Dark.

“Dark” the total absorption of light nor utter absence of light; the most feared state. There are nyctophiles, also. It is quite kenspeckle that the hoi polloi had been programmed to associate dark or the darkness with only nefarious, uncongenial, evil things; the hilarious part is that this idea or thought was popularized by those who are subjectively attracted to the light or the white color. For centuries, we’ve seen and still see how the dark people and all other people were convinced that black or dark is the antonym of pulchritude. Credulous Africans, who lack self-knowledge, believed it. Hence, for decades, we’ve seen (and still do) dark people altering their pigment to be lighter, in lieu of dark. Most, claim it’s a decision they took, not out of self-contempt. But, change, inextricably makes the past existence of a substance nor image to often be treated with contempt, if not utter. 

If you take a good look at this “black" or “white" matter, you’d ascertain that we were raised by leaders who are tremendously emotionally subjective. We’ve been raised with the mentality of perceiving black nor the dark as a dreadful, uncongenial, ugly, abominable object. We’ve been raised with the mentality of associating people who have darker skin with pure ugliness. Most of the black children or African children, were exposed to the idea of dark is the purest form of ugliness. Almost the whole world, if not the whole, were programmed to associate crime with dark skin people, darkness with Lucifer, evil things, scary things and all kinds of uncongenial things we can think of. Look at the Holy Bible, for instance, there are enormously few or no African names or characters there who are portrayed as kind, considerate, holy, or simply a good people, in the bible. Mostly, Greek, nor simply European characters with European names, which is a subtle way of automatically linking all those good or holy deeds that were done by the characters, in the Holy Bible, to the people of a lighter skin color. The psychological tricks that were used by the subjective non-darker skin color people who authored the Holy Bible, are laudable; I must say. They have managed to utilize a simple yet powerful tool to control the darker skin color people for centuries, with this book; I stand tall in being lambasted, but this religious book that was force-fed on our ancestors and the domino effect proceeded to our parents and they committed the same act that the missionaries committed on Prophet Isaiah Shembe, Prophet Simon Kimbangu and other great prophets who are working tirelessly to maintain and perpetuate the African spirituality. Bishop Maphonga, I must say, is one of the souls that should be appreciated by Africans more than being lambasted. I agree, we’ve been programmed to credulously nod to everything that the “Holy Bible” orders us to do, without questioning, nor applying critical thinking or scrutinizing. 

Therefore, in a subtle way, we’ve been programmed to attack or lambast anyone who possesses the shrewdness to question the Holy book nor apply his critical thinking, in lieu of just reading and browsing, and subsequently nodding in agreement to even the things that derogate Africans (obviously, in a subtle way; that book was written by expert psychologists, I tell you). Most Africans, who were born in Africa, have European names, in which they were baptized with in African churches, which devoutly practice European religion. To most devout Christians, I may appear to be a subjective gadfly, who is an atheist. All I can say is, this is what critical thinking looks like in text format. In shopping malls, you’d find a young lady who has acquired formal education accolades, who’s serving a European capitalist who offers a pretty sufficient consideration, in her car; which she’s paying sempiternal premiums, contemporaneously paying her motor insurance and the instalment of the car. An African man with a dark skin, with locks or afro and a beard, who’s not wearing any popular clothing brands, passing by her car, trust me, you’d immediately hear the car central lock being erected. That’s the mindset that we’ve been raised with, and the boxes that Phil Farnsworth has built for us, also remotely convince us daily that crime and all the uncongenial acts are intrinsic to people of darker skin color. Trust me, the hoi polloi’s first instinct when they come across a dark skin man with locks (popularly known as dreadlocks, to utilize a subtle tool of making you fear or approach with utter contempt, people who have this hairstyle), afro or even if he has shaved; the whole idea is to fear or treat with utter contempt a dark skin person. 

It is an irrefutable fact that television is now dominated by Africans, but, is it utterly controlled by Africans? 

We see how most African women who are exalted or mostly vaunted, are those with lighter skin color. Almost, every woman who was dark skin before they attained fame and wealth, alter their pigment to lighter skin color. It’s in the subconscious mind. White is associated to the glory, royalty, even the 7th chakra’s color, is white; the crown. Therefore, everything that is darker, we are encouraged to abhor it or treat it with utter contempt, in a subtle way. 

Bantu Biko, once uttered “Black is beautiful”. 

Biko was a person with a darker skin color, who was enormously intelligent nor shrewd vis-à-vis all racist people with a lighter skin. He never perpetuated violence, but highlighted a few key factors which enlightened people with a darker skin color of their true power, which subsequently impelled them to rebel and riot against the evil authority which took power in 1948. However, he does not get the glory he deserves. He showed black people that blacks are intelligent, confident and conscious. A man who stood for what he believed in, without flinching. The dark is more powerful. Another simple example, take oil and milk. If three drops of oil are spilt into the milk; that milk would be deemed unhealthy to be consumed. However, if four drops of milk get spilt into the oil, trust me, that oil would still be used and it will work, for an extended period. This shows that the darkness is more powerful than ever. Hence, the lighter skin color people fear the darker skin color people. They shower the darker skin color man with insults, use derogatory words to address him, oppress him, mentally enslave him, financially enslave him, spiritually enslave, sexually enslave him. 

Simply, the darker skin color people are still being treated with utter contempt; which is what has perpetuated the self-loathing that exists among darker skin color people. 

The world needs to be taught about the disparities that human beings comprise, within communities. The mindset needs to change. We live in the world of information. 

Nothing is as exhausting as having to regularly remind imbeciles that the lives of the darker skin color people matter.