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White people demean Africans to mask their own past inadequacies

Recent utterances by leading Euro-American celebrities on the inferiority of the Africans when compared to people of white colour are not new.

Barack Obama, said Joe Biden in 2007, was "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean", and thus implied that the rest are incoherent, idiotic, and filthy.

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