(JollofNews) – Many Gambians have been relishing the country transition to democracy, but suddenly they come to a painful realisation that there is a hefty price to be paid for such glorious moment. That is because the collapse of the dictatorship seems to have marked the emergence of middle class who only focus is to be having an unjustified bite of the national cake. These are professionals with college degrees who are running and managing our public institutions in ways that fulfils their individual material interests as they continue to pay lip service to national development. Thus the services provided by such institutions tend to be sub-standard, which poses the greatest threat to the collective interest the citizens.
The dire status of the Gambia’s economy demands public officials to apply thought and high standards of professional practice so as to transform the workings of public institutions for the benefits of ordinary citizens. It is my view that is what is in line with the objectives and spirit of the NDP 2018-2021. The Recent events in public service suggest to me that the middle class are at each other’s throats just to ensure they secure their vested interest at the expense of the societal interests. This is evident in the recent fallouts caused by the TRRC’s awarding of a film contract to a private company which didn’t sit comfortably with the GRTS, resulting in shadow boxing between the TRRC and the GRTS, which is probably damaging to the reputation of both institutions. Indeed, it is profoundly disturbing to witness public officials fighting in public while they relegate their duty to run those public institutions. In our transition to democracy, academics likewise politicians have all joined in the project of self-enrichment as they demand remuneration for every little expertise rendered to the public. It is expected that the TRRC and GRTS, as public institution act with integrity in order to command public confidence in the service of their respective offices.
Gambians deserve better from the distinguished public servants, especially at a time when most Gambians are decrying for basic needs to sustain basic life. In contrary, public officers seem to happily scuffle for a slice of the national cake so as to maintain their fancy costume dressing up shows under the pretext of religiosity. Surely, it cannot be the case that those in the position of public importance disregard the duty to embrace good ethical practices in the service of public office without consequences.
The GRTS plays an important role in our developing democracy. In this sense, it can be regarded as a fourth organ of the state that has a crucial role to play in balancing the powers between the three organs of the state. It is also in a position to keep the use of state powers accountable to the public by scrutinising the arbitrary use of powers under any circumstances. Therefore, its role and standing must not be tainted with a hint of impropriety. Indeed, it has a privileged position when it comes to reporting matters of public importance. In contrast, the TRRC has an important role to play in the dispensation of justice for the past human rights violations, which we hope would allow our communities to heal. A hint of impropriety in its dealings will forever damage its reputation. As a consequence it can only reinstitute immoral bourgeois concept of justice, which is out of tune with the contemporary liberal understanding of justice. Such outcomes seem preventable if we follow ethical standards of work practices.
As we seek to transit to a functioning democracy, we have the greatest forbearance to allow public institutions to transform Gambian lives.
Let us not forget the fact that, to transform Gambian lives, it is crucial that public officers execute their roles with unquestionable integrity by following standards of work practices that are neither legally or morally lax.
The notion that we can continue to blame every failure on the government when we ourselves fail to observe good standards of work practices constitute the most grossly negligent conduct on the part of the bourgeois.
The scuffle to have a bite at the cherry must stop in furtherance of our collective interests.
A good thought provoking piece. However, exemplary Leadership – especially the frugal (thrifty) use of our meagre resources starts with the presidency. Calling out the middle Management for greed and self-enrichment is well and good but perceptions Counts. If these “college” graduates see the president and first Lady Siphon lobby Money to their respective foundations, what type of message is this sending to state employees?
Of Course the behaviour of the president is no excuse for citizens to indulge in corruption and embezzlement. Just some food for thought
Do we even have to need a proof about claims the average Gambian, especially those in public offices and institutions, have the dumbness and the desire to dip their heads into public funds – written all over their psyches?
