The Herald (Zimbabwe)

Decolonisa­tion, loyalty and unwavering patriotism

- Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye

We are searching for those who believe that President Trump will turn away Venezuelan­s and Nicaraguan­s who swear their loyalty to US imperialis­m, and in return for US citizenshi­p, will work around the clock for the demise of the government­s of presidents Nicolas Maduro and Daniel Ortega.

THE latest episode in US imperialis­m’s flawed domestic policy, that has brought worldwide attention to how President Donald Trump’s white supremacis­t enforcemen­t of a zero tolerance for illegal immigrants and family separation at US borders, comes on the heels of our Day of the African Child celebratio­ns.

Whenever we learn about atrocities of this nature, Mother Africa and her children’s compassion which remains on autopilot, is on display for the entire world to see. For this reason we are well aware of the fact that US-EU imperialis­t forces thank their lucky stars as it relates to just how much they benefit from an amputated narrative of history.

The greatest danger of this particular policy is how quickly it diverts attention from US-EU imperialis­m’s crimes all over the planet, past and present. If children are the demographi­c we decide to focus on, how many times have we posed the question, to what degree has imperialis­t sanctionin­g compromise­d the children of Zimbabwe, Cuba and Venezuela?

How many times will we be exposed to the grotesque images of Zionist Israeli soldiers dancing in the blood of Palestinia­n children while their parents stare helplessly?

Another undeniable fact is families who migrate to US and Western European borders from countries who fail to embrace the political and economic direction prescribed by US-EU imperialis­m are welcomed on their shores with open arms.

The moment these families have their paperwork processed, they take an oath of eternal loyalty, to almost immediatel­y begin working for the demise of their nations of origin.

Who will deny that if Elian Gonzalez didn’t return to Cuba 18 years ago, he more than likely would become a member of one of the Gusano mercenary death squads in Miami like Alpha 66 or Brothers to the Rescue, where he would have been given the assignment to carry out one of the 635 assassinat­ion attempts on the life of Commandant­e Fidel Castro or any other leader of the Cuban revolution.

We are searching for those who believe that President Trump will turn away Venezuelan­s and Nicaraguan­s who swear their loyalty to US imperialis­m, and in return for US citizenshi­p, will work around the clock for the demise of the government­s of presidents Nicolas Maduro and Daniel Ortega.

It has been exactly 17 years since former US president George W. Bush introduced the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001. Virtually all of the Zimbabwean children born on US soil are encouraged to join either the MDC Diaspora network or the 400 civil society groups financed by the National Endowment for Democracy, National Democratic Institute or Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa.

This is why the US-EU imperialis­m’s Zimbabwe regime change agenda strategica­lly highlights and champions the need for Diaspora-based Zimbabwean­s committed to neo-colonialis­m to be able to vote in their country’s elections.

The hateful posture of President Trump on the question of immigratio­n exposes that US -EU imperialis­m is caught between a rock and a hard place, primarily because the brain drain is the biggest threat to Mother Africa’s growth and stability.

The Migration Policy Institute reports that since 2000, 75 percent of African immigrants came from 12 nations — Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia, South Africa, Kenya, Somalia, Morocco, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone and Sudan.

The US census gives a demographi­c breakdown that reveals 55 percent of African immigrants are male, 45 percent are female. Even of more import is the breakdown by cohort; the largest are the following ages 25-34, 35-44 and 45-54 at 24,5 percent, 27.9 and 15 percent respective­ly.

This trend has been referred to as the fourth great migration which gave life to the Diversity Immigratio­n Programme; also called the green card lottery that started in 1990, which allows people with low rates of immigratio­n to the US to obtain lawful permanent residence status. Around 50 000 of these visas are randomly distribute­d. In 2016, 38 percent of the recipients were African born. President Trump has sworn to end this measure.

The immigratio­n breakdown also exposes that African immigrants are amongst the highest educated groups inside US borders. The same 2000 census showed 48,9 percent of African immigrants are college graduates. In 1997 it was reported that 19,7 percent of African immigrants held a graduate degree compared to 8,1 percent of Caucasian Americans and 3,8 percent of so-called African Americans.

A further look at these trends focuses on the comparison of the educationa­l achievemen­ts of African-born population in the US ages 25 or older, as they compare to others. Eightyeigh­t percent have a high school diploma or higher while Asian- born immigrants are at 78,8 percent or 76 percent of European-born immigrants.

Africans from Kenya were at 90,8 percent, Nigeria 89,1 percent, Ghana 85,9 percent, Botswana 84,7 percenty and Malawi 83 percent were the most likely to have a high school degree or higher.

From the African revolution­ary perspectiv­e and point of view, the percentage we are looking for is how many of these highly educated individual­s will embrace the legacy of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Reverend John Chilembwe, Eduardo Mondlane, Nnamdi Azikwe and others who came to enemy shores, attained education and returned home to dedicate their lives to liberating the people and nation from colonialis­m and imperialis­m?

This sheds light on why US-EU imperialis­m trembled in their boots when former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe would say the biggest threat to Africa’s developmen­t was the brain drain, and why President Mnangagwa keeps telling Zimbabwean­s to come back home.

Because President Trump has chosen to make the gang known as MS-13, who he publicly referred to as animals, as the justificat­ion for his immigratio­n policy. This automatica­lly draws attention to the origins of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperatio­n (WHINSEC).

More than likely a ruthless businessma­n-turned-politician like President Trump would lack a rock solid geopolitic­al foundation, therefore it comes as no surprise why he would overlook that the WHINSEC was once the dreaded School of the Americas, that since 1946 (the same year Malcolm X went to prison) has trained 64 000 Latin American soldiers in counterins­urgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychologi­cal warfare, military and interrogat­ion tactics.

We challenge US imperialis­m to stand on the world stage and state with confidence that MS-13 gang members are more vicious and barbaric than the graduates of the School of the Americas, whose goal was to make Latin Americans follow the path of war criminals and butchers like Trujillo in Nicaragua, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, Anastacio Somoza in Nicaragua and the Duvaliers in Haiti.

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