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ger nrns
f m om lia have been seared into our memo­
ri in t months. The first is that of starving Somalians, as
they held out their hands and implored for help with their silent,
sunken y . The econd is that of civilians sprawled dead on
the s , killed by United ations gunfire.
B tw ri these two images is a hird: The arrival of American
troops pron isi ng to bring food nd peace, bristling with so much
hope tha th mission itself was proclaimed to the world 88
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Wha I m is ha h third image, America military
int rv n ion in ornalia, is wha linked the first image to the
nd. an Afri n-American I am particularly troubled -
ind nguished - by the pectacle of United Nations troops,
as part of U.S. upported operation, shooting and killing
unarm Afri n civilians and of American warplanes bombing.
in w y her rtain, d pite th� best intentions and precau­
tions, wound and kill more Africans. Would the U.N. have
ever kill 'om li ru had America not wrapped itself around
the whole 0 rations I think not.
Th killing of Afri ns in Somalia is partly America's fault.
Thu h r mu b a I on for us in this. It is that America
much mor cautious and much more reluctant,
ting militarily involved overseas.
1 l E! r I til . Z S the . P 'CUll istant to th hairman of the
Congi es 0/ /'(1( wll';(1Iwlif) and a l ading AWL ory Committee
memb r (II Pro) .,:.! 1. an initiatu: of the Nan nal Center for
Pu ilic /'1 licv 'f( carcli to find and promote new readers in
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worldwide economic
d nd nti-
r inte i-
and peopl ·thin Europe
rica ru ing to
d dandholdontot ··r i-
tiona within society.
In variou Euro n coun-
tri - Germany, France, Brit­
ain - things ha occasionally
gotten quit ugly. There ha
been ive demonstrations
and riots in reaction to the large
numbe offoreign ho have
entered t Euro n coun-
tri . Th ralli and rio
ha t on racial overton
inee the majority of those
ing to immigrate to the W tare
people of color from the "Third
World."
Some analysts uggest that
e are witn ing one of th
great populations hifts in his­
tory 88 the poor and dispo
ed from poverty stricken
eoc:i ti hammer at tb doors of
the world' more proepero na­
tions. In any event this wave of
immi�tion causing serious
tensions and strains in Europe
and America.
It may well be one oftha great
, "
at,
TER ROD in
ic ork, "How Europe Un­
derdeveloped Afri ., d tails
ho the developm t of Europe
as accomplish at the x-
pense of Afrial.
The capture and oomm rcial
e of Africa la b ped
to fuel the commercial and in­
dustrial revolutio in Euro .
Meanwhile the slave trade
served to underdewlop Africa.
Once lavery w abolished,
the European natio carved up
the African continent t the Con­
gress of Berlin in 1884-85. Th
began the colonial ra in Africa
and the direct control over Afri-
can territory r purpoee of
exploiting Africa's th of hu-
man and mat rial Ul'CB8.
As Er!c wmjams docum.enta
in ·Capitalism and Slavery·, the
lave trad was initiated to
o
"At a time like this, scorching
irony, not convincing argument,
is needed. O! Had I the ability,
and could I reach the nation's
ear, I would, today, pour out a
fiery stream of biting ridicule,
blasting reproach, withering
sarcasm, and -::t rn r buke. For
it is not light that is needed, but
fire; it is no the gentle shower,
but thunder.
"We need the storm, the
whirlwind, and the earthquake.
The feeling of the nation must be
quickened; the conscience of the
nation must be roused; the pro­
priety of the nation must be star­
tled; the hypocrisy of the nation
must be exposed: And its crimes
against God and man must be
proclaimed and denounced.
"What, to the American slave,
is your 4th of July? I answer: a
day that reveals to him, more
than all th other days in the
year, the gro injustice and cru­
elty to which he is the constant
victim.
"To him, your celebration i a
sham; your boasted liberty, an
unholy license; your national
'greatn , swelling vanity; your
sounds of rejoicing are empty
and heartl ; your denuncia­
tions of tyrants, bras -fronted
ica.
IA TO Indian
Sub-Continent to orth Africa
nd tb Middle Eat to Central
and South the Ia' 1aDI.
oft pacifictoN ZMtandand
Auatrali , th horror .tori
bound of th �, coloni­
zation, deetructioD aDd unci""
v lopm 'nt of Third World
peopl to fit urope.
