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Blacks DID suffer genocide, and Jews are NOT the culprits, September 27, 2011
There is an effort by some to pit Black people against Jews, and vice versa.
On the one side, the argument is made that the Jews controlled the slave trade, which rests on the widely disseminated lie that Jews control and for centuries have controlled the economies of the West. The claim that Jews controlled the slave trade is destroyed by this book. Excellent.
On the other side, there is the equally dishonest attempt to deny the genocidal character of slavery.
Slavery is not the same as the Holocaust, because the mass murder involved in the moving of slaves from Africa to the Americas was not the *goal*, as it was the goal of the Holocaust (where the enslavement of Jews was secondary to their elimination -- and, by the way, also the Nazi attempt to eliminate Roma and to partly eliminate Slavs.)
But genocide is not limited to the Nazis' Holocaust. Genocide is a broader category, involving the attempted destruction of a people *as such*, and this was certainly the case with the slave trade, which desimated large parts of West Africa.
In slavery, the attempt was made to reduce black people to less than human, as manifested in the murderous conditions on slave boats, and the practice, which eventually became a key industry in certain states, such as Virginia, of breeding slaves for sale, thus breaking up families, which break-ups the slaves resisted with all their passion. (See the great book, "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom," which refutes the lie that slaves didn't care about families. That book, a fierce attack on the racist scholarship of Genovese and others, which attempts to prettify the genocide against African-Americans, was written by the late Herb Gutman, who, by the way, happened to be a Jew.)
During most of the twentieth century, Jews and African-Americans were the closest allies. It is the *dream* of racists to see these two groups at each others' throats.
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Solid Research and Conclusions, July 13, 2001
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[....] There was no "black holocaust." That is a myth perpetrated by black race-baiters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. [...] obviously does not know the meaning of the word "holocaust." Simply put, there was no organized effort by the United States government to exterminate Negro slaves, as was the case with the holocaust in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. There wasn't even any effort by individuals in the United States to totally eradicate Negroes, whether slave or free. As the reviewer so eloquently stated, he has branded himself anti-Semitic by his rantings.
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Muslims were prominent in the slave trade, not Jews, January 3, 2006
It's pretty nervy for the Nation of Islam to go on about Jewish involvement in the slave trade. Most Jews that participated in the African trade were slaves themselves, either to the Portuguese or the Muslims (the Portuguese called these people the "lançados"), and were usually used to keep the books. The biggest slavers - the people who went into the African interior for centuries to capture slaves for sale, were Muslims. In fact, it's mainly in the Islamic countries that slavery, especially the enslavement of animist Negroes, still takes place.
It's nothing to do with not being able to say something negative about Jews. It's about the claims of the "Nation of Islam" simply not being true. It's just so much anti-Semitism, made especially worse by the fact that the very crimes these pseudo-Muslims accuse the Jews of were perpetrated by the Muslims themselves, over hundreds of years, and are still being perpetrated to this day.
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