Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - In The US, racism is in the water

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On Monday, 5 December 2022 at 03:22:41 UTC+1 Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:

 "at what point are we going to interact freely 

  across the racial landscape without suspicions of racism?"

Nice question.  I guess we  will recognize clean water

 when it comes but until then don't drink dirty water.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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Founding Director, African Studies, CCSU

 

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Wow, thanks for sharing the link of Christopher Rhodes' article, Gloria. It problematizes the issue of water and its racist undertone in the US and invokes the multi-talented Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's song, Water No Get Enemy. The mosaic nature of racism is what I am hearing you proposing here, Gloria, and it scares me - whether in the water, as in America, or in the unwanted interrogation, as seen in the Buckingham Palace's palaver. But (and this is only but), at what point are we going to interact freely across the racial landscape without suspicions of racism? My late Mom would say, "You don't know how to sweep the floor in the house of the witch. If you don't do it well, she would say it's because you are trying to get back at her since she killed your siblings; and if you swept it well, she would say it's because you were afraid she might kill you if you didn't." Oh well, it begs the question of the classic, Sound of Music, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?"

Here is Fela on water . . .

 

Fela Kuti - Water no get enemy

Fela Kuti - Water no get enemy

Thanks for your intervention.

MOA

On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 08:58:42 AM EST, 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Michael Afolayan 

In the UK, racism is in the "where are 

you from" rhetorical question,   body language, 

and penitentiary rates.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/1/

in-america-racism-is-in-the-water 

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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