It is easy to write a book, even easier to stand up on a stage with some elongated object between our hands and mouth and sing, dance and clap wantonly about “AFRICA” but it is extremely hard to honestly face our own reality. For decades Africans have sung about Unity, Waffled on about it, Danced for it, Romanticized on it yet it is still an Illusion to be pursued. The starting point to everything and anything is acknowledgement, followed by understanding. If we do not as a people acknowledge that we truly have a problem how then can we move on to the next stage of genuinely trying to understand that problem let alone coming up with solutions to that problem? as a race globally irrespective of what designation you desire to label yourself (African, Afro-American, Black, Mixed race, Mulatto, French Black person, Black Briton, Afro Latino, Blazian,etc.) we need to find a way to do an honest appraisal of our present standing. As if we have no where documented where people can go to better understand their own plight we are just as good as clueless perpetual sitting ducks. There are many amongst you in the community that have skills and wisdom find a way utilizing the digital tools on this platform to put together a meaningful Appraisal of the present state of those labelled as Black. Once that is a practicality, nature, time and effort will take control for others to put to good use that appraisal! Before the very “appraisal” we first need to know HOW to even do one….So for those of you with wisdom lay out the steps here for others that may be struggling with ideas to use as pointers.

Nothing irritates a person more then repeatedly hearing the word “SORRY” as by that time the damage has often been done with some one having to either absorb that damage or be terribly impacted by it. The number of times I personally had to “absorb” other peoples foolish “sorry” is alone disturbing that it has forced me to wonder why is it that so many people fail to “think and Analyze” prior to acting or running their mouth? No one is perfect, and we all make mistakes BUT repeating/doing something over and over again is NOT a mistake that is a bad habit. Thus, surely there is a way to help the majority habituate prevention as a daily strategy rather than wait/hope upon a possible cure for things?

With so much intentional orchestrated indoctrination deeply embedded into the academic system that African people inherited from their oppressors one has to ask how can Africa as a society start to roll-back all the layers of mental indoctrination that for centuries has been layered on it:

This has to be done because the existing MINDSET is probably Africa’s biggest stumbling block. If at any point in time you have come into direct contact with the average African supposed scholar you would know that they seem to regurgitate virtually everything they have been taught/spoon-fed and actually know NOTHING by and of themselves which often impedes having decent discussions (the positive) together as you end up having only “debates and/or arguments” (the negative).

The depth and level of penetration that this centuries old brainwashing of the average African mindset has over the way the present day African originated person (be that an African in the mainland or an Afro-American or Afro-caribean etc.) educated in institutions (formulated on western criteria that are genuine African Self-development development content-agnostic) modelling quasi modelling themselves on inherited/”handed down ” constructs for learning behave towards their own kind greatly compounds the task making it not an easy feat. Thus,it will involve deep understanding and visualization that will need to deconstruct layers of human constructs deeply embedded within the mind prior to even putting an educational system design in place. Hopefully, the community can come up with practical step-by-step ways of achieving this.

Sadly, we seem to be the one race that failed to QUESTION the things we INHERITED. The oppressor tells us put a white wig on your head…We say Thank You Massa!! They say, create an economy for tourism…we say Thank you Massa never rationally questioning just accepting every excuse they provide as reasons. They even provide what is slated as “benefits” of us and like handicapped children incapable of our own thought and assessment we say once again…Thank you Massa!

Even 60 years after so called independence we still fail to question the sense in what we do and what we continue to promote from the legacies of our past. The sad thing is it even looks stupid let alone it being stupid! Just as we have asked the women still stuck in colonial second class citizen mindsets to remove their horse tails we ask the so called mis-educated African men in positions of authority and power to look in the mirror and admit their own stupid actions and then take appropriate corrective actions. Take the damn inherited wig OFF! Not only does it make you LOOK stupid it actually reinforces to the OPPRESSOR that you are stupid! don’t hate your own kind for being honest to you simply Look in the MIRROR and THINK-OUTSIDE-THE-BOX that was planted on you as it is that BOX that is stifling you and you in turn stifling YOUR OWN kind.

