I am writing this post because of Hive account@fisteganos who seems to have a thing for the villain of the movie black panther. Although Michael B. Jordan was an excellent actor in the movie, his motive to inflict pain on those he considered as being responsible for the black man mishap caused me to ponder on when violence becomes a good option.

A black history and a time to let go

Some blacks have in my view what I call a contorted view of history slightly, I am black and that exempts me from being wanting to intentionally hurt the feelings of black men everywhere.
Sure there was slave trade, but do people know what it means to let things go? Using past grievances as an excuse to hurt your fellow man just doesn't cut it. I know that racism has not totally gone under, but until the black man stops running from his primary responsibilities in his country to fulfill those of others abroad, then Africa is doomed.

When I say doom, I mean it economically, socially, religiously, in terms of infrastructure, science, technology and in so many ways.
We blame our colonial masters as we like to call them but the truth is the wise countries have patched up and moved on while the unwise ones have created a mental prison for themselves and held themselves captive there.

Let's start from here. The colonial masters brought the concept of their own religion and took ours away for sale in museums. Now, we fight and kill ourselves in the name of a religion of foreign origin while we forget that although the religious texts might make reference to violence and previous cases, we forget that it is we the black man who ultimately kill one another and not the so called colonial masters .

In the black panther movie, Erik once said he has had to kill his brothers (black men) to be prepared to fight the black panther and establish black domination...well according to him.
Now here's the twist the "brilliant" villain never saw. While the idea is to right some wrongs in his opinion, he has forgotten that he KILLED HIS OWN KIND. No matter the excuse, he made the conscious effort to do that, he had a choice and he made it.

He also doesn't know that he has killed someone's father who is also black, someone's brother who is also black and someone's husband who is also black, leaving a trail of dead black bodies in his wake just to be ready enough to kill the black panther to avenge his father's death. Guess what he killed more black men than to prepare to kill one black man to avenge another black man. Where is the sense in that violence?

It also translates to the fact that another orphaned child could rise up and come for him because he has also committed the same crime he wanted his fellow man dead for.
Violence is an endless cycle of kill or be killed and people sometimes forget when they do mass targets that not everyone is guilty of it.
The sins of the father should never be visited upon the son unless the son walks in the path of the father.

So back to the subtopic, I often pity blacks who complain about racism because of an unfavorable situation. Why not convert that unfavorable situation into an advantage? South Africa was also colonized but look at them growing economically, what is the excuse? We blame Hollywood for having the "sticks and stone" impression of Africa, but what have we really done to change that? Ever watched Africa magic epic? Now does that prove them right or wrong? How many space movies have we shot? How many spy movies? Who will spend billions of naira on a movie project knowing fully well that the CD will even come out before the premier date? Is the the white man's fault?

Before you shout what about Africa magic urban, ask yourself this is that all we have to offer? What happened to creating our own African Marvel studios and producing our own super heroes the way we like them? I guess we never attempt but wait to simply criticize. Africa! it is time to wake up and sit up.

Some blacks still believe that the colonial master is totally responsible for the killing of blacks in the hood by making drugs and guns easily accessible to them. Remember this, instead of grooming educated young men and women, you allowed them roam unsupervised and mingle just about anyhow without caution and later they found guns and drugs and killed themselves, yet we somehow managed to blame others. Think I am lying? ask Tupac and Biggie, they killed themselves and it was solely a shame and a slap to the black community.

We as blacks copy bad customs easily and still fault those we copied them from when we had the choice not to copy it in the first place.
Blacks had the opportunity to turn a bad situation into a good one. They were taken as slaves to practically learn about the business of agriculture under the guise of plantation farming, they learnt more about hotel and catering management under the guise of nursing. But guess what instead of returning to Africa to develop that continent to world standard, they stayed and opted to be killed while Africa was waiting patiently to welcome them.

There are two popular sayings, one is African while the other is general...

The way you treat your clothes is the way others will treat it

Charity begins at home

Africa was the clothe and they treated it like rags, so those who colonized us still treated it like rags even after independence. While we were dying to receive approval we forgot we didn't need it. We wanted to be accepted in another land while we denied our own land but we complain we were treated like rags.

The truth is Africa, you need to wake up and grow up!