What is the Prize?

This is going to be a kind of food for thought that will transform our critical thinking. In a previous post, we discussed conflict resolution and the need to start by establishing hierarchies of priorities. Well, this is identical to that. Start with a question, what is the objective? What we have is other people setting goalposts for us. The standard of achievement is having your girl children sing like Whitney Houston or dance like Usher. The prize is the title “First Black Female President of the USA”. The prize might be how many inmates Trump releases from death row, or how many jobs blacks get from the industrial military complex and the food industry that funds our obesity.

But the prize is not your happiness or you not being offended. The prize cannot be how gud you feel about your poverty. The prize is development (social, economic, and ethical) The prize is not the “rights of the woman”, the prize is justice and healthy family units. Maybe you don’t agree, but at least we agree that there is something called victory and we should be able to explain why that is a victory above other lesser victories.

Is yellow paint on streets surrounded by White wealth a victory? Clearly, for some it is. I would argue it is not THE PRIZE because it puts no food in anyone’s stomach. Maybe it is a step towards the prize. I don’t think it is a significant step because right now (2024) all that paint is gone. But the wealth that the road crosses through is still standing. We are no closer to owning that wealth than before the BLM campaign. But again, it is open to discussion. But we do agree there is something called A PRIZE!

The prize is not “freedom of individuality” when it corrupts our Pan-African development.

We can spend all day long on that because it is going to be very important to the next step. Getting it wrong will be like taking the wrong road in the jungle. And once you get that wrong, no one gets out alive.

Is this the prize? Some have said it is better than kids being raised in a heterosexual home with two drug-dealing parents who abuse the kids. I would counter that and say that druggie parents are better than being raised by wolves. This means we can always find something worse if we want to make an unhealthy situation seem fair-seaming. I don’t think it is the prize because it is NOT a solution in any broad way to hand over African kids to gay white couples. Because a prize means our way of life winning!

In a custody battle, what is the objective? What is best for a child? What is the objective in Pan-African development? Woke rhetoric or tangible development? It makes no difference if easy or hard because what is important at this junction is knowing what our objective is and what to invest our energy in. Again, this is food for thought. Dont hang on to popular campaigns without asking the deeper questions.

We are not here to fight for identity badges, honestly, how can that come before bread-and-butter issues? We are not here to fight for silly rights and yellow paint on streets– who does that employ and feed? Tokenism is not worth our energy. Getting rapists off death row is not a priority when our objective is broad base development in areas of ethics and education.

Time is not on our side, we are way behind so if we are discussing Pan-Africanism who has time to make us one black religion? To achieve what? We need to work together to achieve something. What is that something? And once we know that then how do we get to that prize?

What is the prize? For a political candidate to do stuff for black people? Well, Trump just has to save a black criminal from death row. What about Black business? What about better schools? What about reparations? No, getting Black criminals out of jail is “a black agenda”: Eyes on the wrong prize. In South Africa education is in the toilet, but at least they legalized weed. Is weed the prize?

(what is the prize? Does a child need his mom, or does the child need a healthy environment? So which one is higher in our hierarchy of priorities? The child would do better without the biological mom being the prize)

Rhetoric says “A child needs both parents”, but reality says something far deeper. Because if both parents are cokeheads and not interested in the child’s education do we stick with the rhetoric or abandon it and deal with something substantial? Objective better? It, therefore, would be better to be adopted by a single parent who can provide love, stability, and a future than two useless biological parents just to satisfy the rhetoric that “A child needs both parents”. Unless “both parents” satisfies the greater objective then its relevance is of no use to reality. I am just using this as an easy example. Sure, a child (IDEALLY) needs both parents but that is not the prize! The prize is a stable well-balanced child who grows up in a positive environment.

We have been confused about the prize and chase down nonsense because it is described as “Freedom” and “Rights”. What good is “freedom” when it facilitates our underdevelopment? What use is “human rights” when it destroys the fabric of our African culture? So human rights (a vague Eurocentric concept) is not the prize. Democracy is not the prize. Love is not the prize! these things are vague and unstable.

Reward a few while destroying authentic conscious African cinema. Is the prize having Mandela as a global icon or the development of South Africa’s oppressed people economically and socially?

What is the prize? more black trash on Netflix or more empowering images from African content creators? Because we are confused on this issue and blackness remains vague and not rooted in anything that develops us we get black capitalism and black porn offered to us as opposed to conscious African content. The very poison we should be escaping we now imbibe under the banner of inclusion and “victory”