It Seriously is Seriously Screwed-Up

      I have always held the views of a humanitarian. Perhaps not a die-hard humanitarian but none the less the way other people are treated has always been a concern of mine. Learning from history books, for me personally, is not as different as it is reading about Leopold. People are indeed screwed-up and when those people have influence they can do almost anything they desire. After all Leopold started with the title of a King, and almost no money to fund his dreams. 

     The American colonists started with nothing as well, not even a title. Yet by the time they were all done and settled they had exterminated a huge majority of the Native Americans. Of course the British helped as well, but did the colonists stop after theRevolutionary War? Did they try to make peace of the Indians? No! They simply kept encroaching on the Indian's territory. In fact a majority of the colonists did not even see the irony behind their conquests.                          They escaped England because of the oppression they felt, yet they came to America, their land of "freedom", and oppressed. Only 100 years after the Revolutionary War, in 1890, the now Americans, created what goes down in history as The Wound Knee Massacare. Where Major Samuel Whitside simply massacred hundreds of Indians, men, women, children, all were in his cross heirs. And in 1973 it happened again, having the name of The Wounded Knee Incident. This time the Native American held their own and camped out in their town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. They were fighting for their rights, the same rights that the Americans before them had fought o valiantly for, only 200 years ago. 

     It is only natural with the introduction of black slaves that the American;s would not have any issues with that either. Much like in the Congo living conditions for the slaves were awful and they worked long days with little food. In fact black slaves were preferred for work on plantations especially in the Caribbean and the South because they were accustomed to the hot and humid weather. They were lashed with whips, they were raped, some had metal collars around their neck with bells so they could not escape. Sometimes these collars would fuse with the skin because of the hot conditions and the amount of time worn, between the sweat and the stress. 
     It is one thing to enter African and learn their ways and explore their land in order to create your world map. In fact even the introduction of new technologies would be welcome. But it is entirely a different thing when people enter a different country and continent and begin to take advantage of the people and resources. The Natives in the Congo were already accepting next to nothing in payment, how a human mind can think that enslaving them and taking innocent lives is better than giving them some clothe is beyond me. They had enough resources to pay fair wages yet they chose not to, greed is so over powering for human beings. Of course the whites did distance themselves from the action by making sure natives committed the awful crimes onto other natives. 

     Not even in the 21st century has the world collected it self. There is still slavery today. In an age where cell phones take pictures and can send them hundreds of thousands of miles to a friend. We have little documentation of slavery today, even more so we have little acknowledgement for the slavery today. Virtually everything that comes to America is coming from people who endure slave like conditions. Everything labeled "Made in China" comes from the Chinese people who are paid next to nothing for their work. They work in dangerous conditions creating our Apple products and so much more.