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African Press International: Open Letter to Michelle Obama from API Chief Editor
African Press International:
An Open Letter to Michelle Obama
UPDATES to follow at end of story
UPDATE #1 – 1705 EDT
“The intention of writing to you this open letter is to appeal to you to confirm that we had a talk because it is the only right thing to do now, so that we avoid any embarrassment should the whole tape be aired unedited.”
BREAKING
Editor Addresses Open Letter to Michelle Obama
Concerning Her Phone Call to API
From African Press International Chief Editor KorirAn open letter to Michelle Obama after API’s discussion with a CIA official in Oslo:
I have decided to write this open letter and to refer you to our telephone conversation the day your husband was having a debate with his opponent in New York. This has to be an open letter because the story is already out there and many Americans are crying for the truth about what we discussed.
I know our discussion was not meant to harm your husband’s candidacy nor was it meant to derail the US Presidential elections in any way. We both know that our talk was – a sister to brother talk – black to black person talk – in the African perspective. The problem came later when we listened to the taped recording of our talk. API thought it wise to publish some of the contents that are not inflammatory. API did the best to select that which could not cause any chaos and we in API did not expect that waht we chose to publish would have the impact it now has had in the last five days.
Many Americans have surprised us in the way they take the interview very seriously. We want to respect them – as we have promised from day one – to let them know the truth in what transpired between yourself and us. We have realised that the American people want to know you well before you probably become their first Lady.
Chief Editor Korir then lays out his reasons for publishing the open letter.
The intention of writing to you this open letter is to appeal to you to confirm that we had a talk because it is the only right thing to do now, so that we avoid any embarrassment should the whole tape be aired unedited. You are well aware of our discussions touching on thorny issues like Iran’s good trade relationship with Kenya and the fact Kenya may play a role in mending the relationship between Iran and the US so that healthy trade relationship may be achieved if your husband gets the presidency. Remember the length and the depth of our talk on other issues of importance in this hotly contested election where as you have stated – is an opportunity for the black people to start being proud of America and to be patriotic.
Korir writes that he was “disappointed” that the Obama campaign denied that Michelle Obama had called African Press International. API still apparently believes that the campaign acted in good faith by denying the call: that the campaign simply was uninformed.
Perhaps API is right.
API was disappointed that one of your husband’s spokespersons rushed to the press to deny that you had called API. It is best that they check with you first before jumping to conclusions as if they control your private calls everyday.
API is interested in handling this matter in a good and reasonable way so that we may not be forced to release the tapes in its entirety. We do not want to be party to causing unnecessary chaos before the elections. If you just come forward and confirm that there was a call you placed to API, that will enable API to be out of it and nobody will continue to demand that we air unedited tape, but that we can release the one with information that is already known to the public.
API is still wary of the legal ramifications of airing the tapes and apologizes that Michelle Obama did not “know the conversation was being taped”.
We will appreciate solving this matter this way in order to avoid unnecessary law suits that may come about.
It is my apology to you that we did not let you know that the conversation was being taped, and yet I expect you to know that being a public figure, such may happen.
We have decided to write to you after our discussion today with a US CIA official in Oslo.
African Press International has retained Phillip Berg of Berg v. Obama, to represent it legally.
To the whack jobs on both the Left and Right: we shall see what develops in the next few days.
Chief Editor Korir sees the Obama campaign’s denial and raises one audio tape.
UPDATE #1 – 1705 EDT
Jeff Shreiber, whose America’s Right blog has been the definitive source for reasoned coverage of the Berg v. Obama federal lawsuit over Barack Obama’s birth certificate, contacted Berg over the API tapes.
African Press International Insists Michelle Obama Tapes to be Released Within 24 Hours
Update: API retains counsel–Philip Berg–for U.S. distribution of taped evidence
I asked Philip Berg, via e-mail, whether or not he thought the API/Michelle Obama tapes were real and whether they would in fact be released within the next day or so as Chief Editor Korir maintains. His answer was simple, and firm.
“Yes,” Berg wrote.
