Is the non-white world a joke, a tragedy; does it exist?

May 19, 2013 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

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What would the great minds of philosophy think of the people of the Third World if they had a chance to see it as we see and know the Third World today, that is, the post-1945 Independent Third World? What would Georg Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Fredrich Nietzsche, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, René Descartes, Sigmund Freud and others think about the Third World?
What else can come from the pen of anyone who is familiar with philosophical works on ontology when one looks at the Third World today? Is there anything culturally redemptive about the Third World? Does civilization exist in the Third World?
What would the brilliant West Indian philosopher Frantz Fanon think of the people of the Third World had he lived beyond 1961 when he died? The author of “Black Skin, White Masks” would have certainly been savage with his phenomenal pen, the fraudulent civilization named the Third World.
Voltaire wrote that if God did not exist then people would have invented him. In the same vein you can say if the white man did not exist, the non-white world would have conjured up his existence to excuse their lack of a civilized being.
Every act of decadence, every act of depravity, every abomination in Third World culture is excused and blamed on the white man. The glee in condemning the white man reverberates to every corner of the post-colonial world.
Bouterse in Suriname is embraced because a white government in Holland accused him of drug-trafficking. He must be protected because the white man is out to get him. “Yankee imperialism” wanted to dethrone Hugo Chavez, so the non-white world had to come to his rescue.
The same “Yankee imperialism” harassed Fidel Castro until they had to give up. Bush wanted the Iraqi oilfields, so Saddam became a hero. France went into Mali because the French still want to own Africa.
Is this denunciation of the white world a smokescreen to hide the non-existence of humanity in the Third World? The citizens of the white world enjoy far greater freedom than those who live under Third World leaders. A white citizen of Holland can openly smoke a marijuana cigarette (joint) while in Guyana, a poor youth would have his future destroyed if found with such an item. His home would be Camp Street for the next four years.
Saddam Hussein murdered his fellow Iraqis by the thousands, but loved freedom so much that he was discovered living like a rat in a hole after the invasion by the Americans. Gaddafi was supposed to be a Third World hero, but he stole billions from his own people and was captured hiding in a sewage pipe. Recent secret files downloaded to the Guardian of London and the Washington Post revealed thousands of secret accounts in Caribbean offshore banks and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe owns one of them. Mugabe was a former freedom fighter.
So was the current president of Angola, whose daughter is listed by Forbes magazine as being of the world’s richest women.
“White man country” is no bed of roses we are told. Third World leaders tell the world America has poor people so does Europe. But since Independence we have been begging the same Americans and Europeans. Shouldn’t we leave them to use the money they gave us to help their poor folks?
The white man puts his leader on trial but who dares charge the Third World autocrat? Which marshal will survive even if he stands on the clouds while trying to serve a court paper on a Third World ruler? President Bill Clinton was ordered by a Special Prosecutor to submit a semen sample. Who can tell the Third World boss to do that?
In Guyana, a wife claims she was psychologically abused for years with the strongman refusing to legally marry her. Nothing happened.
World Values Survey at the request of the Washington Post questioned people in 80 countries as to what type of people they would like to have living next to their countries. The results were shocking. India, Bangladesh, Jordan and Hong Kong led the way in saying they prefer their own race to be their neighbours. Britain, the US, New Zealand came out on top.
No European or North American country has a law that says people have to give one of three reasons to get a legal divorce. Guyana has such a law that goes back to 1913. Guyana arrests people for cross-dressing that is backed by a 1890 law.
Two women, five weeks ago, were given two million American dollars each by the State of California for accidental injuries when police shot up the vehicle they were in. In Guyana, the families of three men shot dead by police were given a total of $40,000 (American) in compensation; fifteen each for two and ten for another. That is what life is worth in the Third World. Are Third World people a genetically inferior race?

 

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