Africans call for “reciprocal action” against nationals of countries that bully black people

Since the graphic murder of George Floyd which video sparked global outrage against police brutality against black people in America, the new generation of Africans across the globe have begun openly voicing calls for reciprocal action against nationals of countries that bully and kill black people.

These sentiments are reflected in a viral image of a young lady holding up a sign that read “We are not our ancestors; We will f__k you up.” T-shirts and other art products have emanated from that image sporting just the first part of the poster’s message.

  

The global Black Lives Matter-influenced protests seem to have momentarily quelled police brutality against blacks in America, but the barbaric action still persists in America and other parts of the world.

African students are routinely murdered in Ukraine in the guise of them “drowning.” African house helps in the Middle East are routinely abused and killed with no diplomatic consequences whatsoever.

The Chinese whose diet practices have been fingered as the source of coronavirus that has ravaged the entire world had the nerve to maltreat Africans and throw them out on the streets in Guanghou claiming they are the source and carriers of the virus.

Even Indians have gotten in the act with the inexplicable murder of a Nigerian professor.

The latest barbaric act against an African is by Indonesian Immigration officials who arrested a Nigerian diplomat in front of the Nigerian Embassy in Jakarta, placed him in a tight corner in a moving vehicle and tortured him as someone closely videotaped the incident.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Now Africans are saying on social media that if protests won’t work, and diplomacy won’t work, then the time may have come for reciprocal action against nationals of countries where black people in general are maltreated and killed.

“This is insane and despicable. Why is this necessary,” asked one lady.

“I don’t condone victimizing innocent people, but what choice do we really have,” asked one post. Another supported the approach saying “Oh yes. I’m an advocate for a reciprocal gesture. It’s the only language bullies understand. No matter how much you cry and shout, if you don’t fight back you’ll continue to run until you hit a brick wall and then battered.”

Another contributor echoing the need to fight back insisted that “there’s a plot of extermination of our kind.” He pointed out that governments cannot protect Africans because “governments are mostly doing what they are told to do.”

On one platform, a woman who posted “two wrongs don’t make a right” got attacked with comments such as “neither does one wrong,” “Lady, go back to school and learn that in Maths double negative amount to a positive.”

But the unfortunate outcome of this cry for reciprocal action is that no one wins. But one post pointed out that “it’s better that no one wins than for us to lose all the time.”

Does it have to come to this? After Middle Easterners resorted to what is termed “terrorism,” their nationals have largely been exempted from targeted maltreatment. Diplomatic victimization still persists against their countries, but at least at the personal level, dehumanization of Arabs have largely subsided.

It remains to be seen if the so-called reciprocal actions are what it would take to get oppressors of black people to realize that it actually hurts when treated like sub-human.

DNT News, Accra

 

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