Schreiber, a writer on legal issues, was sure the phone call story was a phony–at first. Now…
You know, folks, I really hope that I’m dead wrong on this one. I’ve said from the beginning that the article in question, standing alone and without supporting evidence, wasn’t enough to convince me of the authenticity of the statements, but if the tapes surfaced and were real, obviously all bets were off.
Should I be wrong on this (and even over and beyond this post at API’s Web site, I have reason to believe that I am), I will gladly own up to it — once I’m finished doing the dance of joy in my living room.
For a complete background on Berg v. Obama, visit America’s Right archives on the right sidebar of the site.
UPDATE #2 – working
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The Maxist harpy is a liar too? Would would have thought?
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Barkmor,
Unlike yourself, I do not know.
However, not being a member of the MSM, I will report developments as they occur–not when I decide that readers should learn them. I think readers are smart enough to make their own judgments.
And see?
You’ve already made yours. Others may make different ones. We will have more information in the next 24 hours and then we can see if that affects the judgments made today.
Thanks for stopping by, reading and commenting.
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that’s a stretch to believe….of all people to call and defend her husbands good name… why the API….you know all that does is feed the liberal lefts concept that the radical rights are all wingnuts with far too much time on their hands. if you live in a town where you still fear black people or people who are not white or whatever color you are then your in a really small town, and once you open your eyes and your almighty christen heart…. you’ll see, we’re far more alike then we are different and color is only that color.
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Suprise!
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Surprise what…..Surprise Americans are listening with both ears. WE want real Change……..not McChange….this means squat
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Real Change? Becareful what you wish for. Positive change comes from the bottom up, not pounded up your bottom.
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lol…. Thank you Barkmor…I appreciate that, and subsequently believe that motto….but this change is a long time in coming and really it’s not so much change as real choice….my high school government teacher drilled into our heads that change comes from having choices so we must sign petitions even for thing we might not agree with so that we have the benefit of making choices with our vote about how we as a collective whole choose to live our lives. It’s progress…..and yes I want to live in a progressive America that can an example and leader for growth and forward progression to a better global community.
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Obama’s leadership strategy is to be “inspiring”. Good luck.
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America needs inspiring…..the world needs to be inspired by America….bold strokes by bold fokes…Go America, inspire the world once again
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“Strokes, fokes(sic) and, apparently, tokes. Like I said, Good Luck.
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SHE CONTACTED THE AFRICAN PRESS BECAUSE THEY LEAKED THE STORY OUT ABOUT HIS COUSIN ODINGA IN
.KENYA AND IT MADE HIM LOOK BAD. THAT WOULD BE MY GUESS.
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No greater love: Repairing the damage, a project for the First Lady
By Minister Ari S. Merretazon, M.S.CED
I pay the highest homage to and have the highest admiration for Mrs. Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States. As the Northeast Regional Representative, and Board Member, for the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA), I hope and pray that she starts a national dialog on a reparations accord for Blacks in America.
This national dialog must be firmly rooted in the historical context of the “trans-Atlantic slave trade” and the “holocaust” of African enslavement in the United States which is anchored in chattel enslavement, de facto and de jure racism, the destruction of life, culture, and human possibilities. These crimes against humanity were not that long ago as opponents of truth and justice would lead the voting public to believe. As a distinct people in America, Americanized Africans, with a pre-determined social, economic and political status, have been “free” for only 146 years (1863-2009). This also means that 102 years of our so-called freedom (1863-1965) were spent trying to repair ourselves and seeking recognition as humans.
The “system of enslavement” defined by Orlando Patterson (Slavery and Social Death, 1982) as the “the permanent, violent domination of natally alienated and generally dishonored persons,” distinguishes the experience of African Americans from those of any and all immigrant groups in America, including “Neo-African Americans” as the surge of continental Africans into America increases daily.
