I totally loved Uju Anya's Tweets during this great reckoning with Queen Elizabeth's death! What an uproar , created by liberals and Monarchists, making us believe that the Queen didn't have a racist bone in her body and, that it is bad form to celebrate someone’s death. This selective morality that only protects that power of a colonial institution is an absolute lie!
And, see this Tweet. Please let there be no doubt about what aid is : a successor to colonialism that is funded by the same imperial powers. It does not address the problematic world order that spends trillions on war. Aid is a geopolitical tool used by the same powers to appear good but keep the Global South in permanent crisis. Aid, as small and ineffective as it is as a permanent solution, is often withheld as punishment. Aid feeds a career industry and, perpetuates Do Gooder /Saviour morality and, defends capitalism. Aid is so shockingly apolitical in its project-based work. And, women who work in this industry, especially white women, project White Feminism in all its glory.
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