Today, it is only we black people globally, who have remained the symbol of world poverty and human misery, and without a dignified, poverty-free homeland of our own. And when you look at all those humans who have put poverty behind (and the way they work), you realize that true change for a given people can only come from those people themselves working together.

True change for a given people can’t come exclusively from other people, e.g., from asking other people for equality, like we black people are doing now, no. It can only come from those people themselves working together.

But working together is a trait we black people have simply never had.

All other people have changed, and it’s only us black people who haven’t.

All other people have put poverty behind, and have built for themselves their own dignified homelands, and it’s only us black people who haven’t.

For us black people, there isn’t even a single indication that at one point, blackness will ever cease being the symbol of human misery, or that we will eventually ever have a dignified, poverty-free homeland of our own.

Problem?

Working together to transform our lot, or working together to make our homeland Africa a place we are all happy to call home, like all other humans have done, is something we black people have historically rejected. We black people, unlike all other humans, do not even feel a single pulse of the need for us to work together & change blackness from being the shame it is.

Things we black people admit about ourselves:

1).  “Man why can’t black people work together or get along?” — A black man in America, exclaiming about our inability to work together.

2).  “In the US, Hispanics, Asians, Indians, Europeans, etc… and Jews from all over the world come to the US and get along with each other and win. Only Blacks find a reason to be divided…”

— A black man in America, highlighting the ability of all other humans to work together with their peers from allover the world, unlike us blacks.

3).   “Why black people can’t work together to pull themselves from the bottom?” — A Black American, wondering (video) why black people, humanity’s poorest, simply have no interest in working together to better their lot. Because working together is what all the other REAL humans do.

4).  “What we should be discussing is why blacks won’t work together?… My white friends don’t have this problem. What is wrong with us as black people? Must be a curse!”

— A black man in America, decrying the exact same thing: the inability for we black people to work together like all other humans do.

5).  “Blacks are not fools but our failure to love one another makes us fools worldwide.” — A black woman in South Africa, literally saying we black people are fools, but pointing out that our inability to work together is what makes we black people WORLDWIDE look like fools.

6).  “Black Americans are not from Africa — nice try to tether yourself to black Americans but it aint happening…. We look nothing like Africans.”

— A member of Africa’s most elite, most connected diasporan community (i.e., Black Americans), denying any connection to his homeland Africa.

7).  “Why can’t blacks stand together? I agree 100% we hate on our own and don’t work together for a common goal like the Jewish people to better our conditions economically.” 

— A black man in America, bemoaning the inability for we blacks to work together and better our lot the same way the Jews and all other humans do.

8).  “Black people why can’t we work together like other races are doing?” — A black woman in America, asking the same thing: why we black people simply can’t work together.

9).  “Asians own all the nail salons, Indians own all the beauty supply stores, Jewish build businesses. And they all work together… why can’t it be the same for black people?”

— A black woman in America, pointing out the ability of all other humans to work together, unlike we black people, humanity’s poorest.

10).  “We’re our own problem”.

— A black man in Europe, putting it simply that we black people are our own biggest problem — and are the reason blackness has remained the symbol of human misery.

11).  “The tether diaspora may need Africa. Black Americans don’t.”

— A member of Africa’s most elite, most powerful diasporan community (i.e., Black Americans), suggesting that Black Americans do not need their homeland Africa, and invoking the term “tether” that Black Americans use specifically in disowning their black peers from Africa and the Caribbean.

12).  “Some white people may despise each other, but will still work together… Why can’t blacks?” — A black man in America, acknowledging how all other humans function: even in disagreement, they work together. This is unlike us black people, humanity’s poorest. Continue reading “”

Things other people (i.e., nonblacks) say about us:

1). “Do you know why you black people look at us Hispanics and say, damn, [why do these people have all the things they have?].  You know how it is? We stick together. As Hispanics, we work together. We help each other out.

As a Hispanic, do you know what I have seen about you black people? You guys are always trying to compete against each other. Always trying to put each other down. You need to work together. Like us Hispanics do. That’s the difference between Hispanics and black people. That is why, if a Hispanic starts a business, most of the time it’s successful. Because he is not doing it all by himself. [He has the backing of all his fellow Hispanics]”.

— A Hispanic man, giving a heartfelt advice (video) on the causes of black failure, and how we black people can become a people like all others.

2).  “It’s not like black people can’t meet the minimum requirements for a functioning society. They simply can’t work together and in harmony…”

— A nonblack person, talking about the inability for we black people to work together. Implying, the rest of the world not only knows blackness as one being inseparable thing, but also, everyone knows that we black people globally, are the same disconnected lot who simply do not work together.

3).  “Yeah black people hate each other that’s why if they don’t change they will remain like this for ever”

— A stern warning from another non-black person: until we black people change, and become a people like all others, we are forever going to be the ragtag of humanity, and we will continue to be everyone’s laughter.

As a black man myself, the thing that makes me fear blackness most is:

I have spent a full decade trying to befriend humanity to help me end the black misery (i.e., the ultra poverty) where I live, and during that period, I have precisely contacted every black person on earth, and all I have ended up with is a few white and Asian friends/collaborators, albeit with great difficulty. I have explained this under “my own black journey” here.

And when it comes to working together to make our homeland Africa a place we are all happy to call home, like all other humans have done, this is something most black people, especially those in the west, simply do not want to hear. These are the things that separate us from all other humans.

