The Empire That Robbed Africa Is Now Robbing Us—And Only a Global Rebellion Can Set Us Free
By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information
May 17, 2025
The System Is Rigged—and It Always Has Been
We feel it, don’t we? That hollowing-out of our lives. The way our towns used to hum with work and now sit quiet and half-abandoned. The way our wages don’t buy what they used to, our debt piles up, our kids can’t get ahead, and our bodies are wearing down from labor that doesn’t even pay the bills. We turn on the TV and they tell us it’s our fault. Or they blame immigrants. Or China. Or some “woke” conspiracy. But not once do they name the real thieves.
Here’s the truth they won’t say out loud: we’re being bled by the same system that enslaved Africans, exterminated Indigenous peoples, and carved the world into pieces for profit. That system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed. We were just never supposed to see it from this side.
They’ve trained us to wave the flag, praise the troops, and resent the poor. But the ones bleeding us dry don’t live in caravans—they live in glass towers. The same bankers and warlords who gutted Africa for its gold and oil are now squeezing us for rent, insulin, and overtime. And here’s the kicker: they’re scared to death that we might finally realize we’ve been on the wrong side of history—and the wrong side of the class war.
They Gave Us Whiteness So We’d Never Demand Power
See, the American ruling class figured out a long time ago that the best way to keep power was to sell whiteness like a lottery ticket. They gave poor white folks a little status, a little privilege, a few crumbs—and in return, they got our loyalty. We fought their wars. We worked their mines. We became the muscle for an empire that never gave a damn about our future.
Now the chickens are coming home broke. The factory is gone. The pension is gone. The union is gone. And all we’re left with is a flag, a grievance, and some plastic freedom made in China. That’s where Trump comes in. He doesn’t offer us justice—he offers us nostalgia. He’s the snake oil salesman of empire in decline, promising to bring back an America that was never great for anyone but the rich.
Same Boots, Different Necks
This is the part they really don’t want us to understand: the same system that crushed Africa is now coming for us. The same Wall Street parasites that looted the Congo now foreclose on our homes. The same IMF that bankrupted Ghana with “structural adjustment” now calls it “austerity” when they shut down our schools and hospitals. The same counterinsurgency programs used to suppress Black revolutionaries in the 60s are now used to monitor our protests, scan our faces, and criminalize dissent.
What was tested on the colonized is now deployed against the workers of the core. Africa was never “underdeveloped”—it was intentionally robbed. And now that empire has run out of external colonies to loot, it’s turning inward. We’re the new internal colony. The question is: will we keep fighting to protect the system that’s killing us—or will we break ranks and join the real side of freedom?
The Original Crime Scene: Africa, Empire, and the Birth of Our Misery
Let’s pull the curtain back and look at where this all began. Before the factories in Ohio were shuttered, before NAFTA and Walmart, before the opioid plague and the debt trap—there was Africa. And there were Indigenous nations. And there was a ruling class in Europe that looked at the world and saw one thing: a gold mine to plunder, by any means necessary.
They didn’t invent capitalism in a laboratory. They built it with shackles. The transatlantic slave trade wasn’t just a tragedy—it was the engine room of modern capitalism. Millions of Africans kidnapped, branded, chained, and forced to build the wealth of Europe and America. Their labor, their lives, their very humanity were ground into the foundation of everything we now call “the West.”
Meanwhile, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas were butchered, driven from their land, and forced onto reservations so settlers—our ancestors, maybe—could be turned into foot soldiers for a system that had no intention of sharing real power with us either. We were handed land stolen at gunpoint and told it was freedom. We were handed wages barely above starvation and told it was prosperity. We were handed whiteness as compensation for never owning the means of production.
Capitalism Was Global Before It Was Local
We want to understand why our jobs disappeared? Why nothing is made here anymore? Why our dollar is worth less every year? Look at the colonial playbook:
- Extract raw materials from Africa
- Exploit cheap labor in Asia and Latin America
- Dump the final product in America, and sell it back to us with interest
But now the empire is aging, and the margins are shrinking. So they’ve started doing to us what they’ve always done to the Global South. They’ve dismantled our industries. Privatized our utilities. Raised our rents. Filled our food with poison. Turned our town into a debt colony.
