Baidoo, the No.4 Can of Idiot Ghanaweb opened followed by kwarteng, Lungu and Kojo T
You idiots must find another means of using your time lucratively and Refrain from wasting space on Ghanaweb.
Baidoo, the No.4 Can of Idiot Ghanaweb opened followed by kwarteng, Lungu and Kojo T
You idiots must find another means of using your time lucratively and Refrain from wasting space on Ghanaweb.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 8 years ago
Hello Mingle, I know that it is getting a bit boring, especially if you don't buy my position. I promise it will be done and dusted in no time. I have got just a couple to go, and you don’t have to see them anymore. Thank y ... read full comment
Hello Mingle, I know that it is getting a bit boring, especially if you don't buy my position. I promise it will be done and dusted in no time. I have got just a couple to go, and you don’t have to see them anymore. Thank you.
Amanfo 8 years ago
Honestly, I don't think anyone owes an apologies or explanations for writing articles or essays at GHANAWEB. If people disagrees, thats their opinion and reasonings should be the yardstick to which essays should be judged but ... read full comment
Honestly, I don't think anyone owes an apologies or explanations for writing articles or essays at GHANAWEB. If people disagrees, thats their opinion and reasonings should be the yardstick to which essays should be judged but, not insults and attacks. If writings of these noble intellectuals are wasting space and foolishness then the preachermen, Imans and others who use inspirational writings to preach to their congregants should also cease. Kwame Nkrumah, Karl Max, Lenin, Adam Smith and others use writings to change the world. Never underestimate the power of writings and the people they influenced. Thank you
Philip Kobina Baidoo 8 years ago
Hello Mr Amanfo again, not many people think like you do. It is just unfortunate, but we need everyone on board for project Ghana. Thank you.
Hello Mr Amanfo again, not many people think like you do. It is just unfortunate, but we need everyone on board for project Ghana. Thank you.
C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago
Oga Baidoo,
I am under pressure as usual but let me comment a bit on this one. Not been able to comment a lot on what you and Nyebro Yaw have been posting due to pressure of work. I need an extra capable staff to relief me ... read full comment
Oga Baidoo,
I am under pressure as usual but let me comment a bit on this one. Not been able to comment a lot on what you and Nyebro Yaw have been posting due to pressure of work. I need an extra capable staff to relief me a bit.:-)
Now, I have been astounded at some of your claims and postures. When you posted that stuff on Hitler and NAZISM, your critcism was as if you lifted it from the post work of Organski criticism (more like a continuation of the war propaganda), which was the staple of the 1950s ane early '60s. By the '70s when I read Pol. Science in Legon, it was no longer the norm.
Using this as an example, the amount of time required to counter the contrafactual things that you post is simply beyond some of us at the moment. However, Nyebro Yaw has been doing so, and so admirably well too despite an initial decision to ignore you. I sympathise with him a lot, as I know how much time he is devoting to countering you. In the 90s, I was doing same like him, quotes, refs and all inclusive, on Okyeame to counter the utter ignorance I encountered there. And if you see the number of PhDs on that forum, you'd know why our tertiary sector was then said to be short of lecturers! Good they remained abroad though, where they can be supervised by whites and Asians, just like slaves are supervised, instead of carrying their intellectual bankruptcy to Ghana!
What I found very distressing then when one managed to demolish their positions by quoting books renowened scholars, they wave it off with the excuse that those books were written by white people! Gosh! Could you believe that? When you aske them to show us which books their fathers, uncles or themselves had authored in support of their claims, they'd either melt away, or like Dr Kofi Ellison, cllaimed they heard it from their uncle! Ok. Folklore! But what about if there were written, researched sources available to clarify and/or debunk the folklore?
What you had written on racism, slavery and capitalism is so elementary that I'd take a full length article to expose the hollowness of what you wrote. BTW, Society and Politics in the Black Diaspora was one of my electives and since I come from what was then known as the Upper Slave Coast which later became submerged into the Gold Coast, I took much interest in finding out about the slave trade and slavery. A reading of Orlando Patterson's volumnious Slavery and Social Death in which he mapped the existence of slavery across the world will show how swallow your writing is!
There was no racism when the slave trade started. One should not confuse ethnic prejudices with racism, just as I have been reading a lot recently tribalism being conflated with ethnic prejudices! As a fact of historical fact, the bacl skin was even considered superior by whites when the Moors were ruling a big chunk of present Spain, etc. Indeed, up to when Wihlem Amo got his PhD in the C17th in Germany, there was no serious racism. However, the rise of German racism eventually forced him to relocate to the Gold Coast.
The first slaves taken to the New World were set free after 7 years, according to Biblical injunctions. However, the greed of white people and the arising new needs necessiated justisfying keeping black people and their descendants as chattel slaves forever.
Racism arose from the new mode of production known as capitalism which followed teh mercantlism, which the slave trade period was essentially. It was also teh changes in the methods of capitalit production and new needs arising that led to the capitalists championing the abolition of the slave trade, to be replaced with a new form of wage slavery, even worst than being a slave. Jim Crow laws took care of that! All written materials attested to the fact that the "Freed slaves" suffered more as supposed free labourers/share croppers than when they were actually slaves!
