Dear members,
I am hereby writing to you to appeal to all of you if
we can stop personal attacks and tribal remarks.
I was really scared when I read about some comments
which were tribal in nature.
We all join The Gambia L as an intellectual forum
where economic, political, religious and other
important issues are discussed.The Gambia L is not is
gossip centre, it is and should be an educational
forum, let us not get carried away by sentiments and
be very careful as to what we do or say.
Whatever we say on the net or any other forum will be
in the records and sooner or later we will be judge by
what we say or do.
we have two options either to let history take a
disastrous path or shape the course of history towards
the right path.
In AD1700 it was normal for white people to be racist
even though they will not not do it publicly, today
there children are so ashamed and their ancestors part
in slavery.
The purpose of history is to learn the lessons of
the past and we let history repeat itself in vice then
we might be very sorry for ourself. We will then let
both ourself and our future children down.
The Gambia is country of tolerance and is not divided
by tribal demarcations and tribal values or allegiance
have no place in The Gambia.
None of belong to any tribe. We only speak these
languages as a means of communication and nothing els
e.
Now let us look at Sierra Leone, there are people
with the same surnames as Gambians and none of them
belong to to tribes found in The Gambia. So in
consequence there is no place for tribal remarks, it
never had, and has no place and will never have a
place in The Gambia.
We do not all have to support the same ideology, but
it should not be on the basis of tribes which do not
exist in the first place
Let me give examples, The Late Alh Momodou Musa Njie
is considered to be a Fula, The Late Pierre Njie is
considered a wollof and Alh Musa Njie A sarahule. All
these shared the same surname this means they may have
some connection. The reason all these people speak
different languages may be because of different
geographical settlements.
Now where do we go from here. Are tribal statements
necessary for a country of just one million people. I
hope not.
People like E F Small could have been anything they
wanted under the colonialist but he gave up all that
for a common voice of all Gambians, such a man will
not be resting in peace if He is aware that Gambians
even though this is very few are making tribal
comments.
It does not matter what we call our selves we are
all related in The Gambia.
What I would to see The government outlawing names
like Boy Pullo, Musa Sarahulay, etc.
There is a need in the curriculum of all Gambian
Schools to learn all local languages up to high school
level. Teachers should be encourage to let pupils know
that they are Gambians and belong to to no tribe.
Gambians, I once again appeal to all of you let us
trade in knowledge and stop trading in insults.
I am very optimistic that we can all learn from each
other and argue in an intellectual way without
resorting to inflammatory languages.
I know very well that the best way to earn the
respect and love of others is to demonstrate
intellectual maturity and complete honesty and not the
anger and fist that we show.
Most of the time we shoe our anger and frustration
the desired ambition always boomerangs
While I am optimistic that this request will be
highly regarded by all of you, I am very much sure
that this is honourable path to follow
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