The Sunday Mail
Vukani Madoda
Harry, instead focus your energy on overturning the greatest human rights abuse Zimbabwe has endured for a decade and a half —that diabolic sanctions law passed by the US to suppress the human rights of a sovereign nation.
Incoming United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Harry K. Thomas Jnr is welcome but has one single mission to execute on his scorecard — that is persuading his arrogant government to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe, otherwise he will just join the list of failed diplomats who tried to entrench foul US foreign policy on a sovereign nation.
If he does not want to become another Tom, Dick or Jack; Harry must work flat out to subvert that diabolic sanctions law against Zimbabwe, otherwise he will just be another house nigger or an Uncle Tom like Charles Ray who famously exhibited a monkey-see monkey-do pidgin style of diplomacy.
There are fundamentals that Harry needs to learn about Zimbabwe even though he was once part of the diplomatic mission to Harare as a Labour and Political Officer from 1989 to1992.
Since that time, a lot has changed in Zimbabwe Harry. It is no longer the Zimbabwe you knew when Edgar Tekere formed his Zimbabwe Unity Movement and vied for Presidency, nor is it the Zimbabwe that accepted an IMF-backed disastrous Economic Structural Adjustment Programme.
Indeed, it is no longer a country where only 4500 white farmers – a mere 0.0003 percent of the population controlled over 12 million hectares or 73 per cent of all arable land.
No Harry, that is not the Zimbabwe you will see.
We took back our land. We took back our destiny. We grabbed our sovereignty. We are no longer field niggers, we are now masters of our fields. Of course we still have some house niggers amongst us, the likes of Morgan Tsvangirai who has also recruited his fair share of “yes baas” wanna-bes such as Obert Gutu. They will use all the flowery language to try and convince you about the never-ending benefits of being a house nigger.
We will give you the benefit of doubt Harry and consider you to be a man of your own right, whose principle mission will be to move way beyond the house nigger mentality that unfortunately engulfed some of our otherwise promising black brothers and sisters.
We understand you operate on a short-leash and your outgoing boss Barack Obama — who many black brothers and sisters believe sold out the revolution the moment he set foot in a house called White. He became just like the colour of the house. Anyway, Obama needs you to bring something considered positive back to the US, something called regime change.
I must hasten to warn you Harry, never dare tread where fools have rushed in; the ice there is thin and it is a very slippery slope. Just keep your tail at the right size. Do not listen to those that mislead you to encourage your tail to grow because it will be difficult to tuck in between your legs when all else has failed. Just keep it at the right size and you will have a fine and promising career ahead of you.
In fact Harry, my advice to you is always remember you are a black man first before you can either be a house nigger or an Uncle Tom. Think like a black man all the time. For starters, think that you are back where you belong. This is home. Zimbabwe is your home. Your forefathers were shipped into slavery across the continent against their will. They endured a painstaking middle-passage where the squalor of excretion and chains defined their worth regrettably to this day for some. Refuse that tag. Refuse to be called African-America. You are an African — period. Think like one.
Your diplomatic mission is for America to understand Africa not for Africa to understand America. Represent the interests of Africans because by just taking one look at you, I know that even if I am to take you the dry, dusty and arid village of Lupane where I come from to meet my kinsfolk, you could easily blend in. Before you know it, you would be smudged in cow-dung as you lock livestock in cattle pens whilst readying yourself to inhale the soot and smoke in my grandmother’s round kitchen, waiting for the evening meal.
Refuse to be misled about Zimbabwe, Harry. Zimbabwe is not all about an activist who decided to go missing sometime in March this year. It is not all about human rights and you, as a descendant of a slave shipped from Africa, you should know that surely America has the least moral right to talk about human rights. What with the ongoing killings of black people by white cops in America and the flooding of America’s prisons with black people sent there by white judges. You of all people should know that America should shut up about human rights because they do not exist in that country.
Harry, instead focus your energy on overturning the greatest human rights abuse Zimbabwe has endured for a decade and a half —that diabolic sanctions law passed by the US to suppress the human rights of a sovereign nation.
Do not turn a blind eye to what the sanctions have done to this country. Do not think for a moment that this is only about travel restrictions. Instead, realise that this is about white capitalist supremacism in which Zimbabwe continues to be punished for refusing to be a house nigger that does not own a house or an Uncle Tom who does not own a cabin.
Within the next three months you will be judged Harry — you will be judged in the court of public opinion when it is that time again for the US to review their deplorable sanctions law against Zimbabwe.
It will be easy to pass a conviction and sentence on you soon after that review and you better bring yourself to the imminent reality that we will judge you harshly in 2016 if the US extends those sanctions by yet another year because we will know that you are just another house nigger dressed in a fine suit, sent here to do a monkey dance and grin for the amusement of a racist US government that is trying to appease us for a regime change that we rejected a long time ago.
Dubulaizitha!