That America is no longer legally a racist country with Segregation Laws, thanks to the hard fought activism of some, and that some blacks had taken advantage of that to advance themselves doesn't mean that socially America is no longer a country in which racism is pervasive. Louis Armstrong rose to fame in era of pervaisve slavery and was finally able to insist that he and his band were not compelled to enter the venues in which they perform for all white audience through the back door. Does that mean Satchmo didn't face racism during his times?
You wrote this:
"In Somalia, the population is basically 100% Muslim. They speak almost the same language. The only recognised differences are their insignificant Bantu population and the clannish division like, for example, what pertain among our Akan tribe. Yet, this negligible differences has succeeded in fracturing the nation for more than two decades and nothing seems to work to bring them back together."
This shows how little you know of Somalian society. When KHP (Prof Kwesi Prepempeh) wrote similar in the '90s on SIL, I quoted Orlando Patterson to debunk him and his jaw certainly dropped. He had no defence to what I quoted, since he was totally ignorant of the basis of pernicious the clan system in Somalia. Slaves clans, lower class clans, upper level clans, etc., There is one clan in Somalia, a city clan, with very fair skin descended from Persians, Arabs, Portuguese, etc., with no trace of Blackness in them, since they never marry blacks. When it rain out of season, it is said they had seen a camel gave birth!
Tutsis actually now speak the language of the majority Hutu they the Watutsis overan but there was a time when the Tutsis would eat the foof eaten by Hutus, as it was considered odious!
I've to run.
Andy-K
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear CY-Andy-K,
This so-called Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian thinks his elementary stuff is sophisticated.
No wonder one Ghanaweb commentator says Baidoo has some good "high-school" ideas. And he thinks that is a comp ... read full comment
Dear CY-Andy-K,
This so-called Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian thinks his elementary stuff is sophisticated.
No wonder one Ghanaweb commentator says Baidoo has some good "high-school" ideas. And he thinks that is a compliment. The man is so so ignorant and shameless.
He somehow thinks Somalis are the only ethnic group in Somalia (though they maybe the majority).
On the question of language, I can bet he has not read the work of the Canadian-based Somali linguistic scholar Mohamed D. Abdullahi. Or Martin Orwin, Mustafa A. Feiruz, Bogumil Andrzejewski and many others.
And his simplistic prattle contained in his uninformed articles does not even consider Arab, Ethiopian (various ethnicities), Bantu, Pakistani, Sudanese, Indian, Eritreans (various ethnicities), the Merhi People (and others) Persian, Italian Somalis, and other ethnic admixtures.
Mr. Civil Oxymoron Libertarian is behaving much like his righ-wing American proponets of the "one drop rule." There is no need giving him a list of genetic studies done on "Somalis" because he will come with anoth uninformed chilish and elementary prattle.
I will end by saying that he does probably is not aware of the debate going on in the international community (among scientists, anthropologists, historians, linguits, and other experts on Somalia. her languages, and multi-ethnic-racial composition).
All Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian does, like his fake American civil libertarians, is to go for childish simplicity than sophisticated theries. He ignores all non-Somali ethnic groups in Somalia.
I don't think Mr. Oxymoron Civil Baidoo has taken the time to study proto-Somalia history (as he does ignorantly in all his articles). Sometines he does not know the facts. Other times he does that to deceive himself and his unsuspecting readership.
More importantly, I sometimes do not respond to certain aspects of his arguments because they are too childish and based on uninformed sentimentalism.
The man is simply so ignorant as to take note of the West Eurasian component of Somali genome (and Ethiopian) populations. Geography (human geography) and ethnogenesis mean nothing to his little head. Neither do (Somali) genome (which is only beginning) and admixture approximations mean anything to this shameless man.
Most of the assumption he makes in this poorly written article are not based on scientific facts. Sometimes it is annoying reading his articles in their entirety (which I have never done with any of his articles) because of how logical and factual errors follow one paragraph after the other.
Usually I choose four or five paragraphs (maximum) on which I base my rejoinders. It is easy to do so because Baidoo is not widely read, well informed and well-rounded.
It is funny how some of his most cherished ideas come straight out of Wikipedia and ring-wing websites rather than reading primary source). That is why he calls himself a civil libertarian, whatever that is. I like before, I will not recommend any technical texts or scietific papers for this Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian's education and edification.
Thanks Andy.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
KKO-aka-namesake-Baidoo,
I have a rejoinder to this weak and poorly argued article of yours. There is nothing in this weak article of yours really, Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian.
As always here too, you merely scratch ... read full comment
KKO-aka-namesake-Baidoo,
I have a rejoinder to this weak and poorly argued article of yours. There is nothing in this weak article of yours really, Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian.
As always here too, you merely scratched the but poorly. Your general ignorance about basic ideas knows no bound. You are here praising yourself for this badly written and poorly argued article.
That said, read this Danquah-NPP Socialism and Political Tribalism piece.
