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NEGATE THE NARRATIVE VI

Disparaging blacks is not new. Racism was not Made in America. Read what these Arabs wrote:

ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian (1332-1406), ... if the Sudanese are characterized by “levity and inconstancy”, in the more Southern regions “we only find men who are closer to animals than to an intelligent being. They live in wild places and in caves, eat herbs and raw grains and sometimes they eat each other. We cannot consider them human beings.”

al-Abshihi, Egyptian writer (1388-1446), “What can there be that is worse and more vile than black slaves? As for the mulattos, be good to them every day of your life and in every possible way, and they will have no gratitude for you: it will be as if you had done nothing for them. The better you treat them, the more they become insolent; but if you mistreat them, they will show humility and submission.”.

Iyad al-Sabti (1083-1149), ... the blacks are “of all men the most corrupt and the most disposed to procreation. Their life is like that of an animal. They have no interest in any matter of the world, except for food and women. Apart from that, nothing merits their attention.”

ibn Butlan, regarding black women, observed, “But one cannot obtain any pleasure from them, such is the odor of their armpits and the roughness of their body.”

Quotes from Bernard Lugan, Afrique, l’Histoire à l’Endroit (1989) Paris, Perrin.

Also, Olavo de Carvalho commented:

“Arab merchants took to Islamic countries approximately the same amount, with three differences: (1) the Arabs would capture them, something which the Europeans never did, except in Angola and for a brief period; (2) the Arabs castrated at least ten percent of the slaves [often for homosexual sex slaves], a custom that was not known to European slave-traders; (3) the Arabs continued to practice slave trade up to the 20th century. The slavery practiced by the Arabs was a forbidden subject for a long time, but the taboo can be considered broken since the publisher Gallimard, the most prestigious in France, agreed to publish the excellent study of the African author Tidiane N’Diaye, Le Genocide Voilé (2008), which I will comment some other day."

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