Black People : My Love/Hate Affair with My Country

@RICH, that is another reason I would not just pack up and head back to Africa; the whitewashing you mentioned.
Until I can purge all this "americanism" out of me, I wouldn't dare step foot on home soil. I would only be bringing more of this country's nasty habits, foul attitude and racist ideals to Africa, poisoning it more.
Even though I've come a long way in abolishing this white mentality from my life, I still have a way to go.
Besides, something in the back of my mind tells me that was part of the plan all along; for us to take their racist attitudes back home like a carrier of a disease.



Kamau.. have you ever lived outside the United States?
 
Just while I was in the military? The most time though was a year in Japan.

small world.. I was stationed in Japan too.. altogether I've lived outside the
US for just about 5 years.. it's an interesting experience.. it illustrates clearly
just how the system is stacked against Africans in the U.S. It becomes
painfully clear.. when you arrive back in the U.S. you can feel the tension..
you can see the traps set for us.. the negative energy is overwhelming.. and
it comes at you from all angles.. from all kinds of people.. but the question
persists: Why not just leave? Why stay where you are clearly not wanted?
where your sons and daugthers are murdered and locked away with impunity
.. or convinced to live unhealthy destructive lifestyles.. why stay?
Why not find some little town in some other country to settle down and live
your life? why sit defenseless in the belly of the beast?

this is a variation of a question I ask parents: if you know the school system
is preparing them for failure, why do you keep sending them back? At what
point to you say, "enough is enough, I'm out of here!".. those are hard
questions.. and the answers illustrate the difference between hyperbole and
reality..
 
On one hand, besides EU, Australia, and Canada, no other country is as comfortable as the US. The US is indeed a very "cushy" place to live comparatively, but at what cost? And to Whom?

On the other hand, my moral side hates America and the lies that it stands for. America bullies other countries, wages war, divides, and steals all in the name of fake "freedom and democracy". Big corporations like Monsanto, Halliburton, and Goldman-Sachs run this country - not the people.

It's a lie to say we are free. Instead of being openly controlled by the people in power, we are "brainwashed" instead and taught to believe we have freedom when in fact we don't.

What's worse is that America tries to sell this form of "democracy" to other people while turning those people against their own. A good example of this is turning S. Korea, Tibet, Taiwan and Japan into puppets who have no loyalty to their own Asian brothers and sisters - instead, they would rather be the pet of White people. In Afghanistan they have turned some Afghani's into "freedom fighters" who blindly kill their own brothers and sisters in the name of "democracy".

America/the West does not like to do the dirty work - they manipulate others to do it for them while they hold the strings. Malcolm X said it the best - house slaves and field slaves.
 
small world.. I was stationed in Japan too.. altogether I've lived outside the
US for just about 5 years.. it's an interesting experience.. it illustrates clearly
just how the system is stacked against Africans in the U.S. It becomes
painfully clear.. when you arrive back in the U.S. you can feel the tension..
you can see the traps set for us.. the negative energy is overwhelming.. and
it comes at you from all angles.. from all kinds of people.. but the question
persists: Why not just leave? Why stay where you are clearly not wanted?
where your sons and daugthers are murdered and locked away with impunity
.. or convinced to live unhealthy destructive lifestyles.. why stay?
Why not find some little town in some other country to settle down and live
your life? why sit defenseless in the belly of the beast?

this is a variation of a question I ask parents: if you know the school system
is preparing them for failure, why do you keep sending them back? At what
point to you say, "enough is enough, I'm out of here!".. those are hard
questions.. and the answers illustrate the difference between hyperbole and
reality..


how many can afford to return and return to what?

And what are the conditions there that make every African in every nation want to come here to a place where their ancestral cousins were taken to n chains, with only 17% surviving the middle passage?

There have been no nations in Africa since the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Samore Michel and Julius Nyere

The international bankers see the motherland as a cash cow that they milk whenever they want

simply because we as Africans do not think as an interst group.

When Japan was rebuilt and financed, to become the financial and techological giant it is today, where did the money come rom since the US was broke and still paying the debt on WW2???

Does a gangsta shark money without expecting a healthy level of return?
The international bankers invested in Japan so they could pimp the profits much later, since that nation looks nice but it is staunchly anti socialist allowing an oligarchy to feed the dough back to interst groups

Can anyone here feel comfortable retiring to Ghana, or Kenya knowing that , 30 miles from their homesome fat pig from europe is sitting in a hot tub with 6 nude young boys, and the government unable to do anything?
on African land?

Out of 52 there is not one, what we call nation there that is not defacto owned by the banks of the former opressor and colonizer there.

with 800 billion we have the vested duty to save the continent from exploitation, and starvation, before we can even consider repatriation in any form,

Malcolm propsed a solution 50 years ago that if we followed it the coltan and lithium would be made into cell phones andcomputer chips right there, and neocolonization would not have occured
this is why the international bankers saw Malik as a real threat

he said to us;
The Organization of Afro-American Unity will take measures to free our people from economic slavery. One way of accomplishing this will be to maintain a technician pool: that is, a bank of technicians. In the same manner that blood banks have been established to furnish blood to those who need it at the time it is needed, we must establish a technician bank. We must do this so that the newly independent nations of Africa can turn to us who are their Afro-American brothers for the technicians they will need now and in the future. Thereby we will be developing an open market for the many skills we possess and at the same time we will be supplying Africa with the skills she can best use. This project will therefore be one of mutual cooperation and mutual benefit.

 

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