Just see their lot at Friday Prayers and public gatherings, sporting cumbersomely tailored gowns and kaftans as if
they were being appointed to public offices and duty in order to prove to poor Gambians how better a religious people they are, though such outfit may have too little to do with religiosity. Why are leaders and public figures of the Gambia very much obsessed with wearing dangling tangling robes when they have so much work entrusted to them to be done in the dusty country without an infrastructure? I am not trying to blame a specific type of dress code as the cause of our problems but indeed to lay bare some of our attitudes that are the least synonymous to honest people, who are seriously out for hardwork in public office. Gambians really really need to check and check again, their concept of citizenship, government and public duty.
If I were a public servant who is working in the Gambia and have seen an administration that chose to indulge in blatant corruption, I rather resign and go farming and make my voice heard, than make such an administration an example, to justify embezzling of public funds.
Let’s just never stop asking ourselves; Why a tiny country of 2m people can’t make a significant shift in governance trends to improve the lives of its people and infrastructure?
What’s to blame; the geological terrains or the obscure and dormant mindsets of the average inhabitant?
However, as a footnote, I would like to urge folks not to believe that there is a black or white method applied for good governance but rather human integrity.
LMAO!
Good to see you back again after a while, brother Bourne.
I am only assuming your last sentence is either directed at Mwalimu or anyone who finds his ideas convincing on matters relating to developmental politics, economic history, education (policy), cultural history and cultural genocide, linguistic imperialism and the list goes on.
I am sensing that you do not have a comprehensive grasp of world history or I am expressing myself wrongly on account of the above. I can’t help both scenarios.
However, what we can do, if you want, is to take our conversation on race and racism and how that is the primary historic phenomenon that shapes everything else, to a private space i.e a telephony conversation at a time and platform of your choice.
If that’s acceptable to you, just write it here and I will post an email address for us to get the ball rolling.
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May yours be a path to liberation in the name of the ancestors.
Happy new year.
Thank you and happy new year brother Mwalimu. This was not a hiatus but rather as you might say; lurking around debates stealthily even if I haven’t had enough time to be participating.
Well, what I actually did was put a cap on the table, and may be a fact too, you tried it on and found it fitting.
Actually I am not a specialized historian but have seen some of history I read repeating itself in my very recent contemporary. I’m a witness of these days where ethnic/racial hatred and bigotry have raised their ugly heads again to become
political agendas of certain influential heads of states and politicians across the world. I read and article about and incident in a Macdonald recently where a white diner ranted at black diners about the whites being creators of this world and blacks being parasites. Hah! What kind of a global political atmosphere is misguiding such people? Would such a silly outburst from one mentally backward and seemingly demoralised whiteman annoy me?-Obviously NO, if there were no threats of violence where i might have to protect or defend myself. Do I need worry about such sick people, and certain influential political figures of the West who refer to migrants from Africa as modern slaves, … and freaky pose with highly sophisticated machine guns just to impress snoring cross sections of those societies? I think the racial issue has very little significance in the Gambia political debates other than the fact some Gambians and Africans still, are very much equipped with history of colonization and slave trade in such a way, that they are always on the firm alert to dodge around alibis that, people of another race are meddling in their efforts not to be able to make better countries for themselves. Whilst there may be some amount of truth in such theories, a lot of this generation of African do seem to be missing the point where Africans have become their very own obstacles in their way to finding progress. The latter would do the worst when they start to spew vitriol like those descendant of Berbers, Greeks or Arabians who couldn’t believe they have integrated in Julius Caeser’s 21 century Rome and became Roman. Or, those who recently migrated from Europe to Africa and the Americas to escape famine and starvation of the aftermaths of both first and second world war, whose descendant have today become citizens and politicians in those worlds, whose grateful to their own histories is being demonstrated by throwing out anti immigration bills and policies ..
