Comrades … Coltrane Chimurenga (Right) meeting VP Emmerson Mnangagwa
Born Randolph Simms, the 55 year-old founder of the radical December 12 Movement is currently in Zimbabwe, his late parents’ birth place and will soon return to his childhood base in New York to wage the campaign.
Cde Chimurenga, as he is affectionately known within Zanu PF circles, describes the 92 year-old Mugabe as a rare pan-Africanist and revolutionary who can be compared to Cuba’s Fidel Castro and other world leaders who have refused to be bullied by America.
His December 12 Movement, a US platform for demanding civil rights, has been invited to past Zanu PF conferences, and is often granted the status of a liberation movement.
Chimurenga said he and other like-minded black Americans were planning a spirited campaign against Trump and Clinton whom he said had no plans to uplift blacks.
The firebrand civil rights campaigner said he was also fighting against two contenders for their hard line stance against President Mugabe, who is on the US sanctions list for rights abuses on his people.
“If Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton becomes president, it means black people are finished…they will not have any human rights, not to mention civil rights, it would be the worst conditions ever,†Chimurenga said in an interview with NewZimbabwe.com this week.
“That’s why we are going back to fight and that’s why I am here to basically let Zanu PF know that’s what we are going to be doing and on that agenda is the key to the question of the Zimbabwean sanctions.â€
Chimurenga accused Clinton of co-authoring the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (ZDERA) of 2001 which imposed a travel embargo on President Mugabe and his inner circle.
The controversial law also barred American firms from entering into any form of business deals with black listed individuals and Zimbabwean firms.
Trump is also known for his radical views.
The US presidential polls, due later this year, pit a number of candidates against each other but Donald Trump of the Republican party and former First Lady Hillary Clinton from the Democrats are front runners.
Chimurenga said he and some members of his movement were putting up a strong campaign in the US to try and dissuade black Americans from voting for Clinton and Trump.
Short of that, Chimurenga said, oppressed blacks were supposed to use their decisive vote to demand elusive rights from the two White House contenders.
“The 2016 Presidential elections have brought into focus the extreme right wing elements within the Republican Party and it also brought into focus the neo-liberals which is the new very hegemonic democrats who disguise themselves as democrats but who in fact are imperialists,†said Chimurenga.
Black Americans are estimated to be in the region of 40 million of which half the number are eligible to vote. The entire voting population in the United States is estimated to be in the region of 230 million.
“So, in the two candidates, you have two extremes, one in Hillary Clinton and the other in Donald Trump and, therefore, based upon those extremes you have a situation of who is going to go for the black vote.â€
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The evil Americans :) Mugabe threw the white commercial farmers off their land with no compensation (and that’s not racist?) so no more food. Who stepped in over the last 20 years to feed the starving hungry hordes? American food aid through the UN. Hundreds of photos of this happening all over the ‘net.
“Chimurenga” (Shona for freedom fighter) you’re as racist as all the rest of Africa. Stop blaming Whites for the situations you have caused yourselves. Get off your lazy ass and do something positive for yourselves. Start by kicking Mugabe out.
Silly bitch..expand on “their” land..Where in the World do they compensate thieves for atolen goods and land? Zimbabwe is not going to be the first..I can assure you that if PRESIDENT MUGABE even tries to give a rhodhie settler a single dime..tgen us his people will pass a vote of no confidence then he will be out so we can have A real Gandanga with nerves of steel the way vaMugabe has been..an Afrikan Lion Roar Afrikan Lion Roar!
Times must be desperate when the need to vote OR NIKUV your comment up by oneself is necessary GERRO aka thandie
Mhata Iwe msatanyoko ndiri ini dreadlocks big black arse..Bring it on sucker! You’re sucking oink dick so you think we all are hey?
Gogo thandie such words from your mouth ,an old woman like you truly you have no shame You portray your self as a Christian to others yet you have the mouth of a sinner and the brain of a zanoid as minuscule as it is , this is why i cannot take your insults seriously , i mean truly how can i take the words of a mentally impaired uneducated but literate zanoid seriously ,My thanks for making me laugh and knowing my points have been hammered https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/74abe2680e0f63d1607a6ee7e263818706ffe6f99bca38ecaa2105e257798df2.png home rizzie
Are you that desperate for votes hat you vote yourself up with both your Avatars thandie or gerro which ever name you choose ,perhaps i should call you Nikuv cause thats all you do with votes ,its in the mindset
Check with Chinamasa and see how much has been paid
On what planet is this clown from? The number of Black people who support Trump is increasing!
Thank you cde Chimurenga..Akuta..We’re in it together..helps to know we have you in our corner.