Subject: For Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh (Colonial Mentality)
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:12:12 12/31/05 ()
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Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh, thank you for your insightful response. Sorry for any typo that might have occurred in some of my postings. I do not prepare them before coming to the computer to post. I always respond after reading people�s post and sometimes have little time to even read over.
In response to your insightful post, I am convinced that we hold the same view regarding the work of the perpetrators; as you have put it, instigators who paved the way for the heinous Slave Trade in Africa and the Colonial Mentality that we are trying to shed light on. Here is a paragraph I am convinced would purport the idea that we are on the same page but are taking different approaches, or looking at the steps to take in our bid to coming to that conclusion that Colonial Mentality is a cankerworm that is devouring our fabric and progress. The following is from yesterday, 30th December 2005 post: �The slavers and colonialist took advantage of many values that African people have stood for and because of these values the Africans hold, the slavers and colonialists saw loopholes that they decided to capitalized on to suit their devilish glut. They coined, from time to time, or within various segments of their domination and exploitations, array of parasitic, bloodsucking mechanisms that would demean the Africans freewill to think and organize themselves, in order to be in perpetual confusion, which would disallow them, the Africans, from seeing their , the perpetrators� ploys. But in order for them, the colonialists to have gained an upper hand in their games, the Africans had issues that we must not live out should we come any close to fully addressing the issue of Colonial Mentality and how it can be eradicated.�
You stated, �However, in my humble opinion, the primary blame continues to rest upon those who instigated the large scale trafficking in human beings — the European slave traders. To see a modern parallel to this principle, consider the case of drug trafficking here in the U.S. The focus of federal law enforcement efforts is properly on those who instigated the trade in illegal drugs, namely, the drug dealers, and less on the drug users who respond to such instigation by buying the drugs from the pushers.
Yet, as with the slave traders of old, the modern day drug dealers do not put guns to the head of a junky to make him/her buy their drugs. However, as the U.S. government correctly recognizes, the junkies would not be buying those drugs on the streets of America if the drug dealers did not put them there in the first place. Similarly, our African ancestors would not have been selling their own compatriots to European slave traders if the latter had not created a market for slaves by going to Africa and setting up shop to buy human beings. The truth of this statement is attested to by a well-known historical fact, namely:
The Atlantic slave trade stopped once the British and American governments stopped their citizens from buying therir fellow human beings in Africa. That should conclusively settle the argument as to whether it is Westerners or Africans who are responsible for the slave trade in Africa!�
I see the inference you are drawing between the two sad practices: Slave Trade and Drug Trafficking. I agree with your comparism considerably. Drugs junkies and Slaves are all victims of the same ill-fated intensions. The Slavers/Colonialists and Drug lords have the same motivation: need for money (that was the glut that mentioned in the quoted post from yesterday.) However, in trying to make sense with regards to the following post: �However, as the U.S. government correctly recognizes, the junkies would not be buying those drugs on the streets of America if the drug dealers did not put them there in the first place.� The junkies cannot be compared to the Slaves because the junkies went on their own accord to buy the drugs. There are avenues for drug pushers to make money by working. The Slave on the other hand is captured, sold by his brother and forcefully removed from his homeland to an unknown world. However, the two are victims of the same intended gentrification. When you look at it, the same use bright people to sell drug/ the other received tobacco and rum. Now if you think about it, the Arabs had gone ahead of the Europeans to instill in us their beliefs that anyone who drinks or uses tobacco must not be trusted or loved. Our ancestors saw some of them as their brothers. So do you now see why Africans started mistrusting each other? Yes the Slave master must accept huge responsibility for their devilish act of trading in Human beings. Do most of them now even feel that hurting a Blackman is wrong? That is being in denial.
Therefore, what I am trying to arrive at is that we as a people must first of all accept some responsibility for our ancestors acts, otherwise, we will be in denial by failing to realize where some odds stemmed, on our part, from the very fact that we had certain qualities that were used against us, which as you have mentioned here with regards to the IMF and Africa, that knowing that we are vulnerable, this vulnerability was used and constantly used, as it is what was used to lure our Ancestors to sell their kind to European Slavers and their American counterparts and are the qualities and vulnerabilities used by the IMF and other organisations to lure Africa into taking loans, which has caused our economy to decrease in value 3000 %.
