Karim and Kutubo ..Please accept my deepest condolences of your loss and
may the Almighty bless his soul and grant him Jannah..Amen..

Niamorkono.


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:28 PM, abdoukarim sanneh <
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> It is indeed sad news to annouce the  sudden death of  my cousin Fabary
> Touray at RVH this morning and the funeral service  will be taking place in
> Brufut at 5pm. Mr Fabakary Touray is the young brother of Kutubo Manneh and
> Abass Manneh. He was leaving in Saudi Arabia  giving the daily support and
> care to Kutubo Manneh who is virtually disable and confirmed to a wheel
> chair after accident in the Gambia that led to the sudden death of his wife
> Aminata Ceesay and some UDP MP's in 2000. Both Kutubo and Fabakary returned
> back to Gambia two months ago. I am deeply sad to learned about the
> sudden death of Bakary whom I spoke  to two days ago. You have be a
> brother  mentor and advice and May Allah grant you Jannah!
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> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:14:08 -0600
> Subject: [>-<] This Date In African History / U.S. President Obama wins
> re-election for 2nd term
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>  This Date In African History / U.S. President Obama wins re-election for
> 2nd term
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> NOVEMBER 6th, 2012 .......On this date, President Barack Obama; the son of
> an African from Kenya and serving his first term in office; was re-elected
> to a second term to end in 2016.
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> Below is a review by Alkebulan on what and whether his role in the
> White House is nothing but symbolism for Africans at home and abroad in the
> diaspora.
>  "It all seemed very different four years ago when it was thought that an
> Obama victory would at last usher in a post racial USA with a president
> that
> understands the Afrikan experience at home and abroad.  Galvanized by
> slogans like “yes we can” and
> “change you can believe in,” he garnered 95% of the Afrikan vote.  On his
> victory, Afrikans around the world
> celebrated.  Indeed, it seemed like the whole world celebrated.  The USA
> was
> reeling from its near pariah status, fomenting “dumb wars” abroad,
> kidnapping
> foreign nationals (“renditions”), military abuses (Abu Ghraib) in addition
> to
> economic meltdown at home.  Barack Obama made the world love the USA
> again.  Days
> after his inauguration he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in
> anticipation of
> the peace and stability it was believed he would bring to a troubled world.
>  For many the symbolism was too irresistible – ‘a Black man in the White
> House’ - proof that with a level playing field Afrikans can achieve.  And
> there are those who assert that he has achieved – against all the odds.
> Paul
> Glastris, Ryan Cooper, and Siyu Hu of the Washington Monthly have listed
> “Obama’s Top 50 Accomplishments.”  These include Passed Health Care Reform,
> Ended the War in Iraq, Recapitalized Banks, Repealed “Don’t
> Ask, Don’t Tell”, Toppled Moammar Gaddafi, Improved America’s Image Abroad,
> Helped South Sudan Declare Independence.
> On the other hand, save for a handful of activists and intellectuals who
> from the outset queried his links to bodies like the Trilateral Commission
> and
> the Council on Foreign Relations as well as the total absence of any
> specific
> pronouncements (and actions) for the Afrikan community (unlike for other
> interest groups – a trend that has ostensibly continued), the Afrikan
> world was
> fulsome in its support – and it has largely remained that way.
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> Amid polls indicating that the country is more racially polarized now
> than four years ago (anti-Afrikan sentiments up to 56% compared to 49% last
> time – Associated Press), Obama is certain to attract over 90% of the
> Afrikan
> vote while Romney’s support is 91% Caucasian, a higher proportion than any
> candidate since Bush Sr in 1988.  Yet somehow Afrikans in the USA remain
> optimistic.
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> In surveys by Pew Research center, The Washington Post, the Kaiser
> Family Foundation and Harvard University Afrikans generally believe they’re
> better off now than four years ago and that better times are on the way.
> However, the reality is that Afrikans in the USA are far worse off now than
> they were when Obama took office and the wealth
> and income gap between Europeans and Afrikans has doubled under Obama's
> tenure.
> The overall rate of unemployment is close to where it was four years ago,
> but Afrikan
> unemployment is up 11%. Yet in spite of Harry Belafonte, Cornel West and
> Tavis
> Smiley and others, to lesser or greater degree, articulating the kinds of
> concerns voiced by the likes of Bro. Ldr. Mbadaka, Mama Marimba Ani, Black
> Agenda Report and the Black Is Black Coaltion years the president has
> remained
> bullish.  In an interview with Black Enterprise magazine he declared: “I’m
> not the president of black America. I’m
> the president of the United States of America.”
> He later told the Congressional Black Caucus: "Take off your
> bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop
> complaining,
> stop grumbling, stop crying."  He clearly means it. As Gary Younge pointed
> out in his article ‘Barack Obama and
> the paradox behind his African American support base’: “In his first two
> years
> in office he talked about race less than any Democratic president since
> 1961.
> In all of his state of the union speeches he mentioned poverty just three
> times: last year's was the first since 1948 to not mention poverty or the
> poor
> at all. When he did talk about it it was to preach better parenting,
> healthy
> meals and greater discipline.”
>
> It could be argued that Afrikans on the continent have fared even worse
> under Obama’s watch.  Interventions in Libya and Côte d'Ivoire,
> patronizing Ghanaians in their own parliament as well as the expansion of
> Africom would have been met with cries of colonialism if it were not Obama.
> Freelance writer, political commentator and social entrepreneur Jamila
> Aisha Brown writing for Pambazuka.com offers a rationale that can be
> applied to Afrikans in the USA and the continent.  However, bad things
> are under Obama, they will be worse under the Republicans: “The dialogue
> Romney and Ryan wish to have
> with the African diaspora appears to be a one-sided conversation -- one in
> which the United States talks and Black America, Latin America and the
> Caribbean, and Africa acquiesces.”  Some might say that the irony is that
> what Brown appears to have done is summarize the last four years under Obama
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