OPEN LETTER TO DONALD TRUMP
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500, USA
HIS MAGNIFICENCE
Paramount, Respect Blackness Movement on behalf of Africa and the black man extends its congratulatory message for the prophetic and historic victory of November the 8th. It is beyond doubt that greater grace showers your life and it is beyond doubt that God’s countenance shines upon you. With a man such as you, not only America will be delivered but the world at large. The predecessor issues now lie on your table determining the futuristic prospects of tomorrow. Weeps of the globe and whips of the oppressed definitely have started to congest your ears. Cries of the chastened beyond doubt have started to cloud your heart.
In such a dispensation a newly nonpartisan organization tagged “Respect Blackness Movement” primarily seeks to defend the legitimate rights and aspirations of the black man in Africa and the Black man in the diaspora. Not only do we stand firm on such a principle but we also stand in the revolutionary principles that our forefathers fought for to liberate Africa. Without shame we inhale the doctrine and ideology of Pan Africanism that seeks to empower the black child not for slavery but for sovereignty and the role of mastership. This we highlight in the bid to show clarity of our ideological stanza.
Now, His Excellency, the tales of racism of our black brother in the USA from generation to generation continue to play bed time stories that give not rest but rather nightmares to the black man in Africa. Rooted in sociological expertise, thematic life concepts breathed by our forefathers cry “I am because you are because you are therefore I am…” Ubuntu remains the resource that binds the black man in Africa and the black man in diaspora thus the suffering of one brother affects all. In silent moments authored by the heart, our spirits are vexed by the plight of the black man in New York Harlem. These burdens we cannot hide His Excellency. Ubuntu is a paradigm that all races ought to embrace. Agonies of pain by Eric Garner still suffocate our atmosphere, the blood of innocent Tamir Rice impede our ears with melancholic rhythms, holy sighs of Sandra bland tickle tears as the wicked shots that killed our Terence Crutcher create savage horrific moments upon each blink. Dear Sir, in the words of our beloved
leader Robert Mugabe, we say “we are human too…” This notion serves not to direct you on how you must govern your people but simply serves to speak for the oppressed voice of the black man and to make justice not a commodity but a right.
Standing on the podium of Africa, it’s no public secret that the continent of the Black man remains the only continent with no permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council. This in turn not only makes the black man to be under institutional racism and discrimination but rather portrays the United Nations to be the most undemocratic institution. Many sins of your people are left without judicial scrutiny since your people experience the immunity, liberty and grace of the Security Council. His Excellency, “no man is God, let God be God and man serve as man.” The sins of Bush and Blair find no attorney to battle against. Our African heroes and Pan Africanists continue to be vilified in their policies. Now, we weep for the death of Muammar Gaddafi since his people are left in unwarranted poverty. For this cause, we “Africans” are stakeholders of the United Nations and partakers in its mandate thus we demand a seat in the Security Council. In this light, we seek not to equate Donald Trump with the United Nations but rather, we seek for your voice to stand for justice rather than interest, equality against discrimination since as youthful Pan Africanist we long for a generation were humanity will ascend self-interest.
Lastly, Zimbabwe’s development remains unprogressive prompted by the illegal sanctions that affect the innocent citizens. Now basing on the light from former US ambassador to Zimbabwe Howard, French in light of the causes of the Zimbabwean sanctions who said, “everyone felt that they had invested something to the success of Zimbabwe, so when it all started unraveling, everyone felt personally disappointed” (Fowale 2010: 9). In this, an intellectual veteran is pushed to assume that the sanctions deployed on Zimbabwe lie on Zimbabwe’s acquisition of its land in 2000 which was prompted by Britain’s and USA breach of the Lancaster house agreement of 1980. This then tells that the battle that Zimbabwe is fighting against is simply rooted in the principles of self-interest of the west. In this, we remember the Rwandan scandal in which the USA almost single handedly stopped intervention in Rwanda under the administration of Clinton who is a cosponsor of the Zimbabwean sanctions. Former President George W. Bush later admitted that the U.S. militarily intervenes based on its “strategic interest,” not on humanitarian need. Rooted in these statements, the fate of beautiful Zimbabwe is juggled by selfinterest of the imperial powers. Of course, we have had our hiccups as a country but the root cause remain the illegal sanctions that undermined our capability as a country to produce and serve the black man. Further, the 2030 agenda of Sustainable Development remains unrealistic as long as Zimbabwe is under the whip of the sanctions. Sanctions act paradoxical to the Sustainable development goals. Goal number one is a consensus against poverty yet the sanctions continue to propagate poverty in Zimbabwe antagonistic to developmental goals. We do not finger point these errs of your predecessors to you yet we wish that your rule will exalt humanity rather than self-interest.
May your rule be clothed with Grace, May God’s countenance shine upon you!
Yours Sincerely
Stephen Tsikirayi (RESPECT BLACKNESS MOVEMENT FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, UZ SOCIOLOGY STUDENT)
Shamiso Nyikadzino (RESPECT BLACKNESS MOVEMENT DEPUTY PRESIDENT, UZ ARTS STUDENT)
Anesu Chirenje (RESPECT BLACKNESS MOVEMENT ATTORNEY GENERAL, UZ LAW STUDENT)
