I have always asked myself the reason why the black race have always been behind in all facets of development despite the fact that we are very much endowed with natural, intellectual, spiritual resources and talents. It even comes to a point where one starts to think that it is mentally unhealthy to get sulked in on this quest to at least find out where it all went wrong. You see it is easy to shy away from it, but it can even now be seen that even at best, being so talented and successful in Diaspora is no guarantee for happiness or more importantly fulfilment as you are daily being reminded that you still belong to a particular class. Even these days, with the way the white boy supremacy fad is gaining ground in a very subtle and determined way; one cannot help but imagine how the Jews felt a few years before the holocaust that was fuelled by fear. This I guess is what makes everyone feel and ask the question – What would it have been or still be like if everything was okay back home in Africa.

There seems to be so very few black leaders today who are genuinely fighting our corner (the black race) in the so called global village in which most of our black leaders have gotten lost in the quest for self preservation, greatness and recognition. It is this same pattern of thought that makes some people of the black race think that they can genuinely be part of the so called world elite. These so called global elite have come into being from one generation of imperial slave traders to another. A fact that they have not even tried to disguise. An example of this can be seen from a highly praised research paper published by three Yale PhD students explaining how slave-trading profits helped found the university, its first scholarship, its first professorship and its library. They also found that eight of Yale's 12 colleges are named after slave owners (their essay is at ttp://www.yaleslavery.org).
In Europe we have the Paris club and other organisations that bring together the imperial aristocrats.

A lot of this information is well known amongst our people and leaders: but the question we of the black race should ask ourselves is that - despite the fact that most or even majority of our leaders have attended institutions of higher education where they have studied and mixed with the children of the original slave buyers, why do they continue to fulfil the functions of the slave sellers. (Some even now go to these institutions for short courses to gain recognition as slave sellers). These functions of the slave sellers has permeated the whole of the black man's existence from the black man who still lives back home to the black man in Diaspora- both long term and short term; religious institutions; professionals, etc.

I have come to see that to really see the nature of a problem that seem too big to analyse not to even talk of solving; one has to go to the very root of the problem. I will use this opportunity to highlight this big problem the black race face: The problem of dealing with the original sin of treachery (or iniquity in this case which has a repercussion that goes on for generations) and the curses that come with it.

You see this iniquity of treachery was there amongst us Africans even before the white man came, which makes even those who were taken as slaves to be subjected to the repercussions of this iniquity called treachery. This can also be seen from the cry of ordinary African Americans against their own leaders who are selling them out. An article in ReclaimDemocracy.org an organisation that describes itself thus:

Works to create a representative democracy with an actively participating public, where citizens don't merely choose from a menu of options determined by elites, but play an active role in guiding the country and political agenda………….We inspire citizens to consciously choose what role corporations should play in our society and to limit them to that role. We are a non-partisan (501c3) non-profit organization. Welcome all who share our goals.

In this article, it writes:

Black History Month 2006 ended on a jarring note. Andrew Young, a former member of Dr. King's inner circle at SCLC, who went on to serve three terms in Congress, a stint as UN ambassador and two terms as mayor of Atlanta before cashing out his Freedom Movement chips for a lucrative career as an international "business consultant," decisively spat upon the movement for human rights and economic justice that he spent his early career helping to build. Young announced on February 27, 2006 that he would chair Working Families for Wal-Mart, a media sock-puppet for the ruthless multinational firm. The cynical misuse of his stature as an icon of the Freedom Movement, preacher, former elected official, and honoured elder in black America to mask and obscure the crimes of his corporate client marks Mr. Young as nothing more nor less than a corporate whore.

When Atlanta's WAOK-AM radio gave Young several minutes of live air time the morning of the 27th to justify himself to an African American hometown crowd, the response was overwhelmingly negative. How could he do this, one caller after another wondered incredulously. Wal-Mart does more to depress the wages of working people on both sides of the Pacific than any other single player in the game, listeners called in to say. Other callers reminded each other that Wal-Mart relentlessly discriminates against women and minorities, ruthlessly crushes unions, and dumps its health care costs onto the public sector while receiving millions in local government subsides and tax abatements for each of its thousands of US stores.
Andy Young used to walk with Dr. King. He used to be on our side, more than one observed. Why, they asked, is this happening?

