Brother Omowalejabali, thank you for that answer. If you remember, I posed the question to you first. The response you just shared, explains your concerns and answered my question precise, short and sweet. It could have been as simple as that. I know the forums are for debaters, mostly. But one should never not take the time to give a simple answer to a lay person. I think had I received that answer then, I probably would have asked you more pointed questions and you coud have shared so much more. I felt your impatience/annoyance when you left your initial response/question. You have to take the time, to school or change a mind. I appreciate you brother. One never knows how one mind given the proper response can make the difference in an outcome. The varied threads in these forums have been so beneficial to me. I learn more each time I enter one.
Please understand that If this was a personal private text message, rather then a discussion board with 12 thousand viewers I could say yes or no, short and sweet, but there is nothing sweet about the taking of human life! As an African it would be IMHO, and after 400 years of hell, to simply give an opinion about another African sending death and destruction to the Motherland, rather then present an in depth analysis. We are talking about Black lives being destroyed, not just the reputation of one man! Politics has nothing to do with inheritance and I take it as an insult to the president to assume that a Harvard scholar and a man with more then likely a 200 IQ would have been sitting around in a closet somewhere unaware of the horrors that Bush caused to the economy, and then raise more money then 2 white candidates to become president of the United States. The simple fact that he appointed the 2 idiots that wrecked the economy in 1999 by destroying Glass Steagal and implemeting GAAT and NAFTA, Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner, to the top postions of the US economy on his own, and without coercion from democrats, republicans conservatives liberals or the man in the moon , should say something about what to expect for the following 4 years, and he did not let us "wait and see" he did this within his first 2 weeks in office! Now as far as Africa and this colonization efforts of AFRICOM, let's be clear we know that black folks can get just as upset as white folks! we had our "Occupy" sit ins and camp ins all through the entire decade of the 60s, however the global oligarchy is well aware that if a white president invaded Africa we would have a Million woman, Million man, Million Child, occupation of Washington ; quick fast and in a hurry!
Please Brother Ankur, I mean no disrespect of anyone here or their views and concerns. I hope that my wanting that simple answer caused no despair. I value life as well or more than the next person. I too was part of the '60's movement. I understand your heartfelt sincerity over this issue. Peace!
As a friend, I say my statements were not directed to you personally, but to the discussion board in general.
Chuck: Also is not a part of the problem so many of us can't or won't rise above the level of shared ethnic/racial/etc. background overlayed by personal appeal and shallow rhetoric ad naseum to pick 'our' leaders and/or who we support or not? I. e., in reaction to past calls for true activism, truly taking stands against this or that nation's (sometimes genocidal) policies and practices, now we're into what I call the 'politics of blackness', e. g., whereas such folk make excuses for the shortcomings of reactionary black leaders ad naseum, with the only thing mattering if if they are in power and/or presumed to be obligated to 'deliver the goods' to some black community they're the elected black officials of and/or contracts for services to some of their cronies etc. So I can't and won't just accept somebody as Obama as somebody's puppet: The question to be answered is who else among us are motivated defend his reactionary agenda too, his kind of 'leadership' etc.? They may well be undermining what we're trying to accomplish as well... FYI...