A bit lengthy but worth the read.
 
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BLACKS ARE ECONOMIC SLAVES
By Chika Onyeani

There is nothing like State of Black Economy.  It does not exist in Africa.  
Neither does it exist in any other part of the world.  It is an illusion to 
think there is such a situation called State of Black Economy.  Blacks are 
economic slaves.  There is no group of people in this world who have abandoned any 
ambition of being economically independent from the grip of others as the 
Black race - whether Africans from the continent, or Africans from the Diaspora - 
Black Americans, Caribbeans or migratory Africans.  We are more slaves now 
than when the Caucasian conquered us and sold us into slavery.  The word slave 
means we are serfs, chattels, paupers, peons or vassals.  

There is nothing in Africa that is owned by the people.  We are owned stock 
and barrel by people of European-origin, Japanese, Chinese, the Indians and any 
other people that has decided to become economically viable.  In fact, I 
believe that the only possession in the world that the Black race could lay 
ownership to is the free air we breathe, and that might be in question and jeopardy 
if the present trend of consolidation of our conquerors continue.  

There is no Black entity that is economically independent in any part of the 
world.  Africa is the second largest continent in the world.  It has been 
established that it was the cradle of humanity and civilization.  Africa possesses 
the largest percentage of the world's natural resources - gold, diamonds, 
silver, uranium, plutonium, manganese, coal, oil.  But unfortunately, Africa is 
today economically under occupation although I would have preferred to use the 
word militarily than economically.

The fact is that none of the natural resources Africa is blessed with is 
under African control.  We don't even understand the value of the natural 
resources we possess; otherwise, we would know how to cultivate them.  If we did, we 
would own the avenues through which these products are brought to be utilized 
in the world.  The United Nations has year in, year out, declared Africa as the 
world's poorest continent, despite its enormous natural resources.  The fact 
is that the world is moving so fast that Black people stand the chance of 
being wiped off the face of the earth by a Hitler or Mussolini  -  could you just 
imagine what would happen if a David Duke were to become the President of the 
United States of America, the country with the most weapons of mass 
destruction.  Imagine!

Oil has become one of the most important products in the world.  It is what 
created the fortunes of people like the Rockefellers; it is what created 
companies like Standard Oil which was broken up to become the juggernauts like 
Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, etc.  A lot of the African countries possess oil in 
abundance, including countries like Nigeria, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 
Gabon, Libya, Equatorial Guinea and others.  In fact, it has become the 
economic life blood of most African countries.

But, we as Africans don't have an iota of knowledge of the process of finding 
the oil and bringing it to use.  To discover the oil, a Caucasian has to 
bring in his equipment to survey our land or shores.  If there is oil, he 
estimates the amount of oil located in that area.  We award him the contract of 
drilling for the oil.  He brings his own men.  Unlike in his own country, whatever 
environmental damage the drilling does is none of his concerns.  All he wants 
is that oil.  When the oil comes out from the ground, we also award him the 
contract to take the oil from us.  He brings his tanker, loads the oil and brings 
it to his own country where he refines it.  He pays less than $12 per barrel 
for the crude oil.  He refines the crude into several different products, 
which are then sent back to us at more than $65 per barrel.  

In the l998 year, Exxon generated revenues of $100 billion, Mobil $47 
billion, Texaco $32 billion and Chevron $27 billion.  The revenues of these four 
companies almost outstripped the revenues of all the 50 Black African countries 
south of the Sahara combined.  

Let's take a country like Nigeria for instance.  It is the so-called giant of 
Africa, the leader of the Black world.  Nigeria is the seventh largest oil 
producing country in the world.  Nigerians pride themselves as one of the most 
educated people in the world.  It has all kinds of engineers, including 
petroleum and geological engineers.  Oil was discovered in Nigeria in 1948.  But you 
know what?  

Nigeria still imports refined oil at exorbitant rates.  It does not have 
engineers who prospect for the oil; it does not have engineers who drill for the 
oil; it does not have engineers who refine the oil.  It imports the oil.  
Nigeria has two oil refineries - all built by foreigners.  To maintain these 
refineries they must import the experts (Caucasians) who built the refineries to 
repair any minor problems.  When one of the refineries was out of production for 
a long time in 1998, over $475 million was awarded to repair it.  Despite the 
fact that the refinery has been in existence for more than 15 years, Nigerians 
had not learned to repair the refinery.  That contract of $475 million would 
have gone a long way in spreading the wealth of that huge amount across all 
strata of the society.  It would have created over $10 billion of wealth in the 
country, which similarly was the amount which has been created in the country 
that received this award.  

As we enter the 21st century, Africans don't have the capacity to discover 
oil; they don't have the capacity to drill for the oil; they don't have the 
capability to refine the oil; they don't have the capacity to transport the oil to 
the destination where it would be refined; they don't have the vessel to 
transport the oil back to us for consumption.  At a time when Indians and the 
Pakistanis have both detonated the atom bomb, when China is providing the 
technology for quick acceleration of launching satellites into orbit, Africans still 
don't have the capacity even to refine the oil for themselves.  

