Weekly Newsletter • Volume 3, Number 22

Did African Slave Traders “Sell Us Out”?By Tingba Muhammad

One of the most unseemly manifestations of Black self-hatred is the often violently held belief that 500 years ago Africans sold other Africans into centuries of slavery. It is heard most often when a negro feels the need to shield whites and Jews from having to answer for their dominant role in the Black Holocaust. “It was Blacks who sold other Blacks,” says the negro, “so we can not hold whites responsible for a crime in which we participated.” And by that suspect reasoning, they dismiss out of hand 500 years of the most brutal and murderous history the planet has ever known.

It is almost impossible to imagine a Jewish per-son saying anything similar: “Since there were Jews that financially supported Hitler, and Jews that were soldiers and officers in the Nazi army, and Jews that deliv-ered other Jews to the concentration camps, I don’t want to hear about any Jewish Holocaust. We Jews helped Hit-ler!” The fact is, there actually were Jewish Nazis, and at least 77 Jews were officers in Hitler’s army, and a Jewish police force called the Judenrat was in charge of rounding up Jews for the death camps (they even had uniforms and star-of-David badges), but no Jew allows those facts to minimize the German responsibility for their people’s suffering. People who had no possible connection to the Jewish Holocaust—like the PAL-ESTINIANS—must pay the price even before those

Nazi-collaborating Jews. Only Blacks seem to have adopted a strange psy-

chosis that exculpates the white perpetrator and blames the Black victim. But this internecine scape-goating wholly depends not just on a colossal igno-rance of the historical facts but on the sleight-of-hand deceptions of white historians who seek racial advan-tage, not historical clarity.

One must look very carefully at the charge of “Black” participation in the African slave trade, and as always the very best place to start is with The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He described the method used by the European in his genocidal pur-suit of free Black labor: “He goes into foreign lands of

our people and the first thing he goes looking around for, with his green-blue eyes, just to get up to, is the woman, so that he can leave the seed of the devil there.” The first 15th-century Portuguese excur-sions into Africa prove The Messen-ger to be absolutely

correct.The Portuguese “explor-

ers” used forced breeding on the Africans, a tactic which

targets the genetic foundation of the indigenous popu-lation. European invaders deliberately created mixed-race subgroups with the intention of using them to capture and enslave the native populations. This “new breed” would serve as a “ruling class” to control the

The Judenrat: Jewish police force helping Hitler find Jewish victims.

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massive numbers of African slave laborers required by the colonies, and further serve as a buffer zone between the white oppressor and his Black victims. In America, we have come to know them as “house niggers,” or “mammies,” or “uncle toms,” and they were most often the lighter-skinned slaves—the chil-dren born of the rape of the Black woman. Back in Africa, the horrific suffering and debasement of the Black woman had a very specific economic purpose.

Arriving on the Cape Verde islands, about 350 miles off the coast of Senegal, Jewish slave mer-chants from Portugal in the mid-1400s sought to insert themselves in Africa’s commerce and trade. Just as The Messenger described, they kidnapped and raped Afri-can women, and the mixed-race offspring, called lancados, were raised on the island as European Jews, practicing Judaism and respecting Jewish authority. These lancados then were sent into the African mainland to set up an inter-national “trading post” dealing in the fine fabrics being produced by the Africans. But soon they turned on their hosts and began trading in Black human beings. The lancados literally were trained by their Jewish fathers to be slave traders—trained in the Jewish family business of slave-dealing. It was these half-breed, mixed-race (or mulatto) “half-ricans” who infiltrated the Black African communities, seeking to satisfy the Euro-pean lust for Black labor. Because of their African blood admixture, deceptive white propagandists call these mixed-race Jewish slave traders “Africans”; Blacks view them, rightly, as Europeans, given their racial and cultural distance from African society and its practiced norms of thousands of years. One scholar was clear: “The offspring of these lancados and African women were called Jilhos de terra and were generally considered to be Portuguese.”

Historian Walter Rodney described these “AF-RICAN” slave traders thus: “Many of the private traders were mulattoes, already linked to the Africans by blood, and there were those who had become so integrated into African life that they wore tribal tat-toos. It was these who were the authentic lancados,

literally ‘those who had thrown themselves’ among the Africans.”

Even Christopher Columbus was involved in the early slave trade and learned his skills as a sailor on the African coast. The Messenger referred to him as a “half-original man,” meaning he had African and European blood. Jewish scholars such as Simon Wi-esenthal, Cecil Roth, and Tina Levitan are adamant

about Columbus’ Jewishness. One might easily conclude that the notorious explorer was one of these lancados.

