Matthew,
We don't 'suck' as a people. We are people just like other people. We, Africans, African-Americans, our people of the diaspora, are no more or less perfect than anyone else. The problems stem from self-centeredness, selfishness, and greed. The problems intensify when these characteristics take precedence in a country's leader and in the administration. The problems are further intensified when the leaders are entrusted with an African country and its people. African countries are laden with the world's resources. Also, Matthew, don't forget that racism automatically multiplies any and all faults in people of color, making them worse than those found in others. Don't align yourself with that self-destructive mindset. That's what they want. Don't give it to them.
God has mightily blessed Africa and her people. Remember the post I sent a few months ago about birthrates and replacement rates? Another of Africa's greatest resources is her people. The nations of the world without enough young people will begin looking to Africa for help because only the African nations have enough people to run their countries and have some to send elsewhere.
Now let's just make sure our people are going willingly for large salaries. We don't need a repeat...
On 06/10/10, Mathew Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I am simply making an accusation based on my knowledge of how Yahya Jammeh operates. Secondly, at AU's meeting in Tripoli late last year, Mills and Jammeh met to discuss the massacre. At that meeting Jammeh agreed to compensate the families of the dead, they shook hands and called it a day. If the Commonwealth Secretariat had not intervened, Mills was ready to give a pass. And you think Mills will do that because Jammeh charmed him? Corruption and projecting on an air of importance is our second mature, when in fact we are empty no-bodies. We just suck as a people. And it is not only we Africans; it is blacks in America, in the Caribbean, in South America; everywhere. If the U.S. had a tenth of the natural resources Africa has, they would be building underground cities on the moon by now. I cannot prove it, but I am pretty sure Mills got his palm greased by Jammeh. And I can bet my bottom dollar on this. It is not a crime to accuse, is it?
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> Quoting Thomas Adeetuk <[log in to unmask]>:
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> >Brother Matthew,
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> >An interesting contribution on the drugs seizure in the Gambia. My concern however is, where is the link between President Jammeh playing host to a Guinea Bissau drug baron and the payment of "bribe" to President Mills of Ghana?. The massacre of Ghanaians in Gambia happened in 2005 when President Mills was not in power. By implication, are you saying President Mills on assuming office put pressure on President Jammeh resulting in the payment of "lots of money" to silence him? You make a valid point alluding to the fact that African leaders have not done a good job of keeping drugs off our shores, but please do not throw mud at leaders for who you may not have facts to support. Unless if you do not mind sharing any facts to back up your accusations of President Mills. My two cents.
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> >On 06/08/10, Mathew Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >>This is the new Gambia, but The Gambia is, infact, only a minor player in this West African drug trade. The drug trade, as a matter of fact, extends from Nigeria to Mauritania. This is not the first drug seizure, for The Gambia as a matter of fact. A ship laden with bags of what was marked as "Fertilizer" for Gambia's Department of Agriculture, was apprehened by a US Coast Guard ship, in the high seas off the coast of Mauritania and Senegal. The ship was bound for the port of Banjul. The Gambia has been a center of transhipment of South American drugs bound for Europe and the US for many years now. Guinea Bissau that is developing into the Somalia of West Africa, is the major hub in the triangular drug trade; South America to West africa to Europe; or South America, West Africa and the US. Bissau has not had a stable government in many years now, and the drug baron there, who was also head of the Bissau navy was exiled in The Gambia for more than a year, as guest Gambia's Yahya Jammeh. By the way, for those who do not know it, Jammeh massacred 44 Ghanaians in The Gambia in 2005,accusing them of mercenary activities with Gambia's overseas dissidents. He probably paid Ghana's Mills lots of money to not proceed with the investigation. So there you have it. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Are we Africans cursed or what? Me think so.
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> >>>** $1bn of cocaine seized in Gambia **
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