Obsession

It's almost impossible to shame me

I’ll never understand why one would frequent a blog or a newsletter of someone he/she claims to loathe.

Right now, I ‘m being trolled by a person (people?) who hates “niggers,” who repeatedly urges me to go “back” to Africa and who attempts to shame me about the millennia-long state of black Africans and their descendants. 

(Poor person is obsessed with everything about black people, even our hair and physical features.)

It’s as if he/she has read none of my work, as I’ve been talking about the spiritual and physical state of black Africans and their descendants in the western hemisphere for quite some time.

The person even offered an intelligent question: to name a successful black African society and I might have engaged him, but he reverted to form in his attempts to goad one of my defenders.

Good thing for me that I had addressed our perennial downtrodden state nearly a decade prior and I’m going to repost it here. But I’m not doing it for him. I’m doing it for you. If he gets some benefit from it, that’s just extra.

Since the essay is from 2014, I will make a few changes. It’s a long piece, so I will post it in two parts. I share it perennially, but I don’t think that most people who read it knew what to make of it or how to comment in context.

With the state of tribal enmity ramping up in the last nine years, however, I think it will open up a few more eyes - at least that’as what I’m hoping.

Stay tuned.