SMDH.

Look at her, Y'all. The performative “I am African,” as if Africa is a monolith and Christianity fell from the sky.

Lady, if you’re talking about West Africa, Jesus was NEVER THERE! Not in Nigeria. Not in Ghana. Not in Benin. Not in Senegal. Not in Mali. Not in Yorubaland or Igboland.

Christianity arrived through EUROPEAN missionaries, conquest, and colonial rule, long after Indigenous African spiritual systems had already existed for centuries. They were complex, ethical, communal, and fully intact.

What makes this especially tragic is that she is so thoroughly colonized and doesn't even recognize it. Like, you stayed in Africa and you're STILL this colonized. This is home-based colonization. Stayed on the continent and still carrying the white missionary’s worldview like it’s an ancestral bone.

Colonization taught you to forget, then taught you to feel righteous and smug about the forgetting. To measure Africanness by proximity to Europe’s god. To hear your own stolen past and call it “pagan,” while treating an imported religion as timeless truth. WTF! Ugh.

You’re mistaking a colonial inheritance for cultural origin. You’re defending a theology that displaced your ancestors’ cosmologies, renamed their gods as demons, criminalized their rituals, and then taught you to feel morally superior for accepting the replacement.

That’s the most effective colonization of all. It's the kind where the colonized polices culture on behalf of empire and calls it faith and native to your indigenous cosmos.

And invoking Jesus to dismiss Kwanzaa only proves why Kwanzaa exists. It is a diasporic response to erasure, rupture, and forced conversion. Her comment isn’t a critique of Kwanzaa. It’s an exhibit in the museum of colonial success. Massa is proud, chile.

Also, nobody asked what your village is celebrating. Elizabeth Warren said “everyone celebrating.” If it doesn’t apply to you, you could have scrolled. Instead, you volunteered as living evidence of how Jesus didn’t come from your village, but colonialism absolutely did.