Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe

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Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe (born December 24, 1951 in Montelíbano , Colombia ) is a French author who has been writing in her publications since 1990 on issues of colonialism , slavery , the slave trade , racism and the difficult enforcement of human rights .

Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe

Life

Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe is descended on her father's side from Africans who were deported into slavery, on her mother's side from indigenous people , i.e. from South American Indians. She studied law at the Universidad Autónoma de Colombia in Bogotá , but graduated without a degree. She became “aware of economic alienation and social inequalities relatively early on ”, but only understood “what racial alienation” means as an adult. In their view, racial alienation is a moment of oppression that is not sufficiently taken into account in the left theories on the prerequisites for the liberation of those who are oppressed by labor and production relations. The perception of racial alienation is apparently seen as counterproductive for the presupposed class cohesion.
In 1977 she got to know books by Aimé Césaire , Frantz Fanon , Malcolm X and Peter Bourne, through whose 1947 novel " Black saga " she became known with the revolution in Haiti . As part of an information campaign by the United Nations , she came across the problem of apartheid .
She married a French man in Colombia, has lived near Paris since 1981 and is the mother of three children.

"La férocité blanche" (2001) - "White barbarism" (2004)

In 2001 Plumelle-Uribe became known to a larger audience in France and in Germany in 2004 with the book “ La férocité blanche. The non-Blancs aux non-Aryens: Genocides occultes de 1492 à nos jours , "the basis of the opinion of Lothar Baier 2004 Rotpunktverlag Zurich under the title" White barbarism. From colonial racism to the racial politics of the Nazis ”appeared.
The starting point of the analysis is the statement that " the exclusion, the banishment of blacks from the circle of the human family, for whom the white skin color became the reference worldwide ", has become a western cultural element that they identified in the " Afro-American genocide " realized and that with a Nazi sympathizer like Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd and his successor Balthazar Johannes Vorster continued in the South African apartheid system after 1945. Apartheid was classified as a crime against humanity by the United Nations from 1973 onwards , but it did not prevent Israel , for example , as Plumelle-Uribe emphasizes, from cooperating militarily with South Africa.
Since it is a matter of crimes against humanity, the question of reparation also arises for Plumelle-Uribe; victims are to be compensated, as was imposed on defeated Germany after 1945. The National Socialism is, vis-Plumelle Uribe as already for Aime Cesaire (see. About colonialism ) none other than the "from the colonies carried to Europe extermination policy ". The political philosopher Louis Sala-Molins states in the epilogue to this problem that in France, once slavery and the slave trade have been recognized as crimes against humanity, at most a symbolic settlement can be expected and the “ conviction, Remembrance, Justice and Reparation ” have been flattened into“ Condemnation, Didactics and Repentance ”.

In 2008 Plumelle-Uribe continued the analysis she had begun in “ White Barbarism ” with the title “ Traite des Blancs, traite des Noirs. Aspects méconnus et conséquences actuelles ”(=“ Human trafficking with whites, human trafficking with blacks. Unrecognized aspects and current conclusions ”). Here it turns to medieval Europe and follows the traces laid by Charles Verlinden and taken up and continued by the French medieval historian Jacques Heers of the slavery practiced by Europeans towards other Europeans in the Middle Ages. For Heers, Verlinden's pioneering achievement is that he sees the colonial conquest and exploitation of America embedded in a continuum of medieval European rule. Plumelle-Uribe is primarily concerned with depicting how entire African regions were devastated by the Atlantic triangular trade and, since the late 19th century, a colonial power like Belgium under Leopold II has been exploiting the Congo and Africa's riches benefiting the European-Western world. Until the assassination of Patrice Lumumba , western influence had a direct impact on the decolonization of Africa .

