The Apple and The Tree
The apple does not fall far from the tree. This has been a sentiment considered for all living things. We are doomed to follow in the footsteps of our parents and grand parents. The problem is that our grand parents did not follow in the footsteps of their ancestors. They were forced into a new paradigm. This forced paradigm has become the new status of African people. We have a new paradigm that has no connection to our African ancestors. Our grand parents had been turned into slaves and servants. They were never in a position to pass any kind of proud legacy down to their next generation. They have left us a legacy of religious indoctrination, brainwash education, financial dependence, and inappropriate behavior to social injustices. They had been taught how to be slaves by their European slave makers. We are not a people connected to our country, culture and heritage. We are a people connected to the slave masters' culture of hegemony, pass down to us by our grand parents. Financial vampires have made us their main course, and Africans have been the main course for a longtime. Our grand parents have accepted the fangs to the point that it feels normal to them to have theses long fangs embedded in their necks. The time has come to stop these financial vampires from feeding on us. They have no problem sucking us into extinction. They will chose the money over us, every time. African people are just the means to an end, the end is financial prosperity for European people.
The total annihilation of our African mindset has caused our grandparents to adopt a position of servitude, dependence, and intimidation. These three values coming down the pike, generation after generation; are a recipe for poverty and extinction. Poverty and discomfort are not values for long term survival. We just get weaker and weaker, until we eventually die. Our grandparents had been taught this death march, and they have taught the death march to their next generation. They are just teaching us what they were taught, and they were taught to be African Apples on a European Apple tree. The problem is that African Apples cannot grow or flourish on European trees. We are out of our DNA, barking up the wrong tree, and living a lie; so other people can be happy. Our grandparents have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, and turned into their own worst enemy. The buck has to stop, and it might as well end with this generation.
The apple has to start falling far away from the tree, if African people hope to survive into the next millennium. African dependence has to be replaced with African independence. Independence is not going to be easy, there are too many people prospering because of African resources and African people. They are using our own resources against us, and we are helping in our own downfall. They have organized us for poverty and dependence, and have organized themselves for prosperity and interdependence . They got the drop on our Ancestors and now we have to pay the price. We are paying the price, let us not pay the price all the way to extinction. We have done nothing to deserves a death sentence. We were just naive to what other people were willing to do for power, wealth, and influence.
Africa is the richest continent with the poorest race, and Africans have the smartest brain with the dumbest thoughts. We have stopped thinking for ourselves ages ago. These financial vampires have taken over our lives, and have institutionalized us for their benefit. We are descendants of master builders. Modern society still cannot explain the intricacies of ancient African architecture in Egypt and Ethiopia. We have been knocked off track by oppressors, aggressors, and invaders. We have to regain control of our destiny. Marcus Garvey and the Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia have come to inspire us to get back on track.
By the Raggamuffin Souljah.
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