Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Swedish Peace keeping troops for Mali
Ibrahim Abdullah
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On 5/30/13, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> *Swedish Peace keeping troops for
> Mali*<http://www.thelocal.se/48232/20130530/>
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> Of relevance: *African Union proposes an emergency military
> force*<http://www.google.co.uk/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=African+Union+proposes+an+emergency+military+force&oq=African+Union+proposes+an+emergency+military+force&gs_l=hp.12...3502.3502.0.5405.1.1.0.0.0.0.96.96.1.1.0...0.0...1c..15.psy-ab.2lSKPuehb7c&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.bGE&fp=d1dc93a0ad812a1b&biw=1024&bih=593>(some
> kind of rapid reaction force. Let's hope that words will be
> translated into actions...
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The South African Jazz pianist, a musician with over seventy albums to his name,
is Abdullah Ibrahim. I love his music. He is my favorite musician.
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It's so tedious having to have to engage some of the self-appointed media pundits (they're everywhere) and sometimes have running battles (verbal) with them, trying to explain that it's not only Muslims rioting. It's mostly frustrated and marginalised immigrant youths – nearly all of them Swedes/ Swedish citizens many of whom were born and bred in Sweden etc. most of them white or Semites. Some academics have now proposed a commission to look into the causes of the violent
“ resistance” and I hope that the commission will include some experts “of foreign extraction“ and that they will come out with meaningful recommendations that will be implemented in this our refugee-land in which many immigrants – like the Jews of old – do not want to assimilate or succumb to the Francophone type policy <http://www.google.co.uk/#gs_rn=15&gs_ri=psy-ab&suggest=p&cp=36&gs_id=88&xhr=t&q=French+assimilation+policy+in+Africa&es_nrs=true&pf=p&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=French+assimilation+policy+in+Africa&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.bGE&fp=35acbb9113f5c85e&biw=1024&bih=613> in Africa, that demanded that they become assimilated, “assimilé” - a slightly more difficult thing for many immigrants to achieve in Sweden, when for most parts of their lives they are sequestered in immigrant ghettoes such as Husby – where Sheikh al-Hajji Bangura's other most favourite Negro from Sierra Leone (not me) used to live...
The first real racist that I ever met in Sweden was a guy who had served in the Swedish military in the Congo. He even explained it to me and I could understand that he became a racist out there in the jungle – and perhaps you would have become one too ( or a tribalist ?) if the enemy tribe or Oyibo had been shooting at you and trying to genocide you (like Moïse Tshombe) 24 hrs a day - or a couple of months or years whilst serving out there. You'd bear the scars of war – the scars of having to do unpleasant things such as killing, mostly in order to stay alive – killing - instead of turning the other cheek or “ loving your enemies“ as the Xtian scriptures tell us – as in I wanna love you<http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy-ab&q=Bob+Marley+:+Is+this+love&oq=Bob+Marley+:+Is+this+love&gs_l=hp.12..0l4.4496.4496.0.5766.1.1.0.0.0.0.91.91.1.1.0...0.0...1c..15.psy-ab.wLfOhA7lI2A&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.bGE&fp=35acbb9113f5c85e&biw=1024&bih=613> – and treat you right (everyday and every night)
That Swedish troops have ever been accused of “looting” is news to me – in fact much of the once great Swedish auto industry depended on raw materials like cobalt which is still plentiful in the Congo and South Africa – and yet Swedish trade unions of the type which the current leader of the Social Democrats Stefan Löfven used to head ( it's called METAL) - they were prepared to suffer the effects of sanctions on South Africa which could have crippled or immobilised the auto industry - with no alternative sources of supply, but they went ahead – and in fact I occasionally met a couple of COSATU representatives (at home for dinner) who were sent to Sweden to train....
We should be happy and congratulate Sweden for wanting to help our people in Mali - whilst the Africa Union is still dragging it's feet complaining about lack of finances and equipment (as usual) after so many years of independence and co-operation with the looting of the continent they are still engaged in their favourite Buddhist contemplative pastime called “do-nothing” perhaps on the way to Nirvana, a supreme state of super-natural indifference and inertia.
'Sweden should be proud of its troops' - The Local<http://www.google.se/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelocal.se%2F48216%2F20130529%2F&ei=V0qsUYbfCIX24QSL5ICoDg&usg=AFQjCNHunSpiHu460ZffqtICKaedWWE7ng&sig2=uby5PRI2nu0vNwNnfQ5UHw&bvm=bv.47244034,d.bGE>
Sin-cerely,
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/
On Monday, 3 June 2013 02:48:41 UTC+2, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
...and they had a whole week of race (?) riots last week.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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Hope the Sweedes will behave this time around--they looted the Congo in the 60s.
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> *Swedish Peace keeping troops for
> Mali*<http://www.thelocal.se/48232/20130530/>
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> Of relevance: *African Union proposes an emergency military
> force*<http://www.google.co.uk/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=African+Union+proposes+an+emergency+military+force&oq=African+Union+proposes+an+emergency+military+force&gs_l=hp.12...3502.3502.0.5405.1.1.0.0.0.0.96.96.1.1.0...0.0...1c..15.psy-ab.2lSKPuehb7c&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.bGE&fp=d1dc93a0ad812a1b&biw=1024&bih=593>(some
> kind of rapid reaction force. Let's hope that words will be
> translated into actions...
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Ibrahim Abdullah
I was only pulling the Ibrahim Abdullah's leg.
