From: Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ugnet_: AFRICAN ECONOMIC WEB DOCTRINE Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:58:37 -0600
Spot on, my ass!
From the offensive title he's slapped on his book, to the jumbled contents of his bombastic address, Dr. Chika Onyeani exudes a symptom that afflicts far too many conservative Black public intellectuals. They imagine they have stumbled upon extraordinary and unspeakable truths with which they will at last save the race -- by plucking the courage to shout aloud those same explosive truths that others are too chicken to even whisper.
If only they were halfway true! There are perhaps only two truths Dr. Onyeani can lay claim to -- none of them really original. One, that we cannot expect our salvation to come from White folk; and two, that his bright ideas have long been the staple of White supremacist folklore and literature. David Duke, David Horowitz, Rush Limbaugh, and their less bare-fanged brethren in right-wing think tanks and academia have been telling us to move on since "Forty Acres and a Mule" and a thousand other promises were made and broken.
The only thing faintly original Dr. Onyeani accomplished rather well was to spruce those ideas up with self-critical analyses and progressive-sounding self-help slogans -- that have been on Black streets for at least half a century -- and to pass them off as his very own. E.g. slogans such as "buy black" were coined by African activists long before Onyeani could write his own name -- let alone a book that is totally unnecessary.
Slavery, colonialism, and racism may well have changed their hues like the wily chameleon a zillion proverbial times, but imperialism is an ongoing project (five hundred years and counting) -- inherited, updated, proudly and loudly re-launched, and implemented from Washington to Whitehall. Ask the hapless victims of the American Project for the New Century in Baghdad, Cochabamba, Gaza, and Putumayo if this is just a Black problem we are facing.
Also, to ignore the cancerously rabid effects of racism, colonialism, and slavery on Black life isn't only as terrible as using them to make sorry excuses for the excesses of our avaricious, inept, and vicious dictators. It is to miss half the diagnosis of the disease.
I wouldn't entrust my life in the hands of a doctor who blatantly ignores the case history of such a disease, prescribes placebos, and is pompously as clueless and vapid as Onyeani.
v
At 12:02 PM 2/21/2004 -0500, you wrote:
I think Dr. Chika Onyeani is spot on. It's time Africans woke up to the real world and it is even more refreshing that an African is courageous enough to step up to the plate and say it as it is. Most of our leaders, for too long have been hiding behind three -isms; Racism, Colonialism, and Slavery, while conveniently refusing to accept responsibility for there own failures. As Dr. Onyeani points out, corruption and mis-rule have nothing to do with colonialism, racism, and slavery. I give full Kudos to Dr. Onyeani, we need more Africans like him.
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Subject: RE: ugnet_: AFRICAN ECONOMIC WEB DOCTRINE
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:08:14 +0000
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GR, me I find this article troubling.
I think it is stupid. What do you think?
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