You can read the article at:
www.reclaimdemocracy.org/walmart/2006/andrew_young_blackcommentator.php

THE MONSTER CALLED INIQUITY OF TREACHERY


Slavery have also been with man from time immemorial but in the case of the Blackman the more pronounced buyers have been the Europeans, Americans, Arabs etc.
As there are 2 iniquities involved in slavery, the iniquity of the buyer, of which the white man wisely apologises from time to time (some of them even gave their lives to abolish it), but as I stated earlier the iniquity continues today in different guises both physical and spiritual.

More importantly of concern and dangerous is the iniquity of the seller and the results of the curses that follow it; some being what we see amongst us today - Leaders not being able to see beyond themselves; even at a time when we need leaders to fight our corner in this emerging world of globalisation - even those who have good intentions to do something good always end up working against the interest of there own people. How do we explain for example a president who, despite the fact of all he knows he has to loose still go on to seek a third time in office. We can blame him as much as we like, but what is going on here is beyond him and he himself will probably prefer a way out – he needs to be prayed out in repentance.

Pa Anthony Enahoro, who is the chairman of the PRONACO (Pro-National Conference Organisation), argued that the Political system in operation in Nigeria currently couldn't make anybody an angel; but I would like to add to this the fact that the spiritual legacy of the consequences of the iniquity of treachery that is imbedded in our society will always make it impossible for us to have leaders who will genuinely fight for the interest of the people and survive. According to Pa Enahoro:

"Third term is not the problem. It is the system. The system is all wrong. The structure is wrong, and you are looking for angels. Any angel that works in a
faulty system, what do you think he will become? The system is wrong."

Rightly so, the system is wrong both politically and spiritually.

You see even as a blessing is a word spoken and backed up by the spirit of God: A curse is also word spoken and backed up by evil spirits. Can you imagine the words that could be spoken by a man taken from African in chains, tied to another man on the ship and was made to rot and die on the same spot in which he got into the ship. Imagine the kind of spirits that will be attached to his words.

These were seeds sown hundreds of years ago (seeds of treachery) and are still being reaped today but even worse, more seeds of the iniquity of treachery are being sown today as it is even sad to imagine how many Africans will die this very day trying to get into Europe and America- what pronouncements are they making while dying put into consideration that this people would have left home a while ago and in the end realise that they will not make it to their destinations.

Sorious Samura an award-winning journalist In "Living with illegals", becomes an illegal immigrant. In this channel four dispatches program as he travels from
Morocco into Europe through Spain and France, finally crossing the English Channel to Britain. Samura wants to understand the reality of being an illegal immigrant, so he lives in the exact same conditions and experiences the same gruelling hardships as some African immigrants. For these guys has they said: "  Europe means work; I am ready to do any kind of job. If I have to I'll wash the toilets, bathrooms or train stations and I'll be very happy. Forget I am a graduate".

In a previous series of this program we could see bodies of those pulled out of the sea every night in Spain (those eaten by fish not counted). When the colonial imperialists first came, it was slavery by force but now it is voluntary slavery
instigated by globalisation. You can get more information on this program on
www.insightnewstv.com/illegals


Samuel Johnson in Rambler 1751, speaking about treachery said, "Happiness may be destroyed not only by union with the man who is apparently the slave of interest, but with him whom a wild opinion of the dignity of perseverance, in whatever cause, disposes to pursue every injury with unwearied and perpetual resentment; with him whose vanity inclines him to consider every man as a rival in every pretension; with him whose airy negligence puts his friend's affairs or secrets in continual hazard, and who thinks his forgetfulness of others excused by his inattention to himself; and with him whose inconstancy ranges without any settled rule of choice through varieties of friendship, and who adopts and dismisses favourites by the sudden impulse of caprice." Johnson: Rambler #175 (November 19, 1751)

These are what the monster of the iniquity of treachery will make of even a good man with the right intentions. We can blame our black leaders as much as we like and ask for younger once to take their place; as much as this is a step in the right direction, it may just still result in as Fela Kuti put it:

 "we just dey parambulate and we still dey same same place!!!"

I will stop here for now but I would implore us to say a word, a minute or two of words that God will give us insights into dealing with this monster of iniquity of treachery and rid the black race of this monster that is driving us to extinction. So that our leaders will be free to lead - to know that it is so much better to leave a good name behind; as compared to a fat bank balance with too many enemies going after their children.

