Soffie,

The info has just been forwarded to them.

Regards,

Kabir.


On 6/5/07, Ceesay, Soffie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Kabir, would mind sharing this with them, please?
>
> ALL AFRICAN PEOPLE'S DEVELOPMENT & EMPOWERMENT PROJECT (AAPDEP) - They are
> trying to do something.  A dynamic sister, a wife, a mother, and a
> physicist, Aisha Fields, Ph.D. is the project coordinator.  She can be
> reached at [log in to unmask], (256) 348-6478 or visit
> www.developmentforafrica.org.  The address is AAPDEP P.O. BOX 454, Normal,
> AL 35762.
>
> Thanks,
> Soffie
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Fwd: [TheBlackList] Why aren't we doing this?
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> Date: Jun 4, 2007 7:18 PM
> Subject: [TheBlackList] Why aren't we doing this?
> To: Theblacklist <[log in to unmask]>
>
> http://www.villagehealthproject.org/index.html summarizes one of many
> international groups who are helping Africans. Why aren't we doing the same;
> or are we? Maybe it's just that the Black international aid organizations
> are not publicizing themselves. I know there are a lot of brothers and
> sisters out there who have some skills related to alternative energy, waste
> disposal, water collection and purification, home construction, etc; all
> which are the core skill sets of nation-building. But where are our Black
> technical experts, especially those who have a PanAfrican ideology, how do
> we contact them?
>
>
> I could easily (and have) get the information I'm looking for from White
> organizations. But at some point in time, the PanAfrican community have to
> acquire these skills. I posed this question to a sister and she responded,
> "What difference does it make if the person is not Black? You need to stop
> looking at things in Black and White terms, and see people as people" I told
> her that it is not a matter of looking at things in Black and White terms,
> but instead is a matter of building confidence and pride in our abilities.
> If our youth always see others doing for us, they will not have the
> confidence or the motivation that they can do it too, and they will continue
> to believe that the White man's ice is colder than ours. The danger of not
> having a Black consciousness is that it continues to make us dependent (a
> slave mentality), puts our survival as a group at risk, cause people to look
> at us as niggers ( *http://tinyurl.com/2dhq8z* <http://tinyurl.com/2dhq8z
> >*,
> **http://tinyurl.com/2kbqta* <http://tinyurl.com/2kbqta>* ). *Remeber
> Katrina?
>
>
> It's so convenient to use being American or race-neutral to justify being
> unconcerned. I suspect this sister is victim of self hatred, which is always
> reinforced by how America deal with us. For example, if we try to do
> anything for ourselves, we are accused of being divisive and even racist
> (this reinforces the pyschological programming of do nothing for fear of
> being physically abused). In fact this programming is so entrenched in us
> that all they have to do is to raise the noise level and all the apologist
> talking heads come out to point their fingers at us. But it is totally
> acceptable to America if we do nothing and squander in our ignorance.
> Garvey talked about this at length, when he said that Whites will see us
> to go hell before he took food from his plate to give to a pack of lazy
> negroes. Finally, I told her that the Chinese, who are all over African,
> refer to Africans as "The Sick Man of the World" since we are dependent on
> others to do for us what we should do for ourselves.
>
>
> Indeed, it's not about Black and White, it's about knowing one can do it
> for self.
>
>
> Olushola
>
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