Douglas Mercer
August 15 2022
To the victors go the --- the victors' necks are now on the chopping block is more like it, nothing now loses like having won, and nothing wins like having lost. Back in the day a victim was the worst thing of all, it consigned you to the bottom for all time; but lo these many years later to have been a victim back then means you can leverage that for big pay days and parlay those in to many, many more. They used to have triumphs and drag the losers in chains through the city never to be heard from again. Now the losers go to our schools and lecture us on how wrong it was to have won. Back in what is now Nigeria it was a charnel house of unbridled blood lust, that is it was a black country so strange voodoo rites occurred and guts were spilled in the public square (or what passed) in order to appease their non-existent gods. Some Englishmen once tried to open up trade with them and they were ambushed and then the British got back their own in a punitive expedition. During which they carted off some local "artwork", but now that we live in a craven and cringing age every Western Institution is falling all over themselves to give them back.
The relics aren't that much to look at; but when a strong England took them they would never have dreamed of them being returned; they functioned more as those triumphs once did, as one might gawk at an animal in a zoo. The product of animals in this case, but the story is the same.
"A London museum has agreed to return 72 objects looted from Benin City in 1897 to the Nigerian government."
They are known as the Benin Bronzes though as always with negros that's a lie, they said "bronze" just to spruce it up, and make it seem like they were high art when if they are art at all they are just barely art, and that's if you are in a generous mood. They are really made of brass and to look at them is to know that negros have big lips, flat noses and are ugly as hell. The quality of the craftmanship is so so at best and the net aesthetic effect is one of qualified horror. It's no surprise that the whole place "reeked of blood" and darkness. To look at them is to look straight into a primitive race and to look straight into a black abyss. And trust me, nothing is looking back at you. The gazes are as empty as their accomplishments.
"The Benin Bronzes is the name given to a group of artifacts produced by the Benin Empire, which occupied the area which is today Nigeria. The Benin Bronzes consist of several thousand commemorative plaques and sculptures that are made of brass of variable composition (despite being called ‘bronzes’)."
The way they make it sound it's as if they were on par with the Elgin Marbles. They are not.
"The Horniman Museum and Gardens, located in south London, announced the transfer Sunday (August 7 2022). All of the objects were taken from the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now the capital of Edo State in southern Nigeria, during a British military operation in February 1897."
It seems the entire White world is on a project of giving it back. What was once hard won is now lightly returned. These men who are doing this are in no way the spiritual heirs of those great men who preceded them. If a pygmy is a negro about yay high, these men are traitors and spiritual pygmies. They think they are doing the "moral" thing but just look at that band of dark-skinned losers and looters who ransacked that 7-11 in Los Angeles the other day--some things never change. These things never change because race is eternal and the dark skinned are carriers of racial deformity. 13th Century Benins, right now in any big city in America (and unfortunately everywhere else.) are the same race and have the same behaviors. And by returning these objects now they are sending the exact wrong message, a message of aid and comfort to the blacks. It's an admission of guilt when no guilt was incurred.
"The artifacts include 12 brass plaques that are part of a genre known as the Benin bronzes. These bronze sculptures were created from at least the 16th century to decorate the royal court in Benin."
It looks as if rotting corpses also decorated the "royal court." And "genre" may be a bit highfaluting for these things. They are not much to look at but we took them alright, and there's no reason to be giving them back. No reason in the world except abject abdication.
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Way back when the White race did not fool around. If someone so much as looked at us wrong we'd have the gunboats sailing, the marines on the way, and we'd make short work of our enemies, hack them up wherever they were. And the lesson was learned: don't fuck with us. At the turn to the 20th century Whites controlled nearly the whole world and nearly all the world's materials. When the yellow pig-tailed coolies' anti-White revolt happened in Beijing in 1900 Herbert Hooever was there. Why was Herbert Hooever there? Because his undergraduate degree from Stanford was in mining engineering. We were about to carve up China like a Thanksgiving turkey and subjugate it for forever and a day like we had Africa. Two things got in the way of this noble project of eternal global domination: the rise of Japan (which we stupidly engendered) and World War One. Without the latter a United White World could easily have kept Japan bottled up on their home island. The Kaiser famously said that if Germany and England banded together not a mouse could have stirred in Europe without their permission. Add America to the lists and make it the whole world. But instead they fell out with each other and the rats stirred all over the world.
