Africans it is time to get up off your "posterior"

The time is ripe for Africans and persons of African descent to cause the world to regret that it ever laid eyes on an African.

This is an easily achievable feat because historically Africans are recognized as possessing superior strength and constitution to to other nationalities. These two characteristic were the main contributing factors which led to the enslavement of the African people by Europeans. The Africans, however, were recognized as possessing intelligence even though regarded as being inferior to, and, less than the animals.

The historical recognition of superior strength and constitution of the Africans must now be complemented by our intelligence. This characteristic has been dormant for too long and is the very reason why Africans and persons of African descent are feared.

The world knows that when our brilliance come to the forefront then we cannot be stopped.

A few years ago I was properly cussed out by a school principal for suggesting during a discussion that our forefathers in Africa were not guiltless as it pertained to the slave trade. Our forefathers facilitated the slave trade by capturing and selling each other to the Europeans as slaves. This she vehemently denied as being true and stated it was recorded by the historians to justify the slave trade. I personally do not believe that the Europeans left Europe and sailed to Africa to capture Africans but that it were the Africans that sold each other to the Europeans and into slavery.

This does not exonerated the Europeans for the slave trade but partly put the blame on our forefathers for the slave trade and also mean that the time has come for those of us of African descent  to get up off our “posterior”  get to work and take up our rightful place as leaders. There  are too man persons of African descent who are griping about being descendants of slaves and are waiting for hand out when we should be uniting and combining our intelligence to dazzle the world.

The time has come for us to destroy a system that was designed to keep us down and in poverty. Justice demands that retribution come to those who enslaved the Africans therefore the Africans will always be feared. Moreover the African epitomizes what other nations hoped to be and when others nationalities look at an African he sees what he would like to be but never will be. The lawmakers in an effort to thwart eventual justice because they foresaw the rise of the African designed the laws to make criminals of the Africans and there are too many that have fallen prey to the laws. The laws of the USA continue to recognize some people groups as superior while employing the guise that all men are equal.

Recently I spoke with an African American female and she related the woes of a poor white boy in the American school system. She told me that the benefits and privileges that were afforded her daughter as an African American were denied this boy because he was white and therefore considered to be of superior intelligence. 

An incident was reported on the news recently where the parents of a mentally disturbed man called the police. the police came and saw the mentally disturbed man with a baseball bat and shot him dead. In our house we know that when crime and violence is reported the perpetrators are African Americans.

Last week there was an incident reported on the same news channel where a man shot up a police car and while being chased he opened fire at the police from the car he was driving. The police safely took him into custody and made the excuse for his behavior that he was mentally disturbed. It took some time before a photo of the man was shown but I was sure that the fact that he was not shot and killed was because he was not an African American.

There was another case of parents calling the police because their son was mentally disturbed and threatening them. The police responded and shot and killed both the mentally disturbed man and a neighbor and yesterday i read that the police man who did the killing is now suing the parents of the man he killed for emotional distress.

I continue to hear persons lament that President Obama as an African American has not done enough for African Americans. Someone should remind these loud mouths that African Americans make up 15% of the American population and it time they stop expected to get worshiped. The preeminence  of the African American population of the USA is remarkable when compared to the rest of the population.

The African American already has two important characteristics in his favor mainly his physical strength and constitution but now he need to use his intelligence. A combination of these three characteristics  is why the African was always feared but there is no need for us as African Americans to resort to violence because we already possess the natural qualities to take our place as the greatest. There are many spheres where the Africans are leaders but the time is ripe to take over academia among others.

It is distressing that so many African Americans only find interest and entertainment in violence, sex and that which degrades others. When a post hits social media that involves these elements it spreads like wild fire but very few persons notices a post that will benefits or may involve the use of their intelligence, or require debate and discussions.

The time is ripe for the African American to be the ones creating the games instead of spending countless hours playing the games. There are better topics to write about that drugs, sex and life in the hood. It is time to break the stereotype that have been created for the African American.

We live in a society that set the rules and manipulates the rules to favor a select few but we already have an advantage and we can beat those who set the rules at their own game. It is time for us as African to recognize our brilliance and silence the critics by displaying our ingenuity. We shine individually but it is hard for others to recognize our individual light so the time is ripe for the brilliant to unite and let the world see our brilliance. The strongest countries are the ones with immense populations or which find a common umbrella under which to unite and it is time for us as Africans to take our place as the most brilliant among mankind. 

This will require us to unite under a common cause and purpose. At the same time we must keep in mind that this may not be looked on favorably by the world. We are already at the front in many spheres. We are one billion strong in Africa with in excess of 150,000,000 in the Diaspora. It is time to take our place at the top.

Black History Month is a token acknowledging the contribution of our forefathers to the development of the United kingdom, the USA and Canada. We are sufficiently strong and dispersed to outshine every people. It is time for us to take our place of brilliance  and lead the world through our superior strength, constitution and brilliance.