aspiration to be white is the Africans burden

"It is the duty of the younger Negro artist...to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I be white? I am a Negro—and beautiful!'" -Langston Hughes (The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, The Nation) It is unfortunate that the power of corporations is conniving with many African states to perpetuate this very aspiration.We witness this through the consumerist culture,where African consume an abundance of products that they neither make,repair or design,simply because of their congruence with western wealth.So we have Africa's importing western luxury products,made with African raw materials.Am I the only only one that recognises the idiocy in the transaction?African's will travel to Europe to purchase diamonds and gold from Africa;all due to their deep seated idea of being honourary whites. If was truly about possessing luxurious goods,as opposed to imitating Europe.There would be a multitude of industries spawning clientele across the globe.But,alas,we prefer consuming the ideation of originating in Europe as deep in our sub conscious is makes us white by proxy. If you doubt mt reasoning,than explain why it is that European borders of Africa persist to date. Mugabe and his cohorts will complain about sanctions not enabling him to travel freely to Europe yet,at every opportunity he will lambast Europe,for wanting to dictate to him;yet the presidential palace which he has occupied for going on 34 years is probably styled in an an ostentatious European fashion. The African Union (AU) is now engaged in a war of attrition with the "international community" over the perceived bias in the dispensation of "justice" or injustice by the International Criminal Court (ICC).Yet,they had free will to ratify the Rome Statute.However in their rush,to embrace all things western,they failed to decipher the inherent bias,and are now using it as an excuse to delay dispensing justice to their fellow citizens. Aspiring to be the white man would seem to be the black man's burden.