GDW ECLECTICALLY BLACK NEWS: Goodbye Zimbabwe, hello re-colonzation - remember folks, I TOLD YOU SO!!!

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson

Habari Gani - Ujamaa 

I truly hope no one is surprised by this.  The fools who pushed Mugabe out of office ha set this up to happen all along.  Zimbabwe is set to be recolonized again.  To paraphrase  Carter G. Woodson  in his book, "The Mis-Education of the Negro," there are some Black people who are not happy or comfortable if they are not under the subjugation of white monsters (erroneously called "masters") - they are accustomed to coming in through the back door; if there is no back door, they will create one of their own to go through.  Watch and learn about the residual slave mentality - SMH 

Goodbye Zimbabwe, hello Rhodesia - I am truly ashamed of the people of Zimbabwe for being so stupid. The only thing this so-called new leader will lead them to is re-enslave meant, re-colonization, loss of all their rights, and loss of there country.  Stuck on Stupid -  hope the rest of Africa is watching and learning - if they were smart, they'd be intervening and putting a stop to this madness.  Or do they, like the people of Zimbabwe, also think that the white man's ice is colder?  

STAY BLESSED

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December 23, 2017

1st White Farmer Gets Land Back Under Zimbabwe’s New Leader

http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/12/23/1st-white-farmer-gets-land-back-zimbabwes-new-leader/

By Associated Press

                                                                                             (AP Photo/Farai Musaka)

Farmer Darryn Smart, left, and his family are welcomed back to their farm, Lesbury, by workers and community members Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017, in Tandi, Zimbabwe. 

The family who were evicted by gun-wielding police and a mob associated with the ruling party returned to a hero’s welcome, in a sign that the new president is charting a 

path away from predecessor Robert Mugabe on an issue that had hastened the country’s international isolation. 

TANDI, Zimbabwe (AP) — A white Zimbabwean farmer evicted by the government of Robert Mugabe has returned to a hero’s welcome as the first to get his land back under the new president, in a sign of reform on an issue that had hastened the country’s international isolation.

With a military escort, Robert Smart made his way into Lesbury farm about 200 kilometers (124 miles) east of the capital, Harare, on Thursday to cheers and song by dozens of workers and community members.

Such scenes were once unthinkable in a country where land ownership is an emotional issue with political and racial overtones.

“We have come to reclaim our farm,” sang Black women and men, rushing into the compound..

Two decades ago, their arrival would have meant that Smart and his family would have to leave.  Ruling ZANU-PF party supporters, led by veterans of the 1970s war against white minority rule, evicted many of Zimbabwe’s white farmers under an often violent land reform program led by Mugabe.

Whites make up less than 1 percent of the southern African country’s population, but they owned huge tracts of land while blacks remained in largely unproductive areas.

The evictions were meant to address colonial land ownership imbalances skewed against Blacks, Mugabe said.  Some in the international community responded with outrage and sanctions.

Of the roughly 4,500 white farmers before the land reforms began in 2000, only a few hundred are left.

But Mugabe is gone, resigning last month after the military and ruling party turned against him amid fears that his wife was positioning herself to take power.  New President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a longtime Mugabe ally but stung by his firing as vice president, has promised to undo some land reforms as he seeks to revive the once-prosperous economy.

Smart is the first to have his farm returned.  On Thursday, some war veterans and local traditional leaders joined farm workers and villagers in song to welcome his family home.

“Oh, Darryn,” one woman cried, dashing to embrace Smart’s son.

In a flash, dozens followed her.  Some ululated, and others waved triumphant fists in the air.

“I am ecstatic.  Words cannot describe the feeling,” Darryn told The Associated Press.

Smart’s return, facilitated by Mnangagwa’s government, could mark a new turn in the politics of land ownership.  During his inauguration last month, Mnangagwa described the land reform as “inevitable,” calling land management key to economic recovery.

Months before an election scheduled for August 2018 at the latest, the new president is desperate to bring back foreign investors and resolve a severe currency shortage, mass unemployment and dramatic price increases.

Zimbabwe is mainly agricultural, with 80 percent of the population depending on it for their livelihoods, according to government figures.

Earlier this month, deputy finance minister Terrence Mukupe traveled to neighboring Zambia to engage former white Zimbabwean farmers who have settled there.

The Commercial Farmers Union, which represents mainly white farmers, said it plans to meet the lands minister.

“I am advising our members to be patient and give it time.  But I do see many of them going back into farming,” said Peter Steyl, the union’s vice president.  “The government seems serious about getting agriculture on track but how it is going to achieve this, I don’t know.”

The firmness with which the government ensured Smart’s return signaled resolve.

At the farm, a soldier sat quietly in a van that acted as an escort for the family.  His services were not needed.  The people gathered there share deep social bonds with the family, away from the politics of race and elections.

“I have known this boy since day one,” said 55-year-old Sevilla Madembo.  “He was born here.  I took care of him when he was young.  He is back to take care of me now that I am old.”

