The African Coon Train

                                                     The African coon train

       The African coon train was built by the Europeans elite to take Africans on the ride of our lives. Most Africans people are still on the coon train for jobs, welfare, and attention. The jobs suck, the welfare is not enough, and the attention is negative. The European coon train is going to ride us to extinction, or to near extinction. We have to figure out how to disembark this train, before it reaches its final destination. People cannot live in poverty generation after generation without it taking a negative toll on their lives. Lack of proper education, lack of proper nutrition, lack of any kind of knowledge of ourselves, or of our ancestors; have made us perfect candidates for the coon train.  There is an overwhelming presence of African people on the European coon train. These Africans are enjoying the coon ride, because it relieves them of the responsibility for themselves; and for their next generation. They have turned it all over to Jesus, and to the slave masters’ children.

      This is the kind of thinking that will finish us off, and put the final nails in our coffins. People are more responsible for us than we are for our own selves. Our parents and grandparents have been molded for the coon train. We have to break the spell and get off the train. There has to be a better life for African people than this crap that we keep passing down.  The life that our grandparents lived is played out. We have no desire to repeat their performance. We do not seek for a life that is headed towards extinction. We seek for the life envisioned by Marcus Garvey and the Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. These are the ancestor to connect us back to our own African DNA. The descendants of people, who kidnapped our ancestors out of Africa, have no interest in seeing us made whole again. Their interest is in continuing the same abusive relationship with African people that their ancestors have established.  The problem is that we are not our ancestors, and they are not theirs’. The time has come for a new paradigm.

       Intelligent African society should be leading the less fortunate among us, just like every other successful society. Intelligent African society should not still be dancing the jig one hundred and sixty years after the abolition of slavery. We should be on a path back to financial, social, and intellectual prosperity. We are not recovering because we are not following or listening to the people who want us to recover. We would rather listen to money hungry, blood thirsty vampires who have every intention of sucking us into extinction; if we just sit here and let them. We are the most targeted people from the most targeted continent, and there is a reason. The reason is that we are the strongest people from the richest continent. Africa and Africans have been the greatest resource for everyone but our selves. The slave masters have done a hell of a job on our grandparents. They cultivated a spirit of servitude, fear, intimidation, and dependence for grandma and grandpa. We are to a point where the present generation wants nothing to do with this negative value system. We are working towards a positive day for African people. Our ancestors are calling on us to honor them. They are the ones with the blue print for a prosperous African Nation. Africans have not built anything for us in a longtime. We have been busy building for other people. The time is come for us to start building for us again.

By the Raggamuffin Souljah.