Colonialism and imperialism are alive and well and a lot of us are Frederick Douglass, though few of us are so brave or so efficient at overcoming our enslavements.

There’s a journalist improbably name Robert Flummerfelt and he has a real story to tell about how the Empire is still hunting black people in the depths of Africa.

German-funded inquiry into DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo)atrocities slammed as ‘cover-up’

Rania Khalek interviews him at length here. I initially heard the story while catching up on old podcast episodes from TrueAnon.

I’m not up to reframing the story for you myself today. I lay it down here, a few days late in fact, because it wants to be heard, and it may make a difference to you somehow. I can’t sign off with a flippant ‘Enjoy!’ because it’s not a story for enjoying. It’s just another ugly truth in a long line of them stretching back centuries.

The world of humans is an incredibly ugly place, and success–winning–doesn’t change that at all. As far as I can see it only makes it worse.