. Now bear with me, in my effort to draw a circumference of the same game that is in existence to this day. Of course you have been following news. Do you agree that to this day African children are still sold to the outside world as Slaves or child labor. So what is learned?
I agree that the Abolitionists made tremendous efforts to stop the Slave Trade. But why did it take that long to stop Slavery. In 1808 the Law was passed in Britain but it did not take effect in America until somewhere around 1879. In fact, between 1861-1865 the Americans fought: the Sought against the North whereby, about 500, 000 American lives, both Whites and Blacks were lost in that war. Even after it was said to have been abolished why are children being sold by Africans to this day?So this brings me to the point where I am trying to make us see where and what contributions we made to it, we are making now and what needs to change about us, that is constantly used against us by bringing or putting us in a state of pandemonium, which is used as in the case of the drug Junkie who does not know himself and cannot not organize until he or she is clean. But if at all he or she stays in denial, he or she will constantly keep doing what he does, and the buyer will never be merciful as long as his greed for money is being satisfied. We on the other hand are constantly being sold by our kinds who in fact, are vehement in spreading malicious propaganda about their very kind not for any other gain but simple jealousy.
So by not accepting a part we played, we are in the same shoes with the Slavers who are in denial that nothing wrong was done.
By and large, I agree with everything you stand for when it comes to Colonial Mentality, which in itself is an indication of a part we have been playing but for it to flourish it had to have roots somewhere in our backyard. There were beliefs that have been passed on from generation to generation that gave way to the manipulation and exploitations that we suffered and are still suffering, which needs to be addressed.
Once again, thank you for your very insightful discuss. I look forward to learning from and with you.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh (Colonial Mentality)
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 00:21:19 01/01/06 ()
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Bambay Lans Kamara wrote on December 31, 2005:
“Even after it was said to have been abolished why are children being sold by Africans to this day?So this brings me to the point where I am trying to make us see where and what contributions we made to it, we are making now and what needs to change about us, that is constantly used against us by bringing or putting us in a state of pandemonium, which is used as in the case of the drug Junkie who does not know himself and cannot not organize until he or she is clean. But if at all he or she stays in denial, he or she will constantly keep doing what he does, and the buyer will never be merciful as long as his greed for money is being satisfied. We on the other hand are constantly being sold by our kinds who in fact, are vehement in spreading malicious propaganda about their very kind not for any other gain but simple jealousy.”
Bambay Lans Kamara:
As usual, you make valid points above. In order to advance the discussion, kindly permit me to focus only on the areas that I humbly believe require clarification.
1. Whereas slavery did exist in Africa before the Europeans instigated the Atlantic slave trade, and even today, among some segments of the African population, the key distinction between the Atlantic slave trade and the others is one of scale. As I put it in my last posting:
“However, in my humble opinion, the primary blame continues to rest upon those who instigated the LARGE scale trafficking in human beings — the European slave traders.” [Emphasis added].
2. Africans are not blameless in the problems that afflict Africa. As I have consistently maintained in my published writings on the subject of Africa’s underdevelopment, African politicians, particularly those in leadership in post-independent Africa, are unwitting co-conspirators with foreigners in the pillage and plunder of our continent. Indeed, as I have also written, even the general population of do-nothing, “how-for-do; God-dae” ordinary citizens in African countries have unwittingly contributed to their own problems by effectively acquiescing in the rape of their own future. However, the key point is that the harm caused Africa by foreigners is far greater than that attributable to our own fellow Africans. The Atlantic slave trade instigated by European slave traders more than 500 years ago is a classic example from the past. Devaluation instigated by the IMF is a classic modern example — as I show in my 2001 writing which can be accessed via the link I provide below.
3. In the drug trafficking analogy I used to illustrate the slave trade, the equivalent to the junky is not the African slave, but the African selling his own people to European slave traders. You had written: “The junkies cannot be compared to the Slaves because the junkies went on their own accord to buy the drugs. There are avenues for drug pushers to make money by working. The Slave on the other hand is captured, sold by his brother and forcefully removed from his homeland to an unknown world.”
As you accurately stated, “the junkies went on their own accord to buy the drugs.” Similarly, the Africans who sold their own people did so voluntarily, even though misguidedly — just like the junkie buying poisonous drugs for his own use. Thus, the analogy is a perfect fit.
