The Forgotten Segregation Crimes In The United States Of America In Images

Anti-civil rights crime in America

"Dedicated To Congressman John Lewis, For His Selfless Fight For The Emancipation of black people." - Joel Savage

The white missionaries were the first to introduce the Bible in Africa or to the black man. In that Bible, it is written God created man in His own image, yet the black man became a target to all kinds of cruelties because of the color of his skin. 

Assassinated civil-rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr

What actually motivates some people to be so cruel to other people? Why many enjoy racial violence when this issue is meaningless despite no one lives forever?

Apartheid in the United States of America

"Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes and until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war." -

Women fighting for better treatment and equal rights in America

“Colonialism and its attitudes die hard, like the attitudes of slavery, whose hangover still dominates behavior in certain parts of the Western hemisphere." - Kwame Nkrumah

Arrested Civil Rights activist, John Lewis

"Before slavery was practiced in the New World, there was no special denigration of Africans. Travelers to this continent described the inhabitants in their records with natural curiosity and examination to be expected of individuals coming from different environments." -

One of the embarrassing photographs in America, a country that persuades every country to follow democracy

"It was when the slave trade and slavery began to develop ghastly proportions that made them the base of that capital accumulation which assisted the rise of Western industrialism, that a new attitude towards Africans emerged. 'Slavery in the Caribbean has been too narrowly identified with the man of color. A racial twist has thereby been given to what is basically an economic phenomenon." - Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Martin Luther King Jr.

"Slavery was not born of racism, rather racism was the consequence of slavery.' With this racial twist was invented the myth of color inferiority. This myth supported the subsequent rape of our continent with its despoliation and continuing exploitation under the advanced forms of colonialism and imperialism.” - Kwame Nkrumah

BELGIUM HAUNTED, A POEM BY JOEL SAVAGE

Patrice Lumumba, killed by Belgium after losing the country.

"It is Sunday morning, May 25, 2014, the day everyone has to go to the polls to vote for European and federal parliamentary institutions. This is a day I should have been happy, but I was so sad that I wrote this poem."

He was an evil king
His name was King Leopold II
He wore a sheep's clothing
And he deceived the world
As a humanitarian and kind person
He killed, tortured and maimed
Thousands of children, women, and fathers in Congo
He burned down villages and rendered children homeless.

This man was cruel than Idi Amin of Uganda
Yet the Belgians praised and rewarded him for his cruelty
They built statues and named streets after him
Without considering the crime he committed

Without taking into consideration the innocent blood he shed
Where is the justice in this world?
Belgium whatever goes around comes around
You shall surely get your reward.

Despite all these crimes against Africans
Belgium today despises Africans
They planned a system of government like Apartheid
Keeping our children to sit on the bench to watch them
Africans only eat and live without progress
How can your country progress when you act this way?
Belgium you will surely reap what you have sown.

Belgium don't forget that your country 
Was built on the blood, tears, torture, and suffering of Africans
In the name of greed, Ivory, and Rubber
The spirit of Lumumba, the one you killed, is calling for justice

The spirits of the innocent blood you shed, are calling for revenge
There isn't any escape route for you Belgium
Your crime has brought dishonour to your people and country
They don't know what shame is, that is the reason
They continue mistreating Africans

But you must remember Africa is a land of culture 
We believe in our cultural values
Belgium you will never progress and move forward
If your task is to cause suffering to others

If your task to alienate and isolate Africans  
Belgium, until you change your wicked ways
Your country would be under dark clouds
Of haunts, hallucinations, and fear.

You can't continue to bite the fingers which fed you
Belgium would have been nothing without Africa
Our children need better education and job 
I will die and go down happily in my grave

Even if you despise me Belgium
Because everyone would remember 
The name Joel Savage, the only man
Who faced Belgium squarely and spoke of its crime
While the world sits and watches, because justice is raped. 

Dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Selassie and all those who sacrificed their lives to bring the black man to this destination.