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And when I made this comment months ago what an
attack I got. By the way as always Pat Anderson who is registered here to set up
our standards declared that Jomo Kenyatta does not discriminate Africans. Time
has to come and Kenyans understand that Africans are equal to Whites as used by
this airport and I have gone through it very several times and we have a problem
to deal with in Kenya.
Em
Toronto
The Mulindwas Communication Group
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Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in
anarchy"
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Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:40
AM
Subject: [abujaNig] Re: [theblacklist-e]
RE: We cannot accuse the West of racism when Africans treat Fellow Africans
like Sub-humans...
Oga Val,
I invite you back to Mwananchi to
discuss this problem
together with Pat and Chifu.
See you soon
oga,
-James
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"Dr. Valentine Ojo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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EXCERPT:
"On
March 31, 2006, I was one of those African or
Black passengers whose
passports were taken away by
Kenyan airport and airline employees for
"scanning" as
part of a policy that only targets people who are
neither
Caucasian nor Asian.
When some of us loudly registered our
complaints
against this discriminatory practice, the airport and
airline
employees - who happened to be Kenyan Africans
themselves - simply retorted
that they were only
implementing a policy. When we protested and
pointed
out that the policy was unlawful and clearly racist as
it only
targeted Africans while wazungu and other
people with "light" complexions
were allowed to pass
through without their passports being scanned,
these
employees stared blankly at us. Confronted by the
unmistakable
implementation of an anti-African policy
in an African country, our own
brothers and sisters
pretended that they were not hearing us.
What a
white man is capable of doing in Kenya, no
Black African could ever be
allowed to do. The
treatment they enjoy in Kenya, no ordinary
Black
African will ever enjoy. Except for the
creme-de-la-creme and our
political lords, ordinary
Black Kenyans live and are treated like slaves
in
their own country." - Miguna Miguna
It is noteworthy that it was
James Ololo - an
unrepentant supporter of white rights in Africa
as
exemplified by his (and Chifu's) undying devotion to
the Patricia
Andersons of Africa. It is also
noteworthy that both these gentlemen are
Kenyans.
When Edward Mulindwa made similar observations
about
how Kemnyans still worship whites in their country,
and the
extra-special rights whites enjoy, Kenyans -
led by the wazungu Patricia
Anderson - all rose up in
cacophonic protest.
What do you now have
to say for yourselves?
We Africans are our own worst enemies - after
all said
and done.
Val Ojo
-----Original Message-----
From: Oghoerore
Sent: Apr 10, 2006 8:57 AM
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [TalkNigeria] We cannot accuse
the West
of racism when airport authorities in Kenya treat
Africans like
petty thieves
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url (#default#vml)}The Urhobo
people have a saying
that "when a deity requests for blood and your
offer
pal oil, it will not accept".
The transformation of Africa may
need bloodshed, if
not how can you justify that Africans be maltreated
at
African Airports?
Oghoerore
-------Original
Message-------
From: James Ololo
Date: 04/10/06 04:00:04
To:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Pan-Africanist Forum
Subject: [TalkNigeria] We cannot accuse the West
of
racism when airport authorities in Kenya treat
Africans like petty
thieves
We cannot accuse the West of racism when
airport
authorities in Kenya treat Africans like petty thieves
By
Miguna Miguna
For Africans living in Europe, Asia or North
America,
the phenomena of racism and racial discrimination are
daily
occurrences in their lives. Although strongly
detested and abhorred by
them, most Africans have
historically acknowledged the inevitability of
being
subjected to one form or the other of racism or
racial
discrimination.
Many a time, racism is exemplified by the
refusal of
landlords to rent empty apartments to deserving
applicants,
the unwillingness of employers to offer
opportunities to qualified
candidates, the overzealous
law enforcement agents or merely the quizzical
"dirty"
look by a street punk that reveals the unjustified
racial hatred
of those who consider themselves "white"
against those they call
"black."
