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'White nance, Red Rubber, pitch blackness decease â€Å"White King, Red Rubber, Black Death,” illustrated how King Leopold II of Belgium acquired the congou tea as a free differentiate and victimised it by overshadow of terror. King Leopold II took all over leadership of Belgium from his father, hoping to gain power and wealth, as well as assuming control of afield territories like close to other European nations of the eon did. Leopold created, through political lobbying and military force, the Belgian easy State.The Belgian Free State gave Leopold power over the African territory of the congou tea, which he soon exploited for its large supplies of ivory and rubber. Leopold and his soldiers used the congolese natives as forced labor, and those who refused to work for the Belgians or who violated their freshly established laws were punished by mutilation, torture, or death. closely ten million people were either slaughtered or worked to death in the Congo under Leopolds rule.In the end, Leopolds rule of terror in the Congo became a grunge during the last years of his rule, and he destroyed most of the documents pertaining to the Belgian Free State prior to his death. ahead this History class, I would have never had cognize about the documentary â€Å"White King, Red Rubber, Black Death” and about the many publicizes that were present in the Congo of Africa in the past. This documentary had left me inarticulate and astonished in the end. It had truly opened my eye to the many tragedies that the Africans of the Congo endured under the reign of King Leopold II.Furthermore, I wondered, why throughout the entire reign of King Leopold II didn’t anyone even sift bringing him down and making him pay for his uncivilized punishments pictured upon the Congo popularity? It amazes me that, during the thirty years that Leopold act acts of violence and cruelty amongst the Congo, Leopold was still worshiped after by the Belgiumâ€⠄¢s as the man who colonized the Congo and made the Belgium city wealthy. This is a man who depicted the ignorance and greediness of Belgium.In my eyes, everything that Belgium has today, is out of fraud and lies because of the selfish acts Leopold committed. exclusively of this cruelty, because of the exportation of rubber? I couldn’t mean it with my own eyes and ears, the amount of damage Leopold had caused amongst the Congo and its people just because of his obsession with power and wealth. Yet, if this was an issue that was being presented in today’s night club of a specific area many would project to fight and defend this area.King Leopold conducted many extreme measures in the past for no reason, in my opinion. If I was alive(p) during this period and was one of the many people of the Congo who were enduring this cruelty and pain, I would stand up for what I believe in, save my people, and make a change. I do believe that if such soulfulness in todayâ€℠¢s society, conducted these acts of punishment they would direct get the death penalty because of the well meliorate justice system we have today, but why not back then?\r\n'