Of course we are a generation of savages and we’ve forgotten so soon our place on the chain of abuse—how as a race we were nearly ‘exterminated’ by those who regarded as inferior…
We call ourselves Christians and Muslims but we act far less the titles we bestow on ourselves—another reason why some of us do not even want to belong to such a tainted gang of people.
A young man (photo above) was lynched to his near death in Legon, Accra—and his crime is; he was suspected to be gay. Even if he was truly gay; what is anyone’s business in beating this man this way?
And trust me, most of those who threw punches and their legs at him probably went to church on Sunday or the Mosque on Friday—Ghana is a religious country and yet, most of the citizens act less religious and human-like.
This brings to mind an article I wrote a few months ago titled; ‘The Irony of the Oppressed Also Being the Oppressor’ | Black People Must RE-THINK!
If you did not read it; read it all below—and if you did, RE-READ it!
At Primary School and College, I came across the biological phenomenon of ‘Food Chain’ where one animal’s survival in terms of food is the other, and the former is somehow the food for another—this chain can go on for fairly sometimes.
With extensive knowledge on Human Rights and as a growing Human Rights activist, I recently pulled myself together to consider the intolerance nature of some Black people, especially Africans and how we seek not to regard the human rights of certain minorities—because we find the actions of these people religiously or morally corrupt. And that was when this hit my nerve, “the irony in the oppressed, somewhat being the oppressor”.
Throughout history, Black people have been subjected to different layers and eras of abuse, with their human rights being disregarded in most instances, some for as long as 245 years—and I am talking about slavery.
Even today, Black people including Africans are at the end of discrimination, racism and all sort of unfavourable treatments. Women in general continue to be oppressed in many societies. A woman I respect a lot once told me “Chris, being Black may be hard but being a Black African woman is harder”.
From the day the Second World War ended and even before that, various Human Right Laws have been put in place to protect human beings from other human beings—-very absurd but necessary.
I am a strong sceptic of the “State of Nature” theory of Thomas Hobbes and the many other legal philosophers who tow Hobbes’ line that, human beings are naturally brutish and left to our own without any form of “Social Contract”; we will probably kill each other. But the intolerance nature of some people, especially Black Africans somewhat confirms Hobbes may have a point.
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