She was born at the farm, which was home to her parents and grandparents.

“We are part of one family.  We belong to the Tandi people.  That’s why we are going to perform a traditional African ceremony before we start on production,” Darryn said, going through the farmhouse.

Locks to some rooms had been changed by the “new owner,” a cleric with close ties to Mugabe’s family who has since lost his claim.  Other rooms had been ransacked and most property was missing.

Left untouched on the walls were a portrait of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a photo of Zimbabwe’s last colonial leader, Ian Smith, officiating at an agricultural fair.

Local chief Peter Tandi led efforts to lobby Mnangagwa’s administration to allow Robert Smart to return.  “He voluntarily gave up his estates to the community when the land reform program started.  He continued helping us with technical knowledge, equipment and other inputs,” Tandi said.

“That man supported the guerrillas during the war.…  He gave us a place to hide from colonial government soldiers,” said Gift Maramba, a war veteran and local ZANU-PF official.

Smart and his son held back tears while greeting familiar faces.  Others were keen to get on with business.

“Hey Darryn, I want us to talk about my beans I stored in your warehouse,” one villager said.

“We can discuss that later, man.  Come on, for now, let’s just be happy to be with each other again,” Darryn replied.

THIS IS A CAUTIONARY TALE FOR AFRICA - I TOLD YOU SO - AND IN CASE YOU SO!!

AAU - WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

Stay Blessed & 
ECLECTICALLY BLACK

Gloria 

CELEBRATING MY FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF GRADUATING FROM LINCOLN UNIVERSITY - YAAAY!!!

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson

Hello All:


This week end I will be celebrating my 50th anniversary of graduating from Lincoln University. Actually, I've been celebrating my 50th Anniversary, in one way or another, the entire year.  And I am so grateful to be here to celebrate it with my classmates, and to finally be a part of those who came before me who had likewise reached this milestone in their lives.

 This year has been a long list of 50ths - the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of Black Power by Stokely Carmichael and the great Dr. Charles V. Hamilton; the 50th Anniversary of Black Power; the 50th Anniversary of Thurgood Marshall being appointed to the Supreme Court; just to name a few.

1967 was a milestone year in so many ways - I was the first child in my family to graduate from college - and by extension, the first grandchild to graduate from college.  Coming from a family of educators and professionals, it meant that I was keeping the tradition alive of obtaining a higher education.

I was also the first one in my family to go to college outside of Oklahoma.  Until then, all my relatives had attended Langston University, an HBCU - or Oklahoma State University.  In 1963 I went against the grain and was accepted at Hampton Institute (now University), in Virginia.  My family was none too pleased, but I also paved the way for my sister and cousins to explore options outside of our Oklahoma homeland.

And while I loved my "Home by the Sea,"  my background in Civil Rights activism from the age of 10, made it difficult for me to completely accept Hampton's rigid rules; so I was also the first in my family to be expelled from  college.  In 1965, I and several other classmates, sat in on the President of Hampton and locked down the administration building  for three days because we were not allowed to participate in the march on Selma, AL.   It was a bold move - but we felt that it was necessary because a Black administration was actually denying Black people the right to stand up for issues that were in the best interest of Black people.  Twenty of us were secretly expelled the day after Hampton's 1965 Commencement; after having been promised amnesty for our actions.

I had been allowed to serve as usher for the commencement, and and had the privilege of escorting the great Thurgood Marshall to the stage.  I had the honor of having a brief, but memorable conversation with this great icon.

 THE GREAT LINCOLN GRAD AND SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
THURGOOD MARSHALL 

But this turning point of being expelled from Hampton for taking a stand, was a major factor in my life.  The saying "they meant it for evil, but God meant it for good" is exactly true in this case.  Because, had I not been expelled from Hampton, in 1965, I would never have been admitted to Lincoln University.  I had never even heard of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. I knew there was a Lincoln University in Missouri - but I definitely was not interested in going to school there.

In fact, when I finally faced the fact that I was not going to change Hampton's mind and allow me to complete my education there - I returned home to Oklahoma City, and was told by my dad that I would never leave Oklahoma City ever again, and that I might as well get a job and start earning my own living.  And I did try to apply for jobs, thinking that I would start earning my own money to put myself through college.  However, my skill sets were not up to par - most of the jobs were factory work - but I couldn't qualify for manual labor; let alone housekeeping in hotels and other menial jobs.

By this time a friend of mine - Jay Johnson, aka Jah Jahannes - who had graduated from Lincoln University in 1965, learned of my plight through is wife - my best friend Pat (I was her maid of honor in their wedding). Unbeknownst to me he advocated for me to Professor Paul Kuehner (the registrar) at Lincoln, to bring me in as part of the first group of 16 coeds to be admitted to Lincoln to live on campus.  Talk about synchronicity!!! Because of financial difficulties, Lincoln University, which had been an all male Black University for over 100 years, was finally opening their doors to allow females to attend and live on campus.  The guys were definitely not pleased - we were invading their collective man caves - they were being forced to be gentlemen; wear ties on Sundays - the campus was being transformed to accommodate us - sidewalks and street lights were being installed throughout the campus; and the guys were being pushed out of their all male dorms to make way for their new female  counterparts.



