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Wealth is in the Mind
Nyame, The Creator could not have intended for us as African people to be a poor people if Nyame, the Creator implanted in our soils all the wealth that was planted there. We talk about the natural resources and the minerals and the oil, and the gold and the diamonds and more that have been planted in African soils; so Nyame, the Creator has blessed us from the very beginning with wealth and possibility. Therefore, for us to be going hungry over this wealth and to be starving in the midst of it, and to be perceived as a dependent, indebted people, while our wealth is being shipped out to other people; we’re actually selling a lot of it for pennies, nickels and dimes and less–means that there is something wrong with our consciousness. Because ultimately, we’ve said the wealth of a people is not in their land, it’s in the mind. The wealth of a man is in his mind. In his consciousness. We look at the example of Japan. No mineral wealth to speak of whatsoever. Nothing at all. A nation that is totally dependent. Of course, we get things backward don’t we? We see ourselves as depending on Europeans and Asians when the reality is the other way around. They depend on us. We have to be backwards in order for this situation to be the way it is. Our reality has to be turned backwards and we have to live in an almost permanent state of deception in order to be used in the way we are used. The Japanese must depend on others for their vital resources, their oil, their timber. All of these things that they use to create their technology and so forth is taken from the soils of other people and then sold back to them.
And yet they are seen as rich and powerful, and the people’s whose wealth they take or buy are seen as poor and poverty-stricken.
-The Honorable, The Great Nana Amos N. Wilson
Adjoa Malaika Gathoni, Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé and 4 others4 Comments-
It is always the “mindset” of a person who makes the difference in their lives, we are forever chasing after the wrong things instead of looking within ourselves to makes the changes that we need to make.
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We totally need a mind shift towards self-reliance and self-determination. Most of us still have the slavery colonial mentality that we can’t do anything for ourselves; most of us believe that if the the white man or the Asian man is not involved, we can’t do it ourselves. Our Ancestors built the pyramids and great civilizations all across Africa/KMT. We don’t need nobody, but believing in ourselves that we can do it.
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A people’s wealth is in the consciousness of the people. Yet, only when it’s organized so that our thinking, desires, and behaviors change so we are no longer instruments of our destruction. This is why a REAL African center education is so important. I have never seen this education, we are all just pieces of a shattered mirror imo. The mere collection of knowledge, money, and skills will not make one bit of difference if it has no purpose. This is why grown men are still arguing about different perceptions of the same hill. But Egypt was black and black is beautiful, it’s 2024 and we are on this. As Bro Wilson says “We are a separate and distinct group of people, with a particular problem, and a particular history, we are wasting our time just accumulating knowledge money, and skills. It’s not enough to be Afrocentric in your knowledge. Skills and knowledge must be organized under the general of the people themselves.”
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You right. We need to organize. We are too fragmented. As Nana Wilson says, “we need to organize our personalities, our consciousness, our cultures, our traditions and use them as an instrument of power.
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