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https://twitter.com/earth_tracker/status/1852362188176134234When William Tolbert came to power in Liberia in 1971, the profits of Firestone in Liberia were 3 times higher than the total revenue of the Liberian state. Tolbert renegotiated the deal, which had given Firestone a 99-year lease on 1 million acres of land at 6 cents per acre
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https://twitter.com/xspotsdamark/status/1821205786967633993Between 1795 & 1807, the British military was the biggest importer of enslaved Africans and was spending 5 times more to buy, train & equip Africans than it was spending on regular English troops.
https://twitter.com/AfricanHub_/status/1759286388539723933Even then, the Eunuchs in the Arab world were castrated by Europeans & then sold to Arabs. The Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) was not only the biggest employer of eunuchs but also the biggest exporter, along with the city-state of Venice & later the Egyptian Coptic Church.
https://twitter.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/1757184443524276274Northern States used America the Beautiful as their national anthem. Blacks used Lift every voice and sing. The South used the Star Spangled Banner. In the 1920s, the Daughters of the Confederacy successfully campaigned to make the Star Spangled Banner the only national anthem.
https://twitter.com/DaleCloudyman/status/1755622151657316829After the revolution, Britain attempted to claim Haiti for themselves, but the expedition ended up disaster, with over 50,000 British soldiers dying, primarily from yellow fever. Many British soldiers deserted rather than serve in the Caribbean
https://twitter.com/negrosubversive/status/1699212878921011398The Haiti knocked France out of the slave trade. In the decade before the Haitian Revolution, France was importing an average of 21,000 enslaved Africans per year. After the Haitian Revolution, that number dropped to 6000 per year. A 71% drop.
https://twitter.com/xspotsdamark/status/1400163521531363328...culminating in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the installation of the tyrant Mobutu & the permanent occupation of Congo by U.N "peacekeeping" forces. Congo won't be mentioned in the movie, which celebrates American genius triumphing over the forces of evil...
https://twitter.com/wayotworld/status/1673916190798782464Why did they choose to live in shacks & shanty towns where they had to dump buckets of sewage onto the streets daily because they had no plumbing? They had to wait for their nations to go plunder the world & use the wealth to hire training professionals to build homes for them.
https://twitter.com/CatholicOrca/status/1673829286271414275They were afraid that Spain would be militarily humiliated in Africa, bringing shame to Europe & shattering the myth of White superiority, as would later happen to Italy in Ethiopia after they tried to claim their colonial prize.