As the blood of our kin
Killed in that revolution
Flowed on the pathways
To farms and streams,
The bloodshot eyes
Of outlaws baptized revolutionaries
Who took the chastity of our daughters,
The virtues of our wives,
Of our mothers,
Who took the manhood of our fathers
And our manhood,
Watched over looted harvests,
Their guns still smouldering,
The gunshots still reverberating
In the ears of our minds.
When they holler their slogan,
Smells of rum and marijuana
Assail our nostrils.
When with slur
They say "revolution",
Doves
From the sanctuary
Of sacred shrubs coo,
"Revo wetin?"
"Revo wetin?"
"Revo wetin?"
From: theai@earthlink.net
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Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Why The Revolution Of The RacistArab Libyans Failed
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:23:42 -0500
Sister Gloria, I am referring to those Libyans who call themselves Arabs and have been killing Black Afrikans for quite some time now and painted Black Afrikans as mercenaries in their shrewd attempt at ethnic cleansing. You can find them everywhere in the country, albeit not all of them joined the revolution.
> [Original Message]
> From: Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu>
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> Cc: leonenet <leonenet@lists.umbc.edu>
> Date: 3/11/2011 1:38:06 PM
> Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Why The Revolution Of The RacistArab Libyans Failed
>
> Who exactly are the 'racist Arab Libyans' you speak of? Are you speaking about people in the East?
> Are you referring to the West? Are you speaking about some in the East and others in the West?
> Please clarify.
>
> Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
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> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Why The Revolution Of The Racist Arab Libyans Failed
>
> Why the Revolution of the Racist Arab Libyans Failed
>
> I believe that the following seven factors led to the failure of the revolution by the racist Arab Libyans:
>
> (1) Failure to garner support from the women, who are the most advanced in the Arab world and possibly on the Afrikan continent as well
>
> (2) Failure to garner support from Afrikan/Black Libyans
>
> (3) The racist killing of and discrimination against other Black Africans, which silenced African leaders who would have liked to see Ghaddafi go and also evoked horror in the international community
>
> (4) Although an Arab medium, Al Jazeera was quite honest in exposing the sham by the racist Arab Libyans that the poor Black Afrikans in Libya were mercenaries and also in revealing the killings of those poor Black Afrikans by the racists
>
> (5) Ghaddafi's initial tactic of joining the first peaceful protest march against him in Tripoli
>
> (6) Ghaddafi's superior fire power
>
> (7) Ghaddafi's master tactic by allowing the racist rebels to first make their military move and gains, which revealed their strengths and weaknesses, thereby allowing him to make a very strong counter-offensive
>
>
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