King Leopold II of Belgium, the man who killed over 10 million black people in the Congo in order to achieve the European dream invention, which was the bicycle and car tyre. In 1888 John Boyd Dunlop (Dunlop tyres) patents the pneumatic tyre for the most popular and useful new machine of the age, the bicycle and went on to make car tyres for the cars we use today. Leopard invented amputating the limbs of slaves, a form of fear that is still used today by those who were oppressed and are now oppressors!! The effect on Leopolds fortune is dramatic. The Congo Free State exports less than 250 tons of rubber in 1892, more than 1500 tons in 1897 and the money was spent on building Belgium. If rubber targets were not met, reprisals are savage. Villages are looted and burnt, families butchered. The severed hands reflect the companies wish to be certain that their barbaric militia are maintaining control and not wasting ammunition. Hands are portable evidence of disciplinary activity. When will Africa be credited for having all the resources that the rest of the world needs and is developed on? This is why we need to look after that Continent and its poorer people. AND WHEN I SAY LOOK AFTER, IM NOT TALKING ABOUT A MEASLY WESTERN GOVERNMENT HAND OUT, THEY OWE THEM BIG TIME!! PS: Me too actually, their my ancestors!!
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 00:40:02 +0000