This is from an e-mail response to a friend called Hilary, who was very enthusiastic about Barack Obama's victory and described it as a strategic victory for blacks [or the black race]
Obama's victory is not strategic...how strategic?...infact the guys who were strategic are the Jews he addressed...they jumping on to the wave and getting with the guy in case, he wins. while blacks everywhere were clapping and dancing....that is strategy.
Check this stats: he was the one black in the Senate that is 1% and in the House of Representatives, blacks constitute 9.2%...judging from the population of African-Americans in USA and by the fact that they have lived there for more than 200 years....it does not add up. Let's talk economy, do you think that by 2011, the spending power of blacks in US will reach $1trillion yet how many are CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies...there were 6, but now 4...one retired, another was dumped because he is blamed for the sub-prime crisis...In other words, politically and economically, the blacks have little say...compare this with, e.g. the Jews (who are another minority but with muscle in these sectors).
Having a black President doesn't empower us, it is just a token that is being waved around to show how less racist America has become...but is it?Are the blacks in America, in Africa and all over the world...a bit more empowered that Barack could be President?
For God's sake, two Africans have so far been at the helm of the UN...one of them in fact head of peacekeeping...and Rwanda burned while he couldn't do anything...compare that with Kosovo, for instance...Africans or Blacks in general have been in positions of world influence before but what benefit has Africa reaped from that...let me give you a point closer to home...for how long has an African been at the head of FAO...and contrast that with the fortunes of Africa in agricultural production...if I remember right....Africa is now at the bottom rung in this area despite its potential...
If there is any symbolic value that Barack Obama's winning of the Democratic Party's nomination brings....may be it is to the people of Obama, a town in Japan, that has jumped on the euphoria and attention to market themselves...I can bet that by the end of this year..there will be more tourists coming to Obama than to Western Kenya...
Wake up and smell the coffee...it just shows us that we need to work three times as hard...By the way, for your own information, Obama's first allegiance is to America...he said as much in his speech, if you were paying attention....If he becomes President, he may not even visit Africa...unless it is in America's interest to do so....You know as part of th elite we have to look below the surface...and show our people the things that they see because we are in position to see them....in fact, a street vendor who is at Taxi Park selling Obama pictures is strategic because he has capitalised on this hype to make some money...for the bread and butter for his family!
Note: that Obama still has a long, long way to go...this is just the small step in that long journey...remember Al Gore who won the popular vote but not the election because the formula is in winning more states..which I feel the Republicans are going to use.When that happens...it will be another has-been, almost...and that is the tag I don't want for me or my people...and what will we say...at least he tried???
Not me, I want us to eye the ultimate prize...political and economic empowerment and social emancipation of Africans all over the world...and it is not through occupying the Oval Office, it is through doing the things we do everyday in a better way...with our eyes on the end...the means are what we need to muster and focus..
I have written this as one take...forgive any errors...it is my view of all this thing goingby the way, I 'm going to put this [edited to fit] on my blog....you pass by talesfromabyssinia.blogspot.com sometime.
Obama's victory is not strategic...how strategic?...infact the guys who were strategic are the Jews he addressed...they jumping on to the wave and getting with the guy in case, he wins. while blacks everywhere were clapping and dancing....that is strategy.
Check this stats: he was the one black in the Senate that is 1% and in the House of Representatives, blacks constitute 9.2%...judging from the population of African-Americans in USA and by the fact that they have lived there for more than 200 years....it does not add up. Let's talk economy, do you think that by 2011, the spending power of blacks in US will reach $1trillion yet how many are CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies...there were 6, but now 4...one retired, another was dumped because he is blamed for the sub-prime crisis...In other words, politically and economically, the blacks have little say...compare this with, e.g. the Jews (who are another minority but with muscle in these sectors).
Having a black President doesn't empower us, it is just a token that is being waved around to show how less racist America has become...but is it?Are the blacks in America, in Africa and all over the world...a bit more empowered that Barack could be President?
For God's sake, two Africans have so far been at the helm of the UN...one of them in fact head of peacekeeping...and Rwanda burned while he couldn't do anything...compare that with Kosovo, for instance...Africans or Blacks in general have been in positions of world influence before but what benefit has Africa reaped from that...let me give you a point closer to home...for how long has an African been at the head of FAO...and contrast that with the fortunes of Africa in agricultural production...if I remember right....Africa is now at the bottom rung in this area despite its potential...
If there is any symbolic value that Barack Obama's winning of the Democratic Party's nomination brings....may be it is to the people of Obama, a town in Japan, that has jumped on the euphoria and attention to market themselves...I can bet that by the end of this year..there will be more tourists coming to Obama than to Western Kenya...
Wake up and smell the coffee...it just shows us that we need to work three times as hard...By the way, for your own information, Obama's first allegiance is to America...he said as much in his speech, if you were paying attention....If he becomes President, he may not even visit Africa...unless it is in America's interest to do so....You know as part of th elite we have to look below the surface...and show our people the things that they see because we are in position to see them....in fact, a street vendor who is at Taxi Park selling Obama pictures is strategic because he has capitalised on this hype to make some money...for the bread and butter for his family!
Note: that Obama still has a long, long way to go...this is just the small step in that long journey...remember Al Gore who won the popular vote but not the election because the formula is in winning more states..which I feel the Republicans are going to use.When that happens...it will be another has-been, almost...and that is the tag I don't want for me or my people...and what will we say...at least he tried???
Not me, I want us to eye the ultimate prize...political and economic empowerment and social emancipation of Africans all over the world...and it is not through occupying the Oval Office, it is through doing the things we do everyday in a better way...with our eyes on the end...the means are what we need to muster and focus..
I have written this as one take...forgive any errors...it is my view of all this thing goingby the way, I 'm going to put this [edited to fit] on my blog....you pass by talesfromabyssinia.blogspot.com sometime.
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