janjaweed taunting darfurian woman as they gangraped her:
“this year we are your god, there is no god except us”
was sitting in the doctors office
and picked up a beatup times magazine
a special on genocide in the sudan
seems the word genocide was invented
by a holocaust survivor who wanted to
ensure that the world would never again
stand by and watch the attempted
extermination of a people
this guy raphael lemkin forged the word from
greek geno = tribe and latin cide = killing
first he waged a campaign to get websters and oxfords to accept it
then in 1948 he went door to door at the new united nations
and got them all to sign the genocide convention
the un’s first human rights treaty
which obligated them to come to aid of any people
declared in danger of extermination
but of course presidents and the like hate
being obligated to defend people in ticklish situations
carter refused to call the cambodian killing fields genocide
nor did bush 1 in serbia or clinton in rwanda
colin powell was, somewhat ironically,
the first senior us official to present congress
with a formal finding of genocide
"when we reviewed the evidence, we conclude – I concluded
that genocide has been committed in darfur”
but again, the powers that be, awash in realpolitic, just wont act
the united states is wary of another islamic engagement
the un went from threatening sanctions to ‘considering’ threatening sanctions
(100s of 1000s dead and no punitive un actions whatsoever have been taken)
the europeans, wary of alienating a recalcitrant sudan, observe the diplomatic niceties
china, pakistan and others have oil deals that cause them to abstain
the african union begging for permission from the sudan to send more observers,
not to stop the killing mind you but to monitor it
and the islamic block backs the sudan fully and without conscience
so everybody wrings their hands over the killing and the suffering
and nothing is done
its not actually genocide say some, they arent actually trying to kill them all
but lemkin distinctly avoided total extermination as criteria
on the premise that by the time the killing got totalized it was too late
and so the killing goes on
and burning out villages and raping ‘to make light babys’
a systematic effort to erase african peoples from their world
10000 a month dying in darfur while the world nervously fiddles
well I know ima catch flak for it
but this what rickydoc flowers got to say
its about time we stopped depending on the world to handle this
its about time we started supporting the militarization of darfur
them janjaweed dont go hullygullying down south
cause down south they have learned how to bring smoke
took them a generation or two but they figured it out
ive said it before, ima say it again
as long as blackfolk have to depend on others to save them
its going to be nothing but one crises after the other w/them people
this reminds me of another killer in the sudan - muhammad ali
one of the most efficient killers of blacks that ever was
depopulated entire areas of the sudan after his son was killed on a slaving raid
just like they doing now
anybody rename himself muhammad ali as a statement of black pride
has misread his history and does not understand our destiny as a people
this has gone on long enough
apparently this must be a time of weeding and weaping
but one day the sudanese will reap what they have sown
we must make it clear to our enemies that there is a price to be paid
god knows we too weak to piss in a pot right now
folk kick our ass and dare us to whimper
they dont fear our vengeance and rightly so
but that will no longer be
i am rickydoc flowers - I speak in the name of the old gods
and I swear before god and all thats holy, vengeance will be ours
they want holywar then by god we will show them holywar - demoja
i name it so
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