Oladele Dosunmu’s Post

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But for me, we cannot go. We cannot engage. Are issues. We cannot engage our issues. That way. You know, I feel like issues see them from a deeper perspective, perspective. You know, as I was saying before we started the interview, investment as the term itself means to put little in and get as much as possible out. I didn't like the the narrative is. Please wait for me. We have African people cannot be looking to exploit one another. You know. I believe that it should be a a. Our considerations should be more about our development, yes, not necessarily engaging in the opportunity that imperialism has given us to exploit one another, regardless of our regardless of our economic position. We must redirect those, uh. Those tools, let me put it that way. We must redirect those tools towards things that are more meaningful to us than accumulating more Fiat, more profit, you know? And I also believe it's a feeling of the African elites globally. You know who have reduced those to consuming? People. You know, to make African people feel all over the world that. The more European things you can afford. The more valuable you are, you know, like you don't have this. If you don't have certain European things as an African, you know, if you don't have certain European status symbols as an African, you don't be heard. Should not be respected. And even to such an extent it is preached that you did not deserve to be loved. You understand. So this feelings are not the larger perspective translates to our. Inability to develop ourselves because we love ourselves, Because for us to do those things that are not profitable, we have to do them because we love Africa, we love African people. And the relationship between African people and. African people in diaspora and African people at home is. Still buried in this Western concepts us trying to outcompete one another. You know, when I talk to my Nigerian brothers that relocate to America thinking, you know, we are better than the Americans and they are achieving so much in America, the first Nigerian to do this, the first Nigerian to do that, the first Nigerian to do this, I'm like, but do you notice here the first Nigerian, not the first black person? You notice that? Umm, are you going before you start thinking you have arrived or you've done something great for yourself? Can you go on eBay, investigate who the first black person to do this thing that you've done is, and where this person descendants are today? So we cannot be there. The pressure valve, release valve for the for the pressure that our cousins are given in their land and now they're not. Our cousins are wise and cannot be. Deceived easily that they want what is fairly theirs, they want to use us. You know, he knew blacks. We're talking, you're talking about their divisive tactics, right? The tactics that they use are called one black person over the other, therefore creating quite infighting. Ohh you Casillo. Internet videos digging up Africa. Nigerians are the most educated black people in America. That the most visible in America, you know. We must understand, you know, we must see through this, this tactics you know that have been played over and over, you know with our Caribbean brothers have gone through and we are Africans, must even accept we decide to be willfully ignorant of history. That whatever we achieve in America is on the blood of our American cousins. It's on the blood. A life I'm booms. Although America, I mean you go, you're you're a black person in America. You can go to his school, you can get a job. You can. I mean, these people will not even let you into the country 50 years ago. You, you are every building you enter. You have to go through the back door. People make people stop that. That door was opened by saying people, so you don't climb that ladder and then kick it over and start shouting down to everybody that you know, Hey, I'm better than you. Look at me up on the come on. You know, and I would people, we need this ladders anymore. We should. Be looking like we should be actively touching those walls. Actively looking for the weakness in those walls to bring that wall down. Because I use also when I talk to my comrades at the MP as an example of our country, where everybody in Nigeria just feels they have to go out and make it. You know, when they make it, then you come to Nigeria and you pick one person out to America, you pick one person to England. You know, like we're in prison and escaping one person said everybody in the prison to just break down the walls of this prison so it doesn't exist anymore. So you're not trying to bring down bring one person and all the millions, 200 million of us can be free? So. It is also the feeling that was saying about elites anyway, because. The investment in building those relationships, like if you look at Chinese neighborhoods in America. These Chinese money. If you look at Korean neighborhoods, it's Korean money from Korea, from the hometown, from the back of the home. I am glad. Good people, bad people, everybody's bringing the money and they're making the dollars and they're taking it home. Where is that kind of investment from the African government? In black communities anywhere in the world? Instead you wanna buy house in the expensive white community, do business with the white people there, and say, oh just African Americans are gangsters and thugs. And you know, because they also are white people. What are what many African Americans don't understand is many of these people are oppressors in Africa. You don't represent. The position of the majority of African people. You know, how can all of us love hip hop so much and go to America and they start looking down on African American? And then the Jay-Z of America too. They are letting the. African Americans down by not giving them real education level Africa is or building real relationship. You know if you listen to Jay-Z song Gone, you know these guys are all anti black. You know that's why I don't **** with. Pardon my French, no. Big Song Girls, Girls. The only two girls he talks down to are the black American girl and the African girl. Thank you. You know so. I mean, Africa is the woman in our lives is the. Africa is feminine. It's how we. And if you look at this. Artist, I can call it that. So certain extent. The image they have of Africa is how they talk about the women. Of black women, you know, holes drilled by a badge, You follow you. She just wants the man with the most money, you know. And that's how Africa is now sold to the highest bidder, You know, everybody just ****** the continent. So there's a spiritual connection in the way we, these people, relate with our mothers and the relationship that they also have with the continent. So this creates the team misconception between the two groups because what we have as image of one another. Is the image that our compromised elites project. And the voices that try to put out a real image that connects the boy in motion in Lagos. Living in abject poverty. To the boy in uh, Mississippi. The African child in Kansas. You know that is living also in abject poverty, that is also as oppressed without housing, without good transportation, without any social or political protection. Yeah. You know, and then we forget this multitude, which are the majority of black people, I might add, majority of black people fall into this. Then we project ourselves this minority of a minority. As the reality of everybody. And that's how the elite of Africa let us down. And the elites, Africa, African American elites. You know, the Obamas and the rest of them, you know. Mm-hmm.