You can say the word in whatever way you like and to whoever you like, but I will be saying it with the full knowledge that Jesus Christ has redeemed us from the Curse of the law, being made a curse for us; for it is written cursed is he that hangs on a tree.

Robot  Villager

# 1 I have always a...Read the full article. Posted by Robot| 20.04.2006 21:33

Spinaau

# 2 You were doing very well until you brought in the idea of Jesus Christ. Religion means nothing to me as far as Nigerian/Black people are concerned. OBJ is a born-again, but he is born again at stupidity and in selling out his own people to the white race. Look at all his policies: most of them where designed to help his masters at the expense of the suffering masses in Nigeria. His white masters are enjoying every bit of it while our people suffer. Yet, these white people are mostly Christians. Therefore, you can preach the Sermon on the Mount all day long; it means nothing to our suffering masses. Second, Abacha was a religious man. IBB is a religious man. What has God got to do with the iniquity these wicked tyrants have visited on our people? OBJ had the first opportunity in 1975. He had the second opportunity to learn about leadership in 1999. He had the third opportunity to strengthen his leadership skills in 2003. What have been the results? I am really sick of them all. What we need is to shed some blood for this nonsense to stop. God means nothing to a man with no hope and no means of feeding or sending his children to school amidst plenty in the land of Oz called Nigeria. We used to blame it all on the Northerners. Not any more because OBJ is Southerner. This is the problem as I see it: We Nigerians are first-rate fools. We hate ourselves and will do anything to denigrate our own and our own interests. We tend to learn that which is useless to us. One example is religion. We are more religious than the inventors of the religion. We are more Islamic than the Arabs and we are more Christian than the inventors of Christianity. Yet, these other people exploit us because we succumb to the useless morality of their religions. We learn the worst kinds of habits from them because we believe that they invented our self-fulfilling opium called religion. Our traditional morality is now off the window, replaced by whitewashed morality. But whiteman understands that the laws, not the moral, hold society together. We refuse to see the world as they see it – in legalistic terms, not in useless moralistic verbiage. We have more churches and mosgues but less orderly society than the inventors of these religions. The whiteman will lie and fabricate data to win elections. We see goodness in this and copy from them verbatim. Therefore, many of us glorify the logistics of winning elections by outmaneuvering the opponents by any means necessary. Yet, when we steal our way into the throne, we are incapable of doing anything to help anybody. “OBJ is the master strategy and the master statesman,” so it goes. But he only knows how to bamboozle everything and everybody just to win. There lies our depravity again, because a man who can cheat to win will surely believe that he owes you nothing in terms of performance. But whiteman has established institutions whereby a retard like W. Bush can slouch along without bringing down the entire institutions. The same is not true with us, because we got no institutions to ride along with the low-performance/retarded leadership. Yet, some of us praise the disease of wining at all cost to high heavens. The world moves on, leaving us behind at our self-created jungles, like monkeys and baboons that we are – a full circle in our learned ignorance. We got messiahs in farming and leadership, but we got no food and no government and no orderly society. Posted by Spinaau| 21.04.2006 00:00

Oluiwa  Villager

# 3 @ spinaau word ,preach on @ the authour I agree with ur opinion totally with exeption to bringing God and jesus into the equation, Baba God put us in a physical world and also gave us all the tools to deal with issues in this physical world , but guess what most of us do not know this and therefore we do not use our God given powers of freedom. Then we accept evil allday long and in lazybrian fashion say "oh its the will of God" nonsense. However you made reference to prayer which is good as long as we know that prayer, or speaking to our source and creator God/Olorun/Yehovah, has nothing to do with any manmade religion, hence anybody can pray for him/herself. Finally the messiah from Nazereth he who spread Gods word of love peace and freedom, He who said that "the kingdom of God is wthin us" popularly known as Jesus, may not answer you, Why? because his real name is not Jesus (shock ?) His name is Yahashua ,in short form Yeshua meaning God the saviour in Hebrew, then translated from Hebrew to Greek as "eusus" then translated to Jesus in 13th century in the first English Bible. So think you know the Christ ? Well there is still a lot more to know about him that goes beyond all the distortion and lies, do you research dont let anyone do iot for you. peace Ire O !!! Posted by Oluiwa| 21.04.2006 04:15

