One of the Biggest Problems Holding Back Africa and its Diaspora Are Psychological

[Nkrumah Was Right]

The wildest concept to me is defeatist Christians. There’s verses that should give you confidence but it be the simplest stuff and some will be like “I can’t do that” “it’s not realistic” “it’s not meant for me”… like, ppl have to see themselves as having infinite possibilities and things will change. You don’t necessarily have to know how it’ll happen.

“Our God will save us…”

“Render unto Caesar…”

“Leave temporal issues alone, focus on your soul…”

I despise this thinking.

 

[UncleTomFord15]

This is just papering the real issue which is the cause of this… CACS.

Before whites it was Arabs. What was the excuse then?

 

[CoryMack]

Covid Vaccines were used and made the world over not just by white people and nobody had to take the white man's word on the medicine. Every step is documented from research to release.

Your entire post is fear of the white man veiled as awareness. The tone is sad. I was talking about how brehs on this forum make white people out to be demi gods and this post is exactly that type of shyt. Right ideas, wrong conclusions. You damn near bragging on the white man

Race specific bioweapon? Meanwhile Black people even within the same ethnicity have the most genetic diversity. What would this bio weapon be targeting? Race doesn't exist on a genetic level only biological ancestry. Breh you might not realize this but you are an example of what the OP post is talking about. You have mentally accepted white people as insurmountable.

you can call it fear, but i'm telling you the facts. and until you at least have the courage to acknowledge the facts as they are right now you'll never even begin the work of changing our situation for the future. you're like the preacher who preached praying to white jesus was the answer, instead of coming up with realistic programs to better our communities. you can think positively all you want. the day your positive thoughts can beat a nuclear warhead please let all of us know.

i tell you that it's documented that the best and brightest that white people have have been working on race specific bioweapons for over a century, and give you examples, and you, a fukking construction worker, tells me it's not possible. i don't know whether it's possible or not, though i do know without a shadow of a doubt that you don't either, but the fact that it's documented that they're working on it should be enough for anyone with even a modicum of intelligence to say that's an area we need to be looking at. if someone tells you that some people from america are coming to kill you, is your simple assed response going to be that it ok, because they don't know where in canada to find you?

if i were to ask you how we were going to turn the tables you wouldn't have the first clue other than some bullshyt platitudes about what you believe, but that's been your pattern for as long as i've been reading your posts. we have Black people who've done the work for well over a century, studied our situation and placed it in its larger historical context, and they predicted the results. and those results have said we'd be exactly where we are right now and would be on a downward trajectory.

then here you come, you who haven't done the work, haven't read anything at all (and we both know this is true), and have nothing to offer except your bullshyt hopes and dreams that have no basis in concrete reality.

the funny thing is you're a prime example of exactly what i posted. the white man is the reason you're not in kenya but in fukking canada right now - canada of all places - and you know better than i do that the white man has kenya in an iron grip and is willing to do a whole lotta dying before he'd let it go back to any kenyans. and we both also know that if you were told right now that you had to move back to kenya permanently you'd fight to your death to stay right where you are in canada.

so do me a favor friend and shut the fukk up, because you're not arguing with me, you're attempting to argue with those much more intelligent than the both of us.

 

[MajesticLion]

Find/recognize the source of the infection.
Stop allowing the source of your infection to be the source of your nourishment.
Clean up any infection within yourself.
Find/recognize your blind spots and address them; those are potential points for reinfection if you allow it.



Basics.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Most annoying shyt ever. I can't stand defeatists.

Lead the way Jesus

Breh u say some of the dumbest shyt

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

So basically Africa ha stuff in common with the world, sounds legit

 

[Buddy]

Breh u say some of the dumbest shyt

I mean YOU were the one talking like FBA is some Five Percenter type theory that only the enlightened such as yourself can understand so I'm saying, lead the way. We lost

 

[I Really Mean It]

This has nothing to do with the post you quoted

he asked for my opinion of differences in thought between black americans and africans.

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

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Particularly true of Nigerians:


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this is a fact. i had to get over a huge psychological hurdle to just start - completely uncharted territory for me no one i knew was involved in it. never mind keep working at my jewelry business, 3 years of a grind barely breaking even then BOOM things changed but it's because it took three years to fully understand the business of jewelry making.

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

It's crazy cause this should be common sense.... but it isn't

I'm not even going to get into the debate about the N word and the psychological problems with it

well what if we told you the whites took a word which meant man, king, him, in many african dialects and used it as a pejorative and we have now internalized that pejorative BBUT some of us feel the word spiritually as something positive. you may need to change your mind on the word, respectfully.