Oh Gloria! So we love both him (Abdullah Ibra-him) ? That's good news coming from you. We have several friends in common, mostly here in Stockholm. Met him for the first time at a Fasching Concert to which I took the late Jeff Cartriers ( great jazz bassist from South Africa - also known as Ishmail) who was then in a wheel chair. Jeff was a friend of Elisabeth Palme – the wife of Olof Palme...that's just a small indication of how close the anti-Apartheid movement in Sweden was to the Swedish government. The cream of the still Stockholm based South African freedom fighters, musicians, poets, ideologues, grass root workers, future ambassadors etc. were at the concert I'm talking about and we sat at the high table with some of the great ones. During the break Jeff introduced me to Abdullah Ibrahim ( whose music I had been listening to for years) at which point - on being introduced to him, I recited one of his anti-apartheid poems to him, a poem I had read in “Transition Magazine “ or maybe “Black Orpheus” at the Institute of African Studies library in Ghana, in 1970 :
“Then
as now when
finger-touched
you moved your hand
away.”
and then immediately made the fatal mistake of attributing the poem to the name under which he had created it : Dollar Brand. (He hates that name). I've met some of the great South African and African American jazz musicians. It's a tough profession....
Here he is with Johnny : Abdullah Ibrahim & Johnny Dyani : Namhanje
Another favourite : Abdullah Ibrahim - Soweto/Dollar Brand - African Herbs
So many Swedish women that I know, are in love with that. South African jazz pianist ….
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From: usaafric...@googlegroups.com [usaafric...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cornelius Hamelberg [cornelius...@gmail.com]
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Swedish Peace keeping troops for Mali
Ibrahim Abdullah,
By accusing Sweden, I hope that you get my point and a taste of how it feels to be falsely accused.
What do you (pl.) make of the following:
In The Name Of Allah - Booty Plunder & Loot in Muhammad's Islam
Surat Al-Fath [48:20] - The Noble Qur'an
There's a lot of spurious, deliberate misinformation about Islam coming from some of the enemies of Islam. For instance, we know for a fact that people like Abu Bakr,al-Siddiq, Zubayr ibn al-Awam and Talha ibn Ubaydullah were millionaires by yesterday's and today's standards
Ibn Warraq tends to invoke “ethical relativism” as an excuse for that of which Islam is sometimes being accused.
So, if you could just provide some evidence to back your pious protestations and what you fear Swedes might do in the future, as guest in Mali, I'll be the last person to argue with you. There's another fear-monger Robert Fowler, in today's BBC Hardtalk; he fears that Islamic radicals are working on a plan to establish a caliphate that will extend from Mauritania to Somalia – he says that Boko Haram and allies are united in that sense of purpose
On Tuesday, 4 June 2013 17:30:53 UTC+2, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
Dear Ibrahim Abdullah,
Of course in some war situations which get out of control, soldiers loot, rape and pillage. In some non-war situations that what some African governments are accused of doing, by their own people : looting their people’s treasuries, systematically . T It's a class of Africans known as the lootocracy . We could focus on those no good buggers instead.
I remember how I felt when I read this paragraph on page 16 of Solomon Nigosian's Islam: Its History, Teaching, and Practices the section on”Prophet and Statesman”:
“ The economic interests of Muhammed and his followers depended at first on local trade. Later, however,Muhammed approved raids, in normal Arab fashion, on caravans passing through or near Medina. He himself led three such raids in 623, all of which failed. A year later he led some 300 men to attack a wealthy Meccan caravan returning from Syria with a supporting force of over 900 men. The two forces faced each other near a place called Badr. In the ensuing battle the Meccans were badly defeated. This success appeared to Muhammed as a divine vindication of his prophethood. Moreover it encouraged him to lead larger Muslim forces on preemptive raids against hostile nomadic tribes.” (and the next couple of paragraphs) which all lead to discussions of “ethical relativism” of the type Ibn Warraq raises in several of his writings
I don't suppose that you are proud of the looting done by the conquering Muslim armies in early Islam; quite on the contrary you must be proud of the denials of looting done by the conquering Muslim armies in early Islam.
You say that Sweden looted in the Congo - well I don't even take the Quran's word for everything that I understand of what the Quran says, so why should I believe your accusations, without any proof? The Quran says bring your proof.
As for Mali some precious manuscripts were allegedly looted by the Tuaregs others (thank God) are in safe keeping and hopefully undergoing restoration in the United States of America.
Sweden is going to Mali for humanitarian reasons, Sweden is not going there to loot, but to stabilise the situation, keep the peace, engage in social services activities and to help build/re-build infrastructure. If the Africa Union could do it, Sweden or France wouldn't have to be there According to the news sources,
“ Sweden would contribute with airborne transport, flight safety support, and a national support unit, Defence Minister Karin Enström told the TT news agency.
"This is about a lack of development, decades of tension between different ethnic groups, uncertain access to food, widespread humanitarian need, increasing criminal activities and armed extremists," the ministers wrote.
"Our answer to help must therefore be broad. This is about security, about relieving acute distress, about sustainable development and about supporting political processes. And we must do all this together with the many international players who have been gathered to contribute to the Mali government and the Malian people."
The ministers added that 15 Swedish military instructors were already aiding the EU's efforts to educate and advise Mali's armed forces, claiming the operation was risk free.
"It is in Sweden's interest to contribute to international peace, security, and development in different ways. It is a part of our global responsibility. This is how our foreign policy tradition looks. And that is how we will continue to act," the ministers wrote.
Bildt explained that Swedish Hercules planes would carry out "tactical transports" and that Swedish troops would be in the field, but not out on patrol as they are in Afghanistan.
"No operation is risk free," he told TT.
While the current proposal limits the Swedish operation to one year, it's possible the mission could be extended. “
Anunoby, Ogugua
Thank you CH. I just believe that eternal damnation and salvation are matters of personal choice and must be allowed to remain so. Eternal salvation as peddled by some organized religions are best sold through gentle persuasion. Eternal salvation should never be forced on any individual or group this late in human history. Is that not what history teaches us? All one has to do is look at what is going on in societies where
coercion and force are employed as instruments of religious conformity and conversion, all because a few organized and determined extremists and opportunists believe that their religion has enemies. If only more people everywhere will respect difference.
oa
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Swedish Peace keeping troops for Mali
Ps 1.
