Posted on 11/19/2008 9:16:18 AM PST by Calpernia
Instead of pinning the label of "communism" on virtually all adverse" criticism and tossing it into the ashcan, it would pay our leaders to give ear and evaluate such criticism purely on its merits. We are a considerable distance away from perfection; that being so, there is room for improvement in our way of life.
These comments" are the result of a letter published recently in the Christian Science Monitor by Seyd Mohammed Sarodio, who said he was going back home to Jakarta, Java, after spending six years in America. Sarodio is a non-white and, as such, views the U. S. through the eyes of a colored man. He is also one of the many millions of non-whites who are the victims of discrimination while they are being told hypocritically that our democracy is the best thing in the whole world.
"You Are a Fanatically Racial People"
Hitting directly at bur established doctrine of white supremacy, Sarodio said to America in his letter:
"You are self-righteous and talk too much about ideals. You are a fanatically racial people, and do not like anyone of a different color. This prejudice is so "deep and pervasive that it expresses itself in business, in schools, in social parties, in politics, in industrial and labor life, and even in churches.
"Your values are different. These values are reflected in your manners, which are crude; in the home life, which is strained and full of divorces, and in a loose sex life."
Point Four Program "Is Just Another Trick"
White is always right, says Sarodio. This doctrine of white supremacy causes America to support "white imperialism" and the exploitation of colored peoples, and the brown man from Java charges:
"In the world issue of right and wrong, Americans always take sides With their fellow white men. This is true whether the issue involves imperialism, power politics, or strategical maneuvers. You are always in concert with white people,
"Africa and what remains of Asia are still under the white man—European—and you support him by all kinds of methods. That is why we cannot trust the American Point Four program. To us, that is just another trick."
In one breath America "spouts idealism to disarm people" and in the next breath "as soon as they are disarmed America cuts their throats economically, militarily and politically. You Americans always want to be the upper dog. If people disagree with you, they are no good and are wrong," Sarodio continued.
Will Caution His People To Avoid U., S. Contamination
Declaring that "Americans pride themselves as the chosen people because they rule the world with their ideas and influence, their trade and armies," he said that this power is "material and will not last. But pride will not let you see the truth, and you have too much comfort to want to admit or change it."
His conclusions are based on three years at Ohio State, two years at Fordham and one year at Columbia universities, plus living in various towns and cities throughout the nation. Conditions were "about the same in all these places," he said, and concluded:
"I am going home, therefore, to my people and tell them to cultivate our own ways and try to avoid contamination of yours. This is better for me and for them."
At just about the time this letter appeared, a class in government, the United Nations and education at Columbia University heard a noted speaker say that "there is no real UN so far as the darker races are concerned."
"Trusteeship Is Just a New Word for Slavery"
This speaker was James B. Lawson, president of the United African Nationalist movement, who lectured on "Trusteeship and Non-Selfgoverning Territories In Africa." Showing the same kind of criticism as that evidenced in Sarodio's letter, Lawson said:
"To me, trusteeship is just a new word for slavery or the old colonialism. The trusteeship agreements for existing trust territories were drafted by the controlling power in each instance and submitted to the general assembly for improvement only. These agreements were drafted to facilitate imperialism. Conditions in the existing trust territories are no better than conditions in the acknowledged colonies; in some instances, they are even worse than in the colonies."
Under trusteeship, Lawson said, African and other countries "are being drained of their resources to rebuild Europe. None of this money is used for proper education of the people to whom the territory actually belongs, nor for proper health facilities, nor to industrialize these territories. This proves there is no real UN so far as the dark races are concerned; it is just the same old slave masters or new ones."
By ignoring such complaints, we are merely piling up for ourselves a tidal wave of hate which, sooner or later, will sweep over us. Would it not be better to stop now and right these wrongs while there is still time?
Agitprop. Can't defeat the charge so just "agree" to set it aside. Commie.
Thank you for fantastic research, Calpernia.
Pinging for Historical Archives.
Thanks for the ping :)
That would be Beth Davis Charlton, who helped Tidgwell with the forward of the autobiography. Sure would be nice to know when the other 3 girls were born. Mark was born in 1950.
The US (I assume that’s what you meant be “we”) stole Iraq’s oil? How so?
Very interesting. The plot just gets thicker and thicker.
My ironic reference was to the constant claims that we are in Iraq to steal their oil. We have spent hundreds of billions in Iraq, and what oil they have we BUY from them.
We didn’t get anything out of invading Iraq, financially.
The author’s claim is that the rebuilding of the economies of Europe in the early 50s was being financed by money stolen from African and Asian colonies.
I was merely pointing out that with few exceptions after 1850 the cost of running a colony was considerably higher than the amount collected in taxes and other income there. They were not a financially profitable investment. Colonies were popular for quite other reasons.
Thanks for your clarification. It just didn’t sound right! You were too subtle for me.... ;-)
Look at it this way. Could we invade and conquer most African countries, loot the place and turn a profit?
Of course not. You don’t get rich looting places that are dirt poor. In fact, most African countries usually can’t afford dirt.
Many Africans were actually quite prosperous in the 16th and 17th centuries. They thrived on the export trade.
Of course, they were exporting Africans.
>>>Colonies were popular for quite other reasons.
Control and selective breeding.
>>>Could we invade and conquer most African countries, loot the place and turn a profit?
Don’t forget Africa was being mined for the diamonds. The human trafficking and slave labor was still a huge issue (and profitable).
He knew W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Claude McKay, Carl Van Vechten, Lena Horne, W.C. Handy, Mirian Anderson, Leontyne Price, Cab Calloway, Leadbelly, Joe Louis, Carl Sandburg, Willa Cather, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. And they knew him as well.
Also Fidel Castro. He went to Cuba in the spring of 1961.
Hey! How much you want to bet he was part of that school trip! He was a teacher at Mercer Island School! That school was part of the Student Travel Club that took trips to Cuba!
Malcom X was there in 1961. Fidel met with the black community in Harlem to recruit them in 61.
I wonder if Obama is actually a ‘little younger’ vs. ‘a little older’.
I wonder if that 1961 Cuba trip Paul Robeson took is what got his passport pulled?
Wow. The connections are freaking amazing. If it were a fiction novel, it would be considered too contrived.
Meant to add - maybe his father WAS that Cuban!
African diamonds are located in very small specific locations. One could certainly capture and hold those spots and extract the diamonds profitably. What one cannot do is conquer and rule vast areas of countryside profitably.
The only guy I’m aware of who ever did it was Leopold of Belgium in the Congo Free State, and he did it by methods the Nazis might have flinched at.
Conquest and rule of a vast, poor country is just not profitable, unless there is some resource there in great demand elsewhere.
I saw that story posted here too. That was when we were trying to put Malcolm X in Washington (because Obama looks like him). Then that Cuban story came out.
We weren’t able to put Malcolm X in Washington at the right time; but we can get all of them in Cuba at the right time!
::shakes head:: Off to the kitchen with me. Later.
Which is why the ‘colonies’ work out better.
It’s like an Agatha Christie mystery except no one has been murdered, that I know of...
(I shouldn’t say that it’s too bad some bombs didn’t go off in Cuba at that time, should I?)
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