Knowing more about the oppressor than ourselves...is a problem.

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:02]Hi everyone, it's Nina. Welcome or welcome back to my channel. I am going to be doing something a little different. Um, so I've been thinking a lot about my platform, my channel. Sorry, let me try to adjust this camera so it's not crazy. I got a lot of stuff going on in the background. But I've been thinking a lot about how to use this channel, how to really make the most of it. Um, I've talked about my hair for years. I have, you know, talked about finances. I've talked about travel. I've talked about a bunch of different things. And with the moment that we find ourselves in history, I just feel like it's really important to go a little bit deeper than just the level one stuff. Level one is hair, travel, career.

[00:00:56]Um, and level two is like being a little bit more conscious of like what's happening of the moment that we're living in. And beginning to understand why, beginning to dig a little bit deeper versus just saying, "Well, dang, that's crazy. Civil rights movement is, you know, up and running. It's never ended." Like, I just, it's not enough to be superficial for me. It's just not enough at this point. So, this channel will be changing and I want to use this time to talk about um basically to amplify authors, black authors, um who gave us a lot of answers for why things are the way they are. And there's a lot of people on social media, a lot of people on threads, which I enjoy using, who are like, I don't I can't understand why everybody hates black people. Why are we treated like this? Why are we always in these situations? There are people that wrote about this stuff that we were not taught, we were not exposed to in like I'm in America, so that's the system that I can speak to in the United States educational system or in the states educational systems. Um, so that is what I want to use this platform for.

[00:02:11]Um, I will just say off the bat, it is not going to be for the faint of heart at all. There's going to be some stuff that if you are fully indoctrinated into the system and there's not any part of you that goes to level two and starts to think a little bit deeper, this stuff is going to be uncomfortable. Um, and you know, I can't apologize for that. I feel like things are too serious and it's been going on for way too long for us to still sit on that superficial level and not truly begin to investigate what's happening. So with all that being said, excuse me. Today I want to read you an excerpt from this book called African with a K. A centered consciousness versus the new world order garism in the age of globalism. So that's a very long title. It's it's a lot going on, but trust me, the book is actually um a lot simpler than the title seems. It's very straightforward, very easy to understand. I do have a link to the book in the bio. Um, and yeah, let's go ahead and just let me just go ahead and get started with this excerpt. Um, actually before I do that, just really quick. So, I want to I do want to explain who Dr. Amos N. Wilson was. So, he was a black American psychologist. He was a social theorist. He was a pan-African thinker. Um, he was a scholar. He was a professor at the City University College, I think New York. Um he was born in 1941 in Hattisburg, Mississippi and he died in 1995 in Brooklyn. So without further ado, let me read an excerpt from this book.

[00:03:55]This section is called externalized perception.

[00:03:59]A people ignorant of themselves are a people headed for disaster. One reason for the condition we're in today is a leadership that has not yet decided it will determine a new reality and develop an afroentric reality, one that is suitable to the advancement and development of African people with a K.

[00:04:20]So that means like people on the African continent and the um diaspora. If I'm wrong, correct me please. Um, we have a leadership that has rejected and dispensed with self-nowing for knowing of the enemy. We have a people who pride themselves in the fact that they know more about the history of their enemies than they know about themselves. Who pride in getting degrees in the history of their enemies while knowing nothing about who and what they are as a people.

[00:04:51]We have a leadership that has made us think that knowledge of self was not important. The knowledge of our oppressor was the only important knowledge. The knowledge of who and what he was about is the only knowledge of importance. Consequently, the more knowledge and education these leaders gained in terms of knowledge of the oppressor, the more ignorant they became of themselves.

[00:05:16]The assimilationist treadmill, the illusion of progress.

[00:05:20]We have a leadership that has sought to get us to accept the status quo. the control of the world by the European.

[00:05:29]You errenently hear some of us conceding that it's the white man's world, so we may as well learn how to live in it or just get along. The assimilationist often accepts consciously or unconsciously the idea that the white man will continue to rule the world.

[00:05:45]He bases his ideology and political action on the concept that somehow our destiny is not to overthrow the white man. That our destiny is not to remove this pathological person. That our destiny is not to suppress and bring these sick people under control but to heal them in some sort of way to convert them to even become a part of them. Our destiny becomes not one that sees the very system and very ideology upon which these oppressors move as sickness and insanity and therefore in need of replacement by an African- centered and healthy ideology that comes out of our own self- knowing. This leadership wants us to accept this sickness as normality and to follow these pathological beings into self-destruction.

[00:06:39]And consequently, you will see the enemy's children, the enemy's personality being held up as normal, as representing the norm.

[00:06:48]Our behavior, to the degree that it differs from our enemy, is seen as deviant and abnormal.

[00:06:55]To that degree, we confuse equality with sameness where we think that in order to be equal or greater than our enemy, we have to be the same as our enemy to the to the degree we think differentness automatically represents inferiority.

[00:07:12]And therefore, we become alarmed at anything that says we are somehow different from our enemy. We must recognize that racism is a sickness.

[00:07:22]That the exploitation and wholesale rape and pillaging of the earth by the European represents a pathology and illness. Therefore, our destiny is not one of trying to become a member of this gang of thieves, but to end its existence here on earth to inhibit its rapacious ways and to bring this group of people to heal.

[00:07:46]Yet, we have a leadership that makes us think that our only crime is that we have been left out of the looting of these thieves.