In Black America today, the situation is the same as in Africa.  Blacks make 
up the second largest group of Americans.  Economically, Black American 
communities are under occupation by others.  I have been spending a lot of time 
lately in Harlem - the so-called capital of Black America.  Boasting about such a 
place as a capital of Black America is one of the greatest insults that could 
be bestowed on African-Americans.  It is an insult.  From the hub of Harlem, 
125th Street, you can understand what I am saying.  Here is a so-called capital 
of 36 million people.  Going from one establishment to another in Harlem, all 
the people I saw behind the counter were not people of my color.  
Approximately 95% of the people who live in Harlem are blacks.  Conversely, only 10% of 
the buildings in Harlem are owned by Blacks.  

If you are a slave, you cannot be independent and distinct from the whims and 
caprices or dictates of your conquerors.  The present generation of Africans 
has mortgaged the future of the following generation of Africans by the huge 
debt they have accumulated.  

Africa owes the world $375 billion.  It means that the average African - man, 
woman, or child  - will have to repay upwards of $5,000 in their present life 
time.  This is not a $500 question or debt.  We are talking of $5,000 for 
every African living to repay the $375 billion in debt.  

Yet, all we do is ask for more debts.  We beg all the time for the West to 
come in and take more control of the iron hand they have already clasped on us.  
But travel from one end of Africa to another.  Go from one country to 
another.  The story is the same.  $375 billion, and there is nothing to show for it.  
Africa spends more money servicing its debt, in other words paying interest 
to the Western world, than it spends on infrastructural development.  

If you are talking of a state of Black economy, you have to talk about a 
people who are able to create products from its inception to market.  You cannot 
talk of an economy where the people are mere consumers.  Take a walk through 
the theaters of the marketplace.  When you wake up in the morning, what is the 
first thing you do?  Of course, you turn on the light - electricity.  There is 
no electric utility company owned by Blacks either in Africa or the Diaspora.  
Even the lanterns which are still used in most African villages, are 
imported.  You shower.  You show me a water company owned by Blacks.  Though Africans 
have water companies, they invariably still have to be built and maintained 
for them by Europeans.  In the Black community, all the products they use are 
produced by other people.  That is not an economy.  

This is a lesson we should learn.  When the Caucasian needed slaves to work 
in their farms, they made Blacks their machines.  They found these machines 
much slower when they invented the horse-drawn plough and they became 
superfluous.  When they found the cold unbearable, they invented heating systems.  When 
they found summer heat unbearable, they invented the air conditioner.  When 
they needed a way of talking to one another without visiting each other, they 
invented the telephone.  When they stopped the practice of town-crier, they 
invented the radio.  When they found writing with pens too slow, they first 
invented the typewriter and now the computer.  When they needed to get to a 
destination faster than riding on the horse, they invented the automobile.  They 
invented the ship to be able to cross wide expanses of water.  When the need arose 
to get somewhere even faster, the Wright brothers came to the rescue and 
invented the airplane.  

Every other people of "color," the Japanese, Chinese, the Indians - assuming 
white is not a color - have appropriated all the technology and made them 
their own.  In fact, they have learned so well that they produce these products 
better than the people who orginally invented them.  That is the mark of 
intelligence.  

There is the reality check for a Capitalist Nigger.  He is not in the habit 
of deluding himself about the grandeur of his ancestors.  He acknowledges it.  
He does not live on it.  His reality check is that the strong must inherit the 
earth.  He understands that the world is a jungle.  It is kill or be killed.  
He understands that if you don't produce what you eat; if you don't 
manufacture what you use; and if you don't understand how to articulate and 
conceptualize your concerns to your people, there cannot be a solution.  He understands 
that the State of Black Economy can only be created when a group of young Black 
men and women decide to dare to be successful.  Yes, we have to dare to be 
successful.  

When there was segreation, there was an Black economy.  There were thriving 
Black banks, insurance companies, hotels, convention centers, stores catering 
to Blacks.  The Black economy thrived.  Blacks were forced to buy from Blacks.  
The meager salaries that they earned stayed in the Black community and 
created jobs and a stabilized community.  All that is gone.  Blacks knew how to 
patronize one another.  Segregation does not have to rear its ugly head again for 
Blacks to know it is time that they started patronizing Black businesses 
again.  There has to be a parallel to Citigroup; there has to be a parallel to 
MCIWorldcom; there has to be parallel to Apple Computer.  All these are attainable 
goals.  

It would be foolhardy to talk of creating another Microsoft, a General 
Motors, an AT&T.  The largest black bank - the Carver Bancorp Inc. - had assets of 
$420 million; while its Caucasian counterpart, the Citigroup had assets of $668 
billion - that's $168 billion more than the combined revenues of all Blacks 
in 1998.  Yet, out of the $500 billion that Blacks generated, the total assets 
of the largest 25 Black banks amounted to only $4.5 billion.  

