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Old 07-16-2020, 03:15 PM   #204
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Originally Posted by Thasaidon View Post
In an earlier post Rider Haggard was accused of racism in books.

I disagreed and gave an example from the last Allan Quatermain book, which would be inconceivable if he was such a racist.

I then asked for an example of racism in his books

No one gave any.

So later I asked again for an example of racism in his books

Agaiin No one gave any.

So I will ask one last time and if no examples are given, I will take it that the accusation is just empty virtue signalling.
https://steemit.com/africa/@gandhiba...olomon-s-mines
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I will conclude this essay by reemphasizing that Africa is a great continent and the centre of human civilization. There are historical facts to prove that Africa had made significant advancement in diverse areas before the advent of the Europeans. Therefore, writings such as Haggard's King Solomon's Mines are racist and ethnocentric, merely written to justify the racial, colonial, and imperialistic climate of the time. Africa was never a dark continent and a thousand lies by Haggard would not make it be.
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