Please allow us “Rising Against Racism” to respond to Mr. Nyang´s accusation. This is something that we don´t want to be dragged in to, however, we feel it necessary to correct his baseless and illogical accusation aimed to discredit our efforts and it is detrimental to any progressive society. Otherwise, we would not have given him the public relevance he is dearly looking for.
To start with, there are people in this movement who did what they could possibly do to some of the incidents you have mentioned. What have you done? What has stopped you from doing it?
For, retrogressive individuals even whereas you dance in the middle of a river, they will still accuse you of throwing dust on them. They cannot initiate any meaningful ideas. However, they are against everything. These are the pandemics of every developing and progressive society.
In his argument, he said: “ In The Gambia we have very painful stories that requires the same amount of attention as the show that is just put out today for George Floyd, but it was never done for our fellow brothers.”
He went ahead to mention some names and incidents. In fact, he should have stretched his list up to the time of the first republic or beyond. Now, going by his analogy, no one should ever protest of anything in the Gambia. Because all what we are witnessing today, a similar thing had happened. Therefore, hence no one had protest about it, we should allow the trajectory to remain. Is this the type of people a society wants? We doubt! Everything must start somewhere. There are certain incidents that triggered something to happen or come to being.
For Mr. Nyang, we are doing this for the people of America, that shows how ill inform he is. A Gambian happens to be a casualty of a similar incident. This thing is beyond George Floyd or Lamin Sisay despite we will continue to grieve with their families. Now, it is for all blacks regardless of where you live. A saying, a pregnant cat, and a pregnant rat, if the parents escaped each other their spouse would not.
If anyone think you are safe because you are not living in United States, you need to think twice. Your spouse or relatives might be there for studies, holiday or whatsoever.
Who gave you that moral authority to determine what people should demonstrate on and what they failed to demonstrate about? You need to understand that in society there are several things that people can condemn and demonstrate about. Some have passion for child right and they only protest when it comes to the issue of child. Are the children only the human beings? Likewise, women, disable, animal and environment.
But people of your kind, if you see people protesting about environment you will argue why not human rights. Such people even God cannot satisfy them, and they are enemy of every progressive society.
By Rising Against Racism
