Belgian Colonizers and Trump
Did your history lessons teach you that Belgian colonizers impregnated thousands of African women and then stole their children? Between 1920 and 1960, thousands of Belgian colonizers arrived in the Congo. These men—engineers, officers, civil servants, and laborers—were almost exclusively single and living far from their families back in Europe. Upon arrival, a dark and common pattern emerged: they would take an African woman into their homes under the guise of household labor—to clean, cook, and serve—but also for purposes that were never spoken of aloud. These relationships frequently resulted in pregnancies. Consequently, thousands of African women gave birth to mixed-race children, the offspring of Belgian fathers who refused to acknowledge them. These children were born with skin lighter than their mothers, bearing the physical features of white men who walked past them in the streets, pretending they were strangers. By 1948, the presence of these children had become a...
