[OPINION] The Politics of Evolution and Eugenics, By Rev. Fr. Chika Okpalike

Many of us are conversant with the above image. I consider it the most popular image of evolution. In the secondary school, we all learnt about evolution. Advancing in life, many have adopted it as their religion, debunking the more popular creation narrative. Charles Darwin, obviously was not a scientist in the modern sense of the word.

His evolution hypothesis was not a product of any credible empirical evaluation of species; it is ideological and its purpose can be summarised by this picture. According to this picture and indeed the idea of Charles Darwin, the advancement of the human species was at its nursery in Africa and Africans and at its maturity is the west and westerners. That idea alone makes Africans a species that should catch-up, if they can, or get exterminated for the improvement of the specie quality of humans. Charles Darwin referred to this process as “Natural Selection”. By implication, while the west and westerners get stronger, they systematically eliminate the weaker species to achieve a stronger human species. However, Charles Darwin did not insinuate that at any point of the evolutionary process will there be found a human species totally purged of a weak species.

Twenty-five years after the publication of his work on evolution, another English man, Francis Galton, came up with the eugenics hypothesis. According to Galton the evolutionary process of humans can be quickened or accelerated to achieved a perfection of human genetics. In as much as Plato in 400 BC had taught of selective breeding of the human species to achieve a better humanity, Galton belong to a more aggressive and proactive species selection through genetic perfection. This hypothesis encourages that measures should be taken to eliminate undesirable and undesired species to make way for the more desired and desirable ones. All these we study as science and they sound good for the improvement of life. But what is really at stake?

Margret Sanger understood Eugenics and had practical ways of making it work for those who propounded it. She championed what is today referred to as ‘Negative Eugenics’. She popularized the term ‘Birth Control’, fought for the legalization of contraception, co-founded Planned Parenthood. Legalization of abortion and same sex marriage are all part of negative eugenics. In the American congress and the whole of Capitol Hill, it is Democrats who are famed for advancing policies that are often tied to negative eugenics. Today Planned Parenthood has found its way into Africa and its genocide of the black population is well-positioned at the heart of the black world.

Evolution and Eugenics are science that has been turned against the black population anywhere in the world. Pharmaceutical industries have bought into it and the practice of western medicine is doing us no good. I have had similar discussions like this in the past but I have come to understand that the miseducation that made us to think the way we do was the first weapon for the destruction of the black man. Our education, needless to say, needs total overhaul. Leaders of African nations do not seem to understand that international politics is informed by evolution and armed by eugenics. Britain is the breeding ground for these ideas and their program is the doom of Africa. A friend shared this link with me on Facebook which got me really upset this morning (https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-11-06-prince-william-argues-for-urgent-depopulation-efforts-in-africa.html). Britain again? Propaganda, many might say, but there is truth in many a propaganda. What the heck is their concern with African population explosion? Sooner or later our leaders will buy and key into this program without knowing how and when. These things might not be accomplished in the next century, but slow and steady wins the race.

The last time I checked, Nigerian foreign policies have not looked beyond Africa. If it is for the benefits of it, fine and good, but if this also means that our leaders do not have the capacity and wits to understand international politics, then they have no business in leadership. Every African leader should be able to analyze what is going on currently in the world stage. If the white House and Pyongyang are doing war of words, what is the implication for us? If the White House is lashing out on Kremlin, what precautions do we take? If Britain is exiting EU. What do we stand to gain/lose? If Donald Trump adopts Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, how does it concern us? But here we are still struggling with the second Niger Bridge, Enugu-Onitsha Expressway or the various defections of Atiku. These old men with reptilic brains, fixated with their ethnic prejudices and obsessed by their military coercive methods have no clue as to what is going on in the world. Africa needs more than mere conformity to international policies. Like North Korea and Iran, we should evolve leaders who will be courageous enough to bulldoze their way through the circle of nations dictating for the world.

Darwin’s theory of evolution is not just science, it is philosophy; it is politics. Galton’s Eugenics is not just science, it is politics; it is philosophy. The narrative of the world is shaped by all these currents of hypothetical thinking. After being schooled in their anthologies, educated Africans begin easily to think these kinds of thought: “there is something wrong with the black DNA”, “there is something eerie about the black man”, “the black colour is a curse” and so on. I am an advocate of African rebirth and education is the tool; not western education; politics is the domain, not the kind cast in western democracy Let us evolve Africa and Africans