You also wrote: “By and large, I agree with everything you stand for when it comes to Colonial Mentality, which in itself is an indication of a part we have been playing but for it to flourish it had to have roots somewhere in our backyard. There were beliefs that have been passed on from generation to generation that gave way to the manipulation and exploitations that we suffered and are still suffering, which needs to be addressed.” I completely agree.
In closing, please be advised that not one of us is immune from the bane of typographical errors. This is because, I believe, most — if not all — of us here, like you, type our postings in one go. I do not think that such minor errors should detract from the message being sent.
Kindly accept my best wishes for a Happy New Year!
Subject: Re: For Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh (Colonial Mentality)
From: Chez winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 18:24:27 12/31/05 ()
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Happy New Year Lans. On to the points raised concerning slavery and colonial mentality. Slavery existed long before the return of our brothers who left Africa and, through natural selection, transformed into cromagnums and neantherlensis. Slavery has been a part and parcel of every human culture. Songhai had them, Nubia had them, Mande had them, the romans had them, and so many other great kingdoms. The degree of treatment is what I tend to look at. Prior to us, sub-saharan africans, engaging with the europeans in this trade, it already existed in their parts of the world and the Mediterranean. We were engaged in the slave trade with our northern sahellian brothers before the arrival of the european, hence you see slavery to this day in southern morocco, mauritania, libya and other parts of the sahel. To our people, such a trade was dignified and the slaves are happy to be what they are. I beg you to understand that, this narrative does not reflect my views on the subject. I am merely potraying what is the fact and how the victims and perpetrators see it. The europeans approached the arabs for work on their new found projects in the americas. It was then we in the sub-saharan africa got a glimpse of a different degree and kind of slavery. The arab was closer to us and was very instrumental in the sending of millions of our people to the americas through the mediterranean. My point is that even our God entertained slavery – He mentions in His Holy Book – slaves obey your masters and masters treat your slaves well. We have to look at life as if we are all in bondage and try to see how we can set ourselves. I believe there are many people who do not buy the idea of colonial mentality. Controlling the mind is a very big challenge. We have to have proactive plans so as not to be caught in this blame game. The european will need to survive and so are we. We have more favourable climatic conditions than the europeans. If we look within what we have we may be able to forge progreessive paths. It is also true that their grand designs are set to see us fail in any of our ventures. Our failures are their successes. We need to be failing for them to succeed – if ever we, through dogged determination, complete a project of originality, the west’s chances of succeeding will begin to wane. We need to be a determined people – have proactive thinkers who do not owe allegiance to individuals but to the nationstate. Any government that comes has to work in the interest of the nation’s progress, only then came we see brighter steps. Let this idea of the colonial mentality rest to open doors for a renewed africa with a determined people. Did we not enslave the Israelites for over 400 years in Egypt? Come on guys, let talk of the past not hinder our brighter steps. Let the past be a way forward that is looking to embrace development and progress.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh (Colonial Mentality)
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 09:41:36 01/01/06 ()
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Chez winakabs Europe wrote to Bambay Lans Kamara on December 31, 2005:
“Let this idea of the colonial mentality rest to open doors for a renewed africa with a determined people.”
Chez winakabs Europe:
At risk of appearing presumptuous by responding to your comments specifically directed to our insightful friend, Bambay Lans Kamara, kindly permit me to respectfully point out why it would be unwise for Africans to do what you suggest above:
“Those who forget the lessons of the past (history) are condemned to repeat their mistakes!” In other words, if Africans fail to identify why we are the way we are (living dirt poor among foreigners grown fabulously wealthy from our own abundant riches), we would succeed in improving our bleak future only by sheer statistical accident.
Put another way, NOT “talk[ing] of the past” is a virtual guarantee that we will “hinder our brighter steps” in the future! Therefore, learning the lessons from the destructive legacy of Colonial Mentality will enable today’s Africans to avoid repeating the errors of thinking that made our ancestors — and still makes far too many of us — susceptible to it.
I respectfully submit that doing so is a very far cry from indulging “in this blame game.” On the contrary, in my humble opinion, unless we know where we have come from — Colonial Mentality and all — we are not going to know when we have arrived at a better place (freedom from Colonial Mentality and other societal ills).
