@mcsquared34 Looking at the positive side, they have made it to old age with their health and strength. They get to work and still be independent. Still a great country to be an old person.
@JekapOmod Key phrase is "older generation". My personal experience is that that generation has more or less died out. The current generation is one that wants to act blacker than their skin tone.
@AfricanHub_ Too many to mention, he was involved in too many conflicts throughout Africa. One in particular is when he sent his jets to bomb Tanzania on behalf of Iddi Amin of Uganda.
WHITE LIBERTY GOOD BLACK LIBERTY BAD?
Here's a quote from American-born African writer James Baldwin: "When any White man in the world says, 'give me liberty or give me death', the entire White world applauds. When a Black man says exactly the same thing, he is judged a criminal and treated like one."
Baldwin was speaking on The Dick Cavett show in 1969. And it highlights the hypocrisy underlying Western society that many of us know and feel.
Africans growing up in the United States and other imperialist countries are educated on the brave struggles of Western 'freedom fighters', from George Washington to Joan of Arc. However, when it comes to the question of the emancipation of African people who have been subjected to hundreds of years of oppression, all of a sudden, fighting for freedom is unacceptable.
Baldwin gives two examples: The treatment of Nat Turner, who led the famous US slave rebellion in the 19th century, and the backlash against human rights activist Malcolm X around a hundred years later.
Baldwin also talks about Israel in this video but later made clear he's anti-Zionist, saying: "I don't believe they have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with Western bombs and guns on the biblical injunction."
🇺🇸JOHN MEARSHEIMER:
"I think once you get outside of the West, almost everybody thinks that the United States and the Europeans are morally bankrupt.
I mean, we are supporting—and I'm choosing my words carefully here—we are supporting a genocide in Gaza.
It's a genocide that people see on their computers and on their TVs on a daily basis.
So they know exactly what's going on here, and the hypocrisy is just quite stunning.
Because the West makes a big deal of the fact that it is morally virtuous, that we are, you know, an exceptional Nation—we stand taller, we see further.
And when you think about the fact that we're complicit in a genocide, I mean, it looks like hypocrisy in the extreme.
So I think outside the West, people understand full well that we are morally bankrupt.
And I think even inside the West, there are lots of people who have just begun to lose hope that we have our moral gyroscopes in place when it comes to dealing with the Middle East."