No. Perhaps there is still a much more tangible point that- because we need a “Nko” alphabetics and numerics or some sort, as the only codebreaker of the woven-up complications around Gambia/Africa’s political, scientific and development needs. I think people who hook
up on such insinuations are stumblers in African nations’ progress. I tend to believe that some time in history, chinese may have been tried to be made the racists’ victims as well but the steadfast and ambitious Chinese might have paid no mind and continued doing what they needed doing scientifically and technologically that’s made the the China today. The assumption above is not in anyway a leap towards glorifying China’s political history!
In the same lines, I am glad to be aware though, that somewhere in African countries today, citizens have started taking off significantly in innovation and invention. I have learnt of progresses in science technological innovations and inventions in a few African countries that should be a source of hope for Africans.
Brother Mwalimu, I’m optimistic that giving time a chance, it will be a honor for me getting to know people like yourself, @Andrew Pjalo, @Natty Dread, @Sandi, @Sidi, @Lutango suun Gaan Ghi, @Babu Soli and many more I haven’t mentioned. I very much looking forward to such and opportunity that I wish would be apolitical.
May our joint efforts; a bit from here and a bit from there, be a resolving combination, shrewder than those of our ancestors who were physically and psychological ill-prepared to defend against marauding colonizers, much less to understand what the marauders’ intentions are.
Without a pinch of doubt, be assured I’m open as far ad my opinion is concerned and not really wary of on which platform it is expressed but in the mean time, i can’t but help to be just Bourne. Instinct anyway, told me already that, when I meet you, including others I mentioned, will be more a learning lesson for me than must of you gentlemen.
It is incumbent on citizens to make good things happen in the Gambia and going on like that to heights.
We should be able to pat up the newly born Mussolinis of our times that their likes are the primitives of cutting edge steel, glass and cement cities of this century.
*gratefulness to their own ….
Aye aye Bourne!
Please keep going and not let anything but yourself stop you!
Refreshing. Smile
I read and article about and incident in a Macdonald recently where a white diner ranted at black diners about the whites being creators of this world and blacks being parasites. Hah! What kind of a global political atmosphere is misguiding such people?
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Far from being misguided, this is the historical fallacy the entire world political and economic structures are built on. A lie as it may be, this is what everyone in the world believe or is atleast suppose to believe. Let me not hasten to say the rant of the McDonald diner, is probably the least form of racism but perhaps equally lethal to the individual experiencing the racist violence at that particular moment. Let me not also hasten to say Afrikka is the origin of man and the at the same time the origin of all civilizations we know today. Ancestor Dr. (Cheikh) Anta Diop has proven this beyond all and every reasonable doubt in his phenomenal book “The African origins of civilization”.
But even in academia, you will find many intellectually dishonest white devils (you can tell them I said it!), who are out to falsify our true history to make a mockery of the fact that we are the mothers and fathers of these genetically recessive race. They have tried to discredit and hide the works of ALL blakk revolutionaries through out the ages, including those of ancestor Diop. But as the saying goes, kill one and a thousand will rise to take up the mantle of the battle, until we win against imperialism and colonialism.
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Brother Bourne, acquiring knowledge in ones own language has proven to be the best way to build and nurture national identity, the absence of which makes nation building practically impossible. There are numerous alphabets and orthographies in the world that can be used for the standardization of any language. If you talk about the N’Ko alphabet, we just become stuck with something thats irrelevant to the issue of linguistic imperialism and cultural genocide. What we should be talking about is how do we educate our people to become less fearful and disrespecting of themselves just to gain the validation of white people and white systems.
You can’t develop Afrikka or Gambia without first understanding the historic and cultural forces that gave birth to the creation of these artificial nations like Senegal, Gambia, Ghana, Mozambique, Angola and so on and so forth.
These countries will never be economically viable enough to compete with the economies of the west until they build a political and defense union to withstand all and any threat from the savages.
Yes you will see flares of success in various Afrikkan countries here and there, but they are nothing to match those of Europe and Amerikkka for obvious reasons.
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Feel free, the issue about talking in another space is a little thing.
