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Why and how the African child is miseducated in the

western educational system By Hort, September 2007

As African children head back to school to face another school year I would like to make

an attempt to explain to our community and particularly to young parents why and how

the African child has been systematically mis-educated in the western world during the

last 500 years, so that they can better understand the root causes of some of the

aberrations and self destructive forms of behaviour they see in our community and to help

them realize that if they want a brighter future for their children and for our community,

then it is imperative that they no longer leave the education of their children solely in the

hands of the western educational system, but rather to follow the advice of Malcolm X

who told us years ago that “the black child’s education starts when the school bells rings

at 4 p.m in the afternoon.” (This may vary depending on what time school ends in your

country) We didn’t follow his advice then and today our youth are suffering the

consequences. The situation of African children around the planet has considerably

deteriorated since the days of Malcolm X, so that we are now forced to follow the advice

of Dr Asa Hilliard one of Africa’s great educators who died recently and left us these

parting words. "The education of African people is an urgent necessity. It is a matter of

life and death. We cannot abide another generation of children who have no identity and

who are ignorant about Africa."

The late Professor Amos Wilson, another one of Africa’s foremost educators of the 20th

century, posed a crucial question that all African parents and our community need to ask.

What is the purpose of an education? He said that most black people have been ‘trained’

to think it is ‘to get a job with one of the ‘fortune 500’ companies”. However, according

to Dr. Wilson, they are seriously mistaken, because the purpose of an education is to

improve and further the interests of one’s own group and to ensure its survival.

Obviously the Indians, the Chinese, the Jews and other groups understand this, since that

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is what they do. Our people often look at them and marvel at their unity and wonder why

in contrast our community seems so fragmented and disorganized. Yet, when we study

African civilization we can clearly see that it was well organised and group oriented and

there is even an African proverb which states “it takes a whole village to raise a child.” If

it took a whole village to raise a child, it must have been because our ancestors worked as

a group and understood that on reaching adulthood that child would in turn do everything

to promote the interests of their group. Our ancestors therefore never left the education of

their children to chance because the cohesiveness of their society was of prime

importance.

So, how have African people become such a fragmented and disorganised group of

people today? “Why can’t we be like the Indians and the Japanese?” the question one of

my17 year old nephews asked me some years ago. The answer is quite simple. We cannot

be like them because we do not have the same historical experience.” We do ourselves a

great disservice when we compare ourselves to other people since we can only compare

that which is similar, not dissimilar. We are different because Africa was attacked by

Arabs and Europeans, and our people were forcefully taken to another land and enslaved.

Neither the Indians nor the Japanese have had that experience and therefore it is

absolutely pointless to compare ourselves to them.

When slavery and later colonization took place the vision that our ancestors had of

educating and raising African children was taken out of their control and a new way was

imposed on African people. Worse, this new system of education ran counter to the

interests and needs of Africans. As a result, today, as Prof Wilson has again pointed out,

African people have never had so many talented and educated economists, educators,

sociologists, doctors, lawyers, artists, etc, yet we suffer the worst health, housing, and

education on the planet because our education was never designed to promote our

interests but rather the goals and the interests of our oppressors. The self destructive

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behaviour and derogative lyrics of the rap generation is a striking example of children

who have not been taught to promote their interests.

Furthermore, our people hold advanced degrees from some of the most prestigious Ivy

League schools and universities and can solve any myriad of problems for other groups

but since they have not received an African centred education when it comes to their

own, all their knowledge is null and void. Sometimes the more educated they become, the

more alienated they are from African culture and more of a menace to our group, because

in their zeal to promote the interests of others they often end up doing harm to their own

people. So, Colin Powell, who sent African American soldiers to kill other African

people in Grenada, should never be considered a good role model for our children, if we

want to liberate African people from oppression. If African leaders allow the West to take

their wealth to feed Europeans and leave Africans to starve and face death, it is because

they too have been taught to work against their own interests. For example, at the end of

apartheid instead of putting reparations and land redistribution as a top priority for South

Africa’s black victims, reconciliation with whites, the criminals, became the main goal.

As a result, Nelson Mandela is feted all over the western world and the British even

unveiled a statue of him recently in London, yet the only thing that South African blacks

have received to date is some propaganda about living happily in a mythical rainbow

coloured society. This is one of the reasons why African parents must be extremely

careful with the kind of role models they present to their children. Danny Glover is a

much better model for our children to emulate than Condoleezza Rice.

This new manner of raising and educating black children however has always posed a

problem in the western world. Once again, Dr. Wilson gives us an explanation. It is

problematic he says, because African people were not brought to the West to be educated.

