nature is evolution towards order

NOTE: Before getting into this article, as a reader, you need to understand this. As long as the black man considers himself to be inferior to any other human race, then he will endlessly be unable to solve any of the problems that he is faced with today. And also, alluding to a history of oppression suffered at the hands of white man is not code for the black man to shift all of his attention to the white man; it is just a pointer to where the machine got broken and therefore, how and what sort of remedies must be envisioned and put in place to fix this broken machine. Only by seeing the roots of the problem and can one go about solving the problem.

 

Artwork by M.C. Escher.

Nature is evolution towards order. 

One day the black man will find his way to liberation.

Nature says that order will always prevail. So this means that – no so-called intellectual words will liberate the black man, only nature will; no words of liberation speeches will liberate the black man, only nature will; no political party will liberate the black man, only nature will.

What is nature? Nature is evolution towards order. 

Right now the black person, or part of the black person, understands colonialism and imperialism and its effects. But the slight or great issue, depending on how you look at it, is that she does not know fully what to do with this information. She understands that people came into the African backyard and built their mansions, kicking her out to the gutter. So what the black man wishes to do is remove these mansions, or at the very least take control of these mansions and take his backyard back. However, this is easier said than done because the coloniser and imperialist do not wish to relinquish their rights to these mansions; a sense of entitlement has developed over the centuries in their minds, thus making them incapable of understanding the plight of an African child regarding his very own African land. 

This is the theory that the collective black man needs to evolve to in 2017. However, where to go with this information is the puzzle that the black man is trying to piece together at present, and I believe that soon, ‘drastic and radical solutions’ will start to be born – that is why a political party like the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is able to gunner so much support in such a short period of time, that is why Robert Mugabe chased away white people from the farms; all of these occurrences are the African man’s efforts to shake off the tight grip of the enslaver. The coloniser and imperialist (including its offspring and direct inheritors), however, in their privilege and desire to maintain that privilege will look at these solutions as a radical ‘fight’ and proof of the backward nature of the black man, but no fight is going on here, nature is only ordering itself. It is only nature saying, what is African was made to be African. Just like the Autumn season kills all the leaves of Summer when it is time; solutions brought forth by African children will kill off all the forcefully imposed effects brought to the shores of Africa by greedy economic capitalists. Spring is nigh for the Natives of the land. 

The Emancipation Statue in Lincoln Park.

Solutions are born from understanding and the black man fully understands his position, the reason for his position and the ideal way out. There are a couple of factors, however, which seem to threaten the black man from moving towards this ideal. 

Let me discuss a couple:

1.       Competition

The black man is very competitive and this competitiveness is threatening his very own liberation. I find this competitiveness manifesting in the blacks man’s need for material possession accumulation. He wants the biggest house, the best car, the most beautiful clothes; this in and of itself would not be an issue, but all of these things are desired and bought with the need for social status, or a need to replicate the life of a white person. My neighbour cannot have the best car in the neighbourhood, therefore let me go buy an even better car so that nam ndizobonwa for my greatness. White people live in mansions, so we, as black people, want even bigger mansions. This competitiveness blinds us to the reality of the present situation, thus rendering us unable to respond effectively to the need to the day.

2.       Fear

The black man is living under constant and tremendous amounts of fear. The most dominant fear is his fear for survival. Living in poverty and systematic economic exclusion; the black man fears for his survival during every second of the day. This for me is the point that the white man residing in South Africa fails to hear when he is asked to help the black man. For the black man and his present condition, the threat of survival is real. Tonight many bad things can happen to a black man, which would not ordinarily be even thought about in the white community. For example, a shack can start a chain of fires in a close knit community. A child can fall into an open drainage system. An old woman can be gang-raped by 10 men. A little boy can be electrocuted by open live wire electric cables installed by izinyoka nyoka. A mother can die from starvation. A father can die of a sickness which he could not pay a private hospital to help heal. So much can happen. All these possibilities create this perpetual state of fear. 

3.       Education

The black man is poorly educated. Conspiracy says that this is because of a systematic plan to keep the black man illiterate and unable to understand his situation. I have moved away from being a conspiracy theorist, so I will share my unbiased observation on this matter. Our education system, or at least the one provided for black people, is quite inadequate in preparing us to deal with the complexities of modern society. Most of what I learned in crèche, primary and high school, is useless to my life right now; I have had to do my own studying of how life operates and how to best succeed, a process that I started in 2014. For example, I have been teaching myself how to write essays and edit my writing since 2014. Going forward, I think it is safe to say to we, as black people, will need to re-educate ourselves. Onus lies with us to shape our minds so that we are better equipped to participate in the modern day society. Not even in one single grade was I taught about the importance of my thinking, and its correlation to manifesting the life that I desired. Or maybe they did teach me, and I just did not pay attention. Whatever the case is, big reviews and adjustments have to be made to the education system and our relationship to it.