Sadly the way a person “Thinks” determines and influences their behavior:

Thus, “BELIEF” has nothing to do with right or wrong nor good or bad nor even Truth or Falsity yet so many people with under-developed brains are incapable of comprehending this reality!

A given “chair” may be colored blue but one can deeply believe that that chair is colored “red”. Thus, whether one “believes” that that chair is other than what it is, is actually irrelevant as the truth about that chair (in this case its color being blue) will always remain irrespective of the other persons “belief” that the chair is green.

Leave the domain of “Belief” for religions where there is a “NEED” to believe irrespective of truth and do not utilize “belief” in the domain of “TRUTH” where objectivity, methodology and verification is the arbiter.

Given that this platform is all about the uplift and development of those who have been labelled as “Black” it is our challenge to the community to figure out productive and meaningful ways to prevent in future the development of sub-optimal brains amongst our lot. Thus, the challenge is HOW then can we figure out a way to grow and nurture a new breed of African originated people globally who are devoid of such low-level thought patterns and thus help enhance their thinking capabilities so that they no longer become the very stumbling blocks to their own development.

This is one major stumbling block that both needs acknowledging and facing as it has been the bedrock of WHY so often we have found those who are labelled as “Black” sabotaging their own kind (and selling their souls for trinkets) in various ways contributing vastly to the under-development of their own nations and the fermentation of their own peoples thinking abilities.. Removing this sub-optimal way of thought is a much needed rescue to pave the way for positive and unified development of a people long over due for self-development.

A very sad phenomenon and a legacy of the well indoctrinated divide and rule (self-hate psyop) that was masterminded/inflicted by European descendants for centuries. Unfortunately, those in positions of power, authority and leadership in Africa seemed to lack a genuine understanding of their peoples devastation’s/legacies and seem to have learnt very little from their OWN peoples history. A phenomena that has been seen repeatedly from South Africa to West Africa in the past 60 years.

Africans, YOU ALL need to STOP and THINK and look in the mirror and ask yourself What the Heck are we doing? WHY do I find hating my OWN kind as the ONLY seemingly pacifying solution to the many woes that OTHERS have perpetrated on us?

It STARTS WITH YOU THE INDIVIDUAL. So the big question here is HOW DO WE GET OUR heavily brainwashed people globally to STOP hating on each other let alone setting each other on fire (as in the cases of Africa mainland) or shooting one another as often seen in the Diaspora. YOU are the younger GENERATION it is your task to find practical solutions to these legacy problems…So START THINKING and figure out lasting ways to STOP this mental and emotional inherited inadequacy of being that seems to afflict our kind!

The question we should all first ask ourselves is who gives the person who gives me a job a job?

Thus, why are we conditioned via school and the mass media to pre-suppose that we have to go with hands wide open “LOOKING” for a job? Notice how neither the state, the educational system nor the media seems to point us (or encourage us) to figure out ways how we can generate our own income without leaning on the state system? If you have LAND, A LITTLE FAMILY TLC, TEAMWORK CAPABILITIES, WILL POWER, and are RESOURCEFUL/INNOVATIVE in thought what is wrong with you and a few friends teaming and starting up your own business projects and generating your own income? Genuine INDEPENDENCE starts with you and your own MINDSET!

For centuries an intentional onslaught was enacted on African originated people by Europeans descendants over time. Although the efforts are still in effect (you saw it in Libya, China and with the George Floyd and all the other blatant disregard for life of our kind incidents in recent times) the real puzzle is HOW have Africans managed to survive this relentless de-valuing and de-humanizing onslaught over the centuries.

That time has come for us to look inwards and start figuring out ways (rather than going into defensive denial) of HOW we can put VALUE and dignity back into the life of OURSELVES…no one is going to do it for us as ONLY we can do this!