Using Anti-Africa Scarcity to Manipulate Us in Favor of Capitalism

The advent of the internet and social media is indeed a wonderful thing.  We can communicate with anyone around the world in real time.  We can share information and experiences at a rate that would have taken us weeks to accomplish just 50 years ago.  There are  also real shortcomings with this technology.  Part of the problem isn't the fault of the technology itself.  Western capitalist societies place priority on profit.  Get money.  Get it anyway you can at all times.  Make getting money your most important mission in life.  The constant propagation of this primitive concept has done a lot to stunt the intellectual capacity of people and this phenomenon has created challenges with social media.  Information today comes at us at an unprecedented rate.  Since this technological advancement is fueled by the most individualistic philosophical foundation, the type of political sophistication that can only come from collective nurturing and development doesn't exist most of the time.  Consequently, this mass barrage of information overwhelms society.  Most of us have absolutely no analytical tools at our disposal.  We cannot decipher the difference between a well researched and balanced piece of analysis from something someone jumped on the toilet to write.  The only assessment tool so many people are working with is how things make them feel.  Analysis has become defined by everyone's subjective individualistic experiences.  This problem has become so pronounced that most of the time, nobody is even calling for analytical information to challenge most of the points being bandied about as analysis today.

The above reality complimented by an African people in the Western Hemisphere who suffer from the overwhelming trauma of a historical experience where we were violently divorced from our material reality and historical/cultural circumstances.  We find ourselves in these foreign societies, speaking foreign languages (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese), worshiping Europeanized versions of the spiritual foundations our culture created. Our entire existence is dehumanized within this reality.  We are taught 24/7 that we are flawed and inferior.  We have been bombarded with propaganda that says Africa is a wasteland with no development or potential.  With this experience impacting us, no one should wonder why Africans in the Caribbean clamor to separate themselves from Africa.  It should be no surprise that some Africans would find it necessary within the U.S. to work overtime to create a mythical caricature of our history.  

Those things are understandable and certainly, as time marches on and our people continue to gain consciousness about who we actually are (Africans) what has happened to us, and, contrary to the lies imperialism tells us, we always fought back.  Once we overcome their nonsense we will undoubtedly come to a collective place of understanding what needs to happen in order to ensure our future salvation as a people e.g Pan-Africanism.  So, we will march forward beyond these problems.

What constitutes the most disgraceful and heinous parts of this confusion are the roles played by class and nation traitors of African liberation who use our suffering and confusion to position themselves to capitalize - financially - on our suffering and disorganization.  I'm talking about the myriad of internet hustlers and con people who have created these false movements.  The so-called American Descendants of Slaves (ADOS - come on, any movement endorsed by the likes of that slimy Ann Coulter cannot possibly be good for African people) movement who claim our salvation isn't in any way connected to Africa.  Or some of the others who are talking about we never came from Africa.  These "we have been here thousands of years and have no actual connection to Africa and other Africans people".  I'm talking about "the best chance African people in the U.S. have to survive is to fend for ourselves" disregarding the historical necessity that we unite wherever African people are with clear focus on liberating our mother - Africa - as a central element of any movements we build.  For this element, our people are simply a means to an end.  The end being money in their pockets.  They don't like Africa because they see Africa as the loser and the capitalist countries, led of course by uncle sam, as the winners.  These losers want nothing more than to identify with their winners so Africa to them is off the table and capitalism is the unquestionable solution to their upmost objectives.

These people are offering our people tall containers of confusion.  The way they do it is very similar to how the capitalist/imperialist class does it.  The similarities in approach shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.  These sellout hustler Africans have everything in common with the international bourgeoisie.  In fact, they secretly aspire to become integrated into the power bases of the enemies of humanity. 

The shaky foundation of their argument is that we should reject looking at Africa as a part of any solution affecting us because of Africa's current state of oppression and suffering.  To these people, the concept of us defeating the forces oppressing us is "unrealistic."  These people see things this way because they secretly have no faith in our people's ability to overcome the obstacles derailing us.  Since they have no faith in Africa, which means they can never have any faith in Africans, their solution is we instead focus our attention on attempting to wrest free a small portion of the power structure for our usage.  This insane philosophy is steeped in the defeatist ideology that Africa doesn't have the capacity to liberate us and that the only viable solution to any problem we have is always going to be going back to the same capitalist system that is responsible for all our suffering.  And, since this entire "analysis" is rooted in this mythical scarcity theory regarding Africa, these folks engage in zero study of our history and they rely on you doing the same.