Now we have been reduced to retuning the spoils of victory.
The amazing thing is that right around 1880 a small cadre of European intellectuals became very pessimistic about the White world's chances, even as that world was putting the finishing touches on global domination. These intellectuals saw it all going down the drain. The even more amazing thing is they were right.
But back then we made short work of our enemies.
"1897, British forces launched a bloody and devastating military occupation of the Benin Kingdom and thousands of artworks were stolen and taken to the United Kingdom as spoils of war."
Taken, not stolen. This was the time-honored spoils of war. And in any event they easily could have asked the negros: do you have a receipt? There answer would have been: Wha' da' receet?
"The Benin Expedition of 1897 was a punitive expedition by a British Force of 1,200 men in response to an ambush of a previous British Party."
That is the Europeans (gallant and chivalrous) were going to make a deal with the Benins, or maybe just use the deal to take what they wanted. The territory was coveted by an influential group of investors for its rich natural resources such as palm-oil, kola nut, ivory and potentially rubber resources. And really what were the Benins going to do with that? But for us it was valuable property, more grist for our mill. The right of conquest is the most universal right and possession is the entirety of the law, international or otherwise.
When the Whites were wading in to this land they knew for sure they were wading in to a savage land, a blood-soaked land, a land beyond all morals or reason.
"After the British consul Richard Burton visited Benin in 1862 he described it a place of gratuitous barbarity which stinks of death, a narrative which was publicized in Britain and increased pressure for the territory's incorporation into the British Empire."
They was kangz alright--they was the kangzs of killing each other. Colonialism was the best thing that ever happened to the dark continent which was called dark for two reasons: the people there were dark and everything about how they lived was dark. By rights they should have begged us to stay. Now the blacks of Africa live and shit all over London and beg the government to decolonize the curriculum. They should decolonize the universities by razing them and replacing them with mud huts (erected in five minutes) for the blacks, the White students having fled the premises long since.
"The treaty itself does not explicitly mention anything about the so-called bloody customs that Burton had written about, and instead includes a vague clause about ensuring the general progress of civilization. The British officers had brought with them revolvers, but their weapons were left locked in their bags, as their intent was peace."
Gallant and chivalrous at first, a trusting lot---but soon the Saxon would being to hate, as he invariably does in the end.
"On 4 January 1897, Phillips and his entire party was ambushed along their journey to Benin City, at Ugbine village near Gwato. British officers and African porters were both slaughtered. Within the week, news had made it to London of the massacre."
Big mistake negros, you could have had a decent deal, now you got the fire of the sword.
"This event led to the mounting of the Punitive Expedition."
A simple sentence for short work.
"On 9 February 1897, the invasion of the Kingdom of Benin began. The British invasion force of about 1,200 Royal Marines sailors and Niger Coast Protectorate Forces was organized into three columns: flotillas of warships gun boats approached Benin City from the east and west. they reached Benin City after ten days of fighting. one column took the same route as that taken by the previous mission and came on the scene of the massacre, finding headless bodies of the victims."
Nothing will fire up the fighting spirit of the Whtie man than seeing the headless corpses of their brothers in arms.
"As we neared Benin City we passed several human sacrifices, live women slaves gagged and pegged on their backs to the ground, the abdominal wall being cut in the form of a cross, and the uninjured gut hanging out. These poor women were allowed to die like this in the sun. Men slaves, with their hands tied at the back and feet lashed together, also gagged, were lying about. As we neared the city, sacrificed human beings were lying in the path and bush—even in the king's compound the sight and stench of them was awful. Dead and mutilated bodies were everywhere — by God! May I never see such sights again!"
We have seen such sights again and again.
