by The Brother

Low self-esteem is a major problem within the Black community. The horrors of white supremacy have caused many Black people to think lowly of themselves and other Black people, which has resulted in a lack of self-esteem being the root cause of most of the destruction that Blacks wreak upon themselves. This manifestation of self-hatred through low expectations has turned our communities into war zones, and caused many Black people to become hopeless about their future, leading to the deification of the honkeys who are intent on destroying them, as they wait for those same devils to improve their condition.

Relying upon white people for improving the Black condition will lead to the enslavement of Black people into perpetuity. The belief that whites will suddenly decide to help Black people, and improve our condition, is the negro way to avoid implementing a program for self-improvement. Sadly, that notion is an ideology that is pervasive within the Black community, but it is false; the ability to succeed is within the grasp of all Black people. And when all Black people begin to elevate their self-esteem, and exercise their potential, they will begin to alleviate our suffering. This will be done upon the realization that self-motivation will be the guiding force in our liberation, and that a lack of it hinders Black success, and destroys Black people.


Development of Low Self-Esteem

Although the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade played a major role in diminishing the self-esteem of Blacks, the root cause of low self-esteem for Black people began several millenniums ago. When Black people dominated the world, and Black Egypt was the world’s superpower at a time when white folk were uncivilized barbarians, the beginning of low self-esteem began to develop for Black people. This notion may seem unlikely, due to the superiority of Black people politically, militarily, economically and intellectually, but complacency is not an anomaly to successful people.

As Black people reigned supreme in all areas of human life, while white people wallowed in an existence that lacked intelligence and civility, there was no incentive for Black people to continue their pursuit of excellence. The lack of competition from other peoples bred laziness, causing us to become complacent about our dominance, and think that our supremacy would be continual, and last forever. These beliefs are unfortunate, because they allowed white people to take advantage of the arrogance of Black people. And upon being successful - after initially failing - at defeating the most dominant Black nation militarily, white people subjugated Black people to their tyranny, claimed our accomplishments as their own, and lightened the complexion of history and historically black populations, which is a behavior that has continued into the modern era.

Since the decline of Ancient Egypt - which was the world’s first superpower, and was a nation of Black-skinned Black people despite what white people want others to believe - the process of conquering Black people and claiming our accomplishments for themselves has been repeated throughout the world by white people. And due to the prevalence of this process, it has become known as the motes operandi of white people: their devilish nature of deceit, trickery and savagery has allowed them to become the most dominant people on earth, while using the same methods against other people of color that they used against us - and it is time for their supremacy to end! The continuing subjugation of Black people to their tyranny has been detrimental to the psyche of Black people. It has caused many members of the Black race to view white people as their natural masters, which is the result of the planned brainwashing of Black people.

During the Transatlantic Slave Trade, European colonialism in Africa, and through the use of other forms of tyranny that white people committed against us, the devils systematically destroyed the self-esteem of Black people to support white supremacy. This was done by destroying Black families by separating its members; beating Black people to satisfy their sadistic desires; using imagery of white people throughout society - including the forced acceptance of a white god whose blessings would bring good tidings to Black people after death - to deify themselves; and murdering innocent Black people, and holding public gatherings to celebrate the horrendous events. And not only do such actions reveal the depravity of white people, but they have taught lack people that we are considered worthless by them, which is an ideology that many Black people have adopted for themselves.

The depth of how low the self-esteem of Black people has become is presently manifested in many ways that are harmful to Black people. Black families are currently in a crises because many Black men and women have children before they are able, or willing, to raise them, resulting in the abandonment of Black children because of parental irresponsibility; the past beatings and murders of innocent Black people by whites has resulted in Black people turning our own communities into war zones, where they have waged war upon themselves by killing other Blacks for no reason, rather than directing their hatred towards the honkeys who seek to destroy them (this statement should not be construed as being an endorsement for killing white people, or anyone else); and the constant bombardment of the European aesthetic has caused many Black people to view whiteness as the ideal standard of beauty, resulting in many Black people changing their appearance to make themselves look white. Such behaviors support the notion that many Blacks have low self-esteem, while also revealing a more troubling reality - many Black people hate themselves.

