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"Africa is a part of
the world that has immense resources and immense riches. But...the history has been nothing but the capitalist system sucking Africa dry of those
riches. I think that the particular
challenge facing Americans - Americans who care about other human beings, who
care about the planet - is what steps will they take to help African people
stop this continual rape and plunder of the African continent."
George Bush, Big Oil, Andy Young and the Pentagon are
already implementing their plan for Africa. It looks
like Nigeria, the classic case of a rich country full of poor
people.
It looks a lot like the impoverished, poisoned, festering wasteland of
the Niger delta, where they've had a free hand for decades.
And when Africans resist, as they surely will, the backup plan is to declare
Africans who want to control their own resources "terrorists", and
through AFRICOM, deploy US military might to lock down Africans and African
resources.
It's time for black America and the Congressional Black Caucus to take
Dr. Nesbitt's advice, and come up with a couple of our own plans to end more
than five hundred years of Western pillage of Africa, and to keep AFRICOM and
the US military off the African continent.
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Why should we want to keep American and European corporations off of
the African continent? Here are some
reasons:
- If they are
allowed to establish further capital investment opportunities throughout
Africa, the African people will continue to die in
poverty.
- The partnership
will be totally unbalanced and to the advantage of the economic
predators, not the African people.
- To allow
corporate America to bring their
brand of capitalism to all of Africa is to deny the
main purpose of why Africans were spread into the four corners of the
world through enslavement. That
purpose was to one day bring capital investment to that motherland. Although White men saw it as something
totally different. To them it
meant wealth for them.
- The beneficiaries
of Wall Street should not be rewarded for what their parents have done
to African people, and they continue to perpetuate.
- Any nation or
people responsible for the creation of the “synthetic” virus, HIV/AIDS,
is not worthy of a partnership and the blessings of what will become the
United States of Africa.
There is only one sure way to stop the rape and plunder of Africa’s people, as a result
of foreign corporate greed and need for Africa’s vast natural
resources. Yes, education is very
important but capital
investment is as important. Among
Blacks, we now have more highly educated people than we have ever had but the
overall condition of Blacks have worsen.
We can turn that around within ten years! This capital
investment must come from the African Americans, not the American
government, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, or any other entity that
is closely linked to them. Why not
these entities? For several decades,
these entities have proven to be overall failures in loaning money to African
nations while enriching their shareholders by charging African nations
exorbitant interest rates, even greater than 30 percent! As they do with you, they also add hefty
fees. This is enslavement to the Lords
of Europe and the Wall Street vampires.
Nigerians and other Africans must not imitate and use a “blood based”
system as a model.
Increasingly, we see Blacks in America drawn into this
imagery of “terrorism”, supposedly, for planning to blow up this or
that. The Investor Class is looking
for demons and boogiemen onto which to focus and distract the attention of
Blacks. We must remain focus on our
socio-economic plan. We must not be cowards but be
courageous and always practitioners of integrity. They will attempt to use high profile
arrests and indictments of Blacks to cause fear, discontent and pandemonium
among Blacks. Do not succumb to these
tactics. They have done far worse to
instill fear not only into those who observed their viciousness but even the
unborn. This era belongs to you but
requires the courage to standup and claim it.
Recently, you may have heard about President Bush indicating that Iraq will be modeled after
the Korean model, militarily. He is
making the argument for the American military being stationed in Iraq indefinitely, as has
been the case with the American military stationed in South Korea. He was attempting to make a counter
argument to what most Americans have judged American military adventure in Iraq to be which is more
like Vietnam. War in Vietnam was a war of
attrition where more than one million Vietnamese people were killed and more
than 50,000 American troops were killed.
Attrition, meaning whoever can stand in the ring and slug it out the
longest and even take the most casualties but still achieve victory. It is being in the battle for the long
run. This is what President Bush means
when he uses the phrase, “stay the
course”. Staying the course in Iraq is a no win situation for the United States. The enemies of America are deploying a
similar plan used against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan which ultimately was
the action that rendered the last fatal blow to the Soviet Union. However, as America is failing and will
fail in Iraq, at the same time,
other contingencies are being carried out.
The African
continent is at the center of these American corporate/government contingencies.