When I got a call in reference to Lincoln, I thought it was a joke - Jay used to do fake German accents - so I assumed he was calling to tease me - so when he asked if I wanted to come to Lincoln University, I flippantly responded; and when he asked if I needed money - of course, flippant me, responded,  "I need all the money I can get."  When he asked me how I wanted to travel by train or plane, I insolently told him that I was in no hurry, so the train would work just fine for me.  When the tickets and the admission letter arrived two days later by air mail special delivery, I realized I had been talking to the registrar, that this was real, and that I had been rude and insulting.  I told my mother that I could not go to Lincoln because I was too embarrassed.  She got on my case and told me that it was too late to be embarrassed - and that I had better start packing before my dad found out and refused to let me go.  I had gotten a second chance, and I had better not blow it this time.

So I  packed up all my gear - a trunk and 7 suitcases - and took the train to Lincoln University.  It was a two-day train ride from Oklahoma City to Philadelphia.  Now, I thought I had arrived, only to find out that I had to transfer from the train to the Greyhound Bus line. I'm out here by myself - not knowing anything about Philadelphia or how to get to Greyhound - but back then, there was a shuttle that took you from 30th Street Station to Greyhound once a day - if I missed it, I would have to wait for the next day.  I kept counting all my bags to make sure I didn't lose anything - somehow I managed to get everything into the shuttle and make it to Greyhound; and from Philly, finally arrive at Lincoln University - three weeks after classes had started.

When I got off the bus, and they unloaded all my things onto the road - all I saw was acres and acres of corn.  And my heart sunk - Several things were going through my mind ad the same time:  One was the fear that I had traveled 1500 miles to end up at Langston University; the other was how was I going to get all my luggage through the cornfield to Lincoln's campus, which I assumed was on the other side of that vast cornfield.


Suddenly, I heard a voice across the road call out, "Hey, are you the girl from Oklahoma?"  I turned around and saw two guys standing across the road looking at me - they were Joe Reed and Bill Wallace.  So I responded, "Yes, I am."  So Joe asked me, "So where are your cowboy boots?"  I started laughing as I realized that apparently there were no secrets at Lincoln - otherwise, how would these guys know that I was from Oklahoma.  They came across the road, picked up all my luggage and take me to my room at the Alumni House.   I had arrived at Lincoln University in October 1965.

It was my Junior  year- while most of the other students were freshmen - with the exception of one white female student - Honey Hastings, and Carol Black, also a Junior, who lived off campus, but was a full time student there, having started there as a freshman in 1963.  Being a Junior  gave me some privileges that allowed me to escape some of the hazing the Freshmen had to endure - such as singing the Alma Mater song over and over again.

Because of my Civil Rights background  at Hampton, I was also type-cast as a radical.  A moniker  I was quite proud of, which attracted the friendships of Sam Anderson, Anthony Monteiro, Paul Moore (deceased), Julian Ellison - all of whom marched to a totally different beat.   I also had several friends from Africa, because of my friends at Hampton - who were from Sierra Leone, South Africa and Nigeria.  As a result I had a double minor in African Studies and American History; and worked in our own campus based African Museum - at that time the only Black university to have its own  Africa Museum.

Lincoln's inner diversity, audacity, and Afrocentricty was such a welcome change from Hampton's bougie atmosphere.  I loved it!  I became a part of the Pan African Student's Union - with African brothers from practically every country.  I was made peer counselor for African Students from Non Independent African Countries who were refugees and attending Lincoln. 



I made so many wonderful friends as a result of that role - lifelong friends; many of whom were heroes in their own countries.  Where Hampton had campus rules that restricted your right to move around, Lincoln was an open campus - where there were no curfews and we were pretty much on our own.



I have always felt that I was in a privileged space at Lincoln.   Especially having the opportunity to study political science under Dr. Charles V. Hamilton - legal counsel for SNCC, and one of the finest and most dynamic Black men on the planet - then and now.   He was not only the most dynamic personage on the campus, but he walked his talk - often having to go to Mississippi and other areas to rescue members of SNCC from white racists - a bold move when you consider that this Black man routinely laid his life on the line to cross into the south to defend our Black heroes from racist white judges, jailers and policemen.  The entire campus would turn out for the "Hamilton Report," when he returned, updating us on the things that happened during his foray into the belly of the beast.

THE GREAT DOCTOR CHARLES V. HAMILTON 

Our Iconic professor went on to head Columbia University's International Political Science Department, but never forgot his early days at Lincoln.  And we have never forgotten him.  He just celebrate his 88th birthday on Thursday, October 19; still as active as ever.  