Sir,
I would like to abide by Bishop Krister Stendahl's three rules: “
1. When you are trying to understand another religion, you should ask the adherents of that religion and not its enemies.
2. Don't compare your best to their worst.
3. Leave room for "holy envy." (By this Stendahl meant that you should be willing to recognize elements in the other religious tradition or faith that you admire and wish could, in some way, be reflected in your own religious tradition or faith.) “
However, in the absence of any of our Muslim Brothers answering some of your rhetorical questions and some of your self-explanatory questions, I will do my duty as I understand it, on my own behalf and in doing so I pray that I am being fair, and not unjust or arrogant or full of Satanic, self-exalting Khibr (pride) as it is said that “When Arrogance appears, disgrace follows” (The Book of Proverbs: 11:2)
You ask “ Enemies of Islam"? What is one to understand by the term? “
Answer :To give you a concrete example,the Iranian murtad/apostate, Ali Sina is considered an enemy of Islam and certainly not a friend of Islam because of all his disparaging attacks on what you call “one of the world's great religions.”I came to that conclusion myself after reading “The Jerusalem Post Interviews Ali Sina” An enemy of Islam is someone who is hostile to that religion in thought, word and action.
You ask, “Is a concerned, constructive critic or commentator on an important matter of their time an enemy?“ You are a little abstract there but in my view - and a man is judged by his intentions and if well intentioned - such as if it's not his wish (God forbid) that all Muslims should be exterminated - or that all Muslims should convert to Christianity, then in my opinion such a person is not necessarily an enemy of Islam, depending on the exact wording of his “concerned, constructive criticism” because even the devil is also capable of “concerned, constructive criticism”. More than a decade ago, I was once walking down St.Paulsgatan here in Stockholm, with our Rabbi Meir Horden when he told me, casually, with a smile on his face, “Cornelius, I have read the Quran.” I did not say anything – because I was afraid that he was on the verge of saying some very unholy things about the Quran, perhaps was going to tear the Quran to pieces, so, I did not say anything and I did not want to hear anything,from him. about the Quran or the Bhagavad Gita or the Dhammapada, which I could be quoting here right now. So we walked on in silence a few steps at a time.
However, I approve of Abdul Hadi Palazzi as a good “commentator on an important matter “of our times. So is Dr. Khaleel Mohammed as interviewed here . Painting on a much broader canvass is the reformist thinker Abdolkarim Soroush who I first came across through Ashk Dahlen's seminal “Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity: Legal Philosophy in Contemporary Iran”
The aforementioned are Muslim critics. Now when it comes to “non-believers”, “unbelievers” and “disbelievers” that is all those who do not willingly accommodate the idea that Muhammad (SAW) is the last prophet of Allah – when you have such human beings as critics of Islam - there you have other perceptions of the “enemies of Islam” - and the intensity of the perceived enmity can vary considerably, depending on that critic's identity – since the Quran - Quran 5:82 says; that the Jews are the main enemy of Islam and we must understand that this is because the Jewish people do not and did not and will not accept Islam's prophet and of course, if they had done or were to do so, then that would be or have been the end of Christianity. Please permit me to refrain from naming any non-Muslim critics of Islam right now. There are so many.
As you say, “so called non-believers' lives and livelihood are affected by the thoughts and activities of "believers" all the more reason why as you continue, “They are entitled to have an abiding and enduring interest in what Islam teaches her followers to believe and think because what people think and believe help to determine how they choose to conduct themselves and act toward others”
Yes Sir, in addition to knowing what kind of treatment we dhimmis are to expect at the hands of the Boko Haram and al-Qaeda type Muslim jihad movements as they advance their ultimate cause, a world Muslim government caliphate to be governed by strict Sharia Law, we can either resist or submit to the military wing of the proposed caliphate. That’s' the military wing. On the other front Muslims would like to convert the whole world by gentle persuasion.With respect to the Muslims and the Christians and people of other faiths there are a great many works on comparative religion which I think Muslims and Christians and people other faiths would find useful when in dialogue with other religionists. Islam is expanding rapidly in Africa and making great gains in Europe in particular – 911 must have put on some breaks in the US, for those who would like to convert to the religious ideology of ground zero. Of course other deterrents that still exist : Iran: Proposed Penal Code Retains Stoning | Human Rights Watch
I'm afraid that these your other questions will have to be answered by the Muslims themselves as I am not qualified to give an opinion:
The unanswered questions : “If we assume for example that an enemy is an extremist non well-wisher, is it conceivable or indeed the case that Islam may have more enemies with it than outside it at this time? Was the al qaeda founder a friend or enemy of Islam? Are Nigeria's Boko Haram members friends or enemies of Islam? Has Islam become a convenient facade employed by some determined, extremist, ideological adventurers chasing their political dreams? I am just asking?"
Sincerely,
Anunoby, Ogugua
Thank you CH for your kind endorsement of a position that will make even more sense and reduce needless misery, pain, suffering, and death, if more people will appreciate and embrace it. Violence in the name of an immortal, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient real or imagined God must be the least justified, most unnecessary, and most wasteful violence there could be in my considered opinion. If only the arrogance, ignorance, and prejudice of religious extremism and opportunism will get out of the way. We live in hope. Thank you again.
oa
From: Cornelius Hamelberg [mailto:cornelius...@gmail.com]
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Swedish Peace keeping troops for Mali
Sir,
Many thanks !
Throughout this thread I find your words gentle, dignified, humble & beautiful; your questioning insightful and the kinds of questions are those that a normal man of conscience must ask, followed by your very apt conclusions which I wholly endorse :
“that eternal damnation and salvation are matters of personal choice and must be allowed to remain so. Eternal salvation as peddled by some organized religions are best sold through gentle persuasion. Eternal salvation should never be forced on any individual or group this late in human history. Is that not what history teaches us? All one has to do is look at what is going on in societies where
coercion and force are employed as instruments of religious conformity and conversion, all because a few organized and determined extremists and opportunists believe that their religion has enemies. If only more people everywhere will respect difference”
Could it be that great minds think alike? Do you know that you are beginning to sound a little like Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks?
Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilisations
Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks in oral transmission
I hereby take this opportunity to forward an example of the non-violent, gentle persuasion that you and I have been talking about:
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto : The Way of God
Best Regards,
Cornelius
Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
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* Stockholm riots challenge image of happy, generous state<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/us-sweden-riots-idUSBRE94L1BW20130522>
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* Sweden's capital hit by worst riots in years<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/us-sweden-riots-idUSBRE94L0CH20130522>
Wed, May 22 2013
By Niklas Pollard and Philip O'Connor
STOCKHOLM | Thu May 23, 2013 10:21am EDT
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The scene of Sweden's worst riots in years, Husby
is on the surface at least a typically neat suburb of
colorful playgrounds, manicured parks and low rise apartment buildings.
Conversations with residents of this immigrant neighborhood soon bring tales
of fruitless job hunts, police harassment, racial taunts and a feeling
of living at the margins that are at odds with Sweden's reputation for openness and tolerance.
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weird cake depicting sara bartmann, and as a performance artist, emitted
groans whenever it was cut.
you can call this a weird, grotesque, unpalatable effort...but there was
no racism unless you miss all the irony in the performance and take it
literally.
sort of like chris ofili's elephant dung used for his black madonna.
the general public has always read modern art and performance on a
literal level, i.e., on the surface, missing the point and blaming the
artist. another example would be criticisms of basquiat's figures as not
representing black people in a beautiful manner....
(that still leaves four more sites!)
ken
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> Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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kenneth w. harrow
faculty excellence advocate
distinguished professor of english
michigan state university
department of english
619 red cedar road
room C-614 wells hall
east lansing, mi 48824
ph. 517 803 8839
har...@msu.edu
Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
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New York Times
Sweden’s Closet Racists
By JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI
Published: April 20, 2013
WELCOME to my body. Make yourself at home. From now on, we share skin, spine and nervous system. Here are our legs, which always want to run when we see a police car. Here are our hands, which always clench into fists when we hear politicians talk about the need for stronger borders, more internal ID checks, faster deportation of people without papers.
And these are our fingers, which recently wrote a very public letter to Sweden’s justice minister, Beatrice Ask, after she went on the radio to defend racial profiling of passengers on Stockholm’s subway.
On March 7, the minister told a nationwide audience: “One’s experience of ‘why someone has questioned me’ can of course be very subjective,” suggesting that racially profiled subway passengers were overreacting and that their anger was irrational. Without missing a beat, she continued, “There are some who have been previously convicted and feel that they are always questioned, even though you can’t tell by looking at a person that they have committed a crime.”
It was an interesting choice of words — “previously convicted.” Because that’s exactly what we are. All of us who are guilty until proved innocent. We Swedes who do not fit the outdated blond, blue-eyed stereotype of what a true Swede should look like. We whose personal experience makes us doubt our country’s international reputation of being a paradise, with equal opportunities for everyone.
We remember the shame and the slights. ............................................................................................................................................................
Unpacking the layers of Sweden’s racist-misogynist cake
April 20, 2012 By Sokari 4 Comments
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Shailja Patel writing in Pambazuka News responds to the shockingly brutalisation of African women’s bodies by the Swedish Artists Organisation – Lets be clear this action and the response by the artists in question does not stand alone. It should be studied closely in itself AND along with the growing acceptance of racism and racist action all of which point to the continuing brutalisation of African people in Europe and America [USA & Canada] and the attempt by white liberals to deflect the Black reality through the insidious myth of a post racial world.
The missing ingredient in Sweden’s racist-misogynist cake
What makes the cake episode so deeply offensive is the appropriation, by both artist and his audience, of African women’s bodies and experiences, while completely excluding real African women from the discourse. It is a pornography of violence.
TOP LAYER
The scene is Stockholm’s Museum of Modern Art, on Sunday, April 15th. The event is the celebration of World Art Day, and the 75th birthday of the Swedish Artists Organisation. Five artists have been asked to create birthday cakes for the occasion.
This is what the world will see, in photos and on video, the next morning.
On the table, a huge cake, with a smooth shiny black surface, in the form of a caricatured African female body, sans legs. Naked, splayed on its back, it is composed of crotch, belly mound, large pendulous breasts held by truncated stick arms, a row of neck rings. Where the neck rings end, a living human head rears up through a hole in the table. The head belongs to the kneeling body of a man. It is tricked out in exaggerated blackface –large white circles around the eyes, drawn-on cartoon red mouth and pointed teeth.
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the cake is not a valid example. it was an african artist who made a
weird cake depicting sara bartmann, and as a performance artist, emitted
groans whenever it was cut.
you can call this a weird, grotesque, unpalatable effort...but there was
no racism unless you miss all the irony in the performance and take it
literally.
sort of like chris ofili's elephant dung used for his black madonna.
the general public has always read modern art and performance on a
literal level, i.e., on the surface, missing the point and blaming the
artist. another example would be criticisms of basquiat's figures as not
representing black people in a beautiful manner....
(that still leaves four more sites!)
ken
On 6/5/13 11:32 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
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> Five sites on Swedish racism.
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> Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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> Sweden's minister of culture has been accused of racism after cutting
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> a cake depicting a naked black woman. Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth
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> was taking part in an ...
