AM I MY BROTHERS KEEPER Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?” - Genesis 4:9 - English Standard Version CONTEXT - Cain Murders Abel - Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. Then the LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And Cain replies, I do not know. Am I my brothers keeper? The Lord then says, What have you done? The voice of your brothers blood is crying to Me from the ground.… This well known verse speaks of how malice in the heart ends in murder by the hands. This story of how Cain slew Abel, his own brother, his own mothers son, whom he ought to have loved; whom he ought to have protected; a good brother, who had never done him any wrong speaks to the current disparity of wealth and opportunity between Africans living in the motherland and Africans living in the Americas. I believe this and many other verses is why Marcus Garvey wrote: The greatest wisdom of the age is to be found in the Scriptures. You can always quote from the Scriptures. It is the quickest way of winning approval. I will not claim that I feel guilty for living in a developed nation that has ensured I have at least had access to clean drinking water my entire life, my current position is after all a direct result of the suffering my immediate ancestors endured during the Maafa. However I do view this disparity of opportunity and access as a direct affront to my moral character and commitment for fulfill the dying wish of my ancestors whom yearned for freedom and dreamed they would one day escape captivity and be returned to their homelands. While my freedoms here in the Americas is not perfect by any measure, I do however acknowledge that my kin living at home in our mother land enjoy far less freedoms and are being made victims in their own land. This all leads me to the only logical conclusion, we must integrate all Africans into a Pan African government and ensure the safety, security, and economic opportunity of all Africans. Until every African everywhere on earth has the same opportunities as the few of us who live in the wealthiest nation on earth none of us should be celebrating our good fortune which has come at the expense of others misfortune. Until all Africans can enjoy safety and security in their own land we must all be at war against all that oppress our kin. During this time of global financial downturn there has been a lot of talk about the redistribution of capital from the super wealthy to the poor. Well if you view the worldwide African population as a integrated financial community then it turns out that the fifty million of us living in North America are the African 1%. Collectively Africans in the Americas represent only 2% of the worldwide African population, however we also represent more than 60% of all African wealth. We are not exactly living it up over here, but to be fair and honest we do have at a much higher standard of living and access to modern communications, education, hospitals, highways, railways, food supply and all types of modern benefits which come from living is the worlds leading developed nation. Therefore our goal must be to ensure all Africans everywhere can enjoy the same and more modernization that we enjoy today, we must work to ensure that all of the benefits of modernization come from collective action and self sufficiency to ensure our collective freedom and independence.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:50:51 +0000
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