Ask Amanda Kijera, a white civic journalist and activist who traveled to earthquake stricken Haiti to “empower Haitians to self-sufficiency” and to “remind them of the many great contributions that Afro-descendants have made “.
Ignoring the staggering rape and murder figures that her ideology would not allow her to blame on anything other than white supremacy she set off with foolhardy abandon.
Poor naïve woman, as tragic as it is ironic it wasn’t long before….
“Two weeks ago, on a Monday morning, I started to write what I thought was a very clever editorial about violence against women in Haiti. The case, I believed, was being overstated by women’s organizations in need of additional resources. Ever committed to preserving the dignity of Black men in a world which constantly stereotypes them as violent savages, I viewed this writing as yet one more opportunity to fight “the man” on behalf of my brothers. That night, before I could finish the piece, I was held on a rooftop in Haiti and raped repeatedly by one of the very men who I had spent the bulk of my life advocating for.
It hurt. The experience was almost more than I could bear. I begged him to stop. Afraid he would kill me, I pleaded with him to honor my commitment to Haiti, to him as a brother in the mutual struggle for an end to our common oppression, but to no avail. He didn’t care that I was a Malcolm X scholar. He told me to shut up, and then slapped me in the face. Overpowered, I gave up fighting halfway through the night.”
Like I said this woman’s ordeal is as tragic as it is ironic.
Tragic that her naïve world view would not allow her to see the danger she was placing herself in.
And ironic that the very stereotype she wanted to disprove would prove to her first hand its reality.
What did she expect?
Attractive, white woman roaming through black shanty towns and refugee camps, she prayed for trouble and it found her.
Black women have a hard enough time avoiding rape and violence; imagine what she looked like to the sexual predators of Haiti?
But she really thought her goodwill to her “brothers” and her desire to be their equals would make them see her as anything else as “white meat”?
So lesson learned right?
Wrong.
“Truly, I have witnessed as a journalist and human rights advocate the many injustices inflicted upon Black men in this world. The pain, trauma and rage born of exploitation are terrors that I have grappled with every day of my life. They make one want to strike back, to fight rabidly for what is left of their personal dignity in the wake of such things. Black men have every right to the anger they feel in response to their position in the global hierarchy, but their anger is misdirected.
Women are not the source of their oppression; oppressive policies and the as-yet unaddressed white patriarchy which still dominates the global stage are. Because women–and particularly women of color–are forced to bear the brunt of the Black male response to the Black male plight”
So it’s the cracker mans fault again of course.
It’s frustrating trying to understand how this deluded woman fools herself again and again, imagining this epic political struggle against the “white patriarchy” causing this man to rape and beat her.
And to everyone reading her tale, the reality is painfully obvious.
Black man see’s white woman, black man wants white woman, black man rapes white woman, it’s as simple as that really.
Unfortunately this woman is loaded with “white guilt” an unfortunate curse on our people, given to us at an early age by the system it causes us to shun reality and believe in fairy tales.
Bombarded in the classroom and while watching TV with anti-white propaganda we are shown our ancestors abusing and enslaving black people and “holding them down”.
We get so many doses of this stuff we gradually begin to feel ashamed of our race and eventually come to hate it, seeing the other races as the good guys and our own as the bad.
In time we suspect evil white racists of everything and never shy from pointing the finger at whitey in the hope we will be recognized as one of the “good guys”.
You can see the effects of this mental disorder everywhere for instance…
An area of a city is overrun with drugs, gangs and violence as it changes from majority white to majority black, white racism is blamed as the cause.
Young black males commit a disproportionately high amount of crime compared to other races in a city, white racism is blamed.
Blacks perform poorly in something, white racism is blamed, you get the picture.
These people always insist its US thats failing not them.
“I went to Haiti after the earthquake to empower Haitians to self-sufficiency. I went to remind them of the many great contributions that Afro-descendants have made to this world and of their amazing resilience and strength as a people.NOT ONCE DID I ENVISION MYSELF BECOMING A RECEPTACLE FOR A BLACK MAN'S RAGE AGAINST THE WHITE WORLD, but that is what I became. While I take issue with my brother’s behavior, I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE EXPERIENCE. It woke me up, made me understand on a deeper level the terror that my sisters deal with daily. This in hand, I feel comfortable in speaking for Haitian women, and for myself, in saying that we will not be your pawns, racially, politically, economically or otherwise.”
There is an old Navajo proverb
“You can’t wake someone who is pretending to be asleep”
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