They were brought to be the slaves and servants of the people who enslaved them, in

other words, to work. I used to teach African culture in an after school program several

years ago and the first question we asked the children was the reason for our people’s

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presence here in the West. None of them ever responded by saying that African people

were here to work as servants for white people. In fact, most black people will answer

this question by a vague “we were brought here as slaves.” Have you ever noticed that

anything meant for African people is often vague? For example, “Jesus is coming back

soon” or “we are going to reduce poverty in Africa” or “we want to help Africa” What

date specifically is Jesus coming back? By what date exactly are they going to reduce

poverty and by how much? or what specific area of activity are they planning to focus

on? We don’t know. The language is vague because it’s not meant to be taken seriously

and they know that our people will not demand anything more specific. In return, we are

asked to blindly believe, watch and pray and hope for a better day. Also very, very vague.

Yet what black people actually do is very specific. We serve our white masters. In sports

and in music all the owners are white and the players and singers are black. This

imbalance exists even in countries where the majority of the population is black. For

example in the Caribbean most of the business and hotel owners as well as the tourists are

white, while the workers are mostly black. In Africa, our people extract the diamonds and

gold from the ground while Indians, Jews, Lebanese and Western businessmen sit in their

offices all day and reap the benefits. This inability to understand the real reason for our

presence in the West has led our community to the false assumption that we are here to

‘live in peace and harmony with whites.’ How many times have we heard black people

say “they don’t see colour” yet when they move into a white neighbourhood, the whites

move out, so obviously they do. If we are so mistaken about why we are here and our

relationship with its inhabitants, is it any wonder that our children and our community are

so confused and have so many problems in their daily lives?

In 1888, Ernest Renan, a racist French philosopher described Europe’s economic vision

of our world when he said, “Nature has given us a race of workers, they are Chinese, a

race to till the soil, they are Africans and a race of rulers and soldiers, they are

Europeans”. This is exactly the world we live in today. Yet, this racially organized

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economic system has existed for the last 500 years but sadly African people are totally

unaware of this fact because they are kept ignorant and uninformed the world over. It is

also this racially segmented economic system which is responsible for the persistent

poverty and underdevelopment in Africa and the other countries where our people reside,

but because of our ignorance western propaganda has made us believe that it is because

our leaders are incompetent and corrupt. We are meant to transfer our hatred to our

leaders rather than to the racist economic system that Europeans have wilfully put in

place to impoverish Africans. Luckily, the masses of poor people are passive if not there

would be thousands of revolts every day, everywhere on this planet. To keep African

people impoverished the West intentionally bypasses Africa and the ghettos where many

of our people live and invest in the Asian countries. The reason Chinese investment in

Africa today terrifies the West is because they fear it may actually help lift Africans out

of poverty and thus threaten their racially segmented economic system. To punish the

Chinese, the West has simply mounted a propaganda campaign accusing them of selling

tainted products and of ignoring human rights in Africa, but when and where in Africa

has the West ever respected human rights? In fact, most of the anti democratic leaders in

Africa are still in power because of the West.

Corruption in Africa therefore is not the cause of poverty but a consequence of it. People

in Africa are corrupt because they do not earn enough money to live decently and

therefore must resort to illegal methods to make ends meet. In fact, where ever you see

crime take a good look, you will usually find high unemployment and intolerable living

conditions because it is a consequence and not the cause. Improve the living conditions

and corruption and crime will quickly disappear. It’s a very simple equation but of course

no one is interested in this option because the capitalist system, which is really the old

Roman slave system under a different name, cannot survive without access to a large

number of unpaid workers or people who are barely paid. Under globalization, its modern

name, 80% of the world is still exploited by the 20% who still continue to own all the

wealth. Changing the name periodically (feudalism, industrialisation, capitalism,

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socialism, communism and now globalisation) is simply a strategy that the West uses to

make us, the ignorant masses believe that there is genuine change taking place in society.

Now you understand why every country you visit and in every area of activity the owners

and those who make money are always white or are close to white, while those who

work, serve and are exploited are always black or close to it. This is what African parents

must begin to understand so that they can explain to their children why African people

are consistently at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder.

Now that we know that African people were brought to the West exclusively to work and

serve whites, and not to “live in peace and harmony” with them, where did the rationale

behind the education of black children come from? After Europeans had succeeded in

making our ancestors almost as ignorant as the animals they said they were after years of

chattel slavery, some of them began to realize that in order to further their commercial

interests, it was better for the ‘negroes’ to have at least a minimal amount of education. A

few continued to believe that “negroes should continue to be worked like beasts of

burden and be kept in total ignorance,” however they finally agreed that it was in their

best interest to educate our ancestors. In their original plans Europeans had had no

intentions of educating African people. The education of the black child in the western

educational system therefore was never designed to develop the individual personality or

the intellect of African children and to help them reach their fullest potential. The

decision to educate was strictly based on the economic requirements of the day which

needed a number of educated Africans in order for the West to achieve its goals.