Am equally sure I will be the beneficiary from your dedicated mind on matters of development and prosperity for our people.
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Yours as usual.
Yes Mwalimu,
By default the system is covertly anti-black, everything we are thought by the system that is bad, negative or evil is associated with what? Black.
One simple example,
What’s the bad sheep of the family called? Black.
A white lie, is good lie!
They portrait us as muggers, drug dealers, pimps, killers, pimps, lazy, watch 10 random movies and see the roles they give us, that is called programming.
What is the colour of the devil? Black, and this is the pictures that they paint, in the holy books, who commission these holy books? The system or sometimes the crown.
And the list could go on.
As for Afrik, she will always be weak until she is reversed back into a country as how she was in the beginning, and not a continent, all those artificial countries are there, for easy management and control.
I tell you comrade, we need 1 million Julius Malema, to turn this nightmare that we are living for the last 400 years(first Christian/Transatlantic slave ship set sails, 1719 from West Afrik, and Muslim slavery way way way before that both still alive and kicking) around.
Mythology rules/run this world
The system educates people to be dumb.
Keep that fire burning.
Thank you comrade Tilli Bo.
The system is truly covertly anti-blakk. May I also add that the DNA of the whole system is built on anti-blakk racism and the social death of blakk people all over the world.
White people won’t be anything without us. I mean they won’t even be existing without we the Nubians and Khemets. Reflect a bit also on what they know (knowledge), what they can (handicraft and technology), and what they own (money), do some research on where that all comes from. Without a doubt, we are the origins of EVERYTHING that gives these vampires power and privileges today, Gaddamit!
Without exception, all Afrikkan governments are ruled by whitened puppets (call them Uncle Tom if you like), based on anti-blakk sysatems (so called democracies), that only perpetuate our exploitation and continuous suffering. These barbarians have succeeded in miniaturizing our own people into lethal weapons that feed on the blood and flesh of blakk people and their blakkness. That serves white people very well.
Who got me started here??!!
That’s why I always say, Blakk people urgently should undertake every step necessary to acquire the GB&B. Failure to do so hast cost us more than two hundred million souls and still counting. What’s wrong with us?
Why can’t we realized that under the grand scale of white violence, your nationality, ethnicity, gender, education level, social class, status, complexion, economic condition, religion and all what not, will not save you from subjugation, savagery and total annihilation. The only thing that can save us is our UNITY in our blakkness and of course the universal blakk revolution. Full stop!
Will revolution happen without violence? I don’t know. One thing I’m sure of though, is, the oppressor never gives freedom for free. You got to just take it and live with the consequences when they come. The consequences could be anything from deprivation to death. Is freedom worth that? Ask Nad Turner and the Hereiro and Nama people of Namibia and Mozambique or even the almighty and fearless Mao Mao warriors of Kenya.
They chased the bastards of their lands at a very high cost. But free they became.
The imperialist has instilled so much fear in so many of us that we can’t even call them what they are, talk less of fighting them and their devilish systems off the territories of our continent. Our ancestors will be truly disappointed in us. And rightly so, Gaddamit!
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Thank you comrade Tilli Bo for sending me all the videos and the links for my consciousness and empowerment. You are truly making a difference. That’s what Dr. Henrik Clarke is all about. He said if one could teach ten, soon we will be a people conscious about themselves and that’s the only thing that will bring us the results we so much crave.
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Yours in the service of Afrikka and the Blakk Nation, I remain.
Mwalimu, I made a hint of the McDonald’s incident I read in a paper and referred to the ranter, the whiteman, as ‘misguided’, because it’s quite probable that most of them swollen-headed and misguided people don’t realise they’re misguided, regardless of how many of them, or they be black or white.