It was probably during his slave-dealing on coastal Africa that he heard of a “New World” overseas from African mari-ners, who had been visiting the Americas for thousands of years (see Dr. Ivan Van Sertima’s They Came Before Columbus). And if Columbus were not such an important part of the American (white) self-image—and if more people knew that he trafficked

in African slaves and Indians (600 of whom he enslaved and brought to Eu-rope)—he would probably be labeled

an “African” slave trader as well.Once they muscled into monopoly positions in

trade, the lancados brought in European weapons to foment strife and wars between African tribes. This led to massive disruptions of African societies and the displacement of whole populations, because of the transfer of captives, fueling the traffic in African human beings. This leads us to the important ques-tion of whether or not the “selling” of human beings was understood by the African tribal leaders to mean the kind of unspeakable cruelty and lifelong multi-generational bondage that Blacks experienced in the West. The answer is an emphatic NO! The labor sys-tems practiced throughout the world for millennia (apprenticeship, peasantry, serfdom, indentureship, feudalism, tenant farming, sharecropping, etc.) had never had the dehumanizing commercial features that were a distinctive part of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Its horrifying brutality on a massive scale is entirely unique.

The term slavery itself has been strategically corrupted to include every labor system, no matter

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The “half-original man” Christopher Columbus

3the nature of it or its severity. For instance, in some “slave” systems the “slave” had full legal rights and could negotiate the terms of his labor, including the time and compensation; some “slaves” could sue in court and could inherit property; some could ulti-mately take over their master’s business and even marry the master’s daughter. In one so-called slave society, it was believed that “when one gains a slave, he gains a son.” The “slave” had to eat and sleep in the same manner as the master. Even the Biblical story of Joseph being sold into slavery by his own brothers re-sulted in a “slave” becoming the most powerful man in Egypt next to Pharaoh. NONE of these humane features characterized slavery in the Americas!

The variety of slavery that developed in the isola-tion of the sugar islands off the African coast was entirely unprecedented and unknown. It was a new, dark element that injected medieval monstrosities into an agrarian culture of farmers that had never seen such atrocities before the European lancado invasion. It was a true slavery, a horrific slavery, un-der which its victims had no rights and no hope—by design.

So the “African” slave traders who “sold us out,” upon closer examination were actually half-European by blood and totally European in mentality. Our African spirit of welcoming every people regardless of color made the African people vulnerable to this wicked “half-original” incursion, and we have been paying a high price for it ever since.

(Tingba Muhammad is a citizen of the Nation of Islam.)

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Atlanta Constitution, May 2, 1913.

You must know that this is the time of our separation and the judgment of this world (the Caucasian), which you and I have known. Therefore, Allah has said to me that the time is ripe for you and me to accept our own, the whole planet earth. Are you

waiting for the Divine Destruction? Come! Let us reason to-gether. First, in order for us to reason, you must have a thorough

knowledge of self. Who is going to teach you that knowledge of self? Who are you waiting for to teach you the knowledge of self? Surely, not your slave-master, who blinded you to that knowledge of self. The slave-master will not teach you the knowledge of self,

as there would not be a master-slave relationship any longer.—The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Blackman in America

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For three hundred years, billions of dollars worth of American lands were “granted” to whites alone. Other huge blocks of land were “sold” to whites for only $1 per acre. Federal programs like the Preemption Act (1830) and the Mineral Leasing Act (1920) and many state programs were used to confiscate Indian land to give to Caucasian settlers.

The Homestead Act is probably the most reward-ing affirmative action program Ameri-can whites have ever given themselves. Beginning in 1865, 250 million acres of land were given away to white families—many of whom had actually participated in the Southern Confederate rebellion against America! Think about that. As many as 640 free acres for each white family (each acre being about the size of a football field)—simply snatched from the Indians and given to whites.

The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 opened up 46 million acres in five Southern states for the millions of ex-slaves and Union veterans, but only about 1,000 Blacks ever received title to land, which most often consisted of

uncleared woodlands or “refuse tracts” of the poor-est quality. In reality, the United States government never intended to “give” land—the foundation of true freedom—to any of its former slaves. The plan was for Blacks to be given the opportunity to buy forty-acre lots after working the land for three years. And though some ex-slaves were settled on 40-acre farms, the land was quickly seized by whites and restored to

the former slaveholders.European immigrants were great

beneficiaries of this “legal” land snatch, while the Black ex-slaves who had actually worked that land for genera-tions—and the Indians who actually owned it—were kept far away from this unprecedented giveaway.

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Justice is a Law that distinguishes between right and wrong. It goes to sleep with you. It wakes up with you. Whether you are knowledgeable of that Law or not, it is alive and working either with you, for you or against you, regardless to what the courts do. The Law of Justice, the balance that God set up in the universe, you can’t escape it. The fool thinks in his heart, “I have gotten away with my evil.” What a fool you are indeed. God says in the Bible: “Whatsoever is done in the dark, I am going to bring it forth into the light.” The Holy Qur’an says: “Though it be the weight of an atom, hidden in a rock and the rock buried in the earth,” He said, “Yet will I bring it forth.”