The system of enslavement — domestic terrorism — codified in the Constitution of the United States by America’s founding fathers and reinforced by religious institutions, corporations, and units of government included, amongst other horrific acts, identified by Kenneth Stamp (Peculiar Institution, 1965), splitting up families, placing in private plantation jails, whipping, torturing, mutilating, raping, washing wounds in salt, skinning and boiling Africans alive, quartering them by tying their legs and arms to one horse each and pulling their limbs apart in four directions.
The late, great Dr. John Hope Franklin, a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, in recognition of his scholarship and service, told the nation when President Clinton appointed him in 1997 to chair a seven-member panel for the president’s Initiative on Race:
“If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present. He must begin with the past.”
Under the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, our ancestors were “freed” dead broke, without brick, bread, or thread, despite, the promises made, while the enslavers were compensated for the loss of their “chattel.” Still, today, even with the election of her husband as the President of the United States of America, there is no discussion for a process of restitution to achieve justice for an enslaved people. Without such a process, the obvious conclusion is that African descendants are not viewed as worthy of justice.
Therefore, a true national dialogue on a reparations accord for Blacks in America is appropriate within this founding context of America. Reparations are the cross-road solution to these historical injustices and the current undeveloped human capital of America. This past due debt, left unpaid, will forever contradict the U.S. Constitution, as well as the Holy Bible Mrs. Obama held and on which the President placed his hand to take the Presidential Oath of Office.
I remind her, as encouragement and strength to take on this project, that she has the God-given words of our beloved servant-leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on her side, spoken boldly in 1963, on the steps of our nation’s capitol, in his “I Have a Dream” speech:
“So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Dr. King’s 1963 speech, 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, is indelible as truth, and now is the time for Congress and the President to come up with a stimulus check to pay for the damage done to Blacks in America. This is “the urgency of now.”
I trust she will realize that God brought her to the White House, as First Lady, for such a time as this, to start, amongst other projects, a dialog for a reparations accord and support for House Bill H.R. 40, sponsored by the Honorable Congressman John Conyers, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. There is no greater love she can show or cause she could take on as The First Lady of the United States of America.
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Camara Jordan Reply:
April 4th, 2009 at 21:32
Thank you Mr. Merretazon for your timely letter to Mrs Michelle Obama. I have read other articles written by you in recent months and always found them to be well written and researched. I also find you to be passionate and consitent regarding the cause for reparations, particularly in North America. Hopefully your correspondence will open the dialogue and more important, take us closer to reality of equal justice for descendants of inslaved Africans.
Thank you
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The issue is no longer who should pay reparations to Blacks but what should be the elements of a reparations accord for Blacks. It is my opinion that an independent commission should administer and distribute these funds. Underlying this movement is a unifying fact we can’t continue to ignore or fear: A reparations accord for Blacks will make America better.
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Too many people in high, middle, and low places in America are still in denial about the crimes against humanity represented by the monstrous destruction of human life, culture, and human possibilities called The Holocaust of African Enslavement and Trade. This human tragedy covers a continuum from 1440 to the present.
Often, when justice and repair is sought for such crimes, it is tagged by many “Europeanized” and “Americanized” Africans as “playing the race card” or the “victim card.” To counter this rebuff, the “context card” must be used. The “context card” is America’s violent God complex and history of enslavement based on race.
The “context card” outlines and describes the defining elements of the economic legacy of Americanized Africans. In essence, my point is public policy and terror in America is still based on race, and, therefore, it must be challenged and re-constructed based on race, in the context of enslavement, and not the condescending notions of an inherent curse of God, and permanent social, economic, political pathologies, or civil rights.
I am using the word “context” as defined by Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition meaning., the whole situation, background, or environment relevant to a particular event; circumstances in which an event occurred or occurs; a setting.”
There is no card in the human capital development deck that can beat the context card because it is the core element of our moral universe. Like “deuces are wild” the context card out ranks all cards in the human capital development deck. Also, the context card is a key resource to be used at an opportune time to contend with and beat back assaults on our capacity as a people. The context card is not an excuse, it is posited as the cause and the reason for our status in America as a group unlike distinguishes our experiences from any and all immigrant groups in America. Please know and understand that we are not to be compared to any immigrant group.
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