STOKELY CARMICHAEL - KWAME TOURE`

The other highpoint of my Lincoln life was Stokely Carmichael and H. Rapp Brown coming to Lincoln to consult and collaborate with Doc Hamilton on strategies during the high point of the Civil Rights Movement. But the icing on the cake was when Stokely came to Lincoln in October, 1966 to enunciate the tenets of BLACK POWER at Mary Dodd Brown Chapel - to a packed audience.  It was the first time we had heard the statement 'BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL!"  and the statement BLACK POWER! We left that assemblage feeling totally empowered.

The following summer Dr. Hamilton and Stokely Carmichael wrote and published the definitive book BLACK POWER, with the research being conducted on Lincoln's campus - this is the 50th anniversary of it's publication  - and it's even more relevant today as the day it was published.

NNAMDI AZIKEWE - LINCOLN GRAD AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA 

Another wonderful memory was the first time we saw Black models wearing natural hair styles and modeling Afrocantric clothing - thanks to Sam Anderson, Julian Ellison and Paul Moore.  There had been dissension between African and African American students - with African American students making disparaging remarks about their African classmates - who made up nearly 1/3 of the student body.  In an effort to quell the hostility, Sam was able to get permission to bring the Grandassa Models, Elombe Brath, Gus Dinizulu, and other Afrocentric performers to the campus.  He advertised the models by posting photos around the campus for six weeks before the actual event took place.  It raised the curiosity of the African American brothers so much that they began asking their African classmates if women in Africa really looked that good. Of course the answer was always "Yes!"  By the time the Grandassa Models finally arrived, they were falling all over themselves to make sure they had front row seats to catch the show.  

This is what we were wearing 50 years ago - and we were all natural!

You never saw so many men turning out to see an Afrocentric fashion show.  It was a tremendous hit, and solidified the relationships between African and African American classmates.  Suddenly guys were wearing dashikis, learning more about their African heritage, learning African languages and philosophies. 




 Lincoln University had graduated two African leaders who became presidents of their own countries - Kwame Nkrumah and Nnamdi Azikewe.  Several of our classmates were related to current African leaders - such as Peter Ndiege, the brother of Tom Mboya of Kenya.  Several of our classmates have returned home and taken their places as leaders after having studied at Lincoln - Paul Moonyane (Lesotho), Farai Malianga, (Zimbabwe),  Paul Dumba (Sierra Leone),  Juni Sechele, Hidipo Hamutenya (Namibia), Foday Turay, Naib Iscandari , Beale Morgan,  and so many others.  I have lifelong African friends with whom I am still in communication.

KWAME NKRUMAH  LINCOLN GRAD AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF GHANA

And my African American brothers and sisters - Carol Black, Joe Williams, Joe Reed, the Late Jah Jahannes, St. Clair Henry (Trinidad), Sam Anderson, John Canada Terrell, Mike Prince, Tony Montiero, Oliver (Bmore) Franklin, George Turner,  Richard (Chubbs) Williams;   Ron (Mouser) Moffitt, Gene Harvey, Vaughn (VT) Thomas, Dwight Murph, Faruq Iman (Gregory Smart aka Bwana), Rob Johnson,  and a host of new friends as a result of our AALUPA - which has expanded my involvement exponentially.

There are so many wonderful memories of my days at Lincoln - such as learning that we were in the heart of the mushroom capital of the world - via one of the foulest odors on the planet.  The day Sam Anderson, Paul Moore, Julian Ellison and I went to New York to the UN to protest Ian Smith's Unilateral Declaration of Independence which threatened to prevent Zimbabwe from receiving their liberation - it was November 11, 1965 - the coldest day in the year; and we were the only ones to show up.  It had been called by a national organization - and even they didn't come out to their own rally (LOL).  We drove back to Lincoln frozen, dejected, disillusioned and pissed off.

One event I will never ever forget was the day the KKK threatened to come onto the campus and burn it down.  The students and Black faculty mobilized to protect the campus and set up watches to make sure they did not succeed in their threat.  Doc Hamilton and several students had guns and advised all the white teachers, including then Lincoln president, Dr. Marvin Wachman, to make themselves scarce, lest they be mistaken for the enemy.   That evening, my best friend, Maxine Stewart, a member of the NAACP, persuaded myself and our African boyfriends Peter Ndiege and Charles Wanyandey, to go with her to an peace vigil that was being held in the next township.  Also with us was Henry Ayot and Nyawonga Misori - all from Kenya.  As we were driving down the pike, we began seeing cars parked on the side of the road about three miles from the campus.  There were several police cars as well as regular private vehicles.   As we came closer to the scene, we saw a huge cross being lit on fire on the side of the road, and somewhat visible to the campus.  It was the first time any of us had ever seen such a sight in person.  We slowly drove past the burning cross and the whites - some in sheets, and others just in plain clothes - who were gathered around it.  Of course, it was a strange sight for our African friends, and Henry Ayot decided to drive back past it to get a closer look.  

