USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: The Smoke That Must Be White

Cheer up Chidi!

Who is best qualified to lead the Caholic Church here on earth ?

I intuit that you would like to see a Black Pope (Black Power in the
Holy Roman Catholic Church ) and perhaps, preferably some black smoke
curling out of the chimney, signalling his election or beatification?

You and your Afri-kan-ists kan still hope, but from the beginning I
have seriously doubted that the homophobic Islamophobe Turkson will
get it. The head of the Holy Roman Empire versus the Chief Mufti of
the Islamic Caliphate? We don't want a repeat of the Crusades. World
peace demands a Pope who will maintain good diplomatic relations with
the adherents of Prophet Isa (Jesus) albeit with the difference that
they do not believe in Christianity's foundation that he expired on
the cross.

Yesterday, I saw them all (the cardinals ) lined up in order of
seniority, shaking hands with His Holiness (on TV) and each of them
having a brief personal word with him, strained my ears to hear what
they had to say (long distance revolutionary eavesdropping) but they
were too far away.

You can be sure of one thing dear Chidi: the Holy Spirit is
Discernment itself and does not discriminate on a colour basis. So why
all this fascination with White ?

Remember Chinweizu's unholy ( petty) critique of Wole Soyinka's poem
"To my first white hairs "?

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=Chinweizu%27s+critique+of+Wole+Soyinka%27s+poem++%22+To+my+first+white+hairs+%E2%80%9C&oq=Chinweizu%27s+critique+of+Wole+Soyinka%27s+poem++%22+To+my+first+white+hairs+%E2%80%9C&gs_l=serp.12...5698.5698.0.7275.1.1.0.0.0.0.55.55.1.1.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.2.5.psy-ab.gRPaNuuG5ho&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=a6674baedcbf35ae&biw=1024&bih=610

An improbable rationale for expecting some revolutionary Black smoke
like some fire in Soweto making more black clouds in the sky.

Cheer up Chidi and face reality!

Sincerely,

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




On Mar 1, 9:15 am, ChidiAnthonyOparaPoetry/Quotes
<chidianthonyoparapoe...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> (Poem By: Chidi Anthony Opara)
>
> Shhh.
> Silence.
> The red robed supplicants
> Are sequestered
> Inside the Sistine.
>
> They speak
> In silent supplications
> To the spirits
> To pronounce a Pontiff.
>
> The stewards are set
> To send the smoke.
> The smoke
> That must be white.
>
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