Resumo de Britains 200th Shameiversary

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200TH SHAMEIVERSARY (ANNIVERSARY SHAM/E);

REPATRIATION AND REPARATIONS ARE STILL THE ISSUE

March 6, 2007 Ghana
celebrated its 50th year of independence from colonial rule by the
British Empire, proudly dubbed Ghana
@ 50 Golden Jubilee; A time to remember, a time to commemorate the first Black
Afrikan nation south of the Sahara to achieve
such a feat. This was obviously an
achievement of substance and credit to the entire Afrikan family at home and
abroad that has struggled for generations for the liberation of Africa and Afrikan
people, particularly for the Afrikans of the former Gold Coast under the
leadership of Osageyfo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, first president of independent Ghana.

This was a commendable victory, pregnant with many
challenges and opportunities. However,
having said all of that, the obnoxious behavior of the British to try and steal
part of this noble and glorious Afrikan achievement and usurp this Afrikan
celebration by implanting the suggestion that their 200th year
anniversary of the ?legislative act? to outlaw the transport of captured and
enslaved Afrikans across the North Atlantic Ocean, without freeing one enslaved
Afrikan, is not worth a celebration by Afrikans.

On Sunday, March 25th at the Elmina
Castle Dungeons forecourt and courtyard this diabolical plot by the British government via the British
Council staged a well orchestrated attempt to convince the world that there is
such a thing as British moral conscience with a program dubbed
?Reflections??.This event was staged in the backdrop of the President of the
Republic of Ghana, His Excellency John Agyemon Kufuor, being invited on an
official state visit to the UK with all the regal and diplomatic protocol
extended just one week earlier. To the non-suspecting,
already to forgive the ?Whiteman? Afrikan psych, this may not seem offensive but
to the conscious, mentally liberated Afrikan this is nothing less than a
sham/shame to the dignity of our culture and history.

Once again Afrikans were being used as pawns in a
chess game that we cannot win because the deck has been stacked against us as our
leaders, the leaders of Afrikan people continue to be manipulated by the former
colonial masters to the detriment of our people, ?throwing dust into the eyes
of the people?.

The program staged was just another example of the
shameful exhibition of the myth of celebrating 200 years of the abolition of
the slave trade. When in fact the slave trade did not end with the Wilberforce
bill but continued unabated for more than twenty-seven years, until 1834; a slave trade that the British fully
participated in, gained control of and profited from, and even until today
continue to profit from, while Afrikans are still expected to accept the crumbs
from their tables which are laden with the spoils that they have stolen from
Afrika.

The program included an array of renowned
international and local artists and performers but these performances were
overshadowed by the misguided statement/declaration of the president of Ghana
who is also the chairman of the AU as he shocked the audience with his
statements.

Sincere, from the soul compassion and understanding
was sorely lacking as three adults, two of them Afrikan leaders, took to the stage
and read statements which had been prepared in advance, lacked substance and
sounded like they were reading for a group of Primary school students. To add insult to injury, President Kufuor topped
it all off by blaming Afrikans for playing a ?primary role? in the slave trade
?because they were active in selling their kinsmen to strangers?. Doesn?t he realize that in any conflict you
can find willing collaborators to participate in betraying their people? How does that equate to a ?primary role??

Was it Afrikans or Europeans who were responsible
for the kidnap and imprisonment and exile to the Seychelles
of the Ashante King Prempeh and King Aggrey of Cape Coast
and King Kwabena Gyan of Elmina by the Dutch? Were these Afrikan leaders
sitting at the table of reasoning during the Berlin Conference of 1884? No! At that
conference a bunch of greedy, blood thirsty white men from Belgium, Denmark,
Germany, France, England, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain,
Turkey, Sweden-Norway, Austria-Hungary and the United States of America, came
together to divide the continent of Afrika for themselves ushering in a
heightened era of European imperialistic rape, slaughter, exploitation, human
and ecological disruption and devastation moving the slave trade from capturing
and enslaving individuals to enslaving a continent. How do the British justify celebrating 1807
as a moral act abolishing slavery (200th anniversary celebration),
when in 1884 they were back at the table participating in the enslavement of an
entire continent.

Was it not the Pope and the Catholic Church who
blessed the Devil vessels which carried our kidnapped people away in chains, in
hell holes of slave ships to an enduring hell of 500 years of inhuman chattel slavery? Once again, not Afrikan chiefs!

Mr.
President how much more remorse do we need to show, we are already on our knees
begging for what is rightfully due to Afrika?REPARATIONS for ?repairing the
damages? done.

Aren?t Britain and the rest of Europe, who were ?active
participants? in the Trans Atlantic Arab European Slave Trade continuing to enjoy
today, the benefits, resources and economic vestiges derived from their raping,
robbing and vicious exploitation of Afrikan people?

Then there was the Wilberforce Bill, and although it
was alleged to be a powerful moral statement, it did not stop slavery, in fact
the ban on slavery was totally ignored for an additional twenty-seven years
after its passage. So what are we
celebrating? America did not end slavery until
1865, the Portuguese and the Arabs not until the 19th century.

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