I agree with him totally and it's something i've mentioned here..
The Chinese are smart in their approach to Africa as they go about building lots of necessary infrastructure across the continent, something other European colonizers didn't do..
As for the Chinese labor workers mingling with African women and getting them pregnant, that's on the Africans and their women..
If they feel sooo insecure about their identity and sexuality, well what else do you expect? I'm not sure those Chinese men are forcing them at gun point to have sexual relations, right?
As for Jerry Rawlings, I wish there were more like him and Gaddafi on the African scene today..
Jerry Rawlings was Afrocentric before it was fashionable to be so - dude was African authentic..
And he would ALWAYS make sure to address & engage Black media whenever he was in the US..
Big props to Jerry Rawlings, especially since Kris Columbus hated his gut so much and tried many times to undermine his gov't.
"On the surface, i'd say we in the diaspora fit into the so-called mixed-race framing."
NO WE'RE NOT, SIR!
Don't know if you meant this philosophically or just rhetorically, but most of the Black folks in the Western diaspora are un-mixed biologically. From Haiti to Columbia to the Caribbean islands to Brazil to the United States, most Black folks are dark-skinned and undiluted.
Of course if we take our cue from international media, then I can understand why that misperception happens, but in reality, not so.
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