Less than a year ago, a friend of mine shared a picture of Candace Owens, a Conservative American political commentator posing with Kayne West wearing a white t-shirt that read “White Lives Matter”.
I wish Black History Month would shine a light on the hundreds of thousands of Africans who are still enslaved today—descendants of slaves in Mauritania and Niger, and those bought and sold in Libya’s slave markets. My 20-year-old school atlas highlights the Atlantic slave trade but says nothing about the ongoing Islamic slave trade, which has never ended. This trade didn’t just enslave Africans; it included white slaves as well and still does.
Maybe this year, someone will take it up - I hope so.
I wish Black History Month would shine a light on the hundreds of thousands of Africans who are still enslaved today—descendants of slaves in Mauritania and Niger, and those bought and sold in Libya’s slave markets. My 20-year-old school atlas highlights the Atlantic slave trade but says nothing about the ongoing Islamic slave trade, which has never ended. This trade didn’t just enslave Africans; it included white slaves as well and still does.
Maybe this year, someone will take it up - I hope so.