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The color of the population of southern Europe from about the 9th to the 16th centuries could very much be compared to native quarters in some North African countries today.

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During the Moorish occupation of Spain, a huge melting pot took place. The Moors mixed with natives, European groups, Arabs but also Slavic people. They brought a cosmopolitan spirit that even allowed some ancient captives to rise into the highest positions of the state.

Black people being the foremost power in Europe at that time, Europeans families thought marriage with them an honor. They were the conquerors and Europeans the conquered. So, to them it was an honor to mate or marry with the governing class.

This explains why so many European rulers were mixed or black. These details have been hidden when Europe started to write its own history with a racist ideology.

It became impossible to tell the truth about African masters and rulers because it went against the lie of black inferiority they are promoting globally to this day.

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Horrifying ways enslaved African men were sexually exploited and abused by their white masters

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A vulture waits for a starving boy to die, so it could eat him, Sudan, 1993.

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The South African photojournalist, Kevin Carter who took this photograph won a Pulitzer Prize for his image.

However, the darkness of that bright day never lifted from him and he committed suicide a year later in July 1994, writing, “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain.”

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