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Re: [cameroon_politics] THE PURPORTED BAN ON ENGLISH IN NW COURTS A FICTION AND LIE OF GREATER PROPORTION

ENFORCE THIS:

www.ambazonia.org  click on information, scroll  News by HEBDO Newspaper 1993:

ENFORCE ENFORCE ENFORCE. We have the legal Weapons!!!!!!

JA

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 1:12 PM, 'Timothy Mbeseha' via ambasbay <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Mr. Visha,
You have raised very important issues that call for a deeper reflection. The truth is that we as former British Southern Cameroonians are often the first to shoot ourselves  from the back. The reporter might have exaggerated a few things but in the larger context there are signs of danger hanging everywhere. Only those with foresight can or are willing to see or acknowledge. From the day the Presidential Decrees moving Magistrates/Judges was published a few months ago any person with foresight would have predicted this dilemma. Those appointments saw the movement of a common law senior judge as Procureur General in Buea to the President of the court of appeal in Maroua. He was replaced by a Judge of civil law extraction. Another common law judge was moved from Bamenda to Ngaoudere in the Adamawa as Procureur General. All these changes are only a camouflage to destroy the common law system because the judge who was moved from Buea to Maroua for example will have no linguistic and procedural problems doing the job because he has spent a very long time in his career working in different jurisdictions of Cameroun civil law system. The same is not the case with those Francophones who were posted to Bamenda in particular and other courts in the NW&SW regions in general.
    Talking about admissions into professional schools, the practice of flooding the few of few professional schools meant for NW & SW with Francophones is an open secret. The Medical School in the university of Buea is another glaring example. I looked at their last intake and could barely recognize any NW & SW names on the list. We cannot count on our brothers/sisters who are office holders in the system because their primary goal is the defense of their offices. The offices are certainly too juicy to take the risk of criticizing those who appoint them. For the same reasons we cannot count on our so called politicians. It is very embarrassing that today some of our children in English Technical colleges continue to write a certain end of course exam in English but are awarded a certificate called "CAP". A large majority of the students and even teachers do not know what "CAP" stands for.
Mbeseha


On Saturday, February 28, 2015 1:07 PM, 'Samuel Laikenjoh' via ambasbay <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> wrote:


What has finished the anglophone in this society is rationalizing issues in a purely Machiavellian entity. Granted that the story is a gross exaggeration of what may really have taken place, should we be seen to be the ones shooting ourselves? Of late I heard the majority of the students admitted into the higher teachers training college Bambili are frogs. If true is this normal? Gendarme officers like the police and the district officers are frogs in A purely anglophone region of Cameroon  do u rationalists find this normal? Am damned worried because these fellows have invaded our schools and some dare constrain principals and PTA  presidents to preside in French . Do u really find this normal. Why should the legal department in a pure Anglo Saxon scenario be top heavy francophone? Could one not surely deduce that submissions shall be in French ? Do not forget that they destroyed our only polytechnic GTC Ombe and today send francophones to teach our children in pidgin English . Do u really find this normal? I can't forget the year all our technical students failed the technical exams with the French acronym CAP due to a mistranslation by a frog teacher. Bougie in ordinary parlance is a candle but in technology it is a spark plug and this is what failed all our children. When they do this they turn around and blame the tried and tested system of Anglo education  as responsible for the poor show of our children yet rationalists want to make us believe that all is well in the best of worlds like Voltaire said in one of his books Candide.
We only await for these biya's appointees when they fall out of grace they come to tell us how they fought so hard to change the system from within . Lies! What about becoming a professor just because a university lecturer with no publication to his credit has been appointed a minister and of course they start defending the indefensible . You may want to ask Ngolle Ngolle about his several outings on behalf of the head of state who has made sure that his native Bangem is enclaved. Who is fooling who in all of this?
Continue to delude yourselves until one goddamned morning the owners of la republique France will usher in another stooge and dictator. Read my lips " free and fair elections shall never take place in this triangle.
Aluta continua
Visha 

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On 2015-03-01, at 12.49.PD, <fonong@gmail.com> wrote:

What prove have you brought to say the journalist's story is a lie? At least he brought us the names of those appointed in the legal department in Bamenda who are all francophones so how are they going to work with the lawyers?

