CAN REAL REPARATIONS BE ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUTDECOLONIZING THE AFRICAN MIND?
It is easy for the victim of Chattel Slavery to get excited at the prospect of getting righteous reparations from those that robbed and enslaved him for centuries…a task very similar to that of turning a Vampire into a vegetarian …given the fact that White Satan The Devil hasn’t changed, and the racist mindset is a white pandemic that seems to have no cure.But the idea of internal-reparations (decolonizing the African mind, or undoing the psychological damage that colonialism has done)is a far less attractive idea, because it involves changing the self.It involves changing something that you are not aware of when you are still under its spell. In other words, it involves changing the slave-broken and colonized mind-set that you have been trained from childhood to accept asthe normal you, in the same way that you have been trained from childhood to accept the silly white European names which signal to the whole world your racial inferiority to Europeans.
So this changing of self means coming to terms with the truth that centuries of Chattel Slavery and colonialism left a lasting negative impact on the African psyche that has to be eradicated in order for the African to become great and whole again.Naturally, this idea of decolonizing the African mind, does not evoke a great amount of enthusiasm, even though it is the most important part of the reparations process. In fact, it is the only part of the reparations process that has the potential to truly make Africans great again. continued in next postingRas Jahaziel Tafari rastafarivisions.com Jan 22 2025
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