Opinion / Columnist
December 12 Movement truly Pan African
22 Sep 2016 at 19:05hrs | Views
It is quite interesting and be glorified that President Robert Mugabe received a hero's welcome in the United States of America from fellow Pan Africanists. Thumbs up and hats off to the December 12 Movement for welcoming this principled statesman who has always stood by his word on efforts to uplift the downtrodden masses of this world. President Mugabe has carried on Marcus Garvey's plans, Malcom X's determination and Kwame Nkruma's vision.
President Mugabe once told the people of Zimbabwe not to look for another new Zimbabwe to come. The President said their country was in their hands; hence, their task was to build their only motherland with sweat and blood. This remind us the the words of Marcus Garvey who said "Up you mighty people, you can accomplish what you will." Garvey spoke the truth so President Mugabe is right.
The people of Zimbabwe fought a long struggle for independence and with their endurance freedom had to come at last. After the political independence the people had to continue to fight for economic independence through ownership of their land which the white Western racists continue to resist through all malicious means. Woe to this brood of vipers for they still want to dominate Blacks throughout the world.
It is indeed a misinterpretation of reality to say that the December 12 Movement members who demonstrated in solidarity with President Mugabe at the recently held United Nations Summit in New York were "hired druggies." In fact these are the true and bona fide Pan Africanists who are our genuine cadres in the fight against racism and colonialism.
The December 12 International Secretariat, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) with consultative status in the United Nations Economic and Social Council, has participated in the Commission for Human Rights since 1989 representing 49 million Africans in the United States. It established its ties and alliances with nations and international organizations around the world.
Their constant and persistent work has resulted in the pivotal hearings on racism in the United States conducted by the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. The Secretariat was instrumental in organising hearings on human rights abuses in the United States of America, criminal justice system, or death penalty conducted by UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial summary or arbitrary executions.
The December 12 Movement has participated in many international conferences and was instrumental in the call for the third UN World Conference against Racism in 2001. The movement has been known to be humanitarian in nature and most of its critics are the advocates for regime change. The movement is against the treatment of blacks in the United States of America as second class citizens as the blacks are being ill-treated by the white policemen and viewed as drug peddlers.
After everything is said and done, President Robert Mugabe and the December 12 Movement should be lauded and praised for shaming the agents of regime change for they failed to achieve what they wanted. The struggle for Pan Africanism should continue unabated.
Source - Stewart Murewa
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