THE SUPPLY CHAIN ARGUMENT IN AFRICA

The Supply Chain Argument 

Slavery and the payment of reparations -for it is being put back onto the shoulders of African people using the "supply chain argument".  

And YES there is truth to this argument that the FIRST and the main offenders are the ones who supplied the African slaves in their millions to the slave traders at port- to be trafficked across the ocean to work without pay their whole lives in the cotton and sugar plantations of the caribbean and the deep South. 

Lets be clear. the industry of slavery started long before the african kings were around!... the Hebrews were slaves building the pyramids. In wars around the world the defeated were sold as slaves. 

 In africa Romans took their slaves and wild animals in the the same way north  africa that the british, portuguese, french and americans took theirs from the ports of west africa. ..YES .. it was those African kings and their lack of ethics that put their brothers in chains. for life. 

And in the endandangered animal market it is the chinese medicine  industry that is today fueling the entire poaching industry. 

Ivory also is traded and sold in Japan. Through Chinese ports like Hong Kong .So the majority of these illegal products are a sideline industry ... of the Chinese -Africa partnership. 

Just like the slaves were in the times of slavery... But what this argument FAILS  to make clear is: 

1. who created the demand ?

2. who makes the most profit?   

3. who is it really fuelling the demand? 

answers 1- 3 : china. 

in any industry without DEMAND  you have no reason to SUPPLY.  

and so the question remains.

 who is more responsible criminally ? EUROPE & AMERICA or AFRICA. ?

answer...

the ones that create such an industry , sustains it and profits from it more? NO? 

lets be clear selling these products in china like the slaves taken for nothing in africa .. like cacao and gold.  and diamonds.  are all part of this total rape of Africa over centuries. 

the ones who profit and have profited from these 90%- OR MORE  are also 90 % more responsible for reparations than the ignorant - naive and greedy suppliers who got bits of cloth... some beads and pairs of scissors for a mans lifetime servitude...IN CHAINS. 

so you be the judge.  

who should we be punishing ? 

if ALL  on the supply chain and the CONSUMER  chain then let's punish those responsible proportionately. 

Apportion blame rightfully and justly. justice is fair. you dont punish someone who steals an apple in the same way you punish someone who robs a bank. 

Africa has been devastated by exploitation, ignorance, incompetence, corruption, greed, ego, selfishness, racism AND YES  kleptocracy for too long. 

this must end now. 

BUT to lay the blame on african kings for the slave trade is like laying the blame of illegal chinese medicine trade on the poachers. yes ..  they share guilt. 

But proportionately.

 whatever the motivations and justifications  for doing these acts of self harm. we need to look at things also in its right context. 

what would you do in famine.  or civil war.. or starvation? what would you do to feed your own ? 

slave traders like chinese medicine traders make 1000 to 1 on every dollar spent. 

the african kings earned 1% of the total. 

so the supply chain argument should be re examined. stop the demand... and you will stop the trade. Stop consuming chinese medicine from rhino horn @100K and you will stop people getting paid 100 USD to shoot them in the wild in the first place. 

the supply chain argument to shift the actual blame for slavery and its profiteering is not real or true or historically correct it is a distraction. keeping and operating slaves in america is like  human trafficking cheap labour to build your country from the ground up. 

whilst what those African kings did was wrong .. like the poachers.  it still doesn't solve the problem of the effects of the industry. 

🙏🏻 xx robin