"sitting there in her navy-blue suit, telling blackand white lies, warming up the hot heat at theoval office with her curvaceous very femininebuttocks…."
Stop right there! If this isn't toxic misogyny,I don't know what is.
You are better than that, CH.
Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
Professor of History/African Studies, CCSU
Chief Editor- "Africa Update"
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People's Planet.
23rd October , 2024
Le Monde ( English)
Once upon a time: Barack Obama Sr.
Where Black is the colour and none is the number:
Nostalgia : I remember how some Diaspora Africans were upbeat about the young Barack thundering "Change has come to America! " and our beloved and well-appreciated sometime mentor Harvey Tristan Cropper , Honourable ex-ambulance driver during the Korean War, kindly cautioning some of us enthusiasts, "Remember, he has been elected President of the United States of America, not President of Africa!"
Indeed Sir, not President of Africa, or indeed President of the United States of Africa!
That would have been something, a President of the people, by the people, for the people.
The African people. All the tribes, united under One GOD : ALLAH !
Sadly, Kamala D. Harris is not that - she's not even a pale shadow of Barack H. Obama.
To begin with, she lacks his intellect. Unlike Barack Obama, according to Trump, she's not even really black , which should instantly disqualify her from ever being elected rat-catcher in Kothoh Ahmadu's hometown Gbinti, let alone President of the United States of Africa.
Secondly, she's not even an orator. She's scared of the microphone, and that's one of the reasons why at all costs, she avoids granting any unscripted interviews or delivering a single soundbite or a speech that's longer than a five minute blip, without being assisted by a teleprompter.
"We Were Eight Years in Power."
With Biden's Kamala, the smiling wannabe, come rain or drought, forever shmiling like a Cheshire cat , eight years in power would be far too long because she would have crashed America by then ; just one week should be more than enough for her and for the rest of humanity, answering phone calls from world leaders, smilingly sitting there in her navy-blue suit, telling black and white lies, warming up the hot heat at the oval office with her curvaceous very feminine buttocks, like rain, bombs dropping all over Gaza, just as once upon a time, folks in Sderot had to do, as fast as their legs could carry them, helter-skelter, running for shelter hither and thither in Beirut and Tyre and the rest of Lebanon, bombs falling all over the place in Ukraine, criminal land grabs and human rights transgressions doing overtime on the blighted Palestinian survivors on the West Bank and Kamala is still smiling from ear to ear , about what? Because she thinks that fortune has smiled on her to be running for the highest office in the world theatre, that of President of the United States of America?
As The Last Poets put it, in Niggaz Are Scared of Revolution,
" Niggers fuck. Niggers fuck fuck fuck. Niggers love the word fuck. They think they're fucking cute. They fuck you around. The first thing they say when they're mad is "fuck it." You play a little too much with them they say "fuck you." Try to be nice to them they fuck you over. When it's time to TCB niggers are somewhere fucking. Niggers don't realize while they're doing all this fucking they're getting fucked around. But when they do realize it's too late, so all niggers do is just get fucked . . . up! Niggers talk about fucking ... Fucking that ... Fuckying this ... Fucking yours ... Fucking my sis. Not knowing what they fucking for. Ain't fucking for love and appreciation. Just fucking to be fucking."
In Kamala's case of course it's all about smiling and not about the other thing, the F thing or the N word, just to be smiling and smiling, no matter what, keep on smiling. smile and continue smiling even when it's not that funny , because that's what the psych-coach probably told her should convince her all-American audience and the rest of our long shuffering and shmiling brothers and sisters of all colours, that even though she may " smile, and smile, and be a villain" with such a positive, self-confident, winning smile that she goes around smiling, they should all be convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that she must definitely be the one, the future smiling president , the USA's first Black Messiah not The Black Maria, the Police vehicle used to transport prisoners…
More seriously, it should be true that "Jesus wept" ( the shortest sentence in the New Testament ) that he never smiled, in fact the apologists and manically Messianic interpreters are fond of quoting Isaiah 53 not she - a woman, but " a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." Of the two , Kamala and Trump, Trump who has survived planned and thwarted assassinations, is much closer to corresponding to the image of "The Suffering Servant" than the not so despised but certainly much criticised former state prosecutor Kamala Harris
The question for the undecided voters, between the devil and the deep blue sea, who to vote for?
