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MANDELA CALLS OUT THE U.S.
On this day in 1994, anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected president of South Africa. He is remembered as the man who helped lead the country out of the crimes and excesses of apartheid. Western mainstream media may portray him as a smiley grandfatherly figure who liked to dance and forgive his oppressors, but we remember him as an anti-imperialist until the end.
In this video, Mandela calls out the United States as a warmonger - a country that supports carnage, repeatedly breaks the rules and is more than willing to go to any lengths, even at the expense of fundamental human rights, to push its hegemonic agenda.
He lambasts the US for its invasion of Iraq and the war it initiated 22 years ago. This unnecessary military campaign resulted in the deaths of anywhere between one- and two-million men, women and children.
On this day in 1994, anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected president of South Africa. He is remembered as the man who helped lead the country out of the crimes and excesses of apartheid. Western mainstream media may portray him as a smiley grandfatherly figure who liked to dance and forgive his oppressors, but we remember him as an anti-imperialist until the end.
In this video, Mandela calls out the United States as a warmonger - a country that supports carnage, repeatedly breaks the rules and is more than willing to go to any lengths, even at the expense of fundamental human rights, to push its hegemonic agenda.
He lambasts the US for its invasion of Iraq and the war it initiated 22 years ago. This unnecessary military campaign resulted in the deaths of anywhere between one- and two-million men, women and children.
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Continued……. When former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was asked if US sanctions that claimed the lives of up to 500,000 Iraqi children were justified, she responded, 'We think the price is worth it.'
Mandela was instrumental in tearing down South Africa's oppressive apartheid regime, as well as speaking up for other oppressed peoples, such as the Palestinians. His commitment to the Palestinian cause remained unwavering till the end. This commitment was on full display when he uttered these words: 'But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.'
Video credit: Democracy Now
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https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-iraqi-kids-deaths-worth-it-resurfaces-1691193
Mandela was instrumental in tearing down South Africa's oppressive apartheid regime, as well as speaking up for other oppressed peoples, such as the Palestinians. His commitment to the Palestinian cause remained unwavering till the end. This commitment was on full display when he uttered these words: 'But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.'
Video credit: Democracy Now
Sources
https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-iraqi-kids-deaths-worth-it-resurfaces-1691193
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Watch: Madeleine Albright Saying Iran Children Deaths 'Worth It' Resurfaces
A clip from a 1996 interview shows an anguished Albright answer a question about the deaths of Iraqi children.
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European slavers had so little regard for African lives, they’d quite happily murder our enslaved ancestors if they thought it would be more profitable. One especially grim example is the massacre at sea in 1781 carried out by the British crew of the Zong - who thought they could scam an insurance company out of compensation for human ‘cargo’ they claimed they were forced to ‘jettison’ due to dwindling water supplies. Swipe through for an account of what happened.
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PROVEN RACIAL BIAS IN MEDICAL CARE
In this clip, psychiatrist Dr Kali Hobson (@DrkaliMD on TikTok and Instagram) demonstrated the startling difference in how medical practitioners address pain in white children versus Black children in the US.
Although Hobson presented a hypothetical scenario here, decades of data have demonstrated this racial disparity, particularly in the case of appendicitis, an inflammation and infection of the appendix organ that can cause excruciating pain.
In this clip, psychiatrist Dr Kali Hobson (@DrkaliMD on TikTok and Instagram) demonstrated the startling difference in how medical practitioners address pain in white children versus Black children in the US.
Although Hobson presented a hypothetical scenario here, decades of data have demonstrated this racial disparity, particularly in the case of appendicitis, an inflammation and infection of the appendix organ that can cause excruciating pain.
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A 2016 study found Black children with appendicitis are less likely to receive medication for moderate pain compared to their white peers. They are also significantly less likely to receive opioids for severe pain. These findings come even after adjusting for factors like pain severity, insurance status and triage level (how hospital workers observe the patient at intake).
