Remarks

As a woman l have no country.
As a woman l want no country.
As a woman my country is the whole world.

Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf: Gurdian, 26 Sept. 2007



Those who oppress you, first have to dehumanise you,
which is how they maintain power over you........................




On ldentity


History is an important aspect of personal and group identity, which is why mass immigration and the creation of a multi-ethnic/multicultural society have undermined "our" sense of national identity.

Notwithstanding the existence of a few black individuals and communities going back a long way, essentially the history of these islands (which cannot be separated from that of Europe as a whole) is "hideously white" (and Christian).

Where is the "we" the "us" and the "our" ("our" history and prehistory, "our" ancestors, "our" shared values and beliefs, "our" shared culture) in the multi-mass society of modern Britain?

It seems to me that all "we" have in common (apart from our eminently important shared humanity, of course, which, however, we share with everyone on the planet) is our shared dependency on and interest in exploiting "our" British citizenship.

In order to do this "we" have to maintain the myth of "British identity", which was relatively easy in the past, but not any longer.

"British identity" is revealing itself for what it really is (and always has been): a cloak (once a lavish garment, but now increasingly threadbare), beneath which lie the power structures of the state, the original and primary purpose of which (perfectly understandable from an evolutionary/Darwinian perspective) was, and essentially still is, the exploitation of society by its most powerful and privileged elites and individual members.

http://www.spaceship-earth.org

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2185468,00.html





Taking responsibility

.............the incredible inhumanity in Africa and the fact that Africa is probably the only place that needs another Biblical deluge without a Noah’s ark.

This ........is just another message out of Africa that shows the brutality, rape, murder, enormous inhumanity of Africa......... tired of hearing about hopeful women and children: the one thing Africa needs is to always acknowledge their history and examine it, re-examine it over and over and over.

The greatest obstacle to change in Africa is how Africans justify their history, their attitudes towards many injustices, as “tribal” or even “cultural.” Have you guys heard that South Africa is not only the rape capital of the world, but that many women justify it on “tribal” customs? Why do we bother telling Africans about gender, social and economic justice when they have their competing ideas, ideas that generally see violence as fair punishment and are generally scornful of “Western” justice?

Africa’s everyone pity case and everyone likes to rant on and on about it. Have any of you actually tried working for a health or grassroots organization, only to find that Africans treat women like sexual garbage and African women will not ever defend sexual victims? It makes everyone who tries to “save” Africa look like they are very much in the wrong place.

Africa needs to always, always be held accountable for its history. History in every sense: not just national, but local, everything from what happened a year ago to yesterday. Women need to report rape, bodies need to be accounted for and graves must be built. Countries CANNOT wipe out their history: it turns everyone into animals when they try to do so.

— Posted by G
Source: When history repeats itself, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2007