I've gotta do more reading on Lesotho and find out how it came to be. That's important and please excuse me for my IGNORANCE on Lesotho History. It still pisses me off that when I was in high school, I STILL HAVE MY WORLD GLOBE from when I was in 6th or 7th grade. But it pissed me off all throughout high school because whenever we had GLOBAL STUDIES AND WORLD HISTORY?
It was NEVER GLOBAL STUDIES AND WORLD HISTORY. It was always GLOBAL STUDIES-N-WORLD HISTORY WHEREVER WHITES RULED OR CONQUERED AT. YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
NO!
Boooooooooooooooooooooo, GET THAT GODDAMN BLACK KID!? DAMMIT SHAWN!? CAN'T U JUST FUCKIN!? GET OUT! GO TO THE PRINCIPLES OFFICE! GET OUT! HAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAAHHA!
I'd still get an A on the test.
Then use that as JUSTIFICATION to get the answer for the question that got me kicked out of class.
But the bottom line is!? That we had NO in-depth studies of African ANYTHING. No African Anything. I learned more about Vietnam because of the Vietnam War. We didn't learn SHIT about Korea. AND OF COURSE!? We learned about the Soviet Union. How could we NOT LEARN about the Soviet Union. I of course, wanted to learn about Africa, because that is where we originally came from. My Mother and I tried to trace Our Family back to Africa but the trail disappeared because Many Black Slaves were not even given name recognition on Nazi-American Census Forms, so? We were just Negros. Unnamed Negroes.
-_-
Yeah. I can see why Whites fear us.
I'd be afraid too.
HOWEVER!? That doesn't excuse the fact that I've tried over the years to learn more about Black African History and the attempts to Whitewash everything IS STRONG. And pathetic. Either way I have never learned much about Lesotho and...?
Uhhhh, what the fuck!?
Okay I didn't expect to find THAT. I got no clue if this is a JOKE or if people are serious. Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd this is the problem with NOT LIVING IN THE REGION. Because this could be a joke or IT COULD BE REAL. But since I don't have any cultural context then I can't be sure. >_< I'm not even gonna type what I intended to type. Not right now, not yet. But it ties into that bullshit that went on with Stacey where I was just reminded of YET ANOTHER CONVERSATION where she just DIDN'T. GET IT. I'll get into the vague crap I just found after I post this article first;
Southern African leaders to probe Lesotho ex-army chief murder
July 3, 2015 7:36 PM
The Maseru police headquarters after military men disarmed police & occupied the premises on August 30, 2014
Johannesburg (AFP) - Southern African leaders on Friday ordered a regional probe into the murder last week of Lesotho's former army chief, an incident that has plunged the kingdom into fresh security crisis.
Leaders and representatives from six member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) resolved to send investigators to the tiny mountain nation after emergency talks over the crisis sparked by the killing of Brigadier Maaparankoe Mahao.
Mahao, who was aligned with former prime minister Thomas Thabane, was shot and killed late last week, reportedly by a group of soldiers.
His killing comes two months after Thabane -- now head of the opposition -- fled Lesotho, claiming he was the target of an assassination plot.
The leaders, meeting in Pretoria, "decided, as a matter of urgency, to establish an independent commission of inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Brigadier Mahao," they said in a statement.
The investigators will be drawn from select countries in the 15-member SADC grouping.
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, who is head of the regional bloc's security committee, said the killing of the army ex-commander had thrown the kingdom into a "serious security crisis".
Friday's summit also urged the Lesotho government to "urgently" undertake constitutional and security reforms.
Last August, Thabane fired then army chief Tlali Kamoli, replacing him with Mahao. The next day soldiers attacked police headquarters, looting weapons and killing one officer.
Thabane described the violence as a coup attempt, though both his political opponents and the military denied any bid to seize power.
SADC instructed both Mahao and Kamoli to leave the country in the run-up to a snap election in February, which brought a new coalition government to power headed by Thabane's predecessor, Pakalitha Mosisili.
Kamoli was reinstated as army chief after the election.
Completely landlocked by South Africa, Lesotho is one of the world's poorest countries and is no stranger to political upheaval.
The SADC leaders also created a special panel that would act as early warning mechanism to watch out for signs of instability and intervene appropriately.
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