Black self-hatred, and the feelings of worthlessness, despair, and the negative behaviors that such feelings produce, are hindering the progress of all Black people. Rather than strive to achieve excellence, many Blacks suffer from depression and other psychological disturbances, and are distracted from exercising their full potential because they live their lives pitying themselves. This is extremely unfortunate, because the only thing that separates successful people from those who are unsuccessful, is the faith that successful people have in their own abilities, and their ambition to work towards something until they achieve success. And as soon as all Black people realize this, we will be able to prove our greatness, which many Black people profess to be a reality, but few truly believe.


Manifestation of Low Self-Esteem

There are currently many ways by which a lot of Black people exhibit the symptoms of people who have low self-esteem. And the most prominent of those symptoms is a sense of hopelessness that has caused them to declare success an unachievable pursuit. This lack of motivation is responsible for many of the social ills that plague Black communities throughout the world, and in order for us to improve our communities, Blacks must overcome the negative image of themselves that exists within their mind.

It is disturbing for Black people like myself, who have high self-esteem and are completely confident that we can achieve our goals, to witness Black people who have low self-esteem accept failure, racism and other things that negatively affect the Black community, as our eternal reality. What those Black folk fail to realize, is that success is within the grasp of all Black people. But, due to their psychological trauma, insecure Blacks behave in ways, directly an indirectly, that hinders the success of motivated Black people, and unfortunately causes the entire Black race to suffer.

Within the Black community, it is widely known that there are agents for white honkeys among us, who look and behave like Black people, but whose actions prove that their mission is to destroy us. People who operate with the direct intent to suppress motivated Black people arouse discussion about "crabs in the bucket"; they seek to prevent other Black people from being successful, just as crabs in a bucket would do, rather than support and help them achieve success.

Many Black people have encountered negroes who have the mentality of a crab. Such negroes talk despairingly about Black people who are studious in school, or who are working in other ways to better themselves; they also exhibit jealous tendencies, and defame Blacks who achieve desirable goals, such as getting a raise or acquiring material items, among other things. Unfortunately, I have been a victim of those insecure negroes, who would say and do things with the intent to harm my spirit, because they lacked self-confidence, disliked themselves, and wanted me to share their self-pity and misery.

Willful Negroes
At various stages in my adolescence, there were people who disrupted my happiness because they hated themselves, and did not want anyone else to feel better about life than they did. When I was in the fifth grade, some of my classmates habitually talked despairingly about me, speaking critically about my clothes and saying that that I talked like a white boy, because I spoke proper English and did not sound like a slave on a plantation, as they did. I did not have a lot of nice clothes because my mother chose not to waste her limited funds on clothing, and I spoke English properly because I was intelligent. I am grateful for those two aspects of my early development, because they taught me values that my misguided classmates lacked.

The mistreatment that I experienced saddened me deeply because I had done nothing to deserve it; it also caused me to dread going to school everyday. But the self-confidence that my mother bred within me - by showing me that my intelligence, along with the diverse life experiences that she had given to me - provided me with enough strength to withstand the torment of welfare recipients whose parents spent their welfare payment on clothes, rather than educational materials or more important things, and who never ventured far from the neighborhood in which they lived. Those limitations caused them to have a distorted view of the world, which was exhibited by others whose possessions were purchased with illicit money, which is nothing to be prideful of. My mother’s success in strengthening my self-esteem has continued to guide me since that period in my life, and has given me the strength to act as an individual who is uninfluenced by the actions of the majority of others; this allowed me to survive the rigors of ghetto-life.

As I matured and continued to endure some of the same forms of mistreatment that I have already described, I was never saddened the way that I had been in the fifth grade. The reason that my tormenters were unsuccessful in destroying my self-esteem, was because my mother had taught me that I possessed qualities that made me superior to them, and which they envied. This caused the people who badgered me to look foolish when speaking badly about me, because they possessed less valuable human qualities than I had, and some were given less freedom by their mothers than I was given by mine, despite their professions to the contrary. And their efforts at trying to destroy the self-esteem of someone they envied, may reveal the symptoms of a personality disorder, which may be the reason they are either dead or convicted felons, while I live with no criminal record.

