Not only is this take racist, it is voluntarily reactionary in reinforcing the European narrative of « African on African crime » that has been used as a neo-colonial rhetoric to completely erase how European imperialism still shapes the ways in which African politics
https://twitter.com/freyntje/status/1297988735603216384
are organized around maintaining a state of chaos + violence in order for european multinationals to continue pillaging it’s ressources.
One thing that is certain is how the European bourgeois intelligencia has continuously worked towards preserving their intellectual history of anti-Blackness in the form of scientific racism
that has shaped the ways in which they encourage epistemic violence through spreading harmful misinformation and passing it as objective knowledge.
The power that comes from having intellectual legitimacy + hegemony in fields that have historically excluded Black intellectuals is what produces a community of scholars who maintain a sense of moral superiority by framing themselves as the vanguards of African histories
The issue isn’t just that they are wrong, it the fact that they have the power to be wrong all while socializing other Europeans into the same belief systems that normalizes anti-Black politics. These pseudo-intellectuals are who nurture the cultural narratives
that keep the general european public from constructively and critically reckoning with neo-coloniality as a form of enforced dependencency of the West to the African continent mostly the west-east band.
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