Let’s see...what does this story have in common with the fate of post-colonial Africa? Detroit? Haiti? Etc.
It’s never their own fault. It’s always whitey’s fault for not helping them enough.
If whitey is around, he’s an oppressor. If whitey leaves, it’s his fault for abandoning them.
“If whitey is around, he’s an oppressor. If whitey leaves, it’s his fault for abandoning them.”
Perhaps Kipling was on to something.
And if whitey comes back, he’s practicing “gentrification”, driving out the poor black victims of the previous white oppression and flight.