The current Black political leadership in the country is filled with puppets,
content with acting in the service of the empire. This misleadership class works
to undermine international solidarity and African liberation.
In 1821, Africans who were free or who had escaped enslavement came together in
Onslow County, North Carolina to wage war against white oppressors. They were
described as well armed and cunning, and during their campaign they destroyed
farms, burned houses, and looted stores in broad daylight. It took a two hundred
man militia 26 days to search woods, swamps and marshes before the group was
finally subdued.
While we can only speculate about the dreams of these honorable ancestors, we
can be reasonably certain they did not struggle and sacrifice with hopes for
their descendants to ascend to government positions to do the bidding of the
forces of global oppression. Yet, U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield and
other Black imperialist toadies have become experts at steppin' and fetchin' on
demand to defend imperialist and Zionist violence.
In reaction to the Zionist genocidal campaign in Gaza that has reduced much of
the territory to rubble and killed more than 23,000 innocents, Thomas-Greenfield
spouted the following absurdity:
"Look. Israel has a right to defend itself. And calling for an immediate cease
fire when Hamas continues to barrage large Israeli territories with constant
bombing, when Hamas continues to say publicly and openly they intend to carry
out another October-7-like event, does not give confidence to anyone that a
cease-fire is what is needed now. Israel has a right to defend itself, and that
is a right that we, as well as other Security Council members, support."
On matters involving Niger, Ukraine and other hot spots, Thomas-Greenfield has
also faithfully pushed the imperialist party line.
The use of Black and brown puppets to distort the racial optics of exploitation
was a standard part of colonial administration, and it has remained as a central
element of neo-colonialism. It is not at all surprising then that imperialists
would use the same strategy in the U.S. where some have characterized the
country's African population as an internal colony of sorts. Amilcar Cabral
disagreed with the idea that the predicament of Black people in America is a
colonial one, but he also said: "That is not to say that the aims are not the
same. And that is not to say that even some of the means cannot be the same."
If not a colonial reality, the practical reality of the discrimination,
exploitation, oppression and political repression that constitute the African
experience in the U.S. renders Black people in this country as significant
members of the global mass of humanity that endures the pain caused by
imperialism. This relationship of Africans in America with the rest of "the
wretched of the Earth" is distorted, confused and complicated when
Thomas-Greenfield, like her government predecessors Colin Powell, Condoleezza
Rice and Barack Obama, stand before the world and spout imperialist lies, and
not only advance the cause of the empire, but also by their mere presence
suggest the possibility that all Black people in America agree with the
imperialist program, and stand apart from other victims of imperialism around
the world.
-- Cont'd at https://blackagendareport.com/negroes-steppin-and-fetchin-imperialism
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