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From: "Momodou Drammeh" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 7:20 PM
Subject: AN APPEAL TO ALL GAMBIA L SUBSCRIBERS


> 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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