EDITOR’S NOTE: The following except from pages
47-50 of Overturning the Culture of Violence, written by Penny Hess,
Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee and printed by
Burning Spear Publications, debunks the cynical and anti-black argument
that “Africans enslaved themselves.” This argument points to the
presence of Africans who collaborated with the European slave masters
and “sold” Africans to them in order to shift the responsibility for the
slave trade off the shoulders of the European colonial slavemaster and
onto the backs of the colonized and enslaved African.Today, as the voice of the enslaved African community asserts itself in the world and lifts up the demand for reparations, the blame-shifting “African collaborator” argument can be seen gaining traction in universities and bourgeois historical publications, not as an historical argument but as a political defense against the legitimacy of the reparations demand. As an organization of white people working under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party to organize white people in solidarity with the African struggle for liberation and reparations, we in the Uhuru Solidarity Movement find it timely to publish this excerpt here:
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