Robert Mugabe, Geriatric Insane Tyrant of Zimbabwe, is looking forward to the end of the Bush Era. In a speech made yesterday, Mugabe noted that harsh critic George W. Bush is nearing the end of his term, and that Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, another harsh critic of Mugabe, may soon lose his position of leadership. "They are all going to their political graves" crowed Mugabe. "But I will remain the president of this country."
Well, Robert, you might want to take a realistic look at Barack Obama. He is not going to become your best bud. Do not let the skin color fool you. Barack Obama is not your brand of dark skinned person. Barack Obama does not subscribe to the revolutionary rhetoric of yor ZANU Party, similar to the traditional ANC talking points of South Africa, that the greatest struggle of history is now complete, and that the white devils have finally been chased out of the councils of power in Africa and that everything will therefore be fine. That is not the world that Barack Obama comes from.
If you had bothered to read "Dreams from my Father", Obama's memoir of his formative years, you would realize that Obama does not buy the White Devils theory. Obama recently mourned the death of his grandma Toot, who he considered a White Angel. So do not make the White Devils speech where he can hear you. Obama's mother lived her ideals of racial equality, not racial blame gaming. She mixed the river of her blood with two other rivers, the Kenyan river of Obama's Dad, and the Indonesian river of the Dad of Obama's sister. That view of the world, which helped to form Obama's character, is 180 degrees from yours.
There is another factor at work here. Obama's brown skin serves as the ultimate protection for a politician willing to take you on. Think about it. It will take the racism card out of your deck. If Obama starts to give you a hard time, you could try to call him a racist who advocates the enslavement of Africa, but anyone listening to that particular speech would have a lovely belly laugh.
So, if you figure that you just need to hang tough and things will get better for you, keep on hoping, dude. Just let the cholera epidemic run it's course until there are no more victims left alive, just let the starvation rage through Zimbabwe until there are fewer mouths to feed, the cavalry is coming over the hill in the form of new leadership in the West who will accept your role as elder statesman of the Black Revolution. Good luck with that, Robert. Watch your back, and sleep lightly.
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Comments: 27
He is living proof that only the good die young.
Debra and Ishbel- yes, it goes beyond race with Mugabe. Stalin, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Mussolini, Francisco Franco, Mugabe. It is about holding onto power until they tear it out of your dead hands.
Obama will try to get the UN to do something but the UN is the same it's always been, a talking place. Russia and China will block anything there too despite the US leadership changeover
There is not enough food; clean water is not available in the smaller villages. The people of Zimbabwe need help and I doubt they care where it comes from.
Africa the place that has been robbed and raped by the white devil, yeah I said it and it's the truth!
It is good that Desmond Tutu has grown a backbone - would that other Africans would do so. The silence from countries around Zimbabwe is deafening. How many more years must the ex-colonial powers take the flak for countries whose policies are made and run by Africans FOR Africans. Mugabe pulls the 'colonialists' card every chance he gets. We LEFT decades ago.
Great article, Chris! (T H's comment's notwithstanding)
whose wife is four decades younger than he is.....
I'm not sure why they are not rebelling by now. They have nothing to lose.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)
South Africa is the key, as others have noted. Unfortunately, South Africa is operating as Mugabe's enabler for reasons of revolutionary solidarity. Very stupid to do that, since the wave of starving cholera infested refugees is on the way.
I wish the entire free world would unite and form an army to go after all these savage dictators.