The unprepared for Real Life

                                                             The unprepared for Real Life.

       The majority of African people in this part of the World has been kidnapped and brought here for exploitation. We are now taken over by exploitation in every arena, and we are complicit in our own exploitation. We have been trained to be our own worst enemy. The older generations have been passing down the same old slave mentality values. Our grandparents were molded to be three fifths of a human being. The other two fifths belong to their European kidnappers.  We have been casted into a mold for slavery and exploitation.  We have made money, but we have not used it to recover the other two fifths of our humanity. We live in the same tradition as our grandparents of one hundred and sixty years ago. They did not educate themselves, we are not educating ourselves. They did not start any businesses, we are not starting any either. They did not reconnect themselves to their Ancestors, and we are not trying to do that either. Our grandparents have taught us how to fail, just like they were taught. The love that they have for us has nothing to do with the fact that they have taught us to be complicit in our own exploitation. They could not teach us what they did not know. They had been sold a bag of slave mentality values to pass down. They have not passed down anything that we can contribute to our long term survival. They could not even spell power, wealth, or influence. They were never in a position to pass these values down. We have to develop these positive values on our own. No one is interested in success for African people. We still do not know who we are, we still do not know where we are going, and we do not have the money to get there. We are broke, in more ways than one. 

        Rastafari is the solution for African people. Rastafari tells us who we are as a people, and connects us to our king of Kings. Rastafari is the establishment of where we are from and where we are going. The process of Africa for African people should serve to reconnect us to our resources. Africa is still the richest natural resource, and we Africans should benefit more from this fact. The Rastafarian movement is a movement for the betterment of African people. The key word is movement, we have to move to accomplish. We move in the spirit of our Ancestors, with their wisdom and guidance. Rastafari is providing African people with the tools to make us whole again. We will not be made whole with the mental tools of destruction given to our grandparents. We have to develop a new set of mental tools, contrary to those of grandma and grandpa. Their life and lifestyle were negatively programmed. Rastafari is here to revive the positive programming of Africa for Africans at home and abroad. There has to be sovereignty for African people before there can be any real progress. We have to become the masters of our space and time. The space is the African continent, and the time is now. The Ancestors are calling on us to honor their legacy, and we have a duty to obey. This is the natural process of life for everyone except Africans. We honor the Ancestors of other people.

          The three fifths African man that was created by Europeans slave makers is still in effect today. There have been very few Africans who have accomplished manhood in this part of the World. There has never been an African man to accomplish manhood in the mainstream. The mainstream was invented to establish manhood of European males. African people can only achieve manhood outside the mainstream. The mainstream is reserved for the mainstream makers.  No one is going to build a mainstream for our benefit. We are the ones charged with building our own mainstream. This is the only way for us to move from three fifths of a man into full manhood. The days of dancing the jig, has to come to an end. We have to become more responsible for our futures as African people. This is the way normal people live a normal life. Dependence, servitude and poverty are not the ingredients for a normal life. These are the ingredients for genocide and extinction. The previous generations have not done much to combat our financial vampires. We are still at the bottom of the ladder in every category that counts. We need more self made people, in a position to help build other. This is a way to establish communities for progress. We are a part of so many communities and groups, and none of them are geared towards the empowerment of African people. We are not represented on the world stage in any financial arena.  We are workers and consumers. We are not investors or owners. We have conceded defeat to our financial vampires. They have no financial resistance or competition from African people. We suffer in silence and in poverty, because of our thought process. We have to start educating and preparing the African youth to operate financially on the world stage. The world stage is where people establish themselves as a people. Africa is the world stage for African people. This is the place to provide Africans with the environment and the stability needed for progress. We cannot progress without a place to progress from. Africa is the place for African people to call home. Home is the place that gives us the freedom to be ourselves. This is our natural comfort zone.

By the Raggamuffin Souljah.