Why black folks should especially be angry regarding recent terrorist activity
on July 7th, 2005 at 10:29 am
The series of Live 8 concerts have confirmed what many Africans and people of African decent have known for years: Our motherland is in dire need of help.
After much pleading and protest from people around the world, G8 nations are discussing this week how to alleviate the financial debt on these African nations that is being blamed for rampid poverty that has flooded these nations for years (the bigger issue is corrupt African leaders who squander donated money–for another discussion).
This recent show of radical Islamist prove to us once again that these groups care for no one but themselves. Not only has there been a loss of innocent life on the streets of London, but meetings to discuss how to provide aid to Africa have been disrupted causing Tony Blair (a person who has spearheaded a campaign to collect additional aid money for Africa) to leave these meetings.
Strangely enough, there are those in the black community who share a level of sympathy for Islamic terrorist simply because they see it as yet another dark-skinned group that is being oppressed by the “wicked” white American empire. I strongly disagree with the notion that these same groups that will kill a child at a blink of an eye has any love for me or my people. Here are just a few reasons:
‘We Want to Make a Light Baby’
At first light on Sunday, three young women walked into a scrubby field just outside their refugee camp in West Darfur. They had gone out to collect straw for their family’s donkeys. They recalled thinking that the Arab militiamen who were attacking African tribes at night would still be asleep. But six men grabbed them, yelling Arabic slurs such as “zurga” and “abid,” meaning “black” and “slave.” Then the men raped them, beat them and left them on the ground, they said.
“They grabbed my donkey and my straw and said, ‘Black girl, you are too dark. You are like a dog. We want to make a light baby,’ ” said Sawela Suliman, 22, showing slashes from where a whip had struck her thighs as her father held up a police and health report with details of the attack. “They said, ‘You get out of this area and leave the child when it’s made.’ ”
Suliman’s father, a tall, proud man dressed in a flowing white robe, cried as she described the rape. It was not an isolated incident, according to human rights officials and aid workers in this region of western Sudan, where 1.2 million Africans have been driven from their lands by government-backed Arab militias, tribal fighters known as Janjaweed. (more…)
Here’s more:
The sophisticated Arabs along the Nile in Sudan have always regarded the Darfur tribes as primitive. They are widely referred to as “Zurug†– roughly “niggers†– and have been subjected to a prolonged “Sudanisation†strategy.
In 1987 some 27 Arab nomad groups united in an attempt to drive the blacks from Darfur. The response of the Fur and other black tribes was to form their own militias. Early this year Sudan’s president, Omer Hassan Ahmed El Bashir, vowed to annihilate the rebels, who deeply worry Khartoum because, unlike the black rebels in the south, they are fellow Muslims and cannot be condemned as “infidelsâ€Â. (more…)
THESE ARE MORE THAN JUST ISOLATED INCIDENTS!!
You can go all throughout history and find this same pattern of racism and abuse towards black Africans from Islamist who feel that they are the master race and that all infidels (those who are not of the Muslim persuasion) should be annihilated.
People like Louis Farrakhan will raise all hell about alleged Koran abuse and demand that the US government does something to stop this “crime”, but has yet to take a firm stance of protest against the atrocities being committed by his religious “brothers” against African men, women, and children. How about sending some of his bodyguards over there to protect at least one child?
On 9/11, numbers of innocent people (including black folks) who went to work like everybody else to earn a living so that they could pay bills, put food on the table, take care of an ailing family member, etc. had their lives snatched from them. To these terrorist, these innocent people were nothing more than sacrifices for America’s “arrogance”. Who gave these people the right to assign our brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, best friends, co-workers, etc. the day of their death under the guise of “fighting for freedom”?
In light of the recent terrorist activity in London, those that feel that they either speak for the “oppressed” or are joined with them in some way need to reevaluate who exactly are the oppressed. For black folks in this situation, the answer is obvious.
