Right after you start reading Clifford D. May's latest
column, published on February 27, 2018 in The Washington Times, you begin to
wonder: What's he trying to say?
The column came under the title: “Black lives in Africa ” and the subtitle: “Don't they matter, too?” This
gives the impression that Clifford May is about to ask for the creation of a
Marshall Plan kind of program to help the poorest of African nations develop,
and catch up with the rest of the world as soon as possible.
But as you get deeper into the article, you realize that the
title and subtitle were meant to mock the movement in America known
as “Black Lives Matter.” The column does that by associating the movement with
the worst that's happening in Africa . In fact,
it does the association with the exaggerated, distorted and caricatured
expression of the worst that's happening in Africa .
The first thing that May does is rebuke the mainstream media
in America for praising the latest Wakanda installment, a movie called “Black
Panther” in the franchise that started more than half a century ago about life
in Africa as it is hoped will develop in the future.
But echoing the concerns of the selfish segment of the
population that sees the new Black movement in America as a threat to its dominance,
Clifford May has concentrated not on the current tragic events in Africa for
the damage they inflict on African societies, but as they affect Christians and
“Western interests” on the continent. Here is a condensed version of what the
writer says in this regard:
“Men stormed villages massacring Christians, destroying
their churches and ransacking their villages. Those attacking were Muslims;
their victims Christians. Boko Haram –– a group motivated by religion –– seized
a girls school. That group claimed responsibility for killing four American and
five Nigerian soldiers. Another Islamic State franchise dominates in the Horn
of Africa. In Mali ,
two French soldiers were killed. The threat that groups in Africa
pose to Western interests has grown over the past decade. There were 358
attacks against Western interests in a little more than five and a half years”.
Convinced by now that Clifford May is looking for a self-serving
angle through which to articulate his message, you try to find out what that
message consists of.
Going through the article, you encounter this bitter
lamentation: “The media show little interest in these bloody developments.
Those enthused over the heroism of the Black Panther and the charms of Wakanda
appear oblivious … the film was called an opportunity to celebrate Afrofuturism
… Wakanda is a vision of what's possible”.
Having thus complained about the optimism expressed by
others about the future of Africa , Clifford
May starts describing his pessimistic view. It goes like this: “Those with the
vaguest notion of current African reality know that's nonsense. But few will
point it out … Even social justice warriors are turning a blind eye to
real-life Africa .” What this does is hide the
hopeful vision of the future others have of Africa
by plastering over it his own distorted vision of the present.
Having thus displayed the Jewish inability to respect the
chronological order, Clifford May attempts to advise the Africans living on
their continent and those living everywhere else in the world, how to run their
lives. He says this: “How about the black people of Nigeria ,
Niger , Burkina Faso
and the other African lands who are facing slaughter? Do their lives matter? If
not, why not?” And he addresses what he calls the mainstream media in America with
these words: “If they do, why not talk about them once in a while”.
Do you know what this is about, my friend? To find out, you
dig out the message that the Jews gave most often to the American media and the
Washington Beltway. It was that the best way to deal with the Palestinians is
never to let them develop the hope they will someday live freely on their land.
This is how the Jews managed to maintain the colonization of
Palestine . It
is how Clifford D. May hopes to see his brethren re-colonize Africa .