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muslim high school.If your answer is yes,you may be a
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THANX,MUSTAPHA HYDARA
--- wuri jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Greetings to everybody! I joined the List very
> recently (in the wake of the unfortunate events of
> April 10th/11th). May I seize the opportunity here
> on the List to extend my deep-felt sympathy to all
> the parents and relatives of those who fell on those
> two fateful days. Most especially to the mothers!
> Yes, for only a mother knows through experience
> (pregnancy and labour) what it means to bring a
> child into this world. Above all under conditions
> lacking the soothing and comfort of epidural
> anaesthesia! Feeding that child at the breast and
> watching her/him grow, with high expectations of the
> great achievements this child will harvest. For that
> child to be shot in a student demonstration is
> naturally any mother's nightmare. To all the
> Mothers, may you be able to rise up from your (our)
> tragedy to be able to make something positive in the
> memory of the little ones. To Mr.Barrow's wife, hope
> you will gather strength to keep your husband's
> beautiful memory alive! He has already inspired
> many.
> I have been following the different shades of
> thought on the List and I must say 'there is beauty
> in diversity'! We should continue cultivating the
> accomodating spirit. After the April event it is a
> fact that a lot of people are angry, and who
> wouldn't be? Nobody in their correct state of mind
> can condone the shooting of school children (in a
> peaceful demonstration or otherwise). It is
> important to keep in mind that anger as a reaction
> in this event is positive, but there should be room
> to move forward. In Pulaar (Fula) there is a saying,
> "no matter how angry you are, do leave some space
> where you can get happy, and vice-versa".
>
> In this List it seems that some people are so angry,
> that their faculties of reasoning are almost
> blurred. And when that happens the possibility of
> getting focused and being objective gets very slim.
> That anger can get to a point whereby there could be
> a conscious or subconscious strategy to block
> anything that is not in tune with what we want to
> hear or read. People got angry because President
> Jammeh did not cut his visit short at the G77
> meeting. People got angrier because Jammeh visited
> the children and the families affected to show
> remorse. People got even more angry because a
> commission of enquiry was set up to look into the
> events. Would it be soothing then if the opposite
> happened? Did the journalists take it upon them to
> search and interview those parents so that we can at
> least give them the right to vent exactly how they
> feel.
>
>
> Let us remember that one of the most instrumental
> dialectical realities that brought apartheid down
> was not only because on the one hand we had people
> who saw it as an evil system, but because of the
> fact that there were others too who were equally in
> for that system. Who in our age cannot remember the
> likes of Margareth Thatcher and their "no boycott"
> iron stance. Yet, a political leader's wife in the
> Gambia came out in the heat of the April gloom and
> hailed the former as the symbol of femininity! How
> many children, women and old people lost their lives
> in Azania as a result of Maggie's political
> affiliation with the Boers? This phenomenon known as
> development by contradiction in basic political
> thought was what moved South Africa forward to what
> we have today. Let us in our forward movement accept
> the beauty in diversity!
>
> Minister Farakhan in his One Million Man March
> address pointed out a crucial point. He said that
> when America bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the
> Japanese did not shout, rant or whine. They
> re-organised and are today relocating the most
> important businesses from Wall Street to Tokyo!
> People have the right to be anti-Jammeh but in the
> famous words of Fanon; "what matters is not to know
> the world but to change it". That brings me to Mr.
> Katim Touray's 'Framework for Change'. Mr. Touray
> took his time and energy to come up with that draft.
> He called on everybody to join hands with him so
> that in the end the piece would be a collective
> product. Mr. Touray as I understood never claimed
> dishing out a masterpiece. Yet instead of making the
> necessary adjustment(s) that people felt should be
> made, or coming up with a better alternative, Katim
> was crowned 'chief cobbler', because he liked
> Gambian music that happened to be presented on the
> List by Tombong. A metaphor/simile I for one never
> found fitting. And I am sure a Jawara or a Fatty, no
> matter how much Shakespeare or Chaucer they have
> chewed would never store that in their vocabulary.
> We all know what a load of cobblers represent for
> the Elizabethans or Chaucerians. I was hoping that
> we are different. Cobblers are professionals. It is
> important in our day and age to weed our vocabulary
> of such phrases by liberating our minds. Let us stop
> the biopsy of each other's brain cells when it comes
> to the ability to speak and/or write foreign
> languages!
>
> To Soffie Ceesay: in you I read woman at the zenith
> of her political intellect. Your resolve in the
> collective spirit distinguishes you as a woman of
> substance. Be rest assured that even those whom you
> are opposing may not like you, but for sure, they do
> respect you!
>
> Finally, let us remember that firewood or the cooker
> are important factors in cooking, but rice is never
> cooked from the outside of a pot. Let us address the
> burning issues together with our ordinary people up
> to the village level. Let us not under estimate the
> intelligence of our people and those who are there
> struggling with them on a daily basis. Let us not
> substitute ourselves for this force. Let us remember
> that the people who invented the legendary words
> 'Aluta Continua'( The Struggle Continues) Che
> Guevera and Fidel Castro meant serious business in
> uttering that slogan. Let the debate continue
> respectfully! Have a nice weekend.Sister Jay
>
>
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