The problem with black people

One nagging question that many people will have when observing the terrible racial injustices that go on the US and other parts of the world against black people is obviously: why do black people go along with all these gross injustices and systematic denigration done against them and never seem to do anything or even seem to care about it?

It is true that the collective passiveness of black people is one of the bizarre aspects of the whole thing. And in fact, this is precisely what is ‘wrong with black people’ (in modern times). So yes, it is true that there is something ‘wrong with black people’, but it just isn’t what racists claim it is. It has nothing to do with biology or genetics. It is entirely psychological. But even the cause of this psychological syndrome is not what most people tend to think it is. Most people would offer ‘inferiority complex’ as the explanation of this collectively self-destructive passiveness. But it actually isn’t that. Inferiority complex (which by the way is common all over the world) is not enough to explain this bizarre and unnatural level of passivity towards one’s collective interest.

Before I say what the cause is, let’s just look at what the real problem is: Black people (in modern times) suffer from a loss or absence of collective identity/ego. And because they have no real collective identity/ego, they tend not to act in defense of their collective interests, particularly when it is harmed by people who don’t look like them. It’s important to note that this is a purely a modern phenomenon that began during the 20th century. Black people prior to that time did not suffer any such problem at all. Even in the US, black Americans routinely fought wars of liberation, many of which they were successful in, against their oppressors, though this fact is also washed out of history textbooks in America. As another example — and it might shock some people to hear this — prior to the late 19th century, native black South Africans like the Xhosas and the Zulus had no feelings of inferiority complex with respect to white people whatsoever. Of course, as was the case with much of black Africa, it was after the European interlopers got the latest weapon technology from the west (fully automatic guns and so on) that they basically stopped hiding at the edges of the continent and finally began to lord it over the native people.

However, I should warn that this ‘lording it over’ thing is not the reason for this loss of collective identity/ego that is at the heart of the problem. It is something else entirely. Though, it was unwittingly caused by the ‘lording it over’ nonsense that the Europeans did with Africa.

It is the fact that, with the exception of a few tiny countries (too small as to affect the dominant paradigm) African people in modern times have no true nation states and instead have been shackled within nonsensical borders that were imposed by the European colonists that not only did not conform at all to pre-existing cultural and political boundaries but were designed precisely to do the opposite. When European colonists created borders in other continents, they generally conformed to pre-existing realities (since not doing so would not only be abnormal but also particularly egregious to people’s basic humanity), but they didn’t conform in the case of African people for two key reasons: 1. because they had a different agenda and mentality in that situation, 2. because they just found African people much more of a threat. It was instinctive that respecting the political and cultural formations, which had given them trouble for centuries, would simply be too threatening to their goals. Also, by the time they had started implementing their ‘scramble for Africa’ there was already a conceptual racial paradigm established in the west that basically required that black people not only be at the bottom of the totem pole but completely removed of their basic human dignity. Of course, the instinctive way to do that when dealing with groups of people — collective identities — as opposed to individuals is to gag them up with other groups in ways that do not conform to organic formations already there, and, in fact, inspires deep internal divisions and conflicts. In other words, it is basically collective enslavement. Thus, the inhabitants of such haphazardly-bounded lands are unable to act as collective agents in the way human nations normally act.

It should be noted that the history of European ‘colonization’ — or, rather, collective enslavement — of Africa clearly shows that none of this was actually consciously planned in any way. In fact, quite often the colonists didn’t even really know what they were doing. They were generally just doing what made them comfortable (and unthreatened). They ultimately just did what satisfied them. Of course, they did sometimes deliberately play ethnic groups within the unnatural boundaries they had created against each other. In fact, the British did this quite routinely. But the deeper long-term consequences of what they were doing — the fact that they were essentially rendering African people (and, as a result, black people in general) devoid of true collective identities/egos — was unknown even to them.

