BAR - Mark P. Fancher: Negroes Steppin’ and Fetchin’ for Imperialism
Posted by sashimi on January 12, 2024, 10:29 am
10 Jan 2024
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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