You know, this video is so disturbing that it transcends all discussion. at least until one shakes off its effects. Metaverse is correct regarding the irony, although i might have chosen a spicier word. First we must congratulate the man who has set up the house to save these children regardless of race. But the larger picture is something that can't be ignored. In fact, what Metaverse alludes to is what guided me into the field of anthropology. So it is something personal to me and no small matter. You know those commercials that show starving children in Afrika or South America and ask for your donation, or show all the good they are doing. This is then amplified to the level of government in the form of "Aid." Aside from the fact that aid programs are used to gain influence within a country, etc. what I'm talking about is what Metaverse spoke to. The violent representation of the issue. What is hidden is the causes of poverty, etc. They show YT doing all these good things, but never is the source of the dysfunction revealed. It's a violent representation because it does violence to the victims. It ignores the causes, as if these conditions always existed. All those starving Guatemalan children are starving because they come from a race of inferior intellect, are lazy, etc. but YT will save the day. Never is the fact of U.S. corporate and governmental policy related to Guatemala's situation (just an example).
so true also when Metaverse says "... The point, the African mind especially as a collective is "healthier" with the polarizations of both Male and Female in power..."
That is why the first thing they did was destroy the women's societies and portray them as evil. If you study the earliest written documents (I am lucky to be close to the University of Florida, which has an excellent collection) as well as Odu, there was not this anti-witch activism in the culture. There was a deep respect of older women, who were/are believed to have the evil eye, that is the power to curse. Of course they also had the power to bless. Early accounts of Gelede, a festival in which the ancestors and the Mothers were propitiated and balance maintained, do not portray a people in fear of "witches." But respectful of the power of women. Throughout their history there has always been this delicate balance between male and female energy, played out in Gelede.
This video represents the effects of the destruction by Europeans of the institutions that maintained balance between the feminine and masculine. But all we see are some ignorant savages who need the Euro to save them. A violent (mis) representation.