Naija for life  Villager

# 4 Spinaau, Would that such supreme wisdon would always come from the minds of patriots like you. Whenever, I tell a black person I do not believe in Jesus Christ or any other myth foisted upon us by invaders, they give me disapproving looks and promise to pray for my soul, or some other stupid remark. Where was Jesus Christ during slavery? Where was he during colonialism? Where were Mohammed and Jehovah during the Rwandan holocaust? Where were all these omnipotent, rupposedly benevolent entities when the pope himself authorized the enslavement and subjugation of the black race? Foreigners want us focusing on religion because they know it is impotent, and it distracts us from the more important pursuits that hold the keys to progress and power. Pursuits like glass making, iron and steel production, manufacturing, inventions, R & D and so on. These foreigners will applaud you as you waste your life chasing the red herring of religion. Meanwhile, they fashion the structures that enables them to live in prosperity and security. Until we Africans get off our lazy, materialistic, instant gratification seeking butts, and learn rocketry, manufacturing technology, efficient food production and distribution, as well as the survival instint, all our venal supplications to Jesus Christ and Mohammed who have never cared a fig for the black race will be discarded into the trash bin in heaven, the one located right by the pearly gates. Then again, I don't hold out much hope of the above prescription coming to fruition, not when our leaders are people whose all consuming priority is the service and glorification of foreigners. Posted by Naija for life| 21.04.2006 06:23

scorpion  JJC

# 5 My Dear Niger for life, first of all I would like to thank Spinaau for sharing with us this threachery stuff, it must have taking him a while to collate such brilliant thoughts about our situation as a race.together, So my brother Spinaau prech on! You have my support on stopping the madness through blood shed as diplomacy and praying to God is failed to change our situation. secondly, I believe you have every reasons not to believe in praying to God for our problrms and thanks for also sharing ur understanding about the origin of the name Jesus. as u may be aware that the children of israek did not accept jesus as the "messiah" that God has promised them would come and deliver them from the Romans, whom as at the time where treating them as slaves, simply because they taught he was going to decend from the heavens rather than being giving birth to, so not untill after his crucifiction and the claimed ressurrection, that the Romans Hijacked the religion and the people who were his followers regarded themselve as the "Chritians" meaning the followers of "messiah" aka christ) and this was the beginning of christianity, but what I found fascinating about the whole thing is the fact the Romans who happened to be the the world super power who at the time colonising the whole of europe beginnig from Sweden,britain to the now middle-east a dtail map of the Roman empire can be obtained on the web simply by typing the Phrase "the Roman Empire" whom after crucifying Jesus then started spresding his message through his colonies, using it to bring about a social order in people because of its divine prechings. sorry for the story, but just thouht I should expanciate more on your opinion of the fact that the British who happened to be our own colonial masters after the were colonised by the Romans more than 1800 years earlier had mastered their colonial masters tool"chritianity" well enough to use it to control us. The sad part, is the fact that our own cynic leaders are using similar tools including posing as the "messiah" of their ethnic division, I have been so happy with the comments made by the villagers and the villagers have realyy demonstrated that the knowledge is there, but as mr Ngige the former Anambra state governor who was falsely impeached by the states kingsmaker that said in his recent interview "nothing good comes easy" I personnally believe that as a race we are the only one's who accept less than we our worth and think by praying to God that miracles will happen and mirrors, steel and other materials will simply come down from the heaevn instead realising that they have to be manufactured. I believe it is high time that we start to walk the walk and stop talking the talk as most people one to enjoy the goodness of democracy but do not want to make the sacrifice for democracy. it quite obvious that the leaders are not willing to give to us but it is our responsibilities as a nation to go and take it from them by making actions as the Nepalese are doing to their king now. Posted by scorpion| 21.04.2006 19:30

