THE CHINESE CONNECTION AND THE USELESSNESS OF TIME TRAVEL
So...the Chinese gov’t is doing the white people thing of not only evicting Africans in China from their homes and barring them from eating establishments due to virus fears
but they’re doing the Jedi trick of lying about what’s being done, saying that what you see right in front of your eyes is not really happening.
I wish that they had at least done what India does; have an open caste system where the lighter they are, the more privileges they receive. Or even the Brits where they’re hooked on lineage and pedigree. It’s all evil; but at least it’s upfront evil.
Of course folk will try and justify the hate and obfuscation by equivocating; comparing evictions of Africans in China with the shutting down of Chinese establishments in Africa because they bar Africans from their places of business.
To prevent what’s happening today, we’d need to have started changing attitudes 20 years ago. But even if I could go back in time, we’d have no media in place to disseminate such a narrative - same as today.
Timing is everything with TODAY always being the most powerful day of all.
Image if I had banned the white gaze 12 years ago instead of 2 years back? Then, white folk on my page would’ve had a decade longer to come to the conviction that,
‘Hey, maybe I’m a big part of the problem and not just that guy or that ‘racist system’ over there! Maybe my superior intellect and upbringing does not make me as immune
to the racist conditioning as I’d like to believe! And maybe, if I’m a big part of the problem, then my repentance, conversely, will make me a big part of the solution!’
The bad news is that our wittle online social pages will only make the slightest dent in the massive media onslaught.
The good news, as there is some, is that when no one is repenting of the obvious evils, the one or two or three who do will stand out like a beacon during a terrible night.
But until that happens, I will lament over our current plight; weep and wail for that is what we’re called to do.
We’re better than this. You know it; I know it. We ALL know it. Yet here we are.
Can’t wait ‘til we have our own media. Everything changes.
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