‘All white people should be enslaved, and white men should be killed!’
So said the young East Asian woman to me in a poetry class at the University of Technology in Kelvin Grove in 2023. My mind was reeling. She sounds like a Nazi and there is silence. The middle aged white female professor brushes past this statement.
Over the past few years, I’ve been trying to understand what would make her say this. The BLM movement, then the MeToo movement, and then the escalating reactive ideologies of woke and mass immigration began gaining political power. These have been followed up with Free Palestine.
I am completely sure that I am not accountable for actions taken by someone who died 200 years before I was born. I am also very sure that that young woman is accountable for sounding like a genocidal maniac. The lecturer is also 100% responsible for enabling that dialogue and the women who taught that student to become devoured by spite are culpable. All must be brought to a court of law and punished for their vile destructiveness.
Having said all that, my rational mind steps back onto the stage to ask some open ended questions…
What has your culture, your society contributed to the world?
What have you, and what do you, contribute?
How do you apply accountability to the ‘other’ in your narrative but never take responsibility for yourself, or those you consider ‘us’?
What are your definitions of educational integrity?
At what point do you not consider yourself an abject hypocrite: flying to Australia, enjoying a safe and equality based society, at a university, driving on roads and enjoying the internet, and hot and cold running water, all these created, produced and maintained by a vast majority of white men?
Why do you hate me, considering I had never met you before – because my poetry is far better than you can ever dream?
Spite is a nasty mistress who conveys no favours and pays no dividends. Just like a tarantula, she is possessed with a murderous intent.
Now I have come across Franck Zanu. He is attempting to educate Africans and their long lost cousins about psychology, biology and secular values and he does it with zero condescension and 100% love. He is an absolutely excellent man!
He states that no African country has ever contributed or created anything. Activist claim that Africans are superior because Africa is the birthplace of our species. It sure was, according to DNA and mtDNA findings! However, no human created DNA – DNA resulted in us. That’s how it works, yes?
Zanu, to my mind, seems desperate to help all the peoples of Africa understand their socio-cultural limitations. In most African countries, the weather is heavenly, natural resources are abundant, and fruit grows from every tree (yes, poetic licence).
In Europe and East Asia, we are not so lucky: bitter winters, changing temperate zones, fluctuating crop yields and recurring natural disasters have forced whites and yellows (yes, short hand for all the diverse peoples who have populated and are populating those regions) to integrate adaptability and tool development into their societies.
Particularly in Western Europe, especially England, which has been a repeated crucible of human genetics, disease, cultures, resource extraction and productivity, law and sustenance aimed at survival.
He goes on to reframe supremacy in terms of general and well known psychological and sociological studies: people generally group together simply because doing the wrong thing is embarrassing.
It takes freaks like me who do not care a hoot about embarrassment to expend the energy and who have the curiosity to put themselves out on limbs to step in another person’s shoes. Most people don’t even think of trying.
The current woke feminist mass immigration anti-semitic movement of liberals is also based entire on victims. Now, this is hideously complex and nuanced: define ‘victim’.
Well?
Who is actually a victim?
That young brown Asian woman would state that she and all like her are victims because of things that happened before she was conceived, or even before her parents were conceived.
Explain the mechanics of this victim-ness.
I dare you.
I can’t unless in destroy every precedent of personal accountability, a foundational component of Western culture. Even Aboriginal culture is based squarely within personal accountability.
And this is a neat mechanic of Franck Zanu’s: you cannot expect yourself to operate a social mechanism where you have no capability. He goes on to reveal exactly how and why no African country can maintain a public toilet, let alone a functional democracy. It is not race, it is not intelligence, and it is certainly not because blacks are victims of colonialisation.
It is because there has never been an historical need for the peoples living in those places to band together, to define themselves as a larger group, to develop the social and political systems to defend themselves against other large socio-political systems.
It is because those people do not have a larger understanding of ‘we’ that people from Europe or East Asia have developed. There simply has never been a need.
The message he has is this: you cannot expect someone without that awareness to operate the machinery of state; you cannot expect someone with that awareness to understand how tribalism functions in opposition to state; there is no ‘victim’, there is only opportunity for learning and being realistic.
Secularism is a wonderful phenomenon. It helps anyone who employs it. No delusions, no superstitions, and no assumptions.
I find secular values incredibly spiritual: I must rescind my own identity to engage fully with objective data. Humility is sacred. I find myself repeatedly focussing on the brilliance of the human mind and our ability to overcome all obstacles with brilliance.
Thank-you, Mr Zanu.
A D R A N 