Tagged: 711 A.D.

“The slave trade started with the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church by the name of Martin V and Reverend Bartolome de Las Casas in the island of Hispaniola, now called Haiti and Santo Domingo. See, nobody told you it’s time to get sorry, to feel bad when some Haitians were being slaughtered on the coast of Florida…You didn’t feel anything because you weren’t taught to realize that the Haitians are your brothers and sisters because you don’t know that the first Africans to be brought in slavery were not taken from Africa, but from Spain and carried to Haiti, then called Hispaniola in 1506 under the aegis of the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Reverend Bartolome de Las Casas. But how did you get in Spain? That was 1506. You went into Spain, which was then called Iberia (Spain, Portugal and southern France), as conquerors yourself in 711 under the leadership of Tarik for whom the Rock of Gibraltar is now named GibralTarik. Nothing in your education because there’s nothing in your textbooks about any of this so you have to go to Spain…” — Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan 

I did a quick Google search to see the Rock of Gibraltar and I found some pretty incredible images. Here’s one below.

Rock of Gibraltar

I found it strange however, that on Wikipedia, it states:

The Rock of Gibraltar is a monolithic limestone promontory located in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, off the southwestern tip of Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. It is 426 m high. The Rock is Crown property of the United Kingdom, and borders Spain.

How is the fuck is this monolithic rock the “Crown property of the United Kingdom”???

Source: From the lecture titled “The Black Man Must Wake Up.”

“The Afrikans had gone through six Dynasties prior to the first European of any substance coming into the land to make him or herself known…[W]e gotta stop talking on certain levels. I believe that our discussion at this point is counterproductive. See, we’re not about asking them, ‘[Were] Egyptians black?’ That’s yesterday’s discussion. See, we dealt with that yesterday. Whether or not you’re up to the par is your business. See, you missed the train, I didn’t. I was on that train. Now, we got to be about the formation of a nation in terms of our thought process. And this is why the Moors become so very important to us because if you do not understand the Moors, [then] it is very difficult for us as a people to understand why we’re in the position that we’re in today. You cannot understand why we’re in the position that we’re into today, if you don’t understand what happened in 1492. You cannot understand what happened in 1492, if you don’t understand the Crusades. You cannot understand the Crusades, if you don’t understand the Moors. Because the very nature of the knowledge that the Crusaders — the Christian Europeans — got of the riches of the East — why Columbus was on the seas in the first place hundreds of years later — was because of what the Moors had brought into Spain.” — Booker T. Coleman, Jr.