Western moral reckoning for colonialism

The need to respond to the call for North-South cooperation

     The West must come to a moral reckoning with respect to colonialism.  The West should have done so during the process of decolonization of the 1950s through the 1970s, but it could not, because what occurred was not a true decolonization but a transition from colonialism to neocolonialism.  Deception, and not truthful accounting and rectification, was the order of the day.  Thus, public discourse did not discuss the historical development of the current stage of the world-system on a colonial foundation, nor did it address the continuation of colonialism in a new form, such that it constituted a de facto denial of the importance of colonialism in the past and present. 

     Breaking the silence, an indignant shout of anti-colonialism, reflecting a superficial understanding, has emerged in the last two decades.  It indulges in blanket condemnation of Western colonialism, frequently focusing on individuals, past and present, as the targets of righteous wrath. 

     In today’s comment…