Mbuzi wa masikini hazai - A poor man's goat doesn't bear kids. In short, nothing seems to work in the poor man's favor.



We shall no longer be pimped by this system we shall stand. I once heard Jim Brown explain that the reason he was able to retire from football and not look back and others couldn’t was because he didn’t define himself as a football player and didn’t allow others to define him that way either. While Mr. Brown defined himself as an African man to often Africans today limit themselves by defining something they do as their reality. You’ve heard it, our youth today define themselves as hip hop not Africans who make hip hop music so they therefore align themselves not with people of color to improve the communities but with those outside forces that have historically tried to destroy our community. This is a poor mentality that instead of building economic empowerment organizations that help Africans start over 400 small businesses as Mr. Brown did they instead build a hip hop political organization that fights to legalize drugs.
But Olorun the hip hop community has built many new black companies and many millionaires from no limit to jay z. How can you say that? Easy, I’m happy for the Jiggas, the master ps, the lebrons, the Ray Lewises, but I’ll be a lot happier when they form organizations that build institutions in our communities that better opportunity in the community. Its poor thinking for us as Africans to keep looking to a government that’s designed to keep us as beggars for our liberation. Many a white family got rich off the public dole from rail road giveaways to land giveaways and various other wealth distribution plans that systematically blocked Africans from participation from the beginning of this nation whites have had a decided advantage and have no interest in really equaling out the playing field. We must be our own equalizers. Break the mental chains of poor dependency thinking and walk in the blessing of abundance that is naturally the Africans. Props to Warrick Dunn and the work he and many other Africans are doing in our communities. I pray that we will one day get a television network that shows what types of things people are doing not so that we can worship people but so that we can see what is being done by Africans for Africans and what can be done 4 us by us.

Dua la kuku halimpati mwewe A chicken's prayer doesn't affect a hawk

In moments where I am completely full of myself I sometimes marvel at African American bewilderment of our collective role in America. In moments of clarity however I understand that our lack of a historical frame (that is African center) is what blocks us from seeing our plight today as an expected result of european indoctrination of the African mind. Fredrick Douglas once said “find out just what a people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong that will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with words or either blows, or with both.” We are in a process leading to our conscious awakening. Our enslavement had to end because this country was in ripe for a massive slave revolt. Reconstruction, deconstruction, jim crow, segregation, the civil rights era were all a process to get us to today. Before I go further allow me to clear something up. I am in no way saying that god, the creator, the ntrs, the ancestors, …etc put us in slavery so that the African could learn a lesson. To be honest I believe that idea is idiotic, but to each his own. The Spaniards and the Portuguese first enslaved Africans in the 1500’s because they were some evil sons of bitches who had the power to do so aided by our own African fragmentation. A fragmentation brought on by the unsought of the arab/Persian invasion centuries earlier. In “THE DESTRUCTION OF BLACK CIVILIZATION GREAT ISSUES OF A RACE FROM 4500 B.C. TO 2000 AD” Chancellor Williams says “From the earliest time the elimination of the sovereignties of independent African states has been the asian objective stepped up by the muslim onslaught after the 7th century ad. So the reestablished black states were still being conquered and islamized when the Europeans began to arrive in great numbers to impose their rule over both asians and Africans. …What happened in Africa was that European imperialism in Africa checked and replaced arab imperialism. The arab screams against western imperialism are the screams of outrage against western imperialist for checking and subduing eastern imperialist in the very midst of the black they had conquered. There are still blacks who are naïve enough to believe that the arabs bitter attack on western colonialism show their common cause with black Africa. Numerous societies were either sentenced to death from starvation or enslavement by arabs (pre European conquest) or barbarism. After the African lost Egypt and the southern Sudan some Africans grouped themselves to form nations and developed high order civilizations independent of external influences. Others never settled anywhere long enough to develop anything notable, but seemed to remain in a state of lethargy or suspended animation”
We are beginning to speak again, unsettled by where we are and the prospect of where we are going, Africans are beginning to rise again in America. The world is about to be changed again by a small segment of us like the small segment who march in the civil rights era. Don’t be discouraged because you don’t see big numbers on your road to enlightenment, there is supposed to be only you on that road. Only you can take you through that door Neo. (Dua la kuku halimpati mwewe) But when you know and believe in who you are and what you must do, then and only then do you become the one. For YOU/I shall know the truth and the truth shall set YOU/I free. The truth you see “should” set you free from someone else’s limited vision, but it cant if you are tying yourself more to other peoples vision RATHER than the vision god/the ntrs/the ancestors/the cosmic whatever has given you/I. This does not mean you/I shouldn’t take wise council, “you/I should” but there comes a point where YOU/I must step out on faith. At some point you/I will be called to walk on the water and pay no mind to the winds that blow. And notice its not enough just to step out on the water, you/I have to stay focused when you get out there or else you/I like peter will sink. The winds will blow. That doesn’t mean your wrong it means your alive. Life brings punches with it we might as well be punched for something.

RANT



Enough with the kidding of ourselves true mass unity of Africans will not come through a tragedy of any sort. Unity will only come through the hard sacrificial work of a select few conscious individuals who build a new consciousness into the larger African community. It is silly for us to talk about the U.N. or other organizations have or have not done for Africans when in the end it all comes down to us and what we are going to do for us. If we want an education that values African life, then we are going to have to create it for ourselves, and institute it ourselves. If we want better music were going to have to demand it with our purchasing power by buying better music (because its out there) and demanding that no one in our families buy the trash being fed to our children and young adults. We can’t have it both ways. We’ve been getting fat off the cake and telling everyone were saving it but the truth shows in our waist line. The question is do we want to be the message or just the messengers. Will we be African centered or discuss what being African centered would be like without the sacrifice that comes with it.John Gibson of fox news fame believes there is a war on Christmas. On a catholic news program he stated as an example of this war that when you change a Christmas tree into a holiday tree the tree slowly looses its Christian identity and value. Note the hypocrisy, this is the same kind of mostly white conservative that doesn’t want us to call ourselves African. They are fine if we remain a unidentifiable, self valueless pseudo americans, because it benefits them and not us. They is not fighting a war on Christmas they are fighting a war for white hegemony which depends on the velour of a benevolent white Christian America. Sadly enough, cognitive fixated African Americans volunteer to be on the front line of this so called war on Christmas believing that they have a common cause with the larger oppressive white community when in reality they have more in common with the holiday tree. Theses pseudo Americans of African decent live their lives in the waters of Nun/chaos, subtlely persuaded by white supremacy to act against the interest of the global African community. Detached from Ra within we become unable to speak life thru Ra and have it manifest thru Tehuti.