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Submitted by Caleb Pilgrim

Blogmaster:

I would be remiss if I did not address in brief the issue of the Chinese mine manager in Rwanda sentenced to 20 years in prison for whipping local workers, Yahoo News, Michelle De Pacima, April 21, 2022.

Sharing the foregoing, which one might reasonably have thought unimaginable in 2022.

Of course, most if not all “aid” is tied aid.   However, the question remains what would/could have led this Chinese mine manager, Sun Shujun, to conclude that he could so act with impunity.  I am confident that this was not his first rodeo.   Ditto perhaps other Chinese “businessmen” in the mineral and some other sectors in Africa, and their business practices.    It is also worth noting in passing that a Rwandan man, Renzaho Alexis, was sentenced to 12 years  for his alleged role as an accomplice in the beatings.

But, was it not yesterday in Rwanda that during their civil war the Hutus described the Tutsis “as cockroaches” and practised Genocide and extermination on a grand scale? 

https://t.co/QBWEjHBRbv

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101 responses to “Beware the Other When They Come Bearing Gifts?”

  1. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    What a display of an underlying ignorance by Caleb Pilgrim.

    And while elements of this anecdotal tale are undoubtedly true it would be mistake to give such prominence to a throw away line in the absence of all the other deeper and more meaningful forces operating around it.

    Certainly, we should not have to choose between Chinese or Russian or Indian imperialism. All forms of imperialism must be rejected by Afrikans.

  2. David Avatar
    David

    Pacha

    It seems whether you prefer to gloss over that Blacks whether on the continent or scattered in the diaspora are treated with a lack of respect by hegemonists.

  3. FearPlay Avatar
    FearPlay

    So how about THESE gifts. Any strings attached or should I say ropes? Venezuelans are suffering and these giveaways are still possible? Is it possible a cat eat the UN was purchased?

    https://www.iwnsvg.com/2022/04/26/venezuela-cancels-svgs-petrocaribe-debt-promises-homes-asphalt-fertiliser-pm-says/

  4. David Avatar
    David

    @FearPlay

    This was the fear by those countries who refused to sign up for PetroCaribe.

  5. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David
    The Chinese are the last to show such an intent but we never hear from you similarly trenchant arguments about the Americans or the Europeans or the Arabs or the Indians.

    Both you and Pilgrim are unknown for Afrocentricity.

  6. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    Your last comment is an untruth and is summarily condemned to the BU dustbin.

  7. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David
    There certainly is not even the awareness of what an Afrikan centeredness means.

    However, NOTED! The last words are yours.

  8. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Are we talking about the three wheeled ambulances given by the UAE that bare a striking resemblance to some ice cream and donut vans.

  9. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @FearPlay
    A very good read. I would have never thought that Venezuela was is a position to render financial aid and pre-frabicated houses.
    “And when I told him that there are some persons still without their houses being properly repaired and some which we are building and we haven’t rebuilt all the houses which are damaged or destroyed because of the volcano, he has undertaken to deliver to us up to 150 pre-fabricated houses to help the people in North Windward and North Leeward.”

  10. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Read the comments below the article provided by FearPlay and note that some would prefer to cuss/bad talk Venezuela instead of just saying “Thank you”.

    Beggars and choosers.

  11. Dame+Bajans Avatar
    Dame+Bajans

    The Russians were accused of doing the same in Guyana a few years back. I think a man died after they left him staked out in the sun. From one salve society to another.

  12. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Territorial security in exchange for debt forgiveness
    What a bargain
    Question to ask SVG leadership whose side would u sit on when the military comes rolling in
    Can’t serve two masters at one time

  13. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “It is also worth noting in passing that a Rwandan man, Renzaho Alexis, was sentenced to 12 years for his alleged role as an accomplice in the beatings.”

    if ya had watched the same video i saw, the ignorance displaced by a Black Afrikan to indulge a chinese man to beat another Afrikan should have gotten him the same 20 YEARS…if i had anything to do with it, it was totally unacceptable…and he deserves EVERY YEAR…

    what about the piece of shit from that run down looking place they call a top neighborhood, i think Comissiong is from that area…where a lawyer beat a black child in Barbados and did not get his ass whopped by Black people or went to prison….maybe the same mentality as an idiot who would help a racist beat another Black person..

    what about the female who had a traffic problem with some half assed minority white in Barbados and he got out and beat her nearly to death while other Black people watched and did not lift a finger.

    what about when the white female went to visit her Black lover and the minority whites started chasing Black people around and instead of the police lock them up for terrorizing innocent people.., no one lifted a finger…

    we could a ton of such incidences that shows BLACK DISUNITY..

    it’s all in the nasty mentality where house negros who would sell out at the drop of a hat do not think they have to defend each other at any time..

