[The letter which follows is Courtesy of Dr. Vera Nobles and Dr Chiedozie
Okoro
Letter from King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries, 1883
"Reverends, Fathers and Dear Compatriots:
The task that is given to fulfill is very delicate and requires much tact.
You will go certainly to evangelize, but your evangelization must inspire
above all Belgium interests. Your principal objective in our mission in the
Congo is never to teach the niggers to know God, this they know already.
They speak and submit to a Mungu, one Nzambi, one Nzakomba, and what else I
don't know. They know that to kill, to sleep with someone else's wife, to
lie and to insult is bad. Have courage to admit it; you are not going to
teach them what they know already. Your essential role is to facilitate the
task of administrators and industrials, which means you will go to interpret
the gospel in the way it will be the best to protect your interests in that
part of the world. For these things, you have to keep watch on
disinteresting our savages from the richness that is plenty [in their
underground. To avoid that they get interested in it, and make you
murderous] competition and dream one day to overthrow you.
Your knowledge of the gospel will allow you to find texts ordering, and
encouraging your followers to love poverty, like "Happier are the poor
because they will inherit the heaven" and, "It's very difficult for the rich
to enter the kingdom of God." You have to detach from them and make them
disrespect everything which gives courage to affront us. I make reference to
their Mystic System and their war fetish-warfare protection-which they
pretend not to want to abandon, and you must do everything in your power to
make it disappear.
Your action will be directed essentially to the younger ones, for they won't
revolt when the recommendation of the priest is contradictory to their
parent's teachings. The children have to learn to obey what the missionary
recommends, who is the father of their soul. You must singularly insist on
their total submission and obedience, avoid developing the spirit in the
schools, teach students to read and not to reason. There, dear patriots, are
some of the principles that you must apply. You will find many other books,
which will be given to you at the end of this conference. Evangelize the
niggers so that they stay forever in submission to the white colonialists,
so they never revolt against the restraints they are undergoing. Recite
every day-"Happy are those who are weeping because the kingdom of God is for
them."
Convert always the blacks by using the whip. Keep their women in nine months
of submission to work freely for us. Force them to pay you in sign of
recognition-goats, chicken or eggs-every time you visit their villages. And
make sure that niggers never become rich. Sing every day that it's
impossible for the rich to enter heaven. Make them pay tax each week at
Sunday mass. Use the money supposed for the poor, to build flourishing
business centers. Institute a confessional system, which allows you to be
good detectives denouncing any black that has a different consciousness
contrary to that of the decision-maker. Teach the niggers to forget their
heroes and to adore only ours. Never present a chair to a black that comes
to visit you. Don't give him more than one cigarette. Never invite him for
dinner even if he gives you a chicken every time you arrive at his house.
--- "The above speech which shows the real intention of the Christian
missionary journey in Africa was exposed to the world by Mr Moukouani
Muikwani Bukoko, born in the Congo in 1915, and who in 1935 while working in
the Congo, bought a second hand Bible from a Belgian priest who forgot the
speech in the Bible.-Dr Chiedozie Okoro
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Please reflect especially on the 7 specific measures highlighted in the
document:
1] Your action will be directed essentially to the younger ones, for they
won't revolt when the recommendation of the priest is contradictory to their
parent's teachings.
2] The children have to learn to obey what the missionary recommends, who is
the father of their soul.
3] Teach students to read and not to reason
4] Teach the niggers to forget their heroes and to adore only ours.
5] You have to detach from them and make them disrespect everything which
gives courage to affront us.
6] Institute a confessional system, which allows you to be good detectives
denouncing any black that has a different consciousness contrary to that of
the decision-maker.
7] you have to keep watch on disinteresting our savages from the richness
that is plenty [in their underground. To avoid that they get interested in
it, and make you murderous] competition and dream one day to overthrow you.
They are a recipe for turning Africans into niggers-docile, unrebellious and
incapable of self-organized resistance to their white exploiters. Their
successful implementation is sufficient to explain African passivity before
white power.