By Kwasi Adu
While speaking on Asempa FM’s ‘Ekosii Sen’ political programme in Accra at the end of last week former President John Kofi Diawuo Agyekum Kufuor denied sharing properties under the affordable housing scheme his government built among his cronies. While at it, he dared his critics to publish the list for Ghanaians to ascertain the truth. “I know we did nothing wrong and I challenge our people on the other side to publish the list of beneficiaries for the whole world to see” he stated.
Today, we are calling the bluff of former President Kofi Diawuo Kufuor. We publish below, the list of beneficiaries. The offer letters were signed by Hon. Abubakar Saddique Boniface on or around 18th. December 2008, when the NPP knew that they were about to lose the second round of the Presidential Elections. We have copies of the letters with the signature of the then NPP Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing. If they dare us, we will publish them.
C8/1 Block C, Borteyman, Nungua Accra
Out of 113 allocations, 64 of thm were allocated to the children and people working for ex- President Kufuor. 18 were allocated to persons under Aliu Mahama. The remainder were for NPP Ministers and their relatives, party people and friends.
Next time Ex-President Kufuor opens his mouth to deny that there was corruption under his administration, he should be careful about daring people.
C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago
Phew! A pity the NDC has not been making much of this, thanks to Mills psoition to sweep everything under the carpet, and thereby pave the way for the NDC people to chop small too! JJ didn't allow them to loot even a bit in 1 ... read full comment
Phew! A pity the NDC has not been making much of this, thanks to Mills psoition to sweep everything under the carpet, and thereby pave the way for the NDC people to chop small too! JJ didn't allow them to loot even a bit in 19 years like JAK did in 8 years!
We are serious trouble with these looters!
Andy-K
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Amanfo,
My comments "Danquah-NPP Socialism and Political Tribalism" was not meant for you.
Actually was meant for clueless and largely uninformed Baidoo, Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian. No offense. I already have ... read full comment
Dear Amanfo,
My comments "Danquah-NPP Socialism and Political Tribalism" was not meant for you.
Actually was meant for clueless and largely uninformed Baidoo, Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian. No offense. I already have a rejoinder to his poorly argued essay. It should be published any time soon.
Thanks.
KKO 8 years ago
Excellent ending to a very educative topic.
It is that mindset that convinces us to believe after over half a century of national independence that our underdevelopment is everybody else's fault but ours.
When a sitt ... read full comment
Excellent ending to a very educative topic.
It is that mindset that convinces us to believe after over half a century of national independence that our underdevelopment is everybody else's fault but ours.
When a sitting president goes to CNN, stands by their logo grinning from ear to ear and asks to be photographed and is later referred to in derogatory terms, he blames that on racism. We encourage our children by our actions and inactions to become teenage mothers and when that boomerangs on us, we blame racism.
Sometimes, you wonder what God actually gave us brains for!
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Hello KKO-aka-namesake-Baidoo,
I have a rejoinder to this weak and poorly argued article of yours. There is nothing in this weak article of yours really, Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian.
"Sometimes, you wonder what God ... read full comment
Hello KKO-aka-namesake-Baidoo,
I have a rejoinder to this weak and poorly argued article of yours. There is nothing in this weak article of yours really, Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian.
"Sometimes, you wonder what God actually gave us brains for." Who are you speaking for? Why don't you replace "us" with "me," yourself, and "brains" with "brain," yours. You know what? There millions of Africans (Ghanaians) who are not like you. Millions of Africans who have very sharp and highly productive brains, so please speak for yourself! I always wonder what sort of "brain" you have to argue shallowly and cluelessly the way you always do!
As always here too, you merely scratched the but poorly. Your general ignorance about basic ideas knows no bound. You are here praising yourself for this badly written and poorly argued article.
That said, read this Danquah-NPP Socialism and Political Tribalism piece.
By Kwasi Adu
While speaking on Asempa FM’s ‘Ekosii Sen’ political programme in Accra at the end of last week former President John Kofi Diawuo Agyekum Kufuor denied sharing properties under the affordable housing scheme his government built among his cronies. While at it, he dared his critics to publish the list for Ghanaians to ascertain the truth. “I know we did nothing wrong and I challenge our people on the other side to publish the list of beneficiaries for the whole world to see” he stated.
Today, we are calling the bluff of former President Kofi Diawuo Kufuor. We publish below, the list of beneficiaries. The offer letters were signed by Hon. Abubakar Saddique Boniface on or around 18th. December 2008, when the NPP knew that they were about to lose the second round of the Presidential Elections. We have copies of the letters with the signature of the then NPP Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing. If they dare us, we will publish them.
C8/1 Block C, Borteyman, Nungua Accra
Out of 113 allocations, 64 of thm were allocated to the children and people working for ex- President Kufuor. 18 were allocated to persons under Aliu Mahama. The remainder were for NPP Ministers and their relatives, party people and friends.
Next time Ex-President Kufuor opens his mouth to deny that there was corruption under his administration, he should be careful about daring people.