  14. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Isn’t that what people do when there is world crisis, help each other over the humps, Europe will have to do so in a big way soon, help each other against the shocks, or suffer severe consequences…

    notice it’s the Caribbean islands so pauperized that very few can help each other……and still they have not learned anything…still holding on to a wicked anti-black system to stroke their cursed egos..

  15. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    What black woman who had a traffic problem and was beaten nearly to death by a minority person?

  16. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    I dont understand why people cant get along, and whats accepting in one place is okay when its not in another. I have noticed the ladies on the blog will easily call another woman a cunt. Do you know in Canada we cant call a woman that unless we put the word stunned in front of it.

  17. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Years and years ago that happened, am sure people on BU know about it too….if they have the backbone to admit it..

    where a lawyer beat a black child in Barbados ….forgot to mention, the beaten child went to Dodds and not the criminal who beat him..

  18. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    What about the ‘engineer’ the Canadian guy kicked.

    I have this theory.. When dealing with each other, we are full of courage, but a single person of a different ethnic group can chase a crowd of ‘us’.

  19. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Theo was that the canadian that got paralyzed , I didnt see him get a kick in before he was shot but you could be right

  20. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @ Lawson
    Nice trick there… Before Google, it would have worked.

    “A white Canadian consultant, at the centre of what workers at the Barbados Light & Power Company Limited’s (BL&P) Spring Garden generating plant alleged was a kicking incident involving a black Barbadian employee, has tendered his resignation with immediate effect.”

  21. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “the canadian that got paralyzed ”

    people got the reason for the long prision sentence but not the reasoning behind, because it was a tourist…,,dependent broke ass hungry negros was the projected image…..

  22. John Avatar
    John

    Looks like Donville will be getting some company from the BVI.

    The US got the BVI Premier mek up!!

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/04/28/bvi-premier-arrested-in-us-on-drug-conspiracy-and-money-laundering-charges/

    Looks like Britain will have to suspend the constitution, like they had to do in TCI!!

    https://news.sky.com/story/british-virgin-islands-should-have-constitution-suspended-says-corruption-report-raising-prospect-of-rule-from-london-12601859

  23. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    John…charges..

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/premier-of-british-virgin-islands-charged-with-drug-trafficking-and-money-laundering-crimes/ar-AAWLnUa?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ad3478a6111541aca963a895d0b0b617

  24. David Avatar
    David

    Comment received via email from Caleb:

    —————————————-

    While I generally respect Pach, he is clearly out to lunch on this one.

    This issue in Rwanda was not mere anecdote but also reflects structural and systemic issues, and a continuing problematic mindset on the part of some local, governing African elites.

    As I have said before, to be poor often means to be defined as what we are not. At the same time, no one can seriously deny that there is a problem of systemic corruption among certain African elites. Who can forget Mobutu (and a western stooge like Tshombe), Macias N’guema, Idi Amin, Dr. Hastings Banda, “Gucci” Grace Mugabe, dos Santos and even the descendants of Agostinho Neto, etc, etc? Need I go on with respect to many leaders, so useless and so trifling.

    This in no way seeks to minimize, excuse or defend the often times criminal, murderous, thieving, corrupt and genocidal conduct of European (e.g. Cecil Rhodes) and American Imperialists and colonialists over centuries. Tragedy is that they have taught some African and other elites very well, even as we amble along most ignorant of our history!

    In such a context, I would have said “Long live Nkrumah”. Long Live Amilcar Cabral”, Nyerere and a younger Robert Mugabe.

  25. David Avatar
    David

    Thanks Caleb, we have some here who love to romanticize how many countries in Africa have been governing and also ignore the miscreants installed as leaders. This is not to say Africa should be respected as the mother of civilization.

  26. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Caleb Pilgrim

    ‘Anecdotal’ is a words now introduced by you, not this writer. Our augments are never that light, marginal, footnote like,, specious even.

