There are times that I realize how safe and ultimately disconnected I actually am here behind my computer. I can spit fire upon devils and dimwits with equal aplomb. Showing both parties the underside of my arse on frequent occasion. It makes me feel smart and victorious. I imagine myself to be worldly and progressive. As long as I keep the rose colored tint on my monitor I don’t ever have to see my reflection and how foolish I truly am.
When I was mining the internets for the images that I abscond with from various locales and URL’s I came across the picture posted above. The caption was interesting in that it described an area in Africa that I had no knowledge of the U.S. being involved in. Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Egypt, the list goes on and on, but there was no Congo mentioned in my mind’s recollection. What resource did Congo contain that would intrigue the United States? It must be diamonds. Or maybe it’s gold. I pray for the people of Congo that is isn’t oil because you see the graveyard that Iraq has become. To my surprise and then my dismay I learned the material that has made the Congo the new millenium’s ‘Killing Fields’.
Coltan is the compound name for the minerals columbite and tantalite. This combination forms a metallic ore that is used in the creation of capacitors for electronic equipment like cell phones, computers, video games and personal audio devices. The surge in demand for these items has fueled the mining exploitation and civil war in the Congo. The United States provided the military training and arms for the Rwandan guerilla forces that would invade the Congo and start the war. The civil war continues unabated after nearly four million people have been killed because of it. Forget about Iraq, and don’t even mention Darfur, there is a civil war being fought right now and the blood is on your hands because it’s inside your handheld PDA. The blood in on my hands as well as I type away on my laptop.
Gotdamn this capitalist devil tricks me to dance with him at every turn. I can’t escape his clutch and I don’t think that I want to. I’m not hardbody enough to live my life without watching television or drinking alcohol or giving a prostitute forty fucking dollars. The only way for me to save the Earth would be for me to kill myself and permanently remove my carbon footprint from the globe, but that would suck since I have some kick azz NetFlix movies coming to my house. I tried to stop supporting diamonds that didn’t have the Kymberli certificate until I learned that diamonds are so easily smuggled across borders that even one with a certificate is prah’lee from a conflict region. I try to be a good person too by not staring at retarded people directly into their eyes. It’s difficult and when they catch me I look away quickly.
I would like to be some kind of hero to the people, but in all honesty I am as shallow and lazy as the worst person. If I had to choose between my comfort and the convenience of communication that my computer and cell phone provide and whether or not a few hundred booty scratchers get to see another morrow… They should do like RON JEREMY and kiss their azzes goodbye. I’m not courageous or commendable enough to care about some people that I will prah’lee never meet. Now I see why white is always throwing money around to SALLY STRUTHERS and the whatnot. I’m starting to feel the guilt that privileges have to deal with. I will give a bum on the subway a dollar tomorrow and pray that this feeling goes away.
Oh, and yeah, KILL YO’ FUCKIN’ iPOD!
Yo I betchu this nigga dallas penn is some ol herb ass, socially retarded, teh ghey, sugar cookie eating bitch nigga like Bol. These bloggers are gettting exposed out here. Just like bol this nigga talks alot of shit behind his alter ego he has created on the internets.
DP, this may interest you.
http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Woman_without_borders/2552.html
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http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Working_for_the_city_living_in_limbo/2740.html
You did your part today by educating us. Knowledge is key. But for us to react would mean giving up the luxuries we get to indulge ourselves with on a daily basis. The machine keeps on rolling because we are all too spoiled to do anything but complain. Sucks.
Oh and I never pegged DP for a sugar cookie fan….more like chocolate chip or oreos.
speak on it dallas. all the reminders we can get, the better. while we take our democracy for granted, people in the congo are dying for it. literally.
a shameless bslang plug for my congo post:
http://biochemicalslang.blogspot.com/2006/07/democracy-wherever-and-whenever-we.html
American blacks killing each other in the drug trade or infinitely supplying labor for the prison industrial complex…
Africans killing each other over natural resources that they never see the high profits that come from the bloodshed created for these goods…
“We went in there with guns! They left with government jobs! Whitey, is something else.”
I may not be willing to give up all the luxuries’ living in America allows me but I am always thankful for what I have.
I think the Success of the “Negro” in America is important because I believe that it would have a trickle down effect to our brothers and sisters
Around the globe. If we can gain political and economical power in America we can funnel those resources to places like Zaire the Sudan and Haiti.
