"Entertainment Choices in 2023 be like:
All the straight white male characters are bad
Every character is bad, but straight white male characters are extra bad"
CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon) @FromKulak: "Appreciate that when Adolf Hitler occupied France he did not tear down WW1 memorials (like the one to the Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge seen here) even though he fought on the other side... Whereas the US government is backing attacks on your statues and monuments"
Just a reminder of what the British found when they got to Africa:
Institute of Current World Affairs
DER - 42
Notes on Nigeria - II
May 6, 1955
Malta
Mr. Walter S. Rogers
Institute of Current World Affairs
522 Fifth Avenue
New York 36, New York
Dear Mr. Rogers:
Benin City lies to the west of the Niger and is near the sprawling delta of that mighty river. These days Benin is just another ramshackle Nigerian town, filled with mud-walled houses and tiny shops. But Benin is different from the others in its history. All of southern Nigeria was a land of oppression, terror and fiendish cruelty, of slave raids, slavery, juju, human sacrifice and cannibalism. But Benin surpassed them all as a City of Blood.
Hundreds of people were tortured to death regularly in Benin's juju rituals. These blood-stained orgies went on for centuries, and were only halted in 1897 when the British captured the city. One man who entered the city in the British expedition gave this description:
" ... Altars covered with streams of dried human blood, the stench of which was awful ... huge pits, forty to fifty feet deep, were found filled with human bodies, dead and dying, and a few wretched captives were rescued alive ... everywhere sacrificial trees on which were the corpses of the latest victims --- every- where, on each path, were newly sacrificed corpses. On the principal sacrificial tree, facing the main gate of the King's compound, there were two crucified bodies ... "*"