Olof Palme stood for the impoverished, the oppressed, the dispossessed and the persecuted. Due to what he stood for, social Darwinists at home and abroad accused him of betraying his class and his race. I come to think about him when he led series of public protests against the bombing of North Vietnam by the Americans. What happened next was the replacement of the American Ambassador in Sweden with a Black American, Jerome Holland, by the American President, Richard Nixon. The media in Sweden, right-left-centre-conservative-liberal, in unison declared that they knew that President Nixon had sent a coloured Ambassador with the intention of insulting Sweden because of Olof Palme's criticism of American's war in Vietnam.
Jerome Holland tenure as American Ambassador in Sweden was a hell for him as he was pelted with raw eggs where ever he showed up. The raw egg attacks was excused as demonstrations not against his person but against his country, America because of the war in Vietnam. After the impeachment of Richard Nixon, and Gerald Rudolph Ford became President, he removed the coloured Jerome Holland as American Ambassador in Sweden and replaced him with a colourless American. Even though the American war in Vietnam continued unabated, the colourless American Ambassador was not pelted with raw eggs as Jerome Holland was made to suffer. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da- the world as it is (for the Blackman), goes on after Olof Palme.
S.Kadiri
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:42:12 -0800
From: corneliushamelberg@gmail.com
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – the world as it is, goes on after Olof Palme
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Books:
Sweden's role in the struggle against ApartheidSouth African writers versus Apartheid
The Church against Apartheid
Music against Apartheid
Music : The spirit of the resistance
Hugh Masekela
Abdallah Ibrahim : ( 1978): Soweto // African Herbs //
Kippie Moeketsi …
Music from the Townships
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
The Malopoets
Paul Simon : Graceland
On Monday, 29 February 2016 19:31:17 UTC+1, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
Olof Palme was very popular in Africa and the rest of the third world. To what extent our world could or would have been different if he had not been brutally assassinated some thirty years ago is for a competent political scientsist to assess or speculateThis is something else:
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