Take Over Control Of Your Spiritual Destiny

Introduction

We are in the black history month again. It is a proper time to remind ourselves of the unfinished business of freeing our people from siege.

For a start, it is bad manners of black people poring abuses on the race. One hears the African, especially the African at home making uncomplimentary remarks about the black race in general and the Black American in particular. Therefore, I shall neither stoop to their level nor allow myself to be grouped along with them.

Black is beautiful and that is right. However, we must go beyond being beautiful. There are other unique qualities and competence of the African. Our collective project should be to define and promote development of those qualities. I shall mention one or two of those presently. But first let me highlight what I call the unfinished business here. We should be able to focus more on accomplishing higher goals than just being beautiful.

Blackman In America

I was in Atlanta in the summer of 2008. I lived through the celebration of Blackman In America week or so that featured several interesting and related programs on TV. A startling one was the interview held with one guy who was preparing for this college decree while in prison. The journalist asked him to explain why he had to come to prison, before reading for college degree. Out of him came the revelation: “I did not know that these things existed before now!” he said. An adult male citizen of the most powerful country on earth did not know that education existed!

That is not the only thing that they do not know. I did not know before my lecture tour of the USA, that poverty does not prevent one from education. While many of us in Africa bemoan our poverty as the main obstacle to education, that problem does not exist in Georgia and many other states that are home to the African American. You only need to complete a form stating that you are poor and the state will finance your education to a functional level.

Single Mothers

Another revelation to me was that the majority are single mothers who have to raise their children without the fathers of their children. It also was asserted that the fathers who ran away from their responsibility of supporting their own children had no fathers looking after them while they were young. The question is this, when shall the vicious circle be broken. Who will break it but we ourselves? It might interest the African in the Diaspora to know that we also have the same problems in Africa. My two brothers, two sisters, and I were raised by my mother alone. So was Obama, the present president of the US. Should the descendants inherit everything, including this habit? And if they do how could they be assisted?

I had a scholarship to Germany; hence, I could benefit from both German hospitality and Grundlichkeit (thoroughness). Had I not travelled out, I would not have been able to organize my ideas so that you could read, agree, or disagree with. But the African American is not so handicapped. They live in an affluent society, a scientific society, a technological advanced society, a wealthy and prosperous country, etc. Yet they seem to be like a person who stays dry in spite of coming out of a river. Why?

Hostages Of The Priesthood

Part of the explanation is that they are hostages of the priesthood. This includes the spiritualists, soothsayers, oracles, messengers, “masters”, and other lords spiritual. The black community is exposed to all sorts of spiritual parasites, spiritual predators, and con-artists such as those who claim that they can exorcise bad luck, bad spirits, and learning difficulties. They misinform, mislead, and brainwash our people. They would teach people to blame karma from past lives for failure in this life. They would teach that magic can be black or white, or that magic is same as science or can even be better than science! They preach “do it yourself” initiations into the occult and demonology. They subject them to psychic abuse so that their victims end up as substance abusers and sexual perverts, who will have sexual intercourse with members of species other than Homo sapiens. They deceive them and tempt them to defile their bodies. They glorify such defilements as exercise and demonstration of freedom and democracy. They enslave their souls and spirits. This list can be extended effortlessly. Let that suffice for now.

The chief priests, pastors, and Imams, like all others of similar callings among all races of the world are primarily interested in recruiting victims for themselves, their Gods, and ancestors. Alternatively, the gods and ancestors are to blame for misdirecting their priesthood and agents to mislead our people. When we go through initiation rituals into secret societies, masquerades or lodges in Africa, we always have access to antidotes where necessary. The African American has no access to such antidote. We are contributing our humble quota to the resolution of this problem by incorporating a branch of Faboul Cownic worldwide (FCW) in America. “Cownic” is an acronym formed from CommonWealth of Non-Idolater Citizenry. (Read our Aims and Objectives)

Let Us Remember

I hope that while we justifiably rejoice over having an African American president, we should remember that a lot of unfinished business of liberating the minds and spirits of our people remains to be accomplished. Let us remember the single mothers who share by far a larger ratio of the burden of raising the children and youth who are our future. Let us remember the toddlers and youths who, though not being orphans, are forced to live like orphans by their fathers.

While we are celebrating advancement in civil rights, we should remember that some of our people need accurate instruction on the difference between right and wrong, especially with particular reference to abuse of one’s body and spirit. They should be taught that it is not wrong to be ambitious. We should challenge them to start thinking at an early age, of what they would like to become when they grow up. We must re-establish communication between the genders among the youths, encouraging them to value the family unit as being superior to gang, cult, lodge, church, shrine, and related secular or secret societies.