Culled from a friend's page but added mine.
Wake up Africans!!!!
"We are poor because of the fact that we have failed to rise above the gallows we have fallen into.
We are poor because we have clung unto the same tools of our own slavery - foreign gods/religions.
We are poor because we have let other define who we are, who our gods are, what we are, what we can do, what we must be etc.
We are poor because we have failed to reason, taken illusions for reality,
feeding of the shit of other men!
We are poor because we are ignorant of our own slavery, we have become the slavers of our own kind and lands!
We are poor because we have failed to awaken from this self-imposed slumber.
We are poor because we have allowed fear to rule our lives and control our minds and bodies and lands.
We are poor because constantly we have always placed the square peg in the round hole, forcing it down and praying for a miracle to make it fit.
We are poor because we have failed to place the horse before the cart, but the cart before the horse and we somehow wonder why the chariot isn't moving forward!
We are poor because....................... i rest my case