What African American leaders can do for their race
Bodhisattvacat
a banner in one of the countries he visited that said "God is not
an American." I am quite willing to agree to that statement. But let
us examine the manner by which Africans practice their faith.
In Congo, over the last several years, 4 million people have been
killed in a civil war. The soldiers on all sides rape most of the
women they encounter, and in many cases give them vaginal fistulas -
a condition in which the wall separating their colon and their
vagina breaks, and crap seeps out.
In Ethiopia, the standard way to get a wife is to rape a young girl
and force her into marriage, and with rape the basis of the
relationship commit all kinds of brutality against her until death
do them part.
In Sierra Leone, the rebels cut off the arms of people they
encountered. In Uganda, a religious army called Lord's Liberation
Army kidnaps schoolchildren and forces them to fight for it. In
Sudan, the government has killed close to a million people in
both the south and the west of the country, and makes it a policy
to kidnap children and make them slaves.
All this is done by indigenous Africans against other indigenous
Africans. All of whom claim to believe in God and to be more devout
in God's service than decadent people in the West - claiming that
free sexuality and women's rights is a worse sin than rape and mass
murder and that God finds despotism and atrocity closer to heart
than liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Now it has been fashionable among many Africans to blame their woes
on legacy of colonialism. The fact is however, colonialism proceded
with the blessing of African leadership. The African leaders sold
African people out to the Europeans and foolishly accepted the
temporary profits of slave trade in exchange for enslavement and
degradation of the bulk of their constituents. In the same way they
have since independence brutalized, raped and robbed their
populations.
The fact is, Africa has always had bad leadership, black or white,
for as long as history records are kept. And the position that
truly helps African people is not of claiming them to be victims of
European colonialism, two generations post independence, and
excusing for that reason atrocities committed by African leaders
against African populations - using their victim status to smother
them from development - but rather one that makes the African
leaders accountable to their constituents and develops in African
people the civic conscience that leads them to speak up for their
fellow citizens and work on developing a functioning state. Africa
needs to learn the art of statesmanship and politics in a way that
does not involve mass murder, kleptocracy and vaginal fistulas.
Fortunately there are examples around the world to help in the
process.
Perhaps African people would not accept learning from a white
person how to run their governments. The fortunate thing is that
there are plenty of successful black politicians in America, from
Jesse Jackson to Colin Powell, who know how to run a successful
country - and who could help Africans learn the ropes. I believe
that the best thing the black politicians could do while in office
or after they've served their terms is to work with African
leaders and people on making their countries functional. This could
truly be a historic maneuver on the part of black American
leadership that has the longest-ranging positive consequences and
that does the most to help the black race.
Ilya Shambat
http://www.geocities.com/ilya_shambat2000
http://www.geocities.com/drr0cket
CB
conscience.
It Muslim warlords who kidnap young girls and sell them into sex slavery.
"Bodhisattvacat" <drr0...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4f2532f6.04082...@posting.google.com...
Crazy Bastard
They still animals over there. Many generations of evolution behind the
rest of us.
> Perhaps African people would not accept learning from a white
> person how to run their governments. The fortunate thing is that
> there are plenty of successful black politicians in America, from
> Jesse Jackson to Colin Powell, who know how to run a successful
> country - and who could help Africans learn the ropes.
Excellent idea!!! Send Jesse over there for a couple of 10 or 20 years!!!