Mr. Clemens Tönnies’
supposed Racism is far less detrimental to Africans than the Passive Racism of
the Governments that do nothing to end Injustice in Africa.
“When Hitler decreed prejudice against Negroes, Germans obediently went through the motions of being prejudiced toward Negroes. Consequently, since racial bias against Negroes is not in the German history or character, racial prejudice in Germany is something that one can turn on and off at will.”
―
Roi Ottley, African-American Reporter[1]
Dear Dr. Uschi Eid,
President of the German Africa Foundation,
Not long ago, Mr. Clemens
Tönnies, the chairman of a leading German football club, i.e. Schalke, made
“unintentional racist comments” while disapproving tax increases to fight
climate change. As a substitute of tax increases, he proposed that the money be
used to finance 20 power plants a year in Africa. “Then the Africans would stop
cutting down trees, and they would stop making babies when it gets dark,” Mr.
Tönnies has been quoted as saying. He has since apologized for his remarks and
said he supports Schalke's values against "racism, discrimination, and
exclusion."
In this respect, the
German justice minister, Mrs. Christine Lambrecht, has immediately called for
the German Football Association (DFB) to intervene. She said, “Racism must be
loudly and clearly contradicted at every opportunity. Nowhere is integration as
successful and quick to work as in sport – that must not be put at risk.”
However, racial prejudice against Africans is subtly being turned on in
Germany. This can be seen as a trap set for Germany, as racism
is likely to impede Germany from being the right candidate for a permanent seat
on the UN Security Council, and from being able to give this key body in advancing
the UN ideal of universal peace additional legitimacy and authority.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywher."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dear Dr. Uschi Eid,
The widely criticized
comments made by Mr. Clemens Tönnies, and hastily labelled as racist ones,
require that they be judged in the light of realpolitik,
which is based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors,
rather than explicit ideological notions or ethical premises. It is abundantly
clear that, in this particular case, Mr. Tönnies’ language is figurative, with
the use of metaphors. The intended meaning of his comments is easily
recognized, all the more so since allegorical speech is supposed to increase descriptiveness
and facilitate understanding.
Comprehensive or integral
development is actually the most appropriate way to fight all at once against
deforestation and overpopulation in Africa and elsewhere. Climate change, in
the same manner as high population growth, turns out to be the topmost concern of
the world-leading elite at present. Intriguingly, all options to fight climate
change, i.e. to protect the environment, and to fight high population growth,
are on the table of the world elite except integral development for Africa. In
fact, what Mr. Tönnies means by “financing power plants in Africa” is “fostering
an all-embracing development all over this continent”. In the same way as any
reasonable person, Mr. Tönnies believes that development in Africa is the
proper tool to curb overpopulation, and all at once protect the environment.
It is worth mentioning the
circumstances and factors that led Mr. Clemens Tönnies to have recourse to the allegorical
expressions that earned him the undeserved criticism of public figures at home
and abroad. German initiatives aimed at advancing justice, peace, and
development in Africa are, in most cases, deferred sine die by “lucky” UN
member States. The German Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and
Development, Dr. Gerd Müller, for example, has been long since canvassing
support for a Marshall Plan with Africa.
For his part, Mr. Günter Nooke, the Federal Government’s Africa Commissioner, has
proposed initiatives meant to enhance job creation and development on the
continent, so as to curb the large-scale migratory flow. Seeing that
initiatives to boost the well-being in Africa do not get the consensus of the
mightiest nations, to talk about Africa’s development, Germans must inevitably
have recourse to figurative languages.
The accusations of racism
against Mr. Clemens Tönnies are simply inappropriate, all the more so as his
supposed racism is far less harmful to Africans than the passive racism of the
Governments that do nothing to put an end to Western injustice in Africa, e.g. the
subjection of the people of Cabinda to alien subjugation, domination, and
exploitation. Mr. Tönnies is of the view that overall development in Africa is
the proper approach to fight climate change and overpopulation. His view, though
expressed in a metaphorical language, does not lose anything at all of its
veracity and pertinence. Since Mr. Tönnies is accused of racism owing to such a
view, the question arises as to what the governments that are in collusion with
the opponents of integral development in Africa must be accused of.
