A human being is easily blinded by personal bias.
We should focus on the message and refrain from attacking the messenger.
What do Jacques Abotong's origins, what language he chooses to speak, or
which attire he chooses to wear have to do with the message he is just
forwarding to us?
The question here should be "is this story true?" if yes, what can we do
about it?
Take care
Becky

>Date:         Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:19:11 -0500
>Reply-To:     "AAM (African Association of Madison)"
<[log in to unmask]>
>From:         "E. Aggo Akyea" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      Re: Fw:      BLACK MENTAL HEALTH
>To:           [log in to unmask]
>
>All of us educated Africans, take note.
>
>Kenkey sellers and fishermen who are illiterate think the whiteman is
God.
>Surprised??+ACEAIQAh-???
>
>I think the author of this piece is very well educated and lives here
in America
>and has a first name as Jacques, and tries as much as possible to live
and
>behave like a white American.  I am sure he knows French better than
his native
>language and if he has children, his children do not speak a word of
his native
>language.  I am sure he would rather wear a good suit made in Paris
than an
>African attire.
>
>When we +ACI-educated+ACI- Africans go back home, we behave like whites
and want to be
>treated like whites. Any wonder? What do we do to disabuse the minds of
the
>illiterate people of their wrong impressions about white people? Do we
>perpetuate it?  The issue is what are we doing to change this state of
affairs.
>
>+ACI-Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can
free our
>minds.+ACI-
>
>All of us educated Africans, take note.
>
>+ACI-Remove the log from your own eyes, before you point out the little
spec in the
>other persons eyes.+ACI-
>
>Cheers.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mu Fedjo' +ADw-kmf+AEA-EXECPC.COM+AD4-
>To: AAM+AEA-MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
+ADw-AAM+AEA-MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU+AD4-
>Date: Friday, October 23, 1998 9:10 AM
>Subject: Fw: BLACK MENTAL HEALTH
>
>
>+AD4-The following text was circulated on a Cameroonian mailing list.
>+AD4-My purpose of distributing it to Africans in Madison is not to
defame Ghana
>+AD4-in anyway+ADs- it is to inform and raise the outrage that such
acts deserve from
>+AD4-us.
>+AD4-See what you think and can do to help put an end to this type of
violence
>+AD4-against and contempt for Africa and Africans.
>+AD4-I would encourage sharing this with any African you know.
>+AD4APQA9AD0APQA9AD0APQA9AD0APQA9-
>+AD4-KMF
>+AD4-
>+AD4------Original Message-----
>+AD4-From: Jacques Agboton +ADw-jsapublishing+AEA-WEBTV.NET+AD4-
>+AD4-To: CAMNET+AEA-LISTSERV.CNR.IT
+ADw-CAMNET+AEA-LISTSERV.CNR.IT+AD4-
>+AD4-Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 4:28 PM
>+AD4-Subject: BLACK MENTAL HEALTH
>+AD4-
>+AD4-
>+AD4-LOOK WHAT WE'VE BECOME+ACE- HAVE WE ANY DECENCY LEFT?
>+AD4-
>+AD4-
>+AD4-
>+AD4-Some American lady went to Ghana to conduct research culminating
in her
>+AD4-PhD theses, the title of which was: +ACI-Ghanaian attititudes
towards
>+AD4-whites.+ACI- In this biased study, the lady only interviewed
illiterates at
>+AD4-Teshie-Nungua (basically kenkey sellers and fishermen).
>


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