[00:07:56]We get a leadership that cries about how we're only getting a certain percentage of their robbery and thievery. We must recognize as African people that it is not about getting a piece of the stolen gains of these people, but to stop their thievery and rape of the world. Period.

[00:08:14]So it's not about being left out of the mainstream. It's about bringing into being a new world order.

[00:08:22]We have a leadership and I'm talking about how we moved away from Garveyism that is in its ascendants that in its ascendants could not love itself except that it was loved by whites. To a good extent, the assimilationist ideology was one represented in their Supreme Court struggles that said black children could not love themselves. Um, sorry, until loved by white children.

[00:08:48]That the self-hatred found in black people was because their masters did not love them. That the lack of self-respect was because we were not respected by our oppressors. Therefore, we put our children into schools with whites very early in life that they might then get a chance to see that we are really human, that we were just like them, and that we could come and accept and that they could come and accept us as they accept themselves. Thus, the reasoning that if if they came to accept us as they accept themselves, then we would come to accept ourselves.

[00:09:20]a very curious and specious ideology and psychology that lays the basis for self-acceptance on the acceptance of enemies. Therefore, we've been waiting for the last 200 years plus for our enemies to love us and accept us so that we can get around to loving and accepting ourselves.

[00:09:43]So, that is all I'm going to read for now. That's quite a bit, but this book has so much to think about. Um, there's Okay, actually, this is live, so bear with me. This is my first time doing this, but there is another section that I do want to read. Um, because I think it's really important like during this time, especially as, you know, almost a million black women have been um fired from their jobs. Let's read about blacks as job creators.

[00:10:17]We are not destined to be the servants of white folks. That is not the destiny of black folks. We have to change this idea. Many of us are still operating on that concept. Many of us go to these schools to become qualified to work for whites. Why do we assume that they're going to have jobs for us? These people are having great difficulty making jobs for themselves.

[00:10:41]The greatest problem the Europeans are facing today and the European economies are facing today is they are not generating enough jobs for their own people.

[00:10:50]Even though the United States is bragging about the millions of jobs it's creating, the bulk of those jobs are part-time jobs, low wage jobs, and jobs that have little or no future. So when people talk about creating jobs, you've got to ask what kinds of jobs are being created. That is why, of course, the system is not investing in black education. It no longer needs black people to maintain its ma employment structure. You see it bringing in people from the outside of the nation to be employed. You even see it hiring in the world itself in other places places places and nations already. It's reached the point where its need for black males is pretty much saturated and is literally warehousing us in the jails and prisons and provoking us to kill each other and destroy each other out here in these streets.

[00:11:37]Yet we are still organizing the education of our children as if the white man still has jobs waiting for them in multitudes.

[00:11:45]How different our education would be if we sent our children to school to create jobs for themselves, to create their own economic and political systems, to see themselves as the major source of their own employment.

[00:12:02]Let me skip ahead a little bit. How many jobs do we create just buying from Koreans, buying from other ethnic groups out here? How many people are we creating employment for in terms of our spending and consumption habits as a people? How many jobs are we creating going to jail? We are creating all kinds of jobs and wealth and we must come to understand this. We are creating these jobs and yet we are begging for jobs.

[00:12:30]That means that somewhere our consciousness has been impaired. We are begging for what we are already making.

[00:12:38]We cannot use our own creation as a source. We cannot use our own creation as a source of our own wealth. Isn't that weird?

[00:12:48]So, I'm going to stop here. Um, this is an amazing book. This is definitely Amos and Wilson is definitely one of the best writers and thinkers that I have had the privilege of coming across in this journey that I'm on of deconstruction.

[00:13:06]Um, and it's something that I'm pretty much at ground zero of it. figuring out like, you know, what reality truly is at this point after being raised in the United States and, you know, just kind of living under this veil of, oh, we're constantly progressing like with every generation things are getting better.

[00:13:28]Clearly, we see today it's not. People are still fighting. People are still marching.

[00:13:34]And what I appreciate about Amos and Wilson is that he's showing that all that is like don't matter. Like we're literally trying to fight to be seen as one of them, to be respected, to be loved, to be seen as equal instead of focusing on what are we actually building for ourselves because we already have the resources to do so. And we're literally shipping them out every time we get some education, every time we get money. it's always going back out. Um, so yeah, I just think it's really important to talk about these things to amplify these writers who, you know, for the hotep crowd, you know, these are these are very well-known names. But for the average black person who has been educated in, you know, the United States, who is churchgoing, you know, who kind of just keeps her head down and minds her business, you might not know Dr. Amos Wilson. So um I hope that this is helpful. I hope that this starts to open up some things for you and you know as I mentioned earlier I will be moving this channel in a completely different direction and it's not going to be a you know flowers and sunshine direction like it's the goal is like hope absolutely but it's not going to be feelgood content necessarily. It's going to be honest content. And I'll also just say too, like there are just a lot of things that we are going to have to deconstruct as a people in order to really see change in our own lives in order to actually allow the gifts and strengths and talents that we have to actually work for us versus being something that is extracted from other people. Um, so I hope you'll stick around if that's something that you're open to, if that's a journey that you're already on, if that is something you're curious about, you know, but aren't sure exactly where to start. If that's something that you don't agree with and you believe that the status quo is how it should be, this is not going to be the channel for you. So, and I say that with love. Um, so I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your Sunday. Thank you for watching and I will catch you next time.

[00:15:50]Bye.