Man, I guess it doesn’t imply you are feeling some threat of a kind when you bracketed, – You Can Tell Them, I Said It. That sounds heavy-handedly hype to me. That reminds me of language same way to Jammeh’s, when he would hate, curse and swear. Man, I can’t be worse than him .. because I only give my views about why I think Gambia is lacking behind in everything nationally, and also figuring out what attitudes and behaviours of the people I think manifest the reasons of our failures. As far as Gambia is concerned, the blame for our lack of developments and progress of the people at this point in time of our nationhood lies squarely on us, the Gambians’ shoulders.
How I want to portray my position in a world of racial, ethnic, political wickedness? Can I change such a global predicament by playing a part?-YES. I chose to be on another different path, and that is, a Gambian dream, where a university needs to be upgraded to world standards and diversified in terms of fields of studies and specializations. Bio engineers, physicians, chemists, archeologists, geologists, anthropologists etc., need to be bred at home (not necessarily having to acquire their education in the Gambia) and employed at home. The infrastructure, professional software and hardware needed in those fields of knowledge should be made available through funding by government under the auspices of the constitution as it is improper for leaders or politicians to pretend as if they are the donors.
It is important that succeeded higher learners live their lives’ purpose, and that’s to say; making a breakthrough in food self sufficiency, medicine with domestic origins, clean energy, reforestation cycle and protection of the fauna and flora, etc. etc. In a nutshell, people with actual qualifications in electro mechanical systems for an example, can make partnerships with designers and builders to invent agro machines or implements that can increase a farmers’ yielding capacities by 100%.
Mechanic/electro engineering students need to be sponsored to help them acquire actual qualifications, and they need to apply their expertize at home, able to transform theory into matter, useful to the livelihoods of the people. Claiming that we cannot achieve these above, if we are not learning in our own language is nothing but an alibi to escape the guilt of been seen as uncreative. How can one not be learning from his own language …? Damn! Are our daily lessons not being drummed in our heads in our own languages?
How can you teach chemistry in a school in 7 languages, and in overall how many subjects are to be taught in 7 languages? Then, how many teachers are needed in just one school. Should every teacher be a master of all seven languages?Will teachers have to teach only one pupil during some classes because in that class only one pupil speaks a certain language? That is yet just the chaos of the period of transition towards the foundation of one language for Africa, or at least just one language of communication in each of its region. If one thinks so big about his/her beliefs that something can be achieved for a continent’s common interest, then they should be able to at least let off a blunt idea of how those things can be achieved. My belief that what we learn or discover should not just be in paper work, but in physical matter most important of all, something that should be of good use to people of a community, country, region, continent or perhaps the whole world. Brains that can’t be revived for good from the trauma of the holocaust of the transatlantic slave trade and its horrible consequences to Africa, are unlikely to get focused on the priorities of countries in the African continent.
How you suppose “a universal blakk revolution to happen” can be left to you own contemplations and imaginations, as I have not seen any other necessary revolution other than having good leaders in Africa whose memories, though, may be loaded with and traumatised by histories but nonetheless, are able of getting focused on the need for democracy and the rule of law, curbing of corruption, investment in meaningful education without having to have a headache about- in what language, improving health facilities and systems, improving agriculture with an aim to food-self-sufficiency, boosting micro industrial productivity, trade with regional partners and etc.
