Blog #6
The video left me thinking and Patrice
Lumumba was the best thing standing for the people of Congo. If the enemy
concentrated on the power and control he had the more they became threatened
and very fearful; intimidated basically. AS I learned prior to this video there was again
the word” greed”, Africa had valuable goods like Diamonds, Cooper, Gold , Iron,
and Zinc, just to name a few.
Lumumba felt that Congo would be better
off if independent of Belgium, and allow the Congolese people run it themselves.
He was also a seller of beer that he himself started making and selling, that would
later turn out to be not good for the people. The selling of the bad beer would
help Lumumba to become popular and known to the tribes in Congo. The beer was
known by hear say too be bad and this was the rumors that was floating around
for people to wonder who Patrice Lumumba. Lumumba was the prime minister and
that gave him the authority to control the separation of the tribes. The separation
would later cause problems amongst the tribes, some thought they were better,
or believed to be better than other tribes.
Lumumba was later assassinated, after
escaped and travel to different towns to give knowledge of what he believed as
a leader, he lost a couple town that no longer trusted him. The CIA and the FBI
played a major role in his death because of his power and how he had so many
followers to support him. He was a man
that would try to promote what he believed the most and how it could help his
people.
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