Injustice in Cabinda is
a threat to justice in Germany
“Angola remains one of
Africa’s largest oil producers and is China’s second most important source of
oil and most important commercial partner in Africa. This oil wealth, and
Angola’s regional military power, has greatly limited leverage of other
governments and international organizations pushing for good governance and
human rights. Trade partners remain reluctant to criticize the government, to
protect their economic interests.”
― Amnesty
International Annual Report 2011
Just like other Western significant governments, the German government is acquainted with the fact that the subjection of the people of Cabinda to alien, i.e. Angola’s, subjugation, domination and exploitation constitutes a denial of fundamental human rights, is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations, and is an impediment to the promotion of world peace and co-operation. In addition, the German government is aware that, among the main purposes of the United Nations, appear the enjoyment by all peoples of: 1. the right of self-determination and independence; 2. the right to permanent sovereignty over their own natural wealth and resources.
Though both the subjection
of the people of Cabinda to alien subjugation, and the deprivation of this people’s
legitimate right to be in control of their own means of subsistence impede integral
development in Cabinda and world peace, Western democracies are reluctant to push
for good governance and human rights in Angola; and, with respect to Cabinda,
unwilling to assume their international responsibilities under Article 35 of
the Charter of the United Nations. We are told that their reluctance is influenced
by Angola’s so-called oil wealth and regional military power. Yet, it stands to
reason that the reluctance has simply to do with racial prejudice against
Africans, inasmuch as Russia’s, or Iran’s, oil wealth and military power do not
prevent Western democracies from criticizing the Russian and Iranian
governments.
“Nowhere are the
devastating effects of revenue misappropriation and state corruption more
starkly illustrated than in Angola, where one in four children will not live to
see the age of five. One in four is also the ratio of money that disappears
from the state budget each year. The two figures are related: while most
Angolans suffer devastating poverty, oil income has enabled some top officials
of the ruling [MPLA] to become very, very rich.”
― Global Witness Annual
Report 2004
It is worth noticing the extent to which injustice in Cabinda is a threat to justice in Germany, and the West at large. Angola’s ruling MPLA is, ever since its independence from Portugal in 1975, notorious for its autocracy, its corruption, its human rights record, and its criminal use of the State and the economy. In order for Angola to prevent UN member States from siding with the people of Cabinda, by acting in agreement with Article 35 of the Charter of the United Nations, awfully lucrative business opportunities are usually given as bribes to political figures and businessmen of the countries tending to draw the attention of the UN Security Council to the prevailing dispute between Cabinda and Angola. That is how Angola is exporting what defines and differentiates it the best, i.e. corruption. Yet corruption burns the society of whatever country it is exported into.
As stated by Angola’s
president João Lourenço on 30 May 2019, Angola agreed with Deutsche Bank (Germany) a billion-dollar loan to update private
projects linked to the productive sector.
Mr. Lourenço has signed an additional $3.7 billion credit facility with the IMF,
the biggest ever such arrangement made by an African country[2].
Though notorious for its totalitarianism, Angola still enjoys substantial
confidence from Western governments and financial institutions. Actually,
Angola has been given the exclusive privilege of continuously incurring huge
and long-term debts (i.e. odious debts), which are risking the existence of
Cabinda’s present and future generations.