"Earlier this month (June 2022), Liese Dodd's mother went to visit her daughter's new home in Alton, Illinois, just north of St. Louis, Missouri. Police said her mother was concerned because she hadn't heard from Dodd. When she arrived at the home, investigators said she discovered her 22-year-old daughter's decapitated body."
The one who cut that White women's head off was Dundrea Holloway. Given that this name was Dundrea it's no surprise this man is black. Given that a Whtie woman's head was cut off it's not surprise the perpetrator was black.
Some things never change.
"Under the command of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, 1,200 British troops marched on Benin City in 1897. Chaos ensued."
Not chaos. Orderly and methodical and textbook killing. When it came to righteous killing they put on a clinic.
"Historical accounts differ, but the death toll is likely to have been in thousands, including dozens of women and children."
Sounds about right. When the Saxons begin to hate no stone is left unturned.
"The Benin Expedition was regarded as a stroke of disciplined and coordinated planning: In twenty-nine days a force of 1,200 men, coming from three places between 3000 and 4500 miles from the Benin river, was landed, organized, equipped and provided with transport. Five days later the city of Benin was taken, and in twelve days more the men were re-embarked, and the ships coaled and ready for any further service."
Next? Anyone else want a piece of this?
They didn't think so.
"After the capture of Benin City, houses, sacred sites, ceremonial buildings and palaces of many high-ranking chiefs were looted and many buildings were burned down, including the Palace building itself on Sunday 21 February. There was evidence of previous human sacrifice found by members of the expedition, with journalists reporting that the town reeked of human blood. Inside the abandoned palace, a terrible sight was revealed to the British. The Oba in panic of what he had done and in fear of a retaliatory attack, had embarked in a great mass of human sacrifice in order to stave off full disaster. Bodies of those sacrificed by the Oba laid in pits and many hung crucified in trees."
Short and just work as has been said. And they hauled off the statues as an afterthought.
Now we're giving them back.
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Some American negros are objecting to the return of the works as the people today in Benin are the descendants of slave traders. Of course they want the works or the proceeds of the works themselves as they are scandalous leeches. This will never happen because public acknowledgment that blacks themselves were crucial to the slave trade is the last thing anyone in power wants to admit.
"Oxford and Cambridge should not return the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria because the African country benefited from slavery, it has been claimed. The Charity Commission is facing pressure from an American civil rights group to block a plan by the elite universities to return the historic artefacts to Nigeria."
They are whistling in the wind because nothing must upset this "picture perfect" story of the White world submitting and surrendering to the exalted negros of Nigeria. Nor will the ever mention the reek of blood.
"The Horniman’s Benin collection also includes other brass objects looted during the occupation, such as an altar piece, bells, fans and baskets. We very much welcome this decision by the Trustees of the Horniman Museum and Gardens, said Abba Tijani, director general of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments."
A Nigerian commission of monuments? What monuments do they have? The mud huts can't last that long, and the corpses by now have decomposed. Perhaps they have museums that contain their begging bowls. But actually if you look at the Nigerian National Museum in Lagos they have pictures of....well who knows, really, I guess it's blobs of earth or a bowl or two and the typical mask of the ugly African face that would scare small children. It really appears to be a shrine to their cultural incompetence.
And as for the "bronzes" the Great Hamburger today surmises that it won't be ten years before the Nigerian Government needs the cash and they end up in the hands of private collectors unless they are melted down in to ashtrays.
"The decision comes as a victory for Nigeria and other African countries that have fought to recover cultural artifacts seized during military occupation and held in museums, mostly in Europe, but also in the United States and Australia."
The tyranny of guilt is a terrible affliction.
"Eve Salomon, chair of the museum’s trustees, called the transfer moral and appropriate."
Just as you know a criminal named Dundrea is black so too you know Eve Salomon is a Jew. If the name or the fact that she is apologizing on behalf of White people didn't tip you off there's the fact that she is a legal expert for the Human Rights Division of the Council of Europe and works for UNESCO.
Hell, she might as well have the Star Of David tattooed on her forehead or be wearing a gold star.