One of the people who spoke disparagingly about me, was someone I had grown up with. The torment that I had received from this person had caused me to hate him, but it never caused me to feel badly about myself, which was his intent. This individual was extremely insecure, and would form his own self-image based on the personalities of others. And rather than compliment those people for their admirable qualities, he would disparage them in an effort to make himself feel superior to them, which earned him many beatings by people who grew tired of his behavior.

Many people, including myself, assaulted that brute because he continually caused unnecessary conflict, and his misconduct needed to end. But, regardless of the amount of problems that he had caused, his mother would always defend him, and form negative opinions about the people whom her son harassed, as she spread lies about us. She did this as she befriended white people, interracial couples, half-breeds and high-yellow Black people: she and her son were negroes whose fondness for others appeared to increase with their increasing whiteness, as they seemed to dislike Black people who did not appear to possess a lot of white blood. And since the son had been shielded from accountability by an over-protective mother who vilified Black people, it is poetic justice that he is dead as those of us who were vilified continue to live.

The examples that I have provided offers insight into the behavior of insecure, self-hating negroes who have allowed white supremacy to negatively affect their motivation to succeed, their self-image, and their interactions with other Black people. And I consider it ironic that these people were critical of me, while the gangsters from my neighborhood, who were tougher and lived rougher lives than the insecure negroes, supported my success, while the people who criticized me were jealous of it. Although I could have provided more examples of how insecure negroes operate, the important thing to know about them is the common characteristic that they possessed: they were raised in broken homes! While some of their parents were on welfare, others had parents who were drug addicts; the remaining negroes with low self-esteem grew up with their grandparents, because their parents were unfit to raise them. Statistics have shown that children who grow up in those environments are also more likely than children who are raised in nurturing homes to become involved in criminal activity, or live their lives as unproductive citizens. And it is these people whose actions hinder the success of motivated Black people.

The Unwitting Negroes
The majority of the social ills that plague Black communities throughout the world are caused by Black people. Unwitting negroes who cause these problems are self-interested individuals whose actions are harmful to Black people, and they usually operate for profit. Included in this group are drug dealers, thieves and other social deviants, whose primary victim is the Black man and woman, rather than the wicked honkeys who created the conditions that led them to do what they do.

Self-hatred is produced by the constant tormenting of someone by another person who is insecure, and wants to feel superior to the person with whom they abuse. And the self-hatred that many Black people have for Black people is the result of centuries of being abused by white people, whose insecurity about their existence and impeding doom, has caused them to seek to eliminate Black people. The actions of negroes who directly, and indirectly, seek to prevent other Black people from being successful, is not the only way that Black people exhibit their low opinions of themselves - it is also revealed through the admiration that many Black people have for white people.

Loving The Honkey
It is sickening to see how deeply negroes love honkeys. After all of the horrors of white supremacy, hatred - and not love - should be an innate emotion that Black people feel towards white people. But due to the psychological effects of white supremacy, which is a result of the weakening of the minds of some Black people, negroes lack affection for themselves, while idolizing their tormentors.

The love that negroes feel for white people exists because they never developed the strength to love themselves. Although pro-Black people and negroes have encountered the same forms of racism, we pro-Black people have harvested the strength to love ourselves, while negroes have not. Negroes lack the strength to love themselves, and abhor racism, because resistance requires strength and effort. Therefore, rather than fight the oppression of honkeys, they willingly submit to the tyranny of white supremacists because it is the easier choice, and they expect all other Black people to be as passive as they are.

I have learned to accept that all Black people do not love themselves, nor operate in ways that are beneficial to Black people. Negroes have been so thoroughly brainwashed into loving their enemies, and hating themselves, that it is futile to expect the majority of them to change and become proud Black men and women. And regardless of whether they are people who have already been discussed; or christian negroes who want Blacks to be docile and passive as they wait for Jesus to provide them with all good things; Black Americans who accept racism as a perpetual reality, and deify white people because they think that adulation and obedience will win them equality from their historic tormentor; or Black people in Africa who have stopped dreaming about innovations that would create a better reality for themselves, and all Black people, which has caused large portions of the continent of our ancestry to remain enslaved to white people; all of them possess an inferior mindset that is the result of white supremacy. They lack motivation and high self-esteem, and although they could have taught themselves these virtues, those strengths should have been instilled into their psyche at a young age, by their parents.