We would still be uneducated today if Europeans had not deemed it a necessary

requirement. In fact, one of the reasons that African children are doing so badly in the

educational system is precisely because their education continues to depend on the needs

of the western economic system. If you listen to propaganda however you may easily

believe it is because they are intellectually inferior and lazy. The stark reality is that the

business world is linked to education and therefore whatever happens in the economic

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sphere will have an impact on education. The educational system works like a bottleneck

to control the flow of students entering the workforce. So, if the economy is experiencing

a boom, more students will graduate from college and university in order to enter the

work force and if there is a recession, it will do the complete opposite. i.e. fewer students

will graduate and thus fewer will enter the workforce.

The western economy has not been doing well for several years now because the new

technology has not been able to provide the large numbers of jobs which the old

industries like steel and coal did, years ago. This has led economists to conclude that long

term unemployment will now be a permanent fixture of the western economy. As a result,

universities and colleges have been forced to reduce the number of people entering the

workforce. It is obvious that if the economy is suffering this will have an adverse effect

on African people since our education since the days of slavery has been intricately

linked to the state of the Western economy. This is the real reason why there is very little

investment in black education because there is an economic imperative to considerably

reduce the flow of African children graduating and entering the workforce, since there are

no available jobs for them and thus it is pointless to waste money educating them. Might

I remind you that 400 years ago, black unemployment was totally unheard of in the West

since every African man, woman and child was fully employed from sunrise to sunset. In

fact, Europeans couldn’t build ships fast enough to go to Africa to kidnap Africans and

bring them to the West to work. Isn’t it ironic that curbing immigration from Africa is the

biggest issue in the West today where quotas and fluency in Western languages are

requirements for emigrating to the West? In France they are even planning to test the

DNA of relatives who simply want to rejoin their families. How unfortunate that

Europeans did not enforce these practices 500 years ago because they would have saved

Africans a tremendous amount of pain.

If we accept that in the western system an individual’s importance depends on their

financial worth, then it is clear why African children have become a liability rather than

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an asset and are underachieving in school. Knowing the kind of social disruption that able

bodied, young men of working age unable to find a job can create in society, the West

has decided to channel them into prisons as a solution in order to prevent the kind of

revolts that occurred in the French suburbs 2 years ago. This is why ‘tolerance zero’ was

introduced and why a 15 year old African American youth who stole a simple chocolate

bar would receive a 15 year jail sentence from a US court. To deaden the pain of those

who have lost all hope of a better future, they inject drugs into our communities and pray

for a quick demise either by a drug overdose or a bullet to the brain as our young men

pretend to be mafia bosses fighting over turf.

After the Europeans had finally decided to educate African children, they had to deal

with the problem of the content of their education. What were they to teach these

‘negroes?’ All of the aberrations and self destructive behavioural patterns that we see in

our community can be traced right back to this moment when Europeans had to make a

decision about the kind of information they were going to transmit to African people.

When African children entered the western school system for the first time, there was

great fear among the slaveholders that if Africans were taught ‘the wrong’ information,

(the truth) they would lose complete control over them especially since our ancestors

numerically outnumbered whites in the new world at that time.( African people have

since become the minority.)

To understand why Europeans were so afraid of the content of African education we must

go further back into our past. Before they had even set foot in Africa, Europeans had

heard about its glory and its extraordinary civilization. Philip of Macedonia, like the

typical warmongering European megalomaniac, decided that as he was the most powerful

person in the West he had to conquer Egypt, the most advanced African civilization at the

time and own it for himself. Fortunately, he was killed while waging another one of his

numerous wars. Unfortunately, his son Alexander, who only a twisted mind could call

great, decided to fulfil his father’s dream and did eventually conquer Egypt. When

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Europeans entered Africa for the first time and saw the tremendous civilization our

ancestors had methodically collected, stored and preserved from millennia they were

mesmerized. They were overwhelmed by its organisation, its opulence, its style, its

architecture, its creativity, its intelligence, in short, everything but most particularly, its

tremendous wealth.

Today in the western media we are inundated with propaganda of “a poverty stricken

Africa” but Europeans knew then and still know now how tremendously wealthy Africa

is. In fact, it is precisely because of Africa’s genius and its tremendous wealth why

African people were enslaved in the first place. Europeans were envious and wanted to

have Africa all for themselves but they also felt ashamed and it was at this moment that

the crime which they would carry out later in the 15th

century when they discovered the

New World, began to take shape in their minds. One of the things that struck me as I

studied Ancient Egyptian civilization was the number of times the word ‘shame’

appeared in the writings of many of the European travellers to Egypt. It’s a leitmotiv in

their writings. Even Jean Francois Champoleon who deciphered the hieroglyphs on the

Rosetta Stone felt shame when he visited the tombs of the Pharaohs in the Valley of

Kings and saw the different races depicted there. This is what he said.

