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.