EgbertoWillies.com

Political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship

  • Home
    • Homepage
    • Login
    • About Us
    • Bio
    • Research
      • BallotPedia
      • Bureau of Labor Statistics
      • CallMyCongress
      • LegiScan
      • OpenSecrets.org
      • Texas Legislature Online
      • US Dept; Of Health & Human Services
      • US Dept. of Labor
      • VoteSmart
    • Contact Us
    • Disclaimer
    • Privacy Policy
  • Shows
    • Live TV
    • Move to Amend Reports
    • Politics Done Right
  • Books
  • Articles
    • AlterNet
    • CNN iReports
    • CommonDreams
    • DailyKos
    • Medium
    • OpEdNews
    • Substack
  • Activism
    • Battleground Texas
    • Coffee Party
    • Move To Amend
    • OccupyMovement
  • Social
    • BlueSky
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Tumblr
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
  • Sections
    • Environment
    • Food And Cooking
    • Health
    • Local News
    • Odd News
    • People Making A Difference
    • Political
    • Reviews
      • Book Reviews
      • Books I Recommend
      • Product Reviews
    • Sports
  • Donate
  • Store

Savannah Smith details her experience in Cameroon & early exit due to COVID-19

May 21, 2020 By Egberto Willies

Sorry, there was a YouTube error.

Savannah Smith had experiences in Cameroon cut short by COVID-19. This is an important story for several reasons as explored in the interview.

Savannah Smith recounts her Cameroon experience

Check out the full episode here.

Savannah Smith developed a love for Cameroon and a socio-economic-political understanding beyond most. While it is sad that Ms. Smith’s Fulbright fellowship was cut short, her experience should be a learning experience for all.

Our interview on her experiences in Cameroon was multifaceted and multidimensional. The interview was necessarily longer than most because her insightfulness opened other areas of discussion well worth exploring.

Savannah made several political, social, and economic statements many would say beyond her young age. But one stuck with me because it is something anyone helping another, whether an individual, a company, or a country should heed.

“People don’t need saving,” Savannah said. “People never have — or a bunch of money thrown at them. … If anything folks need knowledge. And when I say knowledge; knowledge about the power that they have and how to use it, And then for us on the other side of ‘other’ our job is to do what we don’t want to do. Restructure power. … People don’t need a handout. They need, the power to be restructured. Because what I realize is that in every space folks are going to figure out how to survive. And most of the time it’s not always with tears down your eyes how you might expect. People have agency and they always use it.”

That was a prescient statement. A statement of forwarding respect and necessary humility and a concept few from the nations of power understand.

Listen to the entire interview in the context of moving the world forward simply by understanding the humanity of all. While many would dismiss the deeds and thoughts of our young, we better be humble in understanding that they are living through many of the grave errors we’ve made that affect them negatively. And it is they who must ultimately clean it up.


Please join our YouTube channel so we can get the numbers up to open up some more features and reach more folks. Gracias

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon
  • Click to share on Nextdoor (Opens in new window) Nextdoor
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram

Like this:

Like Loading...

Viewers are encouraged to subscribe and join the conversation for more insightful commentary and to support progressive messages. Together, we can populate the internet with progressive messages that represent the true aspirations of most Americans.

Support Our Politics Done Right Store

Filed Under: People Making A Difference Tagged With: Cameroon, COVID-19, Savannah Smith

About Egberto Willies

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. He is an ardent Liberal that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship”. Willies is currently a contributing editor to DailyKos, OpEdNews, and several other Progressive sites. He was a frequent contributor to HuffPost Live. He won the 2nd CNN iReport Spirit Award and was the Pundit of the Week.

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • X
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • LinkedIn

Support Independent Media

Support Politics Done Right on PayPal

Politic Done Right

RevContent


Support Independent Media



RSS Feed

  • RSS - Posts
Mastodon
%d