KKO 8 years ago
Kwarteng,
I am not sure where you are coming from, but I do not have time for anyone who thinks and behaves like you, definitely not your kind or irrational cut and paste nonesense!
Any Ghanaian of whatever age who just ... read full comment
Kwarteng,
I am not sure where you are coming from, but I do not have time for anyone who thinks and behaves like you, definitely not your kind or irrational cut and paste nonesense!
Any Ghanaian of whatever age who justifies the obnoxious Prevention Detention Act is not even worth a greeting on the street in the morning!
Hahahaha...But you have time to read and to respond to my comments, eh? Are you a child yourself, Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian, whatever that is?
I am happy you don't know where I am coming. Well, any mature person will know where I am coming from. No disrespect, Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian.
Refute the copy-and-paste information! The best thing that ever happened to Ghana and Africa is the PDA. Ghana exists today because of it.
What have you to say about the Protective Custody Decree (PCD) by your feudal warlords which imprisoned more people in the shortest possible time (as opposed to the PDA under the CPP)? Your own Kweku Baako, a mouthpiece of the Danquah-NPP feudal politicians, had this to say:
He added that “when the National Liberation Council repealed the PDA, they put in place the Protective Custody Decree (PCD). Indeed as Dr. Busia indicated in the inaugural speech on October 1st 1969... there were 1377 political prisoners in jail... The NLC took 1850 political prisoners.”
Mr. Baako stated that under the “PCD act, three CPP people died in prison, three CPP members- one of who was a member of parliament, died in prison: M.O. Kwatiah, Magnus George and E.A. Maclean. It's all documented; I have the prison records here.”
And it has nothing to do with age and you are a Ghanaian of Nkrumah's Ghana because of it. Hahahahaha...If it has anything to do with age, I will see it in the way you argue.
Now tell me what you have to say about my copy-and-paste Kweku Adu piece about Kuffour and his socialist political tribalism! This is what you do in your "high-school" aricles (to borrow from one Ghanaweb commentator), arguting sentimentally and cluelessly.
Please don't come back with another copy-and-paste response (without creiting your source(s)) without verifiable data/statistics.
Remember you have done this to me on a number of ccassions (The last time I challenged you to provide hard statistical data you came back with a copy-and-paste response (without attribution)). You response to Mr. Kweku Adu's should demonstrate intellectual maturity, please. No emotions and unnecessary diversions.
Thanks.
PhiIip Kobina Baidoo 8 years ago
Hello KKO, I am convinced that he is evil in human flesh. No two ways about. Someone who justifies the murderer of 30 million people cannot be described as a lunatic; he is the devil himself. Thank you.
Hello KKO, I am convinced that he is evil in human flesh. No two ways about. Someone who justifies the murderer of 30 million people cannot be described as a lunatic; he is the devil himself. Thank you.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
The massacre of four Jews outside a school in Toulouse has shocked France in the middle of a boisterous presidential election. Incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his principal challenger, Socialist Francois Hollande, have temporar ... read full comment
The massacre of four Jews outside a school in Toulouse has shocked France in the middle of a boisterous presidential election. Incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his principal challenger, Socialist Francois Hollande, have temporarily suspended their campaign in honor of the murder victims.
Sarkozy nonetheless faces a long climb to re-election, given France’s precarious economy and several controversies he has been embroiled in.
The French president’s 2012 campaign seems reminiscent of the U.K. election in 1979, when Conservative Margaret Thatcher fought to become Britain's first woman prime minister. Like Sarkozy’s France, Thatcher’s Britain of 33 years ago was scarred by racial conflict, high unemployment and a fragile economy.
The International Business Times spoke to an expert on British politics to discuss the similarities between Sarkozy and Thatcher and their respective campaigns. Victoria Honeyman is a lecturer in British politics at Leeds University in England.
IBT: In his uphill bid to stay as French president, Nicolas Sarkozy has called for a crackdown on illegal immigration to France and a significant reduction in the number of legal immigrants into the country. Sarkozy is obviously seeking to take some of the votes from the extreme right-wing National Front candidate, Marine Le Pen. Do you see similarities between what Sarkozy is doing now and what Margaret Thatcher did during the 1979 election in the UK?
HONEYMAN: The British equivalent of the National Front in France has not had the influence that its French equivalent has had nationally. The far right in British politics tends to only have very limited electoral success, and that is usually regionally based and not seen in national elections. Therefore, fending off the extreme right, or stealing their supporters in British general elections is not a consideration. Many of these voters might well vote Conservative in national elections (particularly in the period under discussion) because of the lack of a viable alternative, so only a little encouragement would be needed.
However, reducing immigration and fighting illegal immigration (with very little differentiation between economic migrants and refugees) is seen as being “safe” Conservative territory, so it was no surprise that Thatcher focused on this issue.
It has to be said that the British Labour Party has an image of being less worried or knee-jerk about immigration, but this has not necessarily translated into government policy (particularly at the end of Empire when independence in certain countries triggered immigration to the UK from certain groups).
Sarkozy has a much bigger problem to deal with in France, where Le Pen poses a real electoral threat, and therefore Sarkozy has to be seen to be tackling this issue if he wants to squeeze Le Pen out and have any chance of attracting her supporters.
