Being black in Morocco: 'I get called a slave'

[Virtuous_Brotha]

This doesn't really surprise me at all. I suggest you guys actually read up on the Arab slave trade. Arabs have seen black people in particular as beneath them for hundreds of years. In fact, I believe the last country to formally abolish slavery was an Arab one and that was done in the 1960s.

Islam was supposed to put an end to this kind of mistreatment and supposed to make people see eachother as equals, but as usual religion gets misinterpreted and people pick and choose which part of the texts they want to follow. If you read about some of the horrific things they did to our men and women your blood will boil.

I agree with a lot of people saying that most of the world is Anti-black. You won't be safe in Asia because what they know of black people is what they get from Arab and White media, which tells them that we're poor, uneducated, and violent without giving any sort of context so people just assume that we're inherently like that. Latinos have some fukked up attitudes about us too because keep in mind that the Spanish and the Portuguese were involved in the slave trade as well.

The only people that can truly love black people are other black people, and even then white supremacy has fukked up the minds of black people. Caucasian looking blacks are exhaulted and placed on a pedestal. Women bleach their skin and relax their hair EVEN IN AFRICA! Its disgusting. There is division within the global black community and that needs to change so we can live in peace with each other. It is clear that the rest of the world only wants us as entertainment. They don't mean to have us in true positions of authority because they don't see us as being as good as them. They think that there is something ugly, something wrong, and something disgusting about blackness. They don't want to be contaminated by getting to close to what they see as a sickness.

I think the only people that non-black people could get along with would be Native Americans, Filipinos, and Pacific islanders. In my experience I've gotten along pretty well with those kinds of people, far more so than whites or any other group and those people know the pain of being mistreated by their neighbors. Natives know about getting their land taken(some natives, especially in Latin america were even enslaved and worked to death), Fillipinos are the most hated Asians in the continent, Pacific islanders also know about getting their land taken and being exploited especially the Aboriginal Australians.

 

[Serious]

I always ask "Black" men who claim they are treated Gawd like abroad...how light or dark is your complexion? and how much money do you have? because of course if your a light skin "black" man and you have a lot of money you will be treated like "Gawd"....money often transcends race.

I'm not light and I'm not dark. I'm not ugly either if that helps


Money

I hardly even drop money when I travel. I usually come back with 90% of what I came with...

I don't really stunt in appearance either. Maybe some gucci or prada shades. I dress kind of preppy / urbanish. Neat wit a emphasis on swag(lack of a better term)

Serious isn't light skinned.

My dad is darker skinned and traveled, lived, dated, and worked all over the world in his 20s and 30s. The most amount of racism he experienced in his lifetime was in Texas, and he hasn't even lived here as long as he has in other places.

Basically,

I live in LA. Which is so called "liberal" yet I encounter subtle "racism" on a daily basis. As opposed to being aboard in foreign countries where I experience "nothing" at all. Or go "days" without an apparent racial encounter. (daily vs almost never)

Meanwhile in the US a toothless,overweight, under educated redneck(self dubbed), "thinks" he's better than an educated "middle class" "negro".



Yet my first 21 years of life >>>> their entire existence

 

[Marvel]

Everyone shyts on blacks because blacks shyt on blacks, here in America or the motherland.

If African countries were stable politically and economically and weren't so corrupt the whole world would be immigrating instead Africans are leaving their countries by any means necessary. Even the most well off and educated would trade all their accomplishment to work at McDonald's if it means living in America. The level of brainwashing is devastating smh

My point is, black people should stop being on the receiving end of anything by not putting themselves in that position.

We got lots of work ahead of us.

I feel where you are coming from, but...

What a lot of people don't understand is that the average African does not have a black American world view where every thing is Black vs White. An African cares more about his tribe, ancestral town, and religion than RACE. Race is a big deal to us because of where we live. It is harder for them to care about race and see how the world views them. This is why it is hard for us develop a global black collective consciousness. Africans do not understand that the white man is the puppet master for the corrupt politicians that run his country. You think that the white man is going to allow an African politician to steal millions and billions of dollars without getting his cut. Ever heard of the World Bank and IMF? When they "seize" these corrupt leaders accounts, where do you think the money goes?

A lot of the instability in Africa is due to outside forces, mainly European and Arab, soon to be Russia and China. A lot of mineral resources of Africa is hoarded by each respective countries former colonial masters, who control these countries politics through bribes, sanctions and intimidation.

Another thing is these countries were formed by outsiders. Before the White man came, there was no such thing as Nigeria, Angola, South Africa, etc. These are countries with people from different tribes, customs, cultures and religions. The white man understands that it is best to keep it that way because divisions among people can be exploited for control. It creates a lot of confusion, mistrust, and resentment in a lot of these countries. It is the main reason, Africa will NEVER move forward as a continent. The current structure of the continent is designed for exploitation.

Its a 50/50 process, first we must realize the game that being played by those who control the world and its resources, then we will know how to approach things from there and start truly being accountable. If we cannot acknowledge or understand these things, we are spinning our wheels as a people.

 

[DoubleClutch]

I tell people all the time, I feel more comfortable aboard than in the U.S. In the U.S. blacks have kind of a bad stimga. Anywhere else in the World I walk around like a "Gawd". Can't recall facing any racism abroad. I usually go on trips a month a time....

What countries have you been to and which was the best/least racist?

 

[TRUEST]

I feel where you are coming from, but...

What a lot of people don't understand is that the average African does not have a black American world view where every thing is Black vs White. An African cares more about his tribe, ancestral town, and religion than RACE. Race is a big deal to us because of where we live. It is harder for them to care about race and see how the world views them. This is why it is hard for us develop a global black collective consciousness. Africans do not understand that the white man is the puppet master for the corrupt politicians that run his country. You think that the white man is going to allow an African politician to steal millions and billions of dollars without getting his cut. Ever heard of the World Bank and IMF? When they "seize" these corrupt leaders accounts, where do you think the money goes?

A lot of the instability in Africa is due to outside forces, mainly European and Arab, soon to be Russia and China. A lot of mineral resources of Africa is hoarded by each respective countries former colonial masters, who control these countries politics through bribes, sanctions and intimidation.

Another thing is these countries were formed by outsiders. Before the White man came, there was no such thing as Nigeria, Angola, South Africa, etc. These are countries with people from different tribes, customs, cultures and religions. The white man understands that it is best to keep it that way because divisions among people can be exploited for control. It creates a lot of confusion, mistrust, and resentment in a lot of these countries. It is the main reason, Africa will NEVER move forward as a continent. The current structure of the continent is designed for exploitation.

Its a 50/50 process, first we must realize the game that being played by those who control the world and its resources, then we will know how to approach things from there and start truly being accountable. If we cannot acknowledge or understand these things, we are spinning our wheels as a people.

i really believe for africa to develop, a multi-billionaire has to go into one select country. buy a state in that country and focus on upgrading every aspect of that one state.

make that state a guarded state where theft, murder, crime is next to impossible to commit because if ur caught, not only will u be jailed, when ur sentence is over, u will be banished from that "eden".

this, in my opinion, is the only way africa will ever be able to be respected enough to be considered for visiting by the rest of the world.

no one should go to the african continent and try to change an entire country around. pick one city or state, modernize the hell out of it. when the neighboring clowns see how glorious that one city/state is, they'll wise up. when they see that electricity is 24/7 in that glorious city, they'll do everything they can to get in it.

and if ur the billionaire sponsoring this, and u see the success it is creating, u can then expand and by more neighboring cities. own them. be the mayor, or hire people who have ur mindframe for progress to rule over them.