I have seen many posts with people very upset about how Africans are being treated in China right now. They are not being allowed to enter shops and some of them are being evicted from their homes. It’s heartbreaking. Many of us are talking of retaliating and doing the same thing to Chinese people living here. I don’t agree with that. If everyone acts like a monster, how can anyone differentiate between the two? The Chinese don’t lie about who they are. They are openly racist. They have ads on TV showing dark skin is dirt that can be washed away with detergent. They are ignorant. But as disgusting as their actions are, ignorance can be fixed, with time and information. But you know what can’t be fixed? EVIL. Many of you hating on China support the French National team, adore French men like Thierry Henry (Wasn’t there a time Arsenal was practically all French?) You would love to see Paris, enter the posh boutiques and eat croissants. But my friends, France is the personification of evil.
Do you know that 14 African countries are obliged to put 85% of their foreign exchange reserves into the French Central Bank? And if they need it, they have to BORROW it back at commercial interest rates? Also there is a cap. They cannot borrow more than 20 per cent per year. OF THEIR OWN MONEY. So basically France uses these funds to grow the French economy. On top of this madness, do you know that French ex-colonies in Africa have to pay a colonial tax? Seriously. Thanks for colonizing us, keep all our money in your banks and on top of that here is more cash as a thank you for colonizing us. France gets first pick of all minerals from these countries. Only if France rejects them, can they be sold elsewhere. The situation is so effed up that even a former French President, Jacques Chirac, said that France would be a third world country without Africa. It’s ROBBERY. Any African leader that tries to change things is assassinated or rebels are armed to overthrow the government. Majority of the coups in the past 50 years have happened in Francophone Africa.
The leaders who play ball are rewarded with lavish lifestyles. Those who don’t are sent to the grave.
You know why the Chinese look down on us? Because we have everything and we are still poor. So they think our skin makes us daft. This continent has all the resources necessary to be the leading continent on earth. But we cry racism when we can’t even love our neighbour. Let’s fight for the ex French colonies. They need us! They can’t assassinate an entire continent. Funded rebel groups can’t fight all the armies of Africa. Once and for all, let’s get rid of our colonial masters. France, your time is up.
Yeah French are racist, but I haven’t seen them evicting Blacks Apartheid Style like the Chinese are doing. And openly so. Where is Xi Ping Ping in view of all this.
The west or people from other continents dont view Africa as multiple countries bt as one “Black Country”. So as Africa we must be united against any external powers.
Btw sometimes back I wanted to discuss that “Francophone africa” issue when I saw Emmanuel Macron saying that he is easing the conditions of “French Africa” concerning depositing and withdrawing their money from France (The “Central Bank” of “francophone Africa”, is literally in France). In addition, it’s a fact that French determines the value of currency and almost all matters relating politics in “French Africa”.
no, for British is better. The only way it tries to control its former colonies is thru “Commonwealth” facade. Another thing, British enjoys having an extended direct control of its overseas states - Australia, New Zealand, Canada,and Jamaica so it does not need much from it’s former states bt now independent republics (e.g Kenya), though it’s influence is in disguise of wildlife conservation and trade (thru multinationals such as Unilever and BP)
The simple reason all these other races treat Africans like shit, is because we treat each other like shit. Someone said people die in KNH’s corridors na mwili zinatupwa kama tucker tucker ndani ya lorry, polisi anakutwanga kuliko jambazi sugu in the name of curfew, hata huku Kenya as an African you can’t just waltz into some 5 star establishments without the guard demanding to know what you want there, unless you’re a big shot of some sorts. Mzungu anaingia ata na slippers, shorts and unkempt hair. So we can blame Chinkus, the French et al but if we don’t start treating each other humanely, how the fuck do you expect another race to?
Turning the other cheek doesn’t work and has never worked. Only African Christians believe in that foolishness while the wazungus who brought us the Bibles do not believe in turning the other cheek. Retaliations on the other hand works like magic. Every human being knows retaliation works because every human being has had a bully problem at one point in their life that they made it stop by fighting back.
The last century Africa has been turning the other cheek and the blows haven’t stopped landing. It’s time Africans start doing to the Chinese what they are doing to us.
be informed, australia, NZ, and Canada are part of the British monarchy, they have governor generals behind the scenes who are representatives of the queen. It’s only that the monarchy does not interfere with their politics.
that does not rule out the existence of governor generals who represent the Queen in those countries n in fact they play part in critical decision making though behind the scenes
Read about the “Scramble for Africa and the Berlin Conference 1884-85”. You might even start before the Otto Von Bismark rule and familiarise yourself with Africa’s trade pattern pre-colonization. Read about slavery( by Arabs) and the 1913 Africa’s boundaries that stand to date. Familiarize yourself with the French Policy of Assimilation Vs British, Italian, German, Portuguese Colonization. France regarded the areas it occupied as part of France thus the “centralization” of their Banks in France. It is a long history.
But the gist of it is that Africa is still colonized , one way or the other. As for racism, learn to live with it and make it work for you. Ethiopia was never colonized, but are they much better off? Nope, their citizens esp the Oromo plus Jewish Ethiopians are still worse off( in Ethiopia and in Israel). Never cower before a racist, just hit them so hard that they go into coma!