{UAH} Dear Black people
By Halima Kiberu via UAH Facebook group
Dear Black people….
So let me get this right….. u wear white people's hair; you bleach your skin; you wear suits; take your kids to white schools; you don't know your languages, customs and traditions; you believe Jesus is a God; u prefer white neighborhoods and look down on places where there are many blacks; you laugh at blacks who don't know English and call them backwards; u even replaced your pan African anthem with one they killed you with; You praise celebrities from America and Europe than your own; You praise a woman like Kim Kardashan who became famous for having sex on TV yet you castigate Desire Luzinda who did the same; you don't know your own history but know Europe's history; You hail EVERYTHING which is not African and then you have the nerve to say 'it does not make me unAfrican
What exactly is it that makes u African now that you have denounced everything African? How can you be African when you are just a European clone and western ambassador? You confuse me when you are in denial of the over 500yrs of brainwash we have endured.
My logic tells me that if I am told for 500yrs that I'm ugly…..its either I'm going to believe it or I am going to spend the next 500years emphasizing my beauty so that I balance my own feelings about myself. When the bath water is too hot, you add cold water. You don't endure the hot water, you alter the temperature.
When do we get to alter the way white people made us feel about ourselves? When do we unlearn the bullshit?
My problem is when a whole nation says one thing, but acts in another way. You say you are African yet you follow and grovel at the west. You spend all your money just to be like them. How does that make any sense?
Let's look at the Indians and the Chinese….they have not lost their sense of identity despite suffering similar oppression (but absolutely not the same.) Not only that but the Chinese have gone on to become a world super power and they are not imitating the west. If anything, their strength and power comes from holding onto their identity. While we are promoting a 30% pass standard in a western educational system- the Chinese learn about THEMSELVES and are running the world IN MANDARIN!
The western culture is represented and has monopolized our generation…..is that ok with you?
Personally, that is not my aspiration. I come from a rich culture and I think Buganda is the most beautiful way of life in the world. I don't want to give birth to children that will not know their mother tongue and stories of kings of Buganda and Uganda.
I want my children to have access to other African countries for there is more to Africa than Uganda.
I want to raise black children that take pride in what they look like. I want my kids to have role models and celebrities who are not wearing other people's hair. The biggest injustice we have done to the little black girl is to make her believe she needs to look white to be beautiful.
I want to see black people own their own businesses and not ALWAYS be the consumer
I want to see black people claim themselves and own up to being African.
The truth is, if you are ashamed of what you are and what you look like……you'll NEVER be at the top of the food chain. It means you NEED to be led.
So black people…..who are you?
You are so busy behaving white, Do you even remember who you are?
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-- Dear Black people….
So let me get this right….. u wear white people's hair; you bleach your skin; you wear suits; take your kids to white schools; you don't know your languages, customs and traditions; you believe Jesus is a God; u prefer white neighborhoods and look down on places where there are many blacks; you laugh at blacks who don't know English and call them backwards; u even replaced your pan African anthem with one they killed you with; You praise celebrities from America and Europe than your own; You praise a woman like Kim Kardashan who became famous for having sex on TV yet you castigate Desire Luzinda who did the same; you don't know your own history but know Europe's history; You hail EVERYTHING which is not African and then you have the nerve to say 'it does not make me unAfrican
What exactly is it that makes u African now that you have denounced everything African? How can you be African when you are just a European clone and western ambassador? You confuse me when you are in denial of the over 500yrs of brainwash we have endured.
My logic tells me that if I am told for 500yrs that I'm ugly…..its either I'm going to believe it or I am going to spend the next 500years emphasizing my beauty so that I balance my own feelings about myself. When the bath water is too hot, you add cold water. You don't endure the hot water, you alter the temperature.
When do we get to alter the way white people made us feel about ourselves? When do we unlearn the bullshit?
My problem is when a whole nation says one thing, but acts in another way. You say you are African yet you follow and grovel at the west. You spend all your money just to be like them. How does that make any sense?
Let's look at the Indians and the Chinese….they have not lost their sense of identity despite suffering similar oppression (but absolutely not the same.) Not only that but the Chinese have gone on to become a world super power and they are not imitating the west. If anything, their strength and power comes from holding onto their identity. While we are promoting a 30% pass standard in a western educational system- the Chinese learn about THEMSELVES and are running the world IN MANDARIN!
The western culture is represented and has monopolized our generation…..is that ok with you?
Personally, that is not my aspiration. I come from a rich culture and I think Buganda is the most beautiful way of life in the world. I don't want to give birth to children that will not know their mother tongue and stories of kings of Buganda and Uganda.
I want my children to have access to other African countries for there is more to Africa than Uganda.
I want to raise black children that take pride in what they look like. I want my kids to have role models and celebrities who are not wearing other people's hair. The biggest injustice we have done to the little black girl is to make her believe she needs to look white to be beautiful.
I want to see black people own their own businesses and not ALWAYS be the consumer
I want to see black people claim themselves and own up to being African.
The truth is, if you are ashamed of what you are and what you look like……you'll NEVER be at the top of the food chain. It means you NEED to be led.
So black people…..who are you?
You are so busy behaving white, Do you even remember who you are?
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Allaah gives the best to those who leave the choice to Him."And if Allah touches you with harm, none can remove it but He, and if He touches you with good, then He is Able to do all things." (6:17)
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