(To be read to the accompaniment of Tim McGraw’s “Grown Men Don’t Cry” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0BP1dYVjEg)
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The Devil in the Details: The Opposition to the Draft Kenya Constitution
The case of the Kenyan church leaders opposed to the adoption of the draft constitution still does not make sense. In fact, one gets dizzy trying to follow their arguments because the leaders keep the shifting goal posts with fallacies, outright distortions, political blackmail and spiritual ultimatums. It is as if the leaders have decided to wear Kenyans down into voting against the draft.
Creating a New South African Identity By William Gumede
The raging debate over what makes one South African, which currently focuses on whether a person is African enough, is simply the wrong debate.
Can we ever cobble together a common South African-ness?
A Response to Skip Gates' Slavery Absolution By Barbara Ransby
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Henry Louis Gates, Harvard-based celebrity, Cambridge-trained literary scholar, self-taught historian, and current expert and entrepreneur of Blackness, has offered the ultimate post-racial text. And a pernicious one it is. His essay, "Ending the Slavery Blame-Game" prominently featured on the New York Times editorial page on April 23, 2010 calls on the nation's first Black president to end the nation's sense of responsibility for the legacy of slavery.
Kenyan Churches, Racism and Pan-Africanism
It goes without saying that the case of the churches against the draft Kenya constitution does not make sense. On one hand, they argue that the Kadhi courts in the constitution make Kenya an Islamic state, and yet Kenya should be secular. On the other hand, the leaders want that same secular Kenya they are fighting for to adopt the Christian position on abortion. But worst of all, they have blackmailed Kenya by saying that the country should arrive at a "consensus" with the church in which Kenyans have no choice to acquiesce to the church's position. read more »