Subject: Re: For Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh (Colonial Mentality)
From: Chez winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 18:25:19 01/02/06 ()
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Compliments of the season Mr. Jalloh.
I am without reservations happy to recieve a response from you regarding that which I posted to Lans. In the post I also asked a question: “Did Egypt not enslave the israelites for over 400(40) years? They sang praises to their God and asked their God to free them from such slavery.
We are aware of what was done to us and such act is also debatable in that one may ask; Was it a neccessary evil that has seen our people come out it in numbers to embrace a civilisation that once held our civilisation in the highest esteem? Was it natural selection at work? or was it simply a lazy and greedy humans ready to explore other lands by utilising the physique of others? I ask myself a lot of questions when I look at this colonial mentality matter. If we have a grand design as the west have, these issues of physical and mental slavery would have long stayed behind us. The past creates the present – that I hold fervent to be true. For us to be totally free from the ‘colonial mentality’ state we firstly need to embrace it as a positive step by another race in their quest for superiority. Then we can strategically place ourselves in a more advantageous positions to get even by way of using ingenious systems.
Take par example the churches that Peters decribed as ‘bloodstained monuments of tutelage’. In the UK for instance, majority of these mo9numents have been converted to house people whilst the rest are being sold to our people who have now become the new force of christianity. Through these churches they are able to pass on their messages to our people. They carry words of strength and determination for a people that have seen suppression and oppression. The lives of such members have greatly improved. I cannot say to you you are enirely wrong in advocating the existence of the ‘colonial mental’ state – yes it exists. Our families and brotherly nations continue to indoctrinate us everyday – shall we accept their doctrines or find counter-strategies to demostrate an independent mind?
I believe that we should utilise the tool used on us to free us from these mental states. It happened and they know it happened and the reasons it happened are evidently clear – survival of their kind. We need more action than mere rhetorics – our brothers in the villages and towns have vast cultivatable terrains. We need to help show and tell them how they can utilise these lands.
Like you said in your late 70s article, they gave bread for diamonds. Are we incapable of mass production of bread? Are we not able to learn how to bargain holding our heads high? Mr. Jalloh, let us find solutions to the colonial mentality – their nations coined up all that was to make way for their greatness today. We have to collectively coin up some ways of giving us the advantage point.
If my rationale makes no sense please forgive me for my way of thinking. i do not believe in keeping us depressed everyday for what has been done to us, i would rather find a way to get out of it and praise the oppressor for his resourcefulness. We are mere mortals and are all foraging for the survival of our kind.
The west’s advancement in every facet of human existence should be taken seriously and respected. i tend to forget how they get to it but admire more how they were able to do it right under our noses. let us learn that whilst we were still hunter gatherers they have moved on to difficult terrains and succeeded in adapting in these harsh terrains.
I cannot say more but will like to direct you to the following link that shows that we know and we have to do something positive about it.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh (Colonial Mentality)
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 05:09:07 01/03/06 ()
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Chez winakabs Europe:
Kindly accept my own best wishes for the new year, as well as my gratitude for yours. As I show below, you did make valid points in your posting yesterday. My humble suggestion is that you duly recognize the significance of the conclusions that follow inescapably from your correct assertions.
For instance, writing about Colonial Mentality and the role of Westerners in its propagation, you stated: “It happened and they know it happened and the reasons it happened are evidently clear – survival of their kind.”
The inescapable conclusion from your above-quoted statement is crucial to the future of Africa, namely: Therefore, Westerners will continue to use Colonial Mentality to defraud and impoverish Africans in order to enrich themselves.
How do we know this? Clearly, because, for whatever reason (I think because they know they can get away with it) Westerners who practice Colonial Mentality believe — wrongly, and immorally — that their existence as a dominant race requires them to defraud and impoverish Africans. As you stated, in reference to the historical perpetration of Colonial Mentality on Africans by Westerners, the latter did it to our ancestors for one overarching reason, namely: “survival of their kind.”
Since we know that those Westerners will not suddenly decide to end the “survival of their kind,” we Africans must first recognize, and then carefully study, the means Westerners will continue to use to defraud and impoverish us in their bid to ensure the “survival of their kind.”
