Until the philosophy which hold one race superiorAnd another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned -
Everywhere is war -
Me say war.
That until there no longer
First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes -
Me say war.
That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race -
Dis a war.That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained -
Now everywhere is war - war.
And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
that hold our brothers in Angola,
In Mozambique,
South Africa
Sub-human bondage
Have been toppled,
Utterly destroyed -
Well, everywhere is war -Me say war.
War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south -
War - war -
Rumours of war.
And until that day,
The African continent
Will not know peace,
We Africans will fight - we find it necessary -And we know we shall win
As we are confident
In the victory
Of good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
- His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I / Bob Marley
22 comments:
Funny. I thought you would've highlighted
World citizenship
Rule of international moralityAnd the African solidarity thing seems rather trite when you consider the role of the Ethiopian Lion in current relations.
The multiple axes of geopolitics don't lend themselves easily to Manichean divisions.
And the African solidarity thing seems rather trite when you consider the role of the Ethiopian Lion in current relations.
Zing!
The multiple axes of geopolitics don't lend themselves easily to Manichean divisions.Sure they do.
One need only measure the ecological footprint encompassing the respective axis to quantitatively determine which are cancerous and which are stable within the limits of biospheric sustainability.
That would be the type of measurement that Fred Soddy worked to establish in the mainstream.
We know in no uncertain terms EXACTLY who's thanaturgic and evil and who's not.
And the African solidarity thing seems rather trite when you consider the role of the Ethiopian Lion in current relations.This puts me in mind of a knuckle-dragger from the GOP pretending that the post southern strategy republicans are identical with the party of Abraham Lincoln.
WTF Ras Taferi and the syncretic religion constructed around Coptic orthodoxy and his iconography got to do with the post-Mengistu busters whoring themselves out to Babylon?!?!?!?!
Please elevate your pro-Obama game above the level of the professional liars and sycophants Sub...,
Somebody's gotta keep pharaonic rorschachian on the high-road by maintaining a shiningly upright, grassroots, critical praxis.
We know in no uncertain terms EXACTLY who's thanaturgic and evil and who's not.
Would that coincide with who's prosperous and who's broke-as-fuck? Sounds kinda like you're making a case for the economic underdevelopment of Africa. Gots to keep that "ecologic footprint" as tiny as possible for sustainability's sake, right?
Read the Soddy article and show me that you comprehend what he was on about - then peep game on the facts of the matter - rather than just showing your ass for a change.
Submariner said...
"Funny. the African solidarity thing seems rather trite when you consider the role of the Ethiopian Lion in current relations."
Sub ... Sub. Bra, Please. Don't tell me you mistake the Plantation Negro government of Meles Zenawi as representative of the "Ethiopian Lion".
That motherfucker is more of a puppet than is Kermit The Frog.
What's next, Benjamin Netanyahu is the contemporary embodiment of the ancient Israelites?
Hosni Mubarak is an extension of the Great Pharaoh Lord of Two Lands?
Oscar Littlefeather, CEO of Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino represents the Choctaw Indian Nation?
Come on mayn. (Tony Montana style)
This piece is not about the solidarity of Africans. It's about the commonality of Humans.
I've already said that Somalia and enforcement of maritime law are tangential to what's going on. Again I go back to the example of religion in the great powers intrigue of the Hapsburg Empire.
That's not to deny the empirical reality of resource and energy requirements of the United States as a motivating factor, but even this doesn't automatically synthesize disparate opinions, beliefs, interests, convictions, and moral judgments. If you must frame it as good against evil or otherwise diagonally separate human beings, go right ahead. And grassroots has nothing to do with it. This is a contest between elites.
By the way, it's mildly amusing to read DV extolling the "commonality of Humans" when he doesn't extend it to people with certain sexual/marriage preferences.
And the reason I inserted the Ethiopian Lion reference was to show how self-serving and unenlightening such monuments can be. Dr. Spence recently had something along those lines during a discussion about the use of icons in discussing black political economy.
Read the Soddy article and show me that you comprehend what he was on about...
Nulan, you could read every word ever written and still be incapable of articulating a cogent argument.
and you'll still be a diseased, womanless, degenerate sack of pus Mills..., how's that for cogency?
Craig X is kicking more ass than Muhammand Ali in his prime.
^ And absorbing more long-term brain-damaging blows, too.
With all of the discussion about the pirating of a US ship off the coast of Somalia, it is possible to overlook a far more important discussion concerning the Horn of Africa. According to the Saturday, April 11th issue of the Washington Post the Obama administration is discussing whether military action should be taken against the Somali right-wing Islamist group known as Al-Shabab.
Al-Shabab began as the military wing of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), the movement that stabilized and ruled much of Somalia during 2006 (and parts of Somalia prior to that). At the end of 2006 Ethiopia staged a US-inspired invasion of Somalia. The Ethiopians quickly overran the UIC positions and drove them from power, at which point the rootless Transitional National Government was installed. The UIC, however, began a deadly guerrilla campaign against the TNG and their Ethiopian allies. Al-Shabab was one of the instruments of that campaign. In time, however, differences emerged within the UIC and between it and Al-Shabab such that the latter now exists as a largely independent organization.
