yesterday, I made lunch for my friend and I & took it downtown for his lunch break. He's an interesting character - and probably more of an acquaintance than a friend. Anyway. The lunch was more for me. I wanted to extend a gesture to him that I don't entirely hate him. We are worlds apart. From the same country, but he is a super religious nutcase with all these conventional idea. A few weeks ago we had a huge argument about Christianity and the existence of god and that book they call the bible. Anyway. I was very respectful, but sometimes among people from my country there is an unspoken assumption that everyone is a Christian and those who are not are stupid.
Anyway. Lunch yesterday was interesting. He was fascinated by the whole wheat bread and he'd never eaten raisins and walnuts so I had to explain to him what those were. He didn't like the vegetables on sprouted bread - I assume it was way too healthy a taste. Also traditionally, my people eat wellcooked veggies rather than delicious raw ones...
It was interesting to talk about some issues regarding life back home. I don't know too much about my own country's history and the little bits I know, I pick up from people as I go along. My school only taught me about Hitler & Mussolini while neglecting to teach me about Nehanda. I am a true child of the FUCKING british. Anyway, my friend made the point that he agrees with the whole idea that the white farm.ers were kicked out of the country. He started to tell me about how before that happened, the white people who were 3% of the country owned 95% of the resources and most of them just sat prettily, didn't work at all and yet they were millionaires, while our black parents struggled to make a living.
Now. We own our own country...but...there is so much corruption and disorganization that a goodo 3% of wealthy black people still control things and we are only surviving because of those of us that are slaving away in western lands.
Fine.
Both of those scenarios suck. I don't think it's ok that even now, sanctions are imposed upon us until we agree to share our resources with the British. That is effed up. Majorly. I also look back and see how hard my parents worked and how little of it shows, yet many of the British friends' just sat pretty. I dunno. Maybe I was too young to notice or care. I don't think it's about race though. People can't just take advantage of us Africans like that and get away with it.
The world justice system is DUMB. It doesn't protect the poor African people from the corrupt shit.
This all make sense to me.
Anyway. Fk the past. I just want my child to grow up sheltered in a lovely village in Quebec.
Phew.
I'm doing well. Off to drink some water.
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Amen to that narrow minded believe about the fact that we all aught to be Christian, to be fair I don’t blame him, if your education system was anything like ours, that is how we all turn out.
Wow… you were letting it all out there sis, oh I could write a book on this…unfortunately places like Rwanda r still feeling the physical pain of colonialism even today, not even talking about the effect of socio-economic rape imposed by the west. Last year I finished reading Martin Meredith’s State of Africa – an overview of post colonial Africa, interested to read if you have time, but read it objectively, it is written by a British dude who spent a bit of time in some parts of Africa…and nah. But anyway what I gathered from the book is that the French colonies were more fuqed up than the English ones. Hence Rwanda, Algeria, DRC…most of the former French ones wet through some form of war or genocide… so I guess that is meant to make the former Brit colonies feel better… yeah right
Thanks for the comment sis. That's really interesting. I never gave much thought to the French colony situation. That would be interesting to learn more about...
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