It has never made sense to me why someone from a poor background would rise to the helm of leadership and not want to make life better for everyone. You fucking understand what it means to be poor. You know the struggle. You saw you parents hustle to feed, educate you. Fuck man.
Imagine police officers telling emergency healthcare workers, "Go back and wait, we will kill even more," while teargas fills temporary medical camps. No PR tour, roadside rally, or political rhetoric can wash away footage of state security forces obstructing life-saving care.
Water is a birthright and NOT a commodity. Water belongs to the earth, to other species, and to future generations. No corporation has the right to control it.
The British atrocities in Kenya must be taught across Africa, because a modernized form of such atrocities is still ongoing via their puppets in power.
Everyone acts like Africa’s problems are too big and impossible to solve. Yet all Africa need to do is kick out the imperialists, their organizations, and puppets, and impose the death-penalty on every corrupt politician. It’s really that simple.
The word "slavery" is too small for what happened.
People were hunted, chained, branded, raped, tortured, sold, and worked to death. Families disappeared. Languages, names, and traditions were stripped away.
It was one of history's greatest crimes against humanity.
Read banned books by Black authors.
Read them because they told you not to. Read them because they carry memories they don't want you to know.
Read 'Beloved by Toni Morrison.'
Read 'Native Son by Richard Wright.'
Read 'The Bluest Eye.'
Read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.'
They banned them because they were too true.
When Europeans steal a country they name themselves after it.
Israelis claim to be "Semites" despite being European
Colonists claim they're "Americans" while reducing real Americans to "Indians"
Boers claim they're "Afrikaners"
Identity theft is a huge part of colonialism.
Vietnam at the end of the American War.
Infrastructure destroyed.
Economy shattered.
Unexploded ordnance across vast swaths of agricultural land.
Hundreds of thousands of political prisoners from the defeated south to manage.
A refugee crisis. A food crisis. A currency crisis.
International isolation.
American embargo.
Soviet support collapsing as the USSR declined.
By every measure, a country that should not have been able to develop.
That is now one of the most cited development successes of the last fifty years.
The variable that distinguished Vietnam from countries that did not recover is not geography, not culture, not natural resources, not colonial history in terms of severity.
It is the quality and continuity of political leadership that was allowed to exist because it could not be removed by force.
Give Africa its Lumumbas.
Give Africa its Ho Chi Minhs.
Stop killing them.
Then ask about development.
Kenya's 'middle class' is too busy attending half marathons and music festivals to notice attempts at destroying them.
Housing levy, fuel levy, PAYE, incoming carbon tax, inflation, fuel price hikes, rising cost of living while salaries remain the same.
Wake up sheeple.