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Originally Posted by Ananci_7
*sigh*
It’s really a difficult decision to take a hiatus from this site to concentrate on my book, but then again, we seem to just be going round in circles.
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I understand where you're coming from on this one.
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Originally Posted by Ananci_7
Anyway, I was privileged to not only hear Dr Jeffries speak on three separate occasions, but also have a brief conversation with him as well as Trinidadian Dr Tony Martin who is in Trinidad right now, by the way. What is so objectionable may I ask, about his and Dr Martin’s claim that rich Jews financed the enslavement of Africans? Indeed, I find it disingenuous that little mention has been made that in all of their lectures dealing with the involvement of Jews in the enslavement of Africans, Drs Jefferies and Martin also made mention of everyone else, including other Africans, who participated in the Middle Passage.
And for what it’s worth, no one denies that the Jews of the 15th-16th Cs in the royal courts of Catholic Europe were in a very difficult and fragile position. The story of these people including the conversos and Marranos, needs to be examined as an important analysis of the beginnings of modern-day racism. Western media in general and US media in particular, makes it a habit of sensationalising choice bits of a topic and blowing them up to appear as the issue. Rich Jews assisted in the financing of the slave trade, but not only of Africans, other non-Catholic whites as well including, possibly, Jews themselves who refused to convert. But like their modern counterparts the “capos” in the Nazi death camps, theirs was a virtually impossible position that I would not wish on anyone here.
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Having myself seen Dr. Jeffries speak, I never understood the kickup over his teachings back then -- nor will I ever. As you pointed out, he spent so precious scant seconds of time mentioning Jews as among the contingent of many peoples (including Africans) who were a part of the slave trade. For reporters wide and far and people like the above writer to make it out as if it was some central theme of his lectures and classes was ridiculous and nothing short of bold-faced lies. Curious -- actually, no, completely expected -- that the writer never bothered to pick any quotes from Dr. Jeffries or disprove anything mentioned.
A similar thing happens on this board; if you make the egregious "mistake" of merely mentioning the race of American plantation owners of the 19th century and earlier, you are automatically charged with the crime of verbally implicating an entire race of being precluded to and involved in slavery.
I also love the writer's sandwiching of African "holocaust" in quotation marks. Classic disrespect. Let's look at the meaning of the word holocaust:
2 : a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire <a nuclear holocaust>
What exactly was the Middle Passage? A Royal Caribbean vacation package?? As noted here, the word holocaust is and has been used many times in vernacular to describe catastrophic and destructive events. But when it's applied to the Middle Passage and slavery, oh no, suddenly that particular application is disengenious??
Last edited by Mystic Xtremist; 03-08-2006 at 02:48 PM..
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