If we fail to do so, guess what will happen to us? The same thing that has been happening to us since Westerners first inflicted Colonial Mentality upon our ancestors more than 500 years ago — we will continue to live in abject poverty despite our abundant natural resources, while Westerners continue to live fabulously rich lives off our wealth. Therefore, as I stated in my last reply, we can not afford NOT to immerse ourselves in the meticulous study of Colonial Mentality — how Westerners fooled Africans into voluntarily surrendering our vast human and material wealth to them through the two largest frauds ever committed in the history of mankind. As you know, those frauds are the Atlantic slave trade and the colonization of Africa. Significantly, both of those unprecedented crimes against humanity were committed by the very same pillagers and plunderers — Westerners — against the very same victims: Africans.
So, unless a significant majority of Africans understands HOW the West consecutively enriched itself by impoverishing Africans over the past 500 years, there is only the slimmest of chances that the Western crime spree against African humanity will ever stop. This is because, as you stated, the perpetrators believe that they need to continue fleecing Africans in order to ensure the “survival of their kind.” In other words, unless and until we Africans stop them from victimizing us, Western neo-colonialists and their cohorts will not stop themselves. In my humble opinion, the most effective way to counter Western Colonial Mentality is to identify the reason(s) WHY Africans succumbed to it in the first place. Thereafter, the solution to the problem would be, quite simply, to properly address that reason(s).
This is why, for the past 26 years — since I was barely out of my teen-age years — I have been publishing my views on how Colonial Mentality facilitated devaluation and other fraudulent ploys that Westerners selfishly deployed to continue their gargantuan theft of Africa’s material resources, following their gargantuan theft Africa’s human resources — the millions of Africa’s sons and daughters they literally carted away in cages like chattel during the vile Atlantic slave trade.
In your reply, you provided evidence of the effectiveness of this strategy, when you wrote, in reference to one of my such writings: “Like you said in your late 70s article, they gave bread for diamonds. Are we incapable of mass production of bread? Are we not able to learn how to bargain holding our heads high? Mr. Jalloh, let us find solutions to the colonial mentality – their nations coined up all that was to make way for their greatness today. We have to collectively coin up some ways of giving us the advantage point.”
Those are excellent questions and suggestions. They are also similar to those which my similar writings elicited from other deep thinking fellow Sierra Leoneans nearly five years ago. These include my good friend and fellow longstanding crusader against devaluation and Colonial Mentality in Africa, Jonathan M. Rose, as well as Archimedes Faulkner who has hands-on experience dealing with the mechanics of devaluation in SL’s banking system during the late 1970s and early 1980s. I have attached a link below to one rendition, by another Sierra Leonean, Sam Zoker, of those eminently forward thinking questions and suggestions which resulted from my consistent efforts to first sensitize, and then educate our people, as to HOW we were — and continue to be — fooled into voluntarily handing over our vast resources to con men from Western Europe and America over the past 500 years.
As you can see, this discussion about Colonial Mentality is not just “keeping us depressed everyday for what has been done to us.” On the contrary, it is the indispensable foundation we must lay if we Africans seriously want to “find a way to get out of it.”
Following my earlier writing here suggesting WHY Sierra Leoneans became (most) afflicted with Colonial Mentality, I will post, hopefully sometime soon, its second part, where I will suggest HOW we can eradicate the destructive malaise. I hope you will agree that this is “more action than mere rhetorics” that will undoubtedly assist “our brothers in the villages and towns [who] have vast cultivatable terrains. We need to help show and tell them how they can utilise these lands.”
As we continue discussing the necessary logical steps towards a general goal based on an aggregation of such particular goals, kindly accept my appreciation for your valuable contribution to this very important discussion that holds crucial implications for the future of our beloved Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh (Colonial Mentality)
From: Chez Winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 08:29:08 01/03/06 ()
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Thank you for the response which seemingly is in the direction of my take on the matter. The west will not stop their games for the survival of their kind. Their ‘Think Tanks’ have forecasted what will happen to them after our enlightment and have worked out new strategies of keeping keeping us tailing behind. Do you know that we now have more Africans in large western establishments in senior positions that are placed there to appease us. They know that the education and religion they kicked us in the face with is no longer their monopoly. Brother, we have to have tangible political and economic structures to be able to negotiate with equal footing about their abuse. They will not stop! To survive in these harsh conditions as theirs, our resources are needed. To allow them to take our resources, we have to have projected plans that will give us bargaining power. take our mangoes and oranges for instance, we in the tropics only see them during the mango and orange season. In the west you can buy these products 24/7, throughout the year. Why can they do that and we cannot? Is it our natural complacency? Mr. Jalloh, we need to adopt more practical solutions to our problems, many believed, have been caused by the ‘other’.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh (Colonial Mentality)
From: Guma valley boy
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Date Posted: 17:10:32 01/03/06 ()
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Happy New Year Mohm & Chez,
Too often,analysts lay undue emphasis on the failure of post Independence African Leaders in explanation of our predicament.I think it is an insult to our integrity if we simply accept that the chronic charasteristic of undedevelopment and instability that afflicts us,are a consequence of bad leadership without an underastanding of the contradictions and other factors involved in the larger picture.
