Black SUPREMACY & Black American Failure: The Stupid story of How White Americans helped Blacks create Liberia

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[I have known for a long time that Liberia was a country specifically created for Blacks in America who wanted to return to Africa. And that there were Whites in America who wanted to get rid of these Blacks. What I didn't know was what an abject failure this was from the Black American side. Here is a short article describing how Blacks actually came back to Africa from America. It turns out that by the American civil war, the Black population of the US was just over 4 million. However, the process of establishing Liberia was driven and funded primarily by WHITES – White citizens, though various American Presidents helped to raise funds. So even when millions of Blacks lived in America, only 15,000 actually returned to Africa by 1847!!! Only 5% of the population of Liberia is composed of descendents from America! However, can you believe, the descendents of Black Americans did manage to TOTALLY CONTROL THE POLITICS OF LIBERIA FOR OVER 100 YEARS until 1980!!! These people were known as Americo-Liberians and they were MIXED RACE and they regarded themselves as SUPERIOR to the local Blacks. Interestingly, in Angola, nowadays, it too is actually controlled by Mixed race Supremacists. The MPLA are actually largely mixed race and there are mixed race people who literally own Angola. So nobody is talking about MIXED RACE SUPREMACISM! You'll find this even among Blacks – were Blacks regard themselves as superior to other Blacks. e.g. Biafrans versus Nigerians. Jan]

Here’s a short article about how Liberia was started:-
Founding of Liberia, 1847
The founding of Liberia in the early 1800s was motivated by the domestic politics of slavery and race in the United States as well as by U.S. foreign policy interests. In 1816, a group of white Americans founded the American Colonization Society (ACS) to deal with the “problem” of the growing number of free blacks in the United States by resettling them in Africa. The resulting state of Liberia would become the second (after Haiti) black republic in the world at that time.

Joseph Jenkins Roberts, First President of Liberia
Prominent Americans such as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Randolph were among the best known members of ACS. Former President Thomas Jefferson publicly supported the organization’s goals, and President James Madison arranged public funding for the Society. The motives for joining the society were vast as a range of people from abolitionists to slaveholders counted themselves members. On the other hand, many abolitionists, both black and white, ultimately rejected the notion that it was impossible for the races to integrate and therefore did not support the idea of an African-American colony in Africa. Still, the ACS had powerful support and its colonization project gained momentum.

In 1818 the Society sent two representatives to West Africa to find a suitable location for the colony, but they were unable to persuade local tribal leaders to sell any territory. In 1820, 88 free black settlers and 3 society members sailed for Sierra Leone. Before departing they had signed a constitution requiring that an agent of the Society administer the settlement under U.S. laws. They found shelter on Scherbo Island off the west coast of Africa, but many died from malaria. In 1821, a U.S. Navy vessel resumed the search for a place of permanent settlement in what is now Liberia. Once again the local leaders resisted American attempts to purchase land. This time, the Navy officer in charge, Lieutenant Robert Stockton, coerced a local ruler to sell a strip of land to the Society. The Scherbo Island group moved to this new location and other blacks from the United States joined them. The local tribes continually attacked the new colony and in 1824, the settlers built fortifications for protection. In that same year, the settlement was named Liberia and its capital Monrovia, in honor of President James Monroe who had procured more U.S. Government money for the project.

Lieutenant Robert Stockton
Other colonization societies sponsored by individual states purchased land and sent settlers to areas nearMonrovia. Africans removed from slave ships by the U.S. Navy after the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade were also put ashore in Liberia. In 1838 most of these settlements, with up to 20,000 people, combined into one organization. The settlers attempted to retain the culture they had brought from the United States and for the most part did not integrate with the native societies. Today, about 5 percent of the population of Liberia is descended from these settlers.

The U.S. Government had provided Liberia some financial support, but Washington expected Monrovia to move toward self-sufficiency. Commerce was the first economic sector to grow in the colony. However, French and British traders continually encroached upon Liberian territory. As it was not a sovereign state, it was hard-pressed to defend its economic interests. The U.S. Government lent some diplomatic support, but Britain and France had territories in West Africa and were better poised to act. As a result, in 1847, Liberia declared independence from the American Colonization Society in order to establish a sovereign state and create its own laws governing commerce.

Despite protests by the affected British companies, London was the first to extend recognition to the new republic, signing a treaty of commerce and friendship with Monrovia in 1848. Because of fears of the impact this might have on the issue of slavery in the United States, Washington did not recognize the nation it had played a role in creating. In the meantime, a mass exodus of African-Americans to Liberia never materialized. Though President Abraham Lincoln was open to promoting the idea, several abolitionists in his cabinet opposed it, some for moral considerations and others for the more practical reason of retaining sufficient labor and military forces for the future. The United States finally established diplomatic relations with Liberia in 1862, and continued to maintain strong ties until the 1990s.

Source: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/liberia

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