Using Nature to Reason and find TRUTH.

[Noah_The_African]

Natures laws and rules are the foundation that our reasoning should begin with. Humankind is full of ourselves and thinks that our cognitive abilities, unlike other animals, therefore make us supreme and unbound to nature and primitive biological instincts or instructions programmed via human evolution. However, natures laws and realty is what represents TRUTH, for it manifest REALITY. Thus, in order to get closer to the truth one must get closer to understanding the rules and laws of nature and use them in our reasoning.

It is important to realize that we live in a vacuum called the earth and its atmosphere. Nothing is gained or lost from the system (ignoring space crafts leaving and meteors arriving), but only changes form and or place. Every action produces and equal and opposite reaction in order to promote equilibrium and balance within the vacuum. Thus, birth brings death and what goes up must come down. These rules manifest via actions and reactions that take place over the time continuum and create the present from the summation of the actions, reactions and mutations that have manifested in the past.

These are key aspects of nature that serve as the foundation of understanding and reasoning the problems and solutions of African people. Nature says that nothing can be gained, without something being exchanged for it. In order to get, something must give, for the equal and opposite reaction of getting is giving. For every get there exists a give. Thus, to understand how Europeans GOT so much, you must trace the GIVING. Whose giving provided for the Europeans getting? The answer is that the Land, Resources and Labor of others were given (taken by force) via European exploration, slavery, colonization and imperialism. Thus, energy and resources in the vacuum were shifted from many non-Europeans to the Europeans, thus, creating or increasing the equal and opposite phenomenon of wealth and poverty.  For while Africans were giving away their labor, land and resources and the Europeans were getting the benefits, no one was in turn giving anything of equal value back to the Africans.  Consequently, the Europeans profited by Getting way more from their contact and interactions with others, than they gave in return. The imbalance translates to profit for Europeans society and loss for Africans.

These activities of the Europeans occurred over the last 400 or 500 years, but have waned in degree over the last 50 years. However, the rule of nature is still that the present is 99.9999 % the creation of the past and thus, the current state of African peoples reality is immutably linked to these past actions by the Europeans that has manifested the current day reaction in Africans. Thus we come to reasoning a solution to the imbalance created by unequal giving and getting. One of nature’s laws, as proven by Newton, is that any object in a state of equilibrium that is subsequently removed from equilibrium by a force, requires an equal and opposite force to restore it back to equilibrium.  Consequently, the value of what the Africans gave to the Europeans, which provided the force to lift up European peoples, must be given back to African people as a force to restore us to our proper equilibrium. These is natures prescribe solution by virtue of its laws.

This equal and opposite force solution, however, is not very likely given that it would require the Europeans people to de-elevate themselves from the stature they now enjoy, so that the African can re-elevate to be in balance. It is like a seesaw and fulcrum. In order for one end to go up, the other must go down and visa versa. Right now, the Europeans are up and Africans are down and in order to create a balance weight must be redistributed. Black people are bearing too much of the weight of the history of giving, therefore we are weighed down from it. It is time that the European peoples bear the weight of giving as much to the African people as they have received from them, but this is unlikely to ever manifest by the choice of the European.

The fallacy that the elite want people to believe is that wealth is infinite and that it is possible for every nation to simultaneously enjoy the standard of living and consumption habits of Europeans in the West. They want people to believe that this is indeed possible and that the poor of the planet is the consequence of corruption, poor leadership, laziness or some other factor besides their (Europeans) actions in the past. But the reality is that earths resources could not replenish in useful form fast enough to offset the usage of a planet will all nations living with the wealth and habits of Western whites. It would result in ecological calamity, which would threaten our existence. Furthermore, global economics is much closer to being a zero-sum game than it is to being a world of infinite wealth opportunities. This is because of the fact that valuable resources are finite in the vacuum and by definition economics is “the allocation and management of scarce resources”. Thus, if they are scarce and valuable to production, then as a group of people hoards them disproportionately, others are denied opportunities and wealth as a result.  So it goes back to the give/get rule of nature. In order to get world equality, means that the rich will have to give up some of their wealth to promote the wealth of others. There is no question that this is the ONLY solution. The question now is how will the transfer take place, by benevolence, by force, by out competing, by nature or by their self destruction?

[Christine]

REPARATIONS !!!

[Ayinde]

Reparation on a state level is ideal, but on a personal level everyone can practice it.  

Those who examine their privilege (through its many layers) in the system should become aware that a system that is rooted in slavery and colonialism denies equal opportunity/meritocracy. They can choose to acknowledge this and to deliberately contribute towards uplifting those who are most disenfranchised in the system.  

This calls for a type of critical self-examination and an honest willingness to give way to those who are most oppressed in the system. They deserve more tolerance and understanding. They deserve more of an opportunity to be the best they can be, without the burden of the many layers of prejudices that continually impede their journey.

This takes a conscious awareness, which involves critical learning and character refinement. Allowing someone to move in front of us in line, based on an awareness of his or her circumstances, is natural to us. People rise and give seats to the elderly on the bus, and many feel good while doing this. So people do have the ability to realize that some others should have our seats on the bus.

This conduct can be refined to the point of a way of life where one consciously chooses to acquire resources for needs, and to share excesses to help uplift humanity - focusing on those most affected.
Understanding world history can easily point one in the right direction.