Africa: Iraq, Libya, Syria - Three Reasons African Americans Should Oppose U.S. Intervention in Africa As the U.S. tightens its military grip on Africa, it is absolutely imperative that we embark on a massive educational campaign with our folks that will expose the real intentions of the U.S. on the continent and worldwide. There is nothing humanitarian about U.S. intentions. The plan for Africa is being written in the blood of the people in Iraq, Syria and Libya. Mass slaughter, rape, torture, pillage, perpetual war, cultural degradation, creating social divisions, psychological manipulation - the essential tools employed by Western powers to establish their 522-year domination over many of the peoples of the world - are still being used with frightening efficiency and effect to maintain that dominance. Just over the last decade and a half the orgy of violence unleashed by the U.S. and the gangster states of NATO in the name of promoting democracy and the racist absurdity of a responsibility to protect has been incalculable. Masked by the oxymoronic language that connects the White West with humanitarianism, the U.S. and its NATO allies have been on a killing spree in more than a dozen countries. President Obama has conducted imperialisms version of a drive-by shooting with his drone warfare where wedding parties, funerals and even family gatherings are subject to being blown to bits just because the U.S. has the technology to do so and the power to get away with mass murder. In normal times the racist megalomania of the U.S. that produced and is producing the carnage in Iraq, Libya, Syria and throughout the world would have been enough to caution African Americans against any pleas to the U.S. to militarily intervene to bring back our girls in Nigeria. But of course these are not normal times.A BRIEF HISTORICAL RECAP OF U.S. POLICY IN AFRICA There have been two factors that help to explain the relative success of white supremacist capitalist power to construct and impose an historical narrative in which they have been absolved of their criminal activities in Africa: the post 9/11 focus on counter-terrorism, and the election of the first black president of the U.S. Puerto Rican activist and writer Aurora Levins Morales reminds us that as the oppressed gain agency in their fight against dominance, memory is a site of struggle: One of the first things a colonizing power or repressive regime does is attack the sense of history of those they wish to dominate by attempting to take over and control their relationship to their own past. READ ON VERY IMPORTANT allafrica/stories/201407072302.html?aa_source=acrdn-f0
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 02:48:20 +0000
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