Tagged: Gibraltar

“In the year 710, Musa borrowed four ships from Count Julian and sent a force of five hundred men under the command of Tarif, an officer in his army, to make a raid on the Andalusian coast. The army landed at a place later renamed Tarifa in honor of Tarif. (It was at the port of Tarifa that the Moors later levied a certain tax, which, taking its name from the town, became known as the tariff.) Tarif and his small detachment plundered Algericas and other towns and returned to Africa with their boats loaded with spoils. The success of this venture encouraged Musa, who then decided on a more extensive foray into Spain. In 711, when Musa learned that King Roderick was busy in the north of his country trying to put down an uprising of the Basques, he decided that the time was ripe for an invasion of the Visigothic realm. So an army of twelve thousand Africans was recruited and placed under the leadership of the Moorish general, Tarik. General Tarik and his army landed on an isthmus between an escarpment, then called Mons Calpe, and the continent of Europe. (After that, Mons Calpe was renamed Gebel Tarik — The Hill of Tarik — or, as we now call it Gibraltar.) Tarik’s African army captured several Spanish towns near Gibraltar, among them, Heraclea. Then he advanced northward into Andalusia. King Roderick learned of the invasion and raised a large army for defense. The two armies met in battle near Xeres not far from the Gaudalete River.”

Source: John G. Jackson. Introduction to African Civilizations. pg. 170-171. 1970.

“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.”