We’re all familiar with the overt and covert reasons given for the military actions taken by the coalition against Libya but could there also be a racial subtext?

In the presiding weeks following Gaddafi’s clampdown on so-called “protesters”, the Media in Britain (newspapers, online articles, magazines) continually highlighted what it saw as “Black Africans” hired by Gaddafi to kill Libyans. Images of Libyans allegedly complaining that Gaddafi hired Black African mercenaries to come and kill them reinforced these opinions. Tragically, we then saw images and clips online showing Black Africans beaten up by Libyans in revenge. The media did not appear to respond to these beatings and killings of Africans in the same way it responded to Gadafi’s forces killing Libyan protesters. If anything, the media seemed scarily complacent. Indeed, one got the impression that the African deserved being killed; he was being put in his place. The Killing of Citizen Libyan by Gaddafi was crime against humanity but the killing of African by Citizen Libyan was collateral damage.

In any case, however accurate or exaggerated these tales, the perceptive individual is left with the uneasy feeling that the African image in racial history lies as the motivating force here. I mean that aspect of him as a figure of threat, foreign, dehumanized and hated.

In his guise as a figure of threat, the African wants vengeance for historic humiliation. This is based on European guilt complex.

In his guise as foreign, the African is separate from the unity of the other races. This is informed by the dehumanization of him.


Together these ideas brought the Arabs and Europeans to the doorstep of Gaddafi to punish him.

In other words, one is left with the uneasy feeling that despite, Lockerbie, Yvonne Fletcher, IRA backing, the suppression of rebellion, the al-Megrahi thumb-nosing, oil security, Gaddafi might have survived another 40 years. Unfortunately, for him he went and had the temerity to hire black Africans to come kick Arab ass and this was enough to break the camels back. It so enraged Cameron, the arrogant white guy who wants to usurp upstart Blackman, Obama’s leadership of the world, he went clarion calling the white Christian world to join forces whit the Arab world.


Yeah, too much I know but the sneaking suspicion remains

i think you watch too much british tv. britain is but a speck in the world. britain is americas lapdog. if obama had not sanctioned this action, britain cant do jack. obama is a black man.

You missed the point entirely.