Dr Oohay,
Once again, this time in Scandinavian patois, tusen tack .
It's good hearing from an honest broker who lives over there giving us some personal insights - in that regard the last honest broker I read from Naija-land was Chimananda, not "We Should All Be Feminists" but Americanah .
BTW , I wonder what Trump thinks about her proposition that "We should all be feminists".
I was about to tell you what I think the p-grabber thinks, " like hell we should" etc, but remembered just in time
Ojogbon's cautionary words of wisdom for today
not so radically different from what the rabbis say
which proves that there's no freedom of speech actually…
We can't really say that in politics, "honesty is the best policy", or can we ?
You say that Madiba, " unfortunately had very limited success as a politician"; perhaps, so did Jesus, although in his case as he had already explained , "My kingdom is not of this world.
You obviously don't think that Socialism is the best way forward for Africa, since you mention Nyerere but fault his socialist agenda, his Ujamaa which especially endeared him to Olof Palme and the Swedish Social Democrat government of the seventies and early eighties (Ethiopia was once Sweden's favourite country in Africa, Emperor Haile Selassie and King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden were good friends , so it was Ethiopia, later on, followed by strong support for the Liberation Movements in Southern Africa and the Socialist experiment in Tanzania…
I came to an abrupt and must confess, a disconcerting stop when I arrived at this sentence of yours which must have stopped many of your readers cold in their tracks, made others see blood :
"I also appreciate the honesty and courage of Major Nzeogwu, especially the intentionality of the aborted coup…"
It's possibly laylatul qadr tonight
So I'll stop right here for now.
Apparently, I too sense that something has gotten awry though at this point, I know not why,My present email follows up my last "… Neither Or None …" 3/22/2025 email you have below.Some African persons in or related to politics (in the modern era) that I respect the most — people who demonstrated authentically and strategically strong, smart effective leadership: Dedan Kimathi of the Mau Mau movement, the assassinated Patrice P of Congo "Kinshasa"), Joni Kenyatta, Thomas Sankara, Harold Washington of Chicago, MLK Jnr., Mandela (a great and strategically very effective warrior against apartheid but unfortunately had very limited success as a politician, Peter Enahoro (aka Peter Pan), the leaders of the 1929 Aba women's rebellion, Nyerere (a very HONEST human but unfortunately a prisoner of socialist policies, though I appreciate his general policy on the benefits of using indigenous language/s — I find his own writings very helpful in linguistics. I also appreciate the honesty and courage of Major Nzeogwu, especially the intentionality of the aborted coup — perhaps, his being quasi naive became his Achilles heels. I also see Murtala Muhammed's as surprisingly somewhat effective during the short time it lived.On Obama: in his first campaign he became a political prisoner of the Davos and Sweden (with the latter prematurely awarding him a Nobel prize NOT for any achievement but want they want an expect him to deliver. In running for his second term he became a captive of LGBTQIA+ and thus of DEI; he thought his two terms had cemented his legacy so strongly that Madam Clinton will begin putting into action those ultra leftist projects he had created a foundation for her to succeed, but he and she miscalculated badly: the rest is history.Trump has a relatively good number of black persona in his administration: some at the (full) secretary level and some as sub-secretary levels. Note that some blacks who in private favor some of MAGA's main policies often privately decline any potential MAGA job offer, for fear they would lose their street credentials or lose their respectability among their colleagues; they fear being scorned like a Judas — so a Catch 22 emerges. Remember Don Lemon saying if one is black, one cannot be a MAGA, an echo of Biden's if you don't vote for me U'ain't black. Note also how when "Democratic" presidential candidate Sanders began emerging as one who could win the Demo primary, Clyburn, Obama, and Pelosi quickly intervened to clear the room for Biden whom they knew would be compliant with far Leftist agenda. In other words, the Demo Party deemed it unlikely that socialist Sanders could win the US presidency.By the way, how come Obama's presidential library still stands unfinished? What happened to the original contractors (and why)?I still believe in the core Liberal principle of being open-minded, but this principle does not mean settling for any absolute ism. Hence being strategic becomes a most important aspect of politics.OohayI know the somebody who sent this to me, but I can't make out who the "I" is, that's talking :
👆 I am extremely aware that I am beating a proverbial dead horse here, but leaders are born, and they are not made, and politics is about confrontation and not consenting. I advise that anyone who is a political "junky" must read Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), "Master of the Senate". (LBJ) knew how to wield power. Though he was a racist--he would call us "Negras" in private--but he accomplished more for us than any leader, save Marion Barry the former Mayor of Washington, in the District of Columbia. Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall as Solicitor General and the first Black Justice to the US Supreme Court. Though he knew that his Democratic Party would lose the South (Dixie) in presidential elections--"we" did from 1968 until 1992 (Bill Clinton won Arkansas [his home state], Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee and West Virginia)--he passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. When his chef, Zephyr Wright, and his chauffeur, Robert Wright, who were both black, informed him that they had difficulties using amenities driving en route to his residence in Texas, he called Sen. Dick Russell (D-GA)--who was the "head" of the Southern caucus (Dixiecrats)--I am paraphrasing that there would be hell to pay if his "Negras" encountered any problems. They never did. Johnson hated Republicans.
