DE-ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST AFRICANS AT HOME & ABROAD

Farouk Martins Aresa @oomoaresa
The pressing problem most African families are dealing with at home and
abroad is how to ameliorate the hidden and open attacks against them by
constituted authorities. Families are pondering and mulling on how to
de-escalate the confrontations and keep young Africans safe from deadly
assaults.
While Natural Disaster has taken the disproportional death toll on the
elders, Africans and minorities; man inhumanity to man has also
converged and affected Africans most, no matter where they are. Some
Chinese scapegoated and projected blame on African students for Covid-19
that originated in Wuhan. We also witnessed a string of Police ritual
massacres in the United States: a lady sleeping at home while Black to
George Floyd like Eric Garner snuffed out of breath and life for the
world to see.
De-escalation tactics start from within by showing the qualities of
cultured people demanding respect. You get what you negotiate, not what
you deserve. Look, everyone acts in his best interest and power is not
given up out of the goodness of their hearts but when it becomes too
risky and expensive to keep. This was how old system of slavery was
abolished. So watch out, it is a continuous struggle. Do not be fooled
by the replacement of slavery with cheap disposable labor.
What brings all these victimization of Africans home to the Continent is
the inability of individual African countries to influence or weld power
affirmatively as many other countries would. It is very difficult for
Motherland to watch her own African children being sacrificed at the
altar of racist ideology, political expediency and promotion or
glorification of ranks in open or secret societies because embedded
perpetrators happen to be members of constituted authorities.
Those uninformed Africans who think they are supporting conservative or
liberal ideology are used as body bags to avoid responsibilities for
their actions. This is not new. African chiefs sold their own people as
slaves abroad in exchange for mirrors. The slave owners or Massa
selected House Africans to supervise their fellow slaves and recently,
Arab slave owners appointed other Africans crossing the Desert to whip
desperadoes fleeing from African countries into submission and slave
camps, used for repulsive acts including body parts removal.
Even Extremist parties have fronted recent African immigrants. So it is
not surprising that those self-styled conservatives or liberals are
covering the back of their users. As most Africans empathize with their
brothers and sisters in Diaspora, or regret the sins of their ancestors
for selling them out, we have some within us that are proud
conservatives, supporting oppressors that want their “good old days”
back.
Let us be clear, these traitors have never seen anything good about
themselves or their Continent and would sell their Countries for
imported glittering plastics, used discarded goods and environmental
garbage. Fake leaders claim to be partners of foreign investors or
businessmen opening Free Trade zones and gulping our Foreign Reserves
for money laundering abroad. While it is true that some of these African
Parasites are created out of greed and self-hate, we have ethnic
animosity involved. By the time some swear to spare a snake and kill a
fellow citizen or kill your own brothers and sisters as Kaferi or
Unbelievers, you realize African mentality has gone insane.
Our suffering abroad and lack of respect for our individual citizens at
home is so intertwined, we can not expect others to respect us when we
sell one another cheap at home out of spite. Let us face it, lives are
cheap in Africa if we are willing to risk it all in the hands of
foreigners than stand our ground at home to fight our oppressors.
There is no doubt that there are opportunists who leave their homes
where they are too depraved to sow good deeds but go out for soft
landing to reap the hard work and magnanimous acts and accommodation of
others. The projections of their laziness on victims of host countries
are obvious.They will never be respected. Only scornfully treated
accordingly as cheap disposable labors.
Since African slaves and their descendants were told how lucky they were
to be brought abroad in chains rather than remained in the dark
Continent among savages. Fast forward to 2020, some Africans claim they
live in the zoo and gleefully echo the “shithole countries” of others.
How can you be respected anywhere when you sell yourselves cheap and
handed them the excuse to dictate your political economy at home?
Discussions with our children are difficult if History of African
Suffrage at home and abroad are not taught in schools to avoid the
mistakes of the past. The pride of being an African is being chipped
away without many in the new generation realizing it. It might be subtle
as skin bleaching or hairstyle but the history of the damage must be
seen in an old study of little black children’s preference of white
dolls to black dolls. 60 years after Independence, most African
countries have not found their bearings, not because they cannot but
they choose not to, foolishly building castles in the air far away in
foreign countries Covid-19 banned them from visiting.
How many countries in other continents pander, invite, welcome and
incentivize themselves as “bushmeat” for economic gain? We can no longer
threaten our own very existence with so much hate, Afrophobia,
self-destruction and expect others to respect us or our younger
generation to succeed. Apart from the psychological bearing on
self-esteem, the socio-economic devastation is so conspicuous, other
continents smell a wounded Continent as prey and go for a kill.
Only those that are either ill-informed or naive would think they are
better off than other Africans. This stigma must be broken and must be
corrected right now! We must start immediate remedial actions, instead
of future rosy projections. A day wasted are lives lost and
opportunities missed. It is about time our leaders were challenged to
stop seeking salvation from abroad or Heaven when God only helps those
who help themselves.
De-escalation starts from within our Home.