ChakaBars EXPOSES South Africa’s Xenophobia Wave — Debunking the Diaspora Wars

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1:47Learn more at brex.com slash AF. Let's talk about the diaspora wars. We never really got into that on this show, but there's a thing called Diaspora Wars on social media where, yeah, it's a Diaspora Wars. Black Americans versus African, Africans versus Black Americans, Nigerians versus South Africans. It's a whole thing. It's a whole thing going on right now. Yeah, Diaspora Wars. I feel like the Diaspora Wars are mythological. I think that they only really exist on social media until you have recently people trying to boycott businesses, which didn't work. They actually just got more support for the businesses.

2:29In America, in the Americas, I think on the continent, there is some legitimate issues. It's always interesting how the South Africans that have issues with Nigerians and Somalis and Ethiopians, et cetera, they never have the same smoke for the the erroneous white only towns and those type of things but we do love south africa by the way so we do you know i i think that the diaspora wars are essentially just like um a a exacerbation of coinsell pro if you look at uh organizations like breitbart they have first they have their bots, but then they have agents that they pay to sow the seeds of distrust and they pay to sow the seeds of disassociation between black people because everybody kind of just forgets history.

3:28We're living in 24-hour feed life right now, rather than living in the real life, which is actually in the 60s, in the 70s, CoinSoap Pro was created to try and create diaspora wars that never existed before as well. And I think, you know, you're not hearing Nigerians getting shot by black Americans or Nigerians shooting black Americans like black Americans are shooting black Americans and Nigerians are shooting Nigerians in Nigeria. I don't think that the diaspora wars is a legitimate war as much as it is said that it is on social media and also, sorry about the beeping, and also the people who are perpetuating these wars and these narratives also are benefiting from them.

4:22That's what we have to remember, they are masquerading as patriots, American patriots, or masquerading as Nigerian patriots or whatever. But the reality is that the people who are going the hardest and leading the lambs to the slaughter, essentially, are the same people who are also the ones who have the trademark, the ones who hold the meetups, the ones who hold the holidays, the ones who hold the cookouts, et cetera, et cetera, under this banner or these guys of whatever it is. It's like, well, all right, cool. We'll then have the same smoke for Koreans. Have the same smoke for Chinese. Have the same smoke for Indians.

5:01Have the same smoke for white supremacists. I don't see y 'all coming and trying to find the KKK the same way that you're trying to come and find the Nigerians on Twitter. So I just don't think that it really holds legitimacy. And I think that it's one of those things like cancel culture. In order to cancel somebody, you have to have the power to cancel them, right? So like when you have somebody who's got a TikTok or whatever and they're like, right, all black Americans, you're going to cancel this person. It's like, okay, do you own the distribution? Do you own the social media platforms? Do you own any of the modalities in which you can cancel somebody?

5:40No, you don't. You're just talking. So I think it's a lot of talk. It's a lot of hot air. And we just need to, as progressive black people, we just need to shut it down. and every time we see it, we just say, no, no, no, we're not doing that. We're building a city. No, no, no, we're not doing that. We're building a tech company. You know, it all go away. How do we offset the use of technology to create that decision to create more peace or more alignment within the community?

6:10You know, I've been on Instagram now for 14 years, 15 years. Since 2011, I think I started my account. and I don't know if I can use expletives on the show but there used to be a whole meme factory that was being spit out by racists and when we identified it we shut it down and it was saying N-word be like and B-word be like I don't know if you remember that but there was this whole Negroes be like and then women be like but in a derogatory fashion and it was just the most racist, xenophobic, sexist, just horrible stuff, right? And we actually flipped that on its head and we started a natural hair movement, we started the melanin movement, we started a bunch of things that were self-love movements at a time when nobody was talking about that on social media.

7:06People were using social media to take pictures of food and stuff, right? It wasn't about what it is now. It wasn't a business at the time, right? No. So it was a brand new thing where people used for creative expression. So what myself and a group of other accounts, some of them have been deleted, some of them are still there and going shrunk it, is we had many meetings, it was almost like a social media think tank. And we basically said, all right, cool, we're going to put out this message for a month. And then the next month we're going to put out this message. And we started with love your skin, love your hair.

7:43We also did love your culture. And we kind of went from the brand of melanin and the brand of, you know, love blackness to actually getting down into niche anthropology where we were talking about people from Iswatini. We were We're talking about people from Congo. We're talking about people from Sudan. We're talking about people from Nigeria. We're talking about people from Mali, Senegal. Speaking about the Wolof people. And as far as I'm concerned, it was one of my elders said this to me many years ago when there was this racist guy who created this. I don't know if you're aware, but in the 60s, in the 50s, in the 40s, there were these human zoos, right?

8:34where they used to go and get Africans from Congo, from Senegal, etc., bring them into France, bring them into Brussels, bring them into various places, and basically put them next to monkeys and feed them, and have people feed them, right? And so this guy decided to do an art exhibition, which is an art exhibition, where they basically put Africans in the same human zoo position, but he called it art, right? And so we had to go and shut that down. We had to fight police. and the next day what happened was because oh wait what that happened that happened there was you know there was a scene where a woman had just been essayed and then that was an art scene and you would go in and watch how she's trying and all of this stuff there was a scene where you know someone was feeding an actor he was an actor but he was being fed by white people and i was just like no no we don't need any more disempowerment stuff and um the next day in the national paper there was a message and it said black activists brandish drums because we brought down the drums and we were banging the drums and it was like a call to action and I said to one of my elders I said how are they saying that you brandish drum like it's a weapon and he said because they gave us the bible they took away the drum.

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