Fonong Fevant Fon
 

On 28 February 2015 at 16:40, Agbor Enow Augustine Enow007@yahoo.com [cameroon_politics] <cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 
Truth is the platinum standard by which journalists are judged. When a reporter says that there is a ban on English language in a NW court and there is in fact a ban on English language in the said regional court, then the reporter has told the truth; otherwise, the report is false.
The report from the Cameroon Daily Journal regarding the purported ban placed on English in the Bamenda-based court is a lie and self promoting message from that paper and its owner. The advent of electronic journalism has not only improved the speed at which news is reported, but journalism itself suffers as a result of this important channel of communication.
Someone can just sit in his house in Buea and decide to create some sensationalism to increase traffic to his online news site. This misinformation and disinformation is a threat to journalism as a profession. This sale of commercialized lies and dramatic sensationalism of falsehood for personal gain should be condemned with the contempt that it deserves.
Cameroonians should watch out for this kind of yellow journalism, which is nothing but a sensationalistic and marketable fiction. While it is not bad for a journalist to distinguish himself and uplift the profile of his news channel, to do so at the expense of the truth confuses the reader and breaks all media ethics.
Augustine Agbor Enow
 
The outcome of my life is not more than three lines:
I was a raw material
I became mature and cooked
And I was burned into nothingness.
Rumi
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Re: [MTC Global] [HQ] New Look @ MTC Global Website

New look and smart look ...great stride ...kudos to Prof Dutta and team MTC

Dr Biswas
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On 1 Mar 2015, at 08:36, "Prabhakar Waghodekar" <waghodekar@rediffmail.com> wrote:

The new MTCG website is really professional.

Hearty congrats to the Honourable President and his team
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RE: Study: lighter-skinned black and Hispanic people look smarter to white people

it is in line with their thinking but it is more to keep people divided! not that they actually believe it.
 

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Subject: Study: lighter-skinned black and Hispanic people look smarter to white people

Study: lighter-skinned black and Hispanic people look smarter to white people

Updated by  on February 28, 2015, 9:30 a.m. ET @jdesmondharris jenee.desmondharris@voxmedia.com
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As long ago as 2005, an ABC News report on colorism called it "an open secret in the black community." Two more recent documentaries about the issue, 2011's Dark Girls, and its 2015 offshoot, Light Girls, present it primarily as a source of pain inflicted both on and by African-Americans.
There's a broad assumption that this phenomenon — a preference for light skin over dark and accompanying discrimination  — is contained within the black community and other communities of color. But now, research suggests that some white people buy intocolorism, too.
In a new study published in the journal Social Currents, Villanova University's Lance Hannon found that, all things being equal, white interviewers deemed lighter-skinned blacks and Hispanics more intelligent than darker-skinned people who had identical educational achievement, vocabularies, scores on a political test, and a variety of other factors.
The results provide good reason to believe that what Hannon calls "white colorism" exists. And they raise concerns about what unfair, complexion-based beliefs about who's smart and who's not can have in every area of American life.

The research

(Shutterstock)
Skin color discrimination by white people isn't a new concept. As Hannon writes in the paper, "The history of white colorism runs as deep as the history of white racism in U.S. society. For African Americans, the skin color hierarchy is firmly rooted in the slavery regime, where white owners gave certain work privileges to slaves with more Eurocentric features."
And in fact, colorism in various areas of American life has been studied before. In his write up of the new research, Pacific Standard's Tom Jacobs summed up the findings of previous studies on the topic, with conclusions including:
But Hannon's new research is the first to focus on how colorism determines white people's perceptions of the intelligence of people of color.
He analyzed data from the 2012 American National Election Study, which is a face-to-face survey on social and political values and opinion. Interviewers are required to describe each subject's skin tone on a 10-point scale, and also rate intelligence on a five-point scale from "very low" to "very high."
Looking at the results for 223 African-American and Hispanic subjects who were interviewed by white interviewers, he found that African Americans and Latinos who were deemed to have lighter skin tones were also significantly more likely to be seen as intelligent.
If you're wondering whether it could be that the lighter-skinned subjects really were more intelligent (perhaps because of the way colorism in the larger society affected their educational opportunities) you're wrong — Hannon controlled for all of that. "Importantly, the effects of skin tone on intelligence assessment were independent of respondent education level, vocabulary test score, political knowledge assessment, and other demographic factors," he wrote.
Consequently, the interviewers could look at two identically qualified black or Hispanic subjects and assess the lighter one as being smarter.

