It seems the white masters were not content to exploit nature and man — they dominated their servants literally down to their flesh and bones.
An estimated 1 in 10 Africans died during the transatlantic crossing. Despite that, the belief that slavery in Brazil was more humane than elsewhere still persists today. Images and reports from that time — which rarely if ever gave witness to the gruesome reality of the situation — helped create the myth. When Brazil's slaves were finally set free in 1888, they faced economic catastrophe rather than experiencing the officially proclaimed jubilation of freedom. They were simply left to their individual fates — without land, without money and without an education. And that is largely where their descendants still stand today.
Millions of Afro-Brazilians today live in the same precarious circumstances that their forebears faced 130 years ago. The impoverished favela shacks that populate the outskirts of Brazil's major cities are not unlike those of the 19th century. Millions of Brazilians have yet to become a welcome part of society. Young blacks make up two-thirds of Brazil's 60,000 victims of violent crime each year. They also make up two-thirds of the country's prison population.
Brazil offers them no other perspective than the cycle of violence that is rooted in the age of slavery — namely, rebellion against a hostile society and violence against each other. Whereas whites are as untouchable today as they were back then, black violence in all of its desperation and self-hatred is directed toward other blacks.
The legacy of slavery is not easily shaken off, says Italian psychoanalyst Contardo Calligaris, who has lived in Brazil since the 1980s. He says every Brazilian carries the figure of the brutally dominant "colonizer" and "exploiter" within them. "Every single relationship in the power structure of Brazil is inhabited by the specter of slavery," says Calligaris. Power, he says, is also articulated through corporeal dominance — it is the noisy ghost of slavery that refuses to go away.
https://m.dw.com/en/in-brazil-the-wo...eal/a-43754519
Last edited by cancel2 2022; 12-01-2021 at 08:32 PM.
Canceled
Cricket legend Sir Garfield Sobers in 'shock' over Barbados' decision to become a republic
BARBADOS' decision to become a republic has been criticised by the West Indies all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal...ce-charles-ont
Canceled
You can be damn sure they'll be a shark fin processing factory there soon enough. The Chicoms plan to over fish the Caribbean, just like they do everywhere rlse, ask the West Africans.
Last edited by cancel2 2022; 12-01-2021 at 09:27 PM.
Canceled
The Barnett Formula was conceived originally as a short term measure to get the Labour government off the hook prior to planned devolution in 1979.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_formula
Oderint dum metuant
Don't tell Guano.
Oderint dum metuant
He's a sex pest that stalked women online, and I have copies of the restraining orders.
Senior Member
The War of Northern Aggression was about STATES RIGHTS not slavery
Verified User
Damn was that stupid, even by your standards. You have to be kidding.
Canceled
You really should learn to shut the fuck up sometimes.
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetec...the-civil-war/A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the federal government so they could abolish federal laws they didn't support, especially laws interfering with the South's right to keep slaves and take them wherever they wished. Another factor was territorial expansion.
DeadHead
Try reading for comprehension as if English were your native language.
I clearly and explicitly wrote that Barbados and the sugar cane islands of the Caribbean were ground zero of Britain's introduction of African chattel slavery to the western hemisphere...not Portugal's, which is a separate topic.
Canceled
.
True irony, countries like Barbados will discover soon enough the dark side to Chicom dominance.
How China is colonising the Commonwealth
As Britain beats itself up over our imperial past - and slavery - countries once loyal to the Crown are kneeling to Beijing which is building its own empire and enslaving a million Uighurs
Putting an end to the Queen’s 55-year-long role as its head of state, Barbados this week became a republic. But more significantly, as well as losing a monarch, the West Indian island gained an emperor.
For, in place of Elizabeth II, a new ruler is lurking behind the scenes: the Chinese strongman leader-for-life Xi Jinping.
The 287,000 people who live in Barbados are just the latest pawns in the sights of the Beijing regime as part of its unwavering policy of world domination.
Surely, too, it was not a coincidence that this week, in a highly unusual intervention, the head of MI6, Richard Moore, delivered a razor-edged warning about what he said are ‘debt traps and data traps’ that China is laying around the world.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...monwealth.html
Last edited by cancel2 2022; 12-04-2021 at 02:49 PM.
Posting Rules
Bookmarks