Aime Cesaire

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Aime Cesaire says "my turn to state an equation: colonization = "thingification.". I hear the storm. They talk to me about progress, about achievements, disease cure, improved standards of living."

"I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled under foot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out."

These are the results of colonization.  Cesaire's ability to illustrate them is impeccable.  With kingdom theology, with an eye towards justice (mercy), which to some people is impossible. Then it would have to be radical.  If one can name the immoral acts of the colonizer, then one must be able to identify the immoral acts of colonized.  No one is perfect, no not one.  

The modern day elite, the progressive, would undermine the word "morality" by insisting that it is based in Western ideas. This is a subordinate point of view, because many religions point to morality as a basis for living in the world, and with others.

And there is colonization of the mind and entrapment in systems of human thought and theology.  The etiology of these may well be desire.  If one could see the radical in-breaking of the Divine, the sweeping in of the kingdom of God, would this imply some sort of syncretisms?  Can this be done or should it be?   

Cesaire continues "to wit, that great historical tragedy of Africa has been not so much that it was too late in making contact with the rest of the world, as the manner in which that contact was brought about; that Europe began to propagate at a time when it had fallen into the hands of the most unscrupulous financeres and captains of industry; that it was our misfortune to encounter a particular Europe on our path, and that Europe is responsible before the human community for the highest heap of corpses in history."

That is correct, because westerners of those times, who colonized, were corrupt,  as well as was the church.  

Thingification is real and we mustn't fall into a trap where we do this to our other, either from the west or the global south or east.

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