“We also found Egyptians and other Africans depicted in the same way, which could not

be otherwise: but there were some important and strange differences between the namou (

the Asians) and the tamhou ( the Europeans) ….. Finally (and I am ashamed to say this

because our race was the last and most savage of all in those ancient times) but we must

be honest and admit that we did not paint a very pretty figure in those days. Here I am

referring to all the people with blonde hair and white skin, living not only in Europe, but

in Asia, their place of origin. " (Asia here means people from the Middle East and not

from China ) This forces us to ask the following question, “Why did Europeans feel

shame when they came into contact with Africa? Where did their shame stem from? It is

this shame which is behind our enslavement and oppression.

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In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about the end of western civilization and we

have all heard conservative and right wing politicians in the West lamenting the loss of

western values. But what is Western civilization? What exactly are Western values? If

you have travelled across Europe as I have, you will see walled cities, military forts,

canons, pistols, guns, all manner of swords and statues of war heroes. In short, you will

see an arsenal of weaponry and materials for waging war. In my opinion, war is not what

most people imagine when they think about civilization. This may surprise many people

but the West has never had a civilisation if you exclude war from that definition. So

where did the West get all its architecture, laws, religion, human rights ideas, its so called

values, etc? .They got them from Africa. Before they visited Africa they had none of

these things.

In fact, Europeans had spent their time on the planet developing more and more lethal

weapons to wage war and kill each other. Africans in contrast, had spent their time on

this planet mapping the stars, studying the changing seasons, inventing literature, the arts,

architecture, mathematics, writing, inventing the calendar, medicine, worshiping their

gods, mummifying their dead, preparing for the afterlife, even inventing the very wig that

so many black women can no longer do without today, in short, trying to build the things

that we consider today as civilization. As a result, when they came into contact with

Africa’s splendour, Europeans felt inadequate, ashamed, inferior, because they had built

nothing similar in Europe, only weapons of war, and so they were envious and started

plotting to take Africa for themselves and enslave African people and that is exactly what

they have done. So what has been promoted as Western civilization during the last 500

years is none other than the civilization of African people which they have simply

confiscated and claimed as their very own. Today, the West has reached the peak of its

power and it is still in the warmongering business, and still sowing death and destruction

in its path. Iraq is a recent example and perhaps Iran will be next in line, however, it now

prefers to let the other races kill each other while it concentrates on supplying all the

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materials necessary for them to accomplish this task and rake in the profits from their

deaths, especially from the deaths of African people who unfortunately have become

infected with the western warmongering virus after centuries of close contact, to the point

where Rwandans exterminated 4 million of their own people in the short space of only 3

months.

As many people are unaware that the West has claimed African civilization as its own,

they are often confused by the contradictions they see in Western society. So they can’t

understand for example how slavery and human rights can co-exist side by side but if you

understand that one comes from Europe (slavery) and the other comes from Africa

(human rights), then there is absolutely no contradiction whatsoever. Furthermore, as

they do not genuinely believe in such concepts they often end up only paying lip service

to them. Do you remember that Europeans were holding a book in their hands which

clearly stated ‘thou shalt not kill’ while they were raping and killing our ancestors?

Worse, the ships our ancestors travelled across the Atlantic ocean on had biblical names

such as ‘the good ship Jesus” or “John the Baptist.” Today, Mr Bush talks about god and

drops cluster bombs which kill women and children in the same breath. This is exactly

what his ancestors, the founding fathers, did when they exterminated the Amerindians,

the original inhabitants of the USA. This dichotomy can be observed in many areas in

western society because they have simply juxtaposed their warmongering culture to

African civilization and promoted it as their own.. Now you can understand why there is

so much injustice, poverty and exploitation on one hand and false philanthropy on the

other in our world. If you have ever wondered why there are so many humanitarian and

Christian organisations all over Africa apparently working to help lift Africans out of

poverty, yet Africans still do not have access to clean drinking water now you know why.

Next time the G8 countries get together and begin to wax lyrical about how they intend to

lift Africans out of poverty, please do yourself a favour and turn off your television.

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The education of the black child caused great fear among the Europeans because they

knew the genius of the people they had enslaved. What could they therefore teach

African children whose birthright they had stolen? For a start, they certainly couldn’t

allow black and white children to compete equally because the white children would have

been humiliated by the brilliance of the Africans. The problem was only solved when the

minority white population realized they were the sole decision makers in terms of what

information was to be taught or withheld from their black students and furthermore, they

had the monopoly in the writing and in the publication of the books, manuals and other

materials that black people would read. So, they simply decided to give our children an

inferior quality of education instead. Professor Wilson says that the education of the

black child has never been and can never be the same as that of the white child because

the white child must be taught how to rule and dominate others, while the black child

must be taught how to serve and obey, hence the dual role of the western educational

system. In spite of all the talk about equality, desegregation and. Mr Bush’s famous ‘no

child left behind policy,” the educational system in the West has not changed one iota

since the days of slavery and continues to ensure that African children receive an inferior

quality of education in comparison to their white counterparts. In order to maintain this

two tiered system they have invented all kinds of covert strategies such as intelligence

tests, special education classes, hierarchy between schools, etcetera, In short, they

continue to teach our children how to serve and obey which of course our young males

totally reject. In fact, it is the information they teach in the school system which destroys

the self esteem and the will to succeed in our children and that is exactly what it is

intended for. As a result, they lose interest in school, begin to experience difficulty and

eventually they drop out and become delinquents.

