Peace Sunship, NNQueen, Pan Africa, Chukwuemeka and all.....
His views as concerns blacks [which I would wager, are far worse than he is letting on since he is and was aware that he would be making his work available to the general public - in which blacks are to be found] are telling and are indicative of an Africa with he in the Presidency where Africans would fare no better at the very best.
Even though he does later go on to refer to all humans as 'backward', it is the reasons he gives for blacks being backward that almost prevented me from finishing.
To be found within that section on blacks [regardless of its title] is a core system of belief that blacks are inferior on at least one level and possibly more, if others who have held similar views are anything to go by, I get the sense that those sentiments are restrained.
The content of the text relative to the length contained in that one section, is also telling.
"Blacks...well they sure can procreate and well, lets face it, they're a little lazy arent they"
al-Qadhafi has shown himself to be a person who will work with Europeans and the U.S as and when it suits him and his policy towards Africans immigrants in Libya, seem to me to be a way of appeasing Libyans who believe that Africans are to blame for the socio economic problems even though, as usual, the problems [given closer scrutiny] find their roots in rampant corruption, mismanagement of resources, and severe restrictions on Libyan political and social freedom.
Plus he has supported attempts to destabilise some African countries in the past and now here he is supporting an African Union after failing to bring about an Arab version.
In short, he will abandon Africans at the drop of a hat if it so suits his efforts in gaining international respectability.
Plus, I do not agree with his views concerning women, which I believe are in themselves, 'coercive' and restricting, in that they take into account only the fact that a woman was born a woman with the ability to carry a child and not a woman with an individual mind of her own who may genuinely wish feel it is 'her place' to do other things.
I do agree with his views on the definition and implementation of true democracy however, but Africans should do their own thing and trust noone.
We should get used to the fact that noone wants what is best for us, but us.
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The collective African subconscious mind is so littered with negativity as regards the group that in that respect, we can only list the problems and why it will never work.
I think blacks as a people suffer from a form of mass derealization where we focus predominately on our thoughts and imaginations and not the reality of the situation.
Look around you, you'll see black professionals specializing in a myriad of fields, that is the reality of the situation as it pertains to our ability to solve problems.
In my humble opinion, blacks are just as capable as anyone else at solving problems, there exist blacks doctors, engineers etc whose jobs require the finding of solutions to very complex problems.
The question in my opinion is not whether we can solve problems [we can or they'd be no black doctors etc] but rather, why can't we transfer or apply what it is we are capable of as individuals to our efforts as a group of people.
It is a huge job in itself [although, technology has made and is continuing to make it easier] to convince a group of people as large and as widespread as we are that we are basically good for nothing or very little [sports, music, fashion inspiration].
I think blacks today are a reflection of what is portayed in the media, most televsion shows and movies only depict successful blacks in an individualist light and this has contributed heavily to a continued inability to move forward as a group.
You see this in all the popular forms of visual media, blacks out for themselves, so that is what we are capable of, those images, that programming is stored within our subliminal minds.
One way in which blacks could go about overcoming this self destructive habit of favouring anything that originates from outside our communities rather than within [conditioning designed to prevent blacks from competing as a group] is first to ask how is this dysfuntional mode of thought maintained and emphasised on a mass scale by those with a vested interest, and then use that exact strategy in effecting change.
I think we must recondition, reprogramme our minds first before we can move forward.
Mass distribution of that kind of information, positive or negative is achieved via mass media [newspapers, televsion, radio, hollywood etc] and I believe that is where blacks should concentrate some of their efforts in instilling a new [or rather, older] way of viewing ourselves in relation to others and in substituting black individualism for a black collective mentality.
As pointed out by Pan Africa, there would exist no competition in that material on offer to blacks by the mainstream media is [as I said] by and large, malicious in it portrayal of us, which goes to this continued psychological regression we as a group of people [African] suffer from.
And there'd be a huge market for it, not just necessarily black, since by its content, it would be a unique experience for blacks [on this scale] and anyone else who would be interested in looking deeper into what it really means to be an African.
Even if rival competition were to eventually surface, it would still have to run along the same philosophical lines as black owned mass media otherwise blacks, being aware of an alternative source in information, entertainment, education and point of view about themselves, would not support it.
But that is an unlikely occurence, more likely that the enemy would conduct some sort of COINTELPRO on it but we are not the only people on this planet oppressed and some have shaken [or are in the process of doing so] it off by working together.
Look at some parts of Asia.
Financing such a venture? Every black [or the vast majority] in his immediate community [borough --> city --> nation].
Rally people to donate a paltry sum, anything over one or two dollars towards a central agency owned by the [black] people that operates for the sole purposes of the [black] people, who consume what it produces and in doing so, help to circulate wealth within black communities a while before it leaves it, which in turn invariably draws in 'new blood' as businesses [advertising] begin to recognise and make use of a viable market.
You know what they say, once you've made the first million, making more is easy.
Yes, we've been hurt but it is within our reach to pull ourselves out of the pit.
Coverage of sport, music [pro black oriented, none of the snoop dog crap], politics, children's entertainment etc etc from a black perspective, initially financed by blacks and therefore owned by them relative to one's level of financial involvement.
I think this activiity would charge blacks at large with a fresh spirit, reinvigorating and inspiring them to contribute in some way [ie, getting a job there] or building their own projects, possibly with other blacks so as to reduce costs with a view to gradually merging with this or other projects and thus form a black net of business within which all black needs [food, clothes, entertainment, health etc] are met.
Peace
His views as concerns blacks [which I would wager, are far worse than he is letting on since he is and was aware that he would be making his work available to the general public - in which blacks are to be found] are telling and are indicative of an Africa with he in the Presidency where Africans would fare no better at the very best.
