We could have sold the fight for freedom for personal gains, but we stood our grounds – Gaddafi

Today on time with the ancestors, we will reconnect with Libyan revolutionary leader Colonel Gaddafi by having a look at one of the most relevant quotes from the archives.

Muammar Gaddafi once said that they (the free fighters) had every opportunity to relent on the fight for liberation and make individual wealth, but they never gave up. Read the exact quote below.

“Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect, but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honor.”

There is a lot to learn from our father, Gaddafi, and this quote has its relevance well established in these contemporary times. What can we, especially the new crop of Pan-Africanist, learn from this?

Patriotism and the need to remain resolute on our resolve to seek true independence for Africa. The utmost need to keep an eye on and Prioritize the collective good over selfish interest. The moral strength to choose good over evil. The mental agility to see beyond instant gratification.

The people of old did their part to get us where we are today. They faced the gun and chain approach of colonialism as much as they could. We are facing neocolonialism. We equally have the chance to liberate future generations from the seemingly unbreakable shackles or further incapacitate them by yielding to selfish interest.

Our leadership today must equally be aware that, being puppets to Superpowers is a sign of selling the course for personal gain as implied by Colonel Gaddafi. Receiving kickbacks just to sign parasitic deals that later mortgages the continent is not an exclusion.

We have a long way to go and we need to keep an eye on the ultimate goal. The last thing to do at this time when a lot of Africans are rising against oppression and pushing for unity is to amplify selfish interest. Let’s take this lesson and stand firm till victory.

Barack Obama Speaks On His First Date With Michelle

‘Michelle’ was assigned to be my adviser. I remember being struck by how tall and beautiful she was,” said Barack Obama

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Former President of the United Stated of America (USA) Barack Obama has opened up on how he met his wife Michelle at the law firm she used to work for.

Barack said that when he got a new job as the same law firm where Michelle worked and found our that she was going to be his mentor he was very happy.

“In the luckiest break of my life, ‘Michelle’ was assigned to be my adviser. I remember being struck by how tall and beautiful she was,” said Barack adding that Michelle was not impressed.

The former first lady disclosed that she remained sceptical of the former president even though Barack was loved by everyone in the office.

“In my experience, you put a suit on any half-intelligent black man and white people tended to go bonkers. I was doubtful he would earn the hype,” said Michelle in her memoir Becoming.

However, Barack did not give up and kept on pursuing her. “I asked her out. She refused. I kept asking. She kept refusing,” said Barack adding that his future wife would turn him down time and time again over the course of several weeks, claiming it was because she was his boss.

Nevertheless, after Barack offered to leave his job then asked Michelle out again, and she said yes. The couple then went for their first date which included lunch, a movie, a stroll in the park, a stop at an ice cream shop and ended off with an incredible kiss on a park bench.

“I treated her to the finest ice cream Baskin-Robbins had to offer, our dinner table doubling as the curb. I kissed her, and it tasted like chocolate,” Barack said.
“And with that, I leaned in and everything felt clear,” Michelle summarized in her memoir.

Trump administration considering banning Chinese Government officials from entering the US

The Trump administration is considering banning all members of the Chinese Communist Party and their families from traveling to the United States, according to a source within the administration.

According to the New York Times, who spoke to the source, senior administration officials discussing the matter have begun circulating a draft of a possible presidential order, a move that would worsen the already damaged relationship between the US and China.

According to the NY Times, the source speaking on condition of anonymity, said deliberations are at an early stage and the issue has not yet been brought to U.S. President Donald Trump.


According to the New York Times, the ban which will focus on denying visas to tens of millions of Chinese citizens, would be one of Washington's toughest actions against China.

The source said the ban could hit the ruling Communist Party from the highest levels down to its rank-and-file and would be certain to draw retaliation from China.
The ban could also affect business executives, potentially harming U.S. interests in China.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying reacting to the reports on Friday, said such action by the United States, if true, would be "pathetic."

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday refused to confirm the report but said:
"We're working our way through, under the president's guidance, about how to think about pushing back against the Chinese Communist Party."

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters: "We keep every option on the table with regard to China."

Relations between China and the US are now at the lowest point in decades as both countries clash over China's handling of the Coronavirus outbreak, China's new security law on Hong Kong, China's disputed claims in the South China Sea, and trade disputes.

It was normal, it comes easily to him' - Trump's niece says she heard her uncle use the n-word and anti-Semitic slurs

                                   

Mary Trump, the niece of President Trump, has said she heard her uncle use the n-word and anti-Semitic slurs so many times while she was growing up.



Mary Trump recently hit the limelight after releasing a blockbuster new book, 'Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man.'



In the book, she makes many allegations about Donald Trump and the Trump family, but most of the allegations have been denied by Trump's family and the White House.



For a while there was speculation that Trump used the n-word behind-the-scenes during the filming of his hit TV show 'The Apprentice,' but the tapes have never surfaced. 



Speaking to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, Mary Trump admitted she heard her uncle use racial slurs:

'Of course I did. And I don't think that should surprise anybody given how virulently racist he is today.'

Mary Trump had earlier said in an interview with The Washington Post that her family engaged in bigotry throughout her childhood. 

'Growing up, it was sort of normal to hear them use the n-word or use anti-Semitic expressions,' she told.

She told The Post that she hasn't been surprised by the president's racist language nor policies, including separating children from their parents at the southern border.

'No, the more divisive the better, the cooler,' she said. 

'It comes easily to him and he thinks it's going to score him points with the only people who are continuing to support him,' Mary Trump said. 



She described what her family engaged in as 'a knee-jerk anti-Semitism, a knee-jerk racism.'

'Homophobia was never an issue because nobody ever talked about gay people, well, until my grandmother called Elton John' an anti-gay slur,' she  told The Post.
 

Continuously pressed by Maddow if she had heard the president use the n-word and anti-Semitic slurs Mary Trump replied: 'Yes.'



The White House has rejected Mary's allegations, calling her book  'a book of falsehoods', adding: 'The president doesn't use those words.' 



Mary Trump, a lesbian, was secretly engaged to a woman and says she never came out as gay because her grandmother Mary said the prospect of Elton John singing at the funeral of Princess Diana was 'a disgrace' and called him a 'little' six-letter slur. 



She also described President Trump's 2016 campaign as being racist several times in the book.

'He did tap into a certain bigotry and inchoate rage, which he's always been good at doing,' she wrote, pointing to the 1989 New York Times ad the president took out demanding that the Central Park Five - a group of five black suspects who were cleared of assault and rape charges - be executed.   
 

When asked what will happen if her uncle wins a second term, she told the paper, 'I may be in the Caribbean.'