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Nigeria, Africa must all take consequences of courage or lack of it
By Ozodi Osuji
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This evening, I was driving to a restaurant and saw these men by the roadside begging for money. They were white folks and were relatively young, no more than in their thirties. I wondered why they were begging for money when they could get a job and make money and live well like their white brothers.
On the other hand, they could have mental illness and or drug addiction that prevents them from having jobs. If they are drug addicts it means that they have checked out of the issues of life by salving their brains and minds with drugs, doing whatever makes them tolerate living in an unjust society.
America is the ultimate unjust society, and you do not have to be particularly smart to realize that fact. You simply know that this society is structured to favor white folks, especially the white ruling class, the one or so percent of the population, the oligarchy that controls everything.
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The author, Ozodi Osuji
There exists a ruling clique all over the world, so America is not an exception to the general rule, what is the big deal? The big deal is that the moment you become aware of the social injustices in your society, be it America, Europe, Asia, or Africa, you must seek a way that is unique to you to do something to bring about social justice.
Every person has unique talents he is born with and must use them to fight for social and economic justice and not just tolerate what exists.
There are enough resources in the world for every human being to have three good meals a day, a roof over his dead, and live as folks call middle-class existence. The fact that this is not the case is unfair to all humanity, and one must, therefore, do something to change the situation.
Of course, the world is not going to become a paradise. People have different talents, not all of us are going to be computer scientists and produce electronic gadgets and make billions of dollars from them. But regardless of what one’s talents are, one must use them to fight for justice.
The alternative is to feel weak and seek refuge in alcohol, drugs, and weird sex. White folks, Africans, and Asians are mostly cowards; they do not fight for social and economic justice and instead seek escape from drugs, alcohol, and overeating.
They are taking the consequences of their behavior, their refusal to become socially involved and work to improve our human society.
I take the consequences of my courage or lack of it. If I am poor and drive a crummy car that is what I deserve but if I am courageous and do something bold and assertive and useful to society, I would take the consequences, too.
This includes driving the best cars in the world and living in the best houses in the world and traveling to all parts of the world. I am responsible for my particular situation, I have no one outside me to blame.
My life is my dream; I dream it, with courage or lack of courage and take the natural consequences of my behavior. The same applies to every human being, especially to adults.
Therefore, it is a waste of time pitying poor people because they do what gives them the consequences they receive; they, like all of us, need to figure out what they are good at, train for it, do it, and make a reasonable income from it.
The average white American is a coward. He obeys his rulers as if they are gods. He makes a lot of noise about his freedom and liberty but is still a serf obeying his lords and kings who are now dressed as rich and powerful politicians. He doesn’t dare to stand up for what he believes is right.
He tells you that he likes capitalism, but it is a race where few win and many lose so it needs to have the rich, the winners pay taxes to be used to finance education at all levels and pay for the health care of all people, but the average American would not make such demands because he is afraid to do so.
The average Nigerian and African is a coward and is afraid that if he speaks up the criminals ruling Nigeria/Africa will stick their goon squad on him and he gets killed. To live he keeps quiet. As long he is afraid to fight for social justice, he will always have the thugs ruling his shithole of a country loot the treasury.
Nigerians get the consequences of their cowardice. Every country gets the type of government they deserve. Bold people get accountable government, cowards get thieves in government.
Under no circumstances should one resort to anti-social behavior. Yes, many rich folks indeed got their wealth through crooked ways, but society cannot exist if all people steal and engage in criminal behaviors; what the individual needs to do is do something that is prosocial and yet yields him reasonable income.
One does not have to be fabulously rich; what matters is that one is truly resolute and committed to doing something to the best of one’s abilities and is generally serving the public good in some way.
New-age religious folks are correct in stating that our world is kind of like a dream and there is a collective part of the dream where all of us dream together and an individual part of the dream where the individual does his dream and gets the consequences of his behavior.
If one is afraid of harm to one should one do something that powerful people do not approve, is afraid of being killed by the powers that be should one do something good for society, well, one is a coward and one would survive but live as a coward and we know that cowards die every day that they pretend to be alive.
White Americans are cowards and hence get the government of a few oligarchs taking most of the country’s resources while the rest live marginal lives; Africans and other races of humanity are cowards and hence are ruled by bold thieves who are willing to kill them if they dare oppose them.
Live fully and it does not matter if you lived a year or one hundred years.
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