Right Bambalaye. Very precisely articulated. Thanks for sharing your 
thoughts on this all-pervading nuisance (s) we have to contend with among 
ourselves.

Baba


>From: "BambaLaye (Abdoulie Jallow)" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: On Oppression and the Oppressed
>Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:29:53 -0500
>
>Baba:
>
>Thanks for that awakening. Oppression transcends the domain of politics
>and is rather complex and pervasive. An understanding of the psychological
>intricacies of the urge for oppression and its effect on the oppressed may
>help explain the depressing realism of the oppressive turn-coats you
>talked about.
>
>Liberation from oppression is not just the attainment of freedom with a
>state of awareness and understanding that breaks the cultural barriers of
>belief our systems - as in "Maslaha" ala Gambia, the mindsets, and the
>contexts, but it must also entail the attainment of a state of wisdom and
>freedom in being, thought, behavior, affection, and individual relations.
>
>Evil, remember is in the deed, the act within a given
>circumstances/environment, not in the person - we are told. Hence a
>perfect gentlement can easily turn out to be the worst beast given the
>perfect mix of power and environment.
>
>Thanks again.
>
>--
>BambaLaye
>Radio Free Gambia
>www.freegambia.net
>
><quote who="Baba Galleh Jallow">
> > On Oppression and the Oppressed - A short essay
> >
> > By Baba Galleh Jallow
> >
> > Clearly, one of the most intractable problems facing Africa today is the
> > problem of oppression. The continent is littered with an ugly coterie of
> > oppressive political regimes as well as a critical mass of people trying
>
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