Mandela Would Be Proud: McKinney Returns to Gaza

This time Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney successfully got through the illegal blockade and delivered medicine and other goods to the residents of Gaza!!! Crow if you will but she is certainly one determined African-American woman on a mission of peace. In honor of one criminal, rabble-rouser and terrorist per labeling by the US government, Nelson Mandela set forth a tradition of resistance. He actually practiced what he preached and spend nearly one third of his entire life behind bars. Somehow I just don't see many of the black male infotainment hustlers and pontificators being willing to give up their manicures and creature comforts to do hard labor. 

I'm not sure what I would've done after I'd be kidnapped by a foreign government while trying to aid a separate one, jailed, left to twist in the wind by my gov't and suddenly released. I don't think I would've turned right back around a mere week later to attempt the very thing that got me kidnapped and charged to begin with. I admire her fortitude. 

Whatever your political viewpoints are regarding this there are two indisputable facts: Hamas is the legally elected gov't and there's $4B in gas reserves off the coast of Gaza. Think about that for a minute. Or two.....

The San Francisco Bayview has her article in its entirety. I am including an excerpt here:

Gaza is beautiful. Gaza is full of life, despite Israel’s Operation Cast Lead. And now I have seen, Gaza has been bombed to smithereens. No wonder the Israelis didn’t want photos taken!

I think I’ve mastered my video camera enough to share some images with you. I’ll post them on these sites when I return: 

http://www.livestream.com/dignity 

http://dignity.ning.com/ 

http://www.twitter.com/dignityaction 

http://www.myspace.com/dignityaction 

http://www.myspace.com/runcynthiarun  

http://www.twitter.com/cynthiamckinney 

http://www.facebook.com/CynthiaMcKinney