Blog Post #10: The Scramble for Africa

In Visual Source 18.4, we see the left side as the French, who dug up parts of a Muslim cemetery "'churning up piles of bones.'" They also bombed the Arab quarter of Morocco, killing many people. On the right, we have the British, who used to hunt pigeons and local villagers of Denshway. Soldiers were killed because of this. The British were so mad that their soldiers were dying that they hung several people, which we see depicted in the very edge of the right side of the picture. I think this picture is a good depiction of what happened, showing that both the British and the French murdered many people and are now toasting each other to a successful killing spree, while standing on the bones of the dead. It does bother me, though, that things like this still happen in today's world. To me, this picture is showing the French and the British all high and mighty and proud of themselves for killing off people who weren't white. People still do that today. Racism has always been a part of the world's history, and to be completely honest, I don't think it will not be part of it. It's so sad to think that some people can't accept others for who they are on the inside, not the outside. Killing because of someone's color/race has been around since the beginning of time and it's just awful to think that we haven't come very far.