We can outnumber them 10-1 if we like. As long as their relationship with us is defined primarily by aid, migration and pity, we will never be able to look them in the eye and speak as equals.

The world is about power and economics, not feelings and passions. https://twitter.com/_Kruddz/status/1267411337757556736

The world treated Chinese, Korean, Italian, Irish and Japanese people like this at one time or the other in the 20th century. What changed their situation was that their countries became powerful, making it less attractive to mistreat them.

Emotions had nothing to do with it.

If there were just one or two of Africa's 54 countries that had a $1trn GDP, global mistreatment of black people would fizzle out as global mistreatment of Irish and Japanese once did too.

Black people are all too easy to bully because there are zero geopolitical repercussions.