[lbo-talk] Re: "Save Darfur" etc (and other responses)

[Joseph Wanzala]

Just to clarify - and not to make too much of it - I was born Uganda in 1968 - my father is from Uganda and my mother from Kenya (Like everyone else from Kenya I have claimed my peice of Barak Obama whose half-brothers I went to school with and whose late fater was a family friend, but this is also true of many other Kenyans - of course given Obama has taken a decidedly Clintonian/DLC tack, I now surrender all my claims to him). My family left Uganda when Idi Amin arrived on the scene and I have lived variously in Kenya, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Britain, Mexico, and the United States.

Of course, even if I had been born in and not travelled anywhere outside the US, it would not make my points any less valid. I happen to have a personal connection to the Uganda/Rwanda/Congo/Sudan nexus (on my mothers' side I am ethnically the same as people in Northern Uganda and parts of Southern Sudan), but my political perspective is not necessarily a function of my biographical particulars nor do the latter validate the former. 

Joe W.

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> Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 15:43:38 -0700
> From: wsokol52 at yahoo.com
> Subject: RE: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: "Save Darfur" etc (and other responses)
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
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> 
> 
> --- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Isn't Joe from Africa?
> 
> 
> Honestly, I do not know.  I was under the impression
> that he was from New York, but if not - my mistake. 
> This is what happens when one assumes something about
> a person one does not know.  Mea culpa ....
> 
> Wojtek
> 
> 
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