Author:Essa Bokarr SEY.
Dear 6th sense! Please allow minds and hindsight to
knock on your door once again. It is obvious that these cardinal
points are useful during this episode. This is an episode that is so
thirsty. Nothing can quench its thirst other than communication or
sincere jabbering. Sincere jabbering? Yes! because we cannot evaporate
the noise from this line of endless "crude" flutes! At this time our
vision is being twisted and turned by mirages from noisy corners. This
noise can be called jabbering. Can we stop it now? Not at all. This
means we have to try by all means thus add sugar to some of the sour
grapes! Adding sugar to sour grapes? Yes! add sugar,milk and honey to
those sour grapes and see if it is not better than the "fermented" sour
bowl with vinegar! In this homeland aren't there political dinosaurs
who strive,walk and slay? This isn't what Edward Small wrote on the
national anthemn. He said this..."We Strive work and pray". These
semantics can be moving up and down like engine pistons. One can
substitute pray,with play or pray with slay...Hmmm the list goes on and
on and on. We may want to play after praying but how about slaying?
Ooops! slaying is not all that friendly near a ballot box. Not at all
friendly for goodness sake. How about jumping on the word spray? Spray?
Spraying insecticides or spraying bullets? No do not spray bullets
either. But we aren't stray pets so why receive insecticides? These
invectives and threats are abstract and bad they can force a new word
into our scalps. Call them "Invecticides" if you want to! Why all these
invectives? Why? Why? Why? Bamm!!! Answers aren't always so cool you
know... Isn't this a Gringo race? Gringo
here means funny faces of force. Fun is apparent here but not real.
Cosmetic modus operandi breeds foul play where decency was expected! Do
not be scratching on the surface please just go deeper and deeper
therein you will see the actual seeds. Seeds of discord or seeds of "accord"? "Cockoricoo"! Please
do not spill that innocent blood! Do not! Blood is not milk,you do not
pour it into a jug. It spills on the land that you and your folks are
calling homeland. Do not shake the minds and raise the tension in those
innocent veins. Fear is never clear,it is always shady and murky. This sixth sense is spiralling over the cardinal points they are useful points. Here they are:-
A-"Commonalities",B-"Facts", C-"Opinion" and D-"Truth".
A-"Commonalities"-Stands
for the usual niceties like greetings,cajoling and coaxing etc. This
represents our traditional "Maslahaa" It works as a starter but may not
continue when....
B-"Facts" are
presented. Facts are facts and nothing else but facts. They cannot
change because they are what they are. When a liar speaks,it is a fact
that he or she is a liar. This fact helps present a fact but that does
not mean lies are true either. Certainly the existence of a liar is
obviously a fact. Changes come along when....
C-"Opinion"
stands aside. Opinions are not usually factual. They are generic and
may not have real structures. They are relative therefore products of
perception. One may build a positive opinion thus call oneself the best
even whereas he or she is the lowest of the low. This is why opinion
are like candies for dreamers. They are at the same time like medicine
for researchers or thinkers.
Today as
I was listening to the GRTS via my internet broadband I heard him who
must be disobeyed say this..." Even if I were to stand for elections as
a Presidential candidate for Africa,I would have won because I have
done so much for Africa let alone The Gambia..." This is indeed a
product of perception therefore an opinion from a wild contender. This
is why intellectuals always entertain this idea...ie, that every one
is entitled to his or her opinion. How about when we start diagnosing
the last cardinal point or when...
D-"Truth"
comes in. This is where many differ. Truth is absolute. It can either
be constructive truth or destructive truth,because truth is not always
positive. Truth means an outcome of all the four cardinal points. The
two sides of a coin are usually touched in a court of law. This is why
witnesses,victims and those accused are asked to lean on saying the
truth,the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Oaths are meant to
identify with truth but not lies. Of course this does not mean liars
cannot take an oath either. Voila! Monseigneur! this is why legal
experts reserve a last card during this endless game of social
gymnastics. Bamm! they have what we call proving things beyond any
reasonable doubt. Life itself is a long line of activities and a giant
screen where so many movies are being reeled. This is why when actors
and actresses are constantly playing various roles opinions spring from
minds and hindsight. The umbrella stops them,this umbrella is truth!
When the activities of a court house are played for us on its huge
screen we tend to see interesting images. Sometimes they are visual
aids because these actors and actresses depict the realities of life on
the huge screen. Here life becomes a teacher! Teaching students who
have itching palms and itching eyes is not all that easy bro! They
can't just stay focused. When will these type of students learn? When
will they? There is a hidden preamble in one of those closets in
Banjul. This preamble stands to be corrected when everything is proven
beyond any reasonable doubt! This
is why truth cannot be tried by those crude flutes,it must be tried by
time and life. Time and life are like biscuits and cakes. The shape
maybe different,the taste maybe different but none of them goes on our
taste buds without flour! Isn't this interesting?! Okay??? now....if
everything is said and done who are the losers and winners in all this
jabbering? Winners and losers are relative too. Opinion makes it more
complicated because choice and opinion are incompartible associates.
Hello
there! Truth says this..."Do not present the horse to the one you
know,give the horse to the best rider.." This is the truth because The
Gambia does not want to be left behind on this brown continent. Can
any contender ever do more than what Nelson did for our continent? Of
course not those we have been eating Pa Cook's benachin with. Anyway
with all his achievements Nelson Mandela gave Thabo Mbeki the chance to
be heard and seen. Wolof Njie said..."Hew Hewih aayut Nyaaka hew mo
aaye"-Anyone who has been there lives to remember the past,anyone who
is yet be there lives to dream about the future. Kinky heads listening
to that kinky Kabakel in joy. Opinion is not always right brother! It
is not!
Truth is not always pleasant either. Where do you stand?
Or
where will you be when truth's verdict is being read by time and life?
Chei! Aren't these snow flakes of your endless errors freezing the
peaceful stream for genuine minds?
Bla-Bla-Bla..."Na
talk nomo,this man naya able!" Stop talking and walk away from the
dias. Rage cannot turn a page,it only stains a page!