For her fans and maybe for her folks in Tamil-Nadu it should clearly have been an easy choice for the US Electorate when it comes to choosing between the devi and the devil, between Devi Harris - albeit the sometimes devious, and the not exactly another son of God, considering the idea that according to the Pentecostals, the Almighty only has only one son, "His only begotten Son", very different from the great white hoopoe, the Great White Hope, our affable, avuncular, always congenial, incontestably patriotic , straight-shooting son of the soil, Donald Trump who wants to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN , while Kamala, what does she want to do, apart from what's possibly in line with this sweet song, New Year Resolution ?
Well, when her sister Hillary was running for president, she ( Hillary) crowed , " My only weakness is that I'm a woman "
I suspect that Kamala's problem with Evangelicals has nothing to do with Bill Clinton, but could certainly be traced back to St. Paul, the Evangelicals' first theologian who having famously expunged " the curse of the law" from Rabbinical Judaism then surged ahead to preach Ephesians 5:22-33 which begins,
" Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything." No wonder Peter was crucified upside down (in Rome
Sadly, but not as tragic, the Robert Mugabe Lectures at the UN General Assembly are also being sorely missed.
With the demise of Comrade Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, or just plain old Robert Mugabe if you like (post-Cecil Rhodes, post- Roy Welensky, post that unrepentant settler colonial imp, Ian Douglas Smith (another disaster) post all that trash (duly trashed) emerged the Liberated Zimbabwe People's President, grudgingly but affectionately celebrated and remembered by the sour but still patient and hopeful Zimba Brits of old Rhodesia, as "King Bob" - hopeful that someday things will be as before, the old empire will soon be restored so that they will all live to see much better days as overlords, serving God, the Emperor and God's kingdom on earth, The British Empire, but sadly the white farms that were seized during the reign of King Bob are now being harvested by their new owners, but the good news for the old farmers is that the Zimbabwean government has announced its intention to compensate farmers whose lands were taken from them
As bluesman Taj Mahal sings, "in the jungle at twilight" (Biko Agozino's jungle) on this planet of the apes, you better be careful mate, no holds barred, bare-assed and among the toothless chimpanzees, we get scattered, and that's why there's no longer any surviving African President that has the wherewithal, the clout, and the iconoclastic bent.
Currently, Paul Biya, the oldest sitting African President is certainly not that, he cannot by any stretch of the imagination be described as being "iconoclastic", but, perhaps, could be described more accurately as being undemocratic ( only an accusation) , or much more accurately as simply being a monument, a monumental nuisance that has long since outlived his usefulness to his worshippers ( the idolaters) who, nevertheless though inchoate ( second childhood), continues to still exist on this earthly abode
" and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
Long gone is Uganda's Field Marshall Idi Amin who had the chutzpah and some of the required spunk ( his not so reverential correspondence and messages to Queen Elizbeth II, about invitations to sip some tea with her at Buckingham Place, and, "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular", boasting, as usual, this time, about the size of his shoe . When I had the opportunity, I should have asked his former girlfriend Helinä Rautavaara ( a passing Platonic acquaintance, also known as "Ras Benjamin") I should have asked her about his awesome size 47 ….
Dear Idi ( rhymes like Dear Chidi) long since replaced by the tottering, homophobic Octogenarian, extended four-termer patriarch, Yoweri Museveni…
Also long gone , " taken out" by Lyin' Hillary & Peace Prize Laureate Barack Hussein Obama, Africa's one and only Muammar Gaddafi who was crowned "king of king" by some of the post-Nkrumah Africanists in Accra - Gaddafi who had believed Obama was his "friend", maybe in the same way that that Abu Mazen may erroneously believe that Kamala Harris loves him more than she loves Benjamin Netanyahu & her favourite mantra " Israel has a right to defend herself" - a good reason why the Arabs and Muslims in Michigan and everywhere else in the US should NOT vote for her , even if they have been certified as "crazy" because they protest against innocent civilian women and children and the higher echelons of Hamas and Hezbollah being decimated / eliminated , as it were in fulfilment of what Leon Thomas was singing about : Shape your mind to die ..
BTW, at this moment in history, the person that I'm missing most in the world of political theatrics is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his incendiary Presidential chutzpah. I wouldn't put it past the one who said "that there are no homosexuals in Iran" or the late Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky to have been making a song and dance and some ribaldry about Kamala Harris, potentially the first hussy to be elected commander-in-chief of the US Military
Very finally, just as at every election season, there are those who say that if X or Y is elected President of USA, they are going to relinquish their US citizenship or leave the country, I was delighted to read this illuminating essay by Kwame Anthony Appiah in his regular New York Times column The Ethicist 👍 Is It OK to leave the US if the Wrong Candidate becomes President ?
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