As you may know, I live in Africa. I live on a continent that doesn't have one of the best financial reputations. Africa is known as the poorest continent in the world.
Well, I would like to tell all those people who think that it is that they are wrong. Africa is not the poorest continent in the world. Africa is not even poor to begin with. Africa is by far richer than America. America can't touch Africa's financial state and she never will.
The problem is that Africa which is very rich is full of Africans who are very poor.
Don't worry, I will break it down so that you would understand the difference.
Africa is a place, and an African is a person. The place called Africa which all of you are calling poor is rich with diamonds, coal, oil, agricultural products that don't grow anywhere else and many many more natural resources; that America can only dream off but many Americans do not need to dream of because they are smart enough to use the smaller resources they have to produce much so they can trade for the ones Africa has and produce even more.
Can you get it now?
Africa is richer but it is not physical wealth that is important, it is mental wealth that is important.
Are you now getting it?
Americans as a people focus on improving their minds more than Africans care about doing so. Therefore, the guys with they smarts minds are more productive and are able to multiply the little they have many times over such that they have more than the one who can simply walk to the beach and pick up diamonds by the sea shore.
Seriously folks, Africa is seriously blessed. We don't have hurricanes, tonardoes, earthquakes or natural disasters. Almost all the countries in Africa have never had any of these natural distaters since the day God made this world as far anyone can remember. I'm serious. There are no records in history of any natural disaster in almost all the African countries, before and after their independence.
I live in Africa but I've never even heard of a volcano erupting. Since there are mountains in Africa, I'm guessing that some of those mountains were results of eruptions, but I know it certainly didn't happen in my time or even my great great great great great great great great grand father's time.
Mental wealth would always be higher than economic or physical wealth. And do you know what the best part is? It is that mental wealth is FREE! You don't need to exchange anything big for it, all you need to do is give wisdom your ear. All you have to do is listen to words of wisdom or read books or writings that are pearls of wisdom.
Wisdom is FREE!!!
You are getting free words of wisdom right now as you are reading this.
Even in the case where you have to buy a good book or pay for an education; you are actually not paying for wisdom.
In the case of buying a book, you are paying for the author's permission to look into his world of wisdom on a particular subject matter or series of subject matters.
In the case of your paying for an expensive or inexpensive University education; you are playing for the privilege of the school giving you the same knowledge that you could get anywhere else including a public library but not with the guidance of the select group of teachers they have on staff, and you are also paying for access into the world's economic system which is structured so that if you do not have a University degree in a field in-spite of the fact that you have learnt all there is to know in that field from a library or elsewhere you still would not be able to get a job in that field. Lastly, you are paying for the name of that University or the prestige of that University - you are paying for the opportunity to say years later that you went to so and so prestigious University (which to me is just a silly reason to pay an exorbitant school fee).
Anyway, so now you know the truth. America is not richer than Africa. It is many Africans that have chosen not to apply themselves and therefore are poor, while Americans apply themselves and multiply in productivity many times over.
I'm in Africa right now but I'm rich. I'm accomplished, and I would accomplish a lot more in the future. I am even accomplishing a lot right now.
There are Africans in the Africa where people are told you can't make it but many people are making it. There are many rags to riches stories in Africa. Funny how every story emphasizes the importance of knowledge and hard work. Hmm! That's something to think about.
I'm sure you've heard the phrase, "Black people don't read."
Well can you imagine that even though I am in Africa and I post FREE stories online every single day, 56.9% of my viewership on scribd.com comes from America while the remaining percent come from other places except Africa. I'm serious, in-spite of how large Africa is and how many countries are in Africa, there are no stats to show visits from anyone in an African country.
Don't lie to yourself that there aren't internet connections in Africa. There are. There are many networks now operating in Africa. Africans are online but they are either on Facebook.com talking about nonsense or are too busy watching porno and downloading it to there cellphones so they can carry it anywhere they go.
Americans are taught from a young age to read and to love their country. While Africans are taught from a young age to dance to music and to protest to everything the government does and be ready to pick up weapons in the name of change.
I feel sorry for Africans. I really do.
I know that I may be an African on the outside but I am not an African on the inside.
If you like call me a traitor. But if it is this never ending protesting and this expectation that the majority of African's have that they are supposed to prosper when they have turned their backs on books; then, count me out.
Yes, that's what I said. Count me out. I don't want to be black and I'm not black . If this is what being black is about then count me out.
If you like carry this writing everywhere and say, "Hey everybody! look at what this traitor wrote." I don't care. Even if everyone on the web insults me. I don't care. I'm going to tell the truth about how I feel. Black people don't impress me. All I've ever seen is black people complain, and complain, and complain, and complain. And frankly, I'm tired. If this is what being black is about, then I don't want to be black.
African's have nothing to be proud of. I won't lie to myself and wear Proudly African T-Shirts like other people when you can't show me what is to be proud of when a continent has been blessed with inexhaustible riches and yet African can't do something with it.
If all the Americans in the world where told to leave all that they had behind and where told to move to Africa, and Africans where told that they should take all their physical belongings with them and move to America; when you come back 5 years later you would see that America would now look like Africa and Africa would now look America. The only difference would be the skin color of the inhabitants.
I refuse to be a part of any race that turns their backs on books.
I am not black, I know I am not white but I also know I don't have to stand in either one of the two.
I am a member of the new race that Jesus brought. A race not based on skin color but a race based on whether or not you have Christ in you. A race of people who have wisdom. A race of people who have wisdom love wisdom. A race of people who do not turn their back on knowledge or books.
And by the way, white people have started heading for disaster with the way they are pumping their heads with sex and violence from their self-made entertainment mediums. Now, if you want something to appeal to an American you would have to add the word "sexy" to it. Example; that's a sexy car, or that boat is sexy, or that bicycle is sexy, even to an American a baseball bat can be sexy.
Americans obsession with sex would soon destroy her.
But then again that's where my purpose in life comes in: to save America, Africa and the rest of the world. Wow! I'm great.
I know all black people are not they same and all Americans are not the same but I am speaking of the majority. I am speaking in general.
Thanks & God bless.
Alfred Benjamin King.
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