In the movie. "Cry Freedom", there is a scene where Bantu Steve Biko (Denzel Washington) responded to a racist White South African Judge, that, "We are in a confrontation, but I see no violence".
Schumer has neither the charisma nor the cojones to be Senate Minority Leader. The question for Senate Democrats is who is the ruthless lady or gentleman to succeed Schumer? The Senator has to be White and Anglo-Saxon and Protestant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr_Wright
On Saturday, 22 March 2025 at 15:36:05 UTC+1 Dr. Oohay wrote:To your main Q, I say Neither or none in many presidential elections, but in a situation where historically two parties dominate national politics, one has to be prudently pragmatic about how one chooses; note that no Independent US presidential candidate has ever won the presidency — the closest candidate to ever smell victory (an ex Republican Ross P from TX) ran as an Independent and enabled Bill Clinton (a Democrat) to win. Before then the youngest person to be US president (TR) ran as a quasi Independent but lost re-election. I see politics in general as a high risk game that involves a mixture of game theory and Prospect theory. If one's subgroup(s) AIN'T in a likely position to win, common sense dictates that one has to build bridges to quasi good pragmatic candidates who stand a very good chance. Contrary to the inauthentic rhetoric of certain "DEIA" political charlatans who who as the so called "middle" men/women BETWEEN the poor/the working class and THE billionaires (aka the "oppressed" AND the "oppressors")— still the eternal secular "blues" or refrain of the so called NEW leaders (who annually line up their already gill pockets with more and more Dinero-DOLLARS).How many professional US politicians (in either major party) have become millionaires? ask Senator Sanders (a millionaire too and a so called Independent); he knows and hence he and other politicians use the term billionaires (rather than millionaires).If one studies Trump with patience. honesty, and minimal bias before and after he became a "politician," he or she may most likely identify him as a pragmatic good political thinker (in an Aristotelian non-arithmetic "mean" relative NOT to the objects themselves but to the individuals involved, specifically a "mean" relative to virtue and vice. Today, one can apply this Aristotelian concept in the context of game theory and Prospect theory.To use a semi Vegas ad, when I vote, I vote BIG or I stay home. Politics AIN'T checkers — politics involves certain chess or Omaha poker moves or calculus. Trump triumphs so well in political games to the point that many of his detractors now suffer (for better or worse) from what has been diagnosed as the "Trump derangement syndrome". Some patients have even asked if their insurance covers it. His enemies or opponents fear him — he overpowers them and just wish he could just vanish or go away. One cannot just wish away a prudent, pragmatic, resilient, joyful, authentic "non-politician." One has to come up with better POLICIES and also better non-gimmicky and entertaining strategies.How he presents his policies and the presentations themselves seem inseparable.OohayDr Oohay,I don't know which hostile external force messed up and confused the simple question that I sent to you , because the original in my word file still reads as follows:"So do tell us, which of the parties is really the Black People's Party, is it the Republicans or the Democrats, and why is it that Dr Ben Carson is the only Black dude in Trump's cabinet / inner circle?"For the people's attention : Congressman Al Green telling it as it isOn Saturday, 22 March 2025 at 08:48:10 UTC+1 Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:Dr Oohay,
There you go again, but in the Kafkaesque process, some of us are getting educated : everything that you say in the post that I'm replying to is new to me. and I thank the Almighty that you studiously side-stepped mentioning Brother Obama, USA's first Black President and a Democrat.