This fear of being humiliated by African people is still very strong today and is one

reason why many whites abandon certain professions and sports that black people enter

and why they are so hesitant to allow black people into certain professions. When black

people dominate an area of activity or profession, whites often give the impression that it

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is really of no value whatsoever, however, this behaviour is simply a self defence

mechanism which they adopt in order to avoid feelings of inadequacy, inferiority and the

pain of being outperformed by African people, in other words, the same feelings their

ancestors experienced so many centuries ago when they first encountered Africans.

Teaching African children about their glorious past would have been counterproductive

because of their fear of being humiliated by Africans, so instead they

decided to distort both African and world history by teaching falsehood. For example,

many people today are unaware that Egyptian civilization predates that of Rome by

thousands of years because they have erroneously been presented as contemporaneous,

yet Roman civilization had not even begun when Pyramid building stopped in

Egypt around the 14th Dynasty. Worse, most people still do not know that there are more

pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt, or that this is where this style of architecture

originated. In fact, the civilization of Nubia (Sudan) predates that of Egypt.. Since most

of our people are unaware of the importance Sudan in our history the impending

catastrophe which the proposed Kajbar Dam represents leaves them totally indifferent.

This dam, just like in Egypt with the building of the Aswan Dam will erase forever all of

Africa's ancient history in the Sudan, thus making this knowledge inaccessible to future

generations of African people.

Today, because of these distortions most black people are totally ignorant about their true

history. Instead of teaching African children that their ancestors, the ancient Egyptians,

were the true builders of civilization, ( the pyramids, obelisks and temples still stand as

proof today), they were taught that it was the Greeks and Romans. Instead of being told

that Imhotep the Egyptian was the father of medicine, they were taught that it was

Hippocrates. Instead of being taught about the first universities founded by their

ancestors in Timbuktu and Djenne in Mali, they were taught that Africans were an oral

people who knew nothing about writing. Instead of being taught about the great Shona

civilization of Zimbabwe that built a city bigger than London or the artistic genius of the

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Nok civilization of Nigeria, they were told that their homeland was a “dark” continent,

where their primitive, savage, ancestors roamed the wild jungles from morn till night

practicing cannibalism and that luckily, God sent kind-hearted and charitable European

Christians (Tarzan) to civilize them and to teach them his word in order to save them

from themselves. To add insult to injury, they invented a racial hierarchy with themselves

at the top, and Africans at the bottom and justified it by saying they were “god’s chosen

people” and therefore superior and that God had given them ‘a land overflowing with

milk and honey’, (Africa) while our ancestors were heathen, devil worshipers who God

himself had cursed and therefore we deserved to be their slaves. These vicious lies

continue to be believed by millions of people, both black and white and is one of the

reasons for the rampant and chronic racism in our societies today. Today whites continue

to promote African genius as their own. For example, African people invented rock and

rap but it is Elvis Presley who is known as the king of rock and roll while Eminem

became the first rapper to win an Oscar. Likewise, Bill Gates has become a household

name and a millionaire but without the genius of Dr. Mark Dean and Dr.Philip Emeagali,

two African scientists, the computer would not have become accessible to the masses of

people on the planet today.

This was how the theft of African civilization, the brainwashing and the miseducation of

African children and African people took place. If their plan has been so successful it is

because they knew that in order to succeed they would have to target African children at

a very early age. They, like our ancestors, understood that if you ‘train up a child in the

way that you want it to go, when it is old it will not depart from it’ and that is why from

the beginning of slavery, African children were divested of their names and their

languages. Furthermore, to submit Africans to their authority, they used religion to terrify

African children by teaching them the fictitious story of the bible, plagiarized from the

Egyptian Osirian myth, as fact. This story promised African children a life of suffering

(hell) if they were disobedient to their master, (the slave master, not a supreme being as

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many black people mistakenly believe) but heavenly wealth after death if they

obeyed.(paradise)

The real tragedy is that this distorted African story that generations of black children

were forced to memorize, continue to be taken literally by millions of African people

around the globe, who have spent their entire lives waiting for this ancient Superman

named Jesus Christ to burst through the clouds and deliver them from evildoers. The

tragic irony is that today it is African people, the victims, who are keeping this religion

which was forcefully imposed upon our children during slavery, alive.They are its most

fanatical adherents in contrast to their oppressors own people who have long since

stopped believing in this myth. Reparations can never ever compensate for the

incalculable damage this myth has caused to millions of African people who have

literally put their lives on hold in our world because they sincerely believe that only after

death will they truly begin to live.

