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King Leopold's Letter to Colonial Missionaries

Brothers and sisters, the following speech was given by
King Leopold II of Belgium in 1883...

"Reverends, Father, and Dear Compatriots:

The task that is given to us to fulfil is very delicate and requires much
tact. You will go certainly to evangelize, but your evangelization must
inspire above all Belgium interests.

Your principal objective in our mission in the Congo is never to teach the
niggers to know God thus they know already. They speak and submit to a
Mungu, one Nzambi, one Nzakomba, and what else I don't know. They know
that to kill, to sleep with someone else's wife, to lie and to insult is
bad.

Have courage to admit it; you are not going to teach them what they know
already. Your essential role is to facilitate the task of administrators
and industrials, which means you will go to interpret the gospel in the
way it will be the best to protect your interests in that part of the
world.

For these things, you have to keep watch on disinteresting our savages
from the richness that is plenty in their underground. To avoid that they
get interested in it, and make you a murderous competition and dream one
day to overthrow you.

Your knowledge of the gospel will allow you to find texts ordering, and
encouraging your followers to love poverty. Like happier are the poor
because they will inherit the heaven and it's very difficult for the rich
to enter the kingdom of God.

You have to detach from them and make them disrespect everything which
gives courage to affront us. I make reference to their Mystic System and
their war fetish - warfare protection - which they pretend not to want to
abandon, and you must do everything in your power to make it disappear.

Your action will be directed essentially to the younger ones, for they
won't revolt when the recommendation of the priest is contradictory to
their parent's teachings. The children have to learn to obey what the
missionary recommends, who is the father of their soul. You must
singularly insist on their total submission and obedience, avoid
developing the spirits in the schools, teach students to read and not to
reason.

There, dear compatriots, are some of the principles that you must apply.
You will find many other books, which will be given to you at the end of
this conference. Evangelize the niggers so that they stay forever in
submission to the white colonialists, so they never revolt against the
restraints they are undergoing.

Recite every day - "happy are those who are weeping because the kingdom of
God is for them." Convert always the blacks by using the whip. Keep their
women in nine months of submission to work freely for us. Force them to
pay you in sign of recognition - goats, chickens or eggs - every time you
visit their villages. And make sure that niggers never become rich. Sing
every day that it's impossible for the rich to enter heaven.

Make them pay tax each week at Sunday mass. Use the money supposed for the
poor, to build flourishing business centres. Institute a confessional
system, which allows you to be good detectives denouncing any black that
has a different consciousness contrary to that of the decision-maker.

Teach the niggers to forget their heroes and to adore only ours. Never
present a chair to a black that comes to visit you. Don't give him more
than one cigarette. Never invite him for dinner even if he gives you a
chicken every time you arrive at his house."