Example of a personal experience

“In 1989 I attended a conference in Haiti on the French Revolution and its impact on Santo Domingo. The French ambassador in Port-au-Prince organized a reception for the conference participants on the occasion. I was talking to a few people about the genocidal policy that France had been pursuing in Santo Domingo. Suddenly, one of the participants said that the French were less shrewd than the British, who were smart enough to kill everyone they met on the spot and thus get rid of any problems. With a thoroughly friendly smile he added, 'You see, if we had done the same, you wouldn't be here to criticize us now.' - When we left, I found myself at the side of Louis Sala-Molins, who eyed me for a moment and said dryly: 'You see, there are jokes that we only allow ourselves to be against black people. '“

reception

Pascal Bruckner throws Plumelle-Uribe in his book “ The Guilt Complex. On the benefits and disadvantages of the history of Europe ”(2008) her initial thesis, namely that“ the extermination of the indigenous population of America, the extermination of blacks and the extermination policy brought to Europe by the Nazis in the first half of the 20th century are dynamic stand". This way of thinking, which in his opinion leads to a “Nazification” of European history, is similar to that of Aimé Césaire and Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison . Elsewhere, she is accused of “competition for victims” (Christian Stock) because she uses inappropriate comparisons: “... that the Jews after the Shoah were treated preferentially as victims only because they were white. That they received generous compensation - which is absolutely not true. So they were a preferred group of victims compared to blacks. The book then leads to a wild indictment against Israel as an apartheid state, as a colonial oppressor of modern times, etc. That is only given as a deterrent example of what a victim competition can lead to. "
Ulrich Teusch ( Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 20, 2004) holds the book meanwhile, “enlightenment in the best sense of the word” and summarizes Plumelle-Uribe's message as follows: “Wherever people claim absolute power over other people and actually gain it, sooner or later any order of values ​​collapses and the 'unimaginable' becomes cruel reality. "
Alfred Grosser sees the criticism of Plumelle-Uribe as proof of the following connection:" The book makes us aware that the prohibition of comparison with the Holocaust, the taboo and the use of its vocabulary, is due to an unacknowledged white racism . “
Bodo von Borries sees the dynamic connection between colonialism and National Socialism as a fact : "For Ms. Plumelle-Uribe, 'white barbarism' is a European crime that - although of the nature of the Holocaust (yes, the 'more original' crime) and causal for it (e.g. Plumelle-Uribe 2004, 142) - never admitted, was compensated and compensated. In other words: Those who keep silent about the 'colonialism' that caused the 'Holocaust' have not dealt with the 'Holocaust' either, but rather are preparing for its repetition. She is not alone with this radical criticism; Anyone who says 'Europe' today must inevitably have to deal with colonial crimes. "

Works

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe, White Barbarism. From colonial racism to the racial politics of the Nazis , Zurich (Rotpunktverlag) 2004, p. 323.
  2. ↑ Plumelle-Uribe (2004), pp. 243-314.
  3. ↑ Plumelle-Uribe (2004), p. 26.
  4. ↑ Plumelle-Uribe (2004), p. 17.
  5. ^ Afterword to Plumelle-Uribe (2004), p. 341. - Cf. on this "Loi Taubira" in the French. Wikipedia.
  6. ^ Jacques Heers, Esclaves et domestiques au Moyen Âge dans le monde méditerranéen , Paris (Hachette) 1996, p. 12; ISBN 2-01-279335-5 .
  7. ↑ Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe, Traite des Blancs, traite des Noirs. Aspects méconnus et conséquences actuelles , Paris (L'Harmattan) 2008, pp. 141-183.
  8. ↑ Plumelle-Uribe (2004), p. 317.
  9. ↑ The Nazification of History
  10. ↑ Victim competition
  11. ↑ Ulrich Teusch ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / plataforma-berlin.de
  12. ↑ Alfred Grosser
  13. ↑ Learning and Teaching about the Holocaust, p. 61 ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In this context, Gert von Paczensky's “ White Rule. A history of colonialism ”, which appeared in 1979 after the first edition from 1970 in a revised paperback edition by Fischer (Frankfurt a. M.) ( ISBN 3-596-23418-2 ). Paczensky sees National Socialism as an established colonialism in Europe (especially pp. 240–253). See White Rulership . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutscher-koordinierungsrat.de
  14. ↑ In memory of the murder of Patrice Lumumba in 1961

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personal data
SURNAME Plumelle-Uribe, Rosa Amelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Montelíbano , Colombia