Sunday's Choice for Senegal: THE DOOR OF NO RETURN

On Sunday, February 26, 2012 voting polls are being set up, international observers are being set in place, a former president of Nigeria is in town. It looks so normal and yet it is so bizarre.
Everywhere around us, change is occurring because people are frustrated and want to be respected. It is another case where those in power use whatever means to stay in power.
In this case, many leaders around the world do not seem to think that what President Wade cooked up is unethical or wrong. They ask for a peaceful election, but how can you have an election when it is unfair and not legitimate.

They are asking people to make a ethical choice about choice, freedom, democracy, the human spirit and will. Mr. Wade is asking people to make internal choices of voting which rip at the heart with his candidacy. He know this but continues to push ahead as if it doesn't matter.

Now we reach the point of choice - TO BE OR NOT TO BE.

The Senegalese are neither weak or stupid people. Their spirit cannot be contained as history reminds us. They are represent some of the strongest to survive the middle passage of the long slave trade and their genes and spirit can be found the western hemisphere (US, Caribbean, South America). They fought the colonial powers with spiritual leaders such as Cheikh Amadou Bamba- Serin Touba whose spirit of resistance still lives in the people and are in this current struggle. They strove for independence from the French and was one of the first countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to receive it in 1960.

Now the fight something from within their country: lack of employment, hunger, poverty, days and nights without power, expensive gas-oil and food. Most of all they fight corruption and the power that it yields. The poor are shut out from opportunity unless they are being used as political pawns. The young people have no jobs and crowd the university for the pursuit of education and opportunity. President Wade has become separated from the pain of the poor and working classes in Senegal. He has lost his way. He must step aside.

He must step aside!! WADE stop right now.

If he does not, then on Sunday, the people of Senegal in 2012 face what their enslaved ancestors faced for many hundreds of years: THE DOOR OF NO RETURN.