kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
517 803-8839
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Sent: 31 January 2021 14:02
To: Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: BlackLives Matter Awarded Olof Palme Human Rights Prize
PS
I should like to remind us that whilst Pan-Africa and Africa-America is happily celebrating the recognition, reward and endorsement of the work being done by The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, we should also be painfully aware that there are forces that are still violently opposed to the existence of Black Lives Matter, some of them still "Loving one brother and killing the other "among We the People Who are Darker than Blue, simply out of frustration and racial (racist) hatred, and others who are less violently, but still strongly opposed to BLM on the flimsy, not so well thought out objection (excuse) that Black Lives Matter is too exclusively Black, not sufficiently inclusive of all humanity (I-manity) and that the movement should be expanded to embrace, under one umbrella, the idea that "All Lives Matter"
Then there are those who say they are opposed to the people in BLM on principle and are also opposed to some of values of the Olof Palme Foundation that Awarded The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation the prize, on these grounds, and that among other things they stand accused of anti-Semitism, and sympathies with both Marxism and totalitarianism.
The battle against all forms of racism will continue - it is a just War, and the battle cry is A luta continua; vitória é certa !
Delightful news indeed that the prize was awarded to The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation with an emphasis on the motivation for awarding the prize "peaceful civil disobedience against police brutality and racial violence".
This has to be emphasised as a corrective to some of the enemies and critics of Black Lives Matter who have mostly linked the movement to looting and burning
More on this in speeches made at the award ceremony
Another subtext : Gregory Pardlo: A Letter to Juneteenth
On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 17:07, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:
Wonderful!
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
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