BLACK MAN’S MISSING LINK TO EVOLUTION

Today, as we strive for excellence, we cannot but be baffled by the seemingly apparent contradiction in the words of Peter found in the Book of Acts, that God is not a respecter of persons.

 I know that we try to look into many areas that will help us justify our current near hopelessness and convince ourselves that we are okay but nothing could be further from the truth. The bottom line is that the Westerners have evolved whereas, Africans especially, have maintained the status quo.

But we cannot benefit by trying to hide behind the veil. We must analyze our current situation with the soberness it deserves.

We must wake up to the reality of our situation and start asking ourselves the hard questions. We must also admit that something is terribly wrong with ourselves. Only then shall we be able to reflect on the path we have trodden and accept to retrace our footsteps in our bid to change this status quo; for we ourselves hold the key to our evolution and none other can turn on the ignition with this key, apart from ourselves, to convert victims to victors.

But to get to the bottom of the matter, we must start with the crucial question- is God really not a respecter of persons?

To understand this crucial question and get the correct answers to it, we must first of all look deep within ourselves and understand how we are created as well as made.

In my previous posts, I have stated that it is true that we are all fearfully and wonderfully made. In regards to our creation, science has not been able to show that the Westerners are any different from us in the way we are made.

On the other, if we reflect upon Bill Clinton’s last address to the nation during his last term as the President of America, he said that he had hosted the leading scientists from all over the world and that they told him that they had done a research on the difference between black and white people and had come to the conclusion that all people are 99.9% the same.

What he did not say was that the 0.1% difference is the black man’s superiority to the white man. This is so in that whites have everything that blacks have but black have something that whites don’t have. This is the pigmentation. Whites have no pigmentation that gives the blacks their color. In this regard, blacks may be considered to be more superior to the whites. It is a proven fact that black people may sire white children but white people cannot sire black children.

I hope that the above reasoning which is backed up by facts will not be implied to depict me as a racist, but on the contrary, will help to highlight a simple scientific truth.

Based on scientific research, we know that internally, that is in the structures and composition of our body and brains, inside our skin, there is no difference at all.

So if we are not different at all in the inside, where do we fail then, whereas our cousins in the west seem to excel beyond measure?

Science as well as religion has told us in unison that what makes us different from other animals is our ability to think.

In turn, our ability to think is based upon our consciousness. In other words, our consciousness is what gives us the ability to think. Our consciousness is our Central Processing Unit (CPU) whose work is to process our thought forces.

Thinking is the process, through which our consciousness processes our thought forces and channels them to the reservoir (Mind) of God. These thoughts are the driving force behind our advancement based on their orientation.

The kind of thoughts that our mind processes is based upon our mindset. Mindset is defined as “the established set of attitudes held by someone.”

These established set of attitudes revolves around a scale of negative or positive mental attitudes.

I have been in and out of Kenya for the last three years now. During this time, I have spent most of the time here in Kenya.

I have interacted with people from all backgrounds and status in the country. I have also engaged them on a discourse in this topic and the majority of them have concluded that the problem with our people is the mindset.

 Mindset is crucial in any sphere of life as it enables us to set up values in the things that matters most to us. If our mindset is therefore inclined to the positive mental attitude, we put more values to things that are beneficial to the common good of all humanity. On the other hand, if the mindset is inclined to the negative mental attitude- me, myself and I, we put values to selfish things to the detriment of everyone else.

Our mindset also helps us to appreciate value in ‘principles.’ For example, based on our attitudes, we respect and appreciate the laws set up by the government and follow them.

With the right attitude, we are also able to appreciate scientific research that tells us that the whole universe is guided by a set of law; that without law, the whole universe would be awash with chaos. With the right attitude, we are also able to appreciate the significance of the fact that everything either in the seen or unseen is guided by a set of laws.

The law of growth state that you have to eat in order to grow, so is every other living thing. The law of gravity helps put all the planets and stars in their orbit. The law of electricity enables us to use electricity to our advantage.

Equally, the law of success requires us to have a positive mental attitude towards success. We also have other laws like the law of cause and effect; the law of abundance which is said to be an immutable law of the universe.

Other laws include the law of harmony. This law is said by the Master to be the greatest of all laws. It is also known by the term love or scientifically as the law of attraction. It is the law that binds everything together to form the matter that we see in the entire universe.

The law of harmony, for example requires that you love your neighbor as you love yourself.

This law is however only found in a positive mental attitude. Since a positive mental attitude is based on the established set of attitudes held by you and me and our mindset is based upon the inclination of our attitudes, then we can clearly see that the difference between the evolution seen in the west and the current situation in Africa is based on our way of thinking. This then is the missing link to evolution for the African people as well as other third world countries.