This morning the mercury has refused to move below minus five degrees – although the sun ( still pale) is smiling. Take note: there are still a few misplaced Negroes who when they come across or hear the word “degrees”, think only of Harvard, M.I.T and Yale. Think pale. Like Matrimonial advertisements in The Hindu Times or the Times of India – Sunday edition :“Green Card Holder, BA. MA. PHD, six figure dollar salary, seeks nice, wheat-coloured Brahmin girl.”
Temperature and weather is usually secondary to the homo ( homo sapient) whose main ambition in life is to be the most learned Negro in his village ( or the global village) or the planet. Some kind of king ( of the castle) the village castle. Small town parochial, post-colonial mentality. What colonialism saddled some people with, since the Wazungu came by boat or alighted from a bird-like machine that flew through the sky. Came as “ wisest man” harbinger of civilisation ( the mission) came with electricity, came with white medicine, and came with a new word offering salvation beyond the skies.
I’ve forgotten what the meteorologist said after the news last night, whether spring had come to Mayor Ilmar Reepalu’s Malmö or was going to come to Stockholmo tomorrow “juste”( “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow” ) or as usual – hold it – but please hang on to your dreams: worse is yet to come before you can begin to expect that the weather will get any better.
In yesterday’s Dagens Nyheter ( print edition) Egemen Bagis (in the interview with Ingrid Hedström in Istanbul) would like to encourage the Swedish Parliament to tear up the Genocidal Resolution. The interview with Bagis is quite enlightening, but is unfortunately not available on internet except on PDF format , to DN subscribers like yours truly.)
Here’s part of the interview ( my translation)
“ Ingrid Hedström: What has Turkey done on it’s own , to come to terms with what happened in 1915?”
Egemen Bagis: “ Turkey has opened up all her archives to make it possible to analyze what happened then. But there are also archives in other countries. Turkey’s most important ally at that time was Germany . We ought to have a look at their archives. But the greater part of the documentation of those events are in Boston and owned by the Armenian Revolutionary Founation, who are unwilling to open up their archives to non-Armenian historians.”
Ingrid Hedström: “ If a common History Commission were to be created and that commission were to conclude that genocide had taken place, would Turkey accept this?”
Egemen Bagis: “ We have already taken a decision in ( our) Parliament, in which we say that we are ready to look at history in the eye , and Prime Minister Erdogan has written a letter to the Armenian president (telling him ) that we are prepared to meet with /confront our history if they are ready to meet with/confront theirs”
At the bottom of this interview, in yesterday’s Dagens Nyheter:
* Our Prime Minister deeply regrets the genocide decision
To some ears the request that the Swedish Parliament should tear up the Resolution that they just passed about Armenian Genocide, could ring hollow. The Turks are not the only ones requesting this kind of reversal of a decision once made ( democratically or not) in the interest of promoting good or better neighbourly relations.
To some other ears , there’s the equally ludicrous request that Bibi Netanyahu rescind Israel’s decision to construct another 1,600 dwellings for his people in Jerusalem. Some say that it’s part of the national logic or even rhetoric as in asking ” Does the Alliance or their Social Demo(n)s ( like Lars Vilks) for that matter, need permission from Washington or Ramallah to build 5,000 new apartments at Norra Station in Stockholm ( to meet natural population growth requirements?
( to be continued, to a good conclusion)