Who is the oppressor and who is not? You are allowing yourself to be drawn into the Western way of thinking, The fact of the matter is that this is an internal matter and very suspect at how it started. Who are these rebels? What is their agenda? How different is what they want from what Qaddafi is offering? Where does the West get the moral authority to support one group against another in a domesticated matter unless they are behind the insurgence in the first place?
--- On Thu, 3/24/11, Olabode Ibironke <ibironke@msu.edu> wrote:
From: Olabode Ibironke <ibironke@msu.edu>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Museveni Discusses Libya &Gaddafi: A Must Read
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 2:11 PM
"I wonder how the US would react if the KKK were to rise up against the 'White House because a black man is the president', as noted by Louis Farrakhan?" Steve Nwabuzor This is the typical clannish mentality that is destroying progressive politics in Africa. All you need to do is invoke neocolonialism [or otherness etc] and suddenly comrades Mugabe and Museveni become heroes and spiritual masters that intellectuals begin to recite. Is the above not the exact content of Gaddafi's letter to Obama when he said 'if Al-Qaida [read KKK] were to challenge your authority tell me what you would do and I would follow your example.' It is thus on the record that in the desperate struggle of people in North Africa to throw off the yoke of oppression, certain AfriKan intellectuals were solidly on the side of their oppressors!!!
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