According to the fantasy version of history invented by the left, slavery was invented by whip-cracking white men in 1619 and continues to be practised by wicked white men to this day. And, uh, reparations and stuff.
It’s all the most ignorant lies, of course. Slavery was practised in nearly every culture in the world from the time humans first learned to dig in the dirt. Slavery in the Antebellum South not only represented the tiniest fraction of slavery ever practised, it was also almost its last gasp. Because white men abolished it first, and then gradually persuaded – or more usually forced, slave-owners not being noted for their propensity to relinquish their human chattels – the rest of the world to follow suit.
Unfortunately for millions of people, those white Abolitionists weren’t entirely successful. Slavery still persists in many places. Sometimes secretively, sometimes openly, as in Northern Africa and the Middle-East.
And even in New Zealand.
A man convicted of dealing in slaves and human trafficking has had a share of his family property forfeited to the Crown.
The Crown applied for forfeiture of the property belonging to Joseph Matamata, who was earlier this year found guilty after a trial in March of 23 charges of trafficking people and dealing in slaves[…]
The homes [on Kiwi St, Hastings], which were in the names of Matamata’s sons, were “instruments of crime” because they were used by Matamata to carry out his offending[…]
Matamata’s offending occurred between late 1994 and April last year and involved 13 victims.
Just another whip-cracking whitey, surely? Well…
Matamata was a chief, or matai, in Samoa and[…]brought Samoan citizens into New Zealand with the expectation from them that they would earn big money by Samoan standards.
But once here they were exploited by Matamata for his financial gain. He would take workers to orchards or work sites and receive “bags of cash” as payment for their work but would never pass it on to them.
Does this mean we have to erase the name “Matamata” anywhere and everywhere in New Zealand, now? Just asking.
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