Kolo's Maid

[6TimesaRed]

Article in the rag that shall not be named over how he treated his maid like a slave.. I dont think it warrants front page news, but then this is that Newspaper

Is this a culture thing?? (if true) as I know a few Africans, that like to treat their woman in the similar fashion ..

 

[Judge Jules]

You're assuming there's something in this report. That isn't an assumption I'd share.

Incidentally: wrong forum?

 

[cloggypop]

I don't think it warrants a thread.

 

[Modo]

Everyone wants slaves its just that most people have now moved on to dogs or sheep.
Some even take the sheep thing to another level.

 

[Hansern]

If its from that garbage of a "paper" then its not even worth discussing.

 

[keniget]

It's in the Daily Mail also.

Looking at a picture of her, I can kinda believe it.

 

[6TimesaRed]

I'd though the thread would have some love.. Because its Kolo.. AH well..

 

[Judge Jules]

So you quote a derogatory report about him? From the "Scum"?

 

[SummerOnions]

Good kult of Kolo only

 

[Actonian]

That rag printing negative stories about LFC in the run up to the Hillsborough anniversary? Who'd have thought it?

 

[6TimesaRed]

It also being reported in the Mail too..

But Yeh..

 

[rubans]

Article in the rag that shall not be named over how he treated his maid like a slave.. I dont think it warrants front page news, but then this is that Newspaper

Is this a culture thing?? (if true) as I know a few Africans, that like to treat their woman in the similar fashion ..

I know a few Europeans too, what does that tell us really though?
Not everything can be simplified as a cultural thing.

 

[doctor_mac]

Article in the rag that shall not be named over how he treated his maid like a slave.. I dont think it warrants front page news, but then this is that Newspaper

Is this a culture thing?? (if true) as I know a few Africans, that like to treat their woman in the similar fashion ..

I'm pretty sure that slave keeping has 'culturally' been more of a white western thing rather than an African thing. Although, in fairness, it was an African thing in that we generally took our slaves from there.

 

[Skullflower]

Anyone who seems as sound as kolo must be hiding something.

 

[Judge Jules]

I'm pretty sure that slave keeping has 'culturally' been more of a white western thing rather than an African thing. Although, in fairness, it was an African thing in that we generally took our slaves from there.

I wouldn't be so sure of that first bit if I were you, Docster. We did go in for slavery obv, but so did black African rulers. The slaves we carried across the Atlantic had often been sold to us in the first place.

 

[Skullflower]

I wouldn't be so sure of that first bit if I were you, Docster. We did go in for slavery obv, but so did black African rulers. The slaves we carried across the Atlantic had often been sold to us in the first place.

Stop reading victorian literature.

 

[doctor_mac]

I wouldn't be so sure of that first bit if I were you, Docster. We did go in for slavery obv, but so did black African rulers. The slaves we carried across the Atlantic had often been sold to us in the first place.

I am aware of that JJ (although the fact that tribes were taking thousands of slaves was surely driven by the market created by western consumers,wasn't it), I just think RN's racial association of black Africans with slave keeping is a tad tasteless.

 

[6TimesaRed]

I am aware of that JJ (although the fact that tribes were taking thousands of slaves was surely driven by the market created by western consumers,wasn't it), I just think RN's racial association of black Africans with slave keeping is a tad tasteless.

I wasnt being tasteless or racist.. Though quite right, the point I was making wouldn't necessarily just point to one race, I guess it can happen in all walks of life...

I just know of a few Africans particularly Ghanaians that treat their woman as if they should be chained to the kitchen sink by rights.. It's passed down to the children to in some quarters, it seems. One particular person I know, his son treats woman shabby like, expects them to do everything for him, like his father, whilst his daughter is a domestic goddess at the age of 11..

It was having a chat with a social worker about this, who also happened to be African, he said it's common place with some Africans, it's a 'cultural thing'

 

[manwithnoname]

I'm pretty sure that slave keeping has 'culturally' been more of a white western thing rather than an African thing. Although, in fairness, it was an African thing in that we generally took our slaves from there.

Yeah, one word: "pyramids"

 

[Skullflower]

Yeah, one word: "pyramids"

stop reading victorian literature. the 'built by slaves' argument isn't accepted anymore.

 

[manwithnoname]

Slaves built everything. Or perhaps you think it was an unionised happy workforce with a construction bent.

 

[Skullflower]

Slaves built everything. Or perhaps you think it was an unionised happy workforce with a construction bent.

ok, your definition of a slavery is clearly too broad for me to challenge.

 

[Skullflower]

I will add, though, that it's more than entirely possible that the people who laboured on these kinds of monuments felt incredibly good about doing it.

 

[doctor_mac]

Yeah, one word: "pyramids"

Holy fuck, really?

 

[manwithnoname]

I will add, though, that it's more than entirely possible that the people who laboured on these kinds of monuments felt incredibly good about doing it.

Yes, they undoubtedly enjoyed the feeling of achievement and having some direction and focus in their lives, even as they died by the thousands

 

[Skullflower]

Yes, they undoubtedly enjoyed the feeling of achievement and having some direction and focus in their lives, even as they died by the thousands

Im not sure you have much of an idea about the ancient egyptian worldview.

 

[manwithnoname]

Im not sure you have much of an idea about the ancient egyptian worldview.

I have seen The Mummy and also the sequel

 

[Skullflower]

I have seen The Mummy and also the sequel

oh, sorry, I had no idea.

 

[Silver Sean]

I'm pretty sure that slave keeping has 'culturally' been more of a white western thing rather than an African thing. Although, in fairness, it was an African thing in that we generally took our slaves from there.

Bought them from there, after being sold them by other black africans in the main.
Not advocating slavery by the way. Although my toddler seems to have me pretty well shackled.

 

[Atlas]

*walks into thread*
ummmmmmmm

I'll just go back to the Gap ad thread.