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Tofa
No body instructed you to make decisions based on
the posting. This was to put a word out there that White people are not as good
as portrayed. Especially by lost sheeps in our African community. Now whether
you understand that or not is your right. And that is the democracy we enjoy in
God's own countries.
Em
The Mulindwas communication
group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 2:33
PM
Subject: [great-lakes] Re: [Mwananchi]
THE LYNCHING PHOTOGRAPH IN AMERICA
I very much doubt if this is an either/or, (1) or
(2)
situation.
The appeal to emmotions tactic seldom solves the
core
problems that we are faced with. Of what use is it
to
'us', complaining and focusing on 'them' and 'their
backgrounds?'
What realistic influence do we have on
'them', and how will that work to
change 'them' and
'their' ruthless past behaviour?
Are we not better
off first focusing on 'us' and how
we can prevent 'them' [with the aid of
some of 'us']
from abusing the rest of 'us?' Ever consider that
we
fail to get out of our problems because some of 'us'
are working part
and parcel with them to the detriment
of our well being? Do we not
have a better chance of
arm-twisting those some of 'us' thieving with
'them?'
Once that is achieved, don't we stand a better chance
of
defending 'us' from 'them' and 'their' ruthless
behaviour?
We can
huff and puff about the ills of 'White America'
all we want, but do you
think 'they' will lend and
ear? If not, what then do we
do?
Try using that correlation on the story below. Cheezy
some
words below may be, but you can read through
those:
30
October 2002
IMAN TURNS INTO A 'BUSHMAN'
De Beers' new
London store targeted
De Beers faces embarrassment this morning
as
supporters of the Kalahari 'Bushmen' have sabotaged
the hoarding
covering its flagship
new retail outlet on the corner of Piccadilly and
Old
Bond St.
On the hoarding, in place of an image of model
Iman
wearing a diamond necklace, there has appeared a
giant-sized
picture of a Bushman woman and the slogan,
'The Bushmen Aren't
Forever.'
De Beers, whose store is due to open on 21st November,
has
been caught in a storm of controversy over the
eviction earlier this year
of most of the last
remaining Gana and Gwi Bushmen and Bakgalagadi
from
their homes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve,
Botswana. De
Beers holds the concession on a large
diamond deposit in the Reserve, and
is prospecting for
more.
The Botswana government and De Beers both
deny that
diamonds have anything to do with the evictions. Yet
Bushmen
have been told by
government officials, 'If diamonds are
found
somewhere, the people have to be chased away.'
Images of
the store frontage 'before' and 'after' are
available for download free
from:
www.survival-international.org/debeers.htm
--- Mulindwa
Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
>
> Netters
>
Sometimes there are some truths that we can not just
> hide. For a long
time now we have had a situation
> where many of our forums have been
spited into two.
> (1) There are those who strongly believe that
White
> America is a good America, and it is us as Africans
> who
have failed all along. (2) There are those
> Africans who clearly
understand that as Africans we
> have problems, but we can not get out
of them for
> White America is part and parcel of our problem.
>
So I think that we must understand the White America
> we are talking
about, what back ground do we have on
> them? How have they treated us
as Black people
> before.
> I am appealing to all Africans to
visit this site
> and do some research for there is no way you can
go
> forward when forgetting the past.
> Em
>
>
> Click here: Musarium: Without Sanctuary: Lynching
> Photography
in America
>
>
>
>
> The Mulindwas communication
group
> "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
>
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