When you really dig and look deep into the history of our ancestors in Africa
It seems like theres a reason there’s this narrative amongst certain “enlightened” black people to push the narrative that we were moors. Moors were like suckers and do boys for official type people. Now..of all the tribes and kingdoms in Africa..why would the weakest from conflict be the ones that are being pushed as our origin story. There were hundreds of kingdoms and people.
From most of the people who are from the south side of America. Most of our ancestors came from West Africa. Most of us are ancestors of those who were captured and enslaved to be sold. Most of us are ancestor of those who lost. Most of us are moors for that reason, but Moors and Serers are nothing more than crips and bloods. Just as you are not genetically a crip or a blood you are nor a Moor or a Serer but why are you not told that you used to be a Serer as an option or a social note. Because, they were the seen as more noble.
Chose to be seen as a moor and those that know, see you as less than..a jester here for the entertainment of other, a salesman, a worker
The Serers practice trade, agriculture, fishing, boat building and animal husbandry. Traditionally the Serer people have been farmers and landowners.
[50] Although they practice
animal husbandry, they are generally less known for that, as in the past, Serer nobles entrusted their herds to the
pastoralistFulas, even today.
[51] However, they are known for their mixed-farming.
[52] Trade is also a recent phenomenon among some Serers. For the Serers, the soil (where their ancestors lay in rest) is very important to them and they guard it with jealousy. They have a legal framework governing every aspect of life even
land law with strict guidelines. Apart from
agriculture (and other forms of production or occupation such as animal husbandry, fishing especially among the
Serer-Niominka, boat building, etc.), some
occupationsespecially trade they viewed as vulgar, common and ignoble. Hence in the colonial era, especially among the Serer nobles, they would hire others to do the trading on their behalf (e.g. Moors) acting as their middlemen.
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Serer relations to MoorsEdit
In the pre-colonial era,
Moors from
Mauritania who came to settle in the Serer kingdoms such as the
Kingdom of Sine, etc., were ill-treated by their Serer masters. If a Moor dies in a Serer kingdom, his body was dragged out of the country and left for the
vultures to feast on if there is no family or friend to claim the body and bury it elsewhere. They were also never accompanied by
grave goods. No matter how long a Mauritanian Moor has lived in the area as a migrant, he could never achieve high status within the Serer aristocracy. The best position he could ever wish for within Serer high society was to work as a Bissit (Bissik). Apart from spying for the Serer Kings, the Bissit's main job was to be a
clown– for the sole entertainment of the Serer King, the Serer aristocracy and the common people. He was expected to dance in ceremonies before the king and liven up the king's mood and the king's subjects. This position was always given to the Moors. It was a humiliating job and not a title of honour. According to some, the history of this position goes back to an early Moor in Serer country who had a child by his own daughter.
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