Pan Africanism Is Extraction

Pan Africanism Is Extraction 

By Maroc 

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Pan Africanism is no longer about unity.

It has morphed into an ideological hustle — a vehicle for extraction, not reciprocity.

Soulaan people, Black Americans with lineage tracing back to the 1800s U.S. Census and the Maafa, are constantly expected to be the face of struggle, the bridge to Africa, and the energy source for global Black causes.

But when it comes to our own justice, sovereignty, or reparations?

The silence is loud.

The gaslighting is louder.

Pan Africanism has trained many to recognize global Black indigeneity, but suddenly go blind when it comes to North America — because the real objective has always been to treat the American Negro as unrewarded property of Africa.

No identity.

No sovereignty.

No voice.

Absolutely no Black American is flooding Caribbean nations demanding political power, citizenship, or reparations.

Yet African and Caribbean nationals feel entitled to our movements, our lineage-based reparations, and our cultural infrastructure.

Those are colonizer tactics — just wearing Black skin.

And if you are a Black foreigner ignoring Soulaan struggles while pushing a false sense of unity, understand this:

You have lost our interest in solidarity.

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Extraction, Not Solidarity

Notice Pan Africanists never highlight funding our legal fights, our freedom movements, or our grassroots initiatives.

They only highlight our history — when it’s time to borrow from it.

They tell us we’re “the same” — but only when it’s time to study our culture, harvest our energy, and claim our legacy as theirs.

Is that not an agenda of extraction?

They say,

“The FBI and CIA are creating anti-African Black groups to divide us.”

But when we ask:

Why can’t Pan Africanists speak up when Soulaan people are disrespected, undermined, and erased by Africans or Caribbeans?

They gaslight.

They project.

They block us.

No Soulaan is invading CARICOM.

But Pan Africanists are constantly invading our reparations claims, our cultural lineage, and our blood-coded identity.

You are not entitled to unity with a people you only show up to study, mimic, and exploit.

You are not entitled to ride the Soulaan bloodline like a tourist bus to political clout and global proximity.

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Nobody’s Invading You but You’re in Our House Uninvited

Let’s be perfectly clear:

Soulaan people aren’t storming Jamaican political forums.

We aren’t demanding seats in Nigerian government.

We aren’t claiming Garvey’s birthright.

We aren’t asking for Ghanaian land rights or reparations from Haiti.

Yet Pan Africanism has become a tool to position Soulaan people as the global labor force for emotional solidarity — without receiving any of the tangible fruits of that so-called unity.

It shows up as:

• Black Lives Matter being hijacked and redirected toward “global Black suffering”
• Reparations efforts being diluted into vague “diaspora coalitions”
• Soulaan culture — hip hop, jazz, soul, street fashion, political movements — being rewritten as “Pan African exports”

but never protected, funded, or defended.

This is not solidarity.

This is resource mining wrapped in kente cloth.

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When It’s Time to Give We Are “One People”

When It’s Time to Receive We Are On Our Own

The most glaring contradiction in Pan Africanism:

When it comes time to study our culture, quote our revolutionaries, eat from our table —

We are “one people.”

But when it comes time to stand for Soulaan-specific reparations?

When it comes time to defend our indigeneity?

When it comes time to call out Africans or Caribbeans disrespecting us?

Suddenly we are on our own.

If we are “all one people,” why is the burden of unity always placed on us?

Why is the cost of unity only deducted from our end?

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You Block Us When We Demand Accountability

When Soulaan people ask:

• Why don’t you protest when Africans call us Akatas?
• Why don’t you protest when Caribbeans tell Soulaan youth they have no culture?
• Why don’t you defend us when Pan African movements steal our aesthetic, our music, our energy?

We are called divisive.

We are told we are tools of the CIA.

We are gaslit into silence.

Pan Africanism has become a spiritual colony.

Soulaan bloodlines are treated like a global ATM machine —

Withdraw when convenient.

Never deposit.

And when we dare to say enough,

we are excommunicated from the very unity we built.

Enough.

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Soulaan People Are Not Extensions

We Are Foundations

We built global Black consciousness.

We built the rhythm of protest and soul-based resistance.

We built the blueprint for every global Black liberation narrative.

We structured movements.

We globalized style, sound, thought, and spiritual resistance.

And yet we are asked to earn access to spaces we created —

To beg for entry into movements built on our backs?

No.

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Solidarity Without Reciprocity Is Colonization

If you ignore our struggle,

Erase our indigeneity,

Dismiss our sovereign needs,

but remember us when it is time to harvest energy —

You are not a brother or sister.

You are a colonizer with a darker hue.

Soulaan people are no longer accepting this silent extraction pipeline disguised as Pan African unity.

We are not anti-African.

We are not anti-Caribbean.

We are anti-parasitism.

We are anti-exploitation.

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Unity without respect is a scam.

Solidarity without support is theft.

And Pan Africanism without equity is just recolonization with a smile.

#Soulaan