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Who needs
reparations? Not Africa. Many centuries from now, uncommon sense will
return to African thinkers and there will be a new dawn of fresh
thought: A deadly combination of black leadership kleptocracy and white
liberal guilt has harmed Africans more than slavery and colonialism.
Even in the face of overwhelming evidence that Western Aid does nothing
but enrich African kleptocrats, Western do-gooders continue to heap
gobs of US dollars on the “dispossessed” of Africa in the hopeless hope
that the problem will go away. Haiti is a problem that was caused by
that “little” problem called slavery. Haiti-the-Problem has remained
intractable despite billions of dollars of “aid” funneled through
10,000 thieving NGOs allegedly helping the Haitians through the trauma
of their slavery, oppression, poverty, etc. Today, Haiti is still so
poor, it is a fourth world nation.

Serious attempts
to address the horrible consequences of slavery have been undermined by
the arrogance of Western liberals and some African intellectuals who
vehemently deny that Africa should be responsible for her own sins.
Dialogue is driven underground as new thought is met with unnecessary
roughness of the liberal left, led by black Africa’s self-styled uncle
– the great white liberal hope. Ask David Brooks of the New York Times.
Recently, he mused aloud about Haiti and responsibility (the personal
type). He was heckled off the square of common sense and called all
sorts of names, racist being the most benign of all of them. Brooks
will never reminisce aloud again on matters affecting black folks. Who
needs the stress? A cat that has sat on a hot stove will never sit on a
stove again, ever.

Take the
reparations movement. The only thing striking or remotely unique about
the reparations movement is its incoherence of thought and vision. What
is the problem that its founders are trying to solve? It does not help
that some of the leaders of the reparations movement in America have
been famous for shamelessly forming lucrative liaisons with some of
Africa’s deadliest buffoon-leaders starting with dead dolts like Idi
Amin and Mobutu Sese Seko. Different strokes for different folks. It is
not slavery when it is black folks doing it to poor black folks. And of
course, white liberals, ever so patronising and avuncular go tut tut
and look the other way. Where is the outrage?

The reparations
movement has attracted a self-selected group of black activists who
tend to colour their opinions to match the colour of green – money.
They are outraged by slavery and mark my words, like thieving
pedestrians who run into a bus that has just been hit from behind, they
are lining up for payback. It serves the white man right, he should
never have gone fishing for slaves in West Africa in the first place-
capitalism would have provided him all the slaves he needed at 40
percent interest per credit card.

How much are the
reparationistas looking to harvest from the offspring of our odious
slave owners? Who gets credit for the trillions of aid funneled into
Africa and promptly stolen and repatriated to Swiss Banks by thieving
African leaders? Who gets credit for the trillions in welfare programs
and affirmative action set asides, etc, that have been expended all
these years? Before you start yelling, I am a firm believer in
affirmative action. I believe also that the state has a moral, if not
legal responsibility to ensure the welfare and prosperity of the
downtrodden. So there! I am a liberal. Confused enough? Let’s continue.

Don’t get me
wrong: Africa needs help. However, thanks to the ineptitude and savage
greed of African leaders, all attempts to infuse badly needed aid into
Africa have been as useful as giving a hog in a latrine a bath. The
trillions of dollars of aid that have been given to Africa have done
nothing for anybody I know except the NGO pimps riding around Africa’s
desolation in a convoy of tinted SUVs. How about this for reparations:
Scour all of the banks in the West, find all of Africa’s stolen funds,
load them onto airplanes and drop them on the long suffering peasants
of Africa? Now, that would be reparation.

African Americans who have been wronged by African and white
kingdoms in that shame called slavery deserve to have a real
conversation about what shape, if any, reparations should take. And I
agree whole-heartedly with Professor Skip Gates: The question of
restitution should include African perpetrators. That we are destitute
should not make us any less culpable. There is a new slavery going on
today, black on black slavery. In the name of democracy and capitalism,
black leaders of all stripes are busy raping, pillaging and carting
away what is not welded to the ground. I say to the African, forget the
white man, and turn your rage on your real oppressors. They are black.
Like you. Now, if the white man is still rich and foolish enough to
offer monetary reparations, I want mine, every penny of it. In hundred
dollar bills.