Ferguson and good governance Americana

Accumulated anger in major cities burst open when a predominantly white St Louis County Grand Jury exonerated the killer policeman. The broadcast of ‘rainbow rage’ by global television threw putrid mud at Obama as a cowboy shooting bad governance from Ukraine to Hong Kong and DR Congo.That American drama of executive and judicial impunity was […]

Accumulated anger in major cities burst open when a predominantly white St Louis County Grand Jury exonerated the killer policeman. The broadcast of ‘rainbow rage’ by global television threw putrid mud at Obama as a cowboy shooting bad governance from Ukraine to Hong Kong and DR Congo.
That American drama of executive and judicial impunity was cynically copied by an appeal court judge in Egypt who exuberantly and spitefully pronounced former president, Hosni Mubarak, innocent of killings, by security forces, of 800 persons. He rejected a former head of state facing trial for criminal actions taken under him. He declared that verified deaths of 230 demonstrators not criminal. He spat at American criticism of the Egyptian military; and freed President El Sisi’s from nightmares over future accountability for deaths of hundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In 1989, televised proceedings of a conference by chief executives of America’s business corporations meeting in Atlanta (Georgia) emphasised the view that Japanese leaders mock at America for denying quality education to the majority of its African-American population; thereby, wasting a convulsive sea of intellectual power. A vital mass of talent to enhance leadership by the American education system in promoting creativity of its products – a resource vital for industrial research and inventiveness – was being flared away. This flaw puzzled me; calling for explanations.
Founders of America’s young union fought subversion by France and Britain that feared the growth of a dynamic country founded on anti-European colonialism; blessed with vast backlands in the North American mainland; the Caribbean islands, and South America.  They also feared continued British incitement of rebellion by black slaves as she had done during the anti-colonial war.  The successful 1801 revolution by African slaves in Haiti might also become a contagious geospatial virus.
 In fighting off European plots, American officials invented tools of washing off loyalties to homelands by immigrants from Europe. The myth of the American ‘’melting pot’’ did tolerate Irish, Polish, Jewish, German, and Anglo-Saxon tribal loyalties during local and federal elections. The Japanese were, however, brutally held in concentration camps during World War 2.
 European colonisers of Africa expressed fears of African-American politicians and business interests inciting revolutions in Africa; urged American suppression of publications by Marcus Garvey advocating for black economic power. Garvey promoted the explosive call of ‘’Africa for Africans’’; excited protests against white rule from South Africa to Nigeria.  W.E.B. Dubois invented Pan-African conferences that fired the political imagination of educated Africans to fight for the expulsion of European rule out of Africa.  Euro-American interests distrust ambitions and horizons of oppressed blacks in America.
The continued suppression of America’s own black population provides a ladder built on aversion for black bodies for each wave of immigrants to climb with; a form of income as complicity in the sin of racial discrimination. A struggle to be American gets fuelled by black backs to climb on. Publications showing that Koreans, Vietnamese, Chinese, Indian and Thai students in America’s top universities score the highest grades convey the message of African-Americans yet again being overtaken by new immigrants.
 Africa needs policies for responding to African-American poverty; lack of good schools, employment, housing, health care. Over 3 million black young males trapped inside prisons to provide unpaid labour to vast plantations and factories, await books by African diplomats and scholars about this ‘’internal colonialism’’  towards feeding the dynamic growth of such policies.
Swiss companies hire flats for entertaining their students studying in top American universities to tap creative business ideas from them. African companies should tap Caribbean, Brazilian, Peruvian, American blacks in these universities; and finance their start-up businesses. Senegalese immigrants own small food businesses in “Little Senegal’’ in Harlem, New York. Ethiopians run restaurants in Washington DC. Kenyan and Nigerian architects are in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania).  Trade attaches in African embassies should assist them in building collaborative businesses with African American communities.
African-Diaspora innovators in the education sector could be assisted to establish schools in some of the poor city slums and rural towns from Chicago to Bahia and Lima and train talented youths. Some would flow into a ‘’Martin Luther King- Kwame Nkrumah’ corps to serve in local African-Diaspora communities in the Americas; and in Africa. As Africa brain-drains into Euro- America, innovative Pan-Africanism by the African Union must establish a board that would lure a former President Obama and Michele Obama as active members to drive this vision.