I heard a few decades ago, in certain African countries, wearing jeans was a serious violation of dress code as it was regarded as lack of respect for culture, tradition and even religion. How can they know then, wearing jeans is absolutely no offence when they have had no idea jeans were first worn by the Pharaohs who were black. I think I’ve once heard an Arab friend of mine too claiming the coded blueprint of modern technology was in fact stolen from Muslim scriptures!! Now, I’m wondering wherever on earth the Chinese or Iranians, who has just attempted to launch a satellite in orbit, stole theirs from. The stolen coded blueprints, probably on a scroll, may have once again resurfaced in Ghana as the Ghanaian president urges Africans in diaspora and people of African descent come home, assuring them everything will be fine. Like claims the Ark of the Covenant being found several times,
For me when it comes to knowledge, means what people know and can do that affects lives positively. For example, I wish all Gambians are sheltered in all inclusive housing systems; indoor kitchen, bathroom and toilets, with proper infrastructures to energize households and central sewage systems to drain down human waste. Knowledge that doesn’t give quality to people’s living standards to me are nothing myth. Blacks who see the others blacks not willing to be rhetorics screamers or spewing racial slurs, as white man weapons, are deluded and confused making them the actual lethal weapons in within black livelihoods. The likes of such blacks when they become leaders in African countries, usually turn mad and then it will be there way or the highway to mass graves. Julius Malema is like looming over south Africa like wrath worst than apartheid. While his rants are not baseless, he lacks a maturity to properly see through his agenda. He said south Africa is ready to start from scratch. That’s quite fine for him as an economic catastrophe in south Africa will have to starve the whole of South Africa before it knocks on his door. There is a difference between anger and being rabid.
@Bourne.
Sit down and relax, pour a glass of your favourite beverage and watch this video, of Julius Malema, then tell me again he’s not mature enough, to properly see his agenda through.
By the way, the video was recorded at the Oxford union, by the Oxford union.
https://youtu.be/VZkUeZI8VtY
It’s indeed astounding to realize how anti-blakkness has so perversely permeated our psychology and continuous to fed off it.
Bourne,
I picked on that little example in McDonalds and build a strong case out of it for everything that’s suppose to propel us (blakk people) to a life of liberty and prosperity.
You want to catagorize my views as delusional and those of comrade Julius Malema as dangerous and unrealistic.
The “free market capitalism” you and many neoliberal thinkers are supporting is known to have only wrecked havoc on the economies of Afrikkan countries. You need not to look far for victims, we are here in The Gambia.
“You can tell them I said it” is an English idiomatic expression more common in north Amerikkka than in many other English speaking countries. It is used to project defiance, boldness and fearlessness. Take it in that context.
Once again, am disappointed that we have been exchanging thoughts and ideas without really paying much attention to the crux of all the issues. I don’t criticize without offering an alternative approach and you seem to miss all the proposals I made here. Now listen carefully because I don’t want to go on repeating myself over and over again.
Education & Language:
I am on record to have said education should be made accessible, free and compulsory up to twenty years of age.
Of course accompanied by a well developed relevant curriculum to serve our short term and long term needs. I am also of the opinion that the medium of instruction should be in the mother tongues of each and every school pupil and student.
I believe you would like to know how we should go about that and I won’t fail you.
The method is called territorial localization. A particular language(s) is/are used as a medium of instruction in a particular school taking into consideration the languages spoken in that catchment area. The underlying criterion is to give each and every child a chance to acquire knowledge of self and the environment in a mother tongue. This is being rolled our here as I write these lines. But only up to grade four.
English I suggested should only be taught as a subsidiary language second after the sum total of all our languages. Of course multilingual educational systems come with their own set of challenges. But at the end of the day, the benefits far outweigh the difficulties. Let me not hasten to add that you need highly qualified experts with the requisite pan Afrikkanist mentality to make sure such bold initiatives succeed. Not coons who think our salvation lies in the hands and minds of the devilish white vampires and their systems.
I will never condemn any blakk person for practicing any kind of religion because I know spirituality is in fact in the essence of the Afrikkan. The concept of a supreme creator being emanates from Afrikka, making it the cradle of all the religions you see in the world. The concept of God was first known, accepted and lived by us. How could a people who have less than ten thousand years of history teach those with close to a quarter of a million years of history anything. That’s at best a joke.
So that’s why I don’t care if my people wear jeans, hijabs, suits, kaftans or eat fried chicken or just eat porridge like me every blessed night. We have given so much to other cultures and I see no reason why we can’t take back what we have given. It’s a known fact that both Islam and Christianity have their origins in Afrikka. And that the man called Jesus and Muhammad are both blakk. What the the whites and the Arabs have done is to take these religions, corrupt them and bring them back to us for exploitive political purposes.