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> ________________________________
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kenneth w. harrow
faculty excellence advocate
distinguished professor of english
michigan state university
department of english
619 red cedar road
room C-614 wells hall
east lansing, mi 48824
ph. 517 803 8839
har...@msu.edu
kenneth harrow
understanding of the word.
it is not an example of the expropriation of women's bodies, of
racialized or african women's bodies. it matters that the artist is an
african who wants to use the abuse to which sara bartmann's body was
exposed so as to generate a performance of the outrage. it is completely
tasteless, trashy, in the way that deconstructs the comfort zones of racism.
you can retreat from art like this, choose a simple rational rejection
of racism and sexism, and ultimately challenge nothing, staying within
the comfort zones of a liberal social order.
the artist chose violation instead.
the review by patel strikes me as something that misses the point, or
rejects the point.
giuliani missed the point of ofili's black madonna as well, and tried to
shut down the museum.
finally, we don't have to accept the artist's work, in any event. but if
we want to reject it, we'd need an argument that holds water, that works
at the level that the performance does. it can be a failure. but i
disagree entirely that it conveys any racist intent when it is ironizing
racism in its performance. the reviewer doesn't get the irony, or
refuses to deal with it because it is too vulgar for her sensibilities
ken
On 6/6/13 4:02 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
> More on Swedish racism.
> GE
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> New York Times
> By JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI
>
> Published: April 20, 2013
>
>
> WELCOME to my body. Make yourself at home. From now on, we share skin, spine and nervous system. Here are our legs, which always want to run when we see a police car. Here are our hands, which always clench into fists when we hear politicians talk about the need for stronger borders, more internal ID checks, faster deportation of people without papers.
> On March 7, the minister told a nationwide audience: �One�s experience of �why someone has questioned me� can of course be very subjective,� suggesting that racially profiled subway passengers were overreacting and that their anger was irrational. Without missing a beat, she continued, �There are some who have been previously convicted and feel that they are always questioned, even though you can�t tell by looking at a person that they have committed a crime.�
> It was an interesting choice of words � �previously convicted.� Because that�s exactly what we are. All of us who are guilty until proved innocent. We Swedes who do not fit the outdated blond, blue-eyed stereotype of what a true Swede should look like. We whose personal experience makes us doubt our country�s international reputation of being a paradise, with equal opportunities for everyone.
>
>
>
> Shailja Patel writing in Pambazuka News responds to the shockingly brutalisation of African women�s bodies by the Swedish Artists Organisation � Lets be clear this action and the response by the artists in question does not stand alone. It should be studied closely in itself AND along with the growing acceptance of racism and racist action all of which point to the continuing brutalisation of African people in Europe and America [USA & Canada] and the attempt by white liberals to deflect the Black reality through the insidious myth of a post racial world.
>
> The missing ingredient in Sweden�s racist-misogynist cake
>
> What makes the cake episode so deeply offensive is the appropriation, by both artist and his audience, of African women�s bodies and experiences, while completely excluding real African women from the discourse. It is a pornography of violence.
>
> TOP LAYER
>
> The scene is Stockholm�s Museum of Modern Art, on Sunday, April 15th. The event is the celebration of World Art Day, and the 75th birthday of the Swedish Artists Organisation. Five artists have been asked to create birthday cakes for the occasion.
> This is what the world will see, in photos and on video, the next morning.
>
EUGENE NWOSU
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than knowledge that is idle.” – Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931)
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during the holocaust. That does not make the holocaust any less a crime against humanity.
The fact that this chap is an African- an Afro-Swedish
who imbibed all the racist propaganda that Sweden fed him, does not
negate the racist implications of his art.
Racist propaganda masquerading as art and invoking poetic license
is no less lethal and virulent than overt racism.Come to think of it
all the racist cartoons and cartoonists of yesteryear,
from apartheid South Africa to Alabama can invoke poetic license
- I guess this would be 'artistic license.'
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
History Department
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain
CT 06050
From: usaafric...@googlegroups.com [usaafric...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kenneth harrow [har...@msu.edu]
To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Sweden's Closet Racists
> By JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI
>
> Published: April 20, 2013
>
>
> WELCOME to my body. Make yourself at home. From now on, we share skin, spine and nervous system. Here are our legs, which always want to run when we see a police car. Here are our hands, which always clench into fists when we hear politicians talk about the need for stronger borders, more internal ID checks, faster deportation of people without papers.
> It was an interesting choice of words — “previously convicted.” Because that’s exactly what we are. All of us who are guilty until proved innocent. We Swedes who do not fit the outdated blond, blue-eyed stereotype of what a true Swede should look like. We whose personal experience makes us doubt our country’s international reputation of being a paradise, with equal opportunities for everyone.
>
>
>
> Shailja Patel writing in Pambazuka News responds to the shockingly brutalisation of African women’s bodies by the Swedish Artists Organisation – Lets be clear this action and the response by the artists in question does not stand alone. It should be studied closely in itself AND along with the growing acceptance of racism and racist action all of which point to the continuing brutalisation of African people in Europe and America [USA & Canada] and the attempt by white liberals to deflect the Black reality through the insidious myth of a post racial world.
>
> The missing ingredient in Sweden’s racist-misogynist cake
>
> What makes the cake episode so deeply offensive is the appropriation, by both artist and his audience, of African women’s bodies and experiences, while completely excluding real African women from the discourse. It is a pornography of violence.
>
> TOP LAYER
>
> The scene is Stockholm’s Museum of Modern Art, on Sunday, April 15th. The event is the celebration of World Art Day, and the 75th birthday of the Swedish Artists Organisation. Five artists have been asked to create birthday cakes for the occasion.
> This is what the world will see, in photos and on video, the next morning.
>
kenneth harrow
i do not believe he is in any reasonable sense racist. i saw the
performance, heard him talk about it, read the criticisms.
there has to be some point where we can escape from the traps of racism
which imply a binding in our thinking about the ways of being free from
racism. if you'll permit me to say this, i don't think you are opening
yourself enough to imagine ways of escaping the binds. if jews abetted
hitler, that meant they were working for their own destruction; creating
a performance that can be read in more than one way, whose ambiguities
might undermine the bases for colonial racist constructions, is not the
same.
performance art often undoes the dominant symbolic order. that's how
this might be read as well.
as for masquerading as art, that is a criticism that says, my way or the
highway, not, let's see where we can go.
i don't see why you want to take a rigid reading as the only permissible
one. it might well be that we are all aiming at the same goal, but
imagine different ways to move there.
ken
>> By JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI
>>
>> Published: April 20, 2013
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>>
>> WELCOME to my body. Make yourself at home. From now on, we share skin, spine and nervous system. Here are our legs, which always want to run when we see a police car. Here are our hands, which always clench into fists when we hear politicians talk about the need for stronger borders, more internal ID checks, faster deportation of people without papers.
