The mindless violence being unleashed against the Palestinians today, is an apocalyptic event that portends towards greater onset of violence not only in the Middle East, but in other parts of the world as well.
Apropos of this, a radical transformation of ideas, philosophy and attitudes is required in this age of accelerated globalisation and incessant scramble for Africa’s resources. This attitudinal transformation should be around the establishment of the basic premises about the identities of peoples around the world, with what matters more to them by way of being human beings becoming central to this new order.
The denial of humanity to people has been a historical issue with constant and unabetting ramifications that have stayed both visible and under the surface for as long as humans began to interrelate with one another, leading to the emergence of situations of dominance of one people by another. The race that has been at the receiving end of this denial has historically been the Black Race.
It was only in 1994 that the official segregation between Blacks and Whites under the obnoxious Apartheid system was ended in South Africa after centuries of White domination and supremacy in that land. The phenomenon of “Black Lives Matter” and the denunciation of the legacies of slavery, colonialism and other forms of historical oppression of the Black Race, still bring out the bitterness in us over the treatment that we have received from others for several centuries.
Today, human rights are not being used as corrective instruments to redress past egregious abuses against us, but actually as frameworks by which we are to be controlled and made compliant. Dehumanisation of our Race and our relegation to a third-class status among other races, have ensured that we remained voiceless, faceless and nameless in virtually all human activities.
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