But enough of that for now. I’ll go back to the issues at hand.
You see the Afrikkan is truly a resilient giant. We loose two hundred million people in five hundred years and fought off slavery and colonialism in the worst genocide ever committed on a people. Still we have men and women putting their lives on the line to build totally new countries from scratch. The only thing lacking is UNITY to build our markets for our own consumption . You can have a quater of a million plumbers, masons, electricians, etc, so long you are not making the pipes, the rods, and even the factory building factory in Afrikka you won’t make headway. That’s the lesson Kwame thought us, that’s the lesson Halifa Sallah is teaching in his treatise on the federated states of Afrikka, that’s what Mwalimu is espousing everywhere day and night.
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I’m no stranger to redicule. In fact as an uncompromising pan-Afrikkanist, I expected that. How many times have I been attacked here , made fun of and get insults hurled at me by white agents. Yet I never flinch no shudder in my principles and stands. That, am telling you, has cost Lumumba, Khalid, Malcolm, MLK, Kwame, Biko and all the warriors their lives. Mine will not be taken by the devil or his agents. Mine will be utilized and lived until liberation from mental slavery is won by the ballot or the bullet or the nuclear button.
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Yours in the service of Afrikka and the blakk nation, I remain.
Blacks who see the others blacks not willing to be rhetorics screamers or spewing racial slurs, as white man weapons, are deluded and confused making them the actual lethal weapons in within black livelihoods. The likes of such blacks when they become leaders in African countries, usually turn mad and then it will be there way or the highway to mass graves.
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Let’s have an unbiased look at the above quote.
First, if you give me one example of a blakk leader who is truly committed to the course and still goes after his own people for their ignorance and belittle them or massacre them as you claim, I’ll give up commenting on Jollofnews.
You also have to understand no human is infallible, we all make mistakes. But those who are willing to give up their lives for us deserve at least our respect, if we can’t join them.
Not everyone should be or could be inspirational speakers, for not everyone is wired in the same way. MLK was a genius in public speech, so was Malcolm too.
Halifa Sallah will get you out of complicated situations with his calm manners and simplistic approaches. Kwame was a master mobilizer who got a country and a continent behind him in a year. Ancestor Diop was the only Afrikkan in his time to combine a mastery of the humanities and the natural sciences. AND, religious scholarship. So essentially what am telling you is that these people are joined by a historic tragedy that gave birth to the universal blakk revolution movement. All their skills and talents are irreplaceable for us.
What’s yours? Well I guess you will make a good critique of pan-Afrikkanism and a good advocate for neoliberal politics and economics.
I believe you are to good for that. We need you in our camp, come home. Come to where you belong and where you will be appreciated and loved unconditionally. You ain’t drifting yet, but the currents are getting stronger.
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Racial slurs are a premise of white supremacy. I can’t be racist because racism is always accompanied by power dynamics the balance of which is permanently tipped for the white person by virtue of their “skin color”.
So if I call them slimes and pigs and illigitimate bastards, that cannot make me a racist and that will not qualify as a race slur. Learn that lesson.
However, I did that deliberately with the expectation that someone will rise to defend them as it always happens in blakk spaces. But hardly will anyone open their mouths to defend the one defending and fighting for us. That’s a proven phenomenon even in liberation movements. It comes with the terrain.
Traditionally, as Harriet Tubman has also done on many occasions, the enemies within are properly neutralized and the struggle for freedom continued.
Climate Change:
I usually don’t get into this discussion of environmental degradation by rising carbon levels in the atmosphere. Nature is very fair.
These greedy wolves are living a life standard that is not earned by intensively using earths resources. They consume more than 75% of all the produce and produce less than 50% of what they consume, even though they are less than 30% of the worlds population.
