So Liberia was on that c00n shyt too..:mjcry:

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:dwillhuh:I was reading a bit of African history when i came across this info on Liberian history.
Americo-Liberians are an ethnic group in Liberia that trace their ancestry to free-born and formerly enslaved African-Americans who immigrated to Africa the 19th century to become founders of Liberia a country that was created by American Colonization Society from land that was colonized by the U.S. The society was created to allow the return of freed African Americans from the recently abolished slave trade to what was considered greater freedom in Africa.

Soon after colonization and immigrating the Americo-Liberians believing they were superior both culturally, ethnically, and religiously enslaved the indigenous population and tried to reeducate the them by forcing their beliefs and culture on them while enslaving them and forcing them to work on their newly created plantations modeled after the very same forms of slave labour practices that the U.S. practiced. This can be seen in the fact that Americo-Liberians converted most of the indigenous population into practicing Christianity and Liberia is now a Christian majority nation even though before that most of the population practiced traditional African religions. Owing to their belief of racial superiority Americo-Liberians rarely intermarried with the Indigenous population for fear that it would dilute their racial purity/superiority this is can seen in that majority of Liberia's presidents throughout Liberia's history when Americo-Liberians ruled the nation despite making up only a disproportionately small amount of the country's population were Mulattoes.

After enslaving the Indigenous population the Americo-Liberians dominated the nation politically, socially, economically and culturally this is true in the fact that for 133 years after independence, the Republic of Liberia was a one-party ruled nation by the Americo-Liberian dominated True Whig Party. Americo-Liberians have dominated Liberia's politic since its founding back in 1820 until Samuel Doe led a military coup in 1980. There is controversy on how Americo-Liberians held on to power for so long. Some attribute it to the fact that divisions were based on "light-skin vs. dark skin" particularly because the first president was a light skinned Mulatto. Although other observers attribute it to the Masonic Order of Liberia.[32] During the military coup most of the powerful Americo-Liberian families fled to America in the 1980s after President William Tolbert was assassinated for fear of being assassinated themselves.

Due to the tyranny of their reign which eventually led to the infamous coup in 1980 to liberate/overthrow the country from Americo-Liberian rule and return the power to the Indigenous Liberians which constitute the majority of the nation's population. The effects of Americo-Liberian rule thereafter that resulted after the coup was that much of the indigenous population did not know how to decide who should be the ruler(s) of the nation due to the fact that much of the Indigenous population did not know how to rule a society due to the oppression dealt to them by Americo-Liberians for generations and that there was much political instability due ethnic tensions which led to the subsequent civil wars and the destruction of the country's economy leading Liberia to currently being the 3rd most impoverished nation in the world with about 85% of the society's population living below the international poverty line.
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:dwillhuh:can someone confirm this fukkery
 
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Its funny when you think you know a lot, you realize you don't shiit.

I didn't know about this at all. Had no idea that they enslaved the indigneous blacks. Funny, when ever I heard or read about Liberia's formation I seem to always end at the fact that a bunch of African American former slaves were sent there, and that's it. Never looked or heard much about what happened next. But then my reference always time travels forward to the 90s during the civil war with Charles Taylor and blood diamonds era. So literally I had a hundred plus years void of what happened in Liberia from its founding :yeshrug:

Of course, if we dig deeper, I'm sure there is even more to this story, but it does provide some background to why Liberia is the way it is.

Interesting OP :ehh:
 
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LiberianGirl said:
Not bad
I mean of course I have third world problems and we just had a year of Ebola, but despite that I am happy here
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How's the food?
Is it safe?
How do Liberians react to foreigners?
How do they react to non blacks?
Best cities?
 
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Northern Son said:
I thought this was well known. I hope all the AA's on this board who call all Africans c00ns for their part in slavery are aware of this.
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Aware that some AAs are c00ns?

We already know that :yeshrug:
 
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