I suppose you'd much prefer to paint this version of him ?
So do tell us, which of the parties is really the Black People's Parties it the Republicans or the Democrats, and why is it that Dr.Ben Carson is the only Black dude in Trump's cabinet / inner circle?
I don't know your background , but there is the case of David Horowitz ,formerly a big shot at left wing Ramparts Magazine which I read religiously in the early 1970s, fast forward ( and I'm not blowing his horn) some years ago he authored "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea for Blacks—and Racist Too"
In the 4th form at secondary school we studied Animal Farm with A. T. Von S. Bradshaw, our English tutor, a former major in the British Army.
A little later I got to understand this was all part of the post-war British propaganda ploy to poison our impressionable young minds about the Russian Revolution
And that's how it is: Every urchin that received a colonial type education read some George Orwell, especially Animal Farm from where, as derived, "All men are equal but some men are more equal than others" is forever on our blubbery lips…
As you know, there are different kinds of shit
Smell this
In the McCarthy era and slightly thereafter, I imagine you would have been one of the valuable assets working full time for J. Edgar Hoover as a so-called neo-con type of capitalist ideologue making poignant anti-Marxist propaganda for Brer McCarthy and ensuring that adherents of Karl Marx philosophy ("commies") would all forfeit whatever freedom they imagined they were entitled to as per the American Declaration of Independence which states
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"
despite which McCarthy made sure that on suspicion only they would spend long years or indeed the rest of their miserable lives behind bars after being hunted down or nearly lynched by anti-Communist vigilantes.
The Black man's burden ; Under attack, for just being black :
Cf, Angela Davis: The Prison-Industrial-Complex
N.B. ( but not for you ) : "Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light." ( Khalil Gibran) He also said, "Every man loves two women; one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born."
Dr Oohay,
"White People" ?
Believe it or not, we're all living under the sun of God.
And that's how some of us got dark, under the sun of God
In Plogen ( Black Girl) Cornelis Vreeswijk sings "Jag är svart, är svart i solen" ( I'm black, I'm black (from working) in the sun) from Cornelis' great album "Cornelis sings Victor Jara - worth a good listen )
In the cold war era in Africa there was an ideological war going on" between Communism and Capitalism"; in Africa another ideological battle continues between Islam and the disciples of imperialism's postcolonial ( neo-colonial) Christian missionaries (accurately represented here in Prof. Lumumba & Maponga: A Powerful, Bold Lecture on Religion in Africa!)
When it comes to working for the Yankee Dollar, we know that in the United States, there are some faithful lackeys: God forbid, but, if in the name of crudity/obscenity, Trump ever declares an intention to grab Nigeria by the pussy or by the balls, or in the name of America First and rapacious capitalism second , to transform Nigeria into the New Riviera of West Africa, there are those among us who would not take it lightly, and should you support such an imperialist idea, on the grounds that waiting in the wings to become next president of Nigeria is a geezer who is ostensibly "Marxist", there would be at least a few righteous Nigerians, Chinweizu among them and hopefully, Chimalum Nwankwo too who would accuse you of sleeping with the enemy. (I mention the later, having just read his marvellous " Of the Deepest Shadows and Prisons of Fire " impressed by all of it, especially "Memory Poem ( of Biafra and its prison of fire) "
We understand that you live in the United States, just as Soul Sister Gloria In Excelsis Emeagwali also lives in the United States, and that this should normally mean that you have a vantage perspective that those of us who do not live in the Mighty States, might not so easily share, knowing, as we ought to, that " he (or she) who feels it knows" and that, friend or enemy, sometimes a person has to be over there where the law and the disorder and the love and the hatred is, in order to feel it and to know.
