GAZA: Dear Selfish Monsters

In Gaza there is a square named after Nelson Mandela, in Israel there is one named after Balfour

 There is no death toll in Gaza that will get me to say the Nazi extermination and Russian programs were justified. On Oct 7th my first thought was “I hope they did not hurt any kids”, my second thought was “I hope they didn’t kill any civilian women”. My third thought was I hope they didn’t kill any civilians. I knew that was unrealistic, but at least not the kids man. But someone with way less humanity than me needs my humanity to be invalidated just like theirs. But then who would I be? Here we are talking about Africa and what happened to our ancestors. What that position allows me is a sense of right vs wrong—period, now and forever. If aliens 20,000 years from now visited Earth and they got one message about our civilization, I would prefer if it was the story of our evolving humanity from monsters to humans.

While Arab Muslim leaders shoot down attacks on Israel and Clinton, Sunak, Biden, and World Kitchen worry about White lives there is another side of this story. Yes, it happened before Darfur, Congo, Ethiopia, and Rwanda but now we have it in 4K and live.

If in our advanced moral society, with all these laws and all these complex fancy institutions and human rights, etc, this slaughter of kids and women and innocent men can go on what does it say about our international system? What prevents it from happening again? What does it say about POWER, and how do different standards apply to some? Remember that the horrors of WW2 were so bad some said “Never again” Never again is right now.

There is a trend running around that says “Worry about yourself”. Educated and conscious people do not need to even really read this post. Honestly, because who talks like that? What mature-minded global person–even if selfish–understands the world in such isolated terms? Which country on Earth does not have ambassadors and global trade and international relationships? Okay so clearly the world beyond our nose is of concern. But still, amongst the lower intellect, we are told “Africa should worry about Africa”. As if there is a conflict between Pan-Africanism and the broader world. Actually, Pan-Africanism means an engagement in the broader world. What does “Pan” mean? (Pan-, a prefix meaning “all”, “of everything”, or “involving all members” of a group). Pan-African concerns are naturally global.

When we worry about ourselves do you know what world we create? A world where Barbados worries about Barbados but not Haiti, where South Africa worries about South Africa but not Congo. Where Ethiopia worries about Ethiopia but not Somalia or Sudan. Where people in KZN worry about KZN but not Eastern Cape. At some point, any humanity we thought we were building is lost. Because why stop there? If the Hausas are suffering and I am Yourba why should I worry about them? But let me drive the nail home. When the Ewe were being slaved across the Atlantic why worry about them, I am not an Ewe I am Asante. Why worry about Tutsi during the genocide, I am Hutu. Do you see where ‘worry about yourself’ lands us? Had someone not African not been bothered about slavery slavery would have gone on much longer. Had someone, not South African, like the Palestinians and others not taken issue with Apartheid it would probably still be running. Only savage monsters don’t worry about the suffering of others. Busy with the football score while children starve. So no more “We are the World” because we should only worry about ourselves.

The very same people who are on YouTube talking about Gaza are interestingly enough the same people who are talking about Sudan, and Congo. These are conscious human beings and they come in all colors, religions and nationalities. Yet the people who are saying “Black people should only worry about Africa” are on social media with memes, jokes, lude sexual posts, AI factories, Rihanna birthday greetings, And P-Diddy gay sex recordings. But these slimy dogs will use Congo for virtue signaling. Yet nothing on their social accounts shows any interest in Congo beyond using it to call out pro-Palestinian Africans (which is 98% of Africa). Not one of them would buy a book on Congo or donate money to Friends of Congo. None of them can find Darfur on a map. These are the Wretched of the Earth and they come in all colors, all nationalities, and all religions.

BLACK ZIONIST SHILLING FOR $

A lot of brothers and sisters have been unknowingly pawns of White supremacy. (giving them the benefit of the doubt). Hold on, don’t click like yet until I get to the end. They do serve a White supremacy agenda. Make no joke about it. I have first-hand knowledge of when you make the right noises and all the White people clap you not doing no Negro any favor. But Just also know that on its own is separate from the truth. B/c On the other side someone is also playing games. There are people who feed off of race, and make their careers from antagonism. And once you know both sides are problems then we can have a real discussion. I promise you it is a game on both sides and truth is the victim.

After a while, by blind luck, the conservatives who talk a certain way always seem to end up washing out the legacy of slavery. They never start by saying it, but it just seems to get defocused and mitigated. All the people who rather talk about class than race seem to also take issues with reparations and the legacy of…

I agree with MLK’s position on class, but race will always be there. There is no reason why we cannot deal with both in tandem.