 

[alpo]

Why is An African Canadian trying to diagnose Black Americans when his home country Niagara is on the brink of splitting up?

 

[jerzboy]

well what if we told you the whites took a word which meant man, king, him, in many african dialects and used it as a pejorative and we have now internalized that pejorative BBUT some of us feel the word spiritually as something positive. you may need to change your mind on the word, respectfully.

i get it.. Yeah, it was taken back, it's empowering now..... but we get upset when people outside our race use it???? BUT we're also the only race that views a racial slur as a tem of endearment, and feel comfortable addressing each other with it... again, the only race to do this, yet we have the least.... If you don't see the physiological impact on this, that's on you.

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

i get it.. Yeah, it was taken back, it's empowering now..... but we get upset when people outside our race use it???? BUT we're also the only race that views a racial slur as a tem of endearment, and feel comfortable addressing each other with it... again, the only race to do this, yet we have the least.... If you don't see the physiological impact on this, that's on you.

maybe we should all be more vocal about others using it the same ways jews don't allow slurs in their hollywood movies but incessantly use the n-word. i do see your point. but i also don't think we should feel any kind of way when we use it with one another. i don't think we should use it in mixed company though. that shyt is weird to me.

 

[WIA20XX]

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Particularly true of Nigerians:


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When I was young and in college, this type of argument really resonated with me. But I grew up with Bob Marley and Chuck D in my ears.

Post school, deep into my career, I can see that there are SIGNIFICANT racial barriers to black people doing anything

• Getting health care even when you have good insurance
• Getting Primary and Secondary Education - even when you live in a white suburb. When black teachers focus their attention on Black Male students, subconsciously "wishing that boy would..."
• Getting College Education - at an Ivy, Elite State, HBCU, community college, or trade school
• Getting that first crucial job - Resume Racism is real
• Getting that second crucial job - You're black, do you really know and trust other people in your industry to help you get the next gig?
• Renting an apartment - too many instances of having great credit and provable income..
• Buying a car - Studies where car salesman of all colors
• Buying a home/Selling a home

No "Knowledge of Self" or years of therapy with an afro-centric/African centered licensed and trained therapist will address the issues above.
A good talking to, a good philosophy, help black people persevere through this stuff - and to that end it's useful.

But meditation and breathing exercises, pouring libations, and honoring elders is not land, capital, finance, homes, hospitals, schools, our own police force and court system, physical security from private racists as well as government sponsored racists.

The things that oppress and degrade black people the world over, are white individuals and white supremacist institutions, and anti Black Individuals and Institutions - formal and informal - that actively work against Black people.

I'm not talking about folks living in the belly of the beast. (since G-Rap started, it seems that a lot of middle class/college educated/daddy make good money as an electrician type black folks, think other Black people are 1 foot out of slavery/living like Dookie on The Wire. )

I'm talking about Typical Tisha and Regular Raheem. She's a nurse and he works at the help desk at the local university. Maybe they're code-switching game isn't PhD level, and they have a very hard road ahead of them. And a lot of times, they don't realize all of the barriers.

And expecting a can-do/positive attitude, when Black Men have to downplay any sort of self-protective behaviors else they be perceived as threatening, and Black Women's "strength" is weaponized by companies and civil service...

It's not the individual raising of consciousness that is needed.
Therapy for a lot of harm done to us would be great - but perfectly adjusted Black people will face the same problems, the same enemies.

I think the "knowledge of self"/"genetic racial trauma" stuff is a poor solution for the real issues Black folks face.

Everyone pushing that type of thing is either 1) broke, or 2) only rich off their followers.

No disrespect to Frantz Fanon n'nem though.

Our problems are MATERIAL, not spiritual, not psychological, not something that can be addressed by a deep understanding of history or years talking to "elders".

On a different note,

We got all these killers, car jackers, and thieves - but Zimmerman and Darren Wilson still out there breathing free air.
They almost killed Rodney King, but a city full of gang bangers never took out any of the officers that assaulted him?
The 2 Black DC Snipers never went shot anyone for the revolution...

A lot of the problems that are inflicted on us by White people and their agents and their institutions - if anything - we should be thinking collectively and organizing collectively.

Obviously not in retaliation of course, never that.

But we should be trying to amass wealth and capital and knowhow on the low.
And then deploying those resources to help our own, on the low.

 

[RamsayBolton]

Real shyt.