BY AL MARIAM
PART ONE
Student Chris Coons, the bearded Marxist in Kenya
Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee has a fascinating personal story to tell about his messianic crusade to save Africans from their ignoble savage selves.
As a young college student, Coons journeyed to Kenya ostensibly to rescue himself out of the wilderness of white privilege.
Coons says he entered college “from a fairly sheltered, privileged, and politically conservative background.”
During his second year in college, he began to examine his “assumptions about America and world relations” and scrutinize the “myth of equal opportunity in America.”
Coons began to “suspect the ideal of America as ‘a beacon of freedom and justice, providing hope for the world’ was not exactly based on reality.”
His examination revealed the “horrible failures made possible by American hubris and dogmatism.” Coons says his life changed as a 3rd year college student.
Filled with doubt and disappointment over “American hubris and dogmatism,” Coons left for Kenya in 1983 saddled with three questions:
What do other nations think of us?
Can private enterprise and democracy solve the problems of developing nations?
Is Marxism an evil ideology, leading millions into totalitarian slavery?
Coons lived with a poor Kenyan family for a month and learned about the hardship they faced.
Coons found Kenyans suffering “poverty and oppression more naked than in America.”
He was surprised to hear from a “very wealthy (Kenyan) businessman and his family beliefs held by many Americans that the poor are lazy, slovenly, uneducated.”
Coons concluded such views were common among Kenyan elites who “had done well only by working for British colonialists.”
Kenya gave Coons a new perspective. “I saw there poverty and oppression more naked than in America.”
He proudly declared, “I studied under a bright and eloquent Marxist professor at the University of Nairobi.”
Coon’s friends would tease him, “Africa took in a clean-shaven, clear-thinking American and sent back a bearded Marxist.”
Coons had his eureka aha! Moment after his Kenya pilgrimage: “I realized that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America might be largely untrue.”
Coons drew a life lesson from his Kenya experience and his privileged education at Amherst:
The greatest value of Amherst for me, then, has been the role it played in allowing me to question and to think. I had to see the slums of Nairobi before the slums of New York meant anything at all, but without the experiences of Amherst, I never would have seen either.
Coons campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 1980, and in 1983 and became a “fanatical founding member” of the Amherst College Republicans at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
Coons life took another turn after he met a “creature he had never known before- A Democrat.”
Coons was most impressed by the lunatic democratic left which he found spellbinding and “terrifyingly persuasive.”
In 1988, Coons transformed himself into a “democrat creature” and cast away his true-blue Republican heritage.
In 2022, the bearded college Marxist student who was horrified by “American hubris and dogmatism” morphed into a bald/bold hawkish interventionist in Ethiopia.
Chris Coons: The bald/bold hawkish interventionist US Senator in Ethiopia
In Apothegms and Interludes (aphorisms) chapter of “Good and Evil”, Fredrick Nietzsche writes, “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”
Young Coons travelled ten thousand miles to Africa to find himself and returned determined to fight and slay the monsters of oppression and American hubris, dogmatism and myth of equal opportunity.
Nearly four decades later, Coons has become the very monster of American intervention, oppression, hubris and dogmatism in Ethiopia.
Coons, despite his youthful idealism, did nothing to save the Kenyans swirling in the abysmal vortex of “poverty and oppression more naked than in America.”
Instead, nearly four decades later, Sir Knight Coons in shining armor and armed with a lance mounted his white horse and rode off to save the Ethiopian damsel in distress.
But Coons is himself a victim of the greatest monster of them all: White Man’s Burden.
It is a monster that diabolically possesses so many white liberal Americans, particularly elite politicians, academics and media personalities, who see Africa as an abysmal “***t hole continent” that must be saved, but are completely blinded to the abyss of the slums of New York, Newark, Chicago, Wilmington and the rest.
I wonder why Coons, then as a college student, and now as a U.S. Senator cannot see abyss of New York slums or the naked poverty and oppression in Wilmington, DE, with a large black population only ten miles from his hometown Hockessin, DE, but can see bright as day the “ethnic cleansing,” “genocide” and “human rights violations” in Ethiopia.
Coons was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Coons attended Tower Hill School, a private college prep school offering instruction for pre-school through 12th grade.
Tower Hill is ranked by the Wall Street Journal 24th in the nation and 1st in Delaware in percentage of students attending eight top colleges.
Graduating from Tower Hill, Coons attended one of the most exclusive higher educational institutions in America, Amherst College.
Amherst is the intellectual birthplace of six Nobel Prize laureates, 20 Rhodes Scholars, numerous Pulitzer Prize recipients, MacArthur Fellows and winners of the Academy, Tony, Grammy and Emmy Awards!