Sabby is right, BOTH of these people are Status Quo. I would stress that both are getting paid for race: Either talking a lot about race or not talking enough about it. None of them got to talk about it based on anything else. They did not have to be “representative”, they did not even have to be right. What they are is part of the system that creates BINARISM Left vs Right, Lib vs Con. And you need to know that going in. I know that from the minute they open their status quo position– nothing new. Forcing you to go with one side or the other. No other positions exist? When I hear about “moral obligation to living victims” it seems to force suffering into one generation. B/c we are discussing trauma, right? So what Trauma causes us to fund Is*el? What is that young generation suffering from that justifies all the UK /USA and German political and fiscal cover? So why is the argument about “living victims” only for African descendants? I can’t get into it but it is very strange. But this is a point we have made 1000 times now. Money for Jews (wealthy globally dominant Jews) but nada for the African Diaspora.

CONSUMED BY HIS CONSCIENCE

Aaron Bushnell burned himself alive rather than serve in a military campaign in support of the genocide of Gaza.

Yet under the banner of blackness, we have one YouTube Hotept bragging about how this conflict ain’t nothing to do with him yet a WHITE MAN with so much humanity that he asks what if he was alive when African American people’s ancestors were in chains– what would be his responsibility as a human being?.

Do you not understand that? I do not think you grasp it like I do.  He is not a slave, he is not suffering from Jim Crow, he is not Muslim, and he has never been to Palestine. But his humanity connects to human suffering 10,000KM. What about us who have been through Crow and Apartheid? We need more people like him and fewer YouTube grifters, hotepts, neo-cons, Zionists, and indifferent people. Even Candance Owens has stood up for Gaza more than these fake pro-Black race grifters who would be so sick to use the suffering in Congo as a deflection. You ask them what have they done for Congo, and where were you during Darfur. Because I know where AHS and Halaqah were during Darfur.  I know where we were during the flood in Mozambique the economic disaster in Zimbabwe and the Xenophobia hell in South Africa.

This is why I tell you guys I don’t bizness too much with “We black people” nonsense. B/c it means nothing without some ethics. I  support CONSCIOUSNESS!.  Dark skin men raping women in Congo and Sudan do not get my support. So I cannot and have never looked at the world through this lens. You can go back to our work and see this when we said almost 20 years ago.

(A video of a Congolese man who set himself on fire to protest the ongoing genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has gone viral on social media, sparking outrage and sympathy from viewers around the world.)

Slavery is wrong because slavery is wrong. Not periodically but period. Tunde Jegede said many of us complain about oppression only because we are receiving it (2003).  Yet people still come to us saying “I thought you guys were black nationalists, why you worried about Gaza” Where did anyone read anything about Black Nationalist in the 2 decades of AHS? Where does it say that? Where did that come from? I am so proud of Sabby and Briahna and these African sisters who report on global affairs, along with Mark Lamont Hill, Alice Walker, and Naledi Pandor, the list is endless. So we are in good company.

It is not wrong because It happened to black people, it is wrong because it happened to people.

Congo vs. Palestine | No Star Wars Theme

As much as the West wants something, it does not mean we need to be puppets.  Paul Kagame’s involvement is well known, yet Africans themselves celebrate this man and how wonderful he is and how clean he keeps his cities.

If you were to watch a video on Palestine even a 4 year old could understand it. You have total clear-cut asymmetry you have a clear-cut history of one group colonizing another group. Sounds like Avatar and people can relate to that. It is a narrative that we have an innate sympathy for. But remember this conflict has been going on every 2 years, so the argument that it is getting attention for some nefarious reason is totally debunked because Palestine never stopped burning. It was BLM UK that reminded the world about Palestine. So this is their turn now.

The problem with Congo is I can watch 10 videos summarizing the conflict and fail to connect to them. And we need to separate our emotions and understand these things. Because if we at AHS are feeling like this why mask reality, why tell lies? I have seen memes about how the world has abandoned Congo. But I am still not sure what the world has to do with Congo when Congo is surrounded by African countries.  Some are the darlings of America.

I saw one video of a woman falling in the water because they could not build a bridge— whose fault is that? If you told me France blew up their bridge then it is easier to understand. But they dont have a bridge because they do not know how to build a bridge. They dont have capacity because Congo, like most of Africa, does not know how to manage their resources.  Can you blame the world for ANC failure to develop South Africa? It gets exhausting seeing how we fail but someone else must hold all the blame. Who is doing the killing in Sudan, the Sudanese generals.

So I cannot make the connections. When Africans in the Diaspora were in chains we could say the enslavers did this and that to them. What do we say now we have the choice to go and donate to Friends of Congo and we dont, yet complain about Why the world is focused on Gaza? But the world was also focused on South Africa during its apartheid so I dont see anything malicious at work.

