Comments on: BHM - Maurice Bishop & Thomas Sankara http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/10/bhm_-_maurice_bishop_thomas_sankara.html black looks Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:52:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Carolyn Scarr http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/10/bhm_-_maurice_bishop_thomas_sankara.html#comment-86497 Carolyn Scarr Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:01:08 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/10/bhm_-_maurice_bishop_thomas_sankara.html#comment-86497 It is unfortunate that Brian chooses to repeat the lies spread around about President Aristide. I visited Haiti after Aristide's return from the first coup and found a country filled with life and hope and determination to build a good future for themselves and their children. The military headquarters had been turned over to the women's ministry. This kind of hope is not found in a country run under cronyism. People know when they don't have a chance unless they have insider access. I recall after the first coup the lies which were told about Aristide. They were sufficiently detailed that disproving them was easy. Telling generalized lies in the form of name-calling is harder to disprove, but you can just look at the way people continue to support Aristide and call for his return to know that he was not a crook. Maybe people called for the ruturn of Mugabe, but I doubt it. Not in Patrice Lamumba's country. It is unfortunate that Brian chooses to repeat the lies spread around about President Aristide.
I visited Haiti after Aristide’s return from the first coup and found a country filled with life and hope and determination to build a good future for themselves and their children. The military headquarters had been turned over to the women’s ministry.
This kind of hope is not found in a country run under cronyism. People know when they don’t have a chance unless they have insider access.
I recall after the first coup the lies which were told about Aristide. They were sufficiently detailed that disproving them was easy.
Telling generalized lies in the form of name-calling is harder to disprove, but you can just look at the way people continue to support Aristide and call for his return to know that he was not a crook. Maybe people called for the ruturn of Mugabe, but I doubt it. Not in Patrice Lamumba’s country.

]]> By: Sokari http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/10/bhm_-_maurice_bishop_thomas_sankara.html#comment-86480 Sokari Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:47:12 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/10/bhm_-_maurice_bishop_thomas_sankara.html#comment-86480 Brian @ your comments are not worthy of a response Brian @ your comments are not worthy of a response

]]> By: Brian http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/10/bhm_-_maurice_bishop_thomas_sankara.html#comment-85883 Brian Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:53:01 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/10/bhm_-_maurice_bishop_thomas_sankara.html#comment-85883 I'd like to add that there's no question Aristide was anti-imperialist. And there's no question the US intervention there was criminal. However if trying to save your own corrupt, autocratic regime under the guise whining about imperialism is enough one a hero, then surely Mugabe is saint of saints. I’d like to add that there’s no question Aristide was anti-imperialist. And there’s no question the US intervention there was criminal. However if trying to save your own corrupt, autocratic regime under the guise whining about imperialism is enough one a hero, then surely Mugabe is saint of saints.

]]> By: Brian http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/10/bhm_-_maurice_bishop_thomas_sankara.html#comment-85877 Brian Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:45:43 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/10/bhm_-_maurice_bishop_thomas_sankara.html#comment-85877 Aristide was a crook who practiced cronyism and headed the most corrupt country in the western hemisphere. It's an insult to lump him in the same category as someone like Thomas Sankara, someone who rooted out corruption and lived a very humble personal lifestyle. Aristide was a crook who practiced cronyism and headed the most corrupt country in the western hemisphere. It’s an insult to lump him in the same category as someone like Thomas Sankara, someone who rooted out corruption and lived a very humble personal lifestyle.

]]> By: katch up http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/10/bhm_-_maurice_bishop_thomas_sankara.html#comment-85838 katch up Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:41:01 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/10/bhm_-_maurice_bishop_thomas_sankara.html#comment-85838 Thomas Sankara is one of the sons of Africa whose vision and ideology, if exploited, would really have given meaning to African Identity. Sankara had gradually sank into the Burkinabe, the notion that Africans can take and carry their destiny. His country being a leading producer of cotton was well into the course of producing its own clothes. His decision never to wear foreign made clothes, and insistence that his people had to do the same did not go well with imperialists led by the then French president Francois Miterrand. The home-made clothes were called " Sankara arrive" since people kept them in offices ready to put them on once word went round that Sankara was on the way. What irks me, even as we Africans blame the west is the role of African leaders in selling our identity. Sankara's assasination was carried out by his best friend, the current Burkina president. Not because he had a better idea, but because the white face of imperialists was too bright for his sense. Only greed was more appealing to him. Others of his betrayer kind who hid behind intellectualism include Leopold Sedar Sengor. In as much as Black Identity is under attack from the west, it cannot be destroyed without the assistance of some Blacks, who do not understand what the history of a people is made of. A conman cannot have access to your coin unless your greed leads you to give in to the enticement. In that case you are more guilty than the conman since you posses the tool to block him, but greed stands in your way. Thank you who bringing this out and paying a tribute to such heroes. Thomas Sankara is one of the sons of Africa whose vision and ideology, if exploited, would really have given meaning to African Identity.

Sankara had gradually sank into the Burkinabe, the notion that Africans can take and carry their destiny. His country being a leading producer of cotton was well into the course of producing its own clothes.

His decision never to wear foreign made clothes, and insistence that his people had to do the same did not go well with imperialists led by the then French president Francois Miterrand.

The home-made clothes were called ” Sankara arrive” since people kept them in offices ready to put them on once word went round that Sankara was on the way.

What irks me, even as we Africans blame the west is the role of African leaders in selling our identity.

Sankara’s assasination was carried out by his best friend, the current Burkina president. Not because he had a better idea, but because the white face of imperialists was too bright for his sense. Only greed was more appealing to him.

Others of his betrayer kind who hid behind intellectualism include Leopold Sedar Sengor.

In as much as Black Identity is under attack from the west, it cannot be destroyed without the assistance of some Blacks, who do not understand what the history of a people is made of.

A conman cannot have access to your coin unless your greed leads you to give in to the enticement. In that case you are more guilty than the conman since you posses the tool to block him, but greed stands in your way.

Thank you who bringing this out and paying a tribute to such heroes.

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