#Blaxit is making a huge comeback as many African Americans are deciding to LEAVE the USA forever, some are going overseas while others return home.
2020-06-27
I suspect, like all the anti-Trumpers who swore they’d leave the country if he win the election in 2016, but are still here preaching at us, all of those talking about Blaxit will somehow never leave as well.
Forgive us, because we sold them,' says African ambassador on possible slave ship find
The moment was a profound one for Posset. Not only does he hail from Benin, once known as the Kingdom of Dahomey, where the Clotilda captives were first captured by fellow Africans and then sold to the Americans, but Posset is actually a descendant of the nation's royal family. By the 1800s, the King of Dahomey was making about a quarter of a million dollars a year selling Africans to Europeans, Americans and Brazilians, according to historical records. To put that number in perspective, a quarter of a million dollars in 1860 would be worth roughly $50 million today. The prosperous kingdom was notorious as a hub of the slave trade, and home to the door of no return, through which millions of slaves, including perhaps the Clotilda captives, passed as they were transferred to slave ships for the middle passage.
Asked to explain the words he spoke over the wreck, Posset covered his eyes for a moment as he regained composure and stifled a sob.
"I am just begging them to forgive us, because we sold them. Our forefathers sold their brothers and sisters. I am not the person to talk to them. No! May their souls rest in peace, perfect peace. They should forgive us. They should," Posset said, wiping tears from his cheeks. "Qualified people will come and talk to them in due time. I feel so sad.
"I am a prince of Dahomey," Posset explained later. "It was my ancestors who did this. We have ancestors who came here to this country forced. Forcibly, they didn't choose. I am not insulting those who came here who were forced to come, because they were forced. I am insulting those who sold them back home. No means, no money, no articles, no stuff can buy life, but we sold our people. Brothers sold brothers and sisters. Fathers sold kids and wife. I will never blame those who came here. I will always beg them for forgiveness."
Posset said that even today, people in Benin do not like to sit beside a door when visiting friends.
"That was how you ended up sold. Your friend, your relative, he would already have sold you before he invited you over. He would sit you by the door so when they came at the appointed time, they opened the door and grabbed you. This was even how the heirs to the king would move ahead in line to the throne, selling off rivals," Posset said.
The journal of William Foster, the captain of the Clotilda, provides a detailed historical document regarding the slaving operations in Dahomey at the time of his journey.
"Having agreeably transacted affairs with Prince, we went to the warehouse where they had in confinement four thousand captives in a state of nudity from which they gave me liberty to select one hundred and twenty-five as mine, offering to brand them for me, from which I peremptorily forbid. Commenced taking on cargo of negroes, successfully securing on board one hundred and ten."
Posted by:Mr Obvious
#17 # 11, 12, 13
You know you could actually play this game. And China could be an unwitting ally in it. Far fetched, but do-able.
Posted by: Dron66046
2020-06-27 23:29
#16 Speed the flow. Distribute "reparations," but only from Liberian soil.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources
2020-06-27 18:58
#15 If we could only encourage them to renounce their US citizenship. In fact, if it's that "bad" here, why don't they?
Posted by: Clem
2020-06-27 16:00
#14 Africa, where they will behold the wonders of a real sh!thole and be back here in short order.
Posted by: Dacama
2020-06-27 15:59
#13 ^Yeah, that's the ticket.
Posted by: charger
2020-06-27 15:55
#12 ^The people of Africa eagerly await your leadership?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru
2020-06-27 15:30
#11 #10 Hint for American blacks: In Africa you are not black.
SSSHHH!!!
Don't listen to him, black people.
Africa is a paradise and you should definitely avail yourselves of all its wonders and splendors.
It's your birthright!
Posted by: charger
2020-06-27 15:23
#10 Hint for American blacks: In Africa you are not black.
#9 Lived and worked in Togo for 2 years. The 2 major ethic groups there (Mina and Ewe) are still pissed at each other over the slave trade. I doubt anyone is moving to West Africa. They wouldn't last a month.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy
2020-06-27 11:32
#8 Obviously the Royal Family was secretly white... Because as we all know only whites have ever owned slaves (who were only black).
Posted by: CrazyFool
2020-06-27 11:02
#7
Posted by: DarthVader
2020-06-27 10:29
#6 /\ Such as fatso Amy Shumer, et Al.
Posted by: Clem
2020-06-27 08:04
#5 at the most, you'll get a grass is greener vibe, but ultimately it's easier to sit where you are and complain.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136
2020-06-27 07:58
#4 From Monroe to Marcus Garvey, numerous individuals have pushed this movement to little effect.
Posted by: b
2020-06-27 07:29
#3 Kingdom of Dahomey
Homey don't play dat game
Posted by: Frank G
2020-06-27 06:31
#2 Let's not forget that the King of Dahomey's lucrative business was destroyed by violent British cultural imperialism.
