FROM MAAFA TO MENTACIDE AND BACK AGAIN?

A kiswahili proverb says “Asiyekujua hakuthamini” it means “He/she who doesn't know you, doesn't value you”. In a world ruled by enemies of African people across the diaspora the first question the African must as is “do I know my African self?” Why ask “do I know my African self” instead of just asking “do I know myself? It is simple, we are, first in all things, “African”. We must live knowing that we were created by God as African for a purpose and have been designed out of our African self on purpose. No movement, no revival, no anything we want to depend on will ever work if it doesn’t take into consideration our African core and how to re-energize that core. Please understand me, I am not saying that old tired statement “your black and no matter how rich you get you gone still be black and they are still going treat you like the rest of us”. That may very well be true but, it is no way for us to design our lives. We cant know ourselves thru some one else’s hatred of us. That kind of focus can only lead to our own hatred of self. What we study is what you’ll come to accept as truth. We as Africans must come to understand what god has blessed us with and expound on that. For example study’s on African children wherever you find them, (on the mother land or another land)show that our children’s capacity to learn is greater than any other race at an earlier age. That being so, we retard ourselves by tying our learning to other peoples time tables not to mention their view of our reality. We are a people of rhythm, soul, and dance to not use that in the education of our kids is to the detriment of our own children. What is worse is that most the things we don’t do is out of some sense of shame in front of white people. Our children are dying because of mal-nutritious diet of Euro-centric education. We fight for better schools when even if we got 90% of our wishes the education we receive would still be poison it would still de-legitimize the African while over emphasizing the european. It would still make the European the hero of all its stories no matter how evil his actions where in the story, and make the African, the Indian, and all other cultures who have made contact with Europeans helpless savages, who are victims of a godlessness and structure. Both of which the god filled Europeans brought to the savage. Come on now African, if we don’t change that how do we expect our children on a massive level to succeed. Sure some will make it thru, we will always have a talented tenth and until we formalize a structure for African enlightenment you had best raise your child like he/she is in that tenth right now. But remember also that tenth will have to survive in and ever deteriorating culture within our community that debases our women constantly, that feminizes our men daily, and that does it under the slogan of getting rich or dying while trying. Either black men and women of an African centered God frame of mind stand up now or we continue to fall.
“African centered God frame?” Yes, get back to our African self and stop putting on the euro-frames. Be Christian if you want to be, be Muslim if you want to be, be a Buddhist if you want to be but don’t be them like we’ve been taught to be them here. Don’t bring someone your religion while you steal everything they have from them. don’t bring someone your God only to send them to your heaven, literally. In your African self you know and understand that there can be no separations between who you proclaim you are and what you do. You wont find a traditional African religion where the religion wasn’t tied into the way of life because it was life and not a religion. Religion was not some system of things “out there” that you could put on when needed but rather a functional part of ones existence. Black churches now wont even sing with soul because they want to sing like white slave masters song on Sundays. Imagine that, your ashamed of Negro spirituals that help pull your ancestors thru their enslavement but will gladly sing the songs that helped your ancestor’s enslavers carry out their evil deeds and will sing them with their same spirit and not your own. So ashamed to be you, you cant even worship your god in truth.

Maafa to mentacide can only lead to a new maafa if we don’t begin to re-enlighten our African self. No ones going to help us help us. Take the personal journey to an African collective understanding.