The pretext for the Ethiopian invasion was that the UIC had connections with Al Qaeda. No such ties were ever proven, but the Bush administration used these allegations to support the invasion and to carry out military attacks against UIC and alleged Al Qaeda positions following the Ethiopian invasion.
Ethiopia largely withdrew from Somalia at the end of 2008, unable to ever stabilize the situation yet making itself the enemy of the mass of Somalis. In this situation of great instability, Al-Shabab has emerged as a domestic force fighting for power.
Elements of the Obama administration and the US military believe that Al-Shabab has ties to the Al Qaeda and, as such, should be subject of military assaults by the USA. Others in the Administration suggest caution since the objectives of Al-Shabab seem to be focused on Somalia (and that ties with Al Qaeda are dubious, at best).
Somalia, in so many respects, finds itself in a chaos that, once again, is the product of US foreign policy. The dictatorial regime of former dictator Siad Barre (overthrown in 1991) was a major ally of the USA, despite all evidence that the original reform aims of Barre’s regime had been repudiated. US intervention in the post-Barre period of warlord-ism was a failure and was disconnected from any serious effort to help the Somalis to rebuild their state. The USA, along with the rest of the global North, was comfortable allowing Somalia to wallow in civil chaos for most of the 1990s and early 2000s. And, finally, when the country began to stabilize, the USA—under Bush—concluded that the UIC was unacceptable and needed to be overthrown, thus plunging the country back into chaos.
US military strikes against Al-Shabab will, if anything, further inflame the situation. Consider what is transpiring in Pakistan at this moment. US military strikes at alleged terrorist bases WITHIN Pakistan, which more often than not result in civilian casualties, not only create great hostility to the USA, but further destabilize the political situation in an already fragile Pakistan. Rather than strengthening the Pakistani government, US military operations discredit the Pakistani government.
US military strikes in Somalia will settle any questions that may exist as to the objectives of the USA, at least from the standpoint of the Somali people. Since there is no evidence of Al Shabab actions targeting the USA, US military actions against Al Shabab will be seen for what they are, acts of unprovoked aggression.
Prior to the US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia the UIC attempted to convince the Bush administration that it was not interested in a hostile relationship with the USA. Bush ignored these overtures and, true to form, pulled the trigger. The question for the Obama administration is whether it, too, will travel the easier path of closing their eyes and pulling the trigger. The alternative is to recognize that the so-called war against terrorism framework is the equivalent of a pair of broken glasses through which one can not see reality, but only fragments.
Obama has one chance to get this right. Impetuous action will more than likely produce just the enemies the USA so fears, not to mention unhinge the region. Black Commentator
"By the way, it's mildly amusing to read DV extolling the "commonality of Humans" when he doesn't extend it to people with certain sexual/marriage preferences." Brother Sub
Refusing to pretend a sexual union between two men (boning each other in the ass) is the spiritual equivalent of a marriage between a man and a woman (what God has brought together, let no man put asunder) does not deny the commonality of humans.
Pedophiles are humans. Are those who deny pedophiles the right to marry whomever they love denying the humanity of pedophiles?
(please with the consent mumbo jumbo)
Men who have sex with their sisters are humans. Do those who deny incestuous couples the right to marry also deny their humanity?
We can acknowledge each other's humanity without rubber stamping every sexual perversion under the sun.
Now let's get back to the issue at hand: Black men playing cheerleaders for globalists murdering African teenagers and high jacking resource rich African nations.
With all of the discussion about the pirating of a US ship off the coast of Somalia, it is possible to overlook a far more important discussion concerning the Horn of Africa.
Exactly what I've been trying to say all along.
Sub, how would you characterize the more important discussion concerning the Horn of Africa?
I'm a little pressed for time but I would say it's about a transplanted European establishment meeting its divinely prescribed limits while managing, i.e. resisting, the rise of the lesser includeds.
Submariner said...
"I'm a little pressed for time but I would say it's about******* a transplanted European establishment ******* meeting its divinely prescribed limits while managing, i.e. resisting, the rise of the lesser includeds."
Is that a complicated way of saying:
Of good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
?
Well, then be prepared to be at war for the rest of your (short) life.
I wouldn't say that because the local forces trying to emerge represent some of the most soul-quenching, corrupt, irrational, and dehumanizing ideas around. To borrow from Craig's inimitable lexicon, they are bibtards par excellence. Nevertheless, if they are victorious within their local context and reflect power relations as they exist on the ground, then they are legitimate and should be recognized as sovereign.
The western political system has cemented its domestic hegemony by accommodating and, when possible, incorporating forces directly opposed to it. It should develop the resourcefulness to do likewise with emerging principalities.
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