 Over the protests of myself and Maxine he did a U-turn and drove back past the scene.  One of the policemen noticed the car coming back and pulled us over.  My heart was in my mouth.  I could see my Dad now telling me that I was supposed to stay out of trouble this time.  When we were pulled over, the policeman was joined by two others, who made us get out of the car, and demanded to know what we were doing there.

The entire time they were forcing us to march towards the burning cross and the crowd of crazy rednecks who were standing around it.  In the meantime, Nyawonga Misori was saying, "Diplomatic immunity - we have diplomatic immunity!" over and over again.  When I realized what he was saying, I told him to shut up, "These guys can't even spell diplomatic, let alone understand what it means.  You're going to get us killed."  But he kept saying it over and over again - and the closer we got to that cross, the louder he said it:  "DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY - WE HAVE DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY!!"  One of the policemen heard what he said - and stopped the other two - "What's that you say, boy!  Diplomatic immunity - a nigger with a foreign accent.  We can't touch them."
They rushed us back to our car - pushed us in, and escorted us back to Lincoln's campus, warning us to not leave it again til the sun came up.  When we got to the campus there were reporters from Delaware who had come to see how Lincoln was handling the threat from the KKK.  Maxine and I weren't saying a word, however our African friends were telling everything they saw.  The headlines in the paper the next day read, "Lincoln U Sends Spies to KKK Rally."  LOL

In addition to celebrating my 50th anniversary of graduating from Lincoln, I am also celebrating the 51st year of being Happy Nappy.  Thanks to Sam, Paul and Tony - the unholy trio - who pressured Maxine and me to go natural, after a zillion excuses, I got my natural in October 1966.  And it's been that way ever since - Long or short - I have proudly worn and Afro for nearly two thirds of my life.

There are so many more things I remember from my Lincoln University days, and to d recount them all would fill a book (don't worry, I am going to write one); so I'm going to give you some of the highlights:

Watching Doc  Anthony Roberts and Gene Harvey (both of Bermuda) rehearse their steel band at the student union building. It was my first exposure to Caribbean music (other than that of Harry Belafonte); and learning that our African and Caribbean instruments were superior to those European instruments.



Being a soccer cheerleader - Lincoln University had the best soccer team on the eastern seaboard - defeating Villanova, Morgan State, Farleigh Dickinson,  among others; and coming within one point of winning the nationals in 1966. I distinctly remember one game where the captain of Farleigh Dickinson's soccer team, a white racist South African, called one of our players from Lesotho - Paul Moonyane - a dirty kaffir (the equivalent of the "n" word in South Africa).  And, while they were on the field, Paul cracked the shin of the offensive racist, and so demoralized the rest of the team that Lincoln won the game by a wide margin.  It also promoted the coach and members of the Farleigh's team to apologize profusely to Paul and the rest of the team - and sent a signal to the rest of the white soccer players that Lincoln may be a Black team, but they weren't taking any garbage from anybody.

The many on-campus parties we had (practically one every other weekend) at Lincoln where I never ever missed  dance - with 600 males and 16 females, it was pretty much a lock.  I also admit that had my father known Lincoln U was an all male school, I would never have been allowed to attend (LOL - again). The guys, however, had to go to Cheyney State and Delaware State to supplement their lack of females on the campus.  They used to call the Cheyney State coeds "Cheyney Debs."

Lincoln University Rabble - which was our system of code words and special names we had for each other.  Everybody who was anybody on campus had a Rabble Name or alias. It stuck with us throughout life - and we wore it as a badge of honor - a term of endearment we used to identify each other.

Lincoln University's unique grading system.  We used a point system instead of letter grades - in other words if you got a 1 it was equivalent to an A; a 2 was a B; a 3 was a C; a 4 was a D and a 5 was a nickel which meant you flunked. Nickels had a bad reputation at Lincoln because it was also used to identify whether you were pretty or ugly.  If a guy threw a nickel at a girl, it meant she was butt ugly.  If she picked it up, it confirmed it.  LOL

Of course, having the greats and near greats come to Lincoln was also amazing.  Meeting Langston Hughes, Adam Clayton Powell Jr, Ron Milner, who each stayed with us for a period of time.  I remember Adam Clayton Powell had just done his recording "KEEP THE FAITH, BABY."  This was after he had been censored by Congress and stripped of his powers.  He came to the campus and hung with us.  He smoked those big cigars of his and talked to us about our responsibility as Black students.  We have Doc Hamilton and President Wachman for inviting him to spend some time with us.

