WHAT BBC PARTIALITY TELLS US OF AFRICOM'S LANGLEY

Africans should be aware and cautious of the empire’s ability to change its face to be more palatable without a fundamental change in form and substance. One of these tricks involves carefully filtering candidates and employees to advance its agenda.

As part of our reaction to former footballer Gary Lineker’s (@GaryLineker on X) recent BBC interview, when he took a journalist, Amol Rajan (@amolrajan on X), to task on impartiality, we watched US intellectual Noam Chomsky offer another perspective. In the 1996 soundbite we played, he said BBC hosts do not self-censor but believe their positions due to years of imperial grooming. Chomsky says it's no accident, as BBC journalist Andrew Marr (@andrewmarr9 on X) would not have been hired if he held opinions to the contrary.

We can see that with the US Africa Command (AFRICOM), which, despite serving white-supremacist interests in Washington, has a Black face as its commander in the form of General Michael Langley. This contradiction, again, is no accident, as Langley probably sincerely believes his stance from years of conditioning to believe in US supremacy. On 3 April, he testified to the US Senate Armed Services Committee that Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore is using the country’s reclaimed gold to protect himself at the cost of the people. Africans worldwide took their indignation at Langley’s comments to the streets on 30 April, perhaps paving the way for an African awakening demanding sovereignty.

What other examples can you think of regarding empires grooming people to work against ordinary people? Please share your thoughts.

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Soundbite credit: @BBC