Parents Define Their Child’s Self-Image

If all Black parents cultivated high self-esteem within their children, there would not be a lack of motivation to succeed within the Black community; and many of our social problems would not exist. The reason for this would be because all Black people would strive for excellence, and would not allow self-hatred, or the lust for material goods that motivates many Blacks to commit crimes to obtain the goods, to distract them from achieving their goals. But due to many Black parents failing to properly develop emotionally stable children, many Black people are engaging in behaviors and activities that are detrimental to our future.

The Problem
As stated earlier, the people I have known who possessed low self-esteem, and attempted to decrease the amount of self-esteem that was possessed by other Blacks, were victims of bad parenting. And negligent and bad parenting is pervasive throughout the Black community, and is evidenced by the misguided values that are possessed by many Black people. Rather than being confident about their natural abilities, and striving to achieve success and happiness, a lot of Black people engage in destructive behaviors that reveals their weakness, and lack of faith in themselves.

When Black children mature thinking that the possession of material items can improve their self-esteem, something is terribly wrong! This belief is a foolish notion, because it is the root cause of many of the problems that plague the Black community, and the minds of these misguided Black youth should be corrected. The lust for money, and for the goods that can be purchased with money, are responsible for the drugs, robberies, prostitution, jealousies and other things that creates conflict within our communities. Although we live in a world that is controlled by capitalism, which requires money in order to maintain self-sufficiency, Black people must not allow ourselves to be consumed by greed and excess. The torment that has been delivered to us by white people has placed us in a position from which we must compensate for our disadvantage, and materialism should not be viewed as a necessity for our survival.

Many Black kids grow up thinking that they are worthless unless they have a lot of money and/or an ample supply of members of the opposite sex to service their human desires. And the reason they hold those beliefs is because they do not have parents whose guidance adequately counters the constant bombardment of despicable imagery that they receive from the media. The proper way to raise children does not solely involve feeding and clothing them: it also requires the cultivation of their spirit, which a lot of Black parents are failing to do.

How To Prevent Low Self-Esteem
When children are raised to believe in themselves, and feel confident about their abilities, they will likely possess high self-esteem as they grow into adulthood. This is helpful to children, because it informs them that they are individuals who possess talents and gifts that will ensure their success. Kids are not born geniuses, and will only know what they are taught. And if they are never told that they possess the tools that are needed to be successful, they will have low self-esteem, and condemn themselves to inferiority because they do not know otherwise.

Parents have the best opportunity to cultivate the self-image of a child. The reason for this is because kids usually trust their parents, and parents are usually the people who care about children more than anyone else. This system of mutual trust and compassion can breed success for the child if he or she is properly nurtured. Therefore, in order to raise a child who will become a self-confident adult, certain things must be said and done to the child, or the child will become another negative Black statistic.

When I was a child, my mother told me throughout my childhood that I could do anything in life that I wanted to do, as long as I had faith in myself. She also told me that I was special, and she nurtured my intelligence by reading to me when I was young, and remaining involved in my education as I matured. This showed me that someone cared about me, which prevented me from feeling hopeless; parental neglect could have caused me to live my life as if I was destined for failure. Whenever I encountered the negative aspects of ghetto-life, such as gang-banging, criminal activity and drugs, the only thing that kept me from indulging was the belief that I could do anything that I “put my mind to.” And if my mother had not instilled confidence into my psyche, I might have become one of the many negroes who is unproductive and preys upon Black people, which thankfully has not occurred.

