Libyan Slave Trade
Black Man’s modern Crisis
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/my-secret-film-of-slaves-in-libya-stirs-the-world-to-act-2lksr0c52
“You’re one border away from getting your family out of poverty”
“You’re one border away from tasting the freedom you’ve never had”
“You’re one border away from finding a job”
What you’ve just read above may look like mere sentences that hold no significance to your personal life but for many people, these words were the founding pillars of their nightmares.
A few months ago I had heard the news about the ongoing slave trade that was taking place in Libya, I couldn’t help but feel angry…angry because it felt as though the black community had an additional “slavery loan” that needed to be paid inclusive to the 400+ years of bondage.
It felt like we were going back in history.
As the videos poured in of black men getting beaten to a pulp, humiliated on camera and their perpetrators sadistically controlling their autonomy as though they were cheap cattle, the world continued to watch and watch…and watch.
In fact I had personally timed the whole story and wanted to see what would come out of the whole thing now that the media had shed light on the atrocity and most importantly, how long would the news last until people got bored and decided to stop talking about it?
Apparently, my suspicions weren’t to far off as by the end of week 3 after the story’s release, it was as though nothing ever happened.
The media went quiet.
Social media was raving about things, people and stories that were shallow and unimportant.
And leaders couldn’t wait to get back to their daily corruption schemes.
Basically…the world turned the other cheek as though the trading of human beings was just another normal activity.
I wouldn’t say I was surprised though. African affairs are the least of anybody’s worries unless of course a natural resource worth tons of money ought to be dug up for westernised purposes or if a tacky organisation is looking for starving mothers and their children to pose with a bowl of oats in the hopes that the organisation plays the “Good Samaritan”. Other than that, Africa and it’s people remain below the standards as usual.
Here are 5 Quick Facts that you need to Know about the Libyan Slavery Crisis:
- A Slave trade is taking place in Libya right now as you’re reading this.
- Modern Slavery is a striving industry with game-changing money. That means, there are people who do this as an occupation and become rich out of it.
- It’s controlled by a network of criminals belonging to different rankings. From Government officials to terrorists to ordinary people.
- Men and young male children are just as much victims as women and girls are.
- The Trade is racially motivated just as much as it is economically motivated.
However, the worst form of slavery to ever exist is not racial, nor economical. But it’s the inability to deny the existence of brotherhood from another being.
