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Frankly am really pissed off that this label continues to be used by the media to describe sections of the public that may care passionately about their politics or points of view. This issue goes well beyond politics and the msm. As a black man I know it and have on occasions been challenged with it. When you speak passionately about a subject instead of people taking the analytical view they look for the lowest common denominator; there insecurity about the past and history. What I find disconcerting is the notion that Michelle Obama is not entitled to way in on her opinion with any passion otherwise she is labelled and angry black female. Hillary Clinton ranted in Ohio about her perceived conduct of the Obama campaign and nobody labelled her and angry white female. I can bet you if obama had railed against Hillary in the same fashion we would not be in this similar position.
Every time I speak passionately about a position relating to equality or on of those borderline racial issue people recoil as if , well here we go again he is preaching to us!!
Furthermore why the double standards!! John McCain has in the past weeks changed his positions on torture, global warming, off shore drilling, Iraq, bush tax cuts, campaign finance to name but a few. Where is the outrage in the msm. Barrack clearly indicated that he would go for public financing if his opponent agreed to limit the power and money of the 527s. When this wasn’t forth coming he opted for the best option; rely on his over 1.5million contributors. We need to make the msm aware that we are aware of the double standards. I guess the loss of Tim Russert has put paid to any chance of McCain answering questions about his double standards.
Btw did any one watch Dan Abrahams. John McCain said he dint love his country!! Where is the coverage of those remarks?
Had to rant. Fed up of all the labels!!!!!
Morning Folks
I have previously opined on the above subject but felt it necessary to highlight this issued once again. I work for Her Majesty’s Treasury here in the United Kingdom and as such I interact with people from all walks of life who are involved in diplomacy and foreign policy implementation. The biggest issue on the table at the moment is America’s absence from Africa and African policy formulation. The current administration has been exemplary on the HIV Aids front but has been totally absent on the political front. This has led to the emergence of china on the continent. They have taken over swaths of Africa (political influence) un checked by the only other true broker on the continent i.e. USA. The United Kingdom because of its colonial history has waning influence and is almost fearfully in challenging corrupt leadership and blatant theft of resources. The case of Zimbabwe is one such case in point. The USA can through its immense diplomatic might bring about an end to Robert Mugabe but this administration has burnt its bridges that they can simply be ignored. All these governments have to do is to sucker up to china and they are guaranteed a veto vote at the Security Council. So what needs to change
An Obama administration will carry overwhelming influence in Africa. At the moment china is buying large tracts of land in Kenya and Namibia for lead and nuclear waste disposal. Most Africans do not understand what their governments are up to and the effects of these policies will only be felt years from now. Obama will be able to demand accountability from these leaders like no other has previously. So people lets get busy electing obama or watch the Chinese spread there no questions asked foreign policy to the last bastion of solid US support in the world.
My opinions……….. would appreciate your input.
At the Tiananmen Square, Beijing
May 09, 2008
Five score years ago, a great Tibetan, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Tibetan slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that Tibet is still not free.
One hundred years later, the life of the Tibetan is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Tibetan lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Tibetan is still languishing in the corners of Chinese society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to this bloody capital to cash a check. When the architects of our Tibetan republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every Tibetan was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that China has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as the Tibetan people are concerned. Instead of honouring this sacred obligation, China has given the Tibetan people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the global bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this world.
So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom, independence and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind China of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand’s of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
It would be fatal for China to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Tibetan people. This sweltering summer of the Tibetan people’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Two thousand and eight is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Tibet needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if China returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquillity in China until the Tibetan is granted his independence rights.
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of China until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvellous new militancy which has engulfed the Tibetan community must not lead us to distrust of all Chinese people, for many of our Han brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Tibetan basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Tibetan in Lhasa cannot vote and a Tibetan in Ngari believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Nagqu, go back to Chamdo, go back to Nyinqchi, go back to Nagri, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Tibetan dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the Mountains of Tibet the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the Chinese state, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my people will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the Chinese state, whose leader's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little Tibetan boys and Tibetan girls will be able to join hands with Chinese boys and Chinese girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to Tibet. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom and independence together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Tibetan’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if Tibet is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of Lhasa. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of Gyachung Kang. Let freedom ring from Kula Kangri. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Himalayas. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of Jobo Garu! But not only that; let freedom ring from Guru Meru! Let freedom ring from Gangdisê Mountain! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Tibet. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, Tibetan men and Chinese men, women and children, Buddhists and Communists, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old American Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
morning obamitesi was trawling thru you tube this morning and i came across this video of montel williams taking fox news to task about their hypocrisy on the war in iraq. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3Spcq6Uzs
this is the same news organization that championed the war and every single coverage started with the war and the need to wage it. they have apparently now been told to keep the images of war to a minimum because it reflects badly on the current administration. montel show was recently cancelled because of rating and yet these fools still exist and are helping to cover up the cost of the war. this is what barack talks about. we need to hear the uncomfortable truths. do not be surprised that come November fox wont have any iraq stories just in case they affect the republican election machine.a disgrace and that why we need to keep exposing the karl roves of this world.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is my opinion on obama's africa policy. first and foremost his election will be a major development on the continent. it will act as a beacon of hope to those who will see the big picture. the son of an african who has made something of himself in his homeland. it will change the psyche of africans and give them a solid example by which they willl demand there leaders follow.
secondly the USA has to return to africa with the ideals that made it the beacon of hope to all the downtrodden. US policy on trade, goverment, foreign aid and education has to be geared towards demanding that african goverments change the way they do business. obama will have the upper hand here in that the lame excuse used by african despots that neo colonialism is the only policy pursued by the west will not hold anymore. he will be in the position to demand change and inspire millions in the continent to challenge corruption and gross injustices they suffer daily. he must strenthen democracy at all levels and refrain from backing so called strong leaders simply because they ensure short term stability.
thirdly, america must wrestle back the continent from the grasp of china. china is flush with money and is buying influence in africa at all costs. corrupt leaders are selling resources to china to the detriment of large sections of the public. china has a policy of not asking questions and thus enabling the abuse of human rights. they are arming goverments with cheap weapons that are ending up in militias that wrecking the continent. atleast with US aid there are questions asked and a review in the senate if funds are misappropriated. in china there is no goverment reposte! so the foreign policy is geared towards china's growth and not the development of the continent.
waz
