Mighty Sisserou 🇩🇲
One of the big problems with looking at issues affecting people of the Global South through a white lens is white optimism.
When you have systems that are built to benefit white power structures, those systems are inherently built to oppress or reinforce the oppression those who are not white.
That's what makes you a liability to other people's movements.
gnutelephony
@MightySisserou indeed, it is the road that never ends, not a hill you simply climb once.
Mighty Sisserou 🇩🇲
Also it's always white people saying "Wait for the results."
The rest of us have a history of waiting, then being served Injustice.
It has become an expectation. It is white optimism that waits with expectations that there may be a good outcome.
It's easy for you to tell others to wait, when waiting has no cost to you.
Mighty Sisserou 🇩🇲
South Africa's case against Israel is important not because of the result. But because South Africa built their case and brought it to court. South Africa legitimizes what Palestinians have been saying regardless of the ruling.
gnutelephony
@MightySisserou is there even justice??? I don't know, I never have reached that other end, and I don't even expect to see sight of it in my lifetime anymore.
gnutelephony
@MightySisserou the haitian slaves successfully rebelled for their freedom, and then were forced to repay France for it's loss of (human) "property", payments that lasted well into the 20th century.
Mighty Sisserou 🇩🇲
Yes, but due to the systems that are forced on us, justice is usually followed by more injustice.
Zimbabwe had a successful decolonization movement which included a land reform program, but then had international sanctions imposed on them.
Many places have been able to get their independence, but then have that independence taken away by Imperialism, and the transformation of governments into Neocolonial entities acting on in accordance to the will of wealthy countries.
gnutelephony
@MightySisserou I am still moved by the broken glasses of Allende every September 11th.
Mighty Sisserou 🇩🇲
Grenada had it's New Jewel movement after removing Eric Gairy from power:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z-AxNFx88o
But the West ensured an end to that.
gnutelephony
@MightySisserou there often is more. Injustice is like lice.
Mighty Sisserou 🇩🇲
There's more to that story.
The US invaded Haiti from 1915 to 1934. One of the first things they did was steal their gold and move it to the US.
There is also the Caribbean Basin Initiative in which "Food Aid" has been weaponized to undermine local food production. The exploitation of the state apparatus by the West to undermine local industries in general. Haitian Rice is an example where rice tariffs were removed and destroyed the whole local industry.
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