This is a great video, although quite long, that goes into some of the great Pan African thinkers and their important literary works. I believe within these books and from our amassed knowledge as a people, we do have the blueprint to implement drastic change in Africa and break free from the European shackles. What we need first is peace, which isn’t easy. In an environment often dominated by conflict, manipulation and greed, we will always grow slowly.
Beware that when the Europeans are forced to abandon one system that enabled them to have control over something valuable, whether that be people through enslavement, land through conquest, or financial systems through laws and legislation; yes beware that they always have a 2.0 system in the wings ready to continue their control and enforce dominance, just when you had hope of a change.
Think on these historical examples, the cruelty of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and enslavement, gave way to Jim Crow and Segregation, creating permanent fractures in America and imposing societal structures on people that limit their growth.
A similar thing could be said about European colonialism. Countries that gained independence from European nations like Britain, France, Germany etc, but the colonialists destroyed infrastructure as they departed, then left systems of privilege in place that smoothed the path for European people, while making the indigenous second class citizens in their own lands.
An extension of this is the financial systems, historically, always controlled by European nations and offering the best benefits to them. One one ends, such as Gold Standard through to Bretton Woods and then Floating “Fiat” currencies; the so called developing nations always disadvantaged by those who create the rules.
It’s no surprise then that South Africa, that last ghastly expression of some of the most brutal racism exemplified by the Apartheid government, should have a policy to maintain white power, just waiting on standby in the wings. Thanks to ADNC for this insightful video about what is happening in Cape Town, linking in with the secessionist plans white South African’s have for the Western Cape.
I believe there is a strong moral argument for reparations to be be paid. However, I question the logical argument. How does an oppressor, or former oppressor, whose empire relied on the oppression of those who now want reparations actually find the money to pay reparations? Would the result be more oppression which is the lifeblood of their system?
If paper money is what you want, you must understand that all world currencies are “fiat”, essentially worthless, of good currency now, but will lose value over time, even short spans of time. Real wealth is in land and resources, that’s clear. The Europeans, indeed even the global north, heavily exploits the nations in the southern hemisphere to provide the affluence in their societies.
I understand the anger, bitterness, and the strong moral arguments for reparations, but the “nature of the beast” system we are up against can’t pay us back without causing more harm or cheating us into believing we have been repaid, only to manipulate financial instruments and laws thereafter to get back what it gave, as is typical of this world system of governance, war and law.
In truth I believe we must repair ourselves by taking back what belongs to us and cutting off the oppressors supply. This means not only taking back land and resources, but initiating a new system of economics and law, which doesn’t use the same faulty rules as the European system. If we use the same rules to build our empire, we will have the same end.
Another great Subi Shop video exposing the racist banking practices that affect African countries. The statistics clearly show that African countries may be as credit worthy as European nations, but they are charged more in interest and fees that those European nations when it comes to borrowing loans. What this means is that African nations stay in debt longer and develop more slowly than their European counterparts.
This goes to prove the point I make in many of my articles, that they European system is heavily stacked against Africans and exists as a means of exploitation.
On a deeper level, when Africa clearly has more resources than Europe, which is why the Europeans have been plundering Africa for the last 400 or so years, you have to question why African’s have to borrow from Europe in the first place?
It is time for the sleeping giant to arise, move from merely providing resources through extraction, to refining and processing with the aim of making finished goods. Understand this, if European nations (and I include USA in this) as well as those from the east such as China, Russia and India actually paid a fair price for raw materials, or paid the far higher price for finished goods sold from African companies, then they would not have the standard of living that they do now. Africans would not be running to earn better pay abroad on other continents, it would be Europeans wanting to escape to Africa!
What can I say about Linda Thomas-Greenfield, eloquent, smart, sounds so caring, but sadly, ultimately full of something that stinks. The way some of these “house-nigger” US politicians and business people sell out the African continent is a crying shame. It shows you can put a black face on white supremacy, so pervasive and so ingrained is that calamitous mental condition on all who subscribe to it.
Any person, let alone any black person who doesn’t realise that African nations need not just a say, but equal representation on forums like the UN and the Security Council, is deluded. Foreign powers have been looting this continent for centuries and continue to do so today. The only reason many of these European institutions exist is to try and put a legal face on the tyranny of white supremacy, to put a veneer of respectability and “democracy” on organisations that aid and abet tyranny and plunder.
I don’t agree with everything Maponga says but he has a lot of truth to say about the effects of colonialism. It really is a disease of the mind to accept the principles of unjust nations and embed them in your way of thinking, in whatever sphere of life that touches. Decolonisation must occur in the mind first before it becomes a reality. We visualise before we realise. Respect to Maponga for this challenging pan-African focused talk.