The Western educational system therefore will always produce dysfunctional African

children because having committed the most horrendous crime on this planet and lied

about it they are forced to continue. Their propaganda machine must continue to make

African people believe in the fantasy of the bible, believe that whites are superior, that

western civilization is better than their own, believe they must fight in the illegal wars

waged by the West all around the planet, believe that Africa is a continent without a

future, believe Africa is poor, believe that poverty, injustice and exploitation has always

existed in our world, believe that Africa is facing a demographic explosion

(overpopulation) and dying from Aids (depopulation) at the same time (an illogical

equation), believe they must work hard to promote Western interests and all the other

fantasies which our people accept as fact which are too numerous to mention here. This is

the reason their media feed our children negative information 24 hours a day that is

designed to sap their energy, destroy their confidence, intensify their feelings of

worthlessness and self hatred and increase their admiration for the West. The goal is to

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make every African child a Michael Jackson This is the strategic destruction of the

African psyche that the West has put into place and why it is important that African

parents and the African community understand these negative forces which are working

to destroy our children in order to delay the liberation of African people.

This is also the reason they treat us in the most despicable manner. We suffer the worst

health, live in the most horrible conditions imaginable, are the most disrespected and

abused people and do not live life as it should be lived. That is why black churchgoers

often say ‘we are only passing through’ in this world. What else can they say considering

the lives that most of our people lead? On the other hand, Westerners live comfortably,

eat properly, enjoy good health and live long and happy lives. In short, they are alive

while we are dead because they have killed us. But we can be resurrected by erasing them

from our minds in the same way that they erased African history from ours. This is what I

believe Dr Kamau Kambon was trying to get across when he said 2 years ago that “the

solution to the black man’s problem was the white man’s extermination”. Many people in

their ignorance thought he meant the physical extermination of white people. It is

ludicrous to think he was talking about their physical elimination since the West has

weapons which can annihilate every single African person on the planet. What he

obviously meant was that in order for African people to come out of their comatose,

zombied state and lead happy and fulfilling lives, they must kill the white man

metaphorically, mentally by replacing his lies with the truth.

The West will never willingly admit the truth because they have too much to lose. They

would have to admit the theft of African civilization, the mass murder of African people

and the perpetuation of lies. Furthermore it would raise too many questions. For example,

if the Bible is fiction, then who are its real authors? Is it true that Shakespeare was one of

its writers and that is why he is known as the most famous writer ever? If there are no

chosen people, then who are the people in Israel parading as Jews? Why have they been

placed there? Why does the USA defend them so stubbornly? What is the real purpose of

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the pope? What information are they hiding in the Vatican? What have they done with

the information they took out of Africa ?. What really happened during the Second World

War? Who was Hitler? Why did the church protect neo-Nazis? That would raise more

questions about the recent past such as, Who really destroyed the world trade centre

building on September 11th? Why was it destroyed? Who is Ben Laden? Why have they

been unable to find him, although seriously ill? Does he really exist? Why did the West

lie about the war in Kuwait? Why was the world made to believe that Saddam Hussein

had weapons of mass destruction when he didn’t? Why was he killed? What is the real

reason behind the so called war on terrorism? Why are they now picking on Iran? What

are they hiding? Who can tell us the truth? These questions and a million more is what

the Western world would rather not have to answer African people and the rest of the

world after 500 years of telling them nothing but lies.

On the internet under the bible story about the stolen birthright this is the warning that

you will read “It never pays to tell a lie. Once you tell a lie you must tell another, and

another to cover up the first lie. Not only will all these lies catch up with you, but they

can cause you many troubles, just like it did for Jacob and Rebecca”. That is what the

West has done but their lies are catching up with them and they will have to pay the

consequences. We must no longer allow the West to claim African civilization as their

own because our ancestors spent millions of years painstakingly observing, collecting,

recording, creating and preserving it for us, their heirs, to allow Western bullies who

refused to do the same for their people to simply come along, steal it and claim it as their

own simply because they had more advanced weapons than our ancestors. .More and

more African people are only just beginning to realize this. We must tell the truth. We

must reclaim our pyramids, our obelisks, our medicine, mathematics, astronomy, physics,

writing, our administration, our laws and our concepts. We must reclaim the famous 10

commandments which we have been taught god gave to a man named Moses. They come

from Africa and there are 42 of them which our ancestors called the MAAT (the divine

principles of peace, harmony, balance and justice) while the West calls them the

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‘negative confessions.’ Even the very cross that the church uses is African. It’s called the

‘Ankh.’ We must study African history to find out what our ancestors left for us and

every single concept or object that they invented we must take back. Our ancestors

demand that we reclaim our birthright that was stolen from us.