IBT: Thatcher’s strident tone against immigration essentially killed off the British National Front by co-opting its message. Do you expect Sarkozy to siphon votes from Le Pen, thereby weakening the French National Front?
HONEYMAN: It's very difficult to know. Supporters of various political parties can become very tribal and stick with their party through thick and thin. Other supporters and more temporary – that is, the “floating” voters -- will be the ones which Sarkozy is aiming to attract with his rhetoric.
Sarkozy needs to strike a tone which is moderate enough that he doesn’t drive away his existing supporters, but is “right-wing enough” to attract some supporters from the National Front, and that is a tricky position to find oneself in.
IBT: Sarkozy has uttered phrases like France has “too many foreigners” and that the French “way of life” is under threat from unchecked immigration. I recall Thatcher saying things like Britain was being “swamped” by foreign cultures. How much of this is election-year race-baiting and how much it is a genuine policy concern by Sarkozy?
HONEYMAN: There are issues in France, as there are in many countries including Britain, over race, whether they are linked to deep-seated problems like poverty, violence or racism or more short-term issues relating to specific incidents or events.
Issues relating to race are always a big concern, largely because they are so divisive and can erupt very quickly. Therefore, issues relating to immigration, integration and race-relations will always be a subject which requires attention in France. However, as this is an election year, there seems little doubt that Sarkozy is riding this issue in order to try to gain support. Unfortunately, the tragic shootings in Toulouse might have an impact on this, particularly if reports are confirmed that the shooter is affiliated to Al Qaeda, as was reported Wednesday morning.
IBT: 1979 Britain was beset by economic woes, as Sarkozy’s France is now. Do you think Thatcher won the election because of unhappiness over the economy? Or did her anti-immigration rhetoric put her over the top?
HONEYMAN: The reasons that the Conservative party won the general election in 1979 are quite varied, but there is no doubt that the economy was a major reason. The Labour government under Prime Minister James Callaghan had been beset by economic problems, not all of their own making.
The 1976 IMF loan really crippled the Labour government and the 1978-1979 “Winter of Discontent [which featured widespread strikes], where there was numerous industrial strikes, further damaged the Labour Party.
In contrast, the Conservative party have traditionally been seen as a “safe pair of hands” on the economy -- with the obvious exception of Black Wednesday in 1992 [when the Tories were forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism] and the fallout from that -- and that coupled with the move within the Labour Party to pursue a more left-wing agenda, which began in the mid-1970s and came to fruition during Thatcher’s first period as Prime Minister, really allowed the Conservatives to win.
Immigration was a secondary issue, one of interest to voters, but not an election-winning issue.
IBT: Germany has already criticized Sarkozy for threatening to pull France out of the EU’s open-border Schengen Zone. During the 1979 campaign, did Thatcher make specific proposals to cut immigration into the UK?
HONEYMAN: Thatcher made suggestions that the immigration quota would be cut, but argued that a figure could not be put on that cut until the Home Office released accurate figures on immigration (or until the Conservatives entered government and were able to see the figures themselves).
IBT: How did the Labour Party in 1979 respond to Thatcher’s comments on immigration?
HONEYMAN: The Labour Party criticized the Conservatives and argued that their policy was lacking in detail. Interestingly, immigration is only mentioned once in the 1979 Labour Party manifesto (as part of their section on 'One community' which largely deals with racism and unfair treatment of minorities), while in the Conservative Party manifesto immigration gets its own section “Immigration and Race Relations.”
IBT: Sarkozy is expected to lose re-election and now faces the sensational allegation that he accepted a huge campaign contribution from Libya’s Moammar Gaddafi during his first election in 2007. Was Thatcher favored to win the 1979 election, or did she too face an uphill challenge?
HONEYMAN: After the “winter of discontent” in 1978-1979 it was expected that the Conservatives would win the election, but it was not a foregone conclusion, as they had a woman as their leader, and this was rather an unknown quantity.
Would the British electorate really accept a woman leader in 1979? There were rumors within the Conservative party that Mrs. Thatcher was only a short-term leader and that, win or lose, she would almost certainly be replaced quickly for a much more “traditional” (i.e., male) MP. As it was, that was rather an underestimation of Thatcher.
