MY
AFRIKAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS
We all have reached a time where technology has allowed us
all the ability to converse and express our views. As black people, we now want
to know more facts than we ever have. Some of us keep others on their toes with
daily questions concerning our origin, our past and also our future. Our number
one concern seems to be how to overcome all of our many problems. Do we stay
here or do we go? Do we wait on God or fight this fight alone? Is this a
spiritual battle or do we wait on politics? Is this an intellectual battle or
are we going to actually do something?
Are things going to get better or are we fooling ourselves?
Do we unite or continue our battle online and only with each other? Is there a
promised land or do we get with the native people and demand a return of our
stolen land? Is this a moral question or should we abide by their illegal laws?
Some have suggested reparations, while others have suggested
Jesus.
Some have suggested education, while others have no opinion
at all.
Some of us don't think there is anything wrong to begin
with. We intellectualize every aspect of our journey here on this planet in
hopes of what?
I have reached the conclusion that this is all becoming
entertainment for the masses. One hundred years from now, people will conclude
that we spent our time trying to outsmart one another.
If this is our struggle, we must redefine it totally. We are
our worst enemy. Our denial of this is why we do so very little about a
workable solution to our own problems. First we must pledge to get up off our
asses and hit the streets. Stop trying to convince each other of our beliefs.
We must stop trying to copy europeans with the use of titles. We all originate
from a time when we were only Black and now must return to that ideology. We
continue to knock on life's door being Christians or Muslims, the ANC or IFP
and the DA etc. and forget our genetic link to the original Black people.
We were once denied these associations so now we are so
proud to be included. We now reject one another based on which group we belong
to.
The government loves our diversity because it causes our
disunity. Our status here and abroad is looked upon with laughter because we
are claiming titles that further divide us. We have the audacity to claim to be
Americans but won't embrace our Afrikan neighbor. We need not look at
geographical lines on a map but the blood lines running through our veins. Our
enemies have given us a multitude of choices and then sit back and watch us
fight each other over titles and locations on a map. We need to love our folks
whether they are from Ghana or Mississippi whether they have a PhD. or a G.E.D.
We need to love our folks because they are our folks. Being Black should give
us a pass with each other. We should all stop pretending to be something that
we are not and start to be who we are.
We must start to knock on the door as Black people and Black
people only. All other titles should be left at home for our personal use.
The struggle will always remain a struggle when we show up
as a bickering, divided and unorganized race of people. So far, the people in
the struggle trying to move us ahead, very seldom ever discuss their personal,
political and religious philosophies. It is not about us as individuals but a
matter of stewarding the untold number of people who are clueless. The comatose
don't care about our religious, political or educational affiliation. It should
be the real Afrikan in us that put our people first and our new found
intelligence second. We must start to show up globally as one people without
separate titles.
Can we imagine our future when we start to embrace each
other on sight, instead of asking "what are you"? Let us tear down
all the barriers that keep us from our appointment with greatness.
We online, are the worst example of neglecting the real
people in need. I need to do more and you need to do more. We should not rest
until we all have the complete freedom to reach our full potential.
That includes a return to our own spirituality, economics,
education and culture, free of interference from anyone. Freedom would also
mean a complete return of all our land. Acceptance of less means acceptance of
their superior status over us. We have the power but only if we unite globally
with all people of colour and not demand, but take back what is naturally ours,
by any means. We are the majority population universally, and must not give in
to the weakening power of division.
We have a spiritual and humane obligation to return and
enlighten our less fortunate brothers and sisters. How sad it is, to see us
entertaining each other with so much redundancy when there is so much real work
waiting to be done.
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