I should also say that I think actual Africans are far less sensitive to this theoretical injustice than our American academics who claim to speak on their behalf.
Actual Africans have prosaic concerns like food, houses, cars, jobs, and roads, which American academics do not concern themselves with providing. Nor do they call for the prov…
I should also say that I think actual Africans are far less sensitive to this theoretical injustice than our American academics who claim to speak on their behalf.
Actual Africans have prosaic concerns like food, houses, cars, jobs, and roads, which American academics do not concern themselves with providing. Nor do they call for the provision thereof - in fact they would condemn such gifts as yet another attempt to set up the patron-client relationship that you describe.
We fiercely wrangle with our precious consciences - we ask ourselves, in desperation, is it crueler to help up a man we've knocked over & thus rub our victory in his face, or is it crueler to leave him in the dust to his own devices? O our tortured hearts!
In the meanwhile, serene Zhongguo lends a hand and a seed and a plow, and a car and a truck or two or three, and a brick or a thousand or a billion... and we have the gall, the absolute gall, to decry the Han for selfish action, for base commercial interest, as if these petty sins were at all comparable to our incessant arguing back and forth amongst ourselves while our victim lies still hungry & barefoot in the dust! How dare they help our victim! How dare they rob us of the chance to clear our conscience! Wait until we get our precious rectitude in order, please!
Forget the past - that it is Guangdong Foday, and not Ford or Chevrolet, which provides assembly kits at discount to Kantanka Auto is injustice enough. And that our so-called progressives would strenuously, viciously, venomously oppose such mutually beneficial interaction - on the basis of *purported love* of all things - is evidence enough of the white man's inherent & incurable evil - it seems that even our anti-racists still seek to keep the African in subjection, and merely for the salve of their own precious conscience! At least spices were tasty.
I should also say that I think actual Africans are far less sensitive to this theoretical injustice than our American academics who claim to speak on their behalf.
Actual Africans have prosaic concerns like food, houses, cars, jobs, and roads, which American academics do not concern themselves with providing. Nor do they call for the provision thereof - in fact they would condemn such gifts as yet another attempt to set up the patron-client relationship that you describe.
We fiercely wrangle with our precious consciences - we ask ourselves, in desperation, is it crueler to help up a man we've knocked over & thus rub our victory in his face, or is it crueler to leave him in the dust to his own devices? O our tortured hearts!
In the meanwhile, serene Zhongguo lends a hand and a seed and a plow, and a car and a truck or two or three, and a brick or a thousand or a billion... and we have the gall, the absolute gall, to decry the Han for selfish action, for base commercial interest, as if these petty sins were at all comparable to our incessant arguing back and forth amongst ourselves while our victim lies still hungry & barefoot in the dust! How dare they help our victim! How dare they rob us of the chance to clear our conscience! Wait until we get our precious rectitude in order, please!
Forget the past - that it is Guangdong Foday, and not Ford or Chevrolet, which provides assembly kits at discount to Kantanka Auto is injustice enough. And that our so-called progressives would strenuously, viciously, venomously oppose such mutually beneficial interaction - on the basis of *purported love* of all things - is evidence enough of the white man's inherent & incurable evil - it seems that even our anti-racists still seek to keep the African in subjection, and merely for the salve of their own precious conscience! At least spices were tasty.