We will know that our people have reclaimed their birthright when African people want

to study and receive diplomas from African schools and universities rather than those in

the West, when African people want to work for African companies rather than western

multinationals, when our young men and women especially our famous people want to

marry African people rather than European men and women, when African parents prefer

to give their children African looking dolls rather than European ones, when African

people stop bleaching their skin because they prefer their own, when they prefer to give

their children African names rather than European ones, when they prefer to pray to an

African god rather than a European one, when Africans reject the warmongering religions

of their enemies and return to the religions of their ancestors, when they feel empathy and

compassion for African people first before they feel them for Europeans, when they love

Africans first before loving Europeans, when Africans want to use their resources to

develop and improve the lives of their people first before the lives of Europeans, when

Africans set up their own economic system, their own political system, their own laws

and their own currency rather than continue to use those of the West, when they remove

the artificial borders created by the west and return to Africa’s natural borders, when they

want African languages to be the official languages of Africa and teach them to their

children rather than those of the West, when African men stop Europeans and Arabs from

sexually abusing and enslaving African women and children, when Africans stop saying

‘they don’t see colour’ and are proud to be Africans, when African people want to defend

Africa before they defend the West, and finally, when they want to study African history

before they study the history of the west. This is what our ancestors did because this is

how normal human beings behave. This is also what the Japanese, the Indians and the

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Jews that our community admires so much actually do and is the secret of their success.

This is why they seem so unified and organized as a people.

We don’t behave like them because Europeans did not tamper with their normal

behaviour patterns in order to subjugate them and use them to further Western interests.

How do you think they were able to conquer Africa and bring us to the West to be their

servants so that most of us today only want ‘to live in peace and harmony with our

enemies?’ Do you think it was by whispering sweet words in our ears? It was by

exterminating 600 million Africans and turning us into abnormal human beings. That is

the price that our ancestors paid and our people continue to pay for the theft of our land,

our wealth and our subjugation. Their propaganda has made us believe that the worst

holocaust on this planet was in Nazi Germany where 8 million died. In fact, we need to

find out the real reason why they have poked that down our throats. The Iranian president

Ahmadinejad has said that “the Jewish holocaust is a myth” and other people who have

raised questions about this are immediately sent to prison or accused of antisemetism,

however, considering that we have been taught nothing but lies during the last 500 years,

we should be very suspicious of every single thing that we have been told. Why do they

want to start a war in Iran today and remove Ahmadinejad? Does he know too much?

What exactly do they not want the world to know? Why did they kill Saddam Hussein so

quickly? I’m sure it has nothing to do with the death of the Kurds. We should want to

know the answers to these questions. That is why each person of African descent must

become a modern day sleuth to find out exactly what happened on this planet.

All the aberrations that we see in our community and which makes us so fragmented and

disorganised is a result of this horrendous crime. It is this “slave mentality” which has

been passed down from generation to generation which makes us behave in such self

destructive ways although slavery was abolished years ago. The only way for African

people to stop to behaving unnaturally is to learn how that process took place, to talk

about it and then to make a conscious effort to practice the above mentioned behaviour,

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but we cannot heal if we continue to deny that we were intentionally made to behave in

an abnormal manner by our enemy because it was the only way to subjugate us and to

steal our land and our wealth.. In a war, you do whatever is necessary to destroy your

adversary and that is what Europe did.

Finally, when we become Africans again most of us will want to live in Africa rather than

in the West. This is the nightmare of the western world as it means they will lose their

entire low paid labour force which they have depended on for the last 500 years. Can you

imagine the economic catastrophe that will take place in the West when African people

wake up from their anaesthesia and decide to return home to Africa? Who will cook their

food, look after their children, clean their homes and their streets, and provide their

entertainment? Who will provide jobs for their police, their judges, their sociologists,

their teachers, etcetera? Who will buy their products? Who will they abuse, brutalize,

murder and rape with impunity when we leave? How many Jenna 6’s do you think they

will have when we go back to Africa? Who will fill up their prisons? Who will do all the

jobs that African people have done for them during the last 500 years? In short, who will

become their new slaves when we decide to return home to Africa? The Asians? The

Arabs? I doubt it. That is why the return to Africa must be handled with extreme caution

because African people are in grave danger of being re-enslaved when they finally come

out of their daze and decide to return home.

