Subject: Re: On interracial relationships, or anything
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:55:15 GMT

[Another small point ...]
Wayne Johnson (ciacon@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: Thomas) wrote:

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: >I challenge you to quote me where I have said that "African is
: >good/Europeans are bad".

: Tell me where you've said Africans are bad and Europeans are good.

... Exhibit 1, which please hold in mind...

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: >Conversely, I do
: >not see in the African asili, a similar fundamental moral
: >flaw.

: Thank God you are not making a negative comparison with the European
: asili.  Or are you?  If you want your quote about where you said
: European asili is bad, and African asili is good, here it is.
           ^^^^^                     ^^^^^
There is a big difference between saying "the European asili
contains a fundamental moral flaw", and saying "all Europeans are bad".
Likewise, there is a big difference between saying "the African
asili contains no similarly fundamental moral flaw", and
saying "all Africans are good".

The issue is to my mind very stark, and very simple.  It is
that the Order which the European has established
in the world is unjust, and moreover based on the enslavement
of most of the peoples of the world.  The enslavement is no 
longer of the chattel variety, but wage-slavery is none-the-less
still slavery.  The land and labor of most peoples of the world
have been drawn under the command and control of the European
through the devices of market capitalism, aided and abetted by
the incessant propaganda and modern-day witchcraft of the
Western media and of Western advertising.  Contrary to the
propaganda, Western market capitalism is not the best guarantee
of freedom either for individuals or for societies.  The
architects and the main beneficiaries of market capitalism
long ago captured the supposedly democratic processes of
the Western democracies, and these are now effectively plutocracies.
These same plutocrats organize and finance the disguised plunder 
that is neo-colonialist market capitalism that is foisted
on unsuspecting societies everywhere in the world.  Democracy 
is but a wedge used by the Western plutocrats to pry open doors 
to plunder that might otherwise remain closed to Western capital, 
and to the Western witchcraft that is the media and advertising.
(This Western witchcraft, contrary to one of the fundamental
assumptions of neo-classical economic theory, is capable of
generating a demand where none existed before, for such useless
products, also positively harmful, as Coca Cola, cigarettes,
sugar-frosted flakes, antacids, and the like, but I digress.)
Moreover, this "democracy" is purely optional, since a compliant and supine
dictator (eg. Mobutu, Marcos) works just as well in terms of
the true program of the Western plutocracies: the neo-colonialist
plunder of the land, labor and resources of the former colonies,
and the effective reduction of the masses of the people of 
these former colonies to the status of wage-slaves.
The program is same as it always has been, whether under 
feudalism, imperialism, slavery, colonialism, or neo-colonialism;
only the means have now changed in keeping with changing
exigencies, and finds expression now through market capitalism,
with "democracy" serving the same purpose vis-a-vis market
capitalism, as once did Christian missionaries vis-a-vis
erstwhile colonialism: it provides a slim cover of virtue, for
the plunder and rapine that is the true program at work.
On this analysis, it is clear to me that the moral duty of
anyone faced with this program is to resist.  Whether you
reach to an African-centered concept of truth, harmony, justice
and balance (Maat) or a European-centered concept of "natural
law"--aside: the very word "nature" derives from the Kamitian
"neter", and Maat was one of the "neteru", but again I digress--
I do not really care.  But the African principles are there,
and need simply to be reclaimed.  Accommodating oneself to
an unjust order is not an acceptable moral option.  If that
causes Euro-asilic Blackfolk, especially those who think they
have "made it", to squirm a little, so be it.  And if it 
causes the European architects and/or collaborators and/or 
functionaries of this unjust order to react with furious
denial, that is to be expected; but they too have a moral
duty, whatever the asili from which it is to spring.

In Maat,
"Adopt ye not the ways of the oppressor."

PS.  See y'all in about two weeks.  Hate to hit and run, but...

	 

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