--The most disturbing to me in the Ukraine matter is not the US media and their scholars who are embedded in the empire project. They are all in one room, one brain, CNN, the professors, and the White House.
The most disturbing to me are African commentators on Ukraine.
So your continent was conquered, but they don't understand how imperialism works.
You are ethnically divided, but you only understand Biafra and don't see Biafra in other places. You clap for Biya when he destroys Western Cameroon, and praises the West when he undermines the projects of minorities.
You suffered from the Cold War but you don't understand it when it unfolds in other places. You don't see Ukraine as a proxy project.
You were pawns by superpowers but you don't understand it when you see it in others.
You complain about ethnicity but you don't apply it to other places.
You insult Lagos, but you don't see dirty Peckham in London and slums in North of Paris
When Israel acts, you see them as the "Chosen People" but when Ethiopia acts, they are devils.
You see secessionist movements in your continent but you cannot relate it to other places.
You understand the Fulani herdsmen, but you cannot convert it to a global theory.
The French occupied your continent, but today you can clap for Macron in Ukraine over Putin. You don't see that Putin and Macron are the same!
Illicit flow of wealth from Africa is now $85 billion a year, but you cannot relate it to your conditions and destructions.
US and Belgium destroyed Lumumba and Congo, but you cannot apply this to other issues.
They abused Muslims as the greatest terrorists in the world but you don't see Europeans as terrorists, etc.
One person told me yesterday that US intervention is for good. My cup of coffee almost fell. US does not allow regional solutions to crises, including in the current one. You cannot go to El-Paso on the Mexican border and locate your missiles there directed at the US. Nuclear submarine near China you see it as the protection of global capitalism.
They are asking you not to teach critical theory but every day in private, the Igbo abuse the Yoruba, the Yoruba abuse the Igbo, and they all abuse the Fulani. You see racism in the US, but you don't see it in Morocco.
Develop your theories—don't let others impose their theories upon you.
TF
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