Earlier I mentioned that statistics show that kids whose parents are intimately involved in their lives are less likely to be involved in harmful social behaviors, than people who were neglected by their parents. And the way for a parent to build their child’s self-esteem is by telling them that they control their own destiny; being involved in their schooling; and strengthening their ability to resist peer pressure - when these things are done, the child will possess the ability to be confident and succeed, which is something that will elude people whose parental rearing caused them to feel extremely insecure and sorrowful.

Cultivating Low Self-Esteem
Parental neglect, bad parenting and the setting of a bad example, are things that breed low self-esteem! Children who are raised by parents who fail to compliment them, and whose rearing makes them feel incapable of success, are usually resigned to failure. Since their parents never set high standards of achievement for them, they have low standards for themselves, and live their lives within those limitations, which is usually to the detriment of all Black people.

The youthful years of human life is a period in which people are more impressionable than they will be when they are an adult - and this status makes them particularly vulnerable to the expectations of their parents. This means that if they have parents who do not read to them, attend open houses at school, nor otherwise express an interest in their education; or if they have parents who tell them that they cannot achieve academic success, they are not likely to prioritize their education. And because of that apathy, it is no surprise that many Black people drop out of school, and seek their self-esteem from material items.

It is dangerous for parents to think that they are properly raising their children by buying them nice clothes, without teaching them any values. Such behavior should not be considered “raising” a child, but “taking care” of them. The reason this is dangerous, is because the self-esteem of the child is being built to be dependent upon the presence of nice material goods. Therefore, if the child no longer possesses material items that are valuable, they might commit scandalous acts to acquire them, or live feeling depressed and hopeless.

I have already said that some of the people who tormented me valued materialism over more important things. And their lives of criminal behavior, illegitimate children, unhappiness and death, reveals the emptiness that they felt when they owned nothing other than their mind. In addition to this, I have also witnessed the sadness that such people feel when they become adults, their parents stop supporting them and they cannot afford to purchase nice things for themselves. These people experience feelings of hopelessness and despair, and if they are uneducated, they begin to think that their life should end. Such a predicament could have been avoided if their parents had not built their self-esteem upon the possession of unimportant items that could easily be denied to them. Therefore, in order to compensate for their feelings of worthlessness when they have few possessions of value, they resort to criminal behavior in order to obtain them, thereby becoming another unproductive member of the Black community.

People whose self-esteem is based on materialism, and those whose parents failed to make them self-confident individuals, are a creation of their parents - parents are at fault for the personal failures of the child. If people are unwilling to properly raise their children, they should not have kids! But due to many Blacks continuing to produce unwanted children - whom they are unprepared to care for - many Black people live with low self-esteem, as they live their lives being unsuccessful, or preying upon other Black people. And the violence they use against other Black people can be attributed to bad parenting, and the violence that their parents used against them while they were children.

“Spanking” i.e. Child Abuse, Is Harmful
It angers me that a lot of Black people think that using corporal punishment is a legitimate and effective form of discipline. Many of these foolish people take pride in spanking their children, and criticize white people for their perceived lack of use of corporal punishment. Hmmm. These beliefs reveal how depraved some Blacks have become, because they fail to realize that corporal punishment is a tool that was used against us in slavery; it should therefore be no surprise that the Black descendants of slaves are killing each other, while continuing to use corporal punishment, as the white descendants of the slave owners and overseers avoid the use of corporal punishment, and control the system that removes from society the parties in Black-On-Black violence. And because “spanking” is an act of violence, I do not distinguish between “spanking,” “beating,” “corporal punishment” or “child abuse,” because they are all equally despicable.

Regardless of the reasons that Black parents give for beating their children - such as it being used to discipline them, and therefore a sign of love - corporal punishment is used in anger, and is an expression of violence. When the overseer beat our ancestors, he did it to make our ancestors work harder, and be more obedient slaves, in order to enrich the slave owner. And because of that motive for abuse, it is foolish for Black people to think that using a tool of white supremacy is a good thing, and that people who do not beat their children are weaklings.

I have never seen a Black parent beat/spank his or her child with an expression of love and affection on their face. The look that I have consistently seen is a look of extreme anger, where the Black parent possesses a grimaced expression on their face, with a look of fury in their eyes, as they use all of their strength to inflict pain upon their child. This shows the child that violence and rage equates to power, and causes them to fear punishment for whatever they did, rather than avoid the committing the indiscretion in the future because it is wrong.

