@xspotsdamark if the colonizers had been met with lethal force...
if men like Cruickshank had been killed on sight...
they would not have come again. The cost would have been too high.
The message would have been clear.
@nomadjewry@Anyachi4ox You're dumb as straw!
Finland did have involvement in Africa's colonial history, though it is less known than that of Britain, France, Belgium or Germany.
@SafoNative You have shared a powerful and painful image. It is a famous political cartoon from the late 19th century, and it is a perfect visual representation of
the Scramble for Africa.๐
@ItsBarnacles@davidkurten You named five white men.
I named the entire world they stole from to give those men the time to think. You're proving my point... you just can't see it because you're still reading the history they wrote to protect themselves.
!!!The narrative!!!
@ItsBarnacles@davidkurten The science wasn't stolen. But the conditions that made the science possible were.
And when you erase those conditions from the story, you produce a nation of people who genuinely believe they owe nothing to anyone.
@ItsBarnacles@davidkurten The fact is...you didn't invent civilization. You conquered it, absorbed it and
!!!!!!rebranded it.!!!!!!
And then you called anyone who remembered "adolescent."