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Africa Focus: Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico & Niger Delta: Double Standard World Racism Tuesday, June 01 @ 03:28:17 UTC
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By Franz J. T. Lee
June 01, 2010
We are on our way to post-apartheid South Africa, to enjoy the latest
pan et circenses, the World Cup, but will the cup of the Niger Delta
also pass us by, cross our way?
Once more we witness that racism is an integral element of
international relations, an ideological reflex of the corporate
imperialist world market. Again the class interests of millions of
exploited and dominated African wage slaves who are vegetating in dire
poverty simply do not figure in breaking news of the international mass
media. Few people know that Africa, specifically Nigeria, is the number
one supplier of excellent fine crude oil to the USA. Nigeria has over
600 oilfields which produce 40% of the total oil imports of Washington
D.C. One would imagine that the White House would know what is
happening in Black Africa, in the Niger Delta where the black gold
freely flows; that this delta is the world capital of oil leaks,
spills, multinational criminality and pollution of Mother Nature, of
Africa.
The Guardian of 30th May, 2010 summarized the racist double standard as
follows: "Nigeria's Agony Dwarfs the Gulf Oil Spill. The US and Europe
Ignore It. ... In fact, [in the Niger Delta] more oil is spilled from
the delta's network ... than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico." 1)
As was the case of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, why are
President Barack Obana and Shell not doing everything possible to halt
this tragedy? Since decades why do the Nigerian leaders ignore this
environmental catastrophe?
What are the United Nations, NEPAD and African Unity worth at all as
far as Africa in oil agony is concerned? Why do United States Africom
and USAID not aid the oil workers to clear up the disastrous corporate
mess?
Are we still living in the epoch when Hegel stated that we should
forget Africa, that she is outside history, when Voltaire and
Montesquieu openly declared that black 'Negroes' cannot have a white
soul and that they neither serve for the use nor for the abuse of
philosophy. The African 'pack animals', the modern 'speaking tools' in
reality have no human rights, also nature has lost her rights to live.
Work, labor, capital, consumption, wares, power and slavery are
eliminating life on planet Earth, the oil leaks are just the beginning
of the coming spills of all the nuclear, electromagnetic and extra low
frequency weapons of mass destruction.
In the mirror of Africa, in the darkness of the oily mess, we can
already see the black future of globalization.
1) See:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/
30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell
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