Hello Mathew,
I do appreciate your comments and felt compelled to reply this time. If we
want to understand what happens to the mentality of a people who are
enslaved and colonized let's review Franz Fanon's wretched of the earth or
even the contemporary work by Randall Robinson, especially the Debt. Not
to make excuses for my people (Africans born in America) but one has to
have a historical perspective. During the 60's when we were organizing and
many progressives were looking toward the motherland, i.e., Africa--the US
government (via the FBI) made every effort to destabilize our organizations
and did so successfully. Small efforts are still being made by groups
today such as the All-African People's revolutionary Party (Kwame Ture's,
aka, Stokley Carmichael's organization), Africans on the Move, etc and
these groups are in danger with the new "anti-terrorism" laws that will be
applied widespread to all revolutionary and humans rights groups.
Many Africans born in America are travelling to Africa and assuming some
responsibility to help develop our motherland and contribute to
society. The friendships and marriages of Africans from the diaspora with
Africans from the continent is also a positive development. Yes--we
definitely have a lot of work to do with leaders like Jessie Jackson!
Forward, ever--backward never--from Rakina
At 08:50 AM 6/25/2002 -0700, mathew jallow wrote:
>The story on our relations with blacks in America is a
>compelling reading.It is a journalistic and analytical
>masterpiece.There is something seriously wrong and we
>need to fix it sooner rather than later.Blacks in
>America are among the most privilaged yet for the most
>part they are not taking advantage of it.When I look
>around in all the places I have live in the US,I see
>black communities in distress;I see joblessness,I see
>young healthy men and women not working,I see
>alcoholism, drug abuse,and fatherless kids growing up
>and prostitution.It is so painful to see.For some
>reason black leaders accross this country are acting
>the (drugs and the alcoholism)are not a problem.WELL
>THESE ARE THE ONLY PROBLEMS.Jesse Jackson and others
>like him have become so IRRELEVANT,So OUT of PLACE,
>they just need to SHUT-UP RIGHT NOW. Well back to our
>relationships;behind the scene a lot of good is
>happening;marriages between blacks in African and
>blacks here is ever increasing.But this such an
>encompassing topic, we need to have a world conference
>of blacks people to address it....Have to go....Mathew.
>
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