Similar to what the American Jew does in Israel.
The bright light at the end of the tunnel is that if and when those poor and unstable regions in Africa gain control of the abundance of natural resources in there possession they can bring the world to there knees.
Strong post, DP. Thanks. Not to be corny, but you make the world a little bit smaller with this kind of stuff.
^Candice, David’s Cookies was that crack in cookie flesh.
It seems that Billy Sunday is having some spillover from the XXL site. It’s filled with e-mail thugs who curse you from their parents’ basements.
sugar cookies kick ass!!!! especially with that cream frosting…
peep:
http://www.cherylandco.com
on a serious note, i was listening to NPR last night and they were building about this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Africa_Command
the guilt you are experiencing is similar to white guilt that liberal ass white americans feel. But acknowledging it is just about accepting humanity
^^”The only way for me to save the Earth would be for me to kill myself and permanently remove my carbon footprint from the globe, but that would suck since I have some kick azz NetFlix movies coming to my house.”
Fiuh’nee! Nice post DP.
What the fuck is with Glock? Can someone please explain to him that this is geopolitics, not Dipset vs. The ROC?
Sugar cookie dough is even better…
(Back to the lecture at hand)
Its interesting you dropped this DP, I was reading a story on CNN.com about this on Monday –
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/02/12/child.soldiers/index.html
What would be even truly scarier about all of this is that they are listening to Urban Action cRap music while in the process of doing these acts. Its terrifying when you think about the potential influence that “entertainment” bullets have on the releasing of real ones…
Africa is fucked the fuck up. Please look up the Peterson projection world map to see why fools are still salivating over the Dark Continent. The shit is huge in real life.
Do y’all know what David’s Cookies are?!? How can you not agree that David’s Cookies are the truth? Someone needs to co-sign David’s Cookies or my azz is out of here.
Oh I am down with David’s cookies milk chocolate chip. Especially when they are rolling right out of the oven…warm and chewy.
and yeah…Africa is fucked the fuck up.
^Madame Queen Candace beat me to it. However as a youth and a teen I just wasn’t doing it like that to enjoy $3 cookies like that especially when one didn’t suffice. Miss Fields wasn’t no punk either word to Wally Amos.
Mrs. Fields….mmmmm….
DAMN. This world is effed the eff up. So when are we going to realize that everything America wants or needs creates wars? That despite us always waving the democracy and humanity flags, that we are no better than Nazi’s?
US AFRICA COMMAND? WTF? Seems like more geopolitical terrorism hiding behind a humanitarian front. Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Monrovia, et al. How have these countries benefited from our presence? I mean besides getting life necessities like CELL PHONES and NIKE’s?
I need to step up my game and get back on my grind.
KILL YO’ FUCKIN’ iPOD!
^Hell muthafuckin no.
Theres blood on almost everything. Always has been always will be.
MANY many factors contribute to whats going on in the Congo. Its just as much an ethnic war as it is a war over resources.
Call me ignorant. Call me coldblooded. Call me both but almost everything we buy (food, clothes, etc) has a sad and sometimes bloody story behind it. Some of the stories make me feel sad but not guilty.
The Congo War (the deadliest war since WW2) has alot more to do with the radical leftist Marxist goverments than anything. Its not the resources that are evil its the fact that no democracy (of any kind) exists therefore the resources are exploited and used to fund a war that would exist with or without the contributions from the resources. (Alot of rebels make money off coltan sales and considering how fucked the fuked up the goverment is theres worse places the money could go)
If coltan, gold, diamonds etc didn’t exist I doubt it would change the amount of ppl dying since more are dying as a result of the war (famine etc) than they are dying from bullets.
A kid in Africa holding a gun made in America is no more a wicked site than an American juvenile holding a gun made outside this country.
Guns don’t kill ppl….u know the rest.
Lion XL Says:
So when are we going to realize that everything America wants or needs creates wars?
^Please kill yourself if u honestly believe what u just wrote. And read a few books on the history of the world before u blame one country. The history of the world is a long one so maybe read three or four books instead of a few.
Lion XL Says:
I need to step up my game and get back on my grind.
^Yes u do.
^DuckDown…Cosign..
