HEY STOP KIDDING YOURSELF HERE. WHO IS UDP USA? THE LAST MINUTE I CHECKED
YOUR LEADER CAME HERE AND COLLECTED FUNDS AND CELL PHONES FROM FOLKS AND
PROMISED TO JOIN A COALITION AND FAILED THEM. ALL THOSE FOLKS IN NY, NC, GA,
WA, MD, MN, ETC ARE ALL ANGRY WITH HIM.

Can you tell us 15 names in this socalled UDP USA...

Have a peaceful day....

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:49 AM, suntou touray <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> *Kemo Kinteh brought this mail to our attention after his rejoinder to the
> Freedom palava and Falai V UDP U.S. It seems independence of editorship is a
> privelege, we will get round it.....*
>
>
> UDP US Chapter didn’t misled freedom radio Audience
>
> Dear Editor (Mr. Mbye),
>
> Please kindly allow me to set the records straight in regards to who is
> wrong and right on the dispute between Mr. Faila Baldeh and the US section
> of the UDP. I listened to the radio dispute.
>
> Your editorial caption seems to defend Mr. Faila Baldeh and rejects the UDP
> US section as populist non-tolerant Mandinka folks trying to undermine
> internal critics. However the venue of this dispute is not anymore internal
> or within UDP, instead Mr. Baldeh has brought his grievances to your medium
> thus the UDP has to treat it as such and react to it as if it is a public
> dispute. It would have been a tactical suicide if they take it lightly.
>
> Your role as publisher and editor is clear and you did that quite well in
> this matter. That is, you brought discontented party member grievances to
> the limelight of the public. It’s important that members as well as non
> members have the media where they can report and spread their views. This is
> helpful because it sometimes forces the party or association to listen
> better to its members or in any case their stakeholders. Now the question is
> whether Mr. Baldeh has chosen the best media to voice out his views or not?
>
> I think he has not chosen well if he is a member of the UDP party. The UDP
> has many channels to voice out such grievances and he should have exhausted
> all those channels of influences before coming out with this topic at a time
> when the party is consolidating its resources for an election year. Because
> everyone knows that such change has to be effected way back before the
> election year. If UDP will change Lawyer Darboe they will require a huge
> logistical and advertisement undertaking to sell the new person to Gambians.
> Secondly such changes cannot be forced through a newspaper which as an
> entity is following its entitled goals and objectives, which a big party
> like the UDP can’t afford to react to. Leadership change must be a long term
> strategic objective which should only be abruptly changed in case of
> emergency.
>
> However Mr. Baldeh has chosen well if he is just a voter and voted for the
> UDP many times and want them to change strategy. I don’t dispute his loyalty
> to the party and therefore as a voter he has the right to get something for
> his efforts and vote. By going to the press he can stimulate a constructive
> discussion and since we are in an election year we can all debate the merits
> and demerits of a leadership change in this crucial year for our country.
> But by giving the impression that he is talking on behave of the UDP, which
> is unfortunate since such discussion should be made in closed door UDP
> meeting as a party member. If a member of any club just goes online and
> charges his own club of cruelness and tribalism then we question the motives
> of such actions.
>
> The reaction of the UDP section is understandable because it’s about
> defending unity and morale within their ranks. They show that you can only
> talk for them if they give you the allowance to so. Otherwise you have to do
> so as an entitled private voter. Any organizations from enterprises to even
> families have their rules governing what should be said outside and how it
> should be said. In this line of argument I think the editor’s call for the
> disbanding of the UDP US section is premature and cannot be in the true
> interest of the Party.
>
> I will conclude on tribalism because very often when we discuss national
> issues, the notion of Mandinka intolerance implicitly comes out. This
> dispute is no exception. I think we can even turn it around and say that
> there is an increasing intolerance towards Mandinka contributors to the
> media and even discomfort among some people of other ethnic origin that UDP
> has many Mandinka supporters. This I find disturbing because for example the
> biggest base of opposition to Jawara rule came from the Mandinkas in the
> Gambia. The consequence of such a prejudice can also lead to the hardening
> of the Mandinka ethnic group one day or the other. This is not what we want.
> We want national identification and that cannot be achieved if we push
> anyone or group to the sidelines.
>
> Kemo Kinteh Switzerland
>
>
> --
> Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
> "And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the
> difference of your languages and colours. Verily, in that are indeed signs
> for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran
>
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