RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Tripolitanians Will Dribve YouRacist Benghazi Arab Libyans Out Of Their Territory

Indeed, my wonderful Sister Gloria, in his prophetic work, Towards a Pax Africana: A Study of Ideology and Ambition, the great Afrikan Mwalimu Ali Al'amin Mazrui makes it abundantly clear that "The Arabs as a race defy straight pigmentational classification. They vary in colour from the white Arabs of Syria and the Lebanon, the brown Arabs of the Hadhramout to the black Arabs of the Sudan and some of the eastern parts of the Arabian peninsula. Within Africa itself the range of colour cannot as smoothly be allocated to a specific area. Even within Egypt on its own the range of colour is virtually as wide as it is in the Arab world as a whole" (1967:113). Even before this excerpt, Mwalimu Mazrui had made the point that "Yet, by contrast, many of the Arabs of Zanzibar actually ceased to be Arab-speakers---and became instead native speakers of the basically Bantu language of Swahili. The Arabs of Zanzibar had therefore allowed themselves to become less 'Arab' than the Egyptians had done---and yet they were still regarded as less 'native' to their part of Africa than the Egyptians were conceded to be in theirs" (1967:112).

 

Thus, we must make a distinction between those Libyans who moved to Benghazi for employment and other economic reasons and those who are natives of the area who have always held the belief that they should rule all other "tribes" because they consider themselves to be "whiter" Arabs. And, indeed, they are the ones beheading and lynching the Afrikan/Black Libyans and Afrikan/Black migrants living in Benghazi and other parts of Libya they have infiltrated with the help of the indiscriminate bombing by the three racist and biggest bullies the contemporary world has ever known: US, UK, and France.


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> From: Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu>
> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
> Date: 9/25/2011 6:16:09 AM
> Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Tripolitanians Will Dribve YouRacist Benghazi Arab Libyans Out Of Their Territory
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>            I really can't understand why people choose to label all the people in Benghazi racist.
> Are all the people in Tripoli  non-racist? Some are and some are not.
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> The folks in Benghazi are a mix of  many things:  pro-Sanusi royalists,
> mainstream secessionists and regionalists - people who felt that they should enjoy more
> petro- dinars ;  al-Qaida supporters; moderate Muslims; republicans; europhiles;
> pro-democracy activists ; anti-Gaddaffi  activists etc. ...and to complicate
> matters some of the of the people of Benghazi are Black and
> a percentage of them identify with Arab culture ........
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> Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
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> emeagwali@ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
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> Blasts send huge plume of smoke over Libya capital
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> Photo: AP
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> September 24, 2011 — BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — A huge plume of smoke is filling the sky over Tripoli's harbor area and explosions can be heard.
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> It's not immediately clear what caused the blasts, which hit Saturday afternoon. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — The head of Libya's National Transitional Council says an interim government will be announced in the coming week.
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> Mustafa Abdul-Jalil says Libyans must united to form a new government. The NTC failed to seat a new Cabinet last week amid disagreements over which cities should be represented and other issues. Abdul-Jalil spoke to reporters after returning from New York where he and the NTC's premier Mahmoud Jibril represented Libya at the first post-Moammar Gadhafi U.N. General Assembly.
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