Why white colorism matters

(Shutterstock)
The research drives home the point that colorism is not just a form of prejudice people of color impose on each other. Also, it's a reminder that that while it's certainly a relevant part of conversations where it most often arises — about things like worldwide demand for skin bleaching cream, debates about dating preferences, and more diverse representation of black women in Hollywood — the harm it causes extends far beyond these realms.
A belief among some white people that darker-skinned black and Hispanic people aren't smart could have (and is likely already having) society-wide impacts that perpetuate inequality.  "If white adults have a tendency to equate lighter skin with intelligence," Hannon concluded, "this may impact the quality and level of expectations white teachers and other school authorities have for certain students."
It's reasonable to conclude that this type of thinking  — whether it's conscious or the result of implicit bias — could taint decisions about everything from hiring and promotions, awards and internships, to mentorship and all of the other judgments that determine the trajectory of a person's life.
The paper calls for future sociological research to stop treating colorism as something that only happens within racial groups, and insists that if American racism is to be fully addressed, white colorism will have to be a part of the conversation.

Further reading



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Study: lighter-skinned black and Hispanic people look smarter to white people

Study: lighter-skinned black and Hispanic people look smarter to white people

Updated by  on February 28, 2015, 9:30 a.m. ET @jdesmondharris jenee.desmondharris@voxmedia.com
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As long ago as 2005, an ABC News report on colorism called it "an open secret in the black community." Two more recent documentaries about the issue, 2011's Dark Girls, and its 2015 offshoot, Light Girls, present it primarily as a source of pain inflicted both on and by African-Americans.
There's a broad assumption that this phenomenon — a preference for light skin over dark and accompanying discrimination  — is contained within the black community and other communities of color. But now, research suggests that some white people buy intocolorism, too.
In a new study published in the journal Social Currents, Villanova University's Lance Hannon found that, all things being equal, white interviewers deemed lighter-skinned blacks and Hispanics more intelligent than darker-skinned people who had identical educational achievement, vocabularies, scores on a political test, and a variety of other factors.
The results provide good reason to believe that what Hannon calls "white colorism" exists. And they raise concerns about what unfair, complexion-based beliefs about who's smart and who's not can have in every area of American life.

The research

(Shutterstock)
Skin color discrimination by white people isn't a new concept. As Hannon writes in the paper, "The history of white colorism runs as deep as the history of white racism in U.S. society. For African Americans, the skin color hierarchy is firmly rooted in the slavery regime, where white owners gave certain work privileges to slaves with more Eurocentric features."
And in fact, colorism in various areas of American life has been studied before. In his write up of the new research, Pacific Standard's Tom Jacobs summed up the findings of previous studies on the topic, with conclusions including:
But Hannon's new research is the first to focus on how colorism determines white people's perceptions of the intelligence of people of color.
He analyzed data from the 2012 American National Election Study, which is a face-to-face survey on social and political values and opinion. Interviewers are required to describe each subject's skin tone on a 10-point scale, and also rate intelligence on a five-point scale from "very low" to "very high."
Looking at the results for 223 African-American and Hispanic subjects who were interviewed by white interviewers, he found that African Americans and Latinos who were deemed to have lighter skin tones were also significantly more likely to be seen as intelligent.
If you're wondering whether it could be that the lighter-skinned subjects really were more intelligent (perhaps because of the way colorism in the larger society affected their educational opportunities) you're wrong — Hannon controlled for all of that. "Importantly, the effects of skin tone on intelligence assessment were independent of respondent education level, vocabulary test score, political knowledge assessment, and other demographic factors," he wrote.
Consequently, the interviewers could look at two identically qualified black or Hispanic subjects and assess the lighter one as being smarter.