Because human beings have an amazing ability to adapt to circumstances, it is hard for most people to understand just how bizarre and abnormal it is for an entire race of people to live in boundaries that not only were imposed on them by outsiders but are entirely nonsensical as far as cultural realities are concerned. Of course, Africans initially, during the first couple of decades, resisted and fought against this (or at least tried to). Even well into the 1900’s, there were movements by various groups to return back to organic states. But as generations came and went, people became used to the new paradigm, especially when a new morality and ethic was systematically nurtured that fostered the notion of ‘unity’ through acceptance of colonial borders and that cast reactionaries as ‘bigots’.

Note that the problem here isn’t so much about multi-ethnicity; rather, it’s about the absurdly inorganic natures of these so-called ‘countries’. There is nothing wrong with having multi-ethnic states as long as they are founded on internal mutual agreement. Also, though there are examples in other parts of the third world where you have similar types of borders to which the Europeans created in Africa, it is not the dominant paradigm as far as their racial identities are concerned. Also, I don’t think I need to point out that this is totally different from a case of a continental country like India which, though it is also multi-ethnic, the borders are not arbitrary and nonsensical. In any case the British did not interfere with the north-west region splitting to form their own country Pakistan like they did to Africa when they acted to prevent the south-eastern people of Nigeria from forming their own country Biafra, which, unlike Nigeria, would have been a true nation.

This bizarre situation essentially renders African cultures (and thus African humanity) practically invisible. And it is precisely why western people, especially Americans, are able to dehumanize African people with propaganda the way they do. Notice also that Europeans, meanwhile, get to have and enjoy their own ethnically independent states while they prevent other people from doing the same.

But the most important and fundamental thing that has to be understood is that this bizarre and unnatural condition that modern day African people are in is precisely what is responsible not only for the lack of collective ego that black people all over the world suffer from, but it is also what is responsible for the entire illusory perception of racial hierarchy in the world.

The modern global perception, which is no doubt actively encouraged by white propaganda, that the world is somehow divided into different so-called ‘races’ of people in a hierarchy of increasing intrinsic or essential value: this perception is a massive illusion. It’s a psychological illusion. And it is an illusion that is predicated upon the stripping away of the basic human dignity of one group of people by collective enslavement. In other words, African people serve as the foundation and cornerstone of this illusion and so-called ‘white’ people, who are conveniently at the top of this illusory hierarchy, are the primary beneficiaries of it. And the simple fact is that if African people were ever to go back to having true, organic nation sates, this illusion would immediately be erased.

A specific consequence of this illusion, which ties in to the lack of collective ID/ego that black people in modern times suffer from, is that black people have a tendency to see other groups outside of their race as though they were different types of entities — not even biological organisms, but entities — like spirits or gods. Such a perception would be understandable in a group of people who have only just met a different-looking group from a more sophisticated civilization (like the Fiji Island natives encountering western visitors). But in the present world, given that human beings now know too much about each other, such a perception would simply not be possible. The only thing that makes such a bizarre perception possible in the modern world is the equally bizarre state of affairs regarding the colonial borders of Africa.

The kinds of pettiness and narcissism that have been outlined is an illustration of the fact that white Americans (collectively) suffer from the exact opposite problem that black people suffer from. While black people, for the reason I explained, suffer from an utter lack of group ego and, thus, lack a tendency to serve their group interests, white Americans, on the other hand, are pathologically collectively egotistical and self-serving. And I think the main reason why is because it is a type of psychological mirror effect in the sense that that black people’s collective enslavement and the resulting absence of a collective ego — within American society — naturally tends to give white Americans the psychological leeway to be as collectively egotistical and petty as possible right down to obscene levels. Such behavior would simply not be possible in a society where ALL groups, regardless of their economic status, had a healthy sense of collective ego and self-interests (because none is in a state of collective enslavement), because no one group would be able to get away with such behavior without making fools of themselves.

