Why do blacks invest so much money and emotion in whiteness?

Racism is one of the most vicious forms of tribalism. It demeans, degrades, victimises, dehumanises, and destroys. It’s one of the ideologies that underpins genocide — the world’s most abominable crime. It’s born of the hegemony of culture, language, religious imperialism, mercantilism, raw power, and intellectual arrogance. But it largely segregates by skin colour and biological ancestry. These are usually the physical markers. Often, racism presents itself as benign, as it did to justify colonialism and the Christian and Islamic conquests of the world.  Thus the colonised becomes a facsimile of the colonizer and identifies with the tormenter.

A facsimile is a copy – it’s not the real thing. The colonised can never be the equal of, or fully become, the coloniser. The colonised is just a dumb copy of the original. I remember an encounter with a black Zanzibari in Zanzibar while on a UN human rights mission. Pointing at me during a heated argument about culture, the black Zanzibari man told me it was they – Muslims – who brought civilisation to primitive black Africans. I was dumbfounded. I presume he meant Arab Muslim invaders who forcibly Islamised black Africans. He was probably a descendant of black Africans whom Arab Muslims had enslaved. That story tells you the sword of racism can be turned inwards – towards self against self.