Why They Hate Africa Rising—and Why We Shouldn’t
Now, Africa is starting to fight back. Countries like Mali, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania are linking arms with China, building infrastructure, nationalizing resources, and refusing to bow to the IMF. They’re refusing to be raw material zones for the West anymore. And what does our media call it? “Chinese neocolonialism.” As if Africans aren’t capable of thinking for themselves. As if the only time Africa asserts its independence, it must be a threat.
Let’s be clear: they don’t fear Africa and China because of tyranny. They fear them because they’re breaking the system. The same system that’s breaking us.
And here’s the twist: our liberation is tied to theirs. Because when Africa reclaims its wealth, when it refuses to sell its labor and land for pennies, it forces global capital to retreat. It creates a crack in the imperial dam. And through that crack, the light of our own freedom might shine.
Trump Is Just Another Plantation Boss in a Designer Tie
Let’s talk plainly now. We think Trump is gonna fix this? Bring back jobs? Drain the swamp? Give a damn about working people? Wake up. The only thing Trump has ever built is casinos, debt, and illusions. He didn’t drain the swamp—he stocked it with oil executives, Goldman Sachs vampires, and Pentagon ghouls. He threw working-class people some slogans, waved a flag, and gave Wall Street the keys to the vault.
He’s not fighting the empire—he’s rebranding it. Make America Great Again? We know what that means. “Make Empire Stable Again.” Make it safe for billionaires to keep robbing the world and selling us bootstraps while we drown in medical bills and fentanyl.
He talks about sovereignty and the working man—but when Africa tries to exercise sovereignty? When China helps build roads and railways instead of dropping bombs? Suddenly, he cries “communist threat.” What he really means is: the poor are getting ideas, and they can’t have that.
MAGA Is a Mirage—A Plantation Dream for a Dying Empire
The truth is, MAGA is nostalgia for a time when white workers had a better deal at the expense of everyone else. We got union wages while Black folks were redlined. We got GI Bills while Indigenous land was stolen. We got home loans while Africa was being drained for rubber, gold, and uranium. And now that the deal’s off the table—now that the ruling class doesn’t need us the way it used to—they’re selling us revenge instead of justice.
Trump says our enemy is the immigrant, the foreigner, the poor. But that’s a diversion. Our real enemy is the same one Africa has been fighting for centuries: monopoly capital, finance imperialism, and the elite billionaires who profit from global misery. We’re not “taking our country back.” We’re volunteering for another tour of duty on the plantation.
If We Want to Be Free—We Have to Switch Sides
Here’s the rub: we were never part of the empire’s core. We were its middle managers. Disposable. Useful. But not protected. Now that the bottom’s falling out, they’re feeding us culture wars while they offshore our future. And the only way out is through international, revolutionary solidarity.
That starts with understanding that Africa’s liberation, and China’s rise, are not our enemy. They’re a beacon. They represent the collapse of the very system that has kept us in chains—with just enough perks to keep us loyal. But now they’re calling our mortgage due. What side will we choose?
The Rising Tide We’re Told to Fear Is the One That Can Lift Us Too
Let’s flip the script. Every time an African nation stands up and says, “We will not be robbed anymore,” we’re told it’s dangerous. Every time China helps build a railway, or finances a dam, or wipes out debt, our media calls it “colonialism.” But let’s ask ourselves: since when has Western media cared about African sovereignty? Since when have they cried over debt traps—when it’s the IMF that’s been drowning Africa in debt for decades?
This isn’t journalism. It’s panic. Because what’s happening in Africa and across the Global South is more than a shift in alliances—it’s a rebellion against the empire. Countries are building their own currencies, trading outside the dollar, nationalizing their resources, and telling Washington to get bent. And that, comrades, is good news for us.
When Africa Breaks Free, the Empire Breaks Down
Every time the U.S. imposes sanctions on Zimbabwe or Venezuela, that’s a message to us too: “Don’t we dare try to govern our own economy.” Every time a CIA-backed coup takes out a leader who won’t play ball with Wall Street, that’s a warning shot to any country—even this one—that thinks about putting workers before profit.
But when Africa refuses to bend? When countries like Burkina Faso or Ethiopia say “We’ll build our own roads, mine our own resources, and decide our own future”? That weakens the empire. And when the empire weakens, so does the system that’s been robbing us for forty years.
We Were Never the Masters—We Were the Hired Guns
Here’s the ugly truth: we weren’t given the empire. We were handed the job of enforcing it. We fought its wars. We manned its factories. We voted for its parties. And in return, they gave us a house in the suburbs, a six-pack, and the illusion of superiority.
