Mike Hunt
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Mike Hunt
@Mike_hun7
Data Analyst, Digital Campaigns
Making tea Katılım Temmuz 2019
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@queenie4rmnola I concur. During my travels in the upper reaches of the Limpopo river looking for the elusive Oomagoolie bird we where met with the most hospitable welcome from locals. And kindness too i may add.
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Black people are some of the kindest people. We are sharing-and-caring, "no one goes hungry" around me type of people. But our society is rooted in selfishness, so we're outcasts.
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From the replies n quotes, you'll realize how dumb n retarded people really are.
"Do not judge a book by its cover"
But here they are dropping takes on a book they've never read cos of it's cover (title)
They're not making argument for or against the content, they're emotionally criticizing a book's title lol
Chi@__Poisonivyyy
A must read
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Another history lesson for you. White people did not teach slaves how to farm. They brought farmers over. Everything white people tell you is a lie. These people were parasites who wanted to erase everything independent about Black people to force us into permanent codependency.
CrissyB 🪷@crissy_mystique
I did not know that Memorial Day was created by Black Americans. I literally just found out today through a post and decided to also do my own research. They really don’t teach the youth shit in schools.
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@Abu_The_Truth its a good book. But the world didn't end in 1972 when it was written.
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This book is deliberately demonized.
The popular misconception is that it victimizes the mind. In reality, it does the opposite: it radicalizes any Black person who dares to read it. It is one of the forbidden fruits that opens your eyes, hence they don't want you to read it.
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The type of society Black people are trying to create would benefit everyone. The type of society white people have created is a text-book case of inequality.
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Strip the plantation complex out of British economic history and tell me what remains.
No sugar capital funding merchant banks.
No cotton funding Lancashire mills.
No tobacco funding Virginia trade networks.
No slave trade profits funding the insurance and shipping industries.
No plantation compensation bonds shaping Victorian capital markets.
Tell me what the Industrial Revolution runs on.
Tell me what funds the merchant houses.
Tell me what builds the financial architecture.
You've argued the slave economy merely redirected value rather than creating it.
The exercise I just described is the test of that claim.
Run it.
Show your working.
Because every economic historian who has run it reached the same conclusion.
The one you've been arguing against this entire conversation.
Tom Meier@mythical_meier
You seem to be unable to distinguish transforming from improving. The drug trade didn't build infrastructure, it changed what infrastructure would be built and where. It did not induce more people to do useful work, it changed who was getting paid from the people making things which really improve life to people making things which make life worse.
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The bottom line?
This could become the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record without urgent international action.
More in the IRC’s Flash Alert: rescue.org/press-release/…
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Right now, there are three warning signs that this Ebola outbreak could be particularly difficult to contain:
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@Gooddy_Gooddy01 @phethani4 @flygodT Rodney done some heavy lifting blaming Indian, Syrian and Lebanese business men traders too.
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Spot on. Rodney's PhD clash with Fage at SOAS shows the book was never a vague 'blame Europe' rant — it was a rigorous historical counter to the 'slavery was just African business' narrative. People drop the title like a gotcha in 2026 debates but skip the actual thesis: Europe didn't just exploit, it restructured African economies to extract while blocking internal development. Read it for the pre-colonial baselines and trade data, not as a shield for today's governance failures. Context matters.
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The context of this book revolves around Rodney's experience during his PhD at SOAS, where his supervisor, a British historian named J.D. Fage, argued that slavery was an indigenous African institution. Fage argued that Europeans merely tapped into a pre-existing, functioning market.
He insisted that Rodney write this as fact for his PhD, which was focused on Upper Volta, now known as Burkina Faso.
Rodney rejected Fage's argument and wrote against it in his thesis. Later, he published a full-length book that examined the question of slavery and the underdevelopment of Africa, which is this very book: HEUA.
When people debate post-colonial Africa and reference this book without having read it, you can easily spot it because of the lack of understanding of the arguments made and the context in which they were presented. It is unrealistic to expect a book written in 1972 to analyze Paul Biya.
