Nailing the Great White Lie

Source: The British National Party

Nailing the Great White Lie

ROBERT HORNBY shows that it is nonsense to claim that slavery was entirely attributable to white ‘racism’
Spearhead Magazine – September 1995

DURING the 1970s there arose a rather nauseating fashion within liberal circles for highlighting real, or more often imaginary, historical injustices’ against supposedly downtrodden minorities.

In the media, especially television, leftists began making extraordinary claims about the supposed brutality of white people towards other races.

There was the great TV epic Holocaust, a fictitious account of a Jewish family’s treatment at the hands of the Germans.

For America’s black community there was ROOTS, an equally harrowing dramatisation of alleged white brutality against African slaves.

GUILT TRIP

Roots was written by a black author, Alex Haley, but the media hullabaloo surrounding it was essentially a guilt trip on the part of white liberals. There was an extraordinary amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth within the white liberal establishment, and the political fall-out from the TV series based on Haley’s book included radical legislation in the United States imposing racial quotas on black employment, known as ‘Affirmative Action’. In order to “redress the balance” of alleged white cruelty, Blacks were assured of jobs in direct relation to their numbers within the overall population – irrespective of their qualifications or whether they were the best applicants available.

A whole new multi-billion dollars ‘race relations’ industry and ‘equal opportunities’ apparatus sprang up, not only in America but within other white nations, even those with negligible black populations.

We now know that much of Roots was pure bunkum. In 1992 Philip Nobile and other authors exposed glaring inconsistencies in the saga. For example, the slave ship which allegedly carried Haley’s ancestor Kunta Kinte arrived five years later than the date claimed in the film.

Nobile commented: – “We expected ineptitude but not subterfuge. The records show that he got everything wrong in his pre-Civil War lineage; 182 pages and 39 chapters on Haley’s Virginia family have no basis in fact.”

Genealogical experts Gary and Elizabeth Mills, as Nobile stated, uncovered documents which “contradicted the identifications, relationships and other specific facts that are crucial to the story.”

Yet the hypocrisy and half-truths of the Roots saga are still being defended by white liberals to this day.

As long ago as 1978, Alex Haley was forced to pay £450,000 in an out-of-court settlement to white author Harold Courlander after it emerged that Haley had lifted 80 pages from Courlander’s 1967 novel about slavery and inserted them in the supposedly factual Roots.

But the prevailing atmosphere of political correctness and white guilt and moral cowardice has meant that the Roots saga is still treated as gospel within the controlled media.

DELUSION

William McGill, a member of the all-white panel which awarded Haley the Pulitzer Prize, now admits it was wrong to do so:-

“I feel bad. We all laboured under the delusion that sudden expressions of love could make up for historical mistakes, and of course that’s inverse racism.”

But Mr. McGill is surely missing the point. The fact is that even if Roots was completely truthful it is utter nonsense suggest that slavery was ever purely a phenomenon of Whites exploiting Blacks.

There is ample evidence of black-on-black slavery, white-on-white slavery and indeed black-on-white slavery. Most civilisations have used slavery at some point in their history. Ancient Greeks and Romans, for example, enslaved their fellow Whites.

In recent years many American Blacks have begun visiting African countries to retrace their own slave roots. Kofi Kpikpitse is the education officer at a 17th century fort in Ghana which was once used as a transit camp for slaves on their way out of Africa. He frequently shatters the illusions of black visitors hoping to find evidence of white brutality:-

“They seem to think that the Whites came here and went into the interior to capture people. But the slave trade had been going on for years. First we exported people to the Arab states to the north and east. Then, when the Europeans came, the business exploded. But it was Africans selling Africans. The news comes as a bit of a shock to some of our visitors.”

That is putting it mildly. Some American Blacks refuse to believe it, or demand to know the names of black slave-trading families so they can take revenge on their descendants. But the fact is inescapable: black people were directly responsible for enslaving other Blacks. It rubbish to say that slavery was purely a white crime against black people.

Moreover, slavery in America was a relatively short-lived affair. It died out when new technology made the use of labour too expensive. In contrast, many non-white societies have practised slavery for centuries, and there are many people in Third World countries today who are slaves in all but name. It is a common practice in the Far East, for example, for destitute parents to sell their children into prostitution, and some estimates put the numbers of such ‘sex slaves’ as high as 200,000. Hundreds of thousands more people in the Third World are effectively slaves as a result of debt- bondage or poverty.

POOR WHITES

Another fact overlooked by the liberal left is that the treatment of black American slaves was probably little worse than the condition of poor Whites at the same time. The life of the average European peasant, for example, involved backbreaking toil and very long hours of work. In Britain and other white countries young (white) children were exploited as cheap labour down mines, up chimneys and in factories.

Finally, there is ample evidence that white people have in the past been enslaved by non-Whites. A notable case was the use of European sex-slaves by the Turks in the Ottoman Empire.

So it simply will not do to label white people as the oppressors and Blacks as the oppressed. However distasteful it is to some, the fact remains that slavery is historically universal to many races. If anything, white people have good cause to be proud that they stamped it out in their countries over a hundred years ago – whilst many Third World nations have yet to do so.