It is spurious reasoning for Africans to believe that the evidence of failed leadership we have witnessed from cape to cairo were derived only from common factors involving,kleptomania,widespread corruption,and warring activities attributed to indegenious African people themselves.
Against the argument that Africa’s economic backwardness was a result of some character deficiency on the patr of it’s inhabitants or of economic mismanagement by governments,we ought to seriously consider external factors beyond our control.Considering that the world’s developed and underdeveloped have been in continuous contact for over four and half centuries.
It is nescessary to reemphasise that our incapacity to exercise choices in external relations(political and economic)and our inability to become self reliant and self sustaining has more to do with the constructs of an international economic system than failures in our own Leadership skills.
The clue is figuring why the records of reknowned patroits like Kenyatta,Nkrumah,or Mandela do not reflect substantial deliverables for the people they served.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh (Colonial Mentality)
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 12:59:22 12/31/05 ()
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Mr. Jalloh, let me ask this question that we need to ask ourselves when we talk about Colonial Mentality. Is it that we do not posses the art in finding out what goes wrong, , why they went wrong or are going wrong, why they are happening the way they are and where to search for answers?
From my post above, I have sighted two kinds of people involved in the Slave issue. The Slavers and the Abolitionists. I also mentioned that about 500,000 Americans lost their lives in the battle to either end or continue slavery. Now let us say about 150,000 of them laid their lives for our freedom. Now would you accept whatever those who laid their lives for you could have told you or would believe those who died to keep us in perpetual chains? So when we talk of Colonial Mentality, we must first and foremost, ask who does one believes in: the one who wishes to impose their superiority on you or the ones who see you as a human being who can make a difference therefore values your intellect and would for you to use such intellect for the betterment of mankind and yourself as opposed to the one who even hate the fact that you have such an intellect? From my observation, a majority of us do not know the distinction between the two; and not knowing these distinctions forces them to believe that all Colonialists are the same and would therefore take advice from anyone who is said to be a �Colonial Master.� Not all British were in Africa. Not all whites had Slaves. But it is apparent that even the rambunctiously ill-informed, who was himself or herself used, hoodwinked to enrich the actual rich Slave holders, wishes you and I to believe that they too worth the salt. Majority of them were used to feel superior for security purposes; to secure the Rich Slaveholders who were in perpetual fear that the slave would rise against them had it not been for the fact the even those who did not have Slaves and gained nothing; not even good education or any form of education at all but flagrantly gallivanting with an illusion that they are indeed �respected and are superior, which was all they needed; for someone to feel that they too are superior. But we have among us those who have been so brain washed that they do not even know the difference, which is why we are suffering in Africa and abroad. So do we know how to find out what is right from wrong or are we, haven been hoodwinked, believe in anything any Whiteman tells us. Apparently, the latter is true for some. But there are good qualities we have to believe. There are those who are intellectually superior who have their per among the Black Race. Education is the only tool that have helped Whites and Blacks alike that we are equal but it will take more education to make this appreciated without any reservation. This is why I am happy that you are in our midst to show the difference between education, quality education and what is termed civilized. Happy New Year to you, my elder and thank you for allowing me to take your time. I hope History reveals the truth. Happy New Year brother.
Subject: Re: For Mr. Mohamed A. Jalloh (Colonial Mentality)
From: Bambay Lans Kamara
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Date Posted: 13:10:23 12/31/05 ()
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Dead bodies in the American Civil War.