Similarly, studies show that Black women in labour and postpartum are less likely to receive medication for pain relief.
Without empirical data, scientists for centuries have pushed forth pseudo-scientific (false) claims based on alleged biological differences between white and Black people. A leading claim is that Black people tolerate more pain due to thicker skin or less sensitive nerve endings. Despite absolutely no scientific evidence existing to back up these myths, the legacy of this r*cist perception continues to lead to disproportionately poor health outcomes for Black people in the West.
Video credit: @drkalimd (Instagram)
Sources
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4843483
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1526590024005182
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2793179#google_vignette
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4829078
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/black-hispanic-mothers-report-more-pain-after-delivery-but-get-less-pain-medica-idUSKBN1XM2R3
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/black-women-are-less-likely-to-receive-epidurals-during-labor-heres-why-194638403.html
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/black-and-hispanic-women-receive-lower-doses-of-postpartum-pain-medication-according-to-new-study
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6905121
https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/04/medical-students-beliefs-race-pain
A 2016 study found Black children with appendicitis are less likely to receive medication for moderate pain compared to their white peers. They are also significantly less likely to receive opioids for severe pain. These findings come even after adjusting for factors like pain severity, insurance status and triage level (how hospital workers observe the patient at intake).
Similarly, studies show that Black women in labour and postpartum are less likely to receive medication for pain relief.
Without empirical data, scientists for centuries have pushed forth pseudo-scientific (false) claims based on alleged biological differences between white and Black people. A leading claim is that Black people tolerate more pain due to thicker skin or less sensitive nerve endings. Despite absolutely no scientific evidence existing to back up these myths, the legacy of this r*cist perception continues to lead to disproportionately poor health outcomes for Black people in the West.
Video credit: @drkalimd (Instagram)
Sources
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4843483
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1526590024005182
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2793179#google_vignette
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4829078
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/black-hispanic-mothers-report-more-pain-after-delivery-but-get-less-pain-medica-idUSKBN1XM2R3
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/black-women-are-less-likely-to-receive-epidurals-during-labor-heres-why-194638403.html
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/black-and-hispanic-women-receive-lower-doses-of-postpartum-pain-medication-according-to-new-study
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6905121
https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/04/medical-students-beliefs-race-pain
PubMed Central (PMC)
Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and…
The present work examines beliefs associated with racial bias in pain management, a critical health care domain with well-documented racial disparities. Specifically, this work reveals that a substantial number of white laypeople and medical ...
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On this day, 31 years ago, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's first Black president. Two weeks earlier, more than 22-million South Africans had gone to the polls in the country's first truly democratic elections. Mandela's party, the African National Congress (ANC), which for decades had been the country's leading liberation movement, won convincingly. It ended more than three centuries of racist rule by White settler colonialists.
Just a few years earlier, the ANC had still been outlawed, having been declared a terrorist organisation. Most of its senior leaders, including Mandela, were in jail. In 1990, internal and external pressure saw the regime lift its ban on the ANC and free its top brass. This ushered in a new era. Between 1990 and 1994, the ANC and the apartheid regime entered into intense negotiations regarding the future of the country, which resulted in elections on 27 April 1994.
Just a few years earlier, the ANC had still been outlawed, having been declared a terrorist organisation. Most of its senior leaders, including Mandela, were in jail. In 1990, internal and external pressure saw the regime lift its ban on the ANC and free its top brass. This ushered in a new era. Between 1990 and 1994, the ANC and the apartheid regime entered into intense negotiations regarding the future of the country, which resulted in elections on 27 April 1994.
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Some South Africans fault the agreements struck during these negotiations as the cause of the country’s current social and economic woes. White people continue to hold the lion's share of the nation’s wealth, despite making up less than 10% of the population.
Attempts at righting this inequality, such as the recent Land Appropriation Law, met with resistance, largely from the White minority. Right-wing groups such as Afriforum were up in arms - even asking Donald Trump to sanction ANC leaders. Imagine that - those who benefited from stolen land crying victim when the victims seek justice.
