[7HlBQS8j]

Quite interesting how Afram slave descendants went to Liberia and set up a Jim Crow style society in Liberia. It shows how "Westernized" Aframs were in the 1800's, seeing the native Liberians as "inferior" culturally to them.

During the 1800s, the American Colonization Society enticed free Negroes to go to Africa. Slaves were freed on the condition they leave. These two groups that became the “Americo-Liberians” who ruled Liberia, carried with them the evils of racism and the limitations of slavery.

Racism inevitably reproduces itself in the minds of the oppressed in order to rise. In the “Imitation of Supremacy,” as victim becomes victimizer, the Americo-Liberians saw the natives the way whites saw them. Now that the Americo-Liberians were rulers, they mimicked white rule. They justified their exploitation of the natives on the basis of cultural inferiority just as whites used racism to justify slavery. In America, race trumped all other considerations. In Liberia, culture trumped race as the classification of inferiority.

In the “Imitation of Superiority,” [some? many?] Americo-Liberians mimicked and retained the culture of the antebellum South because they derived their cultural superiority from it. The vast majority of the Americo-Liberians were freed slaves, including slaves freed on the high seas. Because of the limitations of slavery, they were image rather than reality. What they evolved was a pseudo culture, a poor replication of what they didn’t really understand. As slaves they had had only a “taste” of Western culture.

Ironically, they replicated what they despised – oppression and discrimination based upon “inferiority.” Natives were disparaged and ridiculed as “country people.” The Americo-Liberians set up all the Jim Crow laws of the South in Liberia. There was social segregation in Monrovia, the capital city. Among other things, natives could not enter through the front door. They could not vote. They could not speak unless spoken to. There were sexual restrictions. No native man could marry or have a sexual relationship with an Americo-Liberian woman. Even when natives became educated, they were restricted from government positions. Only a token few were allowed to participate. What are your thoughts?

[yQvpyNt3]

White people aren't to blame for groups of people thinking they are superior to each other.

That's how it is in every country and always has been throughout history.

[KLIMOV25gyi]

Some afrocentrists are also victims of white supremacist's racism, trying to imitate their racism, also their preference of Euro standards os the result of the white supremacist's impact.

[Aleksis]

^^^^ That was pretty sad but it was naturally to happen. Those americo liberians were poorly educated and they just replicated what they learned from the white men.


Im Mexico something similar used to happen.


When an indomestizo or a mestizo was named the Taskmaster by the white Master owner of one Encomienda or Hacieda, such taskmaster used to be even crueler with the natives than whites themselves.

[Nicihntm]

not surprising

Some Aframs are white supremacists at heart..they want White people's power, money and secretly desire their genetics/aesthetics