IT should not be surprising that whites, including Americans, are not happy to see blacks who match them or excel in areas they consider their preserve.
Normally you would expect current world number one tennis player, Serena Williams, to be the darling of America, but that would before you come across the racial abuse she is subjected to in her own country.
She had to withdraw from a prestigious tennis tournament, the Indian Wells, hosted by the United States following a barrage of racial slurs directed at her and her family by her own people.
The reason is not is not hard to find.
She and her sister Venus were excelling in a sport white Americans thought was supposed to be dominated by the former slave owners.
This is not surprising.
After all, America is the cradle of the slave trade, where blacks were considered to be inferior beings incapable of matching the ‘superior’ white race.
Elsewhere in this edition, we have a story by one of our contributors of how abuse of slaves had no barriers as women were reduced to child bearing machines that could raped with impunity.
So long as they were producing more slaves.
This is the stereotype image of blacks internalised by most whites, not only in America, but by other beneficiaries of the evil slave trade.
The Americans are proud of their history and their institutions are shaped by the objectives of their liberation struggle, when they declared independence from Britain in 1776.
To this day, ascendency to the office of President in America is a ‘straight jacket’, whereby you have to be seen to be conforming to the principles that led America to its independence.
This privilege seems to be exclusive to America and definitely not a black polity.
Zimbabwe, like the United States got its independence after fighting and defeating the British.
Like the United States, the values of its institutions are shaped by what the people fought for in the liberation struggle.
And the ‘straight jacket’ principle once enunciated by Zimbabwe’s security forces is in line with the principles that guide the United States as well.
But then as blacks we are not supposed to match or do better than America in areas where they feel they must control.
And what they want to control most are black governments and their resources.
That is why American George Soros is among the funders of the Zimbabwe Peace and Security Programme aimed at creating a security sector that is not bound by the objectives of our liberation struggle – a security sector that frowns on our history.
Once an amorphous security sector is established with the assistance of willing Zimbabwean quislings then regime change becomes possible since the security forces’ role as protector of the nation and its values would have gone.
Zimbabwe is a country which matches the United States in proclaiming its pride at being a sovereign state, not prepared to be reduced to a British colony again.
We can see through the evil machinations of the West and are very aware that the introduction of such dubious programmes exclusively to Zimbabwean universities is not love for our country.
Suffice to remind the Americans and others of their kind that our aspirations for our country are just like theirs for their own country.
On our part, we value the achievements of Serena Williams on the tennis courts just as much as we do those of Kirsty Coventry in the swimming pool.
We were all created in the image of God regardless of our skin pigmentation.