Is Aid Killing Africa? Dambisa Moyo talks about Dead Aid on ABC


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Dambisa needs to pull that hand out of his behind.

I agree.

Of course, props to Dambisa Moyo for stepping out and taking the bull by the horns. It's a blessing to see such a beautiful, intelligent and talented sister speaking sense.

But on another more pedestrian tip, the first time I saw her on TV, I was quite taken aback by that very shiny plastic-looking weave she had on her head. It looked so weird and unnatural.

Here was this pretty sister, with very obviously beautiful African/Black features, talking about emancipation, and she had that thing on her head.

I know Black women come in all shapes, sizes and looks, but the comment about "our mentality and perception of ourselves with respect to others" hits the nail on the head for me, especially when I see Dambisa with her caucasian 'hair'.

I'm not a hater, and she can do whatever she likes, but sometimes I think white folks don't take Black folks like her seriously because they can see that on a conscious or subconscious level, people like Dambisa aren't exactly comfortable with their 'natural' selves.

A lot needs to happen to Black people mentally, before we can even begin to talk about how the West, Aid etc. affect our 'development'.

The first thing that needs to change is the way we view ourselves. We have to be able to be comfortable and confident when we look in a mirror and see our unadulterated Black self staring back at us.

on the same note BG



I glanced through this book when I was younger, during the entire boycott South Africa.....divest......end apartheid era








like wow.....whites over in SA are terrible.....blatantly racist to the point of not trying to let Black people breathe..





low and behold, several years later.....i see a guy on tv...and I'm thinking I've seen the last name before..



this same clown...writing about lifelong brutality at the hands of whites, ......and they show his wife....









what a clown


and then writes a book called




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You couldn't make up wilder shi t.

BG,

The South African folks you met have this dude pegged, and in my mind most of the black public 'intelligentsia'' and writers/playwrights exist because......are funded by, and cater to white audiences.


That's who they write their books for and those are the people who make or break their careers..they get fellowships ,grants, etc from them...

Heck, if you think about it...even the "harlem renaissance" was funded by white patrons all those decades ago...and that's the same circle of moneyed whites who patronize the literary arts today.


I watched a LOT of channel 13/pbs growing up...and the 'Helena Rubenstein' foundation is /was at the end of the credits to most of those shows...


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Back to this sister. I honestly don't know how much white people know about Black people. You're a Black woman, you grew up in a diverse area....you've seen wide range of people. You spotted the wig/weave right away.

I'm not certain white people have been around enough black people to know what we look like naturally or not. I think outside of her showing up in a blonde wig, that it wouldn't register with them. White people are notoriously self centered and oblivious to the rest of the world.

I'm not sure if her wearing a weave coincides/contradicts with her talk about "emancipation"..and I'm certain it sends mixed signals to the Black people who follow her public career especially, as you say, BG, that she got a blatantly synthetic looking weave.

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When I was a kid, it used to puzzle me how some Blacks would marry a white person to "fit into" a certain mainstream environment. I used to think that seeing a Black guy with a white woman would have the opposite effect , that white people would get offended. I figured out later that it shows them that you have the same tastes that they do....that's why the dudes always get a blonde woman, not a brunette woman who could possibly be mistaken latina or ethnic white. they want it to be clear that they are down with the program.


The funny thing is, 9 times out of ten.....dudes who are attracted to the same kind of woman(whether it's shape, race, features) WILL have a lot of other things in common too, so I guess these dudes knew what they were doing......they use the woman as a symbol /code.

You are so right about her hair...and I hope this doesn't hijack the thread onto that subject...but Europeans/Americans do not take us seriously at all, especially our women, in discussions about integrity, liberation, or any kind of independence when we obviously cling to their standards of "development", "beauty", "modernity", "education", and so forth.

We would be so much better if we would just stop giving them our attention and focused on making our homes better in a way most consistent with Afrikan life and our traditional values.

Why am I not surprised?

This here literally made me laugh out loud!! What a transition!!

I won't call out names or movements/organisations, but over the past year or so I've come to the realisation that many so called 'down' black folk are simply full of sh*t. A lot of them are just phony 'afrocentric' posers, or as someone I know calls them 'kemet clowns' who just shout loud and make angry faces and walk around saying 'hotep' as if that sh*t is doing anything in the grand scheme of things. I used to hang around jokers like that until I saw that many of them were far from genuine and didn't want to get out their comfort zones. I understood where you were coming from when you mentioned on another thread you don't buy that black unity stuff no more.

RIP to Khalid Muhammad.

I think he made that prediction about people in the audience surprising you.....because the cycle of afrocentricity of late 1980s--to early 90s was pretty much a "phase" for a lot o f people.....and he witnessed the same "phase" in 60s and 70s....and how, once it wasn't the "cool" thing anymore to be down....how people moved on.

some of those same people storming college campuses with guns with afros..got over that phase and flipped into the complete opposite.

just look at hiphop music, how many acts made "conscious records" when that was the thing to do? and then when that wasn't "it", they moved on.

there was a group called 2 kings in a cypher..dudes from Howard U.....album called "from pyramids to the projects"..ankhs, chew sticks, medallions, yada yada...

those same guys later became part of puffy's "hitmen" production crew...one of them was the "madd rapper" ...

1. Africa does not depend on "aid."
2. The position some parts of Africa are in doesn't have anything to do with "aid."

90% of the shit you say, a white supremacist would agree with.

But don't mind me, get back to preaching about how horrible Afrikan people are as well as anyone who praises them.

Interesting footage. I agreed with a lot of what the lady said however the point I agreed with the most was her assertion that those Africans who would lose out the most if aid were to be withdrawn from Africa would be the elites who 'run' the country who would lose the main source of income for their Swiss bank accounts.

I remember reading somewhere that more money is sent back to Africa from African expats living abroad than any foreign aid...but that isn't information you'll easily come across in the mainstream media.

That is said to be the same for the caribbean too. caribbeans abroad do more than any aid ever did. so true. plus I would like to know where this aid to africa goes when the tv cams is not rolling

SO WHAT IS YOUR POINT - what is your solution or tuppence. things such as focusing on hair is a smoke screen to me. I want to know what the solutions are.
btw I think some leaders are thinking along the right lines. just a pity about their war crimes Wanted Bashir welcome at Africa trade summit | Metro.co.uk=

The AID thing is a big hustle in many ways.


I say I will 'give' you 2 million in aid.... my brother happens to have a non profit /charitable organization based in your country which will receive and dispense the aid..........part of the aid has to go to administrative costs to my brother's organization.... about 750,000


your president and his/her cabinet decides what to do with the other 1.25 mil and there are strings attached...

and the new Mercedes Benz edition just rolled off the lot

Between offering up whitey's education and being biracial rather than black I can see how you've developed this attitude, then again it should have been obvious...my mistake