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[Visar Belegu]

Hi everyone

I must say I am enjoying the little debate that you all have going!  I saw the Kings game last Saturday on NBC when they beat the Blazers, and quite frankly I was upset that Portland lost but I also noticed one of the Kings players raise the infamous three fingers after he made a three point shot at the latter part of the fourth quarter.  Some of you may not know this but recently Alan Iverson, of the Philadelphia 76ers for the people that do not follow the NBA, released a rap album in which he had to rewrite some of the songs because the lyrics where offensive toward homosexual people as well as women; this goes to show the type of control the NBA commisiner, David Stern, has on the out-of-court behavior of the NBA players.  Toward this Snopp Doggy Dogg and Master P, rappers and entreupeneurs, said that Iverson changed his lyrics because he is a ball player first, and a rapper second.  Therefore, there is no doubt that if the commissioner became aware of the fact that the three fingers are a symbol of a regime that promotes hate crimes, and violence toward any ethnicity or religion he would "convince" any and all players not to use that gesture in public, at least not during the time they are associated with a broadcast that is NBA and basketball related.  

This gesture, the three fingers raised during an NBA game however offensive we might find it, is the least of our problems.  Perhaps we are losing Kosova as Mr. Blumi says however it is not because we cannot get Divac and Peja to stop raisng three fingers during a basketball game.  Mr. Blumi I believe is a PhD candidate in a political science related field of study, and as an educated Albanian he should know that any comment that he makes in which he expresses concern about how the Muslim Albanians are being offended and so on is offensive to all Albanians.  If he is not aware of this then I would refer him to the poem of Vaso Pasha which I believe is titled "Shqiperi e mjera Shqiperi."  I do not what to prolong a pointless argument here but I just want to reiterate the mindless divisions that we are introducing amongst our selves at a time when UNITY should be goal of all Albanians.  In front of me I have a magazine from Prishtina titeled Kosovarja, and in the fourth page a 17 year old girl writes "I have never been so lucky to fall in love with a boy of my class instead I have always gotten in relationships with boys of lower classes such as peasents (fshatare), junkies, and members of catholic faith etc;" on the same page there are letters from five other readers that praise this magazine from its "great" articles.  Personally, I was not aware that in the population of Kosova we had different social classes, and I am certain that we cannot afford to invent them.  In conclussion of this thought, since our goal is the same - independence, and subsequent prosperity for Kosova as well as Albania,- and since Kosovars - muslims as well as catholics, peasents as well as city dwellers - have equally suffered, when we complain about anything that is detramental to our cause we should be more inclusive.   

With all this said it is even more sad to say that this is not our biggest problem.  So what is our biggest problem? Today, the citizens of Kosova are reluctant to pay taxes because they see how waistful the UN administration is with their tax money; Our future presidential candidates are, the most promominent at least, two men, one of which blatently disregards the law, is involved in racketeering, stealing of public property, and who knows what else, while the second one has shown that he has more regard for his own life than any of his constituents and has never made an attempt to apologize for his courdly behaviour.  Our economy. . . well it is is shoumbless, and no one is making an effort to come up with a scheme to recover it; and why should we try to do that when we can just wait for the UN to do it for us!?  Our legal system is the same miserable situtation, and minimal efforts are being taken to repair it.  Perhaps most importantly our education system is in the worst position with high school graduates being more interested in becoming Miss this and that or working for 1000 DM/month versus continuing their education; welcome to Kosova the land of bluming iliteracy.  Not to mention the fact that corruption has creept into every aspect of life, all the way up to university professors.

See, now I am angry.  All you people, myself included, can come up with reasons to complain, something to bitch about.  However, I would advise you to be cations about expressing your concerns, and if you must express them in a public forum make sure your suggesting a solution, at least a half logical one, otherwise your wasting our time.  You can understand the latter from reading this letter.

Visar Belegu
PhD Candidate
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
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