scorpion  JJC

# 6 My Dear Niger for life, first of all I would like to thank Spinaau for sharing with us this threachery stuff, it must have taking him a while to collate such brilliant thoughts about our situation as a race.together, So my brother Spinaau prech on! You have my support on stopping the madness through blood shed as diplomacy and praying to God is failed to change our situation. secondly, I believe you have every reasons not to believe in praying to God for our problrms and thanks for also sharing ur understanding about the origin of the name Jesus. as u may be aware that the children of israek did not accept jesus as the "messiah" that God has promised them would come and deliver them from the Romans, whom as at the time where treating them as slaves, simply because they taught he was going to decend from the heavens rather than being giving birth to, so not untill after his crucifiction and the claimed ressurrection, that the Romans Hijacked the religion and the people who were his followers regarded themselve as the "Chritians" meaning the followers of "messiah" aka christ) and this was the beginning of christianity, but what I found fascinating about the whole thing is the fact the Romans who happened to be the the world super power who at the time colonising the whole of europe beginnig from Sweden,britain to the now middle-east a dtail map of the Roman empire can be obtained on the web simply by typing the Phrase "the Roman Empire" whom after crucifying Jesus then started spresding his message through his colonies, using it to bring about a social order in people because of its divine prechings. sorry for the story, but just thouht I should expanciate more on your opinion of the fact that the British who happened to be our own colonial masters after the were colonised by the Romans more than 1800 years earlier had mastered their colonial masters tool"chritianity" well enough to use it to control us. The sad part, is the fact that our own cynic leaders are using similar tools including posing as the "messiah" of their ethnic division, I have been so happy with the comments made by the villagers and the villagers have realyy demonstrated that the knowledge is there, but as mr Ngige the former Anambra state governor who was falsely impeached by the states kingsmaker that said in his recent interview "nothing good comes easy" I personnally believe that as a race we are the only one's who accept less than we our worth and think by praying to God that miracles will happen and mirrors, steel and other materials will simply come down from the heaevn instead realising that they have to be manufactured. I believe it is high time that we start to walk the walk and stop talking the talk as most people one to enjoy the goodness of democracy but do not want to make the sacrifice for democracy. it quite obvious that the leaders are not willing to give to us but it is our responsibilities as a nation to go and take it from them by making actions as the Nepalese are doing to their king now. Posted by scorpion| 21.04.2006 19:30

scorpion  JJC

# 7 My Dear Niger for life, first of all I would like to thank Spinaau for sharing with us this threachery stuff, it must have taking him a while to collate such brilliant thoughts about our situation as a race.together, So my brother Spinaau prech on! You have my support on stopping the madness through blood shed as diplomacy and praying to God is failed to change our situation. secondly, I believe you have every reasons not to believe in praying to God for our problrms and thanks for also sharing ur understanding about the origin of the name Jesus. as u may be aware that the children of israek did not accept jesus as the "messiah" that God has promised them would come and deliver them from the Romans, whom as at the time where treating them as slaves, simply because they taught he was going to decend from the heavens rather than being giving birth to, so not untill after his crucifiction and the claimed ressurrection, that the Romans Hijacked the religion and the people who were his followers regarded themselve as the "Chritians" meaning the followers of "messiah" aka christ) and this was the beginning of christianity, but what I found fascinating about the whole thing is the fact the Romans who happened to be the the world super power who at the time colonising the whole of europe beginnig from Sweden,britain to the now middle-east a dtail map of the Roman empire can be obtained on the web simply by typing the Phrase "the Roman Empire" whom after crucifying Jesus then started spresding his message through his colonies, using it to bring about a social order in people because of its divine prechings. sorry for the story, but just thouht I should expanciate more on your opinion of the fact that the British who happened to be our own colonial masters after the were colonised by the Romans more than 1800 years earlier had mastered their colonial masters tool"chritianity" well enough to use it to control us. The sad part, is the fact that our own cynic leaders are using similar tools including posing as the "messiah" of their ethnic division, I have been so happy with the comments made by the villagers and the villagers have realyy demonstrated that the knowledge is there, but as mr Ngige the former Anambra state governor who was falsely impeached by the states kingsmaker that said in his recent interview "nothing good comes easy" I personnally believe that as a race we are the only one's who accept less than we our worth and think by praying to God that miracles will happen and mirrors, steel and other materials will simply come down from the heaevn instead realising that they have to be manufactured. I believe it is high time that we start to walk the walk and stop talking the talk as most people one to enjoy the goodness of democracy but do not want to make the sacrifice for democracy. it quite obvious that the leaders are not willing to give to us but it is our responsibilities as a nation to go and take it from them by making actions as the Nepalese are doing to their king now. Posted by scorpion| 21.04.2006 19:30