>> On March 7, the minister told a nationwide audience: �One�s experience of �why someone has questioned me� can of course be very subjective,� suggesting that racially profiled subway passengers were overreacting and that their anger was irrational. Without missing a beat, she continued, �There are some who have been previously convicted and feel that they are always questioned, even though you can�t tell by looking at a person that they have committed a crime.�
>>
>>
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>> Shailja Patel writing in Pambazuka News responds to the shockingly brutalisation of African women�s bodies by the Swedish Artists Organisation � Lets be clear this action and the response by the artists in question does not stand alone. It should be studied closely in itself AND along with the growing acceptance of racism and racist action all of which point to the continuing brutalisation of African people in Europe and America [USA & Canada] and the attempt by white liberals to deflect the Black reality through the insidious myth of a post racial world.
>>
>> The missing ingredient in Sweden�s racist-misogynist cake
>>
>> What makes the cake episode so deeply offensive is the appropriation, by both artist and his audience, of African women�s bodies and experiences, while completely excluding real African women from the discourse. It is a pornography of violence.
>>
>> TOP LAYER
>>
>> The scene is Stockholm�s Museum of Modern Art, on Sunday, April 15th. The event is the celebration of World Art Day, and the 75th birthday of the Swedish Artists Organisation. Five artists have been asked to create birthday cakes for the occasion.
>> This is what the world will see, in photos and on video, the next morning.
>>
Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
Agreed - and let us rejoice whenever it does that. But sometimes performance art actually does the opposite and
consolidates what it pretends or intends to challenge.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History & African Studies
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain
CT 06050
africahistory.net
vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
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From: usaafric...@googlegroups.com [usaafric...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kenneth harrow [har...@msu.edu]
>> By JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI
>>
>> Published: April 20, 2013
>>
>>
>> WELCOME to my body. Make yourself at home. From now on, we share skin, spine and nervous system. Here are our legs, which always want to run when we see a police car. Here are our hands, which always clench into fists when we hear politicians talk about the need for stronger borders, more internal ID checks, faster deportation of people without papers.
>> It was an interesting choice of words — “previously convicted.” Because that’s exactly what we are. All of us who are guilty until proved innocent. We Swedes who do not fit the outdated blond, blue-eyed stereotype of what a true Swede should look like. We whose personal experience makes us doubt our country’s international reputation of being a paradise, with equal opportunities for everyone.
>>
>>
>>
>> Shailja Patel writing in Pambazuka News responds to the shockingly brutalisation of African women’s bodies by the Swedish Artists Organisation – Lets be clear this action and the response by the artists in question does not stand alone. It should be studied closely in itself AND along with the growing acceptance of racism and racist action all of which point to the continuing brutalisation of African people in Europe and America [USA & Canada] and the attempt by white liberals to deflect the Black reality through the insidious myth of a post racial world.
>>
>> The missing ingredient in Sweden’s racist-misogynist cake
>>
>> What makes the cake episode so deeply offensive is the appropriation, by both artist and his audience, of African women’s bodies and experiences, while completely excluding real African women from the discourse. It is a pornography of violence.
>>
>> TOP LAYER
>>
>> The scene is Stockholm’s Museum of Modern Art, on Sunday, April 15th. The event is the celebration of World Art Day, and the 75th birthday of the Swedish Artists Organisation. Five artists have been asked to create birthday cakes for the occasion.
>> This is what the world will see, in photos and on video, the next morning.
>>
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>> By JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI
>>
>> Published: April 20, 2013
>>
>>
>> WELCOME to my body. Make yourself at home. From now on, we share skin, spine and nervous system. Here are our legs, which always want to run when we see a police car. Here are our hands, which always clench into fists when we hear politicians talk about the need for stronger borders, more internal ID checks, faster deportation of people without papers.
>> On March 7, the minister told a nationwide audience: "One's experience of 'why someone has questioned me' can of course be very subjective," suggesting that racially profiled subway passengers were overreacting and that their anger was irrational. Without missing a beat, she continued, "There are some who have been previously convicted and feel that they are always questioned, even though you can't tell by looking at a person that they have committed a crime."
>> It was an interesting choice of words - "previously convicted." Because that's exactly what we are. All of us who are guilty until proved innocent. We Swedes who do not fit the outdated blond, blue-eyed stereotype of what a true Swede should look like. We whose personal experience makes us doubt our country's international reputation of being a paradise, with equal opportunities for everyone.
>>
>>
>>
>> Shailja Patel writing in Pambazuka News responds to the shockingly brutalisation of African women's bodies by the Swedish Artists Organisation - Lets be clear this action and the response by the artists in question does not stand alone. It should be studied closely in itself AND along with the growing acceptance of racism and racist action all of which point to the continuing brutalisation of African people in Europe and America [USA & Canada] and the attempt by white liberals to deflect the Black reality through the insidious myth of a post racial world.
>>
>> The missing ingredient in Sweden's racist-misogynist cake
>>
>> What makes the cake episode so deeply offensive is the appropriation, by both artist and his audience, of African women's bodies and experiences, while completely excluding real African women from the discourse. It is a pornography of violence.
>>
>> TOP LAYER
>>
>> The scene is Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art, on Sunday, April 15th. The event is the celebration of World Art Day, and the 75th birthday of the Swedish Artists Organisation. Five artists have been asked to create birthday cakes for the occasion.
>> This is what the world will see, in photos and on video, the next morning.