“The evidence is very clear that these objects were acquired through force, and external consultation supported our view that it is both moral and appropriate to return their ownership to Nigeria, Salomon said in the release. The Horniman is pleased to be able to take this step."
Never put a Jew in charge of anything you have. In fact never put a Jew in charge of anything.
"The Horniman follows in the footsteps of several other museums that have returned their looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria. In February, the University of Aberdeen and Cambridge University’s Jesus College returned two Benin bronzes. Last year, the French government returned 26 artwork's seized from Benin in 1892."
It's a free for all of guilt! Return everything, and return it now. These anti-White traitors have become the "custodians" of our patrimony and they will empty it out; it is they who are doing the looting, they will take every chance to make their museums and institutions storehouses of the hatred of the White race and paeans to the exaltation of negros. These places are supposed to be the repository of White memory and history but they have transformed themselves into agents of enemy, they are now the enemy themselves.
"And in November of 2021, the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, removed all of its Benin bronzes from display and announced plans to repatriate them."
The unloading of the spoils.
"Known for its beauty and rich metalworking heritage, Benin City was once the beating heart of the Edo kingdom of Benin."
Really, is this the propaganda they put out? They make it sound like back then in Benin City it was a hothouse of quiet, industrious artisans living in a bucolic setting, hardworking peasant folks who created a rich tapestry of civilization. But from what I heard back then in the "beating heart" of the Edo Kingdom they were ripping out beating hearts and holding them aloft to the sounds of weird incantations hoping to acquire the help of their strange fictional gods.
It's safe to say that one never makes it in the brochure, or in an exhibit in Lagos.
"The city – situated in modern-day southern Nigeria – was famed for its specialist bronze-sculpting guilds: groups of skilled artisans that produced works of huge historic and cultural importance."
It was famed for the smell of blood.
"Brass plaques and sculptures were being created by the Edo (known also as the Bini), the indigenous people of the Benin Empire, as early as the 13th century, prior to their contact with Europeans. These pieces of metalwork were produced using a process known as lost-wax casting, a technique that was discovered as early as the Copper Age. The Benin Bronzes are some of the best examples of sculptures produced by this technique."
To hear them tell it they had a regular civilization back then, art and culture were flourishing. They were casting in metal works, they had prosperous cities, excellent craftsman with killer techniques. But we know that is just a lie, we now that can't be true, they were negros, for heaven's sake. And as sure as when you hear a story of a White woman mutilated or a 7-11 looted, or a city street ransacked you know it was negros, so too you know that back then in Benin the altars of sacrifice were spinning and if the sun was shining some lowly drudge was being take up on it to have himself skinned alive.
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When the Benins were making their meager "bronzes" the High Renaissance was kicking in. While the Benins were producing their fairly hideous objects the Italians were mastering perspective, and from there went to a cultural and artistic efflorescence never before seen in the world. While the Benins were stuck in the mud and about to go in reverse. Savagery they were good at; art and civilization not so much.
By rights we should have left them stewing in their own blood and excrement, let them brew those bodies in their witches' cauldrons so they could have their dog's breakfasts in their hornets' nests. By rights we should have left the artifacts in the dung where we found them.
But having taken them keeping them is paramount.
But now there is a mania for surrender, and for returning things that are rightfully ours. Midnight Oils' exhortation "it belongs to them, let's give it back" is now the mantra of our leaders who want to "unburden themselves" of the burdens of Whiteness, to divest themselves of a former greatness. Now the losers are ascendant and they are slaying us with the sword we conferred on them, the sword of White guilt. If left unchecked this weapon will slash everything noble and good on the planet, everything Whites have bequeathed, and all that will be left will be our the diseases of our enemies. For White guilt is an uncontrollable power, and should it be left unchecked look forward to a time of renewed human sacrifices, a dark night and an anti-civilization, reeking of blood and shit, for this is what is in store if the Global elites get their way in the end, and the White race having come in like a lion will go out like a lamb--like a lamb to the slaughter.
Giving It Back
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A hideous totem of a Lovecraftian nightmare