We should note:
1] that all missionaries carried out, and still carry out, that mandate. We
are only lucky to have found King Leopold's articulation of the aim of all
Christian imperialist missionaries to Africa.
2] Even the African converts who today manage the older churches in Africa
(the priests, bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals etc of the Roman and
Protestant sects), and especially also those who evangelize Born-Again
Christianity, still serve the same mandate. Which is why they demonize
African gods and Anglicize African names, and drop the names of African
deities which form part of African names; and still attack and demolish the
African shrines that have managed to survive , e.g. Okija.
3] Those Africans who voluntarily converted to Christianity before the
colonial conquest-such as Affonso I of the BaKongo in the 15th
century-probably did not discern the purpose of the brand of Christianity
that was supplied to them. Which was probably why they fell easy prey to the
missionaries and the white traders and pirates who followed them.
But their Japanese counterparts probably did discern the game, even without
access to some version of Leopold's letter. But even if the Japanese Shoguns
did not intuit what Leopold makes explicit, they clearly realized the danger
of Japanese converts to Christianity forming a fifth column within Japanese
society and state, a fifth column loyal to their co-religionists in Europe.
To rid Japan of that danger, in the late 16th century, the Shoguns began
their expulsion of Portuguese and Spanish missionaries on the grounds that
they were forcing Japanese to become Christian, teaching their disciples to
wreck temples, taking and trading slaves, etc. Then, in 1596, it became
clear to the Japanese authorities that Christianization had been a prelude
to Spanish conquest of other lands; and it quickly dawned on them that a
fifth column loyal to Rome and controlled by the priests of a foreign
religion was a clear and present danger to the sovereignty of a newly
unified Japan. Soon after, the persecution and suppression of Japanese
Christians began. Early in the 17th century, sensing the danger from a creed
that taught obedience to foreign priests rather than the Japanese
authorities, all missionaries were ordered to leave and all Japanese were
ordered to register at the Buddhist temples. When Japanese Christians took
part in a rebellion, foreign priests were executed, the Spanish were
expelled and Japanese Christians were forbidden to travel abroad. After
another rebellion, largely by Christians, was put down, the Japanese
Christians were suppressed and their descendants were put under close state
surveillance for centuries thereafter. In the 1640s all Japanese suspected
of being Christians were ruthlessly exterminated. Thus did Japan, by 1650,
save itself from the first European attempt to mentally subvert, conquer and
colonize it.
4] The African captives who were taken abroad and enslaved, and the Africans
at home after the European conquest, having already been forcibly deprived
of their autonomy, were in no political position to resist Christianization.
Thus the Christianity still practiced in all of the African American
diaspora, just as that in the African homeland since the start of the 20th
century, continues to carry out the Leopoldian mandate.
Hence, for example, whereas the White Born-Agains of the USA, when in US
Navy ships in WWII, sang:
"Praise the Lord,
And pass the ammunition,"
the attitude of African Born-Again converts today is best summed up as :
"Praise the Lord,
And lie down for the manna."
Thanks to a century or more of this Leopold-mandated missionary mind
control, African Christians are not an activist, self-helping, politically
engaged and resolute, let alone militant bunch. Hence their putting up with
all manner of mistreatment and exploitation by their misrulers, white and
black. The most they are disposed to do to their misrulers is to admonish
them to "Fear God!"-as one protester's miserable placard read in the last
Lagos demonstration against the latest of the murderous fuel price hikes by
the Obasanjo Misgovernment. The idea of an uprising to tame their misrulers
is alien to the religiously opiated frame of mind of the Nigerians.
5] The lesson in the contrast between an Africa that the Christian
missionaries brainwashed and subverted, and a Japan where this brainwashing
and subversion was forcibly prevented, is stark and clear. What then must
Africans of today begin to do to save themselves from brainwashing by their
White World enemies here on earth?-That is the question.
--Chinweizu
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
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