    And then you went on to equalize corruption. This writer cannot be lectured to about the corruption of Afrikan leaders, and we’re not even saying some. What we take objection to is your insinuation that the corruption of Afrikan leaders has greater social import than that of American leaders who, in broad daylight, just stole 300 billion dollars from Russia.. And when Congo’s wealth continues to be structurally and systemically stolen in the light of day.

    Then you go on to prescribe what you think was the issue in Rwanda. However, your diagnosis stares in the face of history, FOIA disclosures, evidence taken under oath. Indeed, the Hutu-Tutsi civil war had little to do with the malfeasance of the elites, as a central tendency. Instead it was tribally bound where the minority tribe controlled the civil service and governing institutions, as designed by the colonialists. And the majority were weaponized, literally, as differences were stoked to deliver a regime change operation which led to American’s man becoming president, Kegame, specifically not to run Rwanda but to steal the resources of Congo for Western countries, which he continues to do.

    In the Tutsi-Hutu civil war about 600 thousand were killed. In the war it spawned in Congo more than 10 millions were killed so far, and counting. Therefore, comparatively speaking, your characterizations of the Rwanda civil war approaches the irrational.

    We’re more reluctant than you to rest on past triumphalisms.

    David

    Who has ever been romantic? We’ll bet that you have never been to a single Afrikan country. Even if romanticism was an issue, after the third visit it’ll be long gone far less the twenty something.

    In the West this writer has to be cussing westernized minds like yours. And in Afrika that mindset follows still. It’s a struggle even to get Afrikans to stop saying rasssoul about ‘god bless you’ meaning the White man’s god.

    Yours is a staid canard, regardless of who yuh mean, aimed at covering up ignorance.

  27. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Argument

  28. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    It’s ok for rassoul Black people to be ‘romantic’ about long dead White people, most of whom never existed. There’s no problem with that. But to revere the Afrikan ancestors who gave civilization to the world is romantic. Classical White-minded talk.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    You are ranting Pacha.

    Cease and Settle!

  30. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    I have never seen a woman call another woman a cunt on BU. It was Pachamama who called me a cunt for my views on gradual change.

    Nevertheless, it never stops me from agreeing with his views on our instinctive western mindset. We really have no clue how successful these European monsters have been in their mind control endeavours. Serious deprogramming is necessary!

    Every statement these monsters make about black countries needs to be disregarded because they are most likely lies meant to cover up their own self-serving activities.

    Do we really believe that these greedy pigs would let Africans keep leaders in power who would rule African countries for Africans’ benefit with Africa being the richest continent on earth?

    And do Africans not suffer from the same mind-controlling effects of colonialism that we do?

    I have never seen Pachamama romanticise today’s Africa.

    I do not intend to get involved in your argument. I only want to get you David to examine your perspective, for the sake of the discussions on the blog.

    We cannot keep looking at the world through western eyes and trusting when we KNOW how they wrote history and should be able to surmise that this is the same way they write about the events of today or the recent past.

  31. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    One can always trust Lawson to crawl out of his hole with some pitiful defence meant to deflect from racism.

    The broke boys shot the Canadian because they needed money, not from some sick idea of superiority. Bad business but we understand their motivations.

    What would possess the white Canadian boss to kick a black employee in a country like Barbados? What need was he satisfying?

    Apples and oranges, simpleton.

  32. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Donna

    Lawson and his jokes with subtle, racial undertones, reminds me of Richard ‘Lowdown’ Hoad.

    That’s one column I don’t read in the ‘Weekend Nation.’

  33. John Avatar
    John

    DonnaApril 30, 2022 12:48 AM

    I have never seen a woman call another woman a cunt on BU.
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    So how many women are there on BU?

    I thought it was just a bunch of disgruntled old men and one or two women who wannabe around them.

    Even one of the old time monikers, BWWR aka Black Woman Who Reads, was exposed as an old white man …. my cousin in fact.

    He was way clearer than I and had real good hair!!

  34. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “Even one of the old time monikers, BWWR aka Black Woman Who Reads, was exposed as an old white man …. my cousin in fact.”

    there were so many evil old frauds on BU back then, they could not hide, whites pretending to be black, whites being their dirty ass racist selves, blacks pretending to be white….a real shit show..