The failure to completely break down the apartheid-era economic system has been the biggest stain on the legacy of the ANC and Mandela. However, what is not in dispute is that the end of apartheid and the ANC’s ascension to power is a milestone worthy of honour. Not as the final destination, but as a turning point: 10 May 1994 was the first step in a new direction. The path ahead for Black South Africa remains steep, but the people have come too far to turn back. The struggle continues.
Sources
https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/analysis/land-seizure-and-south-africas-new-expropriation-law-expert-weighs-up-the-act-20250203
https://time.com/6087699/south-africa-wealth-gap-unchanged-since-apartheid/
Some South Africans fault the agreements struck during these negotiations as the cause of the country’s current social and economic woes. White people continue to hold the lion's share of the nation’s wealth, despite making up less than 10% of the population.
Attempts at righting this inequality, such as the recent Land Appropriation Law, met with resistance, largely from the White minority. Right-wing groups such as Afriforum were up in arms - even asking Donald Trump to sanction ANC leaders. Imagine that - those who benefited from stolen land crying victim when the victims seek justice.
The failure to completely break down the apartheid-era economic system has been the biggest stain on the legacy of the ANC and Mandela. However, what is not in dispute is that the end of apartheid and the ANC’s ascension to power is a milestone worthy of honour. Not as the final destination, but as a turning point: 10 May 1994 was the first step in a new direction. The path ahead for Black South Africa remains steep, but the people have come too far to turn back. The struggle continues.
Sources
https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/analysis/land-seizure-and-south-africas-new-expropriation-law-expert-weighs-up-the-act-20250203
https://time.com/6087699/south-africa-wealth-gap-unchanged-since-apartheid/
News24
Land seizure and South Africa’s new expropriation law: An expert weighs up the act | News24
Zsa-Zsa Temmers Boggenpoel, a law professor at Stellenbosch University writes that the recently passed expropriation act is aligned with the Constitution and should be welcomed as an instrument to enable land reform to work effectively.
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SAHEL’S THREE MIGHTY SONS
Burkina Faso’s revolutionary-in-chief Ibrahim Traoré may be the man of the moment after Africans globally rallied to defend him against suspected US plots to remove his anti-imperialist government from power. But he isn’t leading the inspiring transformation that’s happening in West Africa by himself. Just as important are his Alliance of Sahel States allies: Mali’s Assimi Goïta and Niger’s Abdourahamane Tchiani. All three want to break free from neocolonialism and ensure Africa’s resources benefit its people. The trio seeks a liberated Africa and is united against foreign interference and exploitation. In this video, Africa Stream’s @Sannario_ shines a light on the lesser-known two of Africa’s heroic troika.
Burkina Faso’s revolutionary-in-chief Ibrahim Traoré may be the man of the moment after Africans globally rallied to defend him against suspected US plots to remove his anti-imperialist government from power. But he isn’t leading the inspiring transformation that’s happening in West Africa by himself. Just as important are his Alliance of Sahel States allies: Mali’s Assimi Goïta and Niger’s Abdourahamane Tchiani. All three want to break free from neocolonialism and ensure Africa’s resources benefit its people. The trio seeks a liberated Africa and is united against foreign interference and exploitation. In this video, Africa Stream’s @Sannario_ shines a light on the lesser-known two of Africa’s heroic troika.
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WHY WE MUST EDUCATE OUR OWN
This clip is over 50 years old, but it still hits hard. Clinical psychologist Naim Akbar reminds us that Africans have rarely benefitted from our education being given to others.
Under colonialism, we were taught that Western culture was the gold standard by which all others must be measured, and this created an internalised self-hatred. Our own stories were erased.
Beyond self-loathing, the colonisers only wanted us to know enough to do the menial jobs that served them—never to actually use our minds to explore our own advancement and liberation.
