White Domination: The Two-faced Monster Pt I

By Sicebise Msengana

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For over three centuries, black people (and other so-called "inferior races) have been exploited, manipulated and oppressed. It took men and women of great courage, intelligence and perseverance to lead the black masses to victory. However, the road to full independence has been marred by those hypocrites who believe that Africans cannot determine their destiny in this life--the only life we can be sure of. For years, they claimed to know what is good for Africans and we believed them.

They believe that Africans are puppies that need scraps under the table and a pat on the back.

Take for example,
Foreign aid-- it seems to be a virtue. It masquerades as a noble and altruistic goal. But when it is critically analysed, and seen for what it is, it is a New World Order of slavery, plundering and exploitation imposed on Third World Countries. The work performed by these "humanitarian" organisations mostly consists of channelling the money into the coffers of wealthy families and big businesses. Their tools including rigged elections, bribes, sponsored genocides (funding favourite sides to keep the fight raging while they put in puppets in power to do their bidding for them) and extortion.

I do not undermine the good work that some of these aid organisations do, but the goal would be best achieved if ensuring that citizens in Third World Countries have the rights to fully participate in the economic and political processes in their respective countries.

In Steve Biko's essay, Black souls in white skins, he argues the role played by liberals in maintaining status quo:

"Basically the South African white community is a homogeneous community. It is a community of people who sit to enjoy a privileged position that they do not deserve, are aware of this, and therefore spend their time trying to justify why they are doing so. Where differences in political opinion exist, they are in the process of trying to justify their position of privilege and their usurpation of power...

The integration they talk about is first of all artificial in that it is a response to conscious manoeuvre rather than to the dictates of the inner soul. In other words the people forming the integrated complex have been extracted from various segregated societies with their in- built complexes of superiority and inferiority and these continue to manifest themselves even in the "nonracial" set-up of the integrated complex. As a result the integration so achieved is a one-way course, with the whites doing all the talking and the blacks the listening. Let me hasten to say that I am not claiming that segregation is necessarily the natural order; however, given the facts of the situation where a group experiences privilege at the
expense of others, then it becomes obvious that a hastily arranged integration cannot be the solution to the problem. It is rather like expecting the slave to work together with the slave-master's son to remove all the conditions leading to the former's enslavement. Secondly, this type of integration as a means is almost always
unproductive. The participants waste lots of time in an internal sort of mudslinging designed to prove that A is more of a liberal than B. In other words the lack of common ground for solid identification is
all the time manifested in internal strifes inside the group..."

At some point, liberals (including racist fundamentals) should realise the fact that the history of the African continent has been rewritten and it's people enslaved and Africans are responding to the situation where they find themselves as pawns in White supremacists's chess game.

In closing, I say to my African brothers and sisters, instead of looking for people to help you--help yourselves!
Instead of foreign aid organisations "feeding the hungry" they should remember the old Chinese proverb: “Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach that man to fish and he will eat forever.” Invest in education (building and funding schools and educational initiatives) and the African economy, businesses that have the potential to grow and create opportunities for jobs and sustainability. In that way, Africa will not only have the chance to survive, but also prosper among the nations of the world!