Continued……

Sources

https://adst.org/2016/09/kleptocracy-and-anti-communism-when-mobutu-ruled-zaire

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-10-2025-0105_EN.html

https://www.britannica.com/place/Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo/Mobutus-regime

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/congo-decolonization

https://www.hrw.org/legacy/worldreport/Africa-04.htm

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/2/blood-minerals-what-are-the-hidden-costs-of-the-eu-rwanda-supply-deal

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/30/dr-congo-conflict-why-is-the-eu-under-pressure-to-reconsider-its-minerals-partnership-with

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BLACK OR WHITE? THE UGLY DOLL EXPERIMENT

In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth Bancroft Clark (1914-2005) and his wife, Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-83), designed the ‘Doll Study’ to measure the psychological effects of US segregation on Black children. The focus groups featured Black children ages 3 to 7, whom the psychologists asked to pick between Black and white dolls, which were pretty or nice, and which looked most like them.

The study found most Black children overwhelmingly attributed positive traits to white dolls and negative ones to Black dolls, confirming for the psychologists that policies, such as segregation, shaped how Black children viewed themselves. The study’s results informed the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed segregation in public schools because it was unconstitutional.

However, racial policies continue to disproportionately affect Black people in the US through every stage of our lives.

Continued….. For example, in January, the Trump administration issued an executive order terminating DEI and ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility’ (DEIA) mandates, calling them ‘illegal.’ Thus, the US resists correcting the ills of slavery and levelling the playing field between the privileged populations and its internal colonies, with Black people being among them.

Video credit: @MSNBC (X)

Sources

https://kennethclark.commons.gc.cuny.edu/the-doll-study/

https://www.naacpldf.org/brown-vs-board/significance-doll-test

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFaPb9ZReTE

STATEMENTS YOU THINK AREN’T RACIST, BUT ARE!

Racism isn’t just offensive - its a weapon that has been used to colonize, exploit and suppress Black people for centuries.

@BlackFactsMatter, a TikTok creator, highlighted 10 ignorant comments white people tend to make that are rooted in racism and directed at Black people. At first glance, they may seem like minor microaggressions - annoying, but harmless. But when we zoom out, these statements are part of a broader structure that normalizes white supremacy, making it easier to justify the violent policies that keep Black nations impoverished and under Western control.

Race science, once used to justify Africa’s conquest, now thrives in Western media and economic policies. Calling out racist statements won’t end white supremacy, but it exposes how it operates daily, challenging white people to see how even subtle actions uphold a system of oppression that spans from casual bias to geopolitical violence.

Continued……. So, rather than encouraging Black people to seek acceptance within an imperialist white-supremacist system, we pick up on a different lesson: Alerting the white community on how racism continues to fuel the a centuries-old machinery of oppression.

Listen in, and feel free to comment.

Video credit: @BlackFactsMatter (TikTok)

Sources

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Eugenics-and-Scientific-Racism

https://x.com/african_stream/status/1894110139709624518

https://www.blackagendareport.com/obama_brought_slavery_to_libya

African leaders who sell out their neighbours for temporary Western alliances should keep in mind that once their new ‘friends’ turn against them, there is no going back. Take Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, who bet everything on his Western backers, using proxy militias such as M23 to destabilise the DRC and loot its minerals. But now the tide is turning. The US imposed sanctions on a Rwandan government minister while the UK and Germany suspended new financial commitments as well as ceased attending events hosted by the Rwandan government. Kigali is no longer untouchable. Perhaps Kagame should have focused on fostering ties with his Congolese neighbours rather than attacking and robbing them to please his fake friends. Now he’s learning the hard way - Western interests are never about friendship, only exploitation.