Amanfo 8 years ago
Dear Sir Baidoo, I think the contineous attack on Noam Chomsky is not doing any good. In any case, it has not been established anywhere his works caused a mass forced exodus of a particular race of human from their natural ha ... read full comment
Dear Sir Baidoo, I think the contineous attack on Noam Chomsky is not doing any good. In any case, it has not been established anywhere his works caused a mass forced exodus of a particular race of human from their natural habitat to work to build another empire. Rather, contrary was the work of the man you continuously attacks. In reference to the blacks you stated as making it in capitalist America, the reason was, as the black population was growing they needed one of their own to represent them so they can feel worth as humans and the capitalist found it appropriate to exploit them for their own benefits and dumped them when their services they felt are no longer needed or has somehow sank. You can't call this smartness, it's rather a case of pure extortion and betrayal because unlike the whites who after their end of their careers are still revered, blacks doesn't have that luxury. The reality of the day is, we can't blame the whites for most of the problems bedeviling the African continent but, in all fairness devoid of personal emotions the whites have contributed a great deal in rendering somehow the place in her current state. A particular emphasis is on why Osagyefo Nkrumah was dethroned when they saw he was consciously removing the ignorance that made the people to be exploited unnecessary. Another case was the sponsorship for the murder of Murmur Ghaddafi who was striving hard to unite the continent and many more which I definitely knew you are aware. In your last essay before this article, you stated clearly you won't venture into the transatlantic slave trade and I honestly believed you missed a big chance to justify the reason/s for that heinous crime. You can't write on any slavery transactions without reference to the transatlantic slave business which was unprecedented in human history. Thank you
Philip Kobina Baidoo 8 years ago
Hello Mr Amanfo, I hate it when people offer silly alibi for the stupidity of other people’s action; it is pure and simple. The fact is it doesn’t help when teenage pregnancy is destroying a people and you blame it on rac ... read full comment
Hello Mr Amanfo, I hate it when people offer silly alibi for the stupidity of other people’s action; it is pure and simple. The fact is it doesn’t help when teenage pregnancy is destroying a people and you blame it on racism and slavery when the problem did not exist hundred years after the end of slavery. Before the beginning of the welfare programme in America, black children that were born out of wedlock was just 22%. Now, it is in the 70th percentile, which is the basis of the underperformance of black children. If it is racism and slavery why did it take more than hundred years before it blew up in our faces? It takes special kind of intelligence to understand some of these statistics. When you read them you have to analyse them critically devoid of any emotion and apply contemporary dynamics to explain them and not blame everything on slavery and racism when the cancer can be stopped with a simple change of attitude.
Mr Amanfo, I don’t know how you want me to write about the triangular trade when I repeated several times that it was evil and nothing can justify it. Do you want just the goring details? I don’t dwell on the past; I look to the future. Dwelling on them makes you bitter and disables your power of reason. I remember when I first watched Roots, I became so angry I used to see every white man with a horn and I bet you it did not do me any good. Let’s look into the future and solve our problems based on contemporary events and not what happen centuries removed from reality. Thank you.
Martial 8 years ago
Slavery, once universal, still present, was & is the worst economic relationship. As Thomas Jefferson said "the commerce between master & slave is tyranny."
The long distance slavery of Africans was the most important ex ... read full comment
Slavery, once universal, still present, was & is the worst economic relationship. As Thomas Jefferson said "the commerce between master & slave is tyranny."
The long distance slavery of Africans was the most important example. First, it occurred both in the Christian & Islamic worlds. Second, it formed the basis of economies in both worlds. Third, the economic basis generated religious & cultural justification, with profound influences on both.
The result of that long distance trade is that still, even 150 years after its being banned in the US, we have anti-Black racism, sometimes in ways that astonish me. A Black tenor, for example, told me that opera companies have a reluctance to have Black tenors in leading roles that might involve romantic associations with White sopranos on stage. Examination of the obesity of such persons reveals that any romantic thoughts are absurd - one cares about the voices! Now racism has gone down considerably, obviously, but it still is present here.
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
Truthfully, I'm impressed with the effort & the research that have been expended in these "Nkrumahism, The Can Of Worms I Opened" debates.
However, whatever side you find yourself in these back&forth, I am disturbed by th ... read full comment
Truthfully, I'm impressed with the effort & the research that have been expended in these "Nkrumahism, The Can Of Worms I Opened" debates.
However, whatever side you find yourself in these back&forth, I am disturbed by the total lack of images of Ghana's future.
Kay 8 years ago
Why is Philip Baidoo so full of insults? Why can't you just make intelligent arguement, if you have any, and refrain from pouring out such filthy? In any case, who told you there is an economic system that is faultless? And d ... read full comment
Why is Philip Baidoo so full of insults? Why can't you just make intelligent arguement, if you have any, and refrain from pouring out such filthy? In any case, who told you there is an economic system that is faultless? And does ghanaweb allow such unacceptable stuff on this public space? This is not free expression. This is free lunacy.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Kay,
He has nothing intelligent or intellectual to say, hence the insults. But he cannot hide behind insults.
Others (and I will) have been smoking him out.
Thanks.
Dear Kay,
He has nothing intelligent or intellectual to say, hence the insults. But he cannot hide behind insults.
Others (and I will) have been smoking him out.
Thanks.
PhiIip Kobina Baidoo 8 years ago
Hello Kay, I don't turn the other cheek. I am very civil when it comes to every person on ghanaweb. I don't tuck my tail and run saying don't hurt me when it comes to people who think they know. I retaliate with sewer. Go an ... read full comment
Hello Kay, I don't turn the other cheek. I am very civil when it comes to every person on ghanaweb. I don't tuck my tail and run saying don't hurt me when it comes to people who think they know. I retaliate with sewer. Go and read his earlier submission on the saga, because I stopped reading his articles except his copy and paste, which he cannot comprehend when they are giving him away. Thank you.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Grandfather Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian,
Do you think at all? What you say "I retaliate with sewer" is not retaliation. It is uninformed childishness. Remember you are a grandfather, not a child! Do you have any cheeks ... read full comment
Grandfather Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian,
Do you think at all? What you say "I retaliate with sewer" is not retaliation. It is uninformed childishness. Remember you are a grandfather, not a child! Do you have any cheeks to speak off?
