ADDIS ABABA– African-American actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish has denounced U.S. racist foreign policy against Ethiopia and Eritrea and she also got praised by black lives matter activists for criticizing “racist” U.S. foreign policy against Africa.
Tiffany Haddish is not the first African-American to criticize US foreign policy, as Rev. Jesse Jackson previously condemned U.S. blockade of Ethiopia’s hydroelectric projects. The African-American Civil Rights leader raised the alarm in 2020 that US policy in the Horn of Africa is hurting black people and risks making Ethiopia “the colony of Egypt.”
Other black activists also noted a racist hypocrisy that western nations expect global solidarity to condemn armed insurrectionists and terrorists targeting white countries in Europe and America but they legitimize rebels and terrorists in African countries like Ethiopia. President Biden’s U.S. government has used the false narratives of “genocide” and “famine” created by TPLF lobbyists and supporters as a pretext to support Egypt’s ambitions against Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.
Over 1,200 civilians have been killed by TPLF terrorists before Ethiopian authorities clampdown and arrested most of the group’s leaders. The TPLF fighters have also been caught wearing the uniform of Ethiopian and Eritrean troops while committing atrocities and ambushing aid convoys. In one case, the TPLF terrorists dressed up in Eritrean Uniform and began video-tapping themselves mutilating bodies of refugees; for western media consumption, to frame the Eritrean government for human rights abuses.
Since then, critics say the TPLF has provided the cover for racist U.S. foreign policy decisions, which are using human rights as pretext for intervention. To complicate the issue; the U.S. government began hiding atrocities committed by an ethnic supremacist terrorist group in northern Ethiopia. Known as the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), the terror group waged a deadly insurrection in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia and blew up airports in Eritrea.
The controversy escalated recently as Joe Biden’s U.S. representative Jeffrey Feltman began assembling more Arab countries, including the Qatar and Saudis, to block Ethiopia’s infrastructure projects and put more pressure against both Ethiopia and Eritrea. Rev. Jackson’s Rainbow/Push coalition also demanded the US government to “restore funding for Ethiopia.”
BY ESSEYE MENGISTE
The Ethiopian Herald June 8/2021
