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Rumble in the Jungle (+ 30): Ali, Foreman, and the Congo

Posted 10/25 |

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I’m glad Mickey is focusing on the American Public here. That spotlight needs to be widened; too many activists are under a major delusion about the potential w/i the AP. And THAT is partly what’s wrong with looking toward the future...which supposedly holds a magical moment when understanding and attitude will take a positive turn among the AP, a time when all the patient building of a movement...will pay off. Enough numbers from the AP are not capable of turning around vis-a-vis the legacy of King Leopold, and I strongly urge all readers work on how to deal with the “little Eichmanns” and others who envelope us.

Posted by Richard Oxman from on 10/25 at 07:30 PM

Informative Mick . . . I especially appreciate how you and others are using sports analogies to make your polical and historical points. Few Americans are aware of Lumumba or Nkrumah. I am with Ox. Mick’s making the right move now, we already know a lot of this stuff . . . other Americans need to get a grip. The time, again, is now and those who got one are obliged to ‘speak the truth to the masses--no matter how bitter it may be’. Not every reader wants to plough through Chomsky style super-notated and citation riddled prose. (I want to add that if Chomsky’s reasonable fear that the human species may very well render itself and quite a few others extinct is not realized, then he will assuredly take his place alongside history’s great chroniclers, like Thucydides.) Anyway, I think that the Africa—African American connection needs more energy. Decolonization is a huge, important historical event and ongoing issue. I would only add we should continue to support the visible, if slow, beginnings of a grand campaign to either dramatically reduce or completely cancel African debts. 21st century decolonization. It is this last that ensures that continent and its many peoples will be kept down.

Posted by Theo Papathanasis from on 10/26 at 09:39 AM