1. 27 Sep


    paxamericana: Subjects of the Belgian Congo who didn’t meet their rubber quotas.  Reminder that Newt Gingrich wrote his dissertation in support of Belgium’s role in the Congo. “Gingrich liked colonialism. Especially the Belgian variety, which limited the vast majority of Congolese to a sixth-grade education, taught children that God wanted them to obey the exploitative colonial authorities, and was the reason the country had fewer than 20 university graduates and no indigenous doctors at independence.”

    paxamericana:

    Subjects of the Belgian Congo who didn’t meet their rubber quotas. 

    Reminder that Newt Gingrich wrote his dissertation in support of Belgium’s role in the Congo.

    “Gingrich liked colonialism. Especially the Belgian variety, which limited the vast majority of Congolese to a sixth-grade education, taught children that God wanted them to obey the exploitative colonial authorities, and was the reason the country had fewer than 20 university graduates and no indigenous doctors at independence.”

    (via pinstripe)