Contrary to popular beliefs, many racists no
longer
recklessly hurl the "nigger" epithet at Africans in
the West. The
_expression_ of racial hatred has become
subtle, but lethal. Although some
still aimlessly
shoot the despicable racist projectile at
innocent
Africans going about their business, most racists in
the West
have been schooled, through mostly
ineffectual and unenforceable
anti-racist legislations
in many jurisdictions, to curdle the epithet in
their
throats before ejecting its corrosive waste into our
lives through
innocuous but deadlier negative daily
practices couched up as policies,
regulations and
by-laws.
Rather than physically separate Africans
from
Caucasians in educational institutions, work
environments and in
social life and political life,
modern "racists" have institutionalised the
ways of
keeping the races separate. Whereas they previously
conceived of
and implemented "colour-bar" laws and
authorised their police forces and
vigilantes to mete
out open justice to "violators", they nowadays
prefer
"clean" and optically friendly immigration policies
that give
priority to applicants from Western Europe,
Asia and China but sieve and
filter Africans, Mexicans
and Latin Americans.
This explains why
Visa requirements to Europe and
North America emphasise economic
wherewithal rather
than the reasons given by the applicants. Given
the
universal belief that Africans are economically poorer
than their
counterparts from Europe and Asia, it is
usually easy for the Visa officers
at Western
Embassies to decline approval of applications from
Africans
on the basis of lack of adequate "resources."
When travelling in Europe
or North America, Africans
are used to being unfairly accosted, confronted
or
inconvenienced by immigration and customs officers.
Most of the time,
they are confronted by intrusive
questions concerning the authenticity of
their
passports, the validity of their visas, work
authorisations or
permits, student permits and current
immigration status. It usually does
not matter whether
the passports under interrogation are validly
issued
by European or North American countries.
Since September 2001
when the United States was rocked
by unprecedented attacks, Africans have
borne the
brunt of the Western backlash. It is as if Africans
are the
ones who were responsible for what has now
become popularly known as
September 11. Had the
September 11 hijackers been Africans, it
is
conceivable to imagine that the West would have
unilaterally and
immediately imposed a complete
diplomatic and immigration embargo against
the entire
continent.
But at least we can justify facing all
these
inconveniences abroad because we have never claimed
that we own
Europe or America. However, the situation
is significantly different when
Africans face similar
treatment in Africa.
I was recently astounded
to learn that African air
passengers continue to face racism and
racial
discrimination at the Jomo Kenya International
Airport. On March
31, 2006, I was one of those African
or Black passengers whose passports
were taken away by
Kenyan airport and airline employees for "scanning"
as
part of a policy that only targets people who are
neither Caucasian
nor Asian.
When some of us loudly registered our complaints
against
this discriminatory practice, the airport and
airline employees who
happened to be Kenyan Africans
themselves simply retorted that they were
only
implementing a policy. When we protested and pointed
out that the
policy was unlawful and clearly racist as
it only targeted Africans while
wazungu and other
people with "light" complexions were allowed to
pass
through without their passports being scanned, these
employees
stared blankly at us. Confronted by the
unmistakable implementation of an
anti-African policy
in an African country, our own brothers and
sisters
pretended that they were not hearing us.
What a white man is
capable of doing in Kenya, no
Black African could ever be allowed to do.
The
treatment they enjoy in Kenya, no ordinary Black
African will ever
enjoy. Except for the
crËme-dela-crËme and our political lords,
ordinary
Black Kenyans live and are treated like slaves in
their own
country.
This is unacceptable in an independent African
country,
particularly in this twenty first century.
Formal colonialism also ended
more than 40 years ago.
We cannot allow our country to continue operating
as
if we are still living with the yolk of colonialism.
Africans face
these kinds of humiliating experiences
daily in Europe and Asia.
We
cannot willingly permit our degradation and
dehumanisation in our own
country. It is even more
sickening that the agents of this racist and
colonial
treatment are our own African brothers and sisters.
Until we
rid ourselves of these practices, we can
never be free.
The
writer is a lawyer in Toronto, Canada
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