If you cannot buy African, there is absolutely no way you are going to create 
a Black economy.  We must have to learn from East Indians, who have done so 
well in integrating their economy in this country.  In another section of this 
book, we discussed how the East Indians had taken over the newsstand business 
in New York City, and its taxi and limousine business.  Apart from these, they 
have also taken over the motel and medium sized hotel business through the 
country, as well as most of the gas stations.  They have been able to do so 
through combining their assets and creating a totally integrated community.  From 
the food he easts to the shoes, and any other thing he needs, he can get it 
from another Indian.  In this way, they keep the money they make from others 
circulating only within their community.  It is what I call the "Spider-Web 
Economic Doctrine."

In economic terms, when you invest a dollar in another community, you have 
immediately created $8.000 for that community; and that $8.00 will eventually 
result in creating $164 for that community through the multiplier effect.  You 
can calculate this and see why the East Indians who have recently made America 
their home, have been able to accumulate money and wealth so quickly to become 
a force in the economic and political playing field.  East Indians control 
their community economically.  They own the houses they live in.  The money they 
used to buy those homes was either generated independently or borrowed from 
an Indian mortgage lender.  

All the businesses conducted within East Indian communities are totally owned 
by Indians.  They have learned the lesson of never allowing their money to 
get out of their community.  They found a niche, and they seized it.  They took 
over businesses which were already running successfully.  They didn't have to 
build a new mouse trap.  They found a way to use an already existing mouse 
trap.  Through the absolute control of their economy and the "Spider-Web Economic 
Doctrine", they are now playing in the bigger leagues by taking over existing 
major companies just as they had done with the small ones.  

A Capitalist Nigger understands that for the Black economy to be created, he 
must have to create a niche for himself.  The movement to restart the Black 
economy must be planned with absolute focus, with each individual focusing on 
how he can contribute to making it a reality.  There are some Capitalist Niggers 
who have already begun the movement.  One night, I was watching Jay Leno of 
NBC's Late Night with Jay Leno.  One of his guests that night was Michael 
Jordan. Leno wanted to know why Jordan did not proceed with his purchase of the NBA 
franchise Charlotte Hornets.  Jordan replied that the owners had a different 
understanding of what he wanted his investment in the club to do.  "I cannot 
put my money where I don't have total control," said Jordan.  Michael Jordan, 
in this case, understood what it means to be a Capitalist Nigger.  

This war to restart the Black Economy must be fought by educated consumers 
and capitalists.  Take a moment to take cognizance of your surrounding.  Make a 
mental note of all the things within that surrounding.  Calculate how much 
those things cost you.  Remember from whom and where you purchased the products.  
In purchasing those products did you enhance or deter the creation of Black 
wealth?  

If you had to do it all over again, how would you change what you did 
earlier?  The Mercedes-Benz or Lexus or Jaguar you have parked outside.  Where did 
you get it from?  What exactly did the purchase of such a luxury car do for you? 
If it was a necessary purchase, would it have served your interest and the 
interest of the community better if you had checked throughout the country to 
find out which Black automobile dealerships carried the brand.  Was it 
necessary to have purchased a brand from a company which has consistently shown 
disrespect and insult to you and your community?  If you answered no, then you have 
it within your power to change things around next time you have to make such a 
purchase or any purchase at all.  

Whether it is a dollar purchase or a million dollar purchase, the thought 
process must be focused on maximizing the interest of the community.  We must 
assess every option.  The re-education of our people is the first step in the 
Capitalist Nigger's arsenal to begin to reclaim and rebuild a State of Black 
Economy.  We must start individually, conquer the urge for frivolous purchasing 
without first applying the litmus test.  

The whole of the African race is under economic occupation.  You cannot 
achieve a true political independence without at the same time achieving economic 
independence.  The so-called political independence we think we have now is 
merely an illusion.  It is meaningless.  It is not supported by any solid 
foundation.  A house without solid foundation is bound to crumple sooner or later.  
Without economic independence, sooner or later, we will be recolonized 
politically.  

Culled from "Capitalist Nigger: The Road To Success - A Spider Web Doctrine," 
Chapter 5 - "Blacks Are Economic Slaves," pages 43-51 by Chika Onyeani
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BLURB:

CAPITALIST NIGGER excels as an explosive and jarring indictment of the Black 
Race.  The book asserts that the Negroid Race, as naturally endowed as any 
other, is culpably a non-productive race.  The Black Race is a consumer race and 
depends on other communities for its culture, its language, its feeding, and 
its clothing.  Despite enormous natural resources, Blacks are economic slaves 
because they lack the "devil-may-care" attitude and the "killer-instinct" of 
the Caucasian, as well as the spider web economic mentality of the Asian.  
CAPITALIST NIGGER contends that only as "Economic Warriors," employing the "Spider 
Web Economic Doctrine," can the Black Race escape from their victim mentality.





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