>>
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kenneth harrow
ok, on that i can agree. (alwaays glad to be in agreement, when possible)
this case was not so clear to me. i saw something on it; i then went to
the youtube where you can actually see it; then you can read the
comments on youtube, and then see the interview with the artist.
so here's the rub: the general public that viewed it on-line took it
literally, and what emerged was truly horrific stuff, as you would
expect, including the most vile racist commentary about africans.
whatever an artist intends will not necessarily inform how it is received.
do you all remember Les Maitres fous by jean rouch? it is a classical
example. he did a cinema verite film of the hauka, people from the north
who went into trance states, incorporated colonial roles, and sacrificed
a dog, ate it raw, foamed at the mouth.
it was a hauka ritual enactment. his recording was in the spirit of
anthropological filming, cinema verite style
but the public who saw it in paris drew their own inferences about
africans, and the assimilated africans in paris were devastated. rouch
never backed down, never once.
where you perform a performance art thing is part of the performance.
the bit on sara bartmann went on the net, on youtube, and was public in
a way he had not necessarily planned, and whatever his subversive
intentions, they were obviously lost on the youtube yahoos who saw it.
i don't think an artist can plead ignorance concerning the public space.
that's why i said it was complicated. maybe in this case we can say it
was doing at least two things in contrary directions, and in that regard
could be legitimately criticized for not having anticipated the
reactions. no artists want to be held accountable for their public's
reactions, but that strikes me as unethical....
ken
>>> By JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI
>>>
>>> Published: April 20, 2013
>>>
>>>
>>> WELCOME to my body. Make yourself at home. From now on, we share skin, spine and nervous system. Here are our legs, which always want to run when we see a police car. Here are our hands, which always clench into fists when we hear politicians talk about the need for stronger borders, more internal ID checks, faster deportation of people without papers.
>>> On March 7, the minister told a nationwide audience: �One�s experience of �why someone has questioned me� can of course be very subjective,� suggesting that racially profiled subway passengers were overreacting and that their anger was irrational. Without missing a beat, she continued, �There are some who have been previously convicted and feel that they are always questioned, even though you can�t tell by looking at a person that they have committed a crime.�
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Shailja Patel writing in Pambazuka News responds to the shockingly brutalisation of African women�s bodies by the Swedish Artists Organisation � Lets be clear this action and the response by the artists in question does not stand alone. It should be studied closely in itself AND along with the growing acceptance of racism and racist action all of which point to the continuing brutalisation of African people in Europe and America [USA & Canada] and the attempt by white liberals to deflect the Black reality through the insidious myth of a post racial world.
>>>
>>> The missing ingredient in Sweden�s racist-misogynist cake
>>>
>>> What makes the cake episode so deeply offensive is the appropriation, by both artist and his audience, of African women�s bodies and experiences, while completely excluding real African women from the discourse. It is a pornography of violence.
>>>
>>> TOP LAYER
>>>
>>> The scene is Stockholm�s Museum of Modern Art, on Sunday, April 15th. The event is the celebration of World Art Day, and the 75th birthday of the Swedish Artists Organisation. Five artists have been asked to create birthday cakes for the occasion.
>>> This is what the world will see, in photos and on video, the next morning.
>>>
Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
hitler, that meant they were working for their own destruction."harrow
Not quite so. In this case, these cowards and unprincipled people were working with the hope
of saving themselves at all cost, in the short term. But their gains were
temporary, and as you suggest, they worked for their own destruction - but in the long
term.
I think racism thrives on the recruitmernt of cowards - especially those of the same ethnic identity as the
victimized. What better victory for a racist than to have someone from the victimized group
become a mouth piece for the cause!
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History & African Studies
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain
CT 06050
africahistory.net
vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
________________________________________
From: usaafric...@googlegroups.com [usaafric...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kenneth harrow [har...@msu.edu]
>> By JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI
>>
>> Published: April 20, 2013
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>> WELCOME to my body. Make yourself at home. From now on, we share skin, spine and nervous system. Here are our legs, which always want to run when we see a police car. Here are our hands, which always clench into fists when we hear politicians talk about the need for stronger borders, more internal ID checks, faster deportation of people without papers.
>> It was an interesting choice of words — “previously convicted.” Because that’s exactly what we are. All of us who are guilty until proved innocent. We Swedes who do not fit the outdated blond, blue-eyed stereotype of what a true Swede should look like. We whose personal experience makes us doubt our country’s international reputation of being a paradise, with equal opportunities for everyone.
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>> Shailja Patel writing in Pambazuka News responds to the shockingly brutalisation of African women’s bodies by the Swedish Artists Organisation – Lets be clear this action and the response by the artists in question does not stand alone. It should be studied closely in itself AND along with the growing acceptance of racism and racist action all of which point to the continuing brutalisation of African people in Europe and America [USA & Canada] and the attempt by white liberals to deflect the Black reality through the insidious myth of a post racial world.
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>> The missing ingredient in Sweden’s racist-misogynist cake
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>> What makes the cake episode so deeply offensive is the appropriation, by both artist and his audience, of African women’s bodies and experiences, while completely excluding real African women from the discourse. It is a pornography of violence.
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>> TOP LAYER
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>> The scene is Stockholm’s Museum of Modern Art, on Sunday, April 15th. The event is the celebration of World Art Day, and the 75th birthday of the Swedish Artists Organisation. Five artists have been asked to create birthday cakes for the occasion.
>> This is what the world will see, in photos and on video, the next morning.
>>
kenneth harrow
racism. if you want to talk about a country as racists, it is the latter
that matters since, as you point out, one can find any kind of
individuals in mostly all countries.
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RE - "Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent" - Eleanor Roosevelt
She must have been speaking in and of another context – perhaps not even a civil rights context. Applying her quote to the context in which and of which we are talking – namely alleged racism over an artist’s intentions as per his representation in what has erroneously been referred to as ”the nigger cake” depicting the agony of what a female victim of various forms of clitoridectomy suffers or what others suffer or scream on her behalf – is quite another matter. Ayi Kwei Armah asks in one of his novels (either “Fragments” or “Why are we so blest” - he asks, What happens to the soul of a Ghanaian boy who grows up being called Mike/Michael?