Th proeperity of Europe aDd.
Am rica waa bullt on the bacb
of peop from.Afrka aDd U.
Third World. Th ir .ocieti
•
o
tecit
o t. but th y allowed just
enoup b nent. frOID their
'ti totri •
down to the to
u-n}-=i
UDi»rtuDate1y. ordinary citi-
in U. nation. are
r i of tbia hiatory of
brutal exploitation for Third
World p opt or th y hav
learned to tbia hiatoty ..
• put of • d..tiny· or
the ·white man'. burden.·
The ia aJ.o the appeuaDC8
of. Wial and. beDe8t to
maiD&ainl t domi-
aDd Jolt tbl people of
Africa and tM Third World.
Th white man' burden
proved to be .tremely profit­
able. But DOW the e2ploited are
no 10 overthe eolD8W ,
out of si8ht and out of mind.
Th y. knocking on the doors
of Europe nd America and
tm-tening to compete for and
t ke b ck om of the jobs,
wealth nd prosperity that was
generated from the rape, pillage
and und lopment of their
countri
ThW
that MrtTM
flood their oount'ri and under­
mine their standard of living.
Hence the ur nee of neo­
nazi nd right wing raci t
groupe who are determined to
protect their nation's inheri­
tance.
Europe nd America ar
faa:d with the harvest of their
historical misdeeds. That whicll
you 80W hall you also reap.
Ron DanUls �roa as Presi­
dent of tM Institute for Commu­
nity Organization and
Development in Youngstown,
Ohio. He may be contacted at
(216) 746-6747.
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By M mia Abu-J amal
impudence. [To the slave] your
shouts of liberty and equality
,[ar hollow mockery; your
prayers and hymns, your ser­
mons and thanksgivings, with
all your religious parade and s0-
lemnity, are, to him, mere bom ..
bast, fraud, deception, impiety
and hypocrisy-a thin veil to
cover up crimes which would dis­
grace a nation of savages.
"There is not a nation on the
earth guilty of practices, more
shocking and bloody, than are
the' people of these United
Stat , at this very hour." -
Fred rick Dou (July 5, 1852).
'JULy 4'rH, 1993 saw ANC
President Dr. Nelson R. Man­
dela in Philadelphia, PA., quot­
ing the Hon Frederick Doug! ,
speech as he aooepted the lib­
erty Medal, along with SouthAf­
rican State President F,W. de
IGerk.
If the joint presence of Man­
dela and de Kler were not
enough to stir oontrove y, then
the a ward presenters, Phila.
Mayor Ed Rendell and U.S. Pres.
Wm. J. Clinton, certainly toked
controversy among radical .
Hundreds of Black Philadel-
phians, while certainly admir­
ers of Dr. Mandela, took um­
brage at de IGerk's presence.
Although the awarders are
known as "We the people­
Philadelphia", the actual, eve­
ryday people of Philadelphi
had little say in choosing the
Liberty Medal awardees, and
less say in rejecting a widely
unpopular honoree, South Afri­
can State President F.W. de
IGerk.
The choice of Liberty Medal­
ists was made, not by the pe0-
ple, but by corporate Philadel­
phia-big business.
WHY? WHY WERE tlie pe0-
ple, many who worked for over
20 years against apartheid (in­
cluding for Mandela' reI ),
frozen out, their protests against
de Klerk all but ignored?
When, or if, the African ma­
jority tak power in South Af­
rica, U.S. big busi wanta
friends there.
If one reads the nam of cor­
porate sponsors of the award, it
sounds like roll call ofth Cham­
ber of Commerce: U nisys Ccrp.,
Pa. 'Bell, etc. Burgermeiater
Rendell, ex-D.A. and legal arehi-
From
Death
Row
teet of the MOVE confronta­
tions, political prosecutions and
imprisonment, joined P . Wm.
J. Clinton, author of the WACO
murders, in p nting the
medals, silencing and/or ignor­
ing the mostly B�clt de Kler
p ,
Mandela, who' n voted
in � election in 7" yea ,
nd d Kler , "P ident" by way
of D laction counting only mi­
nority, non-Black votes, h
only the hope of liberty, no mo .
white minority in South
Africa do ill best to
till African liberty for 300
TheAfri DU\iority, naf-
the aWlU'da, atill . n\