Why white colorism matters

(Shutterstock)
The research drives home the point that colorism is not just a form of prejudice people of color impose on each other. Also, it's a reminder that that while it's certainly a relevant part of conversations where it most often arises — about things like worldwide demand for skin bleaching cream, debates about dating preferences, and more diverse representation of black women in Hollywood — the harm it causes extends far beyond these realms.
A belief among some white people that darker-skinned black and Hispanic people aren't smart could have (and is likely already having) society-wide impacts that perpetuate inequality.  "If white adults have a tendency to equate lighter skin with intelligence," Hannon concluded, "this may impact the quality and level of expectations white teachers and other school authorities have for certain students."
It's reasonable to conclude that this type of thinking  — whether it's conscious or the result of implicit bias — could taint decisions about everything from hiring and promotions, awards and internships, to mentorship and all of the other judgments that determine the trajectory of a person's life.
The paper calls for future sociological research to stop treating colorism as something that only happens within racial groups, and insists that if American racism is to be fully addressed, white colorism will have to be a part of the conversation.

Further reading


Re: THE PURPORTED BAN ON ENGLISH IN NW COURTS A FICTION AND LIE OF GREATER PROPORTION

Dear Folks,
This might sound comic but it is real. The problem we have as a people who have be progressively loosing their identity is that we fail to notice even through language analysis how much e are being constructed out of who we are into neither Anglo-Saxon Southern Cameroonians nor into the undesired Francophones of "French Cameroon" but to lesser and stateless peoples of a so called civilized world of today.

What has been characterized as "Lie" is the "Truth" that lies underneath the reconstruction of a peoples' identity through selective and timeous depletion of constituent elements of that identity. Deploying an evil army of Common Law illiterate arrogant French-speaking Judicial Administrators -somewhat lesser than Lawyers or Judges, to be higher State Prosecutors into a common law jurisdiction with the authority to ignore the Law and language of the Common Law Judicial Divisions is no lesser a ban that the 1984 Biya Decree that unconstitutionally removed from Cameroon Constitution all pretentions of coexistence of two legal cultures in the fictive Cameroon that is becoming a reality. A direct ban and a constructive ban must not blind you, just look at the intent and its assured end result and you will angrier that a lion that has been starved for months and sees a deer being protected from him. Visha is so right. Be critical in your language analysis.

Harmony Bobga Mbuton (Esq.)
Abalu-Bobga & Co. Law Firm or Human Rights Clinic and Education (HURCLED) Center 
Opposite The Central Police Station
Abakwa-Old Town, P. O. Box 148, Bamenda, Cameroon


On Saturday, February 28, 2015 4:02 PM, 'John Ayuk' via ambasbay <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> wrote:


Have you proved your case?

JNA


On Saturday, February 28, 2015 8:48 AM, 'Agbor Enow Augustine' via ambasbay <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> wrote:


Truth is the platinum standard by which journalists are judged. When a reporter says that there is a ban on English language in a NW court and there is in fact a ban on English language in the said regional court, then the reporter has told the truth; otherwise, the report is false.
The report from the Cameroon Daily Journal regarding the purported ban placed on English in the Bamenda-based court is a lie and self promoting message from that paper and its owner. The advent of electronic journalism has not only improved the speed at which news is reported, but journalism itself suffers as a result of this important channel of communication.
Someone can just sit in his house in Buea and decide to create some sensationalism to increase traffic to his online news site. This misinformation and disinformation is a threat to journalism as a profession. This sale of commercialized lies and dramatic sensationalism of falsehood for personal gain should be condemned with the contempt that it deserves.
Cameroonians should watch out for this kind of yellow journalism, which is nothing but a sensationalistic and marketable fiction. While it is not bad for a journalist to distinguish himself and uplift the profile of his news channel, to do so at the expense of the truth confuses the reader and breaks all media ethics.
Augustine Agbor Enow
 
The outcome of my life is not more than three lines:
I was a raw material
I became mature and cooked
And I was burned into nothingness.
Rumi
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