History does not ask to be forgotten

History does not ask to be forgotten

History does not ask to be forgotten
it demands to be confronted.
The transatlantic slave trade was not a tragic accident of the past; it was a deliberate economic system, engineered with precision, brutality, and moral indifference. Entire civilizations were reduced to commodities, human lives turned into ledger entries, and suffering industrialized for profit.

What makes this history even more disturbing is not only what was done
but who did it, and how it is remembered. The same civilizations that now lecture the world about democracy, human rights, and moral superiority built their wealth on chains, ships, and stolen lives. The architects of “modern civilization” perfected systems of domination long before they preached freedom.

Today, we are told to move on. To forget. To forgive quietly.
But memory itself has become political.

Those who once justified enslavement now position themselves as guardians of morality, while the descendants of the enslaved are expected to remain silent, grateful, and compliant. This is not reconciliation
it is historical amnesia dressed as progress.

Colonialism did not end; it evolved.
It changed its language, its tools, its narratives.
It replaced whips with contracts, chains with debt, plantations with economic dependency.

To remember is not to dwell in resentment
İt is to refuse erasure.
To speak of this history is not to divide, but to demand honesty.
True civilization is not measured by monuments or markets, but by the courage to confront its own crimes.

Justice does not begin with forgetting.
It begins when truth is finally allowed to speak.