This clip is over 50 years old, but it still hits hard. Clinical psychologist Naim Akbar reminds us that Africans have rarely benefitted from our education being given to others.
Under colonialism, we were taught that Western culture was the gold standard by which all others must be measured, and this created an internalised self-hatred. Our own stories were erased.
Beyond self-loathing, the colonisers only wanted us to know enough to do the menial jobs that served them—never to actually use our minds to explore our own advancement and liberation.
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Continued…….. European ‘scholars’ such as Gaston Maspero and Jean Vercoutter pushed the idea that Africans were uncivilised savages who didn’t invent or build anything. They argued that the marvels of ancient Egypt must have been created by non-African people. This false narrative held sway until it was debunked by pan-African historians like Cheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986). He showed that this advanced civilisation, which contributed so much to early science, philosophy and culture, was, in fact, of Black-African origin.
US-born Black historian Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) wrote that the schools of his day were committed to teaching our people ‘to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton,’ with Black people dismissed as ‘nonentities.’
Structural racism means things are still bad for Africans in Western classrooms. In 2022, Virginia’s Department of Education caused anger after its new history curriculum downplayed the impact of slavery and omitted the role of Black resistance, such as the Civil Rights Movement. Since Trump came to power, he escalated the assault on books centring on the experiences of Blacks in America, claiming it taught students to “hate their own country”.
Video Credit: TransAtlantic Productions (YouTube)
Sources
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000156750
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1545428-the-educated-negroes-have-the-attitude-of-contempt-toward-their
https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2022/11/18/youngkin-history-virginia-standards
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220272.2024.2322502
https://blackwestchester.com/carter-g-woodsons-warning-and-the-urgency-for-black-educational-independence/#:~:text=Woodson%20warned%20that%20the%20American,became%20unwitting%20enforcers%20of%20white
US-born Black historian Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) wrote that the schools of his day were committed to teaching our people ‘to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton,’ with Black people dismissed as ‘nonentities.’
Structural racism means things are still bad for Africans in Western classrooms. In 2022, Virginia’s Department of Education caused anger after its new history curriculum downplayed the impact of slavery and omitted the role of Black resistance, such as the Civil Rights Movement. Since Trump came to power, he escalated the assault on books centring on the experiences of Blacks in America, claiming it taught students to “hate their own country”.
Video Credit: TransAtlantic Productions (YouTube)
Sources
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000156750
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1545428-the-educated-negroes-have-the-attitude-of-contempt-toward-their
https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2022/11/18/youngkin-history-virginia-standards
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220272.2024.2322502
https://blackwestchester.com/carter-g-woodsons-warning-and-the-urgency-for-black-educational-independence/#:~:text=Woodson%20warned%20that%20the%20American,became%20unwitting%20enforcers%20of%20white
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A quote from The Mis-Education of the Negro
THE educated Negroes have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to...
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FRANCE’S HANDPICKED PRESIDENT FOR LIFE?
A cunning constitutional ‘reform’ last year could see Togo’s ‘ex’ president carry on ruling - for life! Faure Gnassingbé has been sworn into the newly created role of chairman of the Council of Ministers, a post to which key executive powers have been transferred from the presidency, which is now just symbolic. Not only does the new position come with no term limits, Gnassingbé is a darling of France (as, of course, was his long-serving president predecessor and father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma). So who wins - the Togolese or the French?
A cunning constitutional ‘reform’ last year could see Togo’s ‘ex’ president carry on ruling - for life! Faure Gnassingbé has been sworn into the newly created role of chairman of the Council of Ministers, a post to which key executive powers have been transferred from the presidency, which is now just symbolic. Not only does the new position come with no term limits, Gnassingbé is a darling of France (as, of course, was his long-serving president predecessor and father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma). So who wins - the Togolese or the French?
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Togo : Faure Gnassingbé prête serment comme président du Conseil des ministres
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