Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Sweden riots expose ugly side of Nordic model (Guardian)

Only four more sites remaining Professor Harrow? I even wish that you were talking about Iranian nuclear sites after the first wave of pre-emptive strikes – and the four remaining sites more to be taken out in the second wave of operation the destruction of evil...

I would like to give Mama Mazuri Gloria five more (sites) but let's see how many more hits she can find HERE

I live here (Stockholm, Sweden) you know, Sweden is not a racist country or "the occupied territories". I have friends in all of those suburbs and can assure you that it was no "race riots".But I understand that given the background of your own backyards - this your unending obsession with your black vs white thing, the civil rights movement and Rodney King etc. you Americannahs can easily rush to conclusions and want to characterise every little Uprisingas "a race riot."

It's unbelievable! Check it out : Stockholm metro map . You see Husby there up north?

Could you believe it that the vandals took the tube and got off at the station nearest to where I live - sixteen stations away from Husby, and when they arrived at my neck of the woods the set to work immediately, smashed 25 windows of our public library - Enskede bibiliotek and the adjacent building (I counted ) and – so the librarian told me, they then continued from station to station, all the way from Husby, on the rampage, destroying public property. Extreme anti-social behaviour and it still beats me how these hooligans without that seed of destruction in their ancestral genes,would want to destroy a public library – albeit on a minor scale compared to the destruction of the great Library of Alexandria

I suppose that if representatives of the warring parties in Mali were to start fighting in Sweden and the Swedish Government had to call in the equivalent of the National Guard in the Swedish army, to establish some peace and tranquillity. Mama Mazuri Emeagwali would call it "a race riot."

http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/

On Thursday, 6 June 2013 15:38:05 UTC+2, Kenneth Harrow wrote:

the cake is not a valid example. it was an african artist who made a
weird cake depicting sara bartmann, and as a performance artist, emitted
groans whenever it was cut.
you can call this a weird, grotesque, unpalatable effort...but there was
no racism unless you miss all the irony in the performance and take it
literally.
sort of like chris ofili's elephant dung used for his black madonna.
the general public has always read modern art and performance on a
literal level, i.e., on the surface, missing the point and blaming the
artist. another example would be criticisms of basquiat's figures as not
representing black people in a beautiful manner....
(that still leaves four more sites!)
ken
On 6/5/13 11:32 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
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kenneth w. harrow
faculty excellence advocate
distinguished professor of english
michigan state university
department of english
619 red cedar road
room C-614 wells hall
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ph. 517 803 8839
har...@msu.edu

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