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by Lenrod Nzulu Baraka
Caucasians have a long history of using Black faces as a cover for their nefarious misdeeds. Africans were used as proxies to capture fellow Africans to feed the beast we refer to as the Atlantic slave trade.
When Americans and Europeans wanted to make the world safe for hypocrisy, Blacks were conscripted from the Diaspora and the continent of Africa to fight against other would-be contenders for primacy at the trough of domination and exploitation.
Ghanaian historians may still remember the role played by the West India Regiment in the Ashanti Wars. They may remember but choose to forget as the Caribbean seeks to establish closer ties to the African continent and as Ghana opens its doors to returning almost prodigal sons and daughters through its Year of Return program.
People of African ancestry rejoiced as the American nation did the unthinkable and selected its first official biracial president.
(There are rumours of other presidents having noticeable traces of melanin but those were the good old days when Caucasians had their hands and other bodily appendages in everything) Black Americans was so ecstatic that they forgot to remind President Obama about reparations, the forty acres, and the mules.
President Obama finding himself in a similar position to President Kennedy, the first Catholic president of America, bent over backwards to prove he was the American president rather than the president of Black America.
Needless to say Black Americans did not get their reparations, their forty acres and their mules. African Americans did however get bragging rights about President Obama being the coolest president in American history.
In his last interview in office, President Obama candidly stated that they were forces in Washington that were way more powerful than the office of the president.
President Obama may have had a heart to do right by people of African ancestry but ultimately, like all Black faces in the system of Caucasian domination, he had no choice but to follow the script he was given.
Perhaps one of the lowest points in the Obama administration was the assassination of President Gaddafi and the subsequent decivilisation of Libya. President Gaddafi was the quintessential friend of Sub-Saharan Africa and visionary Pan-Africanist, who like Kwame Nkrumah, wanted to create a United States of Africa.
President Obama also gained for himself the title Assassinator in Chief courtesy of the 540 known drone strikes carried out under his watch.
President Obama took targeted or extrajudicial killings to the next level as required from him by the American counterterrorism program. Like all high profile African American political functionaries, President Obama was just another Black face orchestrating the Caucasian agenda
of global domination.
As the European Union continues its standoff with President Putin and as the US sleepwalks its way into a military conflict with China, Liz Truss the new Prime Minister of Britain has appointed four persons of colour to the highest political offices in her cabinet.
The UK now has a Black Chancellor of the Exchequer and a biracial Foreign Secretary. The Home Secretary and the COP26 President are of Indian ancestry.
These appointments come at a time when Europe is being forced to turn its attention to Africa as a source of fuel and other needed raw materials. Having Black faces in high places in the European negotiating teams will not exactly hurt Europe’s chances of getting what they need from Africa.
The Indian sub-continent will also be a useful ally should the Europeans decide to join the American sleepwalk into conflict with China.
When all is said and done, high profile Blacks and other people of colour in the Caucasian apparatus of governance are constrained by the terms of their service to act in the best interest of Caucasian global domination.
The Black or Coloured face is far more dangerous and deceptive because its familiarity opens doors that might have remained closed if the enemy had come with the usual smiling Caucasian face masking the conceal weapons to be unleashed on the unwary.
Lenrod Nzulu Baraka is the founder of Afro-Caribbean Spiritual Teaching Center.
