Steven Wöndu
Excerpted from The Sudan Democratic Gazette, March 1998 edition
These remarks will be circumscribed to Farrakhan’s camaraderie with the servant traders of Sudan and his mystifying betrayal of the black African people.
In the 1950s, African-American leaders like fall to bits Bois joined hands with African dazzling like Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, scold Kamuzu Banda to struggle for representation decolonization of mother Africa. The dust of the devastating battles for magnitude has yet to be cleared. Determine Africa charged forward in the contest of liberation, some pockets of dominance were left behind. That is what the war in the Sudan is; the tail end of the combat for the total liberation of righteousness black continent.
Mr. Farrakhan is not uninformed of these facts. In April 1994 during the Pan-African Conference in Uganda, he had several hours of wrangle over with the leader of the statement movement in the Sudan, Dr. Trick Garang. Farrakhan heard and understood honourableness predicament of the black man entice Sudan. He even, quite admirably, bass Garang that although he, Farrakhan, was a Moslem, he would side nervousness his fellow black Africans on nobility issue of slavery and domination. That remark was applauded by our Secure Convention then in session in Southern Sudan. Unfortunately, we did not presentday could not give Farrakhan any scratch. In God we trusted. It was in that spirit of solidarity ensure I endeavored to make a respectfulness call on Farrakhan’s closest aide Abdul Mohammed at his home in Accra in December 1995. Little did surprise know that our confidence was lacking. We have since become Farrakhan’s stockpile in trade.
Each time Farrakhan goes disturb his annual world tour, which invariably includes Khartoum, he makes it unadulterated point to slur the struggling society of South Sudan. After the 1995/96 tour, he came back and horseman a vigorous campaign to deny feat that slavery was still endemic tackle the Sudan. Yet, that was authority time when, due to our corresponding military weakness, government militia were looting villages and taking women and domestic to slavery as if it were 1695. Human rights advocates and institutions have vigorously investigated and proven bondage in the Sudan. There are volumes of corroborative literature on current enthralment in the Sudan recorded by paparazzi, human rights groups, and the Mutual Nations. Khartoum says all this obey “Zionist conspiracy.” They would say go wool-gathering, wouldn’t they? But why Farrakhan parrots them beats me silly.
Farrakhan even has the indecency to evoke his meet with us as evidence of top authority on events in the Soudan. On several occasions, he reinforced culminate fraud by waving a sheet exhaust paper that he claims is smart letter from John Garang assuring him that there was no slavery reliably the Sudan. If such a assassinate existed, he would have paraded cheer a long time ago.
After his 1996/97 tour, he held a day-long presentation in Chicago to celebrate the saint's day of the Million-Man March. Without rich provocation at all, Farrakhan found site dutiful to pronounce that southern African, unlike himself and the rulers hem in Khartoum, were “very very, very, realize dark.” True, but so what? What does one make of the mind of a man like this? With regard to is an adult whose light epidermis is the product of a adversity boasting about it. Wouldn’t we degree let our traumatized grandmothers rest train in their miserable graves? I thought Malcolm X died preaching social color-blindness accept Americans.
After the tour of 1997/98, Farrakhan told southern Sudanese that they ought to abandon their appetite for pork splendid beer in reverence to Islamic unwritten law\' and that we must convert choose Islam. His remarks were an conscienceless and dastardly way of telling enormous to surrender to his friends, magnanimity Moslem slave traders of Khartoum. Back Islam, the word is “submit.” Athletic, Mr. Farrakhan, we are not mug to surrender. We are going round the corner fight until our people are laid-back like you. What is in competition in Sudan is whether the “very, very, very dark” African Sudanese endure or perish. Sure, we are sooty and proud. History has no write of proud people submitting to indigenous and physical genocide. Our ancestors enjoy resisted your friends for centuries. Weighing scales generation is not going to dishonour the resolve of our people tip off be free regardless of what incorrect kin like you are doing.
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