Germany is fully
acquainted with the legal-political status of Cabinda as early as 1884/85, on
the occasion of the Berlin-Congo conference, at which the protectorate treaty
between Cabinda and Portugal received attention and ratification. In this
respect, the book of Hans Mayer and Ruth Weiss bears the following witness:
Bismarck verkündet das Ende der Konferenz. In der
Schlußakte werden letztlich fünf Punkte festgehalten, die es den europäischen
Mächten erlaubten, Afrika nach ihrem Gutdünken aufzuteilen: 1) Der Kongo –
Hauptanlaß für das Stattfinden der Konferenz – wird in drei Regionen unterteilt:
Kabinda bleibt unter portugiesischer Herrschaft, das Kongobecken wird in dem
späteren Kongo-Brazzaville (heute Volksrepublik Kongo) und in den Freistaat
Leopolds II unterteilt (heute Zaire).[3]
No leading Western
country, including Germany, can claim to know nothing about the fact that the
United Nations has consistently issued statements supportive of or consistent with
the Cabinda people’s right to self-determination and independence, as praised in
the UN GA Resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960; and set out in Article 1of
the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.[4]
As the subjection of
peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation constitutes a denial
of fundamental human rights, and is a barrier to the promotion of
world peace and cooperation, the question we ask ourselves, which we also ask
the German civil society, is the succeeding: “on what grounds is the German
government endorsing the subjection of the people of Cabinda to alien
subjugation, domination, and exploitation?” As international law insists that “In
no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence”, we cannot
help asking ourselves, as well as the German public, the question to know “on
what grounds is the German government allowing Angola to deprive the people of
Cabinda of their own means of subsistence?”
Norway is a country
extremely rich in natural wealth and resources, mostly oil. Yet the Norwegian
people are not deprived of their own means of subsistence. This leads to the
conclusion that the people of Cabinda are deprived of their own means of
subsistence on account of racial prejudice against black-skinned people. The
engineered arrogation of the Cabinda people’s own means of survival, and the
resulting situation of dehumanizing deprivation turn out to be consistent with
Dr. Henry Kissinger’s proposal according to which, we quote: “depopulation
should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World”.[5]
That is also consistent with one of the purposes of Cecil Rhodes’s secret
society, i.e. of “gradually absorbing the wealth of the world”[6],
as we learn from Prof. Carrol Quigley’s books, specifically: The Anglo-American Establishment and Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in
Our Time.
Angola’s government
has taken credit for improving transparency over its oil revenues and auditing
the state oil company. But the disappearance of $32 billion raises serious
questions about its efforts and underscores the need for public accountability.
Tens of billions of dollars could be used for the benefit of the Angolan
people—instead the government can’t account for them. Angolans deserve a full
public explanation for where those billions went.[1]
―
Human Rights Watch, 2011
Ever since Angola’s
independence in 1975, tens of billions of dollars vanish every year from the
state coffers. Where does Cabinda’s massive oil wealth end up? Cabinda, where
more than half of Angola’s oil is produced and from where Angola earns
practically all of its foreign exchange, is also the source of over 70 percent
of Angola’s national Budget. Thanks to the misappropriated oil of Cabinda,
Angola has become one of the United States' and China’s biggest oil providers.
Meanwhile, in Cabinda, even
if the indigenous people do not exceed two million, life expectancy at birth
has dropped from 75 years in Portuguese colonial era to 48 years nowadays;
child and maternal mortality rates now figure among the highest in the world;
rubbish dumped here and there have become children’s last resort; and a
hospital bed is for at least four patients. In fact, the increase of hardship and
the crumbling of the infrastructures inherited from the Portuguese colonial era
turn out to be the only visible development. The people of Cabinda were
supposed to benefit from their country’s oil deposits through a sovereign wealth fund; but the money is
often siphoned off by the mercenary government of Angola and its Western and
Eastern caretakers.
“While Angolan refuges
generally should be able to avail themselves of the protection of their country
of origin, UNHCR recognizes that the situation of those originating from
Cabinda Province requires special consideration. Cabinda Province has been
affected by an insurgency, dating back to 1975, led by separatist groups.
Bearing in mind the distinct dynamics in Cabinda Province, UNHCR recommends
that States implement simplified exemption procedures for Angolan refugees
originating from the Province. UNHCR will provide further information and
guidance on the modalities of simplified procedures.”
― United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The legal-political attack
on Cabinda’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity through the UN GA
Resolution 1542 (XV) of 15 December 1960, and the military occupation of
Cabinda in 1974/75, appear to be a legal-political problem that falls within
the competence of the United Nations, inasmuch as it is a problem of the nature
referred to in Article 34 of the Charter of the United Nations.
In view of her
responsibility originating from the 1885 international protectorate treaty with
the sovereign people of Cabinda, Portugal has yet to fulfill her legal
obligations to respect Cabinda as a political entity with the right to
self-determination and independence. In this respect, H.R.H. Dom Duarte Pio,
the Duke of Braganza (Portugal), has repeatedly and persistently stated that
“there is a legitimate case for the independence of Cabinda”. Despite
the informal recognition of this responsibility by particular members of the
Portuguese administration, the government as a whole lacks the political will
to openly support Cabindan independence without further support from the
international community. Yet, since Portugal is a EU member State, she
necessarily shares her responsibility for the reestablishment of Cabinda’s
political sovereignty with Germany, and the European Union as a whole.
In the mind of the
oppressed, exploited, and degraded people of Cabinda it is self-evident that
from
the occupying regime of Angola, notorious for its corruption, its human rights
record, and its criminal use of the State and the economy, there is nothing
good to expect. Consequently, the people of Cabinda are under the obligation to
take matters into their own hands without further postponement. While the Cabindan National Movement (CNM) is aligning
itself with the pro-self-government, it remains convinced of the need to safeguard
political security and stability in the region. For this reason, CNM is in
favor of an agreed transitional period of time, in which modern infrastructures
are built; in which the people of Cabinda are trained; and in which they are
given the required skills for self-government, self-defense, and self-respect.
At
the end of the agreed intermediate period of time, the people of Cabinda regain
their citizenship and independence from Angola. For the tasks that the
transitional period entails, 5.5 billion euros have to be yearly subtracted
from Cabinda’s oil revenues under the auspices of Germany and Portugal.
Actually, 5 billion euros of the above amount of money are for Cabinda’s
integral development, and 500 million euros for the empowerment of the Cabinda
citizens who live abroad as refugees.
In her capacity as a
non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, Germany is assuming major
responsibility for peace and security, as the Security Council is the most
important organ of the United Nations for ensuring peace and security
worldwide. The fact remains that Germany has been working for years to reform
the UN Security Council, with the intent of giving this key body in fostering
the UN ideal of universal peace additional legitimacy and authority. Moreover,
Germany’s membership of the Security Council vows to focus on conflict
resolution, and to ensure that the UN SC is all the more dynamic in the field of
conflict prevention than was the case in the past.
All things considered,
both Portugal and Germany have enough moral and political authority to be the
wanted independent international entity committed to a legal resolution of the
Cabinda issue, capable of impartially arbitrating the competing interests at
stake, and powerful enough to see that the parties involved, i.e. Cabinda and
Angola, negotiate in good faith and fulfill the responsibilities contained in
their ultimate agreement. In this connection, our task and duty is to remind
Germany and Portugal of their responsibility, pursuant to Article 35 of the
Charter of the United Nations, to bring the “Cabinda issue”
to the attention of the UN Security Council. This responsibility consists in
making sure Cabinda’s political sovereignty is restored in accordance with the
UN GA Resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960; in enabling the persecuted
people of Cabinda to enjoy all the rights conferred on them by the UN GA
Resolution 1803 (XVII) of 14 December 1962; and in ensuring that the well-being
of the people of Cabinda is promoted to the utmost thanks to their own
natural wealth and resources, in line with the proviso of the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights.