Even though he does later go on to refer to all humans as 'backward', it is the reasons he gives for blacks being backward that almost prevented me from finishing.
To be found within that section on blacks [regardless of its title] is a core system of belief that blacks are inferior on at least one level and possibly more, if others who have held similar views are anything to go by, I get the sense that those sentiments are restrained.
The content of the text relative to the length contained in that one section, is also telling.
"Blacks...well they sure can procreate and well, lets face it, they're a little lazy arent they"
al-Qadhafi has shown himself to be a person who will work with Europeans and the U.S as and when it suits him and his policy towards Africans immigrants in Libya, seem to me to be a way of appeasing Libyans who believe that Africans are to blame for the socio economic problems even though, as usual, the problems [given closer scrutiny] find their roots in rampant corruption, mismanagement of resources, and severe restrictions on Libyan political and social freedom.
Plus he has supported attempts to destabilise some African countries in the past and now here he is supporting an African Union after failing to bring about an Arab version.
In short, he will abandon Africans at the drop of a hat if it so suits his efforts in gaining international respectability.
Plus, I do not agree with his views concerning women, which I believe are in themselves, 'coercive' and restricting, in that they take into account only the fact that a woman was born a woman with the ability to carry a child and not a woman with an individual mind of her own who may genuinely wish feel it is 'her place' to do other things.
I do agree with his views on the definition and implementation of true democracy however, but Africans should do their own thing and trust noone.
We should get used to the fact that noone wants what is best for us, but us.
____________________________________________
The subconscious mind serves as our personal computer. It acts as a data storage, retrieval system, and memory bank, which takes in and permanently stores everything we experience. Unfortunately for most of us, most of the information stored in our subconscious mind amounts to negative programming or conditioning. Between seventy and eighty percent of the information we've received during our life is negative. Researchers estimate that the average child in America receives twenty negative messages from his parents for each positive, reassuring one!
The collective African subconscious mind is so littered with negativity as regards the group that in that respect, we can only list the problems and why it will never work.
I think blacks as a people suffer from a form of mass derealization where we focus predominately on our thoughts and imaginations and not the reality of the situation.
Look around you, you'll see black professionals specializing in a myriad of fields, that is the reality of the situation as it pertains to our ability to solve problems.
In my humble opinion, blacks are just as capable as anyone else at solving problems, there exist blacks doctors, engineers etc whose jobs require the finding of solutions to very complex problems.
The question in my opinion is not whether we can solve problems [we can or they'd be no black doctors etc] but rather, why can't we transfer or apply what it is we are capable of as individuals to our efforts as a group of people.
It is a huge job in itself [although, technology has made and is continuing to make it easier] to convince a group of people as large and as widespread as we are that we are basically good for nothing or very little [sports, music, fashion inspiration].
I think blacks today are a reflection of what is portayed in the media, most televsion shows and movies only depict successful blacks in an individualist light and this has contributed heavily to a continued inability to move forward as a group.
You see this in all the popular forms of visual media, blacks out for themselves, so that is what we are capable of, those images, that programming is stored within our subliminal minds.
One way in which blacks could go about overcoming this self destructive habit of favouring anything that originates from outside our communities rather than within [conditioning designed to prevent blacks from competing as a group] is first to ask how is this dysfuntional mode of thought maintained and emphasised on a mass scale by those with a vested interest, and then use that exact strategy in effecting change.
I think we must recondition, reprogramme our minds first before we can move forward.
Mass distribution of that kind of information, positive or negative is achieved via mass media [newspapers, televsion, radio, hollywood etc] and I believe that is where blacks should concentrate some of their efforts in instilling a new [or rather, older] way of viewing ourselves in relation to others and in substituting black individualism for a black collective mentality.
As pointed out by Pan Africa, there would exist no competition in that material on offer to blacks by the mainstream media is [as I said] by and large, malicious in it portrayal of us, which goes to this continued psychological regression we as a group of people [African] suffer from.
And there'd be a huge market for it, not just necessarily black, since by its content, it would be a unique experience for blacks [on this scale] and anyone else who would be interested in looking deeper into what it really means to be an African.
Even if rival competition were to eventually surface, it would still have to run along the same philosophical lines as black owned mass media otherwise blacks, being aware of an alternative source in information, entertainment, education and point of view about themselves, would not support it.
But that is an unlikely occurence, more likely that the enemy would conduct some sort of COINTELPRO on it but we are not the only people on this planet oppressed and some have shaken [or are in the process of doing so] it off by working together.
Look at some parts of Asia.
Financing such a venture? Every black [or the vast majority] in his immediate community [borough --> city --> nation].
Rally people to donate a paltry sum, anything over one or two dollars towards a central agency owned by the [black] people that operates for the sole purposes of the [black] people, who consume what it produces and in doing so, help to circulate wealth within black communities a while before it leaves it, which in turn invariably draws in 'new blood' as businesses [advertising] begin to recognise and make use of a viable market.
You know what they say, once you've made the first million, making more is easy.
Yes, we've been hurt but it is within our reach to pull ourselves out of the pit.
Coverage of sport, music [pro black oriented, none of the snoop dog crap], politics, children's entertainment etc etc from a black perspective, initially financed by blacks and therefore owned by them relative to one's level of financial involvement.
I think this activiity would charge blacks at large with a fresh spirit, reinvigorating and inspiring them to contribute in some way [ie, getting a job there] or building their own projects, possibly with other blacks so as to reduce costs with a view to gradually merging with this or other projects and thus form a black net of business within which all black needs [food, clothes, entertainment, health etc] are met.
Peace