When Black parents use violence to discipline their children, they are using methods of torment and abuse that were learned from the overseer. The overseer hated Black people, and used the whip to destroy the spirit of Black slaves, causing them to experience excruciating pain, as an expression of that hatred. This should be all that is needed for Black people to reject corporal punishment, because it was not meant to help us, and it is instrumental in the problems that exist in our communities, and the destruction of the self-esteem of Black children.

Research has shown that children who are abused by their parents are likely to possess low self-esteem, which manifests itself in many ways. Some of the ways that abused children exhibit signs of low-self-esteem are drug usage, sexual promiscuity, sex-related behavioral defects, bad parenting and violent behavior; these are all significant problems that are plaguing Black communities, and hindering our progress.

Amongst Black people, the prominence of cigarette and marijuana usage, along with other drugs; the reckless and meaningless sex that occurs between young Black people, and the objectification of Black women; Black men who do not feel interested in, or comfortable around women because they were beaten by their mothers, or Black women who were beaten by their fathers, and seek to form relationships with dominant and abusive men; the continuation of abuse by abused Black children when they become parents, along with the neglect and abandonment of Black children; and the self-hatred that is manifested through rampant Black-On-Black violence; are all signs of trauma that was caused by Black children being abused by their parents.

The abuse of Black children needs to end, and an era of renewed, better parenting, needs to begin. Violence begets violence! Therefore, when a Black parent beats their Black child, they should expect their child to exhibit a negative reaction in some form. And since corporal punishment produces negative reactions that are detrimental to the future of Black people, its usage should end. Spanking is a short-term solution to a long-term problem, and other methods of discipline need to be utilized.

Many Black parents are too arrogant to amend their disciplinary methods, but a change is required if they truly love their children. By beating their kids, they are behaving like unintelligent slaves, and when they use the Bible to justify beating their children - by using such biblical sayings as “spare the rod, spoil the child” - they reveal the depth of their enslavement. Another excuse that I have heard is “I beat them now, so they don’t go out in the world, act-up, and get beat by the white man.” But if the child becomes a criminal, or mistreats men or women physically and/or mentally anyway, were the beatings effective in producing a healthy individual who treats people with respect, obeys the law and is a productive member of society? The answer is no! Would it not be the better to avoid beating your child, and deal with the ramifications, rather than beat them, allow them to enter society, misbehave, and be unproductive anyway. I have noticed that many Black children are being beaten by their parents, or continuously threatened with beatings, for normal childhood behaviors. This makes the use of corporal punishment questionable, because its usage may be a sign that the parent is the person who is misbehaving, and not the child.

Truthfully, there are a lot of Black parents who should have never become parents, because they do not know how to be a good parent, and they are overwhelmed by the responsibility - this results in them using violence against their children, in an effort to dispense with their frustration. Humility is a positive virtue that should be exercised when parenting Black children. Rather than beat a child when they do something wrong, the parent should explain to them that what they did was wrong, tell them why it was wrong and show them that there are consequences for their actions. Providing children with explanations should not be construed as deferring to the child, but educating them about life so that they will know how to behave in society: it is the most productive way to raise a child, and will prevent children from being confused about why they are being beaten. Arrogant parenting, and the usage of corporal punishment, are relics of slavery, and should be abandoned - this will ensure the production of healthy Black children, who will become mature Black adults that serve and benefit the Black race.


You Have The Power

All Black people can harvest the strength that is needed to succeed. This is possible regardless of the atmosphere in which we are raised, and the socioeconomic environment from which we descend. Wallowing in ignorance and self-pity is giving many Black people an excuse for failure, and it is an unproductive attitude that is slowing our progress.

