family, let's share the challenge. madi >From: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: EPISTLE ONE >Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:04:43 EDT > > >QUESTIONS THAT THE AFRIKAN MUST ASK > > > >QUESTIONS THAT THE AFRIKAN HAS TO ASK > > >How is it that the same ones who enslaved my foreparents and stole their >land >are now the same ones who now threaten the future of my children >with NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST ??? > >How is it that the fate of the Afrikan world is still in the hands of THE >UROPEAN who seems hell-bent for GLOBAL MELT-DOWN ???? > >How is it that as Afrikan people we have absolutely no say on crucial >matters >that affect the survival of the planet ?? > >What kind of freedom has been achieved with EMANCIPATION when >SLAVE-DESCENDENT still compelled to work for SLAVE-MASTER DESCENDENT on the >SAME LAND??? > >What kind of FREE-DUMB do you have when you still have to answer to the >SLAVE-BELL in the morning and cant cool out till SUNDAYS when SLAVE-MASTER >say so???? > >How is it that you can only take a break from SLAVERY on THANKS-GIVING DAY >or >BANK-HOLIDAYS but cant stay home on AFRIKAN LIBERATION DAY ????? > >How is it that TWO SLAVES can be found spending more time arguing about >this >BIBLE passage versus that BIBLE passage and little or no time on discussing >THE PRESENT SITUATION which keeps them both ENSLAVED ?? > >How many centuries has the argument been going on about BIBLE PASSAGES >????/ > >And how has that impacted on AFRIKAN LIBERATION ?????/ > >Who first preached the doctrine of UNITY AND ONENESS BETWEEN SLAVE AND >SLAVE >MASTER ????? > >Who first introduced the IDEA that the SOLUTION FOR ENSURING PEACE is to >STOP >DISCUSSING THE PROBLEM ????? > >How come the people who spent CENTURIES planting CORN, COTTON, TOBACCO, >SUGAR >CANE........HAVE NEVER HAD LAND AND STILL HAVE NO LAND ????? > >How come that even when BLACK PEOPLE have a little land it is still SLAVE >MASTER who tells you WHAT YOU CAN PLANT AND WHAT YOU CANNOT PLANT ??? > > >How come THE SAME SLAVE MASTER who has always planted what he wanted to >plant >based on IT'S INCOME GENERATING POTENTIAL can now turn around and tell the >BLACK MAN "you can only plant what THE U-ROPEAN IDEA determines is "RIGHT" >for you to plant REGARDLESS TO HOW SMALL IS IT'S INCOME GENERATING >POTENTIAL >"?????? >(LOOK AT THE CARIBBEAN AND THE PRESENT DILEMMA OVER THE CHOICE BETWEEN >BANANAS AND GANGA) > >What gives THE U-ROPEAN the right to determine what is good for THE AFRIKAN >???? > >And what gives the U-ROPEAN the right TO ENFORCE THE U-ROPEAN IDEA on THE >AFRIKAN ???? > >HOW COME WE ARE FREE AND "EMANCIPATED" BUT STILL SAILING ON THE WHITE MAN'S >SHIP ???? > >What is the benefit of RELIGION if it offers no SOLUTION TO SLAVERY ??? > >Should your RELIGION not be formed and shaped in the best way possible that >would guarantee DELIVERANCE FROM SLAVERY ????? > >IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE FOR SLAVE AND SLAVE-MASTER TO PRACTICE THE SAME >RELIGION ??????? > >What QUALITY OF LIFE do we have to offer our children ??? >Will it be better than ours or are we JUST PRODUCING LABORERS FOR THE >FACTORY???? > >And finally WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EMANCIPATION WITHOUT LAND ??? > >AND POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE AND PSEUDO-FREEDOM WITHOUT ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE >???? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------