What they fear is that the revolutionary nationalist will engage in the same savagery that has marked the European’s “national conquest”. They fear a reverse “Manifest Destiny” or the brown-black version of the “White Man’s Burden”.

Post this link the next time a settler starts getting buck around the concepts of self-determination. The only place I feel this article falls short is that it makes very little mention of our Indigenous comrades, who in many respects, have been dealt a much harsher hand in comparison to what we’ve gone through. Things that comrades here have given me pause on; with regard to concepts like the Black Belt Republic being a practical nonstarter given that’s not even the settler’s land, that was always someone else’s.

While I see actual Panafricanism as a viable road for Black comrades, in Amerika at least, we can’t forget that we’re not the only ones wronged here; and any liberation we reach means nothing if it’s not together with the other colonized subjects-of-empire on this landmass, is where I want to get off this soapbox.