'The present architecture of the world is not designed so the BlackPerson can easily get to the top of anything. He occasionally does so but not without tears, sweat and blood, and by accident more than any systemic design. The evidence is all around us.'
between 1998 and 2002), who played his professional football mostly in the little-known Albanian League, but has emerged recently as a history-maker in the annals of European football and of Black/Africans. I am thinking about the state of the world; about the way a small virus continues to humble mankind and bring him to his knees.
I was almost a lone voice then. The great influencers of sports in Africa, the journalists, kept silent as if they did not understand what was going on, victims also of the indoctrination of subservience to a superior race? At Russia 2018, Aliou Cisse of Senegal was the only Black/African coach amongst the 32 managers that participated in a championship won by France, a country that paraded 10 players of Black African descent.
Why, why, why? Why is it that Black players are the toast of some of the best teams in Europe, yet none of them is good enough to become a manager after their careers, even when they acquire all the necessary certifications and diplomas like their White counterparts that have monopolized management through the over 150 years of European football at the highest level?It is obvious that this is the product of 400 years of physical and mental enslavement and the failure of the Black race to break...
So, we congratulate and celebrate Emmanuel Ndubuisi Egbo for breaking the Calabash, and in doing so, we ask other relevant questions: why it has taken this long, whether this is a one-off ‘accident’, what can be done to right the injustices of the past and to create a new world with Blacks as equal partners post-COVID 19?
This morning, I am thinking all of that, plus Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola and his call for reparation for 200 years of Black slavery in the 1990s. I hear that same call reverberating around Western capitals today as the Black movement gathers momentum. That great man saw tomorrow.The underlining theme, however, is that the time is here when, truly, Black Lives will start to matter.
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