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Thursday, August 24, 2006

This government is nothing if not clever. So Ruth Kelly has instructed the nation to debate mult-culturalism. How very convenient to shift the heat from what should be the real debate. 'British Foreign Policy'. Lovely Ruth, do what successive governments have always done. Set people against each other. Blame new immigrants for nicking the jobs of poor Whites, and blame every other behaviour on religion. What's new? It was pretty much the same scenario with the Irish, the Jews, the Blacks, the Bangladeshi's. Older Black were grateful for the grumbs from the Whites table. Remember the early 80's. Younger Black British people were not, and they behaved very badly indeed in order to perturb government complicity in keeping them as an underclass. Black people, unlike the Irish, Jews, Muslims did not have religion to bind them. They are people of the diaspora. Everything had been taken from them by White colonizers, so all they had were their voices and homemade petrol bombs or whatever else they found to uprise in the street. Do not be fooled, this government is deliberately burying its collective head in the sand in order to shift the heat from the ungainly, ungodly mess of a war in Iraq; from their abject failure to work to prevent the escalation of violence in Lebanon and Israel; from Afghanistan; from a multitude of oppressive policies in All of Africa, Much of Asia, the Caribbean and wherever else in the world that they find they continuing their insidious plundering. It is not naivity that stops the government recognising that it is their foregin policies that breeds the terrorist. It's deliberate bloodimindedness. And the sad truth is, everyone of us including your terrorist and wood be terrorist are benefitting from our government's policy. As I sit here in my nice house at my flashy computer, wearing my latest cheap but attractive clothing having just returned from driving my car to the shops where I purchased ludicrous amounts of food, having choosen from a phenomenal variety laid out on stuffed shelves. I know jolly well that I am part of the problem. Our goverment is acting to meet our insatiable greed. We have all bought into the notion that we need all kinds of luxious goods in order to be happy. We are all at some level ignoring the fact that we have what we have because in the main the people who producing us with our endless luxuries have nothing.
How long do we really believe poor and oppressed nations are going to just lie there and starve?
If Ruth Kelly and her ilk want to see real changes and people of whatever ethnicity/cultures/religion getting on better, why not set up a debate to encourage people to genuinely think about ways each and everyone of us can work to contribute to fairer societies,
starting with government showing a genuine commitment to stop screwing the people in non-European countries.

.: posted by womanist 3:09 AM


Monday, August 21, 2006

I almost found myself liking John Prescott, which believe me would have meant me reaching somewhere very far inside my inards. It was his comment about Bush that got me thinking, this old bulldog ain't just another Blair boy, and then as soon as the words dropped out of his mouth, he allowed the gutter press to force them right back and offer that mealy mouth apology that only politicians know how to do, something about him being quoted out of context. Yes right!

Now the Chinese Ambassador I like. "Shut up" he told the Americans when they try to moralize about how the Chinese should conduct their political life. Yes most ordinary folks do wish the American Government would indeed just shut up and go spend some time sorting their mess of a country. Look the Americans have some of the fattest, greediest and morally suspect people in world. Telling everyone else how they should be behaving is just a way of not acknowledging all the crap that's under their own nose.

.: posted by womanist 9:22 AM