@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive

3 years ago

Extremely powerful video. The ripple effect of this is extremely profound. I pick up on the 'two societal faces' within other black people and as a young man in my early 20s, I still feel like I'm only truly myself maybe 80 - 90% of the time. The self hatred has not left me completely, however, and I see it in others too. It's incredibly tragic and most of the time I feel like we are a lost cause due to the infighting. We project our pain upon each other, and whilst this is something humans do regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, tribe, sex etc, I feel like it is extremely common within the black race and makes it easier for us to be shafted by more imperialist minded countries and tribes. After generations of forced intercourse (to put it gently) by the oppressor class within the white race, we are now being handed over to China to have their turn. Particularly after the formation of BRICS. Although I was born in the UK, my mother was born in the Carribean and My father's parents were born on another island in the Carribean (Dad was born in England) and the Chinese Government are going country to country, building businesses and infrastructure of various forms, often using Carribean labour but Chinese workers and managers to take control. The Carribean governments - out of desperation for money and a meagre offer of a handful of student programs in China for their citizens - sign the deals with glee. Same with African countries right now. After China has their way with us over the next century another country will join in with China or take their place and it will be an endless cycle.  Easy to do when you remember the sheer amount of African American Diaspora, the Black British Diaspora (Of which I am a part) and other lost peoples taken long ago, we now cling to whatever small success they can get for themselves all whilst baring their teeth at any fellow black who gets too close because it's every man for themselves. We often have a crab in a barrel mindset and moments of profound mutual agreement and building are destroyed with a sledgehammer by other blacks who want to tear others down with one rationality or another. We cling to our only successes within the entertainment business but dominating two or three genré within music and sports feels like a hollow victory when there are so few humans representing you in positions of political, financial and social power and the few that are, are either unable to do much due to the structural systems built solely to calibrate to the success of white humans over blacks i.e Obama, or choose to just fall in line and become a passive ally to the system i.e Kwasi Kwarteng and Ben Carson (Two men I feel no hostility for as I understand the nuances of this painful life and I too have become the perfect minority to accommodate England's white society that I have in a tragic but darkly humorous way, grown great affection for).  One wonders about the possibilities; if black humans had adopted a more European mindset if we would have been able to create a United States of Africa or a Grand Republic of Caribbean Islands, to lesser the chances of being dominated so brutally. The Carribean one is more likely due to the closeness of our cultures but only marginally as we bicker and "diss" each other constantly in a deep-rooted self hatred mindset which goes so deep that even the "Wise adults" within the community engage with the Japery having no idea that it's rooted in a malevolent but subtle divide and conquer tactic. We would go to our graves before allying on such a grand level, unfortunately and it's even less likely to work in Africa: The sheer number of tribes within Africa with very different ideologies, cultures, mindsets, geo-political hostilities, Religions, Hundreds of Languages and societies successfully injected in self hate render that impossible. I didn't mean for this to be such a depressing and doomer account of my musings but I'm just putting my thoughts out there. Thank you for this video, it's - again - extremely powerful 🤙🏾

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