Alina Li & Evelyn Lin | Africans: The Most Racist People? (The Paradox Of Internalized Racism)

Back in June 2023, I posted a video titled "Why Self-Respecting Africans Learn Chinese Mandarin." Here are the highlights of the video.

One comment, presumably from someone of European descent, stood out. It read:

"Africans must realize that the Chinese disdain Blacks as racially and culturally quite inferior. The Chinese are far more racist than European Americans by far."

In response, I stated:

"I suspect you deliberately missed the point. It is not a competition about who is more racist than the other. The video is about MULTI-POLARITY and emancipating ourselves (i.e., Africans) from Western hegemony and neo-colonialism with the assistance of Almighty China. In short, we (Africans) are leveraging China's rise for our own strategic, or is it nefarious, ends.

Besides, nobody has the monopoly on bigotry (i.e., racism)—not Asians, not Europeans, not even Arabs and Indians. The hate is mutual. Africans are equally, if not more racist than any other race. It is just that most dark-skinned people across the world have perfected the art of over-playing the victim-card and crying wolf about race issues.

Yet, we dark-skinned people are as hateful to each other as we are hateful towards those of other races who hate us. Yes, we are a walking contradiction; we self-loathe as much as we loathe other races. Our hate is a paradox.

I say this as a self-aware, self-respecting, PROUD dark-skinned person (of pure African ancestry). I'm conscious of our major flaws, including internal politics like bigotry in the form of colorism and tribalism, and external politics such as black supremacy and abnormally extreme disdain and hate for Europeans due to slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism. This saps most, if not all, of our energy. Yet somehow, someway, some disdain and hate is reserved for Asians, Arabs, and Indians."