future histories index

Ibrahim, who was #336 on nabulsi and el-shab-hussein's list (additional link here), messaged me on Instagram tonight asking me to please make a post about his family.

This is what he said (he said I could post this screenshot):

For those who are not familiar with Ibrahim's story: he has extreme depression and OCD and both of these are exacerbated by trying to survive a genocide. He was approved to relocate to Canada with his sister, but to do so would cost more money than they get on a regular basis.

Please do all you can to help him get the eye surgery he needs. Donations have seriously dwindled ever since Tumblr deleted the account he had for 2+ years, making him unable to get on here to advocate for himself.

Bonus:

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.