there is a counter argument that USAID was a saviors camp for white people to "solve" the problems that systemic inequity against africa and the rest of the developing world caused by those same white peoples governments and industrys

That’s a pretty uninformed argument.

For most of the global south USAID was the arm of America they were most likely to interact with. It was food and schools and medicine and disaster relief. It was soft power and goodwill.

Not only has the longest charm campaign in history ended, but a door to China and others been opened.