ADAM CLAYTON POWELL CAME TO LINCOLN SHORTLY AFTER RECORDING
"KEEP THE FAITH BABY

Langston Hughes came and spent some time as a writer in residence, and introduced us to Ron Milner, who was just getting started as a playwright.  He was so handsome, all of us females were finding reasons to be a part of his lecture series, just hoping he would find some reason to speak with us   The great Ruby Dee, Judith Jamison,  Billy Paul, and so many wonderful personages came to Lincoln, and spent time with us students leaving an indelible imprint on my memory banks.

LANGSTON HUGHES

When the Burnside brothers from the Bahamas told us that they were related to Sidney Portier, we, of course, didn't believe them.  That is, until he came to the campus to visit his nephews - thereby shutting us doubters up for all times.


When Gil Scott Heron decided that he was going to drop out of Lincoln to pursue his career as a singer, and told him to stay in school because he couldn't sing - good thing he didn't listen to us - he and Brian Jackson went on to found the Midnight Band - and the rest is history. He got the nickname Spiderman because he was tall, lanky, gangly and all angles - never having an ounce of fat on him anywhere.  






     

Likewise, when Randy Cain decided to join his bothers to start the Delphonics - we just knew he was headed for failure - and we're still singing their songs today.

Graduating from Lincoln in 1967 was a major accomplishment for me because I was carrying 21 credits per semester - and all my classes were solid with no electives. I was determined to graduate on time with my classmates.  I used to carry around books stacked at least two feet high from class to class because each teacher acted as if their class was the only class we had.  We would "fight material" every night.  If we didn't and we "washed out" we would be set on the "pike."  And none of us wanted that to happen.

If I started out at  Lincoln as a bougie kid, I left there a total Black woman.  Not only did I leave  knowing my Black history - having grown up studying it as a kid in Oklahoma - I now knew contemporary Black history, heroes, both here and Africa.  And in many instances, my classmates were contemporary heroes who were now in the US after having going up against the colonial monsters in their countries.    Some of them, especially those from Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, and Namibia, could not return home during that time because of bounties that had been placed on their lives.  These guys were heroes.  Liberators, champions of freedom.


In the fifty years since graduating from Lincoln, I've seen the rise and fall of Black Power; participated in so many countless activities with the view towards liberating Black people - traveled to  Haiti and parts of the Caribbean on several occasions - become a mom, married an Ape (Lou Wilson from Mandrill) - become a Grandmom five times over; started a Blog:  ECLECTICALLY BLACK NEWS  interviewed and interacted with thousands of celebrities from political figures to movie stars to artists and entertainers.  I'm proud to say that all three of my offspring completed college and have survive my motherhood; with one, my youngest daughter Adiya, having graduated from Lincoln in 2013.  

My love for Lincoln continues to expand and grow I am proud to be a part of the Lincoln Legacy - and one of the first 16 Coeds on Lincoln's campus.  And of the undying love we have for our Alma Mater  - taking my place in the long line of Emeritus.  

Tomorrow we march with others who have gone before us and still remain loyal to Dear Old Lincoln U, and have the privilege and honor of participating in the inauguration of our first Female Alumna President, Dr. Brenda Allen.   I look forward to having an integral role to play in the future expansion of our First Black College - 163 years and counting 

I congratulate my fellow Alumni  - the class of 1967 - - and all those who have the privilege and honor of attending Lincoln University, and being a Lincoln Lion or Lioness.  

Hail! Hail LINCOLN!!

Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
Gloria 

Agent Provacateurs Try To Destabilize and Topple Zimbabwe and President Robert Mugabe - Wake Up Africa - Time to Band Together!!!

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson

Hello All:

When I'm not reading my own Blog, or dealing with issues in our community, this is one of my favorite go-to Blogs for information on what's happening in our MotherLand - because we have remember that Africa is still under siege as well.  In fact, Black people all over the world are under siege. 

And you will note that there is a common denominator involved in many of the problems and issues and distorted information we are being fed:  CNN - also known as the Continuously Negative News.  I frankly think they are synonymous to the CIA.  They are  a shill - pretend news, who are more involved in disinformation and distortion than real news.   

Zimbabwe President ROBERT MUGABE

But, rather than comment on the commentary, I will let you read it for yourself.  I will also go on record in saying that I stand for President Robert Mugabe, and with all the presidents throughout Africa had his Blackbone.    It's time that the OAAU began standing against this kind of ignominious behavior - Africa is either a power or a candidate for new enslavement.  The so called heads of state who are here in the US for the UN General Assembly need to be sitting down together and making some serious decisions about the way forward, or they  will find themselves the target of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade of the 21st Century - and this time the only thing that will survive will be their lands and their mineral wealth.

It's no secret that Africa is being deliberately destabilized by ersatz tribal and internecine wars; Chinese strongholds, and undermining of governments.  

Do not allow them to destroy what Southern Africa has built, they way they did Egypt, Libya and Northern Africa!!! You should have learned enough  by now to know when you're being targeted.  Teach your people to stand together, and not be pushed into panic mob violence.  Trickery, lies and deceit are the ways in which they will take everything from you.  Time to move together or be picked off separately.  WTFU Africa!!!

