Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The Third-Term Phenomenon in Babylon
So you thought that the morbidly ego-centric political animals existed only in
the backward banana republics? Think again. Kumbe, Mayor Bloomberg thinks he is
the only Jew alive with a vision for New York City. Surely, he did some good
things in his nearly eight years as mayor NYC, but is he indispensable?
Apparently he thinks he is and some city councilors have given him the
node—chief among them some black councilmen, a testament to how far we blacks
see beyond our noses.
With the chorus for democracy ringing across the globe on the heels of the
collapse of the Soviet Union and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, rootless
and radar-less Africans jumped on the bandwagon—but with twists and turns that
only that dark continent can muster. Wily operators disrobed their military
fatigues and donned western suits and ties. They got on ant-hills to campaign
for elections—supposedly marking the ends of issuing edicts from presidential
palaces. Some dudes were, effectively, the only candidate who got 90 percent of
the votes! One even concocted some wacko umbrella no-party “democracy” based on
individual merit. Wise men warned that the scheme was only a ruse to
consolidate power. They were to be proved right in time. At the urging of his
foreign sponsors he allowed multi-party democracy. He would, however, stick to
them by changing the two-term constitutional mandate that envisaged curbing the
madness of Africans in tasting power.
In the end even if we are put off by the stench of politics, we must still keep
vigil the world over. We cannot be intimidated by Museveni’s tanks nor mayor
Bloomberg’s great wealth. Out of the 28 million Ugandans there must be people
who are capable of running the country as well, if not better than Museveni and
his clique. And the same applies to the 8 million New Yorkers.
Odiya
Just Be
Odiyatalks
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