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You think of the colonial economic design that was imposed on us. It was designed to do three things. Number one, we're supposed to be the place for cheap raw materials for colonial powers for the industrialized world. We still play that role today. Number two, we're supposed to be the consumers of technology in industrial output from the global north. We still play that role today. A number three and most importantly, we were supposed to be the place where obsolete technologies, assembly line manufacturing that they no longer need is outsourced to us under the label of development, job creation, cooperation. But effectively what it does is that it locks us at the bottom of the global value chain, at the glow at the bottom of the hierarchy. And we still play that role today. So, of course, these are colonial structures that persist. But we have to remember that colonialism was not designed for development. It was not designed for justice, was not designed for democracy. It was not the design to produce systems that respect human rights. Colonialism was a system that was violent, abusive, extractive, hierarchical, non democratic. So why do we today expect the same architecture that was not designed for justice or development ? Why do we expect it to produce democracies for justice or development ? It cannot SHAH believe inspire blacks be.
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