Black People Politics : Neo-Imperialism in Africa

[Omowale Jabali]

Fri Apr 08, 2011 at 09:42 AM PDT.

Christianism behind Ivory Coast war?
In an internationally-supervised election last fall, incumbent Laurent Gbagbo lost re-election as President of Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) to Alassane Ouattara. The electoral commission certified the vote as fair. But Gbagbo's hand-picked court decided that he was the winner anyway. Nobody has taken this seriously except Gbagbo and his diehard supporters, and war has resumed. It is almost over, though, with Gbagbo holed up in his bunker as Abidjan and the rest of the country are now largely under the control of forces loyal to Ouattara.

An interesting OpEd in the NYTimes by a former Gbagbo supporter, Venance Konan, wonders how a one-time democracy leader became so corrupted once he became President, and was so willing to see people die so that he could keep power. It turns out that our old friends the Christianists have something to do with this.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/08/964814/-Christianism-behind-Ivory-Coast-war

 

[Omowale Jabali]

Now-Deposed Ivory Coast Dictator Still Getting a Boost from C-Street ConservativesNow that the fighting is over, there remain a lot of questions about actions by soldiers on both sides of the Ivory Coast civil conflict, which caused massive bloodshed and involved reported atrocities. In a phone conversation with the new president, Alassane Outtara, President Obama emphasized the importance of investigating these crimes on both sides.


But one thing there's little question about is that now-deposed former leader Laurent Gbagbo -- currently awaiting national and international charges in the Ivory Coast after being arrested -- illegally remained in power even after losing an election, leading to the fighting.


So why are Republicans in DC rushing to Gbagbo's defense, even though he's gone and there's international consensus that he's gone for a just reason? As AlterNet recently noted and Salon's Justin Elliot explained in an extensive run-down, it's because of Gbagbo's ties to The Fellowship, the secretive right-wing Christian organization that has its tentacles in the DC establishment via its C Street house.



But now that Ggabo is gone, the conservative support isn't going away.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandview..._getting_a_boost_from_c-street_conservatives/

 

[chuck]

I have a white friend who lives in South Africa. He will tell you himself, Africa is being militarized.

Revolutions in Africa are being undermined by not only the power-brokering war mongering U.N. and whites. But revolutions in Africa are failing as well because so many Africans have BOUGHT INTO the Western fakery and perversion of progress.

 

[chuck]

Can we just agree that 'our' and 'their' takes aren't the same, i. e., black people in general are no or little more informed, at best a few air opinions etc. via letters to the editor/calllers on same radio talk show, worse is how they also aren't all that different from those white dittoheads and/or accept as the gospel truth whatever those media talking heads would have us to believe, which in terms of the other people around the globe is turning out not to be true...

However regrettable the bloodshed ad naseum, it did and does seem and sound that whoever is in political office etc. matters, everywhere else but here!

So when did it become acceptable to just make a lot of noise and not a lot of sense in this nation?

Otherwise anybody with active brain cells wouldn't take the Pallins etc. seriously from the getgo...

Simply put?

The level of apathy etc. wasn't and isn't my or your fault nor our exclusively as well as sole responsibility to do anything about!

If anything?

Suchlike is a case study of folk continuing to clamor for mere individual acceptance/not advocate black collective empowerment etc.

Back in the day, a lot of folk didn't heed any of our reality checks, and one wonders these days if they'll even heed others wake up calls, either!

But time etc. will tell...

No...

I'm hardly given up...

But...

Some have to move above and beyond the mere symbolism of an African American president and realize those so called rights you don't protect may well lost to future generations forever...

Chris Brown's and Mike Vic's etc. issues/problems/etc. others are paid (and paid well) to help them cope and deal with...

I. e., folks got their priorities backwards, aren't doing or saying anything to advance their best interests...

It is about taking care of home first...

The rest will come afterwards...

 

[Omowale Jabali]