Rene:
Well said!
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> To sacrifice is a will. It is the will to have the strength and conviction,
> and also the tendency to have a selfless desire to change the course of an
> event; to change the course of history. And, to sacrifice is to change the
> course of an event for the good, and for a cause whose motivation is
> transcendental.
>
> It may be difficult to fathom why people do make sacrifices; to
> sacrifice their time, energy and money to pursue a common goal or to promote an
> ideal. What motivates a doctor, who instead of a lucrative practice in a
> wealthy
> industrialized country, opts to go back to his impoverished native country to
> offer his services for a pittance? What motivates an intellectual, a well
> educated person, who denies himself/herself the opportunity to secure a highly
> placed and financially gainful job, only to devote his/her time and energy in
> promoting a cause, an ideal, that doesn't add much to his/her material
> benefit?
>
> The question of motivation, therefore, is a unique experience that guides
> an individual's sense of purpose; that guides an individual to do something
> good or react to that which is not good in something. Thus people make
> sacrifices; they sacrifice for a cause, for an ideal and for a belief, and
> challenge themselves to bring out the best in their humanity as they challenge
> others
> to bring out the humanity that is best in themselves. And there are many
> convincing reasons why a person should promote this course of action; to keep
> the faith in doing something good where the fate of something good being done is
> perilous.
>
> At a time when ordinary circumstances demand a response that is not
> ordinary, people of goodwill and sincere convictions should build an enterprise
> that is both challenging and productive; an enterprise that does not build on
> our fears, but on our hopes and aspirations.
>
> The sad stories of poverty has undignified so many lives; the
> hopelessness and wretchedness that so many lives are undignified, and the
> social and
> economic alienation of the poor, and the marginalized, summons our will to
> sacrifice. A sacrifice that can change the lives of people for the better; an
> innate disposition to affect the lives of people for the better as it also
> affects for the better the lives of those people.
>
> Against the above backdrop, the fervent desire and a will to sacrifice
> among Gambian Diaspora's, can positively respond to a national issue which
> alerts our consciousness to safeguard jealously our common heritage. We should
> never surrender our voice. The violation of the basic tenets of our
> constitution, the abuse and wanton disregard for the rule of law, the assault on
> civil
> liberties and freedom of expression, has and should arouse a patriotic fervor
> among Gambian Diaspora's to create the vehicles for the legitimate
> expressions of our dissent. The many online Gambian newspapers and discussion
> forums,
> the emerging Diaspora groups, and a debate on our different political
> orientations, our culture and our politics, can augur well in creating an
> environment
> that will impact positively our socioeconomic and political reality.
>
> What the Gambian Diaspora needs, I believe, is to organize our
> collective dissent; to frame the agenda and discussion around alternative
> objectives,
> and try to impress upon one another a Gambian mindset that is attuned to the
> conceptual development of a value system that is people centered and action
> oriented.
>
> There is a lot of talent among Gambian Diaspora's, some eloquently
> expressed in their artistic beauty, and others in their technical and
> innovative
> ingenuity; there are many academicians and intellectuals, all of whom has to
> be agents of a deliberate and conscious effort to harness the progressive
> spirit for a search for better alternatives. Every one of us should endeavor to
> be part of something, either to be among those who organize or to be willing
> participants among those to be organized. Let us support and be part of the
> organizations that are organized around some of the values that we celebrate.
> What we must not accept is to forever remain as willing spectators in a
> political drama that will never foster the growth of a mature democracy.
>
>
> Rene
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