    “and one or two women who wannabe around them.”

    that’s definitely a delusion…no sane woman would choose to be around many of the lack of knowledge men on BU, who can’t teach anyone anything except to be political pimps or yardfowls…. unless they are on a mission or just goddamn bored every day and need a laugh…

  35. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “It’s ok for rassoul Black people to be ‘romantic’ about long dead White people, most of whom never existed. ”

    as true a statement as ya would ever want….most of the greek frauds and roman frauds….NEVER EXISTED….were just that or invisible ghost stories presented century after century to perpetrate more lies, misdirection and misinformation for the Afrikan who forgot who they were and where they came from..

    …a mirage invented to deceive and DEFRAUD…the criminal among the romans and greeks who did exist were and still are COMMON CLASS THIEVES and many of the ignorant, uppity lawyers and other shitheads, the wannabes love to quote them and don’t even know WHOM or what they are quoting.or where it came from..

    but westernized asslickers would never want to hear that truth….too much reality for them..

  36. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “Tragedy is that they have taught some African and other elites very well, even as we amble along most ignorant of our history!

    In such a context, I would have said “Long live Nkrumah”. Long Live Amilcar Cabral”, Nyerere and a younger Robert Mugabe./:

    Afrika UNDENIABLY has it’s Afrikan heros, all their books, teachings, quotes etc…from yesteryear, many long gone, even more so today the youngers are coming out in droves to represent…., trying to teach the youngest minds and bring a semblance of balance, even those accused are trying to roll back/reverse the damage caused by collusion etc…but to see this, one would have to be plugged in for some time, but it is happening gradually, not nearly as fast as we would like to see, but it’s a start…..

    Pacha…don’t miss that event today and tomorrow..the giants are together in one place..

    forgot to mention:

    the criminal among the romans and greeks who did exist were and still are COMMON CLASS THIEVES and many of the ignorant, uppity lawyers and other shitheads, the wannabes love to quote them and don’t even know WHOM or what they are quoting.or where it came from.. but talking shite about they “studied greek classics” load of backward manure…..

  37. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    The Big Fight
    David Vs Pachamama
    Final Round
    Awareness of Afrikaness
    Meditate as Subject not Object
    Look at 3rd eye intuitive Chakra
    at the Mind before thought
    Feeling “I AM”
    The treasure is deep within
    dig for it removing all the dirt

  38. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ WURA, @Pacha
    What can we honestly expect. We talk about strengthening ties with Africa and then on the day that we were supposed to finally distant ourselves from those who enslaved us, we award them with our highest national award.
    And then we come here and say that one of those whose great great grandparents were enslaved was “ too young” to get the same award.
    In what was supposed to be a day of national achievement and pride , we boldly showed the entire who we really are.
    Praise the Massa but cuss the slave. I don’t care what anybody says , awarding a slave owner our highest national award for spilling our blood will forever be remembered as a day of ignominy.
    A day when without shame we gave slavery a pass.
    Peace

  39. David Avatar
    David

    @William

    The blogmaster often uses the term “upon the head that wears the crown” which gives context to the following: there is merit in your concern for questioning the award of our highest honour to the head of the monarch in waiting. However, there is the possible consideration why it was done notwithstanding the ‘ignominy’ of physical bondage our forefathers had to endure from Prince Charles’ forefathers.

    Barbados is a 2×3 SIDs unprotected in a global space controlled by powerful countries. The decision to remove the Queen as head of state is enormously symbolic for signaling an awakening in our people, BUT, there is the reality of being able to navigate a hostile global economic political environment. Not dissimilar to the period ‘FREE SLAVES’ had to navigate in post 1834 period (Apprenticeship Period) . Some pundits may suggest what MOTTLEY did last November should be seen as nothing more than a political nicety given our lowly geopolitical status and weak economic position. You are sufficiently aware to complete.

  40. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “then on the day that we were supposed to finally distant ourselves from those who enslaved us, we award them with our highest national award.”

    only the slaveminded would be impressed, pimps and fowls…..and they shall PAY for their treachery……as more and more is revealed about their dirty hands and even dirtier actions..

  41. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “A day when without shame we gave slavery a pass.”

    the apologetic palaver……but not a word when they. only one week ago talked about reinstituting Black SLAVERY via the evil sugar plantation….to enrich racist criminals and thieves…..then when challenged by Beckles to grow food instead rushed out to cover it up and claim they will not build a second sugar factory and in today’s papers pretending they care about those with debilitating and deadly NCDs derived from sugar slavery and addiction…..

