Reverse Middle Passage - Rwanda Buying Black People



In any discussion on slavery and reparation with the British, the British love to highlight that the slave trade was facilitated by Black Africans, capturing and selling other Black Africans to white slavers. I am neither going to support or deny that narrative because I do not know the circumstances surrounding their decision to take part. If it was done, did they do it out of greed or fear? A bunch of heavily armed white people turn up at your village and demanding you or the people in the other tribe, then the human survival instinct kicks in.

  
However, the recent news that Rwanda will be paid to take refugees already in the UK, off British hands filled me with disappointment. If the British were right then Africans who use to sell other Africans to the British, are now buying Africans and middle easterners from the British. A kind of reverse middle passage. Denmark also has a deal with Rwanda to take refugees. So, Rwanda is trying to make a profit trading in human souls. On top of the 220 million pounds Britain has already paid Rwanda, the government has agreed to pay an extra 150 million pounds over the next three years, and 120 million pounds once the first 300 asylum seekers have been resettled.


I do not understand why Rwanda agreed to this, I expected them to tell the British to stick it where the sun does not shine. When are African countries going to unite and stand up to the white western world order? If Rwanda was pressured and threatened by the British, then they should make it all public and the African Union should collectively tell the British to go to hell. Why are the British always trying to dump their problems on the black and brown world? They would never approach the White world with this request. Imagine them telling France or Denmark they will pay them to take their Refugees. This reminded me of the time when the British wanted Jamaica to act as a British penal colony with the £25 million contribution towards a prison to house people who broke British law, tried in British courts and convicted in British courts.


 

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