10:11:43 AM Tue, May 22nd 2012

Documentary: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death in the Congo

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908.
Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.

  • Anonymous

    Watching this documentary for me has been nothing short of a dreadful endurance.  I cannot even fathom a reserve so full of evil.

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    • http://www.facebook.com/marianne.vanderwel Marianne Van der Wel

       I can imagine this kind of evil quite easily..not sure why.  Maybe because I am one step removed from this evil while yet experiencing it as a child during Nazi occupation,  My memories of the second world war (and all its atrocities)  are subconscious as opposed to conscious.  This might explain why the people who ran to North America to escape this horror and who are a decade or two older than I refuse to revisit that time period. I, on the other hand, want to bring it up over and over, not as punishment, but as way to figure out how to put such evil into a time capsule and send into a white hole in the negative universe far far away from us so that this NEVER happens again.  Yet it happens everyday, somewhere on the globe…as explicitly as portrayed in this film or in a very insidious, subtle way as to erode a person’s inner spirit. 

      The real kicker is that we have created a global social, economic and political system (IT) that way too many are buying into as our supposed salvation while IT actually promotes the very “slavery” we want to get out from under.  :-( :-( :-(

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  • Simokiy2g

    The problem with Africans –we are so conditioned to accept oppression that i guarantee that if any western country were to chose to colonize any African country –most black people around the world will do nothing—-we like to sing we shall over come

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  • Simokiy2g

    As long as AFricans still embrace christianity their minds will always be in chains

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