Powerful images create a powerful connection.  But Congo we dont have this. Coupled by the complexity of who is the enemy.  So in Congo, there is a fog around the issues, and there is an appeal for the World to not ignore Congo. So what does Congo need from the world? For the world to watch more videos and talk about it more on social media? Now when it comes to Palestine it has crystal clear objectives on how to get involved from charities to protests, etc. We all know about the American veto, we all know about Genocide Joe, and the aid to Israel. The solution is very very simple. We can see things like call for #ceasfirenow.  What action does Congo want from the world? In Gaza we can see the dirty little fingers and money and breadcrumbs to the culprits— not so in Congo.

And when Africans kill other Africans it is a harder story to sell. People like their conflicts like they like their Star Wars: Clear Good vs Clear Evil. This is why the world got behind South Africa. It is not as some say Black stories do not matter. It is the nature of the story. Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia interested the world more than the Tigray war. What is in the story of Gaza that is also in the story of Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia, but clearly not in the story of Libya?

See Friends of Congo

Gaza dominates Congo for other reasons because it is a perfect case of Western immunity and direct complicity caught live on TV. As Barbadian PM Mia Motley articulated. I honestly think if Gaza was Christian Africans would have taken more or equal action. I only say this to highlight the fact that race is not the only thing in these conflicts. Gaza is clear-cut genocide and the actors in it fit every single story trope that everyone can understand and digest. Congo does not carry the same politics where people are forced into silence and the entire policy is structured to silence dissent. Congo does not have that political component where people cannot speak out for fear of retribution. None of that exists with Congo. So Gaza represents more than just genocide. It represents the duplicity and hypocrisy of Western Nations and the absolute failure of the systems of democracy and global justice. Fixing Gaza is symbolic and iconic of every single thing wrong with the last 500 years. Gaza has direct complicity so all lawyers in a class action pick their case based on triage, which case best represents the issues of the last 200 years. See further explanations. So Israel at the ICJ represents the ending of the last outpost of Apartheid, or at least exposing it and all those “good” people who support it.

Once even Beligum found out about Leopold they turned on him. The world turned on him.

Who remembers Mrs Obama? #Bring back our girls?  Bring back Nigerian girls? How many have been kidnapped or even worse since then? So what was so special about these girls? Was it that they were African—no. It was clearly what Ms. Obama picked out of a box to get behind. It was about the influence of Ms Obama and not those particular girls.

Some white racist said how come when a White person kills an African person it is news but Black people kill each other all day long and No one cares?

They are correct but not because they are right. And that is the world over. It has to have a Star Wars theme.

Darfur was sold by Western Whites off the back of Arabs vs Africans. The reality was more complex and much harder to sell.  It is what you can sell. Indian girls are raped all day in India but one story gained global traction just like George gained global traction. If you can sell it, they will buy it.

So if we want to be honest. What is so special about Floyd George? Why him out of all the African Americans who died at the hands of police.

What is so special about Trayvon? I dont want to quote Candace Owens but her point needs a little space. There is nothing special about any of these people. When they killed Palestinian poet Refaat or reporter Shireen Abu Akleh that is very different from George. So what was different about George? Was he Mumia Abu-Jamal or  Assata Shakur. So explain why these two became icons of the BLM when so many others did not.

So is it only about race? Meaning that only White faces make the news? Maybe 20 years ago. The entire world iconized George Floyd who between 1997 and 2005, was convicted of eight crimes. He served four years in prison after accepting a plea bargain for a 2007 aggravated robbery.

Clearly, it is not only about race. It is about the story you can sell to the world.  In cold terms what can be marketed as news? Who is going to push that news. Because the late comers who are jealous of the attention Gaza is getting were very busy with Hotepism before this, and had no interest in Congo.

People get uncomfortable with information that flies in the face of their prejudices but these stats show that Whites also get killed by police, but do you think they can make the news? No because African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans are disproportionately killed. No one can sell a White boy getting shot by police. Yes, their lives also matter but their newsworthiness does not. Just like killing Jews gets more press than killing Arabs.

Now if a White girl goes missing she will make the news while an African American will not. So we need to understand these things in more complex terms. They are definitely not strictly black vs white. And they can change. Death of MJ, Prince, and Kobe clearly showed race is not the only issue.

Can you sell a story?

BLACK TO CONGO

Most of what we know and see (via documentaries and news) is from the very same white people we decry. Halaqah Media cannot make a documentary on Congo or anywhere in Africa because the documentary Motherland was not successful enough. In short, no supported by our own people. yet these same people will be the first to say “How come you are discussing Gaza but not Congo”? And what are they doing about anything? When asked to support the Libya crisis they were missing. But we are never missing.

We want to come back to this after looking up our previous work on sexual violence in the Congo. You cannot write about what you dont know as a form of fan service.