Oh, in your largely uninformed little head you think your childish prattle is doing any good for you, right, Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian? That is another grandfatherly childishness!
Then again, you call your grandfatherly childish prattle-articles retaliation? Are you serious with yourself? What do you think your childish and uninformed articles have achieved? NOTHING.
Just copy your articles and put them in Google and it will take you directly to where your ideas come from (mostly ring-wing websites)! A Ghanaweb reader brought this to my attention.
And don't forget, I will continue to copy and paste articles that destroys your "high-school" ideas (as one Ghanaweb commentator described you). The questions is, which of your high-school ideas is really yours?
None of your articles has any intellectual weight! Not one! Talk you American friends who teach American history (at middle school/high school--community college levels) and you should realize that your not saying anything beyond these "junior" levels.
Will you care to send your articles to great thinkers like Thomas Picketty, Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman, etc., to read? Certainly Krugman will tell you why you don;t deserve a Nobel Prize in Economics. Hahahahaha...Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian!
This may be why one Ghanaweb commentator said you have some goo "high-school" ideas! Don't deceive yourself Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian that you giving anyone away. That is in your uninformed little delusional head!
Finally, I care less about your insults. I don't because you have not made one single intelligent argument in any of your essays. And you know it! Other readers have also pointed this out, including exposing your logical flwas, factual lies, and childish reasoning.
Have a great weekend with your grandchildren. My regards to the rest of the family! Well if you think your articles make sense give them to your grandchildren to read and let them publish their frank assessments on Ghanaweb for all to read. Shameless civil libertarian!
Thanks.
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
As I intimated a little while ago, I'm disturbed by the total lack of the mention of the images of Ghana's future in the can of worms debates.
I wished both Baidoo & Kwarteng had responded to my post.
Maybe visitors to ... read full comment
As I intimated a little while ago, I'm disturbed by the total lack of the mention of the images of Ghana's future in the can of worms debates.
I wished both Baidoo & Kwarteng had responded to my post.
Maybe visitors to Ghanaweb forum haven't yet recovered from Baidoo's incessant insults;
how on earth can he describe Kwarteng as a 'race hustler"?
Any way, I request that we focus on discussion of images of Ghana's future. Such discussions will permit, I hope, a comparison of differential images of Ghana's future held by our elites & masses.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 8 years ago
Listen to the pot calling the kettle you are black. This is the zenith of hypocrisy. The fact that you did not use foul language today you want to stand on the high moral ground and preach thou sinner. I do read your post, an ... read full comment
Listen to the pot calling the kettle you are black. This is the zenith of hypocrisy. The fact that you did not use foul language today you want to stand on the high moral ground and preach thou sinner. I do read your post, and I am not blind to your insults both on my articles and that of Mr Kwarteng. You think I don't care about Ghana; I care about mother Ghana more than you think. What I hate is the socialism that is strangling the nation. And my effort is to make sure that we don't continue with that self-immolation and blame others for our actions. For example, the tomato factory in the north was revived not too long ago at a cost to the tax payer, and it has already stopped production. Instead of them looking for a consortium with the pedigree and technical knowledge to manage it in the private sector they have poured money down the drain. This is what my series is all about; I want us to stop this self strangulation.
On a positive note, I know you write very well. I think you can also use your writing skills to educate us on the so called sustainability you keep pontificating. I will be very pleased to read your ideas on how sustainability can help Ghana.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Marcus,
Don't bother with Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian. Tell him to come live among the Klu Klux Klan.
They will will be happy to accommodate him. Read Andy-K's response to him on Somalia (and my own).
From his ... read full comment
Marcus,
Don't bother with Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian. Tell him to come live among the Klu Klux Klan.
They will will be happy to accommodate him. Read Andy-K's response to him on Somalia (and my own).
From his article he is behind all the recent scientific work I have seen done on the Horn of Africa (from genetics, human geography, admixture estimates, linguistics, etc).
I decided not to dwell on that portion of his essay until I read Andy-K's. I told Andy-K i was not going to extend any scientific paper and texts of scientific work (as well as history, anthropology, linguists, genetics, blood groups, and several topics) done on Somalis (and other ethnic groups in the country) covered in the last 30 years o so.
I think he relies too much on Wikipedia and right-wing websites. The man believes in the powerlessness of his intellectual lapses than in the great men and women whose ideas are shaping the world, including his stiflingly claustrophobic and uninformed world! Please leave him and let other deal with him.
I am still waiting for an intelligent article from him. Thus far some of us have seen none.
