NATO's Libya revolution is now disgraced by the stain of bloody racism. ---- http://allafrica.com/stories/201109080620.html The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights to ask Libya to stop the killing of Nigerians and other black Africans in that country. In a request for provisional measures dated September 7, 2011 and signed by solicitor to SERAP, Mr Femi Falana, the organisation noted that there had been cases of discrimination and racial killings carried out by agents of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC). http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/206506/20110831/libya-r... The ongoing revolution and chaos in Libya has many facets, some in contradiction to others. One of the most prominent characteristics of these six months of brutal fighting and civil war have been the innocents caught in the middle -- namely, the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from black (sub-Saharan) Africa who have not only had their lives disrupted (permanently, in some cases), but who have also been subject to the most visceral forms of racism. Despite Moammar Gadhafi’s long financial support for Black African nations (and his impossible dream of achieving a “United States of Africa” that would include Libya), anti-black racism is deeply entrenched in many Arab societies, including Libya. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Racist-killings-... WHILE the warplanes of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) continue to facilitate the anti-Moammar Gadhafi rebel forces to take full control of Libya, there are increasing reports of racist killings and torture against black Africans accused of being mercenaries of the deposed Libyan president. The atrocities had become widespread enough by early last week for the African Union (AU) to officially refuse to recognise the NATO-backed National Transitional Council (NTC), currently in the process of transforming itself into the "new government" of Libya, functioning from the capital, Tripoli. Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Racist-killings-... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/30/lib... "This is a bad time to be a black man in Libya," reported Alex Thomson on Channel 4 News on Sunday. Elsewhere, Kim Sengupta reported for the Independent on the 30 bodies lying decomposing in Tripoli. The majority of them, allegedly mercenaries for Muammar Gaddafi, were black. They had been killed at a makeshift hospital, some on stretchers, some in an ambulance. "Libyan people don't like people with dark skins," a militiaman explained in reference to the arrests of black men. The basis of this is rumours, disseminated early in the rebellion, of African mercenaries being unleashed on the opposition. Amnesty International's Donatella Rivera was among researchers who examined this allegation and found no evidence for it. Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch similarly had not "identified one mercenary" among the scores of men being arrested and falsely labelled by journalists as such. Lurking behind this is racism. Libya is an African nation – however, the term "Africans" is used in Libya to reference the country's black minority. The Amnesty International researcher Diana Eltahawy says that the rebels taking control of Libya have tapped into "existing xenophobia". The New York Times refers to "racist overtones", but sometimes the racism is explicit. A rebel slogan painted in Misrata during the fighting salutes "the brigade for purging slaves, black skin". A consequence of this racism has been mass arrests of black men, and gruesome killings – just some of the various atrocities that human rights organisations blame rebels for. The racialisation of this conflict does not end with hatred of "Africans". Graffiti by rebels frequently depicted Gaddafi as a demonic Jew.
Black Arab Apologists to me are like Black Republicans. Think whatever you like, but you and I don't have anything to talk about.
Many Arabs (as well as Indians) have issues with Blacks (hell, even their own people who are darker) both in the States and abroad. While I don't condone their behavior and find most of their actions in their own nations and personal attitudes to be the product of simple minds harboring inferiority complexes or outright appalling, that doesn't mean that when I see them also being exploited, abused, or slaughtered by other nations or even their own leaders, I won't stand up for their rights. I'm not a hypocrite (at least I try not to be), and if I don't believe in the actions they take against those that are different from themselves it's fundamental...not skin deep. Meaning: I don't believe in exploitation or racism. Not...I don't believe in exploitation or racism, but if the victim has been racist and exploitative towards my people, then go ahead and abuse, rob, and murder them. If that makes me an apologist, so be it. - Daft
Where is Axum's Camel piss drinking ass?? You wont hear Fairycon or any Black muslim say shit about this..
Because I said that Libya under Gaddafi was more favorable for black then the LTC makes me a arab apologist??!!? Nigga gtfoh with that faux bullshit find ONE post where I defended arabs or any other race in general, I DARE U TO....I have defended gaddafi's regime because blacks WERE "better off" (take that the way u want) then they are now. Lmao, u steppin to a man here, you better come strong or dont come at all to what u say and back what u say with facts, not ad hominems like u do to these other clowns....im too old for that shit. NEXT!!
