X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 16:04:08 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Subject: Subject: Re: SLAVE TRADE IN THE SUDAN On Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:58:14 +0100, Stephan Leineweber wrote: > > >The following is part of a series of articles published on the Internet >by the 'Coalition Against Slavery In Mauritania And Sudan' (CASMAS). > >< http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~slc11/ > > >The articles deal with the African's world view of the Arab and the problems >that view poses for the African-American. >snip..se in the Black community who claim identification with Africa will be >unable to rise to this historic occasion without the ability to access and >process accurate information. It would also be beneficial if the Black >community had leadership on the issue of slavery--the sad truth is that it >does not. All the African-American leaders in this country--produce your own >list if you desire--are hiding under their beds until this gunfight over the >question of slavery is over. ..." > >"The point--Black leadership in both America and Africa is bankrupt. ..." > What a racist, paternalistic and ignorant conclusion. Let me see if I get it, because whites are oppressing other whites in the former Yogo state then white leadership in Europe and America are at fault. Because Hitler abused jews, then all whites and particular white leaders the world over should bear the fault. Because IRA continues its bombing campaign, then Irish-American leadership are at fault for not condemning this..gee I hope Kennedy is listening. I could go on but i think the point has been made...don't you... umoja Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb Without struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko yours in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513 529-1235 email: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu