Taken from the book "I Must Let My People Know"

Being Black in this world means seeing us portrayed as people who are second-class people by the so-called majority. If you want to think that Black people are only funny, athletic, or in some ways entertaining you should. All media displays of Blacks confirm your thinking. We are only on the fringe of the real world when you stop to understand our reality.

To have anything of substance you have to imitate and emulate the behavior of the people responsible for your condition. Black people imitate and worship Europeans by worshipping what they worship. We pursue the same dreams as if we don't have our own dreams. We drag our kids into their institutions and hope our kids are successful by association. We are in denial about why we pursue wealth and power. We see it as defining how far we have come in Amerika. I see it as defining how far away Black people are from whom we should be.

The rules of conduct used by the European people we seek to emulate are unnatural for us as non-Europeans. The "whatever it takes" mentality has spread to include murder and greed to get what you want. For those of us who have the ability to lead, we are too busy trying to live the Amerikan nightmare or so-called dream to effect any change.

Some Black people make the mistake in thinking that our folks who aren't doing as well should follow them to the Promised Land. Maybe part of the problem is these same people won't sell their soul from the motherland for some wealth in Amerika. Some of the slaves threw their babies overboard rather than subject them to the ways of some real savage people who don't value human lives the way we do. We do everything in our power to get out of the ghetto only to reunite with the class of people responsible for the ghetto.

There was no ghetto in Africa; it is a creation of the European mind to have a lower class of people to make them feel better. How good it must be to see Blacks portrayed as murderers after the atrocities that Whites have committed on mankind. How good you must feel to see Black people not taking care of our families when Whites are the original separators of the family. How good it must feel to see Black people with guns when Whites are the makers and prime destroyers with these weapons. How good it must feel to see drugs destroy us when we seek escape from the wrath of whites. To not have us here would put White Amerika more in touch with reality. As long as Whites have people who they have mistreated so badly, still want to be like them is a testament to our own self-hatred.

Black people have been victimized by our love for all people even our oppressor. White people taught us to love them through our religious devotion. We have always loved God so they turned into god. They are our god and so we worship on their command and by their doctrines. We act as if we have no idea about our Deity other than what was given to Black people by Europeans. How can we accept so readily the religion and ways of a people who to this day won't sit in a church of God with you?

Sunday morning the day of your lord is the most segregated time of the week. How godly that must be, that on the day of worship we all choose to do it so selfishly and in contrast to the Word. Is it that you would not feel as accepted among so called Christians in White Amerika as in your church? If all people who worship Jesus would understand that it is religion that has paved the way for our oppression, we could start to heal. As long as we continue to be in denial about that reality, our people will continue to seek relief by any means.

We look for our salvation to be delivered by a blond-blue-eyed-Scandinavian. How foolish we are to think that way. That white image is what makes us so accepting of a people who have never had our best interest at heart. We think if there's a heaven, White folks must know the way. We follow European's example and teach our children their ways. Well take a look around, after four hundred years of hoping and praying we should look at them and ask how come there is still no equality? I guess you know the answer; it will come in the next life.

Why do we wait for Europeans to approve of our salvation? We should all know Whites are not waiting on heaven or anything else. Black folks, didn't they teach us well? Get in line and wait on heaven. Is that your only motivation in life, a reward? Our presence here in Amerika is proof that a crime was committed and until White Amerika deals with that constructively we can never have equality.

The wealth this country has can never pay back the lost and stolen lives it caused to gain the wealth. This is beyond money. This is about humanity. To be Black and thriving in Amerika is to defy all logic. Our youth see it as a losing game that only has one winner, Europeans.

Black people here have never had a successful generational foundation from which success is usually bred. Our youth have never seen us embrace our own Blackness. They see us with a white Jesus, white angels, and us in the church singing and praying for a better day. We have to be better than that for them to be better. To see nothing but devastation from violence drugs and self-hatred will only serve as a bad example for the next generation.

To have any chance to turn this type of behavior around, we must turn away from the very people and ways that caused it. Black people didn't show up in Amerika a dysfunctional people. We were made dysfunctional for the use of others. We didn't show up as drug addicts, we were introduced to it to placate us. We didn't show up as violent people, we were taught violence. We didn't show up here waiting on Jesus, Europeans told us to wait on him.

Black people didn't build liquor stores on every corner, Europeans did. We keep getting directions from the people that got us lost in the first place. Amerika knows one thing for sure. Black people must remain intoxicated by church, drugs, and alcohol. If we ever reach the day when collectively we all awaken sober and ready for the battle, there will be a new Amerika.

Can you began to imagine our real power, when we gather with our sisters and brothers with a plan for now and not later because later never comes? Can you imagine our youth when they see us taking matters into our own hands? Can you imagine our unity when we start to spend our money with us and not on drugs and alcohol? Can you imagine our youth joining us in the fight because it involves their future? Can you imagine our children having schools embrace them for who they are and not who Europeans want them to be?

Can you imagine having a God who we can believe in? Amerika has already imagined it and decided to never let it happen. Europeans will keep us intoxicated with drugs and alcohol to keeps us from imagining anything other than our next fix. Will you just say no, or will you continue as in the past and hope and pray for change? It is my dream that Black people all arrive together sober and ready. For those that think the current plan is working and needs no adjustment, you have been bought. There have always been some of our folks, who think our problems are all going to work out in time. I love you, in spite of yourself. After all it's the African way.

Hotep,
Dalani Aamon
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