The Consequence is climate change and pollutions. Yes, the second outcome is a dramatic and existence threatening fall in the fertility of white men. Scientist still can’t figure out what’s going on even after ten years of studying that mysterious happening. It is said that if this trend continuos, the white race will be extinct in five hundred years. There is already a demographic disaster for them as it stands. The devil will pay! Even for destroying the climate.
@Tilly Bo, water is good for your health. I advise you to drink a bit more of it than porridge and everything else
Thank you for the Link. I have stumbled across a few of his videos before. He really dope!
Mwalimu, I think I applaud the attitude demonstrated by the blackmen diners whom he (the white man diner) had failed to draw into his pompous and ignorant levels that might have resulted to bombardments with lunatic myths and rhetorics. I think Blackmen diners just kept recording and laughing their ..out, at that brattish grandpa.
With respect to your bet, I will honestly say I can’t give you the name of one single president because our individual assessments of political leaderships and their achievements often differ. In that regard, I would say you need not bet or swear because I’m not losing a nickel in it either.
Thank you your landlordship for your hearty invitation for me to come back home. Thank you! Glad telling you, no one misses me like my loved ones. They know what my every minute and second means to them.
Candidly speaking, i don’t have much say to your Pan Africanist agenda and its internal counterintelligence strategies. I think most of the smart Pan Africans and great civil rights activists all shared some awesome good qualities. Malcolm X, one great, intelligent and brave civil rights activist for example, was one whose past both historically and contemporarily, has always been seen in his face all his life. He lived a torment in his heart all his life but has never shown a sign that he was one little bit rabid at no time during his days of civil rights activism.
When people get educated to be dumb, then ‘clever’, goes missing in the wordbooks. Man, you can call others Slimes, Bastards and Pigs and claim too they are your offsprings. What a cycle of life you sprung into evolution..! That’s quite honest of you, accepting your great great great grandchildren. They and their crimes are chicken comes home to roost.
………..They and their crimes are chicken comes home to roost.
Nice quote from Malcolm, Bourne.
I have a feeling that our conversation is not serving its purpose, which will be to awaken each other, empower our people, create a space for knowledge to flow and build a cohesive united pact that will be out there, doing liberation work day and night.
I stayed with this topic not to convince you about anything. My hope is that amongst fellow blakk people, both in and out of Afrikka, someone will be reading our lines and ultimately get enlightened with historical truths and facts.
You throw in a few lines about the life and character of Malcolm and made a half hearted deduction as to how his soul was tormented and still maintains his composure without getting “rabid”. I don’t exactly know why that got mention, so only assuming that you meant that to be a character trait I can or should learn from.
My answer: I am not Malcolm, I am not close to his status, we lived in different eras of the universal blakk struggle and above all, I don’t want to be like anyone in the world. Been me is enough and a hell of a task already as it is.
But as I said, we are missing a point here. That’s an indication that the dialogue has reached its crescendo and I will prefer to leave it at that, at least for now. Hopefully posterity will have access to these archives to make there own choices about blakk consciousness, self determination, freedom and liberty.
Yours in the service of Afrikka and the Blakk Nation, I remain.
Mwalimu, I wouldn’t in anyway assume you to be Malcolm or anybody else you may see as inspirational figures of your Pan Afrikka revolution and movements. I know you can talk about how and why you are inspired by some prominent blackman but that doesn’t necessarily mean you want to be him or you can be him. Besides, you need not bother give an answer to; if you are Malcolm or not because no such question has been asked.
I suppose however, your opinions deserve learning from if I see the need to. “Chicken comes home to roost” here, has nothing to do with quotes but merely what I think is the implications in your writings. You referred to a race that you think descended from your race prehistorically as Pigs, Slime and dirty bastards. That’s what the “chicken comes home to roost” is about. That’s the kind of sense it made to me. To be honest, I don’t really have anymore exchanges for you in this one though I will be happily following your opinions on the issue if you should be going on ahead with it.