the darker people

gabriel avocado
Jul 23, 2017 · 4 min read

emmanuel macron recently made remarks about how he believes africa (the continent) should use family planning methods to stop producing so many children. as if the great danger to the planet is poor black and brown people having large families whose children largely dont reach the age of five anyway. as if european survival is dependent on keeping africas families small, minute, dainty — a man, his wife, 2.5 children, white picket fenced home with a fresh green lawn in the desert and a dog waiting him when he returns from his 9 to 5 job at the office. this is the image macron and other so-called liberal centrists want their followers to have in mind when they discuss african family planning, as if the west doesnt do its damndest to deny africans every opportunity to a good life, by western standards or otherwise.

africa is a mostly rural continent, largely uninhabited by anyone except wilderness. most make their living through agriculture or hunting and gathering. american and european farming families have many children, yet there are no pundits standing upon majestic soap boxes declaring these families should reproduce less. in fact in america, the children of farming families are largely exempt from child labor laws. it is acceptable to use your plentiful children for labor if you are white and some form of christian — the government will even subsidize your lifestyle.

the recent muslim ban has ‘loosened’ (it is, in fact, extremely similar to US immigration policy for quite some time) and liberals have breathed a sigh of relief. the courts have decided that people from the seven targeted countries now need to have ‘direct relationships’ with someone in the united states in order to obtain so much as a tourist visa. this, to the liberal, is entirely reasonable; the liberal cannot imagine a family unit that includes aunts, uncles, cousins of various degrees, grandparents, and relatives of dubious blood relation, all living within the same roof.

a matter of archival integrity also comes into play: many of these countries are war torn, or are largely rural and so people dont go to hospitals for childbirth, so people dont readily have birth certificates and other forms of documentation on hand, especially the older population.

and yet this is the situation in most of the world. american exceptionalism comes into play — if we can do it then surely these somali peasants must have all records on hand, no? but the liberal is also never far from a joke about the somali government or supposed lack thereof (somalia, in fact, has a parliament and is planning direct elections as early as 2020). its an impossible standard to live up.

so the options are to fight endless years of bureaucracy and most likely be rejected for a visa, or stay in your country and fight to make it better. the problem is that the west doesnt want the latter to happen either. africa, the continent, the entire continent, is not ‘poor’ by accident — a process known as colonialism is still very much underway, sapping the land of its resources and the people of its labor and culture.

the wars are western funded, the exploitation is western funded, the environmental devestation and pollution are western funded — there is nowhere to run. perhaps your country was once colonized more directly by france. today your country pays taxes to france because you had the audacity to tell them to fuck off. its the price of your half assed ‘freedom’.

and someone, somewhere, a man named emmanuel macron from his comfortable home in france declares that people like you are a burden on europe. your country labors to provide extraordinaril ycheap resources to france and even pays taxes as colonial restitution, but even now they seek to control the body of african women and erase african children from the planet, because they pose a threat to white european children, somehow.

and another man, donald trump, declares that these same african children are terrorists in training, because you all hate the freedoms of the west that you are paradoxically not allowed to have in you own countries because the west continues to bomb and exploit and mine and destroy africa, for years. anything to control the people of african and her land.

the people of africa hate western freedoms but you cant have it because western freedoms are for whites only and you will be heavily punished if you so much as think of building even the most toothless social democracy within the african continent.

you cannot have your husband and wife and two point five children with a picket fenced home and green lawn and dog. your destiny, as an african, is to labor in a nestlé-owned plantation for next to nothing, or maybe if youre lucky you can work eighteen hours a day in a factory for slightly above nothing. and if you drew the fucking short straw, you can enjoy a life of perpetual civil war stirred by strife dating all the way back to colonial era hierarchies, exploding into violent conflicts that can last decades.

you are not allowed any better, because you hate the west’s freedoms and cant and wont assimilate.

you are the darker people, born in the womb of humanity itself, and when western men look upon you they see nothing but opportunities for profit, not the beauty of your humanity and your love for life. by accident of birth, you are beautiful, and you will rise over the west.

gabriel avocado

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