This is what the end of Western civilization means. It’s not about some Superman

coming out of the skies, that’s what their propaganda would like you to continue

believing. In spite of all the propaganda about the laziness of African people, it is our

labour and our ignorance that has kept the West strong for so long and it is only African

people who can destroy what is erroneously known as western civilization? If Africans

around the globe decide tomorrow not to work, the western economy will collapse

overnight, but propaganda has made us believe that without the West nothing can

function on this planet. Wall Street and the City are only betting shops where you place

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your bet; if the horse and the jockey don’t run (world wide African labour force refuses to

work) there will be no race. (no profits for Western investors) It was our capacity for hard

work why Europeans exterminated the Amerindians of the new world and brought us to

be their servants. They were familiar with our workmanship. They admired our temples,

our obelisks, our pyramids, etc, while they were unfamiliar with the workmanship of the

people of the new world. That is why our lives have been spared. It’s not because they

want to live in ‘peace and harmony with us.’ It’s because we are their workhorses.

What will the West replace African civilization and African people with when our people

finally decide to bring their oppressive system to an end? What will be the reaction of the

masses of white people when they find out that what they have believed to be their

civilization for the last 500 years is nothing more than the civilization of African people

which their ancestors stole, since they too have been kept in total ignorance of the truth?

What will their reaction be when their shame is exposed to the entire planet? Their

ancestors wrote down in their guidebook, the bible, what the consequences will be when

the truth is finally revealed and their crime exposed to the whole world. “There will be

weeping and gnashing of teeth”. It will be painful, as the truth always is.

Do you now understand why the miseducation of the black child is so important and why

the West has spent so many centuries ensuring that black children believe western

propaganda. How were African people to know that somewhere in their development the

Aryan (white) race became lazy and decided to adopt a “get rich quick” mentality without

having to “lift a straw” This is a criticism which is often directed at young people in our

society today, however, isn’t this the essence of western society? Isn’t this how the West

got rich? Once again propaganda has made us believe that it is due to hard work that the

West is wealthy today, when in reality it is because African people have been working

and are still working to enrich them. This also demonstrates the absolute power of

propaganda which is to ‘make people believe that which is not true.’ In fact, western

society is nothing more than a vast propaganda machine. The motto of the Europeans

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became “war means wealth, peace means poverty.” They decided to wage war and

enslave and exploit each other in order to acquire this wealth, and eventually when they

came into contact with the peaceful peoples of the New World, Africa and the Pacific

Islands it was very easy for them to accomplish their goal.

Before the racist government in South Africa bludgeoned Steve Biko to death, he stated

that “the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

That is exactly why the West from the very beginning of slavery and colonialism targeted

African children and never left their education in the hands of African people? It is

through the educational system they have been able to organise our children’s education

around their interests and goals in detriment to our own in order to maintain their control.

The time has come for our community to educate African children according to the goals

and aspirations of African people. African parents must teach their children the true

history of Africa because only when they do, will they want to promote our interests and

not the interests of others. Promoting the interests of African people is one of the greatest

fears of the western world because they know that when people feel confident and good

about themselves it is very difficult to manipulate and control them, and that is the reason

they have always ensured that African children receive an inferior quality of education

which denigrate their motherland and the achievements of their people.

In conclusion, there is a macabre ritual which takes place after every general election in

the industrialized countries which have nuclear weapons. The outgoing and the incoming

president are left alone for 15 minutes as they share a secret code which only the

president has access to. According to the theory, when there are no other options left, the

president will simply type in the secret code, press a button and release nuclear weapons

which can obliterate almost the entire planet. In their bible, the West has already told us

what their solution will be when the end comes, and their world falls apart .This ritual is a

warning to African people that if we do not want this planet obliterated by people who

have never had any respect whatsoever for human life, we do not have another instant to

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lose. Professor Wilson warned us before he died that our days on this planet are

numbered if African people refuse to make the strategic decisions and the right choices

required today.

That is why there must be a complete paradigm shift in the way of thinking in the African

communities around the world. And that paradigm shift will only come when our people

have the right information. It is my hope that this article will contribute in some small

way to helping African people and especially African parents get the right information in

order to save our children and hasten the end of the unfair western capitalist system.

Black parents must understand that an African centred education is an absolute necessity

for African children if we are to offset the damage from the slave school which we now

know was never intended to educate African children to become wholesome, functioning

members of society in the first place.

We should already be preparing to restore the African system that our ancestors left us in

its untainted form after the coming tsunami has passed since it is undoubtedly one of the

best that humans have ever invented. In other words, the New World Order. It was

Africa’s genius which attracted her oppressors to her shores, it was her tremendous

wealth and the genius of her people why they were enslaved, and it will be the genius of

African people again that will liberate them from Western tyranny and bring peace back

to this planet. That is why it is no accident that Africans were the first inhabitants of this

planet.

This article is dedicated to the memory of George G.M James author of Stolen Legacy

who paid the ultimate price because he dared to tell African people the truth and to my

nieces and nephews generation, who are soon to be or are already parents, so that their

children do not grow up as ignorant as my generation and their generation were

concerning the history of African people and of the world.