Abandoning Africa

APPROXIMATELY FOUR PERECENT of Africans have been vaccinated against Covid 19. Fortunately for the rest of the world this is far below the global average of forty percent. This bleak statistic would seem to indicate that the conservative claim that systemic racism is noneexistant is a laughable lie. Systemic racism is not ony very real, it is international in scope. Racism was an invention of the fifteenth century, a modern rather an ancient phenomenon, used by European nations to justify the enslavement of Africans and other dark skinned people, and the plundering of their resources, the theft of their land. No continent on Earth has been as brutally or thoroughly conquered, enslaved, exploited, and plundered as Africa. The obvious reason is the skin pigment of most of its people, and the technologically primitve nature of its cultures, which, like native American culture, is a luxury afforded people who live harmoniously within the natural constraints and conditions of their environment. Technology's primary purpose is to alleviate harsh living conditions. Every major European country invaded, conquered, and plundered parts of Africa, stole its abundant natural resources, and imposed an exploitative imperial colonial rule that guaranteed that the continent would languish in poverty until as least well into the twenty first century, and, apparently, well beyond. Now, the developed world ignores Africa's vaccination needs. In the twenty first century, is is not surprising that during the worst pandemic in more than one hundred years, the world has, thus far, forgotten Africa. As always, the light skinned people mmistreat the dark skinned people of the Earth. Consider Haiti, the blackest and poorest nation in the western hemisphere. The poverty is not coincidental, but is by deliberate, malicious design. Twice in the past one hunded years the United States has invaded and occupied the half island, for having the audacity to install governments and political and economic systems unfavorable to U.S. interests. That too is a commnon theme; the United States intervenes and makes regime changes in weaker resource rich countries which fail to do the American's corporate bidding. On both occassions the American occupiers left Haiti with everything of value that wasn't nailed down. White people have historically hated black people for having the temerity of resisting mistreatment. Blak people alwasy resent and often resist mistreatment by whites, regardless of the skin color of their tormentors. Racism is a one way street, always has been, and still is.