The Yalta World Order as a global Ethnic
Cleansing
Angola: hunger kills just like war
“Now, I cannot beget
the fourth son whose children I would have ordered to serve you and your
brothers! Therefore, it must be Canaan, your first born, whom they enslave. And
since you have disabled me…doing ugly things in Blackness of night, Canaan’s
children shall be born ugly and Black! Moreover, because you twisted your head
around to see my nakedness, your grandchildren’s hair shall be twisted into
kinks, and their eyes red; again because your lips jested at my misfortune,
theirs shall swell; and because you neglected my nakedness, they shall go
naked, and their male members shall be shamefully elongated! Men of this race
are called Negroes, their forefather Canaan commanded them to love theft and
fornication, to be banded together in hatred of their masters and never to tell
the truth.”
Consistent with the French
anthropologist, Paul Topinard, “the Rabbis of the First Century CE were the
first to expound the spread of Race and Color differences as we know them
today”. He said that such was unknown in the periods of far-off antiquity, and
at least in the West.[8]
Therefore, when all is said and done, there is no conspiracy worth talking
about other than the one aimed at ridding the world of its black-skinned people.
The so-called “Curse of Ham”, well-preserved in the 6th century CE European
version of the Babylonian Talmud, is the falsehood upon which all of the
existing anti-African propaganda is essentially based. In Genesis Rabba 37
(Hebrew: B'reshith Rabba), it is said that Ham became a black man, as God’s
punishment.[9]
It is worthwhile drawing
the attention of the German organized civil society, and of the governing
institutions, to the fact that the above reality is the root cause of the
predominant racial prejudice against black-skinned people all over the world. Ever
since the setting up of the above falsehood, a tremendous effort is continuously
being made with the aim of ensuring that the living conditions of black-skinned
people everywhere fit into the framework of the so-called “Curse of Ham”.
Owing to said effort,
millions of Africans have been kidnapped, cruelly thrown into ships’ holds, deported,
enslaved, and traded for goods or money by Muslims, Jews, and Christians alike
for
hundreds of years. On account of the very same effort, the neck of most African
countries and peoples was put under the yoke of colonization. Today, said
effort consists in reconquering and enslaving African peoples anew, all at once
by sword and by debt.[10]
By means of engineered wars and “odious debts”, African peoples are
systematically being deprived of their own means of subsistence, i.e. their natural
wealth and resources. Thus is conspired poverty in Africa being passed down
from one generation to the next. And this simply means “ethnic cleansing”.
Only two years after the
independence in 1975, rampant corruption and the criminal use of the state and
the economy triggered the Nito Alves
uprising, aka the 27 May, against
Angola’s ruling MPLA regime. Despite the fact that Alves was Angola’s first
minister of internal administration, for unspecified reason, Western academics
and journalists focusing on Angola’s modern history since independence failed
to mention the Nito Alves uprising, and the hundreds of thousands who were
killed in its aftermath.[11]
Though Angolan civil war ended in 2002, children are increasingly dying of hunger, whereas the ruling oligarchy is accumulating an ever greater wealth
abroad. As recently as August 17 and 23, 2019, Voice of America echoed the cries of pain from Angola, where
children are affected by hunger and infectious diseases.
One must deliberately endorse the “ethnic cleansing” underway in Angola, to
continue to grant loans to this country’s failed state, notorious for its
kleptocracy.
The global ethnic
cleansing activated by the racial prejudice against black-skinned people, which
the so-called “Curse of Ham” is all about, turns out to be the shepherding force
behind Benjamin Franklin’s wish to increase the number of purely white people
in the world,[12]
i.e. to diminish that of other races; behind Joseph Arthur de Gobineau’s theory
of the Aryan master race, and Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races
(white, black, and yellow); behind Napoleon Bonaparte’s resolution to block
forever the march of the Blacks in the world;
behind Cecil J. Rhodes’s secret societies committed to gradually absorbing the wealth of the world;[13]
behind Charles De Gaulle’s Colonial Pact by means of which France (EU) deprives
her former African colonies of 440 billion euros each year; behind the Yalta World Order―that
is, the Charter of Imperialism concerning
Third World Countries, secretly renegotiated in Yalta in the aftermath of
WWII;
and behind Henry Kissinger’s conceived US foreign policy meant to depopulate
less-developed countries in order to arrogate the latter’s natural wealth and
resources.