But now the gig’s up. The plant’s closed. The bank took the house. The pills don’t work. And the flag doesn’t mean what it used to. And in this moment—this crack in history—we have a choice:
- Keep defending a system that’s collapsing under its own weight, hoping for scraps
- Or join the rest of us—the colonized, the exploited, the damned of the earth—and fight for something new
Because the truth is, Africa’s struggle is our struggle. Their freedom cracks the chains around our neck too. Their defiance gives us a roadmap to rebel. Their victories strike fear into the hearts of the same men who stole our pensions, evicted our families, and sent our jobs to Thailand.
Revolution Is a Global Exit Plan—and Africa’s at the Front of the Line
Let’s stop pretending this system can be reformed. We’ve seen the banks crash and get bailed out. We’ve seen billionaires get richer while our rent doubled. We’ve seen politicians switch parties but not policies. We’ve lived through “Hope and Change” and “MAGA” and ended up with the same damn thing: less for us, more for them.
Now imagine something different. Imagine a world where the Global South controls its own wealth. Where Africa builds for Africa, not for London or New York. Where workers in the U.S. don’t have to compete in a global race to the bottom because the empire that organized that race is dead. That’s not utopia. That’s multipolarity. That’s what Africa and China are building—and that’s why they want us to hate it.
The Ruling Class Fears Unity—That’s Why They Keep Us Divided
We ever wonder why they push so hard to make us hate immigrants, hate China, hate “radical Black activists”? It’s not just racism. It’s strategy. It’s divide and rule. Because if we ever realized that we’ve got more in common with a copper miner in Congo or a garment worker in Bangladesh than with a CEO in Texas, the game would be over.
They can’t afford that awakening. So they flood us with culture wars, false enemies, and propaganda. They send cops to crush protestors in Atlanta and Marines to crush rebels in Mali. They give us a ballot box with two Wall Street candidates and call it freedom. And they hope we’ll keep falling for it.
But We Don’t Have to
We can choose a different side. Not the side of the empire, but of the people. Of the workers. Of the colonized. Of the damned. Because here’s the secret: real freedom doesn’t come from waving a flag—it comes from burning the system that keeps us poor, angry, and afraid.
Africa’s breaking free. So is Palestine. So is Latin America. And if we’re ready to stop being pawns, we can be part of it too. That doesn’t mean pity. It means solidarity. It means recognizing that our enemies are not in Lagos or Havana—they’re in Washington, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley.
This is our exit plan, comrades. But we have to walk through it. Not with nostalgia. Not with nationalism. But with a clenched fist and clear eyes.
Burn the Lie, Not the Bridge: Africa’s Freedom Is the Key to Ours
Let’s put it all on the table. The empire that stole Africa’s riches, enslaved its people, and erased its history is the same empire that stole our pensions, evicted our families, and flooded our towns with fentanyl and fake hope. It’s not ancient history—it’s the world system we live under right now. And every time Africa rises, every time China lends without chains, every time the Global South fights back, it weakens that system.
They want us to see Black liberation as chaos. Chinese investment as threat. Indigenous resistance as criminal. Because if we ever made the connection—if we ever realized that the same foot on their neck is the one on our chest—we’d stop defending the boot. We’d turn and face the one holding the leash.
What Side of History Will We Be On?
We can keep chanting “USA” while our wages collapse. We can keep buying “Back the Blue” stickers while our cities defund healthcare. We can keep blaming migrants while hedge funds buy our landlord’s mortgage. But deep down, we know this isn’t working. The empire is rotting—and it’s taking us with it.
Or we can choose something else. Solidarity. Rebellion. Class betrayal. Revolutionary defection. We can break ranks with empire and fight alongside the people it has crushed—from Congo to Chiapas, from Gaza to Gary, Indiana.
This Isn’t Charity. It’s Survival.
Africa’s not asking for our pity. It’s showing us a way out. A path where sovereignty beats servitude. Where dignity replaces debt. Where the earth doesn’t have to be strip-mined for quarterly profits. If Africa wins, the empire loses—and that gives us a fighting chance.
So we have to ask ourselves: are we fighting for the future, or for a past that never served us? Are we defending a country, or a class? Are we settlers—or soldiers in the war for human freedom?
Because history is moving. Fast. And if we’re not on the side of Africa, the Global South, and the working class of the world, we’re on the wrong side of it.
Choose wisely. Time’s up.
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