DO BLACK LIVES MATTER IN BELGIUM?

Defaced statue of King Leopold II following the demonstrations over the brutal murder of George Floyd 

In Ghana, my country of birth, there is a proverb which says: "Out of every misfortune comes a blessing," that means even though it's unfortunate George Floyd, the African-American, brutally murdered by white police officers is dead and gone, yet the outcome of his death has changed the mind of how many people view black people.

The brutal murder of George Floyd, an African-American in the United States of America, by racist white police officers, sparked riots and demonstrations across the globe, including some European countries, that saw the barbaric and inhuman video of the officer who pinned down Mr. Floyd by kneeling on his neck for approximately 9 minutes.

The black man has no mouth to speak, has no platform to make his voice heard, thus, so-called America and European powers have taken it as an opportunity to cause damage and destabilize the economies on the African continent, just to create pressure, panic, fear, and difficulties for African leaders to depend on them.

The pain they are not ready to pass through is what they unleash on Africans, including African-Americans because slavery has been abolished, colonial power has succumbed to independence, and Apartheid has bowed to democracy. 

Europeans and American leaders continue to cause damage to the continent of Africa with all kinds of brutalities, including biological weapons, such as HIV-Aids, Ebola, Burkitt's lymphoma, Kaposi's sarcoma and nodding disease. 

False and corrupt scientists supporting the lies of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control, called the latter 'Strange Disease.'

Belgium is no different from other European countries and the United States of America that for years continue to kill Africans and looted their countries to enrich themselves. Congo was then the personal property of Belgium, known as 'Belgian-Congo, under the rulership of the lunatic King Leopold II, who maimed and killed over 10 million Congolese.

What's their crime? They failed to supply the quantity of rubber Leopold II wants them to produce in a day for the demand of the automobile industry in Europe and the United States of America. Men's hands were chopped, genitals were tied, and huts burned down. Children and women were not spared. They were brutally dismembered. 

Despite the magnitude of those horrible crimes against humanity, Belgium mocked the victims and congratulated the perpetrator, King Leopold II, by naming streets after him throughout Belgium and built statues in his honour. We don’t have to blame God, for the evil in this world, because God is not part of this. 

My Experience in Belgium as a writer

As a matter of fact, I have been in Belgium not too long, yet I think twenty years in the country is long enough to tell anyone my experience in a country which history with black people is so bitter that many even consider their pets, such as dogs and cats valuable than the black man. 

Even though things are rapidly changing in Belgium, they still have a lot to do to show the world that they are civilized people. Today, I see black Belgians that have studied very high given them the opportunity to work in good establishments like the white Belgians. Today, I see a black man, Vincent Kompany, as the captain of Belgium's National Team, "The Red Devils."

Belgium has no respect for the black man just like how some view African-Americans. In my efforts to my books, I became a laughing stock just because a black man is writing books. I can still remember the question a woman asked me, "You, you write books?' 

This question even reveals how shallow-minded some Belgians are, even though many of their journalists haven't even written a single book, yet many of them underestimate an African journalist that has written eight books. 

I have a philosophy they know very well, I don't respect anyone who doesn't respect me. I will keep that philosophy until the time I will go down into my grave.

When one of the Belgian Royal Family, Queen Matilde, followed me on Twitter, she thought that could help from hitting against Belgium. After seeing a series of attacks of my articles still coming, she quickly unfollowed. I tweeted, "She can't bribe me or buy my compromise."

After demonstrations spread across the United States of America and some European countries, some of the reachable statues of Leopold II were defaced. 

Years back, I wrote to the then Belgium Prime Minister, Charles Michel, and the Royal Family in Brussels, painstakingly explaining why Leopold II's statues need to be demolished and streets named after him changed. If there is no statue of Adolf Hitler for killing six million Jews, there shouldn't be Leopold's statue for killing 10 million Africans.

The gentleman, then Belgium Prime Minister, Charles Michel, wrote to me but the Royal Family failed to do so, yet Belgium is a country that once had a so-called intelligent woman called Annemie Turtelboom, who was then the Justice Minister. In fact, the black man in Belgium has never had any justice in the country till now.

Many Belgians have no respect for black people because they are ignorant and insincere to admit the fact that without Congo, Belgium will be one of the poorest countries in Europe. They continue to disrespect black people today but the fact is it is not necessary for a black man to trumpet about his intelligence as most of the white people do.

Because they know too well that the black man is not stupid the reason they don't want to give black people a breathing space. Out of jealousy and hate, they find it hard to watch a black man progressing and will do everything to bring him down.

Some years back when I went to the notorious Stuivenberg Hospital in Antwerp to investigate the abnormally high death of Africans in that hospital, they call me a crazy man but today, that same hospital is one of the safest hospitals after publishing my book about the stealing of black people body organs in the hospital.

There will be a time, whether dead or alive in Belgium, there will be no single Leopold II statue anywhere in the country and all the names of streets named after him will be changed before they will enjoy the peace they are looking for ages yet they can't find.