The road gets tough, I don't know why

After this, I’m done with the whole Kony topic.

chinaija:

theafrosistuh: initially, I deleted my answer to your question because I couldn’t answer it privately on my mobile, but I figured I should answer it anyway.

“My opinion is a lot like yours, just…really really complicated, lol. Kony is a man, and only a man. He didn’t create the army himself, and without him, there will still be an army. He was funded by outside groups and I can guarantee those groups will continue to fund the LRA after Kony is killed. The LRA is a movement based on religion, and I don’t know that I’ve seen anyone more inclined to do damage in the name of God more than Africans. They are modern day Crusaders. What they stand for, or what they initially stood for isn’t wrong, but their tactics are.

I personally have a deep hatred for the “white savior” complex it seems that the invisible children people have. In every situation that they have been presented to me, it is always, “helpless Africans who needed our help and now here is one of the feed the children kids all grown up to tell you about all the great things we have done. Also, buy this kit.”
African politics is riddled with corruption and deception and to be honest, this is something Africans have begun to get used to. This is something that our leaders have gotten from the West.
And there’s no reason why it has taken this long for the word to spread about Kony and the LRA other than the simple fact that this is a Black man dealing with African people. We stopped Hitler cold in his tracks. The West doesn’t give a fuck about what Kony is doing. They didn’t give a fuck about Rwanda until the movie came out. They didn’t give a fuck about apartheid until the 90’s. They didn’t give a fuck about the Nigerian Civil War until they cast Thandie Newton as gotdamned Igbo woman in this fucking movie and they don’t give a fuck about what’s happening in Senegal now. The Western world has a stake in what is happening with the LRA. there is a reason why you haven’t heard of it until now.
Also, I refuse to let white people tell me how to run my country and take care of my people. I do not support the Invisible Children and I cannot endorse or encourage that fucking white Jesus mentality.
If Joseph Kony is going to be stopped, Africans are going to be the ones to stop him. They know where he is. They know how to find him. Believe me, they know.
Joseph Kony is just the latest target. They got Saddam, they got Bin Laden, they’re still gunning for Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong is dead, they need a new villain and Kony is just that. Once he’s dead and the West moves on, the LRA will still be active, the same way the Taliban still operates.
I’m really conflicted on the issue to be honest. What Kony has done is wrong, and by no means do I condone any of his actions and I don’t stand behind the LRA. But I feel some kind of way about villainizing him on behalf of the West. It’s just…African politics are hard. There’s a lot going on under the surface that we ourselves don’t know or speak about. So to hear an outsider speak on it turns my stomach a bit. Honestly…I just really hate invisible children. With a passion.”

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Agreed. So conflicted on the Kony topic. Of course, Kony/LRA & co. are horrible and have done horrible things…but the Invisible Children campaign is utter bullshit. I am completely against Invisible Children and its white savior trope-ing, black villain-izing, imperialist, white privileged, racist bullshit.

dqwes asked: What is your view on the Kony 2012 thing?

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

I don’t know enough about the Lord’s Resistance Army to offer an opinion on it specifically. Kony may very well be an awful dude.

However, looking at the Kony 2012 campaign material, it seems like the usual bourgeois liberal human rights campaign that (1) doesn’t talk about colonialism and imperialism’s role in creating the awful situation in Africa; (2) scapegoats a Black or Brown man as “the world’s worst war criminal” (when, exactly, did Kony eclipse George Bush?); and (3) ends up as a plea for imperialism to intervene, which is very useful to Washington’s aims.

This is, in fact, what is happening. Obama has already sent 100 troops into Uganda, allegedly to fight Kony’s forces. But it’s really just part of the big U.S. military expansion into Africa via AFRICOM.

Whatever the intentions of its founders, I think Kony 2012 can only serve to create public opinion in favor of further imperialist intervention. That’s not good for anyone.

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