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An Exploited Mother
By M. Quinn
Enormously atrocious and barbaric "crimes
against humanity" continues to sweep across the continent of
Africa, where millions of indigenous men, women and children are
needlessly dying from starvation, malnutrition and a host of
diseases that we in the industrialized world would survive.
The absurdity to this entirely overwhelming loss of human life, is
that mostly major European companies continue to extract millions
of metric tons in food, minerals and natural resources from the
continent of Africa while give very little, or nothing at all in
return toward assisting Africa’s indigenous people - Black folk.
According to an article published in August ‘2005 by Dalatou
Mamane of the Associated Press in the San Jose Mercury News;
countries such as Mauritania, Niger and in many other African
communities, inhabitants are needlessly dying in record numbers.
These events are undoubtedly a manifestation of the exploitation
to “Mother Africa” by European industrialized nations.
This catastrophic event in human deprivation and anguish has
prompted visits to the continent by such dignitaries as UN
Secretary, Kofi Annan along with an entourage of more than 100
officials, journalist and like-minded people. Kofi Annan has gone
on the record publicly stating that the food supply in many
regions has become too expensive for the poor people of Africa to
purchase; which in fact has left countless African families dying
from malnutrition and starvation.
To date, the regions of the continent of Africa from the Congo to
South Africa still produces more than 80 - 90 percent of the
worlds known natural resources. These include diamonds, gold, and
the strategic metals needed to supply the industrialized world;
not to mention the world’s food supply.
It is a well-known fact, that Africa has been historically called
the breadbasket to the European world; and if not for the food
supply and natural resources extracted from the continent of
Africa, the European nations (and the rest of the industrialized
world, including America) would not have reached the political and
economic zenith that we bear witness to today.
In the early 1950's one of the world’s largest diamond mining
and distribution companies "De Beers" established its
headquarters in South Africa and continues to extract billions of
dollars in diamonds from the continent annually; while poverty,
disease, and death runs rampant on the indigenous people.
Why is it that, a continent that produces hundreds of billions –
if not trillions of dollars annually in gold, and diamonds; not to
mention the minerals and natural resources, such as; cobalt,
titanium, manganese, zinc, copper etc. (that continues to be
extracted daily by European companies) can’t seem to find enough
wealth, nor food to feed its own native inhabitants? Exploitation!
The relevant question that remains is this; how
can the professed moral nations of the world remain silent and
allow the unrelenting raping of the richest real estate on the
planet, while starving its native people and producing
homelessness, poverty, death and countless orphans in the process?
In the early part of the twentieth century, the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad stated that Africa is the cradle of
civilization; and represents the progenitor of all human
existence. Subsequently, Archeologist such as Dr. Louis Leaky has
substantiated this claim. Africa remains the respective Mother of
all the world’s nations.
How much longer will we as a people allow our
respective mother to be abused, misused, raped, and marginalized
in this fashion? To say nothing about the dehumanizing treatment
of its native people – Africans.
It is time that the Black political leadership
– if they can be found, clergy, activist and all the moral
citizens of the world, demand that all the nations that are
bleeding Africa and its people to death of its natural resources,
from this blatant form of exploitation, present themselves in
front of the United Nations to answer for these crimes against
humanity. It is imperative, that we come to the aide of our
exploited Mother "Africa", and bring an end to the
abuse, misuse and degradation of her land and people.
As we proceed into the twenty first century, it
is critically important that we begin formulating strategies to
correct the blatant "human rights" violations
perpetrated upon our land, Africa; and our people - Africans
worldwide.
Read The
Urgency of a Pan African Consciousness
All rights are reserved by Author ‘2005 / San
Francisco, California / October 13, 2005
posted 16 October 2005 M.
Quinn is a San Francisco Bay Area freelance writer
specializing in social, historical and political analysis and
commentary.
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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