The Events In Gaza Have Led Me To Ask: Can White Folks Ever Transcend The Parochialism of Their Race?

Adebayo Adeniran
4 min readJan 8, 2024

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Not even the Iraq war had this galvanizing effect on millions of individuals around the world.

Even though it was abundantly clear to everyone that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and we marched in our millions to protest the invasion of a sovereign nation, we were more than ready to give our leaders the benefit of the doubt: both George Bush and Tony Blair won their re-election bids in 04 and 05, respectively.

But it does feel rather different this time.

While some may argue that the presence of social media has made it easy for news to travel at the speed on light; but it is much more than that.

We have seen umpteen images of children and women blown to smithereens and those images are forever seared into our subconscious; far more than we realize or appreciate.

And for the very first time, we see the west for what it truly is: a genocidally racist, profoundly corrupt and morally bankrupt enterprise; one which has no other aspirations but to dominate and destroy.

It was never about democracy in Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Iran, Grenada, Guyana, South Africa and other far flung parts of the globe; it…

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Adebayo Adeniran
Adebayo Adeniran

Written by Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible

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