“You cant wake the dead with a whisper”. “God has a strange way of waking us up”. “God had to use a hurricane to wake us up.” I hate to inform black America but “God” is not in the wake up business. God didn’t bring a hurricane to awaken us, and if your putting your faith in that you will be let down tremendously. God has supplied the black man and woman all we need to come to consciousness, our beautiful black minds. We need to keep in mind slavery didn’t bring consciousness to the masses, jim crow didn’t bring consciousness to the masses, the 1927 flood didn’t bring consciousness to the masses. As a matter of fact the average black American can only bring to their conscience 2 out of the 3 horrors I just named and if we are not diligent this flood will pass to.

Speaking of ancient black civilizations Chancellor Williams said this “The great civilization of the blacks, for which countless ages was centered around Nowe, did not just happen. Progress does not just happen automatically. Every forward step made by these early blacks was made, you might say forced, by the imperatives of what had to be done to survive. Bear in mind that spiritual survival was more important than physical, a concept the so-called modern world is not expected to understand at all.” The revival of our African consciousness will not just happen because something tragic has happened to our physical being. The flesh can be easily appeased. A new house a good meal and a few dollars and all can be forgiven and/or forgotten. No our spiritual African revival will be a process that each of us must go thru personally and we must then design institutions that cater to the spiritual revival of other Africans.

Do not be afraid of the term institutions you don’t have to build a pyramid or even tee pee. Build a web page if you can, build a study group if you can, build a study lesson if you can, build upon what you have so that the next African has more to build on. John h Clarke, Amos Wilson and Marimba Ani didn’t just come out of nowhere the come from a tradition of African centered thinkers like David Walker, Mariah Stewart, and Richard Allen, build upon the knowledge provided to you by these thinkers and become the best you, you can be. Build you! You are an institution which, if correctly built up, will spring other institutions for African liberation or if incorrectly built will help to destroy any progress we are trying to make. You decide which you will be.

Booker T. Washington once said “Character is power” but how powerful can ones character be if isn’t self orientated. Amos Wilson put it this way “We waist time trying to transform them when if we transform us, they are automatically transformed. You see they cant have what they have unless we are who we are. We must believe that the power to change the world is in us and that we aren’t destined to be servants. God would not have blessed the black man with the African home land if he meant for us to be servants of others. For Africans to be starving and in debt means something must be wrong with our consciousness” Our power like any mans power is within himself. No nation of people can move any higher than their self conceptualizations and if we get all our self concepts as a people through those who oppose our self reliance, for their own financial benefit, then we doom ourselves to be characterless beggars in a racist white supremacist world.

In a discussion over material things Jesus the Christ told his disciples to “seek ye first the kingdom of god and all these things will be added to you”. This principle applies to us. If we seek first our African self interest as a people we will be rewarded with the blessings that have already been given to us. Many an African leader seeking first his own enrichment has made deals with white nations that enrich himself but puts his people in object poverty. Leaders of rich nations minerally, but poor nations standardly because of the lack of an African centered spiritual base that puts the needs of the holistic African kingdom front and center and not the needs of the few over the lives of the masses. Chancellor Williams gives us 5 PRE-CONDITIONS FOR PROGRESS

1 The people must be famine-free and able to settle down and end their perennial roaming from place to place in search for food and water. Or dependent on outside forces to drop it in.
2 The leaders must then proceed to nation build through negotiation with fragmented groups.
3 There must be a developed sense of national community among the various language groups that makes up the community. It must be programmed in such a way that a sense of loyalty and being an important part of a great united brother-sisterhood, which is the nation ITSELF, WILL DEVELOP NATURALLY ALLOW
4 a strong armed forces
5 and the rule of law and justice to apply equally to all classes in the society.
These conditions among others bring about the internal peace, stability, and confidence which unshackled the mind and allows the people to think and until African leaders make pre conditions like these their top priority and let loose the chains of European colonialism the cycle of poverty can not be ended. As Mr. Williams goes on to say “There is nothing mystical about the reasons why one group of people can easily become physically and mentally strong and another weak and less mentally alert. Food and water can spell the difference advance and decay. A people ignorant of basic health needs can themselves become inferior. The system is organized that blacks are forced into conditions that can even lead to genetic inferiority. There must be a mental revolution or there will be a continual march towards extinction.”
Before the African American becomes full of himself understand that same is true for the African American whose neighborhoods are infested with outsider business, whose money would be lucky to change hands with a fellow African 1 time, whose neighborhood is rich on Friday and poor on Monday because all its wealth was spent outside of his neighborhood. Who is so fragmented by religion, ideology, lack of consciousness due to the oppressive brain washing techniques of a racist white supremacist infrastructure that guarantees all of the above to be so. Truth be told, through our waste and fragmentation we are more part of the problem then part of the solution. If focused correctly we could use our access to capital to serve the African Diaspora but when we discuss African we sound like colonialist whites think we should go to Africa and rule it because massa has taught us best when in most cases our education has made us the biggest fools. But all of this can change over time. That change begins with you. READ, STUDY, AND BE “AFRICAN”