THE BOOK OF
OTHERS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF BASTARDS
The Africans never had a chance
Chapter 7
The black Africans never had a chance.
2jThe Watusi and the Zulus and the thousands of tribes who lived in the jungles and the savanna didn’t want to rule the world,
3Or build monuments of stone,
4Or giant cities,
5Or anything else.
6kThey wanted to be left alone,
7lTo live their own way,
8Which didn’t have anything to do with being Christian,
9Or earning plantation wages,
10mOr being enslaved on some plantation on a different continent,
11But the Chosen Nations came to Africa anyway,
12And brought all their great civilized gifts,
13nIncluding Christianity,
14oAnd whips and chains,
15And terrible weapons,
16And slave ships,
17And colonial governments,
18And armies,
19And wars,
20And lies,
21And more pwhite people than you can shake a pointed stick at.
22Poor bastards.
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