Subject: VERY HOT MENTAL (unu go lek dis wan)
From: CHIEFDOM PASTOR
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Date Posted: 11:56:26 12/31/05 ()
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What is the name of the structure called THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT ?
–A similar structure is found in St Peter’s Square at the vatican, and on top of churches (steeple)
WHAT IS THE HISTORY BEHIND THIS STRUCTURE ?
Subject: Re: VERY HOT MENTAL (unu go lek dis wan)
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Date Posted: 20:55:10 12/31/05 ()
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An Obliske.
Originated from Ancient Egypt
Subject: Re: VERY HOT MENTAL (unu go lek dis wan)
From: CHIEFDOM PASTOR
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Date Posted: 21:32:47 12/31/05 ()
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EGYPT :
Many thanks for the correct responseof “an obliske”. Correct spelling is OBELISK. In terms of its history, more will be said presently under a different thread.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Subject: TODAY’S QUOTE
From: WISE ONE
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Date Posted: 09:33:10 12/31/05 ()
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Days come and go, and somewhere along the way, things change. sometimes change happens over a long period of time, and other times, it comes when you least expect it. Tomorrow starts a new year. I pray and hope that it will be a change-for-the-better year for everybody. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
WISE ONE
12/31/05
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
Subject: HAPPY NEW YEAR GENTLEMEN!!!
From: Oneness
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Date Posted: 09:22:54 12/31/05 ()
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Happy New Year to all you gentlemen. May your New Year be a more prosperous one.. Chief I hope your ride back on the “peanut shell” be a safe one.. Lol..
Subject: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR GENTLEMEN!!!
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
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Date Posted: 11:27:55 12/31/05 ()
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HAPPY NEW YEAR, ONENESS
It has been a pleasure having you on the forum this year. The Lord bless and keep you and yours in the coming year.
THE PEACE OF THE LORD BE WITH YOU, ALWAYS.
Chief in Exile
12/31/05
Subject: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR GENTLEMEN!!!
From: Oneness
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Date Posted: 13:15:02 12/31/05 ()
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Happy New Year to you too darling.. It’s truely been a pleasure being here as well. Thanks again. May God bless and keep you and yours as well.
Subject: CHIEF LANDS SAFELY IN THE BIG APPLE
From: CHIEFDOM SPOKESWOMAN
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Date Posted: 00:59:05 12/31/05 ()
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The Chief, travelling by “granat cander” from Guinea to New York, landed safely a few hours ago at an undisclosed locat1on. Whilst in the Big apple, the Chief will be at Times Square to witness the “droping of the ball” at midnight on New Years’s Eve. The Chief will also attend the Sierra Leone-Anerican National Organization New Year’s Eve Dance at Somerset, New Jersey.Chief returns to Guinea next week.
Subject: Re: CHIEF LANDS SAFELY IN THE BIG APPLE
From: SahrT/
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Date Posted: 01:41:42 12/31/05 ()
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I will look for you on the TV.
Will you be wearing a special 5 pointed hat?
Good luck keeping warm around those parts!
ST/
Subject: Re: CHIEF LANDS SAFELY IN THE BIG APPLE
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
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Date Posted: 11:33:08 12/31/05 ()
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SahrT/
Thanks for the sentiments expressed.
WISHING YOU A HAPPY AND SAFE NEW YEAR. ALSO, THANKS FOR BEING PART OF THE FORUM. I ALWAYS APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS.
THE LORD BLESS AND KEEP YOU, ALWAYS.
Subject: Re: CHIEF LANDS SAFELY IN THE BIG APPLE
From: SahrT/
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Date Posted: 23:20:52 12/31/05 ()
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Thank you sir.
And, by the way, I did see you in NY.
Clear as day.
A dance for prosperity and peace for all to see.
They carried it on ABC.
Nice hair cut.
Conackry stylee?
Happy NY.
Subject: Re: CHIEF LANDS SAFELY IN THE BIG APPLE
From: Botkidi
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Date Posted: 00:25:17 01/05/06 ()
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Conakry stylee? was dat?
Subject: Re: CHIEF LANDS SAFELY IN THE BIG APPLE
From: cHIEF IN EXILE
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Date Posted: 00:44:13 01/02/06 ()
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Sahr T/
I THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESPONSE COUPLED WITH YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR.
HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
