Oprah Winfrey, a US TV personality, was interviewing a black woman who had suffered an ordeal. She asked, “What were your feelings as you were forced to watch your 12-year-old son having his head chopped off in front of you? Did you feel hurt, did you feel pain as his little head flew off and a fountain of blood squirted out of his severed neck?”
Oops! I’ve just realised I have made a mistake. I have confused two black women who have suffered ordeals this month and been together in the news. I now remember the oppressed black woman that Oprah actually interviewed. Here is the gist of the questions (not the exact words) Oprah asked her, “What were your feelings when the Duchess of Cambridge argued with you about the bridesmaids’ dresses for your wedding at Windsor Castle? Did you feel hurt, did you feel pain when somebody wondered whether your unborn baby would have slightly white-pink skin like your husband or slightly white-olive skin like you?”
The first woman I had in mind has had her name withheld for fear she gets her own head chopped off. She is a black African woman living in Cabo Delgado, the northern province of Mozambique. The black people there have suffered brutal poverty and oppression under the Marxist Mozambique Government, and are now suffering terror and starvation under al-Shabab, a militant Islamic group that has invaded the territory and slaughtered men, women, and children in their thousands. They made this woman watch as they beheaded her young son. Last November they beheaded more than 50 people in the local football ground.
The woman Oprah interviewed was Meghan Markle, an American TV actress. She married Prince Harry, grandson of the British Queen. They lived in opulence in royal residences in the UK. Then they moved to the US, where they are living in a mansion in California worth $14.6 million (over R200 million), which has 9 bedrooms and 16 bathrooms. Meghan told Oprah of the terrible racist humiliation she suffered from the royal family. They had questioned her bridesmaids’ dresses, shown interest in the looks of her coming baby, and been rather formal towards her. Oprah gasped in commiseration.
Mozambique has a treasure trove of natural resources, including hydro, gas, and minerals. In 1975 it became independent from Portugal. The flag of independent Mozambique features an AK-47 assault rifle, a Communist star, and a black stripe. These represent militant African Marxism. The Frelimo Government of Mozambique has produced economic collapse, rampant corruption, massive inequality, a few ruling families living in sumptuous wealth and luxury while the black masses go destitute and hungry, and an armed force that is useless for fighting other armed forces but superb for killing unarmed civilians who criticise the ruling elite. The first woman I mentioned was oppressed and impoverished by this government, and now is menaced by a murderous invader. Terror and starvation haunt her.
The world finds her ordeal rather boring. It is far more interested in the ordeal of Meghan Markle. The interview with Oprah had a huge international audience. We were told that it revealed dark secrets about white racism. In my case I suppose it did. I must confess I didn’t even realise that Meghan was black. There’s me to take the knee! There’s me to be marched off to a Critical Race Theory Diversity Boot Camp! Actually, at her age, I was mainly darker than her, with swarthy skin, black hair, brown eyes, and thick black eyebrows. I suppose I might have made a career out of being a black victim of white oppression, but unfortunately I wasn’t rich enough to do so. I once had a fair girlfriend with blue eyes. I seem to remember we once jokingly wondered about the colouring of any baby we might have. Blue eyes or brown, black hair or fair, pink skin or caramel? It made us laugh. If only we’d realised what terrible racists we were! Oprah would have been horrified by our banter.
By the way, if you want to watch a short local video that captures the dramatic arts of Meghan and Oprah, with all their shock and sorrow, just Google, “Black Wendy. Spoof of Meghan and Oprah.” Only 35 seconds.
For the rich woke generation that now rules the big media, the big corporations, the universities and the progressive parties of the West, there is only one consideration in the whole of history: white racism against blacks. But black suffering only matters in wealthy democratic liberal countries with white governments. Blacks oppressed by other blacks count for nothing. Blacks crushed, tortured, murdered, raped and starved by black African governments or by Islamic terrorists don’t matter. Following the Meghan-Oprah interview, I noticed various woke commentators in our newspapers spelling this out: if you racist whites really want to understand the suffering of black women, their hurt and pain, just look at poor Meghan in her R200 million mansion in California.
The views of the writer are not necessarily the views of the Daily Friend or the IRR
If you like what you have just read, support the Daily Friend