This was clearly brought home to me one day in the late 80s , when I was sitting in some elect exile company, and praising the Islamic Revolution in Iran until someone in the group took off his shirt to show me the stripes on his back, all of them the result of some severe lashes for counter-revolutionary activities…
Bahram, one of my Iraqi colleagues at work, told us how SADDAM once visited his workplace on some kind of regular tour of inspection, and that at the sight of SADDAM ( like HAMAN) one of his colleagues started trembling. The poor man couldn't control himself, as time wore on the trembling increasing incrementally with every second, it got to the point when his whole body was shaking uncontrollably, causing SADDAM to wonder, why is he shaking like that ? - and to conclude that he must be guilty of something, so Saddam's guards took him out and shot him.
Perhaps, just another Kurdish story, to demonise the enemy-.--
On the other hand, the Armenians and other Christian folk in Iraq, loved and still ove Saddam…
But, first to clear up these two outstanding matters 👍
It's good to know that as you say, Orwell taught you in his gospel fable
"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME are MORE equal than others."
That of course applies to dollar billionaires, poets, presidents, and professors too.
If in doubt :
This was the search term in both Google and Bing :
Google : Donald Trump and Racism
Bing : Donald Trump and Racism
How many lawsuits has Trump been involved in
Dr Oohay
s'il vous plaît,
of course,
you are at liberty,
at Liberté, égalité, fraternité
to search for Donald Trump versus Racism
Donald Trump versus Inequality
Donald Trump versus Barack Obama
Donald Trump versus anti-Semitism
Donald Trump and Charlottesville
Search for The Defiant Lawyers
even search for the movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
starring the late great Sidney Poitier
back in the day, bearing in mind these lines
from I Shall Be Free No. 10 :
"Now, I'm liberal, but to a degree
I want everybody to be free
But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater
Move in next door and marry my daughter
You must think I'm crazy!
I wouldn't let him do it for all the farms in Cuba"
Re - what you said earlier on about Congressman Al Green ,
your exact words : "A Demo leader Al Green (not the beloved singer) now invokes the proverbial DEIA victimhood strategy. Newsome (still the same unchanging inauthentic character", etc etc
But surely, poverty, especially Black poverty, and Black Lives Matter in the United States, in Nigeria , and in the world over, is not not merely a matter of victimhood, or is it?
Of course, to our liking : The Modern Jazz Quartet
On Friday, 21 March 2025 at 16:44:21 UTC+1 Dr. Oohay wrote:The Demo Party (with new leaders, such as US Senators Warren and Sanders, US Reps. AOC of NY, Maxine Waters of CA, and Crockett of TX) now fast becoming again the demon party that founded KKK (Murfreesboro. TN) and elected the 28th US president (who happened to be the most "scholarly" president; he earned a PhD — he also officially welcomed the showing of the notorious KKK movie at the White House, ironically, his presidency ended the way Biden's ended. Remember why the 25th amendment passed?also remember the 17th US president (the Democrat who succeeded the 1st Republican US president) poured COLD water onto this "40 acres and a mule" proposed by the Radical Republicans.Welcome back AGAIN to the new leaders of the neo-demon party fighting so hard to free "the oppressed" from the "oppressors". May their re-resurrected god of wokeism save them.By the way, is it simply an accident (for better or for worse) that Africa (by size and population) the 2nd most populated continent has no "nuclear weapons"???!???OohayHow much uglier can it get?
Will it degenerate into another race war?
Food for thought : President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson "I had fully intended to ignore President Trump's latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official…."
On Thursday, 20 March 2025 at 16:09:41 UTC+1 Dr. Oohay wrote:Unfortunately, some LBJ-Type Demo Party members (especially certain black folks, mostly female ones) STILL seem satisfied with being used as Leftism's "useful idiots". Only a "god" can save them now.
OohayOn Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 9:10 AM, 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
Professor of History/African Studies, CCSU
Chief Editor- "Africa Update"
https://sites.ccsu.edu/afstudy/archive.html
Gloria Emeagwali's Documentaries
www.vimeo.com/gloriaemeagwali
www.africahistory.net
Founding Coordinator, African Studies, CCSU
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