The Rhode's Scholar

I do not understand why people were surprised that the Clinton campaign, led by former President Bill Clinton, were comfortable with moves, both in words and deeds, to split the races apart in the democratic primaries. After all, Bill Clinton is a Rhodes' Scholar. You may ask what that means. I am quoting from the Wikipedia here: "Rhodes' Scholarship was named after Cecil Rhodes. There has been some controversy over the original aim of the Rhodes' Scholarships as it has been alleged that Rhodes held racist opinions about the superiority of the Anglo race, and that his intention was to use the scholarships to educate future foreign leaders in Britain so that they could help spread British influence when they returned to their home countries". Bill Clinton is a proud product of that arrangement. Observations of British policies from the 1920s in Asia, Middle East and Africa to the present day show the effectiveness of the theory of divide and rule. In the United States, our progressive friends are masters at pitting blacks against latinos, females against males, smart against the dull, short against the tall and all in the interest of social justice. Would it not have been better just to realise that no matter how each one of us looks like, we are all human beings? It is time to stop voting against our own interests!

We Are Chasing Our Tails

The stock market is in a tail spin and we have all kinds of experts on the TV screens and on the radio talking out of their hats. As I gathered from Alan Greenspan's book - Irrational Exuberance - former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin did not believe that federal officials should talk about the stock market in public. His reasoning was that, to quote: "First, there is no way to know for certain when the market is overvalued or undervalued; second, you can't fight market forces, so talking about it won't do any good. And third, anything you say is likely to backfire and hurt your credibility. People will realise you don't know any more than anybody else". Need I say more? There is no bigger truth than the above quoted statement. All the "experts" do not have an idea how to solve the economic malaise the United States is in at the moment. For years it was the common belief that the very rich were rich because they were smarter than the poor. Now we know one does well depending on circumstances and opportunities provided by friends in high places. When things do not however work out well the way they are supposed to, every one ends up spinning like a dog chasing its own tail!

Trip Into A Burning House

As I heard from the grape vine, a few minutes before Dr. Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis in 1968, he was in a very introspective mood. The last thing he said before he died was - "I pray that we are not leading our people into a burning house". Since his death, integration has not meant much for majority of the African-American population. Granted there is good representation in professional sports and the entertainment industry coupled with a few window dressings in the political arena but where it matters most, we are not doing well. Family life in the African American community is totally broken; the African American male has become irrelevant; schools are training grounds for the prison industry (drop out rate from High School is higher than the graduation rate) as a result black men are five times as likely to go prison as to college. Those of us who are gainfully employed are the last to be hired and the first to be fired; we pay higher interest on mortgage loans and credit card debts. On top of everything, many young African American males who served their time in prison, never become full citizens again. America's psychological destruction of the African males has been developed into a science.

The Lesson from New Hampshire

Progressives They Are Not! During the democratic primaries in New Hampshire, specifically on January 08,2008, the Clinton News Network, facilitated by Wolf Blitzer of CNN Situation Room program, showed the world how to win elections. In what some called "red-faced frustration" and I prefer to call a poison snake attack, former President Bill Clinton described the story of Senator Barack Obama as "the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen". Watching the whole show, for me, it was not what President Clinton said but rather the venomous way he presented his argument which were actually mis-statements of Senator Obama's positions. I have never, unlike most of my kind, believed in the sincerity of our "Progressive Friends". They are always at their best when there is a master/servant relationship. But as soon as their power is challenged by someone they feel superior to, they turn nasty. President Clinton is comfortable being called the "First Black President" and he would use the African-American community for as long as the Clintons benefit. Any person of African descent who takes the progressives at their word that we are all created equal when talking about political power, must have his head examined.

Contempt for Democracy and People

According to the The Economist Magazine of January 2008, the mayhem that killed hundreds of people following Kenya's election on December 27th, 2007, completes a depressing cycle of democratic abuses in Africa's biggest countries. The magazine mentioned that Nigeria held its own mockery of an election last April. Scores were killed and observers pronounced it the most fraudulent poll they had ever witnessed. Congo held a more or less peaceful election in October 2006, but since then, the main opposition leader has been hounded into exile. And the year before that, flawed elections in Ethiopia resulted in the deaths of 199 protesters.The Economist concluded, "Needless to say, the incumbents all won". All of the above brings me to the point I have been trying to make that the promoters of democracy around the world turn a blind eye when the culprits of fraud are collaborators in the exploitation of natural resources and people on the African continent. It just blows my mind that the interest is not there in the United Nations, the European Union, the United States of America and last but not least, the African Union to devise a fool proof way of conducting elections. The peoples voices must not be forever silenced. The alternative to all this nonsense is hard to envisage.

Shame on Kibaki and Kivuitu

Shame on Kibaki, President of Kenya, because he did not have the grace and the moral rectitude to accept defeat at the polls. Shame on Kivuitu, Chairman of the Elections Commission of Kenya, because not knowing whether Kibaki won the recent Kenyan elections, he however declared him the winner with the excuse that he acted under pressure. What a Wimp? Democracy in Africa is in big trouble. The system of voting for candidates only works when the ruling classes win re-election; but whenever there is a chance of losing, then the you know what hits the fan. The promoters of democracy, for some reason, are always mute when their collaborators in crime for the oppression of the people manipulate votes after elections but however cry foul when the true peoples representatives try the same. We all know that no oppressor ever gives up power willingly but that power has to be taken from him. The death of over three hundred (300) innocent Kenyans as the result of Kibaki's foolishness does not bode well for the future. Evil triumphs when good people do nothing. The dictators of the continent should be stopped by reason before the violent alternative arrives. Have we already forgotten what happened in Algeria and the consequences up to this day?