The Sunday Mail
We hope before US-EU sanctions on Zimbabwe are lifted, President Obama doesn’t need the blessing and approval of Mr Soros.
From its inception, the African revolution has been rooted in unity and self-determination.
This is why our most dedicated fighters like President Mugabe take exception when factionalism prevents us from maximising potential when we serve the masses.
As we struggle to maintain the course by remaining steadfast to the principles that bring us together, part and parcel of this process is to attack and exploit the weaknesses and division of our enemies, each and every time the opportunity presents itself.
On January 14, 2015 The Washington Times writer Kelly Riddell published an article entitled “George Soros funds Ferguson protests, hopes to spur civil action”.
Such strategy was started by none other than Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Reunification Church, which was to serve as a US neo-colonial outpost to undermine the Socialist revolution in North Korea.
The time may soon be coming where finding US-based grassroots organisations that aren’t financed by Mr Soros may be more challenging than it was to find churches in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s whose palms were not greased by Rev Moon and the Unification Church.
The article reveals that in 2014, Mr Soros spent US$33 million on political activities in Ferguson. The recipients included the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, the Drug Policy Alliance, Make the Road New York, Equal Justice USA, From Sojourners, the Advancement Project, the Centre for Community Change, and networks from the Gamaliel Foundation.
The article then chimes in on the connection between the Drug Policy Alliance and the “hash-tag” Black Lives Matter.
The DPA receives US$4 million annually from Mr Soros, the co-creator of Black Lives Matter.
Because Mr Soros takes pride in being labelled a progressive liberal, it is only natural if we choose to reflect on two compelling quotes from Dr Martin Luther King Jnr’s “Letter From the Birmingham Jail”.
This incredible letter has been overshadowed by the “I Have A Dream” speech at the March on Washington given the same year.
The first quote by Dr King is: “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s greatest stumbling block in the stride towards freedom is the White Citizens’ Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but it is the white moderate who is more devoted to order than justice. Who paternalistic ally feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom.”
Dr King goes on to say: “The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet-like speed towards the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse and buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup and coffee at a lunch counter.”
This shows Mr Soros is out to kill two birds with one big and expensive stone.
He is aiming to dilute the militancy of our movement against police brutality and terrorism, and at the same time through the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, playing a role in financing the overthrow of President Mugabe and Zanu-PF.
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition — who are bankrolled by Osisa — is home to 350 civil society organisations with a multitude of objectives and functions.
This is their launder list of principles: justice and peace, non-violence, tolerance, inclusiveness, non-partisan, non-sexism, equality of all citizens, mutual respect and support, transparency and integrity, accountability, and commitment to the principle and action of human rights.
If Zimbabweans in particular, and Africans in general, are wondering why the immediate lifting of US-EU sanctions on Zimbabwe is not on Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition’s agenda, the answer is simple: Mr Soros will not pick up the tab.
This also explains why the organised formations on Mr Soros’ payroll — who function within US borders — conveniently say they are too consumed with their domestic agenda to address the lifting of US-EU sanctions on Zimbabwe.
When we follow the purse strings, it’s crystal clear. Mr Soros cannot have his shock troopers in the US clashing with their co-workers in Zimbabwe.
Another intriguing aspect of this plot is when you look at the Gamaliel Foundation, which on paper describes itself as a network of grassroots inter-religious and interracial organisations.
One of their affiliates in Chicago is where President Obama got his start as a grassroots organiser. The pathological hatred President Obama appears to have for President Mugabe must have started when Mr Soros hired him many years ago. We hope before US-EU sanctions on Zimbabwe are lifted, President Obama doesn’t need the blessing and approval of Mr Soros.
At the end of 2014, the world watched Rev Al Sharpton of the National Action Network lead a demonstration to Washington DC where it was declared that US police brutality/terrorism had become a national emergency.
It was only a year before that Rev Sharpton was the key organiser of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, whose main talking points were economy, voting rights, workers’ rights, stand-your-ground laws and gun violence, immigration, environment, justice and youth.
Another important point is that Rev Sharpton has at the moment what most civil rights organisers crave for: back door White House access to the President, which is treated as equivalent to cardinals who have regular audience with the pope.
When our history of struggle in the US is thoroughly examined from the days of Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, Mary McLeod Bethune to Dr Dorothy Height, the only freedom fighter to make a clear breakaway was Dr King when he condemned the Vietnam War.
It is only wishful thinking to see Rev Sharpton raise the ground-breaking study of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement that exposes that Africans in the US are killed by law enforcement every 28 hours.
We can see that Rev Sharpton, Mr Soros and President Obama represent a three-ring circus that only opts for order instead of justice in its most authentic form.
The slogan “Black Lives Matter” being showcased on banners, websites, Twitter and Instagram is much more digestible for Mr Soros, President Obama and Rev Sharpton, than MXGM’s “Every 28 Hours” concept which affirms that Homeland Security is without question guilty of state-sponsored terrorism.
This trend of events helps bring into focus why Mr Soros walks around on cloud nine, thinking for the right price he can buy an organisation wholesale, give them a political makeover and send them out to sabotage our movement against US police brutality/terrorism.
The only thing worse is Mr Soros is guilty of exploiting our people’s cultural, historical and geographical disconnect, hoping that the Africans he finances in the US and Zimbabwe never arrive at the logical conclusion that the fight to eradicate police brutality/terrorism and the fight to lift US-EU sanctions on Zimbabwe go hand in hand. As long as we treat chattel slavery and colonialism in the collective African experience, the possibility of a liberal elitist like Mr Soros can sink his teeth into our movement, at home and abroad, is no laughing matter.
The great Pan-African revolutionary Kwame Ture used to say in revolution there is no sentimentality at all.
This means as long as the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition and activists in Ferguson are on the ground, they can never be considered our comrades-in-arms as long a Mr Soros pays the bills.
Obi Egbuna Jr is a The Herald correspondent in Washington DC