Chi@__Poisonivyyy
A must read
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@Mike_hun7 @DreGrubbs @nxt888 YOU EVIL WHITE MONKEYS DIDN'T OUTLAW SLAVERY OUT THE KINDNESS OF YOUR HEARTS!! YOU NEANTHERTHALS DIDN'T HAVE A CHOICE!!! THE HAITIANS DIDN'T GIVE YOU A CHOICE!! YOU COULDN'T BEAT US!! DEAL WITH IT YOU BOZO!!
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@Mike_hun7 @nxt888 Your attempted sarcasm is as pathetic as your obsessive need for denial.
Don’t worry.
You obviously have a lot of company.
What word can we use to categorise a group of self obsessed, delusional clowns, whose identity is built entirely from denial?
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The sugar economy alone.
By 1680, sugar exports from the single island of Barbados were worth more than the total exports of every continental American colony combined.
One island.
One crop.
Entirely enslaved labor.
By the 1770s, Britain ordered its commander to abandon Philadelphia and New York if necessary to protect Jamaica.
They were willing to lose America.
They could not afford to lose the sugar.
Sugar was the most valuable commodity in the Atlantic world.
It funded British merchant houses, insurance companies, and banks.
It built the financial architecture that ran everything else.
Your coal and salt don't come close.
Not even close.
Mike Hunt@Mike_hun7
@nxt888 You are incorrect. They carried everything from Salt to coal and livestock. RORO with Ireland, Europe, India etc as well as general African trade.
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@Mike_hun7 @DreGrubbs @nxt888 The very last armada that great Britain sent to battle Haiti was the BIGGEST AND GREATEST ARMADA THAT GREAT BRITAIN HAS EVER SET OUT TO SEA. THE GREATEST ARMADA EVER OF THE GREATEST NAVY IN THE WORLD... AND THEY LOST MISERABLY 😂😂😂😂. THEY BANNED SLAVERY AFTER THAT 😂😂😂😂
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What is the logical destination of your point, Mike?
Because you haven't stated it.
You've dropped a historical detail and let it sit there, implying it defeats something without saying what.
If your point is that Saint-Domingue's racial hierarchy was complex: agreed.
If your point is that free colored people owned slaves: agreed.
If your point is therefore the Haitian Revolution doesn't count as a Black liberation movement that terrified Western slaveholders and shook the Atlantic system:
Then you need to explain why Thomas Jefferson responded to it with a trade embargo.
Why South Carolina and Georgia banned Black sailors from entering their ports.
Why slaveholders across the American South spent the next fifty years invoking Haiti as their nightmare scenario.
They weren't afraid of the gens de couleur's land holdings.
They were afraid of what 500,000 enslaved people had just demonstrated was possible.
Mike Hunt@Mike_hun7
@nxt888 Saint-Domingue had the largest, wealthiest, and most politically influential population of free people of color in the entire Caribbean. They owned a third of the land and 25% of the slaves. worldhistorycommons.org/source-collect…
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@TestTubeMiracle You seem angry and unable to express yourself in a conversational setting.
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@Mike_hun7 You are so fucking corny smh. You're a dumbass, forreal.
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@TestTubeMiracle @DreGrubbs @nxt888 The British public learned no lesson from it, more than half couldn't read never mind understand international affairs ? And had nothing to do with it.
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@TestTubeMiracle @DreGrubbs @nxt888 I'm not arguing against that. Slavery was not banned after that either. Just the transatlantic shipping of slaves.
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@Mike_hun7 @DreGrubbs @nxt888 All you care about is defending white supremacy. Like trying to make it seem like the two greatest superpowers in the world lost to former slaves because of disease. That's a complete fucking lie. They came back over and over and over and over and over and lost EVERY. SINGLE TIME
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@nxt888 Don't mention this to the De Souza family : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco…
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Andrew, you've just described the perfect crime.
Steal across generations.
Build institutions that compound the value.
Pass the wealth to your children.
Then point out that the victims are dead.
By your logic, every inherited fortune built on crime is permanently laundered the moment the original criminal dies.
Every estate lawyer in history just took notes.
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"Nobody living today is responsible."
The banks are alive.
Barclays is alive.
Lloyd's of London is alive.
The City of London financial institutions that insured, financed, and profited from the slave trade did not die in 1770.
They are open tomorrow morning.
You've confused the death of the perpetrators with the death of the institutions they built.
Those are not the same thing.
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