Thank you for your mail. I surpose you have a point to argue, I wanted to
write more but present I am on a vocatio
>From: Lamin Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: The Interview Of Ex-President Jammeh
>Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:50:45 -0700
>
>Hey pah mambuna ,
>I suppose you have already packed your bags and ready to fly back within
>the week or so to contribute to the nation as Makdela did for his. IF not i
>suggest your stay in Kentucky
>and stop babbling.
>What ar u still doing here since you graduated from Berea. What do we call
>your kind.
>TENN.
>
>
>
>
>At 02:08 PM 7/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Saul,
> >
> >You do not need to reiterate yourself. We heard you loud and clear from
>your very
> >first posting. At times we can all choose to have "Selective
> >hearing/understanding". Its an easy to do thing. You deserve my pat on
>your back
> >for telling us what we may not want to hear.
> >
> >Indeed, Africa can only be developed by Africans and hence Gambia by
>Gambians. It
> >is going to take educated Africans (or should I say intellectuals?) to
>rescue
> >Africa from the poor state Africa is in today. You will agree with me
>that
>there
> >are no shortage of educated Africans in the world today, but where are
>the
>vast
> >majority of these elite Africans investing their "resources"? Certainly,
>the
> >Gambia is not enjoying those "resources" from her elite populace. Why? I
>guess
> >Mr. Bajo has concisely spelt out the reasons over and over. To go on
>bickering
> >about Pres. Jammeh and his cohorts OR Ex-Pres. Jawara and his people
>while we
> >choose to stay in the developed world to amass wealth or for what ever
>reasons,
> >will only lead us to what psychologists refer to as "diffusion of
> >responsibility/bystander effect" - somebody will one day remove him from
>power.
> >Who will that somebody be?
> >
> >Pres. Jammeh and his cohorts might be doing what you and I may disagree
>with, but
> >what good can you and I do if our only weapon is to haul at them from far
>away?
> >The likes of Ghandi, M.L. King Jr. N. Mandela, just as Mr. Bajo has
>mentioned,
> >have done it against their oppressors under very severe conditions that
>they
> >could choose to easily avoid just as most of us are doing right now.
>Mandela saw
> >the need to put an end to apartheid and he sacrificed 27 solid years of
>his life
> >behind bars for the world at large to see what he saw. All praise due to
>Allah,
> >the omnipotent, Mandela's dreams now become a reality. Ghandi saw the
>need
>to put
> >and end to British oppression, that also took countless lives, in India.
>He
> >sacrificed to spend time, over and over, behind bars while he continued
>to
>fight
>
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