Dale Enoch on African Awareness
August 04, 2000
By A. H. Hotep
Dale Enoch is staging a two hour-long program to discuss the increase in African awareness. He wants to find out or should I say advance the claim that he has been making for weeks that the increase in African awareness is because Africans feel insecure because we have an 'Indian' government. He refuses to accept that though he may be correct in part, one cannot rule out the increase in cable and Internet access, the increase in talk shows in the last five years together with the persistence of many of us to keep bringing up these issues on the numerous talk shows. He refuses to appreciate the role of several African bookstores that opened within the last six years. He refuses to appreciate that this awareness is worldwide.
This growing awareness is of concern to him because he and the radio station where he is employed Power 102, have always opposed African informational and cultural programs. Dale has always been making derogatory statements in reference to those who claim an African heritage. Power 102's General Manager Louis Lee Sing said on their morning program that he does not support the call for African programs on Power 102 because he believes that these programs can create another Bosnia in this country. This is the same Louis Lee Sing who set aside an entire station in the state media to deal with Indian programs to take care of their culture viz. their views, religion, history, their very existence. When it was time to answer the same question for the Africans he saw division when the least he could have seen was balance.
Then again, his position is not strange, that is the same slave master point of view that Africa had no culture viz. views, religion, history, and social existence. The very idea of development was to be anything but African. When one places the views of the General Manager with the daily comments of Dale Enoch, Tony Lee, Jerome Lewis plus their former 'starboy' George Umbala Joseph, the real question should be why are they feeling so insecure because there is growing African awareness in spite of their stated and active efforts to discourage this? To add insult to injury these same people always try to judge African people using Indian people as a yardstick.
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