Born a Crime

that’s really what it comes down to.
Holocaust victims count because
Hitler counted them. Six million
people killed. We can all look at
that number and rightly be
horrified. But when you read
through the history of atrocities
against Africans, there are no
numbers, only guesses. It’s harder
to be horrified by a guess. When
Portugal and Belgium were
plundering Angola and the Congo,
they weren’t counting the black
people they slaughtered. How many
black people died harvesting rubber
in the Congo? In the gold and
diamond mines of the Transvaal?