The news coming out of Zimbabwe for the past few years has gone from absurd to downright appalling... I wonder if this is what Bob Marley had envisioned for once a great country when he sang more than twenty-five years ago at Rufaro Stadium celebrating Zimbabwe's independence.
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny,
And in this judgement there is no partiality.
So arm in arms, with arms, well fight this little struggle,
cause thats the only way we can overcome our little trouble.
-- Bob Marley, Zimbabwe
Yet another beating of the same opposition members in the span of a week, in the airport no less... read here.
As an African-American, my first thoughts are, "what the hell is wrong with those people?". Those people referring to African leaders like Mugabe who continue holding Africans back and downtrodden, and for what? Is it control? Is it money and the good life for themselves? Is it just plain ignorance? Me, I kinda think its the latter and it really pisses me off.
I think its definitely time for the "old man" to go... he's caused enough pain and suffering with his king of jungle antics. If I were to hold an audience with Mugabe, I'd probably put it to him like this:
Mugabe, for the sake of your people, please just find a hole to crawl into until you take your last breath. Instead of moving your people forward by 25 years, you have moved them back by 50 years. You tend to lay blame at the feet of the white man for your short-comings as a president and as a man entrusted to help the weak of your country. Your "land grab" policies were doomed from the onset and only used a polictical tool, and for what? With the way you steal elections, why would you need to use the land grab as a political tool? It just doesn't make sense to me...
Haven't you heard that beating of opponents with metal bars is barbaric and not acceptable in this day and age? Haven't you heard that Africans are sick and tired of guys like you who only serve to prolong their suffering? Do you have any idea what kind of image you portray to the rest of the civilized world? Its certainly not an image of being civil... and that reflects on all Blacks.
Where are groups and people who make up the African Union? Where are these people who are suppose to stand for positive change on the African continent? Thabo Mbeki, where are you? Why are you not being more vocal towards the Zimbabwe mad-man Mugabe? All you guys in my book are worthless if you are not willing to stand up to this guy...
It will be a joyous day when this tyrant no longer exists either in Zimbabwe's politics or on this earth...
- Mike
Peace out...
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