- Jun 8, 2004
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I wont go into the whole terrible history of the subject, as it is too long and painful and unnecessary... Those of you who know the details of that history know what I'm talking about, and those who do not, it would not pay to half step in the telling of the history, the facts of which I do not pretend to know thoroughly...
But this I understand, and that is I, and 200-million plus Africans are here in this hemisphere due in part to the Tribal rivalries of our ancestors... It is true that were we a united people even then, the ancestors would have had the manpower to hold off any conquerors, but it seems Africans have never learned this lesson; to stand together in solidarity against our enemies, regardless of our rivalries... It has cost us dearly, and will continue to cost us until the lesson is finally learned... Problem is, Africans are in deep denial about the problem, and so too are we, as African Diasporans...
What prompts me to write this post is not, ironically, the political and tribal conflicts that beseige the Motherland as we speak... It is the overwhelming economic emergence of China, which like Africa, has had to endure great pain and suffering to come to grips with it's own weaknesses and strengths... China realized that she had to be flexible to deal with the modern world, and thus did the unthinkable under Communist rule, and encouraged her people to become capitalist entrepreneurs... She had the confidence that her people would reward the NATION with untold riches, as the people are the nation's greatest resources...
So, as Our Motherland languishes in poverty in the most mineral and material rich swath of real estate on the planet, I pause to study China... What can this great asian nation offer as solutions to her sister Continent, Africa. For one, Africa needs to come under CENTRALIZED Continental governance...
There are too many HNIC's in Africa, and those have tribal mentalities... By this I mean they are not concerned for the ENTIRE continent, just those of their countries, villages, towns, and tribes... There is no good reason why a continent like Africa should be poorer than a nation like China, but it is! Someone must be called to account for that, and that someone is us, pure and simple...
I know this wont be a popular sentiment, but let us forget our sentiments, and our false pride... Africa is burning, and False pride, and the refusal to be critqued even by loved ones, will burn it to the ground... African people have to decide, and decide NOW, what plans we have for our Motherland, and how we are going to implement those plans... But before we can do that, we must admit that Africa is burning, and stop pretending there are no problems in Africa, or that the White Man is the problem... BTW, We African Americans must take the very same prescription, the same medicine, and drop our pretenses as well... Brethren, how can we get such a message out to the common folk as well as those who act as our leaders???
One last note, peops, please study China... She gone have us all needing to speak mandarin or cantonese mad soon... She's no joke on the economic front...
Peace!
Isaiah
But this I understand, and that is I, and 200-million plus Africans are here in this hemisphere due in part to the Tribal rivalries of our ancestors... It is true that were we a united people even then, the ancestors would have had the manpower to hold off any conquerors, but it seems Africans have never learned this lesson; to stand together in solidarity against our enemies, regardless of our rivalries... It has cost us dearly, and will continue to cost us until the lesson is finally learned... Problem is, Africans are in deep denial about the problem, and so too are we, as African Diasporans...
What prompts me to write this post is not, ironically, the political and tribal conflicts that beseige the Motherland as we speak... It is the overwhelming economic emergence of China, which like Africa, has had to endure great pain and suffering to come to grips with it's own weaknesses and strengths... China realized that she had to be flexible to deal with the modern world, and thus did the unthinkable under Communist rule, and encouraged her people to become capitalist entrepreneurs... She had the confidence that her people would reward the NATION with untold riches, as the people are the nation's greatest resources...
So, as Our Motherland languishes in poverty in the most mineral and material rich swath of real estate on the planet, I pause to study China... What can this great asian nation offer as solutions to her sister Continent, Africa. For one, Africa needs to come under CENTRALIZED Continental governance...
There are too many HNIC's in Africa, and those have tribal mentalities... By this I mean they are not concerned for the ENTIRE continent, just those of their countries, villages, towns, and tribes... There is no good reason why a continent like Africa should be poorer than a nation like China, but it is! Someone must be called to account for that, and that someone is us, pure and simple...
I know this wont be a popular sentiment, but let us forget our sentiments, and our false pride... Africa is burning, and False pride, and the refusal to be critqued even by loved ones, will burn it to the ground... African people have to decide, and decide NOW, what plans we have for our Motherland, and how we are going to implement those plans... But before we can do that, we must admit that Africa is burning, and stop pretending there are no problems in Africa, or that the White Man is the problem... BTW, We African Americans must take the very same prescription, the same medicine, and drop our pretenses as well... Brethren, how can we get such a message out to the common folk as well as those who act as our leaders???
One last note, peops, please study China... She gone have us all needing to speak mandarin or cantonese mad soon... She's no joke on the economic front...
Peace!
Isaiah