Even at the height of BLM protests, and the resulting gestures of “diversity” in corporates, the irony was not lost on me that what African Americans may see as progress, is directly reinforcing imperialism across the world, and more so in a place like Africa. If a Black Woman is heading Facebook, why should I celebrate, as an African living in Africa, where Facebook is causing chaos?
It’s still not even helping African Americans either because they’re still does nothing to fix the poor schools and infrastructure in their community that comes from the poor governance given to them by politicians no matter their ethnicity.
It is impossible to build global solidarity without accepting capitalism is THE problem. Without being too harsh on the oppressed in the US, I have to register the contradiction of “Black Progress” in the United States as an assumed universal progress of Black folk. African American progress has often time led to terror for Africans living in motherland.
Overall an interesting read.
Obama, whose father came from Kenya, saw the United States lose its place as the major trading partner of most African countries, and in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Western Banks also began to leave the continent in droves.
This is another example of capitalism as blinding structure of what is possible.
This line was weird :) /s
before the Kingdom’s captives departed for the New World to be enslaved (emphasis mine)
