2004-10-14 - 3:18 p.m.
Well I am back to update this thing. You thought I disappeared didn't you? Nope, I am here in the flesh to update you on the goings on in Danielle's world. I started school at the end of September, and that is going well. I'm only taking two classes right now, which isn't a heavy load. My classes are from 9-11AM, which works out perfectly. I still get the time I need to spend with Zora and take care of anything else on my agenda. I'm not working yet, which is just fine with me. The only thing I regret right now is not finishing my undergrad earlier. I am SO EAGER to leave this country and my education is the only thing keeping me here. But if Bush is reelected, that might change. Maybe I am being too paranoid, but I truly feel that his policies are going to result in the deaths of many civilians in the USA and more abroad. I don't want myself, my husband or my daughter to be one of them. We have talked about relocating to Tanzania, but not in the immediate future-maybe 2-5 years from now. But I don't know if I want to wait that long. The war hawks are already talking about invading Iran next and that would have disastrous consequences for the Middle East. My hubby thinks that I am kidding about moving to Tanzania soon. He picks on me and tells me that I couldn't deal with the loss of certain amenities and difference in infrastructure. But I really don't care. I'd rather be in a nation where I feel secure and happy than be in America, where I have every amenity but no true security. And I am also beginning to feel that just by being here I am benefiting from America's hegemony and contributing to the oppression of the developing world. That has always been in my head, but I am getting less comfortable with it. Is it really right for Americans to use up so many of the world's resources? Is it really right for poor nations to take food out of the mouths of their own citizens so they can service their debts to the Westwhich has no need for more wealth)? Is it really right for us to invade and occupy a nation that posed not threat to us, a nation that was already weakened by tough sanctions that WE demanded? Nah...this 21st century manifest destiny program is wack and I can't be down with it. I don't think I will renounce my citizenhip, and I don't hate this country. But I can't continue to give my assent to its immoral and ungodly tactics. I really want to leave the USA and try to do something to benefit my own people in their own land. As an American and as a Black woman I owe it to my people to try to restore what my nation has taken.