At some point in 2021:

I wrote an article in The Guardian about the unwillingness of we black people to uplift our fellow black people who are living in tatters, and the inability for us (especially those in the African diaspora), to contribute to the betterment of our homeland Africa, like all other humans have done.

A few months later, I contacted one Black American professor named D. Earl Collins, on a totally different thing, without mentioning that article.

Instead, Mr. Collins totally ignored what I had contacted him about, and didn’t even open any of the links I had shared with him. Rather, he only googled me and found that Guardian article, then wrote me back saying:

“Your article strikes me as extremely individualistic. The expectation that we all come together to improve the quality of life and economic conditions across the continent. It is pretty safe to say that American Blacks, and other blacks in the diaspora, have battles to fight on their own fronts. To think that there will be a shift en masse toward pouring resources into the continent, that is a near impossibility”.

 

Problem is twofold:

1). Here, Mr. Collins is talking about a people (i.e., we blacks), who, throughout history, have totally had no culture of working together to end black misery, or a culture of working together to make our homeland Africa a place we are all happy to call home, like all other humans have done.

It isn’t as if we have tried and failed, because each one of us somehow has battles on their own fronts, No. We black people, throughout history, have simply never tried, even once, to work together and transform our lot, or to work together and change our homeland Africa, like all other humans do.

2). All those people who have put poverty behind, and even ended up with their own dignified, poverty-free homelands (the Jews, the Asians, the whites etc), it isn’t about shifting resources en masse.

And it isn’t even because they don’t have battles on their own fronts.

It is simply about having a culture of working together with their peers across the globe, and a drive to see their people, and their homeland, progress. These are all traits we black people have totally never had.

 

Why this is bad:

All other people have changed, and it’s only us black people who haven’t. All other people have put poverty behind, and have built for themselves their own dignified homelands, and it’s only us black people who haven’t.

And the reason is because we black people have simply never tried working together to change our lot, even once. So, the more we continue saying we can’t work together because each one of us has battles on their own fronts, it means blackness is forever going to be the only thing that never changes.

 

A culture of verbal tyranny:

Mr. Collins’s words reflect the warnings of one writer who cautioned that “many black elites and activists across the world have adopted a culture of verbal tyranny where they shut down any effort” to talk about our inability to work together, “by labeling such efforts as racism or hate speech.”

As such, this writer adds, “any suggestions that our race may indeed need to do something to remedy our situation, will not be aired, especially not by the terrified people of other races” i.e., non-blacks, who fear being labeled racist if they said anything on why black people can’t work together.

But knowing an illness is half the cure. If we can’t talk about our own vices that separate us from all other humans, and which are directly responsible for most of black misery, it means blackness is forever going to be a failure.

Things real humans say:

1).   “the Chinese Diaspora’s most significant contribution to the country’s transformation…was Foreign Direct Investment by the Chinese Diaspora”.

— A paper by an Asian scholar (PDF), on the role the Chinese diaspora has had in China’s rise from poverty to the world’s second largest economy.

2).   “the role the Korean diaspora played in developing Korea… in revitalizing the Korean economy and… in shifting Korea’s status from a ‘developing’ to ‘developed’ country is difficult to ignore.”

— A local Korean newspaper, based in Korea, publicly showing off the contributions of the Korean diaspora in developing their Korean homeland.

It is what the Asian diaspora as a whole does; it is what the Jewish diaspora does, and it is how all other humans work with their people, and their homelands, no matter how long they have been separated from each other.

 

Things we black people (humanity’s poorest), say:

1).   “Black Americans shouldn’t have to invest in Africa. We already did when they sold us.”

— A member of Africa’s most connected, most powerful diasporan community (i.e., Black Americans), using slavery (i.e., they “sold us”) as a reason for Black Americans to never invest in their homeland Africa.

2).   “Correction… Black Americans, the Black people who are the descendants of chattel slavery in the USA do not, and I repeat, Do NOT need Africans or Africa whatsoever. Get it right”

— A member of Africa’s most elite diasporan community (i.e., Black Americans), vowing to do as Black Americans have always done: keep their homeland Africa at a distance to the fullest extent possible.

By creating this website, it is my hope that black people across the world will listen, and become a people just like all others.

That’s, a people who believe in working together like all other humans do, and thus change blackness from being the symbol of human misery.

For other people, even that Indian who runs the smallest grocery store somewhere in eastern Uganda, is seamlessly in touch with his Indian peers across the globe, and will very easily work together with them on anything, anytime. Even the youngest white South African who hasn’t even turned 20, is already friends with his white peers across the world, and will very easily team up with them on anything, on a whim.

Why not us black people, humanity’s poorest? Why can’t we become a people like all others?

What baffles me is twofold:

1). While all other humans take the cause of working together to better their homelands as very sacred (whether they live there or not), this isn’t the case for us black people. Incidentally, some black people in the west, like Black Americans, even believe shunning their homeland Africa is some sort of pride, yet the rest of the world despises all of blackness equally.

2). Antiblackness or not, it is still a bit easy for ordinary Africans like me to find other people (whites, Asians etc) who are very willing to come aboard as collaborators, e.g., on extreme poverty. Just not a single black person, except those from my own region who themselves live in abject poverty.

These are the things that make me wonder if blackness will ever change?

If I was a Jew living in Israel; an Asian living in Asia, or a white man living in South Africa, I wouldn’t have needed to create this website to convince my fellow Jews, my fellow Asians, or my fellow white people elsewhere in the world, that we should be working together.

But because I am a black African, here I am — convincing the global black community to become a people just like all others.