Slavery and Racism is a Global Burden
If we are still tearing down monuments because of ties to slavery, we should tear down every obelisk in the World. Because that would at least be fair, right?
Washington Monument, Washington DC, United States.
Obelisk at Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City.
Luxor Obelisk, Paris, France.
Obelisco de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lateran Obelisk, Rome, Italy.
Cleopatra's Needle, New York, United States.
Luxor Obelisk, Luxor, Egypt.
Heliopolis Obelisk, Cairo, Egypt.
“In nineteenth-century Egypt Circassian females were mostly kept in the harems of wealthy Turks, the concubines of ‘middle class’ Egyptians generally were Abyssinians, while male and female Negro slaves were used for domestic service by almost all layers of Egyptian society. In addition to domestic service, black slaves were used as soldiers by Egypt's rulers and, contrary to the prevalent assumption, as agricultural workers on the farms of the Muḥammad Alī family and elsewhere in Upper Egypt and during periods of prosperity and shortage of labour also in Lower Egypt. Apparently there were at least 30,000 slaves in Egypt at different times of the nineteenth century, and probably many more.
White slaves were brought to Egypt from the eastern coast of the Black Sea and from the Circassian settlements of Anatolia via Istanbul. Brown and black slaves were brought (a) from Darfur to Asyūṭ, directly or through Kordofan; (b) from Sennar to Isnā; (c) from the area of the White Nile; (d) from Bornu and Wadāy via Libya and the Western Desert; (e) from Abyssinia and the East African coast through the Red Sea. The slave dealers in Egypt were mainly people from Upper Egypt and the Oases, beduin and villagers of the Buḥayra province. They were divided into dealers in black and in white slaves and organized in a guild with a shaykh. Cairo was the great depot of slaves and the centre of the trade, but a very important occasion for trading in slaves was the annual mawlid of Ṭanṭā.”
Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history/article/abs/slavery-in-nineteenth-century-egypt/FF1787B6B260501DCFBA89EEEC8341A5
Obelisk, tapered monolithic pillar, originally erected in pairs at the entrances of ancient Egyptian temples. The Egyptian obelisk was carved from a single piece of stone, usually red granite from the quarries at Aswān. It was designed to be wider at its square or rectangular base than at its pyramidal top, which was often covered with an alloy of gold and silver called electrum. All four sides of the obelisk’s shaft are embellished with hieroglyphs that characteristically include religious dedications, usually to the sun god, and commemorations of the rulers.
- Encyclopedia Britannica
Go Forth. Keep Watch!
Ezekiel 33:1-9 KJV
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