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The beloved Gusewelle's racist take on African politics  
By Mike Cuenca | August 3, 2003
"Outraged" isn't a strong enough word to describe my reaction to reading C.W. Gusewelle's August 3 Kansas City Star column. Besides the sheer inhumanity of his intended deliverance of the innocent victims in Liberia, Congo, Nigeria, Sudan and other African nations to their respective slaughters, his column reeks of disingenuousness, ignorance of African politics, and, yes, the "R-word".

The nations in which Africans are being slaughtered are nations that have natural resources, such as oil, diamonds, and gold, desired by the developed world. This continent has been pillaged and plundered by the European imperialist powers for many hundreds of years. Once the Europeans allowed them to be "independent" again, they installed puppet regimes that would continue to allow the exploitation of Africans and African resources.

The "civil wars" now wracking that continent are supported by arms sales and "military aid" from the U.S. and other world powers and their "leaders" are simply those men who the U.S. and other usurpers allow to take power. Every time Mr. Gusewelle and the staff of the Star fill up their SUVs to go buy diamond and gold jewelry, or even chocolate, they contribute directly to the suffering of those human beings in Africa.

Instead of turning a jaundiced eye, we should be in all of those nations of Africa, distributing food and medicine and, if necessary, fighting to protect innocent lives. The United States is as responsible for the ongoing plight of Africans as is any other nation on Earth.

Shame, shame, shame on you, Mr. Gusewelle, for trying to hide your racism and callous disregard toward Africans and your very un-Christian lack of compassion behind the words "reason" and "responsibility". And you disgrace a journalist's duty to serve democracy by rationalizing our profit-motivated illegal invasion of Iraq so that you won't have to face the hard reality of our nation's greed, racism and heartlessness.

Oh, and Myanmar is in south Asia, not Africa.
 


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