As the above articles
verify, Western Charter of Imperialism, i.e. the Yalta World Order, impairs
considerably the United Nations’ international standing, and is therefore the
greatest underminer of global peace and security. All in all, the Charter of
Imperialism plays a significant part in the obstruction of Cabinda’s attainment
of self-determination, self-defense, and self-respect. In other words,
governments that are reluctant to cultivate peace in Cabinda, thus unwilling to
take care of the creation, are deliberately displaying a clearly identifiable
racial prejudice against the black-skinned people of Cabinda. In any case, we
expect Germany to be impartial enough to help restore justice and peace in
Cabinda, for justice in Cabinda gives the UN Security Council additional
legitimacy and authority.
It is admitted that
“Western Europe’s very existence depends on the resources of Africa and the
continued control exercised by the Western European powers over the African
continent.”[14]
Yet, justice consists in reconciling this dependence with the legitimate right
of African children to live prosperous lives thanks to their respective
countries’ natural wealth. In this respect, one cannot help agreeing with Mr.
Clemens Tönnies that all-embracing development in Africa is the proper way to
curb overpopulation, and to protect the environment all at once.
Dear Dr. Uschi Eid, thank you very much for your time,
your compassion, and help in this matter.
Author: Bartolomeu Capita (Mr.)
Dr. Albert Churchward (1852-1925), in
his pertinent work titled “The Origin and Evolution of Primitive Man,” makes
the following statement about the destiny of the black-skinned people who first
populated the world, i.e. Mother Earth: “They have been exterminated in Europe,
North America, Japan, Australia and Tasmania, but I have no doubt they are to
be found in other places not yet explored.”
[2] David Pilling, “Africa: can João Lourenço cure Angola of its crony capitalism?”, Luanda: July 9, 2019.
[3] Ruth Weiss & Hans Mayer, Afrika den Europäern! Von der Berliner Kongokonferenz 1884 ins Afrika der neuen Kolonisation, Peter Hammer Verlag: 1984, p. 221.
[4] Document of the 17th Session of the UN General Assembly—4th Committee A/C. 4/SR 1391—20 November 1962 / Annexes, Agenda item 54, documents A/5160 and add. 1 and 2. Also: UNHCR Document, p. 6. https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4f3395972.pdf
[5] National Security Memo 200, dated April 24, 1974, under the title “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests”; Leuren Moret, Kissinger, Eugenics and Depopulation: http://www.rense.com/general59/kissingereugenics.htm
[6] Robert I. Rotberg, The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power, Oxford University Press: 1988, pp. 101, 102.
[7] Yosef A. A. ben-Jochannan, We the Black Jews: Witness to the “White Jewish Race Myth”, New York: Black Classic Press (1993), p. 2.
[8] P. Topinard, De la Notion de Race en Anthropologie, Revue d’Anthrop. 2nd Ser. Vol. II, Paris: 1870, pp. 1, 587.
[9] Samuel Rapaport, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash, Genesis Rabba 37, p. 62.
[10] “There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword and the other is by debt.” ― John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), 6th U.S. President.
[11] Lara Pawson, The 27 May in Angola: a view from below, Revista Relações Internacionais N.º 14, Lisboa: Junho 2007, p. 2. https://libcom.org/files/pawson-lara-the-27-may-in-angola.pdf
[12] The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. IV, Editor: Leonard W. Labaree, USA: 1753, p. 234.
[13] The New York Times of 9 April 1902; Also The Quigley Formula, G. Edward Griffin’s lecture: https://youtu.be/ynVqPnMQ2sI
[14] Conversation between Dr. Paulo Cunha, Portuguese foreign minister and the Honorable John Foster Dulles, US secretary of state, in Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Volume XXVII, Western Europe and Canada, Document 148: Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, November 30, 1955. http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v27/d148
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