But, coming back to the root cause of the problem, I should point out that even despite the unnatural borders, it would still have been possible for African people to gradually and eventually build and forge true nations within these borders on the basis of sustained, motivated and committed leadership with nation-building aspirations. And this is most definitely what would have happened if western governments had left African people alone. But of course, they could not leave them alone. Instead, ever since the so-called ‘independence’ they pretended to give African ‘countries’, western governments, mainly the US, the UK and France, have been subjugating these countries politically and wrecking their economies, keeping them ripe for plunder, mainly by ridding them of good leaders (often by assassinations) and imposing phony leaders who serve only the interests of the west. Thus, any attempt at genuine nationalization, even within the colonial borders, has always been destroyed. This is one of the reasons why the much more realistic and proper solution has always been to simply get rid of the colonial borders themselves and replace them with organic self-created ones — which is the natural way that human beings ought to live and always have.

Interestingly, the same kind of subjugation has always been true even within America itself. In the same way, the American establishment has always acted to crush any attempts by African-Americans to coalesce together in such a way as to build their own collective economic strength. In this respect, I will quote a much earlier paragraph:

“The need to preserve and ensure a permanent social and racial underclass is the main reason why white America does everything it can to prevent black people from acting as a group to achieve any kind of collective success or even just basic collective human dignity. Even to the point of carrying out atrocities like the Tusca Lane, Rosewood and ‘Black Wall Street’ massacres where the US government even sent bomber jets to assist white lynch mobs and police in destroying successful black communities and killing thousands of innocent people simply for the crime of daring to be successful.”

This is also the reason why, if you might have noticed, these western countries do not offshore any jobs or industries to African countries. Not even the low-skilled ones. They don’t mind offshoring jobs and industries to Asia, even if it means they get to profit from economic improvement as a result, but they never do that with African countries despite the fact that African countries have large populations easily capable of doing most of these kinds of jobs and for very low wages compared to western wages, and the fact that most African countries are not consumed by war and conflicts — as the western media likes to portray — and some even have better economic indices than some Asian countries. Yet they never send any jobs there. Even Europe which is just right next to the African continent just ignores it and sends all the jobs all the way across the world to third world Asian countries. Of course, the reason they behave like this is because of their instinct to keep black people down. They don’t mind other non-white races doing well to some degree as long it doesn’t threaten their position. But when it comes to black people, they must not be allowed to rise in any way at all. There goes the logic. And of course, they are right: Any kind of significant collective rise in the state of black people would immediately shatter the illusion of racial hierarchy that they love to cling to.

In this respect, there is one other crucial observation that needs to be made about American society and behavior. A lot of white people (who are not the typical liberal types) have a smug habit of dishonestly characterizing the problem of black people in America as merely being a matter of black people’s own choices and their ‘culture’. Black people often known derisively as ‘house negroes’ or ‘negro bed wenches’ Specifically, they like to blame the high rate of broken homes among black people and the notion that black people have an anti-education attitude. All the while conveniently ignoring and never wanting to talk about the problem of systemic racism itself, pretending it doesn’t exist. But the crucial thing I want to point out here is the thing they love to suggest that blacks do as a ‘solution to their problems’. They always say things along the lines of ‘forget about racism, work hard and get a job’. It’s always something along the lines of individual self-help and improvement. What is so cynical and dishonest about this is that not once do they ever say anything about group/collective effort towards economic and political up-building. They never speak in terms of group effort. There ‘advice’ is always restricted to individual talk. And there is a good reason for this. It is also very telling.

Of course, the reason they never go there is because, on a subconscious level, they know that that is the last thing they want black people to do: work together for collective up-building. They know that, just like the parable of the sticks, disjointed individuals (especially when operating in an environment that is controlled by hostile groups who are acting collectively, and not just individually) are weak and vulnerable whereas groups/teams tend to have more power. That’s why it never shows up in their pretentious admonitions to black people.

Whether black Americans leave the US and build a new home elsewhere or whether they remain in America, the solution to the problems black/African people face in the modern world is simply to do the very thing that our enemies do not want: to get back to the natural state that human beings ought to be by having true organic nations and acting together in the interests of our collective identities.

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