—-The New Invasion of Africa—– by Amiri Baraka

—-The New Invasion of Africa—–

by Amiri Baraka

So it wd be this way

That they wd get a negro

To bomb his own home

To join with the actual colonial

Powers, Britain, France, add Poison Hillary

With Israeli and Saudi to make certain

That revolution in Africa must have a stopper

So call in the white people who long tasted our blood

They would be the copper, overthrow Libya

With some bullshit humanitarian scam

With the negro yapping to make it seem right (far right)

But that’s how Africa got enslaved by the white

A negro selling his own folk, delivering us to slavery

In the middle of the night. When will you learn poet

And remember it so you know it

Imperialism can look like anything

Can be quiet and intelligent and even have

A pretty wife. But in the end, it is insatiable

And if it needs to, it will take your life.

Frantz Fanon, Yesterday & Today

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Left, Right, Then Left Out, Again!

This is a response to a "status update", written by Ishmael Reed on his facebook page, regarding statements by Amy Goodman on CNN.

Reed's statement is as follows;

Amy Goodman, speaking on CNN ,from a “progressive convention,” held in Las
Vegas,

spoke of the “progressives” disappointment that Obama is not
Chavez of Venezuela.
...
They’re threatening to stay home in 2012 if they don’t get
their way. These are

the people who defeated Hubert Humphrey thus paving the way
for Nixon and

Reagan

To which I wrote the following;

Liberals and so-called progressives within the corporate sponsored broadcast and print media continue to report on issues of social justice within the United States with irony and detachment (as if the system-engine just needs a tune-up, and will work fine "only if"), all the while saving their most "passionate" and "engaged" commentaries for issues far beyond our borders, particularly the ones that most closely resemble their cartoon fantasies about revolution as the total seizure of power,vis-a-vis Chavez, Castro, Mao et. al., completely ignoring the facts that, with few exceptions, these revolutions took place in largely peasant societies, completely unlike the U.S.A., with our sprawling, multi-ethnic, technologically advanced classes. Meanwhile, after having lamented for much of the last century the left of the left's inability to gain solid grounding with blacks throughout the Americas, all the while refusing to accept black leadership on this very same question, they are now flouting this historic opportunity of Obama's popularity among this very constituency they claim to covet. Instead they are criticizing Obama with the very talking points used by his detractors on the organized right. Still, AFRICOM remains the most under reported story of the last 3 years, and when a Bush cabinet member was brought up on criminal charges by the Obama-Holder D.O.J., possibly paving the way for further work in this area, of course, it was one big yawn. Perhaps the left wing of the power structure here in the United States should take stock of the fact that it stands to the right of the rest of their beloved West, stop playing these ruse cards about solidarity with actual revolutionaries outside the United States, confront their own prejudice, and clean up their own backyard. Then maybe they could find time to do the homework necessary to accomplish something beyond this tired performance, one that is in the end just an attempt to gain more access to the powers they claim to oppose.

Justin, What do you think of Obama's letting the west off the hook for Africa's problems? Ishmael

Ishmael,

He's lying, and he knows it. To think that this man has the wherewithal to stand on the very ground where Nkrumah was murdered at the behest of United States interests. Even the choice of Ghana was a cynical ploy to further coerce leverage for AFRICOM, a plan initiated by Bush in 2007, to find a home. It is currently based, without irony, in Germany. Massive oil discoveries where recently made off Ghana's coast as well.
Not unlike his infamous Father's Day speech of last year, Obama was signaling,and signifying, elsewhere. In this case to the very centers of capital that were founded and solidified by colonialism in Africa! These remain to this very day, no matter what anybody would like to say, the paymasters for the various military, paramilitary, terrorist and so called counter terrorist groups throughout the continent.
The United States government, vis. the Pentagon, the State Department &c. are fully intent on fightting a proxy war with China over the resources in Africa. The very resources that without which the economy of the West would come to screeching halt. Col-tan, the essential ingrediant in the manufacture of IT, Sony Playstations, laptops, cell phones of all varities &c. is known to be the source of the conflict in North Eastern Congo's Ituri Forest. Can you imagine what would happen if the expedition of this precious mineral were slowed down or halted? Stocks, as you know, are traded on projected earnings. The height of the "dot com boom" was the period when, according to the UN and countless NGO's, that close to 7 million people died there. We didn't hear any outcry about that. Bob Herbert, whose column last week on Michael Jackson was unforgivable, seems to think it's all about rape. I guess that'll put him in solid with Eve Enlser and her crowd.
Which brings us back to AFRICOM. Bush was laying down the ground work for Obama to make that speech. He's following up on errands. Obama, however, can do this as propagandist foil in a way they could not. That aside, Bush had laid out a plan for war in Africa just prior to the formation of Africom before it's creation in 2007. As larger and larger oil discoveries where being made there in 2003, 2004, and 2005, organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations and Hoover Institute began publishing policy papers and research indentifying the continent as the emerging front in the "war on terror." This is the true context for Obama's speech and the guide for it's content as well.
Obama's speech was even covered in the Times with the headline that it was "Tough Love"!
This kind of "personal responsiblity" line is perfectly in tune with the recent attempts, sometimes succesful, to shame and humiliate African leaders by dragging them in front the ICC, such as Charles Taylor, or in lieu of that, falsely suggesting that they should be, as in Bashir of Sudan.

Justin