  42. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    𓂀 Eye of Horus
    Eye of Horus, in ancient Egypt religion, it was a symbol representing protection, health, and restoration.
    A seemingly straightforward image – an eye set within a triangle – has become a lightning rod for conspiracy theorists

  43. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    William…we don’t have to wait on them, the talking heads and their enablers, i was recently asked to help using something developed in the last 3 years…..considering it, because unless people organize to relieve the suffers and the bad health of the country, it will continue indefinitely…..and many generations will be lost to ill health…because of political whoring..

  44. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @David, there is no “Some pundits may suggest [it …] should be seen as nothing more than a political nicety” rather ALL practical folks who understand the importance of diplomacy and the geopolitical dancing needed fully accept that action for what it was: as a symbolic and gracious way to say ‘up yours guv’!

    @William is intelligent enough to know all dat too but wanted to have a ‘pound of flesh’ moment of indignation for the colonial misery we suffered.

    Many others share his view I’m sure and although WAY beyond this Bajan symbolic award all of them should yet reference the behaviour of Nelson Mandela as President.

    His DIPLOMATIC handling of his white oppressors is the MOST mind-boggling but yet eminently practical act that was possible … simply said: the turbulent past can best be handled with a peaceful hand towards the future!

  45. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Be aware of where you are and be present in the moment.
    Africans in Barbados want to be Barbadians in Africa.
    Down the line they may become Africans in Africa
    and Africans in themselves

  46. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Cotton Candy Skies- Feel Good Kemetic Flow (432Hz)

  47. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    A comment from your friend Caleb:

    —————————————

    @ Pach:

    It was you who first decried my brief note on the Chinese whipping the Rwandan(s), as “anecdotal”.

    For my part, I saw such abuse by the Chinese manager, Sun, as another outrage perpetrated against black citizens in their own homelands. It again indicated a certain psychopathology, a sickness on the part of a Chinese mine manager, “a sicko”, versus a poor, relatively defenseless, subservient, African victim, an incident not far removed from Thistlewood on his plantation in Jamaica.

    What we also have here is an enduring systemic and structural problem, wherein the indigenous African was/is not only physically brutalized (thus, the defendant Sun’s 20 year prison sentence) but also remains a victim of economic violence and exploitation.

    Bottom line…. Imperialists, whether European, American, or Chinese/Asian, steal and will continue to steal African strategic and other mineral resources indefinitely.

    Such foreign “investors” are able to do so because of their enablers and accomplices among African elites.

    The Imperialists have in large part co-opted some of these empty elites who often live lifestyles of the fabulously rich and famous, in shameless juxtaposition to the squalid poverty endured by the majority of their African citizens. (This co-opting of elites is as old as Roman history; the English used it with devastating effect against the 600 princely states in India and in educating colonial elites at Oxbridge, etc)

    Your readings over time would have taught you that whether Euro, American, Asian and Chinese, these economic and “political” ravages and squeeze plays reflect what Dr. Rodney and others identified oh so long ago. The African states are, despite the figleaf of a pretentious “sovereignty”, analogous to vassal states, often governed by latter day hewers of wood and drawers of water.

    The frame changes, in the tragicomedy. The picture sadly remains the same.

    We assume, Pach, that if you believe that the African corruptocrat is a sweetbread (Remember Umaru Dikko and the 3bn pounds he “invested” in the UK), you must either have had some fine Jamaican herbs, or that you have gone off on such a tangent – unusual- due to the finer Bajan rums you may have consumed in the heat. Lay off the booze for a minute. Peace!

  48. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    And how did that work out for South Africa.

    Better would have been to broker an agreement to share lands stolen from black South Africans with their easily identifiable descendants. The West would have sanctioned South Africa to death if all properties were “seized” but they could have been shamed into accepting a sharing agreement, I think.

    And now we hear talk of white farmers being murdered. What the hell do they expect when no restitution was made?

    How can we have real peace under these circumstances?

  49. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Pacha…rocking and worldwide.

  50. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    New World Order of Canada America Australia New Zealand and Caribbean Power Dynamics
    Whites are considered Europeans
    Blacks are considered Africans
    White Europeans are considered Settlers and Masters
    Black Africans are considered Migrants and Subordinates
    Meanwhile ignorant Black Africans and White Europeans are hating on Asians with a cunting story to tell

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