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No CNN aanpour, Zimbabwe Not At Tipping Point

September 22, 2016
Features, Opinion & Analysis
http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2016/09/no-cnn-amanpour-zimbabwe-not-at-tipping.html#linksHildegade Manzvanzvike

Zimbabwe Herald

CNN’s Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour was sold a dummy, for Zimbabwe’s tipping point undCer the leadership of President Mugabe and his ruling Zanu-PF party is still way off, despite what they envision. Nevertheless, it is not game over yet. They are still working on the real game changer.After interviewing President Mugabe in New York, in September 2009, like most of them in the West, she probably believed that this was going to be the final session of the United Nations General Assembly he was attending.

She grilled him then, so it seemed, but when all was said and done, she still could not pin him down. A quick search of that September 24, 2009 interview will reveal how Amanpour fared against Africa’s last standing statesman.

An opinion piece by Rashweat Mukundu (programmes manager with the Media Institute of Southern Africa – Misa), and published by the newzimbabwe.com on September 25, 2009 says all in the headline: “How Amanpour lost to Mugabe.” One of the accompanying pictures from the Amanpour set reads, “Victory . . . Robert Mugabe”.

She badgered President Mugabe about the emotive sanctions issue: “What are you going to ask? Are you going to ask President Obama to lift sanctions that are imposed?”

At least she acknowledged that the US and its allies imposed illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe, but President Mugabe responded: “Not really. I haven’t come here for President Obama, to address the United States. I’ve come here to address the General Assembly, which is part of the United Nations’ structures. And, we are entitled to address matters that affect us in the global environment, and the matters that affect us in a particular way as Zimbabwe. And, this is what I’m going to do.” (edition.cnn.com)

Seven years on, Amanpour seems unrelenting as she and CNN want the Zimbabwean leader in particular to be a global conversation, especially at the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, which is underway.

The major issues of contention: alleged “police brutality” during unsanctioned demonstrations, the state of the Zimbabwean economy and, the levelling of the electoral playing field for opposition parties.

And what better way to hit back again at the Zimbabwean leader than using the recent violent protests sponsored by some Western governments and their media.

For several days leading up to the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly, CNN devoted so much airtime on Zimbabwe, with the hope of creating an impression that Zimbabwe was burning and ungovernable, and that it was time the United Nations Security Council intervened.

This writer watched many of those reports in the build-up to UNGA71, including the one aired on September 16, where Amanpour was doing an analysis of the protests, in the same vein making insinuations that this was a final push by the new-look activists using social media, that would force Government out of power.

It was also surprising to hear David McKenzie, another CNN reporter who usually reports from South Africa making a preposterous claim that they had struggled to enter Zimbabwe to do their report.

They can fool some Zimbabweans, but not all. We are not so blinkered as to not have noted the presence of a CNN reporter at President Mugabe’s 92nd birthday celebrations at the Great Zimbabwe monument in Masvingo, and that she was also giving live feeds to their Atlanta, Georgia studios.

Had she also struggled to enter Zimbabwe just to report on birthday celebrations hosted by the 21st February Movement annually?

We were therefore not surprised when our sister paper the Sunday Mail, reported this week that “two British operatives known for engineering violent ‘protests’ in North and West Africa were dispatched to Harare in early September, with Western media, led by CNN following with sustained coverage of purported ‘police brutality’ and ‘human rights violations’.”

When you read and listen to their reportage between the lines, you see that they are people that get overly excited about gadgets they designed, and are now being used to deliver desired results.

The Internet, social media and all other ICT gizmos will not go away any time soon, but it is the original intent behind these inventions that matters. So to them, social media being used to try to overthrow democratically elected governments is a means to an end.

It was also hypocritical that of all networks, CNN tried to build such a case against Zimbabwe when it was public knowledge that the United Nations General Assembly was going to host a high-level summit meant to address “large movements of refugees and migrants, with the aim to of bringing countries together behind a more humane and coordinated approach” – the first such summit at Heads of State and Government level.

And, President Mugabe gave the Zimbabwe Government’s perspective just like he told Amanpour in 2009 that it was a platform where he would “address matters that affect us in the global environment, and the matters that affect us in a particular way as Zimbabwe. And, this is what I’m going to do.”

Maybe the United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Harry K. Thomas Jnr’s Facebook post on Monday (video clip on www.herald.co.zw), should cool down this over-zealous reportage, based on untruths and unverified intelligence information, despite the fact that he is an active player in the saga.

The US Ambassador says in the clip: “To date, Zimbabwe has welcomed more than 

9000 refugees, and we thank the Government of Zimbabwe for honouring its international commitments by providing a safe place for refugees.” This can only be achieved in a peaceful environment, but these are the positive elements about Zimbabwe that cannot have “free airtime” on major networks like CNN.