The Vietnamese were able to withstand huge losses over a ten year
period but the United States was not, while having
huge internal race problems. The rate
of American deaths in Iraq will continue to
increase. Since America’s invasion,
approximately one million Iraqis have been killed. It is more accurate to equate Iraq to Vietnam than to Korea. American soldiers are being killed everyday
in Iraq but not Korea. American soldiers stationed in Korea could be said to lead
a very boring life when compared to the constant danger and carnage in Iraq. The American people are not going to accept
the perpetual loss of lives and will eventually become more sensitive to the
loss of Iraqi lives. The enemy America fights against is
more sophisticated than the American military and certainly the political
administration of President Bush. For
example, the taking of American soldiers as hostages is a well calculated
plan. For what purpose? The
purpose is to draw out more American soldiers from the more secure zones so
that they can more easily be targeted for attacks. You saw an example of this during the month
of May, 2007 where it became the second highest month of American military
deaths in Iraq. To repeat a plan that was working before
the month ended, British hostages were taken in southern Iraq. This brought additional American troops out
into the streets looking for the hostages, making them a bigger target. The month of June could very well set a new
record, if the taking of soldiers as hostages followed by massive search
missions continues.
African
Oil
Korea has no oil resources
that would encourage corporate America to act as it does
with Iraq. Oil is at the center of what is happening
in Nigeria with the hostage
taking and death of Nigerian soldiers several months ago. This is a result of America and Western Europe’s urgent and renewed
interest with the African continent.
That interest is corporate maximization of profit at the expense of
the common people of Nigeria. This is especially true among the Igbo of
Nigeria. Even so, there are some
ideologies that this tribal group must bring into balance with the Collective Black Plan. They must not allow the authentic Hebrew
heritage or their connections to foreign powers to divide and partition Nigeria.
The BBC constantly reports that Nigeria is the 5th
largest exporter of oil to the United States. Their reports are not accurate. Without doubt, Nigeria was exporting more
oil directly to the United States than any other
country. Basically, this has not
changed and will increase in the future.
However, for many years there has been a gross economic injustice
occurring in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria where most of the oil
is found. The Nigerian people who live
on the land from which the oil is extracted have received little benefit from
it. American, European and Asian oil
companies have benefited enormously from weak and relaxed rules for
extracting the oil along with some of the egoistic Nigerian elite. One example is the allowing of the flaring
(burning) of the natural gas that sits atop the crude oil. This has poisoned the air and waters
affecting fish, plants and other organisms the people have depended on for
thousand of years. A Nigerian court ordered
Shell Oil to pay more than $1 billion in restitution for the damage it has
caused. Almost two years later, Shell
Oil has paid nothing. The educated
elite of Nigeria must take some of the notes from the Venezuelan
play book. The Nigerian people must
come first, second, and third. I hope
the new Nigerian president, Umaru Yar' Adua, brings solutions and prevent the
abuse that is taking place.
African
American Political and Corporate Leaders
Andrew Young, Condi Rice, members of the Black Congressional Caucus,
and Black activists must be held accountable when they are quiet as the
biggest posturing for assuring American corporate takeover of much of Africa is being
planned. White corporate America achieves an
unwarranted approval when they use what many consider to be “Black icons” to
promote their Africa programs.
It must strongly be pointed out that Louisiana congressman, William
Jefferson, was not openly supported by the Congressional Black Caucus when
the justice department of the Bush Administration invaded his Washington office and reported
finding $90,000 in a freezer. They
thought this would destroy him politically but instead, he was re-elected by
a landslide vote, thoroughly defeating a Black women who ran against
him. This money, supposedly, was a
part of deal related to business in West African nations of Ghana and Nigeria. Prior to that, the FBI had raided the house
of the Nigerian vice president at that time.
Today, June 4, 2007, the U.S. Justice
Department, through a grand jury, indicted Congressman Jefferson. Most members of the Black Congressional
Caucus cowardly remained quiet when all of this started happening more than a
year ago. This is one reason why the
Black people themselves in America must be motivated through
grassroots endeavors to establish their own economic plan directly connected
with Africa. American military bases on
the continent of Africa spells greater trouble in the
future. For this reason, we must
proactively and strongly reject such military bases.
Last week, the U.S. military, using its
ships fired on a group in Somalia. The extra-judicial killings continue. Senator Barack Obama spoke eloquently about
the rule of law. This is when people
are arrested and brought to a court of law to determine their innocence or
guilt. American leaders are not in a
position to be judge and executioner around the world. They are increasingly hated, especially
White Americans.
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