Amherst College is for the elites of the super-elites, and today has less than 1,745 students, not even 2,000!
When the clean-shaven Coons travelled to Kenya from Amherst, he was a rebel without a cause, rejecting his Republican family roots.
But he returned a bearded Marxist rebel with a cause, SAVING THE HALF CHILD AND HALF DEVIL AFRICANS!
Coons decided to carry the cross of the White Man’s Burden, mandated by Rudyard Kipling for every white man of means.
Kipling wrote in verse:
Take up the White Man’s burden—Send forth the best ye breed—Go bind your sons to exile…Your new-caught, sullen peoples,Half devil and half child…
When Joe Biden sent his best buddy Coons to Ethiopia, Coons assured him he can take care of the “half devil and half child Ethiopians” in a jiffy.
Coons proclaimed his messianic crusade to save the “half devil and half child” Ethiopians less than three weeks after the terrorist TPLF attacked the garrison of the Ethiopian Northern Command on November 3, 2020.
Coons crusade against Ethiopia began with the demonization, monsterization and messianic damnation of the Ethiopian government.
On November 20, 2020, Coons tweeted,
I condemn the violence against civilians and urge Prime Minister Abiy, leadership in Tigray, and President Isaias to deescalate tensions and implement an immediate ceasefire. Full humanitarian access must be assured, opened, and protected.
Of course, Coons was not condemning “violence” but demonizing PM Abiy Ahmed and President Isaias Afewerki.
Coons did not even mention the monstrous terrorist TPLF criminals who were solely responsible for the violence and destruction Coons condemned.
Contrast Coons with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Tibor Nagy.
On November 4, 2020, the day after the TPLF attack, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had made the U.S. position clear:
The United States is deeply concerned by reports that the Tigray People’s Liberation Front carried out attacks on Ethiopian National Defense Force bases in Ethiopia’s Tigray region on November 3… The United States stands with the people of Ethiopia and will work with all who are committed to peace, prosperity, democracy, and the rule of law.
Pompeo and the Trump administration were demonstrably principled and unequivocal. No U.S. support for terrorists!
On November 15, 2020, Assistant Secretary Tibor Nagy tweeted,
The United States strongly condemns the TPLF’s unjustifiable attacks against Eritrea on November 14 and its efforts to internationalize the conflict in Tigray.
For Coons, there was moral equivalency between the legitimate government of Ethiopia and the terrorist TPLF.
It would be the same moral equivalency between the U.S. government and the Proud Boys terrorist that attacked Congress on January 6, 2021.
Except to issue in terrorism commands and pronouncements that flow from the arrogance of imperial power, Coons never acknowledged Ethiopian sovereignty, unity or dignity in the current conflict.
On December 1, 2020, Nagy gave an interview to the BBC and laid it all out:
It is important to remember here there is not equivalency. There are not two states which have been belligerent with each other. You have a sovereign government on the one hand Ethiopia, and on the other you have a region of Ethiopia the leadership of which basically started a conflict against the government. And interestingly enough, the Ethiopian Constitution has provisions for a region to secede from Ethiopia but, you know, the best evidence is that the Tigrean leadership did not want to secede from Ethiopia. They wanted to use the opportunity basically to overthrow the prime minister and return to the type of privilege that they had enjoyed within the Ethiopian state for the last 27 years…
On November 4, 2021, on the anniversary of the Terrorist TPLF attack on the Northern Command, Coons in concert with indicted criminal Senator Bob Menendez and Senator Jim Risch from the “Lily White State of Idaho”, introduced the “Ethiopia Peace and Democracy Promotion Act of 2021” to force the Ethiopian government to negotiate with the terrorist TPLF.
The bill’s introduction was supposed to be a special propaganda gift to the terrorist TPLF as it was introduced on the very anniversary of the TPLF terrorist attack on the Ethiopian Northern command setting off the humanitarian disaster in Tigray.
On December 6, 2021, Coons wrote a sensationalized op-ed in Foreign Policy giving propaganda boost to the terrorist TPLF:
Ethiopia is sprinting toward calamity. Last week, as the rebel forces of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and their allies advanced toward the capital of Addis Ababa.
Coons further took sadistic pleasure in the pain the U.S. had inflicted on Ethiopia.
The U.S. government has responded to the crisis in Tigray by suspending security assistance to Abiy’s government, imposing targeted sanctions on those fueling the conflict and violating human rights, and revoking the preferential trade access Ethiopia has enjoyed through the African Growth and Opportunity Act.
Editor’s Note: The views entertained in this article do not necessarily reflect the stance of The Ethiopian Herald
The Ethiopian Herald June 4/2022
