This is Naima Jamal from Ethiopia who is now being sold as a slave in Libya, this also applies to those behind her.
Slave trade is happening in Libya in 2025.
She was held by her abductors in Kufra, Libya, with a demand of $6000 ramson. Here is her photo in Ethiopia before she was tortured mentally and physically.
I suspect that, with all this attention, the $6000 will be raised, and she will be reunited with her family.
Walk Free reports: An estimated 50 million people were living in modern slavery on any given day in 2021, an increase of 10 million people since 2016. At $6000 each, to buy all the current slaves it would cost us $300 billion. And if we somehow actually did that I can assure you slavery would exponentially increase because it would be so lucrative.
But slavery is just the atrocity of the day. We’ll probably hear more about it because so many people will have been moved by Naima’s story. But we’ll all forget her name by February because we’ll all be on to the next horrid human condition.
Take it from someone who has tried to legally get a tent for any homeless person in Akron for the last 10 years. Fixing systemic problems is impossible.
Do you know about Sandy Hook Promise?
Sandy Hook Promise is a national nonprofit organization founded and led by several family members whose loved ones were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. Based in Newtown, Connecticut, our intent is to honor all victims of gun violence by turning our tragedy into a moment of transformation.
I always come back to these people. 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people. The victims were 20 children between six and seven years old, and 6 adult staff members.
In 12 years, school shootings are more common. I heard some schools might be getting bulletproof whiteboards. That’s cool, I guess. But anyone can still buy a gun in the parking lot of the Hartville Flea Market. Amish people will also sell guns to inner-city Akron kids too.
Money talks.
I can’t get the image of a woman trying to sell expired food to a customer at her local convenience store out of my head. It was years ago, but it sticks with me for some reason. The customer noticed the expiration date at the checkout. They said something, and the owner tried to convince them to buy it anyway. Even small business owners are corrupt.
Money talks
What are we to make of all this?
Who are the slave traders in Libya? If I had to guess, many of them are just trying to feed their families, and, of course, one fat cat at the top is getting filthy rich on the labor of the people working the trade on the street.
It’s the same as it ever was. I love these lyrics from the Talking Heads song “Once in a Lifetime:”
Water dissolving and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Under the water, carry the water
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean
Water dissolving and water removing
Those words are barely understandable. But yet you can feel their meaning.
Things are unstable yet solid. There is a constant flow amidst a never-ending permanence.
Ultimately, the song asks: Do we have any say in the world? Is our life truly our own? What the hell is going on???
We aren’t going to fix Libyan slave trade. It’s a needed job for some people, and some other people are buying another yacht because the horrific story of Naima Jamal has actually increased the interest and desire for beautiful Black sex slaves in some wealthy Arab countries.
I guarantee that the Libyan slave trade will actually INCREASE because of this story.
If you think you aren’t participating in the global slave trade, please think again. Here are some products that have connections to slavery:
- Chocolate
- Coffee
- Clothing and Textiles
- Electronics (e.g., Smartphones, Laptops, and Computers)
- Sugar
- Diamonds and Other Precious Stones
- Tobacco
- Palm Oil
- Seafood (Fish and Shrimp)
- Rubber
- Fruits and Vegetables (especially Bananas and Tomatoes)
- Leather Products
- Construction Materials
- Cannabis and Other Illegal Drugs
Who among is not supporting slavery in some way?
We can blame slave traders all we want. But the fact of the matter is: they wouldn’t have a business if we didn’t buy their shit.
We all have slave blood on our hands.
I heard someone say they refused to go to Dubai because much of it was built with low-wage workers. I found that amusing, considering the White House and the U.S. Capitol building were built by slaves. Our country, that great city on a hill, is run out of slave-built buildings.
I am also reminded of this old saying:
We are part of the ecosystem; we are not separate from it. Some days, we are the gazelle, and some days, we are the lion. Usually we are both at the same time. That is the cosmic truth of all our existence.
“He who is without sin can cast the first stone.”
We are all guilty. But you want to do something. I get it. I want to do something, too.
I’m going to tell you what to do about Libyan slavery. LOVE YOUR FAMILY.
Start in your own home. Ask yourself: Are you being kind, patient, understanding, and accepting to your kids and spouse? Oh. You’re not? That’s ok. Either am I.
While you are failing at that if you feel moved, try to be kind, patient, understanding, and accepting of your coworkers, the person driving the car in front of you, and the person taking forever in the grocery store checkout line.
And while you are failing at that, give a dollar to the freezing person on the street corner. And after that makes you angry because you can’t understand why they don’t just get a job or get disability or ANYTHING other than freezing on the street corner with a shitty sign you can’t even read, take a deep breath and see if you can be kind, patient, understanding, and accepting of yourself.
Just practice kindness, acceptance and understanding when you can. And when you can’t and you mess up, that’s a perfect time to practice kindness, acceptance and understanding.
I truly believe this entire blue rock has been put here to teach us one thing. That’s why the message never changes. It teaches us to practice being kind, patient, understanding, and accepting of ourselves. All of it is just practice to find inner kindness, patience, understanding, and acceptance. You start by practicing on others, and then you take that education and try to practice it on yourself.
I love you. Try not to worry. It is all as it is meant to be.
Sage