Ambassador Thomas Jnr’s colleague, outgoing French envoy, Mr Laurent Delahousse, who has also been accused of sponsoring the shadowy groups behind the violent protests echoed similar sentiments of peace and safety in Zimbabwe when he was bidding farewell to Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mr Delahousse pointed out that violent protests were not confined to Zimbabwe, but are common feature in France: “Zimbabwe is a peaceful country, and in France, we have seen much more violence in demonstrations than we have seen in Zimbabwe,” he said.

Thus we wonder what the fomenting of these protests was meant to achieve. An increase in an already bloated refugee population, this time coming from a destabilised Zimbabwe in particular, and the Sadc region in general?

We also question the diplomatic offensive from some of these envoys — US, Britain and France suddenly, after the continued onslaught through their Press statements and media reports, in the past weeks.

Are we missing something? Is it another game changing tactic, considering that the much reported demonstrations against President Mugabe by Evan Mawarire and company, at the UN headquarters have been a monumental flop, and embarrassment to them as his backers?

You don’t have to be an Albert Einstein to see that whatever they are planning for this region using Zimbabwe as an entry point is no laughing matter, and it is time that the region sees through these sinister plots and their ugly consequences.They are people on a mission. If they succeeded in North and West Africa with the so-called Arab Spring, the Middle East and Afghanistan, their conviction is that southern Africa will be no different. And if seasons are anything to go by, spring is upon us right now.

Why they undertake these “missions impossible” also lays bare the bigger picture. For more than two years now, violent protests have rocked a number of US cities, under the banner “Black Lives Matter”, protests that are a result of police brutality against black people. At the time of going to Press, there were violent protests in Charlotte, North Carolina after US police shot and killed yet again another African-American man. Black women are now scared for their children, because US police officers would rather shoot dead an unarmed black man, while they shoot and wound a suspected terrorist!

The run-up to both the Democratic and Republican primaries to choose presidential nominees was fraught with protests, some of them very violent.

They have so much muck in their backyards, but like the hypocrite Jesus talks about in the Bible, they are self-appointed judges who “look at the speck of sawdust in (their) brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in (their) own eye?”

Jesus cautions such moral right standing saying: “How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:3-5)

Trust takes years to build, seconds to break and forever to repair. So, once bitten,So, once bitten, twice shy!

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Information Minister Slams United States for Hypocrisy

September 23, 2016
Lloyd Gumbo Senior Reporter
Zimbabwe Herald

United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Harry Thomas Jr is a hypocrite who rushes to castigate local law enforcement agents for using minimum force to quell illegal demonstrations, but turns a blind eye when police officers in his country kill his kith and kin, a Cabinet minister has said. Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Christopher Mushohwe said the callous killing of a disabled black American Keith Lamonte Scott in North Carolina, US, on Tuesday was clear testimony of how the American ambassador has no moral ground to criticise Zimbabwe when police use tear gas and water cannons to crush illegal demonstrations.

Dr Mushohwe’s remarks follow a string of shootings of black people by US police that have stoked outrage in most parts of that country.

The killing of Scott came a few days after a white police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, again killed another black man Terence Crutcher whom video evidence indicates was raising his hands above his head to show the police that he was not armed.

Said Minister Mushohwe yesterday: “The issue of the wanton killing of African-Americans and the Latinos in the US is a very common feature. In fact, it happens almost every week.

“But the African-Americans just like our dear ambassador (Mr Thomas Jr) here do not open their eyes to those callous slaughter of people of colour.”

He said statistics indicated that American police had killed hundreds of African-Americans and Latinos in the last two years alone.

Minister Mushohwe said it is therefore disturbing that Ambassador Thomas Jr rushes to castigate the police here when they use water cannons and teargas on illegal demonstrators who loot shops and destroy property.“When the American ambassador, for example, accredited to this great nation stands up and condemns us because water cannons have been used on some people and not talk about the cold-blooded and callous murder of people of his colour in his own home-backyard then you begin to wonder whether this is not a racist comment. It’s no longer to do with human rights.

“We would expect the American ambassador to make sure that he talks about these evil, brutal slaughter of African-Americans in the United States and condemn his Government. Not to just come here and try to meddle into our internal affairs.

“We know who these people are when they come here, we are compelled to believe that they come here with an agenda to cause regime change. They send a character of the ambassador who is an African-American to come here.

“He has a short nose like ours and one would think that he thinks like an African. But no, when a white police officer shoots a man or woman of colour back in his home country, to him it does not matter. But if you take a bucket of water and throw it at the opposition here then it becomes a criminal offence.“We want to hear these people if they are really concerned about human rights and democracy condemn what is happening in the United States. What even makes it worse is that those who are complaining by and large are even white but a man of colour who sees his brother being callously shot and a disabled person for that matter does not,” said Minister Mushohwe.

He added that it was strange that some of the most critics of police actions in Zimbabwe did not condemn the destruction of Government property and looting of shops of ordinary people trying to eke a living.