Lucas Amuri responds to :

March 16, 2015

Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?

In the lexicon of human migration there are still hierarchical words, created with the purpose of putting white people above everyone else. One of those remnants is the word “expat”.

What is an expat? And who is an expat? According to Wikipedia, “an expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of the person’s upbringing. The word comes from the Latin terms ex (‘out of’) and patria (‘country, fatherland’)”.

Defined that way, you should expect that any person going to work outside of his or her country for a period of time would be an expat, regardless of his skin colour or country. But that is not the case in reality; expat is a term reserved exclusively for western white people going to work abroad.........

Response:

Well, how could it be otherwise when the non-westerners look down on their own kind, heritage and expats as they have been conditioned to do by nearly 500 years of slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism? It would take a massive effort of mental/emotional decolonization and spiritual purging.

There are Africans who do not believe that Europeans were responsible for the TAST and that the negative image of Africa forged in the western media, academia and society impacts negatively on Africans and their cousins in the Diaspora or that all this is the fault of Africans anyway.

There are Africans striving to identify with groups outside of the continent as their ancestors when the historical evidence points to the reality of those groups actually getting many of the positive attributes they think are common to them from Africa.

The late Prof. Cheikh Anta Diop used to say that if Africans knew the true story of their heritage and contribution to world civilization they would not feel inferior to any white person. White supremacy is never going to go away unless others assert their supremacy as the Asians are doing.

Lucas Amuri

March 16, 2015
 

Amuri referencing also: How Europe Succeeded to Make Africans Happy about their Colonization