Class Act Hamjatta. Don't let the low-life make you disrespect her parents.
And ignore these moralizers that always come two or three postings late.
When we are taking the brunt of abuse, you hear from no one. Hold your head
high.
KB


>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Jainaba Bah/Sister Jay/Tammy Wynette
>Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:46:43 EDT
>
>Jainaba Bah/Sister Jay,
>
>Am i surprised that it was you all along behind the pseudonym of Hasatou
>frigging Barry??!! Please. You underestimate me alot. Right from the very
>posting you sent attacking me, i had a hunch right then that it was you. In
>fact i told a friend during the weekend that it was only my fear of sinning
>against Allah that i had not dragged your name into my earlier response
>without evidence. One can understand the great lengths you will go to
>pathetically play Tammy Wynette; standing by your man at all costs. But did
>you have to resort to being the lowest of the low and acting in such an
>utterly abominable manner to make your point about Sarjo Jallow? I'm now
>beginning to believe what i was told last year about you, Sarjo and your
>son
>Wuri Jallow. Rest assured that i will not be dragged into your putrid
>little
>world of vitriolic purgation  and most certainly when all is said and done,
>i
>hope you can live and face tomorrow, with your head held high. Your agenda
>is
>very clear: you are in this to foolishly attempt to blackmail and or
>intimidate me into silence. Just like you failed with Jabou, when you
>assaulted her with your unpleasant tirades, you have already failed with me
>-
>miserably.
>
>If you had not been a woman without a shred of decency, you would have
>talked
>to either Kaba or Mukhtarr about me before assuming inter alia that i have
>nothing on you. Or even Iffra, Jagne and most of your Farafenni folks who
>frequent Jagne Kunda in Tobacco Road, Banjul. You would have known that i
>don't need second or third party information about your family to play tit
>for tat. Perhaps, your own brother, Mr Ousman Bojang - when he is not
>consumed by his anti- Jawara hysteria - will let you on that. For your
>information, i chanced upon your father in his shop teaching the Quran as
>well as trying to make an honest and decent living as smal-scale trader,
>when
>i visited Farafenni sometime in 1997. I remembered greeting him and being
>introduced to him. Very quiet, soft-spoken and had the demeanour of
>respect;
>a typical elder of the community and moral bedrock of an African family.
>Just
>as my own old man is. Do you honestly think i will drag their lot into
>this?
>It's not as if i don't have skeletons to drag out of the closet. What will
>be
>the point? What public office has that old man ever occupied in the Gambia?
>Dare we even speculate that he doesn't he even bother voting or checking
>with
>politics and politicians. More to the point, save Sarjo, which other member
>of your family has occupied high public office in the Gambia to warrant
>anyone to drag them into what is a public affair and has nothing to do with
>them?
>
>The only member of your family that is a fair game perhaps - apart from
>Sarjo
>- is your mother; whom Kaba informed me is up to her neck in APRC politics
>as
>Yai Compin for the North Bank region and most importantly, Farafenni. I
>subsequently heard she was rewarded by Jammeh for her efforts last year
>when
>she was included amongst the batch the gov't paid for to do their Hajj in
>Mecca. But has she done any wrong? I'm not aware of her former, if any,
>political stance that is at a dissonance with her politics of today; and
>will
>always be at a loss to justify criticising her for her politics. Like me
>and
>else, she's entitled to her politics. She's entitled to her support of the
>APRC regime as i am entitled to be critical of them. So that leaves you and
>me. Really, this is between the two of us.
>
>When you left the List last year amidst a furore caused by your ignorance
>of
>the word "hubby", i heard through the grapevine that you re-subscribed
>again
>under a pen name - presumably under the current one you are using. Someone
>once told me that you were overheard saying that when all is said and done
>you will always have your revenge on Hamjatta. Well, you've started the
>revenge at the most appropriate time. In fact the timing couldn't have been
>better. I have two weeks left on this List and why not settle literary
>scores
>that have not been all settled. It is clear that what continues to madden
>you
>is my criticality of Sarjo; and you figured you can disarm that criticality
>by dishing the dirt on my family. You figured wrong. You have no dirt to
>dish. Even if you do, you will fail miserably in silencing me. In fact, you
>'ve made it more worth my while to lampoon Sarjo. From now onwards, i will
>let Jammeh rest whilst Sarjo takes his blows for him. Watch this space.
>
>I also see you are good at boxing metaphors. All good and appropriate.
>Well,
>given the enormous pressure i'm under from both home and on this List to
>ignore your vitriolic attack, i will latch on to a boxing metaphor to
>explain
>this response. This is but a measured response to the first punches you've
>thrown thus far. As Colin Hart, the veteran boxing commentator would say,
>measured first punches are for gauging the extent to which an opponent is
>ready to wager on a fight. Since it's your ferocious and near-religious
>defense of Sarjo which has sparked the current engagement, i shall
>appropriately latch on to that vine and make my first measured response.
>Last
>year before you left the List, i remembered Mr Dave Manneh questioning how
>you could still stand by a man like Sarjo after what he continues to
>tolerate
>from Jammeh, especially given the April Massacres. Your reply then was a
>pathetic attempt to parody Hillary Clinton ala i'm not standing by my man,
>like Tammy Wynette. But you ain't no Hillary Clinton, and worst, even Tammy
>Wynette fares better than you. Hillary Clinton eventually saw right through
>the weakness of her man, and appropriately condemned his indefensible
>behaviour. Even Tammy Wynette, i gather is said to have declared that she
>would not stand by her man in defence of the intolerable or indefensible.
>Unlike you, these two don't have a shady past to warrant them to zealously
>defend the indefensible.
>
>At the end of the day, if all you could come up with is innuendos,
>guilt-by-association tirades and futile character assasinations, i can only
>draw two conclusions. One, the fact that you can drag an old man as old as
>your own father into your putrid tongue lashing is a pointer to your
>uncultured upbringing and a complete disgrace to the Bah/Jallow/Bojang
>family; and denigrating their good name and reputation in the community.
>More
>to the point, if you can pour diatribe vehemently on an old man who is a
>contemporary of your own father, all it says about you is that you have no
>respect for your parents and probably have acted so disrespectfully and
>despicably towards them in the past. Second, the fact that you can latch on
>to putrid sexual metaphors so comfortably and unabashedly is an indicator
>to
>what one individual wrote to me privately about your disreputable and heady
>past when you were younger.
>
>However, you were right about one thing: "golo du bai eg" ... damn right,
>Sister Jay. What you should say next time is this: "golo du bai eg mook".
>When it comes to Sarjo's betrayal of comrades like Dumo and his
>disreputable
>role in the scheme of APRC politics, i shall remain undeterred, unequivocal
>and resolute in my criticality - so long as he is an occupant of a
>tax-payer
>maintained instrument of influence.
>
>Hamjatta Kanteh
>
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