Through out wars have been waged over items like salt, opium even humans. But I believe that the world has grown and matured physically (more independent countries, larger populations, etc) , isn’t time for humanistic and socialistic growth?
We are still bound by the same ethos that the cave men lived, when they fought wars over who slept on the biggest rock.
Guns in warehouse are just that guns in a warehouse. When we remove those guns from the warehouse and give them to people, is when we become collaborators in that war. And we allow those people to use those guns for killing.
^Duck down…kill urself cuz your an idiot. I would tell you to read a book but if you can’t even read my post correctly……
I didn’t say we were the only country living by that ethos. But we are the most vocal and parade around like we have the right to shit on other countries as we wish.
and besides we are not talking about the history of the world, we are talking about current events. Pick up a dictinary and it will explain the difference. Wars are being fought over different ideals today than they were yesterday.
I don’t know anything about David’s Cookies but Miss Fields Chocolate Macadamia nut hot out the oven is the Jizzoints. If dudes like Glock had a few more cookies and a few more hugs As a kid he might not be doing random e-drive-by’s on Geo-politcal post.
Good points Duck Down but you seem to have left out the ramifications of White Supremist Colonization.
In lost all resp for ya now. Ya never heard od why Congo is such an interest to US. This was a MAIN story 2.5 years ago dayyummmm
That must be a rcok ya livin under..see previous post. The story on Congo Minerals is anout 3 yrs old word to mother……The entire Continent is rich and abused it is jsut that we do not care to resserach furthe than daily smooze….Peace
For all the Non Believer out there
Introduction
Coltan is found in countries all over the world, from Brazil to Canada (De … “Wars Without End.” Newsweek. 14 July 2003: 28. “The Modern Mining Process. …
too stressed out to reply, but this shit isn’t awesome. i still feel like we need to fix our house up before we can help with anyone elses. god bless them babies.
no dollars to send over cause i’m trying to retire early and dedicate myself to revamping school systems and revitalizing inner cities.
sugar cookies is the best. you want them great ones go by any middle school across america. they working on sugar cookies in home ec on this side of the map. YUM NEEYAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on second thought…..some of yall adult asses might wanna steer clear of the playgrounds. none of that funny shit.
*wonders what Akon thinks*
^^^Duck Down, I will call you ignorant as per your wish. As a matter of fact, your azz is IG’NANT
“The Congo War (the deadliest war since WW2) has alot more to do with the radical leftist Marxist goverments than anything.”
Keep in mind that Zaire is now called the Democratic Republic of Congo. You must be out of your bird azz mind to think that people aren’t being killed for control of the resources?!? This is the only reason that wars are fought on this scale. The value of Coltan rises daily as we create more and more consumer(and military) equipment that is dependent on it.
By telling you that the war in the Congo is all about some tribal bullshit it allows the mainstream Americans to pooh-pooh it out of their minds on some, “Oh, that’s just how them nigger monkeys get down” type shit. Don’t believe the hype.
I could so use a bag of David’s Cookies today. Fuck it! Mrs. Field’s will suffice.
Duck Down: “read a few books on the history of the world before u blame one country.”
Would that be American history books?
You’re being naive if you don’t think the US are responsible for countless world conflicts.
Also, while it is true that other countries cause problems like this, that doesn’t make it better, or right for the US to do it.
The mindset is very straight forward: for the few who make the big decisions, there is so much money to be made, and such an element of power and supremacy, that there is nothing they won’t do to “win” the money game. If they assassinate someone, it’s just a job well done… if they secure the natural resources in an entire country, chalk up a win in the revenue column. The side-effects of their “wins” are not only irrelevant to them, but often a positive effect; if the country is in turmoil, then it is hard for them to unify and take hold of their own resources.
“your azz is IG’NANT”
^sometimes
not sure why u pointed out to “Keep in mind that Zaire is now called the Democratic Republic of Congo” …too bad aint shit Democratic about it
I understand America is responsible for many conflicts. The conflicts taking place currently in the “Democratic Republic of Congo” not so much. Do we contribute to it yes.
D, you up on Philip Emeagwali? Look him up, INTERESTING ish! Happy Black History Month!
f’real joe, I feel the same way…its like one feels they can’t escape, at every turn something we’re using in this society is currently being paid for in blood and for Africa, colonialism hasn’t really left, its just taken a different form.