DEAR WHITE PEOPLE: ITS TIME YOU STOP WHINING ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST

Desmond Ogubi
Nov 4 · 4 min read

A couple of weeks ago I met this beautiful redhead from Norway at Alliance Française and our conversation hit off from the onset to her love of history. After two hours of amazing conversation, we exchanged pleasantries, exchanged cards as she invited me for a Halloween party. I loathe Halloween, don’t get me wrong, celebrating Halloween as a black person is the same as celebrating the Black Friday. But when a dazzlingly angelic signorina summons you to a party, a NO is should be the last word in your mind. It's at the “party” that everything started nose-diving. I don’t remember how, but somehow the topic of Trump, Christianity and the ALMIGHTY HOLOCAUST. Told me how she lost her family and how its the worst crisis in human history, Ahem!!! Don’t get me wrong, the European Holocaust was BAAAD, but as a black person, it's just but another crisis.

EUROPEAN HOLOCAUST IS JUST BUT THE BIGGEST HUMAN CRISIS ON FILM, THE AFRICAN ONE WAS NOT FILMED.

You see they didn’t tell you that there are black people who are Jews. You have never heard of the Falashas? The Ethiopian Jews? But I guess you didn’t hear anything when the Italian fascists were exterminating the Falashas. This acted as the forerunner of what Hitler will come to do next. There was no outcry from the international community. When Mussolini’s army arrived in Ethiopia, there were 5 million Falashas and with the help of Pope Pius XI. When the Italians left, there were only 50,000 left.

Isn’t it strange that our books and professors only talk of a Holocaust, but they never talk about the African Holocaust that’s still ongoing. What happened to the 50,000,000 million Africans, our brothers and sisters who were murdered Mwene Mutapa now called South Africa under Cecil John Rhodes. Do you that black South African students still to this day still take scholarships in honour of Rhodes??? Because they don’t know. Nobody told them a damn about it. Heck, even in the South African curriculum, Rhodes is still painted as a hero. Rhodes made Hitler look like a playboy.

I bet you don’t know about the Holocaust perpetrated on our brothers and sisters in Nigeria by Fredrick Lugard and Dr Jameson when they took over the colony. You do not know a thing about Leopold the second, the Vanderbilts the Pews and the Rockerfellers when they took over the Manikongo and changed it to the Congo free state. This sucker oversaw the extermination of more than 22 million Africa in the central African country. African women who were pregnant were placed in the middle of roads, as the soldiers cut the foetuses out to teach the men a lesson if they went against the orders of their masters. These are records, written and printed by these white demons not realising that Africans will come later to read and revenge this. But that isn’t mentioned as a Holocaust in any of our textbooks.

I will be naive to expect the enemy to say this, but I expect that these so-called professors and researchers will use the appropriate term. I am talking about Genocide, Holocaust wherever it applies. In Tasmania, an island off Australia, every last African was murdered and as we speak, there isn’t one left. And they don’t call it a Holocaust. We shouldn’t cry about it, we shouldn’t whine, we shouldn’t complain. Nobody comes to us to ask us but we cry every day for other people’s Holocaust.

I haven’t talked about the middle passage and the 3m+ who died in the Atlantic. Should I go to more than 15million who have died from the laboratory manufactured ailment. Need I talk about racism? About Jim Crow, About Alexander the Son of Phillip? About Roman Empire ravaging the

We are not taught that the first slave ship under the stewardship of John Hawkings carrying the first African slaves called “Jesus” didn’t come from Africa but from Barbados after Africans (Moors) had been lost power and their 700 years of domination in Europe had come to an end in 1619 with the help of the Catholic church under the Bishop Bartolomé de las Casas and Pope Martin the second. We have not been taught that way.

It's not that I am not sensitive to white pain. It's just that black means having a target on your back and I am still dealing with that fact.

So please dear white people, don’t tell me about your Holocaust, My heart is still bleeding. So let me heal me first.

Desmond Ogubi

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Son. Researcher. Writer of Poetry. Human Rights Defender.

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