Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 07:09:46 -0400 From: "Fragano S.J. Ledgister" <f.ledgis-AT-morehead-st.edu> Subject: Re: poco and pomo Olalla Pud wrote: > > You say that life is conflict AND cooperation but your practice shows that you do not believe in > both. Though you may believe that fighting is superior to cooperating and superior to learning, > exchanging and growing I do not. I reiterate that the you may well be fighting for what has oppressed > you and fighting against your own liberation when you default to violence/sarcasm/hostility in fear > of self-awareness. You may be reading into the words of others the very things that you fear are > true about yourself. Your responses do not connect with the original text; it is as if you are > attacking an imaginary opponent. For instance, nowhere in my response to your attack and your > glorification of western violence did I say it was not appropriate to fight, only that it is not Where, precisely, do I glorify western violence? I suspect that you are projecting your own insecurities on to me. What are you afraid of? > necessary to fight all of the time. When you find yourself fighting all of the time you not only > find yourself destroying what may have been alliance but also destroying yourself. Who fights all the time? Of course, I could quote Frederick Douglass: 'if there is no struggle, there is no progress.' > When you find the courage to look back at yourself as critically as you look at others, perhaps then > you will better understand how to fight oppression. As long as you cast yourself in the role of the > rebellious, the contradictory and contentious, you will remain attached to the very things that hurt > you and you will never be free. You do not know who I am, what I do or have done, nor do you have any idea of what role I see myself in. Instead of responding to what I have written, you have chosen to cloak an ad hominem response in pseudo-humanitarian language. > I wish you good luck and ask simply that you not attack me again. If you must address me and my > concerns, please do not use the tools of my oppressor to do so and please take the time to actually > read what I have written before mounting your attack. You may find, when you allow yourself to see, > that you have fewer enemies than you think you do. > Ki Nkan Mase, > OP You mean that if I respond to what I see as nonsense I should not use a computer, the English language, and the rules of grammar? The tools of the oppressor, btw, include telling the oppressed how to express themselves appropriately. ________________________________________________ --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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