Even when Black bodies make it here, invited or not, the punitive surveillance never stops. Couched in the rhetoric of controlling security, they limit Black people from accessing their own wealth which oozes out of every brick in Westminster. The same can be said for Western immigration laws. Similar to the new and less visible segregation in the US, where there are no longer any racist signs above shops, Black bodies in those stores are severely monitored and overhandedly punished if they are perceived to be out of line. And yet, we are barred from freely walking into any Western country without experiencing punitive immigration laws and unnecessary hurdles. The current Western civilization was built on the labour, blood and resources forcibly extracted from Africa and her Black population. On the international level, the same can be said for the entire West, including her settler offspring in the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Although the civil rights movement attempted to correct this, segregation remained, but it became less legible. Black people were barred from the good schools, the nicer parts of town, the better jobs, and state running. The US, which was built on the blood and sweat of many Black people forcibly stolen from Africa, restricts those same Black people from accessing the profits of their own labour. We know that all countries, like all people, are not equal. The language of segregation, “separate but equal”, is the same language used for nation-states and international relations.

Pronlems with nation state