RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Swedish Peace keeping troops for Mali

Correction:

The South African Jazz pianist, a musician with over seventy albums to his name,
is Abdullah Ibrahim. I love his music. He is my favorite musician.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora


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From: Cornelius Hamelberg [corneliushamelberg@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 5:21 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Cc: Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Swedish Peace keeping troops for Mali


There's a connection between the little provocations made by my most dear, most revered, most effulgent Mwalimu Mama Mzuri Gloria-in-excelsis-Emeagwali and my favourite South African jazz pianist, Brother Ibrahim Abdullah and that is that you both touch a raw nerve : Dag Hammarskjöld<http://www.google.co.uk/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=Dag+Hammarskjöld+and+the+Congo&oq=Dag+Hammarskjöld+and+the+Congo&gs_l=hp.12..0i22i30l4.2752.2752.0.4437.1.1.0.0.0.0.115.115.0j1.1.0...0.0...1c..15.psy-ab.a4ZXqdqZzTM&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.bGE&fp=35acbb9113f5c85e&biw=1024&bih=613> perishing because he and the Swedish peacekeeping military were standing up against international racism (immorality for profit) in Conrad's and King Leopold's Congo - and the recent riots that spread from Husby - that have been characterised as "Muslim riots<http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy-ab&q=muslim+riots+in+sweden+2013&oq=Muslim+riots+in+Sweden&gs_l=hp.1.2.0j0i22i30j0i8.2447.10301.0.14281.22.13.0.9.9.0.243.1348.9j2j2.13.0...0.0...1c.1.15.psy-ab.gg08tvdk8Z4&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.bGE&fp=35acbb9113f5c85e&biw=1024&bih=613>" by the enthusiastic sections of the islamophobic media , otherwise also wrongly characterised as the Swedish race riots <http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy-ab&q=race+riots+in+Sweden&oq=race+riots+in+Sweden&gs_l=hp.12..0i8.1094005.1099334.1.1101652.20.12.0.8.8.0.92.811.12.12.0...0.0...1c.1.15.psy-ab.LJGMfVtTOFQ&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.bGE&fp=35acbb9113f5c85e&biw=1024&bih=613>


It's so tedious having to have to engage some of the self-appointed media pundits (they're everywhere) and sometimes have running battles (verbal) with them, trying to explain that it's not only Muslims rioting. It's mostly frustrated and marginalised immigrant youths – nearly all of them Swedes/ Swedish citizens many of whom were born and bred in Sweden etc. most of them white or Semites. Some academics have now proposed a commission to look into the causes of the violent

" resistance" and I hope that the commission will include some experts "of foreign extraction" and that they will come out with meaningful recommendations that will be implemented in this our refugee-land in which many immigrants – like the Jews of old – do not want to assimilate or succumb to the Francophone type policy <http://www.google.co.uk/#gs_rn=15&gs_ri=psy-ab&suggest=p&cp=36&gs_id=88&xhr=t&q=French+assimilation+policy+in+Africa&es_nrs=true&pf=p&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=French+assimilation+policy+in+Africa&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.bGE&fp=35acbb9113f5c85e&biw=1024&bih=613> in Africa, that demanded that they become assimilated, "assimilé" - a slightly more difficult thing for many immigrants to achieve in Sweden, when for most parts of their lives they are sequestered in immigrant ghettoes such as Husby – where Sheikh al-Hajji Bangura's other most favourite Negro from Sierra Leone (not me) used to live...


The first real racist that I ever met in Sweden was a guy who had served in the Swedish military in the Congo. He even explained it to me and I could understand that he became a racist out there in the jungle – and perhaps you would have become one too ( or a tribalist ?) if the enemy tribe or Oyibo had been shooting at you and trying to genocide you (like Moïse Tshombe) 24 hrs a day - or a couple of months or years whilst serving out there. You'd bear the scars of war – the scars of having to do unpleasant things such as killing, mostly in order to stay alive – killing - instead of turning the other cheek or " loving your enemies" as the Xtian scriptures tell us – as in I wanna love you<http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy-ab&q=Bob+Marley+:+Is+this+love&oq=Bob+Marley+:+Is+this+love&gs_l=hp.12..0l4.4496.4496.0.5766.1.1.0.0.0.0.91.91.1.1.0...0.0...1c..15.psy-ab.wLfOhA7lI2A&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.bGE&fp=35acbb9113f5c85e&biw=1024&bih=613> – and treat you right (everyday and every night)

That Swedish troops have ever been accused of "looting" is news to me – in fact much of the once great Swedish auto industry depended on raw materials like cobalt which is still plentiful in the Congo and South Africa – and yet Swedish trade unions of the type which the current leader of the Social Democrats Stefan Löfven used to head ( it's called METAL) - they were prepared to suffer the effects of sanctions on South Africa which could have crippled or immobilised the auto industry - with no alternative sources of supply, but they went ahead – and in fact I occasionally met a couple of COSATU representatives (at home for dinner) who were sent to Sweden to train....


We should be happy and congratulate Sweden for wanting to help our people in Mali - whilst the Africa Union is still dragging it's feet complaining about lack of finances and equipment (as usual) after so many years of independence and co-operation with the looting of the continent they are still engaged in their favourite Buddhist contemplative pastime called "do-nothing" perhaps on the way to Nirvana, a supreme state of super-natural indifference and inertia.
'Sweden should be proud of its troops' - The Local<http://www.google.se/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelocal.se%2F48216%2F20130529%2F&ei=V0qsUYbfCIX24QSL5ICoDg&usg=AFQjCNHunSpiHu460ZffqtICKaedWWE7ng&sig2=uby5PRI2nu0vNwNnfQ5UHw&bvm=bv.47244034,d.bGE>

Sin-cerely,

http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/








On Monday, 3 June 2013 02:48:41 UTC+2, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
...and they had a whole week of race (?) riots last week.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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From: usaafric...@googlegroups.com<https://webmail.ccsu.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> [usaafric...@googlegroups.com<https://webmail.ccsu.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>] On Behalf Of Ibrahim Abdullah [ibdu...@gmail.com<https://webmail.ccsu.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>]
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Swedish Peace keeping troops for Mali

Hope the Sweedes will behave this time around--they looted the Congo in the 60s.

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On 5/30/13, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com<https://webmail.ccsu.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>> wrote:
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> *Swedish Peace keeping troops for
> Mali*<http://www.thelocal.se/48232/20130530/>
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> Of relevance: *African Union proposes an emergency military
> force*<http://www.google.co.uk/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=African+Union+proposes+an+emergency+military+force&oq=African+Union+proposes+an+emergency+military+force&gs_l=hp.12...3502.3502.0.5405.1.1.0.0.0.0.96.96.1.1.0...0.0...1c..15.psy-ab.2lSKPuehb7c&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.bGE&fp=d1dc93a0ad812a1b&biw=1024&bih=593>(some
> kind of rapid reaction force. Let's hope that words will be
> translated into actions...
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