With such a rotten regime and such a depraved, incompetent group, Magna naturally felt nothing but contempt for Liberia.
Contempt aside, Magna and the United States behind him still had to support this country that seemed to have no bottom line.
Magna said, "East Africa is a world power second only to the United States, and at the same time, a barbaric nation addicted to aggression."
"Over the half-century of East Africa's existence, most of the peoples and nations on the African continent have scattered into the dust of history."
"Before the mid-nineteenth century, Black settlements of every size had covered the vast lands of southern Africa. Yet now, across East Africa's thirteen million square kilometers of territory, not a single Black figure can be seen."
"So, Begel, tell me: if East African influence spreads into Northwest Africa, especially Liberia, do you think East Africans will tolerate people like you?"
Magna had raised an extremely fatal question. From a historical perspective, East Africa was clearly not a country that Liberia's Black people could deal with easily.
From East Africa to Southern Germany, then the Abyssinian Empire, Belgian Congo, and Togoland, wherever East African influence extended, there was simply no soil for Black people to survive in.
This could not exactly be called East African discrimination against Black people in Africa. After all, East Africa had been equally ruthless in striking at the Arab religion white forces of North Africa.
Begel did not care about the fate of the Arab religion white forces, but Magna's words made cold sweat break out all over him.
Though he did not want to acknowledge his Black identity, East Africa clearly would not act according to the standards by which American-Liberian Black people like Begel defined themselves. In East Africa's eyes, they were no different