THE BLACK ALLIANCE FOR
PEACE
Fear of a rising China has gripped the supposedly “global elites” of the
world. G7 member states agreed on Saturday that all wifi connections be
dismantled around the room they convened in because they worried China would
eavesdrop, part of a years-long narrative that China’s private tech companies
are conducting surveillance on its behalf.
At the meeting, U.S. President Joe Biden pitched
to G7 member states an alternative project to contend with China’s Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI), an 8-year-old program involving the construction of
railways, ports, and roads, along with cultural exchange. Already, dozens of
countries have signed onto it.
But G7 leaders didn’t seem enthused as talks ended
Saturday. Countries like Germany and Italy are heavily invested in the Chinese
supply chain. In fact, Volkswagen and BMW cars are top sellers in China. Even
though Italy pulled out of the BRI, its officials remember China's generosity
when it provided personal protective equipment and medical professionals during
the height of Italy's COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. The rift within the
Pan-European colonial-capitalist project is obvious.
But the white-supremacist hold remains as the
United States continues funding the Zionist state of Israel, which perpetuates
a deadly apartheid system on occupied Palestinians.
When U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) tweeted last week, comparing the United States and
Israel to Hamas and the Taliban, senior Democrats released a statement disparaging her. However, their statement said the United States
and Israel are “governed by the rule of law.” We at the Black Alliance for
Peace (BAP) finds that laughable since the United States and Israel continue to
operate outside the rule of law as rogue states, breaking treaties and
violating international laws with impunity. Therefore, it is not clear why Omar
felt compelled to backtrack from her original comments.
Operating squarely within the Black Radical
Internationalist Tradition, BAP minces no words and makes no distinctions
between states that commit terror and non-state actors that do the same. We
also do not align ourselves with what the pan-European colonial-capitalist
powers tell us about countries like China or Russia. We understand relying on
the goodwill of supposed “democracies” is a losing game. Black and colonized
peoples from the United States to Colombia and across the Atlantic Ocean in
Africa has seen what these so-called “civilized” states have done to our
people and to other colonized peoples over the course of 529 years. And so we
assert our right to draw our own conclusions based on a framework of
People(s)-Centered Human Rights, which comes out of the tradition that produced
Black radical organizers like Malcolm X and Fannie Lou Hamer. We say “time out”
for waiting for a solution from the white-supremacist colonial-capitalist
patriarchy. The people of the world are just a decade away from irreversible
climate change as well as increasing militarized force to repress us as
capitalism devolves. We must come up with our own solutions. The Black Alliance
for Peace is designed to be a step in that direction.
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