Suntou, Mr. Jaiteh is on the money. It was a populace that was kept ignorant
and lack of access to information that Sir Dawda was able to manipulate. The
Gambian people did not know anything better and were only expose to
international news once a week - aka Jamamo by Sarjo Barrow. I remember
growing up when many people would not miss this once a week world report. As
a result, they believed anything Jawara told them even to Abandon their
farms and depend on "Tusse Mano".
America of course is different, the American people do not like people to
tell them what to do. While hate and racism is still a reality in American
society, anything in the open is often met with resistance. You will see the
backlast that this hate will generate in the United States during this
elections. Even if Obama is not able to make his case, the people will not
buy into such gabbage.
The world is changing and I believe Obama is up for destiny. Sit and
watch...
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Suntou,
> I am sure you have heard during the early days of PDOIS or there after,
> that its leaders were a bunch of godless communists. That, they do not
> believe in God's existence and that any god-fearing Gambian should not vote
> for them. That view is still not far fetched to imagine in many parts of the
> country. Of course missing from the argument is their life's work of
> selfless service to the country even at the expense of their own wellbeing.
> And I can venture to say that most Gambians who know them would tell you
> that few Gambians, past and present would match brothers Halifa, Sam and
> Sidia in their moral character and love of that country. But still the same
> will hesitate voting for them for fear that God will not be pleased.
>
> While the new world isn't that different from old we left behind, when it
> comes to politiking, be assured that Americans unlike Gambians do not shy
> away from using the same "freedom of speech" clause to say their mind on
> what others write (the New Yorker magazine included). The paper's has been
> take to task and believe me the message has been received loud and clear. An
> guess what, no one feared being abducted by agents of the state/the king.
>
> Malanding
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> SUNTOU TOURAY wrote:
>
>> watching the news cast today, Mr obama and his wife have been depicted as
>> terrorist and islamist sympathisers and the wife a black panther. at what
>> length will conservative America accept that obama is a christian and an
>> American regardless of his faith? why should obama be depicted this way? i
>> know you folks (Gambian American) are quiet but this is not funny, you are
>> breading in the U.S and when leaders can be demonise in the name of press
>> freedom, always be on your guard. this debate is going some where.
>>
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