Here's an example of the deception they use.  I watched a youtube video recently where one of these two bit card game hustlers was arguing that the late Dr. Ivan Van Sertima was arguing in his classic book "They Came before Columbus" that African people were in the Western Hemisphere in mass numbers thousands of years ago.  Millions of us were here this idiot was claiming.  I watched as long as I could, but before I logged off I noticed the passion in the comments section agreeing with this absolute nonsense.  People received that ridiculous video as some sort of reckoning.  The head shaking element about this is there are plenty of actual videos also on youtube of Dr. Van Sertima himself talking about his position on the matter in clear terms.  His presentations, as well as his books, make it quite clear that his main thesis in all his work was that we are African people who descend from Africa.  Some of us descend more recently due to colonialism and neo-colonialism conditions.  Others a little less recently due to the slave trade.  Some of us thousands of years ago due to geographical migration e.g. the Aboriginals in Australia or the Dalat in India.  Regardless, Van Sertima is unwavering clear about this.  Another example are these pseudo intellectual negros running around here scaring our people with nonsense about the need for us to solidify our connection to the capitalist system, regardless of how much us doing so steps on the freedom and aspiration of the rest of our people outside of the U.S. (and the masses of us within the U.S) and the rest of humanity.  These savages make the argument that if you are in a burning building you have every right and responsibility to save yourself and say to hell with whomever else is going to die, despite the fact you were well positioned to save people.  Carve out your piece of capitalism and get on board with the master's system.  That's the best these scum can come up with.

As has been stated, proven, and substantiated so many times throughout this blog's history, capitalism evolved from the exploitation of Africa and African people, among others.  Its the system that established such an exploitative machinery that there's absolutely no way any reasonable person can effectively argue that the salvation for any of us can be found in the horrible system.  Every car we drive is built on exploiting Africa.  Every chocolate bar we eat.  Every piece of diamond and gold jewelry we wear.  Every cell phone, lap top, and flat screen we use.  Every dollar we invest in these capitalist banks, which were built on seed money from slavery, builds up capitalism at our expense.  Every payment we send our insurance companies, which were also created on the slavery system model that exploited our ancestors, builds up this system that keeps us down. 

The best these hucksters can offer you is a chance to individualize your approach by taking a "to hell with them" position and working to advance yourself in this capitalist system despite the damage the system does to our people. They won't tell you that up front.  They make it sound like its a collective solution, but we challenge you to demonstrate one plausible way that approach e.g. integrating into capitalism, can prove beneficial, even just for Africans within the U.S.  That approach does explain why these people make every effort to separate us from the rest of our international African family.  In order for us to buy into their scam, its necessary to dehumanize Africans we are not familiar with.  That way, we can more easily turn our backs on morality and humanity.  That's the sad plan these fools are pushing and I challenge anyone, anywhere, to demonstrate how any of what I'm saying here isn't correct.

These tricks and scams continue to gain traction with our poor suffering people because we desire so much to be free of the wretched oppression we experience that any two bit hustler with the ability to deliver a message can rise above us and win some of us over.  The promise of prosperity has always been an easy way to do this.  Just go to any church on a Sunday morning to see that model in action.  Its an easy sell, but we have hundreds of years of misery to demonstrate to us that con games will never free us.  On the opposite end of the spectrum, convincing our people to dedicate our lives to building the Pan-African reality we need will always require much more effort.  Much more energy.  Much more dedication and work.  That's true because we aren't just selling our people a line that sounds good.  This grounded in real life solution requires an extensive level of work.  Work many of us are not in the mental and/or physical space to objectively commit to carry out.  As a result, many of us float towards what seems like the easier route, despite the fact we know there has never been any time in any of our lives where trying to take the shortcut around necessary hard work has delivered the fruits we were looking for.  

For the architects of this treachery, it makes sense for/to them to preach their gospels because they have absolutely no intention or desire of building a movement of liberation for African people.  The way you know that is none of these people have any actual movements in place.  Movement being defined as two or more people working and organizing for a specific objective.  Most of these criminals don't even belong to organizations.  Its just them, preaching nonsense and convincing our people to buy their nonsense CDs, books, and other materials that are providing them income, and often wealth, at the expense of our suffering masses.  We Pan-Africanists can easily make that analysis because the we carry out the necessary work while pouring resources into it, and receiving not even a penny in exchange, all of that is easily documented.  As I write this, I'm flying across the country, on my own personal dime, to organize.  This is how I, and those I respect, approach our work.  Good luck finding any of those so-called "leaders" who will even offer you their saliva without a fee.  Yes, our standard is high.  Very high, for those who claim to care about our people's suffering and your standard needs to become higher also.

We beg our people and all peace loving people to stop and take note of these efforts to derail you from doing what a whole lot of you know needs to happen.  Most of us, when pressed, know that no bourgeoisie politician, no matter how millenial and smart they are, is ever going to be able to do more than symbolic work to advance humanity.  Most of us Africans know in our spirit of spirit that anyone trying to tell us we aren't Africans is selling us snake oil.  This is easily demonstrated because the people pushing this line can never tell you even the slightest thing about Africa.  That informs me that even if they sincerely believe this nonsense, its only because they have a deep-seated shame about their African identity that white supremacy (capitalism) has imposed upon them.  The lie is a way for them to escape that shame, or so they believe - subconsciously.    And, when Africa becomes free, united, and socialist, I guarantee you that the beast breathes its final breath on that day.  Until then, our struggle continues.  We will challenge this confusion at every turn.  Our future depends upon it.