The power to create our own destiny is also within the control of all Black people, and negroes need to realize this. We are self-governing individuals who are a creation of happenstance events of the universe, and we do not live at the mercy of any mysterious, unseen gods. Believing in a god who gives someone strength is dangerous to Black people: it unjustifiably credit’s the mysterious god with all good things, which leaves Blacks feeling helpless if nothing good happens to them. And as Black people await “god” to “bless” them, white people - who control society, and profess to be christian, but whose actions prove otherwise - become stronger as their negro slaves wait for events to occur that will not arrive until they work for it. “God” is not responsible for human successes - the actions of individual human beings are!

Gather Your Strength
It cannot be stated enough that every individual member of the Black race possesses the power that they need to succeed. But the unfortunate truth is that many Black people will not succeed, for various reasons, including apathy towards our problems, laziness and Christianity. And because of that reality, harvesting the inner motivation to succeed is what makes some people successful, and others failures.

Motivation through high self-esteem is the most important tool that we need to overcome our dire situation. It is what inspires us to dream, and foresee possibilities that do not currently exist. The Black race needs more “dreamers,” because those people will lead the masses of Black people to imagine life that is beyond the control of white supremacy; sadly, there are many negroes who are content with life as it currently is.

Black people who are self-confident, and have therefore harvested the inner-strength that they need to succeed, should be considered role models for all Blacks. The reason for this is because they are strong individuals who refuse to allow racism, a negative upbringing or undesirable environmental factors to keep them from succeeding. This is in contrast to Black people that have low self-esteem, and who live their lives pitying themselves and blaming the “white man” for their problems, without working towards alleviating their hardships. Such a mentality is a weak excuse for failure, it makes us appear to be children who are incapable of responsible decision-making, and it hinders Black progress.

False Pride Is Destructive
There are many Black people who present themselves as being confident, with high self-esteem, but who are truly fragile and weak. The weakness manifests itself as these people follow behind negative people, those who are involved in negative activities, or people who look to “god” for strength. These are signs of weakness because people who behave like that are looking outside of themselves for strength, rather than garnering the natural strength that already exists within the depths of their soul.

People who follow behind negative people, or those who are involved in negativity, are often the weakest people that someone will encounter. Such people are extremely weak because they will profess to be extremely tough when they are around their leader, but will cower in fear when they are confronted while they are alone. The reason that such people are extremely weak, is because they know that they are weak and lack self-confidence, and they think they can hide that fact by pretending to be tougher. But they are exposed as a fraud by gaining confidence from the presence of someone else, because they would be confident while alone if they had high self-esteem.

Black people who look to their “god” for strength are pitiful! And christians are the main practitioners of this behavior. From my experience, such people fail to work towards a goal - instead, they pray and await their god to provide them with their wants. This mentality is a form of laziness, because it absolves Black people of formulating solutions to our problems; it also causes Blacks to waste time that could have been used to achieve their goals, because they were idle as they awaited things that would never arrive.

Another manner by which weakness is exhibited in the display of false confidence, is when people seek to build their self-esteem by criticizing other people. Such behavior is a sign of low self-esteem, because people who are truly confident are secure within themselves, and feel that outrageous displays of confidence are unnecessary - throughout my life, the toughest people whom I have encountered have been the most quiet and friendly, while the weakest people have been the meanest and most vocal. And the reason that weak people display their imaginary confidence openly, is because they want to convince people that they are strong, so that they are not challenged and exposed as being weak and emotionally fragile.

All Blacks should know that personal strength cannot be built by disparaging others; it does not make its practitioners aware of any abilities they have that they should be proud of, which is necessary to possessing true confidence. But the act of disparaging others, thereby spreading negativity, results in weak people having inflated egos, with a false sense of personal power. Such people are usually liked by few people, and will succumb to cowardice when challenged.

The power to succeed is within all Black people! Regardless of any hardships that someone has encountered, they can motivate themselves to succeed if they love themselves, and want to improve their lives. Successful people are not innately superior to people who are unsuccessful - they are only different because they motivate themselves to achieve their goals, rather than remain stagnant while complaining about their predicament. And the people who are in the best position to develop their inner source of inspiration, and cultivate their self-esteem, are their parents. Therefore, Black parents must properly raise their children, and endow them with the correct values, so that we can empower ourselves, and end the rule of the devils who control the society in which we live.

Posted: September 6, 2006