4.       Self-concept and self-worth 

When the coloniser descended to our shores, he proceeded to try and erase our past. He then went on to rewrite the history of an African person. What this did is it created a false sense of identity for the black person, and it is the rewritten history that the black man identifies with as a point of reference for self. This identification leads to the black woman having very low disregard for herself, because I mean she is born from a long line of ancestral disappointments is it not? For the modern black person, they believe that the history of South Africa started in 1650 something when Jan Van Rieback landed in Cape Town, thus coming to save the African child from barbarism and backwardism. So to reverse the effects of this, the black man needs to revisit his history, reread it from many different and unbiased sources. So much activity, economic, spiritual and the like, happened in Africa long before we came face to face with white European explorers, as great as they were. We have an identity which is our own and not linked to the white person. Black people, the white person is not your Almighty Saviour, he is your equal, recognise this. This process will help in creating for him a new sense of history which will impact his present day self-concept and self-worth.  

5.       The economy of it

The majority of black people live in extremely poor conditions, and for them the only solution seems to be economic emancipation. This matter is arguable, but we need to go past the debate mentality. So, rather, I will make a plea to the black person to avoid over-prioritising this economy matter. Right now the main priority should be conceptualising a new identity by objectively studying the history and present moment, from this we should be able define ourselves in the context of 2017. From this foundation of self-identity and self-pride we should then proceed to participate economically. Black person do not put the economy before your sense of identity, otherwise you risk losing your unique and authentic identity. You were here, as a race, before economies were created, and you will be here long after the world has evolved past the need for economies. Economic emancipation and participation is not the ‘Heaven’ of life so do not fall for the money trap. 

6.       Beggar mentality 

The campaign strategy of the ruling political party, the ANC, during 1994 elections and onwards has been aiming at the insecurities of the people – we will give you free stuff is their overriding motto. They said and are still saying ‘Ok people, sit down, relax and we will provide everything for you, the house, the job, the education, etc., etc.’ Unfortunately, this type of campaigning created a sense of entitlement in the gene of a black person, thus fostering a sit back and be lazy mentality. Remember the ‘free education’ poster of 1994 or 1999, and then fast forward to 2015 and 2016 and you see the ANC unable to answer the plea of young students asking for that promise to be fulfilled. The effects of this campaign strategy are all over our country, people just sit back and wait for government provision. It is so bad that some women, even more shocking, some young teenage girls purposefully get pregnant so that they can receive child grant money. So this culture of sit down and wait for President Jacob Zuma to solve the issues of my life must come to an end. Each black person needs to get up, fight social resistance and make provisions for themselves. The government is a supplementary system that adds on weight to the efforts of the people. It is not, however, a system that creates primary and total provision for the livelihood and existence of the people. So stop begging the government, but rather, ‘vuka uzenzele mfondini.’ 

 

These are some of the matters that the black person will need to individually reconsider before going forward should he want his emancipation to occur in this lifetime. IT IS ALWAYS HARD TO GO AGAINST THE TIDE OF STATUS QUO AND NORMALITY, BUT IF INDEED THE BLACK MAN IS SERIOUS ABOUT HIS DESIRE FOR FREEDOM, THEN HE WILL NEED TO CONJURE UP ALL THE COURAGE AND STRENGTH HE CAN MASTER TO SWIM AGAINST THE CURRENT. Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela, Robert Sobukwe, F.W de Klerk, Barrack Obama, Mahandis Ghandi, Pravin Gordhan, Jesus Christ (this will be a hard one to swallow), Lillian Ngoyi, Thabo Mbeki, Walter Sisulu, Miriam Makeba, and the likes will not help you make the transition to emancipation – each black person will need to make a choice right now and they will need to follow through with that choice.

One day the black man will find his way to liberation.

Nature says that order will always prevail. So this means that – no so-called intellectual words will liberate the black man, only nature will; no words of liberation speeches will liberate the black man, only nature will; no political party will liberate the black man, only nature will.

What is nature? Nature is evolution towards order.

 

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