The individual understanding and response to the import of that question may vary from individual to individual, but this much must be clear : if in all your miserable life, a missionary colonial education which in itself was not so spectacular – since you were not a star pupil and you did not attend any of the best schools – if nevertheless such a missionary education has succeeded in misshaping your mind by instilling or implanting it in you that it is better to be called Michael or Abdul - and indeed, that being Michael or Abdul is the essence of you identity - or that Kwame or Santigie is inferior nomenclature, then the question of your consent (and submitting to that system since childhood) – the question of your consent does not necessarily arise. If since childhood you have been told and have inculcated the idea that you are inferior – since your father was no engineer etc. no amount of later education is going to erase that self-perception with which you have been afflicted and you will always be seeking assurance/reassurance/ confirmation that it is not so. It’s called an inferiority complex – the other side of the coin is known as a self/compensating superiority complex which some may arrive at after undergoing some kind of hypnosis to redeem them of the original affliction - as a result of which they may want to assume that they are superior to everybody – even though they know ( in their hearts) that they are not the most or the greatest anything. Or maybe they don’t know so?
We are to assume that in the myth about Romulus and Remus who were brought up by wolves, they must have thought of themselves as wolves. In a similar manner a lion cub that’s brought up by a pack of asses may go on thinking that he is an ass, until perchance one fine day he looks into a pool of stagnant water and there beholds his own reflection.
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/
kenneth harrow
and on the basis of that ideology grows a neoliberal state with no social conscience.
ken
She must have been speaking in and of another context � perhaps not even a civil rights context. Applying her quote to the context in which and of which we are talking � namely alleged racism over an artist�s intentions as per his representation in what has erroneously been referred to as �the nigger cake� depicting the agony of what a female victim of various forms of clitoridectomy suffers� or what others suffer or scream on her behalf � is quite another matter. �Ayi Kwei Armah asks in one of his novels (either �Fragments� or �Why are we so blest� - he asks, What happens to the soul of a Ghanaian boy who grows up being called Mike/Michael?
The individual understanding and response to the import of that question may vary from individual to individual, but this much must be clear : if in all your miserable life, a missionary colonial education which in itself was not so spectacular �� since you were not a star pupil and you did not attend any of the best schools � if nevertheless such a missionary education has succeeded in misshaping your mind by instilling or implanting it in you that it is better to be called Michael or Abdul �- and indeed, that being Michael or Abdul is the essence of you identity - or that Kwame or Santigie is inferior nomenclature, then the question of your consent (and submitting to that system since childhood) � the question of your consent does not necessarily arise. If since childhood you have been told and have inculcated the idea that you are inferior � since your father was no engineer etc. no amount of later education is going to erase that self-perception with which you have been afflicted and you will always be seeking assurance/reassurance/ confirmation that it is not so. It�s called an inferiority complex � the other side of the coin is known as a self/compensating�superiority complex which some may arrive at after undergoing some kind of hypnosis to redeem them of the original affliction� - as a result of which they may want to assume that they are superior to everybody � even though they know ( in their hearts) that they are not the most or the greatest anything. Or maybe they don�t know so?
We are to assume that in the myth about �Romulus and Remus who were brought up by wolves, they �must have thought of themselves as wolves. In a similar manner a lion cub that�s brought up by a pack of asses may go on thinking that he is an ass, until perchance one fine day he looks into a pool of stagnant water and there beholds his own reflection.
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/
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cornelius, you are completely right. all the more in that her words might have applied to an individual--in fact to herself, the lesser cousin whom the high-up fdr married--but it becomes almost demeaning when applied to groups, especially disadvantaged groups. like reagan telling welfare mamas that their poverty was their fault, etc. this is the american dream: if you are not a millionaire, it is your fault.
and on the basis of that ideology grows a neoliberal state with no social conscience.
ken
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She must have been speaking in and of another context – perhaps not even a civil rights context. Applying her quote to the context in which and of which we are talking – namely alleged racism over an artist’s intentions as per his representation in what has erroneously been referred to as ”the nigger cake” depicting the agony of what a female victim of various forms of clitoridectomy suffers or what others suffer or scream on her behalf – is quite another matter. Ayi Kwei Armah asks in one of his novels (either “Fragments” or “Why are we so blest” - he asks, What happens to the soul of a Ghanaian boy who grows up being called Mike/Michael?
The individual understanding and response to the import of that question may vary from individual to individual, but this much must be clear : if in all your miserable life, a missionary colonial education which in itself was not so spectacular – since you were not a star pupil and you did not attend any of the best schools – if nevertheless such a missionary education has succeeded in misshaping your mind by instilling or implanting it in you that it is better to be called Michael or Abdul - and indeed, that being Michael or Abdul is the essence of you identity - or that Kwame or Santigie is inferior nomenclature, then the question of your consent (and submitting to that system since childhood) – the question of your consent does not necessarily arise. If since childhood you have been told and have inculcated the idea that you are inferior – since your father was no engineer etc. no amount of later education is going to erase that self-perception with which you have been afflicted and you will always be seeking assurance/reassurance/ confirmation that it is not so. It’s called an inferiority complex – the other side of the coin is known as a self/compensating superiority complex which some may arrive at after undergoing some kind of hypnosis to redeem them of the original affliction - as a result of which they may want to assume that they are superior to everybody – even though they know ( in their hearts) that they are not the most or the greatest anything. Or maybe they don’t know so?
We are to assume that in the myth about Romulus and Remus who were brought up by wolves, they must have thought of themselves as wolves. In a similar manner a lion cub that’s brought up by a pack of asses may go on thinking that he is an ass, until perchance one fine day he looks into a pool of stagnant water and there beholds his own reflection.
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/
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