Let me make my position very clear. I am for a united East Africa, a unified Africa and a patriot to the pith. To reach there, no doubt, we all need to have common values – political, economic and social. There can be no two ways about it. And, to be African, we have to stand above petty egos and narrow nationalism that soaks some mug heads into vain self-aggrandisement heavy with the braggadocio of imaginary invincibility even when we behave like a swarm of locusts in the name of lofted liberties.
Africa shall never win its many wars – economic, racial, reclaiming human dignity and the struggle to latch onto the beacon of a prosperous future in the global comity of nations – behaving like a bunch of God forsaken fools. Martin Luther Jr said: “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” And, Mario Puzo said it very aptly: “Fools Die.”
When President Donald Trump told President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa very bluntly at the White House recently that he (Ramaphosa) “was liked in some quarters but less so in others,” was it personal? Don’t be fooled fellow Africans. It wasn’t personal but an insult to all Africans, especially those of us with the black skin pigmentation. Since becoming a radical rightist, Trump has made it part of his political career to bash Africa and Africans at every opportunity he gets.
Again, we shouldn’t be fooled into thinking that Trump takes it personal with Africa and Africans or Blacks (He was once Mike Tyson’s ringside valet). He only represents a powerful radical constituency of white supremacists, who were not in for holding slightly back onto a modicum of moral decency and a sliver of spiritual conscience, would have wished all blacks wiped out from the face of the earth. So, if you are black but somehow think that you are better than you are brother, because somehow or somewhat you happen to have perceived superior consumption, you are just fooling yourself.
Don’t be fooled brother. You belong, without exception, to the same category of the “shithole nations of Africa” regardless of your supposedly superior status symbols like schools, cities etc, being more advanced than those of your brothers! Do you ever stop to ponder about the origin of your “superior” achievement? Is the material you use to stich those crisp suits that you so much lavish to wear the result of your brain’s power? You grow the best coffee in the world. Fine. Do you drink your domestic brand? You have the best army. Excellent. Are your weapons homemade? And, you still want to fight your neighbour? Aren’t you really sick in the mind? Isn’t your head paining you tragically as to simply deserve mercy in the corridors of civilised humans? Use your gumption brother. A person can only choose a friend, but never a neighbour or mother. A father can sometimes be a mere convenience.
In the secret chambers of the powerful, there is no distinction between affluent blacks and the valueless “humanoids” God created. We are all in the same boat, brother. For them, the more concentrated your melanin is, the farther you are from actual humans. Stop thinking you are better than your brother.
Spoiled children can never be the standard of behaviour in any homestead. Some of us reject to be sucked into the same vortex of depraved psychopaths who, in their delusional and warped minds, tend to think they are larger than life itself.
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