Colonization is a bitch

Alright, so I mentioned Liberia back in the last post.

So what the fuck happened to Liberia, right?
so way back in 1816 in the US,
a bunch of american dudes (and i say dudes, cause women never seem to get these crazy-ass ideas) decide the best thing to do with all these black former slaves is to send them back to africa.
there weren't actually a ton of these former slaves
cause, you know, those slave owners didn't like giving up their 'property'
but the white people were still freaking out over the idea of having a bunch of literate, educated black people around
(who knows what might happen, one might get elected president or something)
so a bunch of white and black people got together
and founded the American Colonization Society
(you could call it that back in the day cause that was before 'colonization' sounded really, really shitty)
which was trying to get a bunch of free black people to found a colony in africa
the white people involved were like 'awesome, won't have to worry about all those free black people messing with our hegemony'
and the black people involved were like 'awesome, we get to go somewhere where we don't get shat on every day'
so they get a bunch of free black people and put em on a boat with some supplies and send em to africa.
they get to a place white people were calling the pepper coast
cause white people at the time just called places in west africa by what you get there
like calling california 'strawberry-land' or texas 'the home of beef' or las vegas 'herpes'
so these free american black people get to africa
and start buying/stealing/tricking-the-locals-out-of a bunch of land
guess they picked that up from the white people in america
so by the 1840s the ACS was pretty much bankrupt
so they told the americo-liberians
(which is what you call all those free american black people)
'alright, dudes, we're fucking broke, go be independent or something'
so the americo-liberians were like,
'alright. we're independent. here's our constitution:
we used to be in america, where we got shat on all day.
we don't wanna be shat on any more, so we've got a new country
blah blah blah, form of government'
so hey, what do you notice about this?
oh shit, they don't mention any of the people that ARE ACTUALLY FROM THERE ORIGINALLY
so basically, you got about 3000 colonists, all originally from america
and a fucktonhell load of locals
don't even know how many, cause all those colonists seemed to have forgotten to count
(probably at least a million)
doesn't matter anyways, cause they're not citizens and can't vote or anything
so its not like it matters how many there are
so the americo-liberians went about building a bunch of houses
that looked a lot like plantation houses
and got a bunch of the locals to work on them
SOUND KIND OF SUSPICIOUS YET?
so yeah, they just proceeded to shit upon the locals over and over again
and founded their own political party called the 'true whig party'
which ruled the fucking country for a hell of a long time
like
until 1980
it wasn't too hard, cause they didn't allow any other parties
oh did i mention that pretty much everybody who ruled the country by that point were FREEMASONS?
not that i think its some kind of conspiracy, but thats kinda interesting shit
oh so back in 1930 the rulers of the country actually got caught selling slave labor.
wtf?
i mean i know there were plenty of africans who sold slaves to the europeans and americans
but shit, they weren't slaves before, and they didn't found their country to, like, get away from slavery.
so anyways, they went through a rebellion by native liberians, like, every few years
but in 1980 they got overthrown by a native guy named Samuel Doe
and it was ok for like a little while
but then it got all chaosy
like it usually does
and then there was a civil war until 1996
when Charles Taylor took over
(i love how liberians all seem to have really boring-ass names)
he actually got voted in clean
but in 1999
(liberians don't waste time)
there was another rebellion
with tons of other groups involved
and all the countries around got all up in that shit and backed one group or another
eventually, in 2005, shit died down enough to have an election
they elected Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
who in addition to breaking the trends of
being a man
being all dictator-y
and having a boring-ass name
actually seems like she gives a shit
but its not all roses for liberia yet
i mean, its a hell of a lot better
but to give you an idea, you wanna know what happened to Samuel Doe?
this guy Prince Johnson, no relation to Ellen, his men tortured and killed him
on video
while Prince Johnson is sitting there with a budweiser
so that guy Prince Johnson? he's in senate right now.
so they got some shit they gotta deal with, for sure.
but it's a hell of a lot better than being ruled by a bunch of former-slaves-then-slaveowning-true-whig-single-party-boring-named-freemasons.

the end. for now.