welcome to candid africa truthful and unapologetic i think of human beings from africa enslaved
and brought from ghana to the new world and all those prophets getting sucked into cities
like london and glasgow when i listened to boris johnson when i listened to people like
joe biden when i listen even more to emmanuel macron all i can think of is how condescending
you are you condescend it to us 400 years ago you condescended to us 300 years ago you condescended
to us 200 years ago you condescended to us 100 years ago you're condescending to
us today you only know condescension because for you colonialism isn't something that happened in
the past and we defeated we defeated you it's not that for you colonialism is a permanent condition
and that permanent condition happens in two ways there's the permanent condition of the colonial
mentality you want to lecture us you want to tell us that we are responsible for all the problems
because you'll never accept that you're the one principally to blame you signed the rio formula in
1992 on common and differentiated responsibilities you like the common part you like the common part
you like to say we're all in this together and so on we're not in this together the united states
four five percent of the world's population still uses 25 of the world's resources you outsource
production to china and then you say china is the carbon polluter china is producing your buckets
china is producing your nuts and bolts china is producing your phones try to produce it in your
own countries and see your carbon emissions rise you love lecturing us because you have a colonial
mentality then there are colonial structures and institutions you lend us money and every time
you lend us money which is our money which is our money every time the international monetary fund
comes to our societies and they tell us here's the money we are giving you we are giving you no it's
our money you give us our money back as debt and then you lecture us about how we should live
it's extraordinary it's not just the colonial mentality it's the colonial structures and
institutions which reproduce themselves year after year after year and let me tell you
something the climate justice movement not clued enough enough on this not clued enough on this
the climate justice movement is a movement that says we're worried about our future what future
what future children in the african continent in asia in latin america they don't have a future
they don't have a present they're not worried about the future they're worried about their
present your slogan is we're worried about the future what future that's a middle-class bourgeois
western slogan you've got to be worried about now 2.7 billion people can't eat now and you're
telling people reduce your consumption how does this sound to a child who hasn't eaten in days
you've got to clue into this guys you got a clue into this otherwise this movement will
have no legs in the third world no legs later i'd like to tell you about the international people's
assembly a network of 200 political organizations that we're setting up rooted in the global south
we want to tell you what our issues are but are you willing to listen
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