SUCKER PUNCH FOR ‘PARROTING’ THE U.S. LINE

Few things have enraged Africans at home and in the diaspora as much lately as the recent remarks by the Pentagon’s top commander for Africa - and this clip of TikToker @juniorafrica_ punching his computer monitor as it displays General Michael Langley slandering Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré makes clear just how unhappy about it we are. During a 3 April US Senate hearing, Langley alleged that Traoré had used his country’s gold to pay for his personal protection. It’s clear that the US and other Western forces have started a propaganda campaign against the revolutionary leader to tarnish his name, and - after news of another foiled coup against him - many fear he could suffer the same fate as other great pan-African leaders who stood up to the West (such as Burkina Faso’s Thomas Sankara and DRC’s Patrice Lumumba). But what was especially grating about Langley’s remarks is that they were delivered by one of us - or rather, one who looks like us. Despite his Black skin, Langley is a puppet for Uinterestsst. Or, as @juniorafrica_ mocks him after punching the monitor - a ‘parakeet,’ parroting his master’s line.

📹 Video Credit: juniorafrica_ (TikTok)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJxXZneKick

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https://www.rtb.bf/2025/04/21/communique-tentative-de-destabilisation-du-burkina-faso/