- Target:
- African Union; Senegalese government; African Americans
- Region:
- GLOBAL
- Website:
- imuna.blog4ever.com
The son of Africa, the cradle of humanity that some are striving to transform into the tomb of mankind, suffered and continue to suffer from slavery and or its impacts, be it eastern, western, or endogenous. One would miss words and space to describe and decry. Its brands are indelible, visible and invisible, physical, moral or virtual.
Not to talk about its consequences.
We are all accomplices (active or passive) but not responsible for the acts or the perpetuation of its brands and effects. The duty to remember obliges us not to forget, but we can forgive. We must forgive and we ask forgiveness for our responsibility in this tragedy. We must forgive our tormentors and their accomplices.
We need to commemorate so that no one forgets or ignores, so as to give sense to these words of Mandela "Never! Never! Never again ...".
That's why we must leave "no stone unturned" in the effort of individual and collective exorcism of this disaster. One of the most poignant symbols, speakers and visible from this tragedy is the "house slaves" Gorée in Senegal, and other deportation ports of embarkation of our brothers in the distance or beyond. Bimbia in Cameroon, but the first is most famous today because most visible and publicized. The question is simple.
Were the deportees slaves or captives before their stay at Gorée or elsewhere or did they became it at their destination? If not, why do these infamous places have kept this name in spite of criticisms and suggestions? Why do we accommodate with this injurious word? Is it for tourism marketing that could be tantamount to a kind of “return of investment”?
It is time to reconcile ourselves with our history and heal the wounds of our tragedies, "link by link". Year by year. And why not start or continuing by changing the name of "house of slaves" in House of Captives? To refer to captives not slaves while talking to our forefathers before they left their respective countries?
We, the signatories of this petition concerning all men, all African and Africanist aware of scars of slavery on Africa and Africans, symbolized by the "house of slaves" of the Gorée Island in Senegal and other premises in Africa, we ask the Senegalese people, we advocate with the Government of Senegal, we challenge the President Macky Sall in which African youth has placed so much hope, to take this simple act but so much significant that consists at renaming the "house of slaves" to "HOUSE of CAPTIVES”.
We pray anybody, especially journalists, not to call those who were to be deported “salves” but “captives”, as so were they before leaving their beloved countries.
And it will only be JUSTICE.
And we will respect the DIGNITY of our brothers and sisters.
And it will be another form of FORGIVENESS.
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The Rename "house of slaves" to HOUSE OF CAPTIVES petition to African Union; Senegalese government; African Americans was written by Faustin Ekotto Eboa and is in the category Civil Rights at GoPetition.