Again
Baidoo, the No.4 Can of Idiot Ghanaweb opened followed by kwarteng, Lungu and Kojo T
You idiots must find another means of using your time lucratively and Refrain from wasting space on Ghanaweb.
Hello Mingle, I know that it is getting a bit boring, especially if you don't buy my position. I promise it will be done and dusted in no time. I have got just a couple to go, and you don’t have to see them anymore. Thank y ...
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Honestly, I don't think anyone owes an apologies or explanations for writing articles or essays at GHANAWEB. If people disagrees, thats their opinion and reasonings should be the yardstick to which essays should be judged but ...
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Hello Mr Amanfo again, not many people think like you do. It is just unfortunate, but we need everyone on board for project Ghana. Thank you.
Oga Baidoo,
I am under pressure as usual but let me comment a bit on this one. Not been able to comment a lot on what you and Nyebro Yaw have been posting due to pressure of work. I need an extra capable staff to relief me ...
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Dear CY-Andy-K,
This so-called Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian thinks his elementary stuff is sophisticated.
No wonder one Ghanaweb commentator says Baidoo has some good "high-school" ideas. And he thinks that is a comp ...
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KKO-aka-namesake-Baidoo,
I have a rejoinder to this weak and poorly argued article of yours. There is nothing in this weak article of yours really, Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian.
As always here too, you merely scratch ...
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Phew! A pity the NDC has not been making much of this, thanks to Mills psoition to sweep everything under the carpet, and thereby pave the way for the NDC people to chop small too! JJ didn't allow them to loot even a bit in 1 ...
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Dear Amanfo,
My comments "Danquah-NPP Socialism and Political Tribalism" was not meant for you.
Actually was meant for clueless and largely uninformed Baidoo, Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian. No offense. I already have ...
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Excellent ending to a very educative topic.
It is that mindset that convinces us to believe after over half a century of national independence that our underdevelopment is everybody else's fault but ours.
When a sitt ...
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Hello KKO-aka-namesake-Baidoo,
I have a rejoinder to this weak and poorly argued article of yours. There is nothing in this weak article of yours really, Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian.
"Sometimes, you wonder what God ...
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Kwarteng,
I am not sure where you are coming from, but I do not have time for anyone who thinks and behaves like you, definitely not your kind or irrational cut and paste nonesense!
Any Ghanaian of whatever age who just ...
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KKO-aka-namesake Baidoo (Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian),
Hahahaha...But you have time to read and to respond to my comments, eh? Are you a child yourself, Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian, whatever that is?
I am happy y ...
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Hello KKO, I am convinced that he is evil in human flesh. No two ways about. Someone who justifies the murderer of 30 million people cannot be described as a lunatic; he is the devil himself. Thank you.
The massacre of four Jews outside a school in Toulouse has shocked France in the middle of a boisterous presidential election. Incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his principal challenger, Socialist Francois Hollande, have temporar ...
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Dear Sir Baidoo, I think the contineous attack on Noam Chomsky is not doing any good. In any case, it has not been established anywhere his works caused a mass forced exodus of a particular race of human from their natural ha ...
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Hello Mr Amanfo, I hate it when people offer silly alibi for the stupidity of other people’s action; it is pure and simple. The fact is it doesn’t help when teenage pregnancy is destroying a people and you blame it on rac ...
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Slavery, once universal, still present, was & is the worst economic relationship. As Thomas Jefferson said "the commerce between master & slave is tyranny."
The long distance slavery of Africans was the most important ex ...
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Truthfully, I'm impressed with the effort & the research that have been expended in these "Nkrumahism, The Can Of Worms I Opened" debates.
However, whatever side you find yourself in these back&forth, I am disturbed by th ...
read full comment
Why is Philip Baidoo so full of insults? Why can't you just make intelligent arguement, if you have any, and refrain from pouring out such filthy? In any case, who told you there is an economic system that is faultless? And d ...
read full comment
Dear Kay,
He has nothing intelligent or intellectual to say, hence the insults. But he cannot hide behind insults.
Others (and I will) have been smoking him out.
Thanks.
Hello Kay, I don't turn the other cheek. I am very civil when it comes to every person on ghanaweb. I don't tuck my tail and run saying don't hurt me when it comes to people who think they know. I retaliate with sewer. Go an ...
read full comment
Grandfather Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian,
Do you think at all? What you say "I retaliate with sewer" is not retaliation. It is uninformed childishness. Remember you are a grandfather, not a child! Do you have any cheeks ...
read full comment
As I intimated a little while ago, I'm disturbed by the total lack of the mention of the images of Ghana's future in the can of worms debates.
I wished both Baidoo & Kwarteng had responded to my post.
Maybe visitors to ...
read full comment
Listen to the pot calling the kettle you are black. This is the zenith of hypocrisy. The fact that you did not use foul language today you want to stand on the high moral ground and preach thou sinner. I do read your post, an ...
read full comment
Marcus,
Don't bother with Mr. Oxymoron Civil Libertarian. Tell him to come live among the Klu Klux Klan.
They will will be happy to accommodate him. Read Andy-K's response to him on Somalia (and my own).
From his ...
read full comment