File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9807, message 2


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.

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