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0:00Hello and welcome to ZPR Zanu Project
0:03[music] Rethink and I'm Frank Zano. I'm
0:06in the studio today. It's going to be a
0:08monologue
0:10and um it's an interesting one. Do you
0:13know uh that there is only one black
0:17country in the whole world, one black
0:19country that uses the word disparity
0:24when they describe or talk about the
0:27social, economic, cultural, political
0:30power sharing only one country and I'll
0:32soon tell you why that country continue
0:36to use the word disparity.
0:39And then in the United States, of
0:40course, it's only one group of people
0:44who use the word disparities. I will
0:46tell you why Nigerians, Ghanaians,
0:49Saggalis, Toales, the entire
0:54continent never uses the word including
0:57even the Caribbeans.
0:59So that is what we're going to talk
1:00about today. But first, let me start.
1:03There are three groups, distinct groups
1:06of blacks in the United States of
1:08America. One is Caribbean blacks who had
1:13migrated to the United States and live
1:15in the United States and this means
1:17Jamaicans, Haitians, Antigga, Barbados
1:21or the Caribbean black countries who are
1:24in the United States voluntarily. And
1:26then
1:28there are countries from Africa who also
1:31migrated to the United States. So these
1:33will be Nigerians, Ghanaians, all the 54
1:36countries in Africa. They have citizens
1:38who have moved to the United States. So
1:40they also live in the United States. And
1:42of course we have what you would call
1:45black Americans or African-Americans or
1:48FBAs or
1:51It's another group of blacks. So that's
1:54three distinct black groups that live in
1:56the United States.
1:58Three Caribbean voluntary immigrants,
2:02African country voluntary immigrants,
2:04and African-Americans
2:06or black Americans.
2:09And when you hear the word
2:10African-American, so I am not an
2:13African-American,
2:15I am a Benino American.
2:19You use the word African-American, use
2:21the African as a prefix simply means
2:23that of course if you're a black man in
2:24America that your origin is Africa. So
2:28you use the whole continent since you
2:30don't know the specific tribe or country
2:33from which your great greatgrandfathers
2:35came from. You therefore use the
2:38continent as a prefix to your
2:40citizenship in America. But I wouldn't
2:43say African-American. Anyway, let me go
2:45back to the word disparity. And
2:47according to dictionary, disparity
2:50simply means the lack of similarity or
2:55equality among
2:58certain persons or groups of people. Now
3:02you are. So yes, it's a description. But
3:05you ask when they say disparity among
3:09certain persons or group of people,
3:14they didn't say group of countries or
3:16group of tribes, groups of people.
3:20And that is when you begin to look at
3:21this word carefully and and see why
3:25some groups use it, some countries use
3:28it, and others don't. It would be very
3:31strange in the United States of America
3:34to come across a Nigerian immigrant or a
3:37Ghanaian immigrant or Seneagalles to
3:39goalies, you just name it
3:42who now lives and works in the United
3:44States and would use the word disparity,
3:48disparity of services or disparity of uh
3:51access to resources, disparity of
3:54academic achievement, career. No, you
3:56will never hear it. You would never meet
3:59a Ghanaian who would use that word who's
4:01migrated here in the United States. It's
4:03strange. You wouldn't even meet a
4:05Jamaican. So if I'm wrong, correct me.
4:08Or you are from the Barbados, move to
4:10the United States
4:12and use the word disparities.
4:15You won't. It would be strange to meet
4:16such people who would use the word.
4:20So, of the three groups of black I just
4:22described, only one uses the word, which
4:25is African-Americans
4:28use the word disparity. In fact,
4:30recently at at I was at um some kind of
4:34a group demonstration outside and I see
4:37placards and conversations here and
4:40there.
4:41And if you hear the things people
4:45mention as disparity,
4:49it's getting out of hand. Someone said
4:54there is a disparity in obesity in
4:57America.
5:01Seriously, there is a disparity
5:05in obesity in America. Someone said
5:10it is racist to be slim.
5:13Why are one group of people slim all the
5:16time
5:18and other group is not?
5:21Someone said there is disparity in
5:23academic achievement.
5:26In fact, the one that really will shake
5:28your boots is when you hear
5:31disparities
5:33in the murder rate in America among
5:36African-Ameans and whites. Disparity.
5:41You've heard the disparity
5:45in the prison population of
5:47African-Americans and whites and others.
5:50Disparity in academic achievement.
5:55We all know what promotes academic
5:57achievement, right? You are a very
5:59studious student.
6:02Rigor, you do your homework. Attendance
6:05is high. You stay alert in class. You
6:09read your books
6:11and you pass.
6:14No law, no religion, no amount of prayer
6:18would ever make a kid
6:20do well in school if that kid doesn't
6:23wake up early, stays up late on social
6:25media, sleeps in class, fluctuates in
6:28attendance, doesn't do his homework or
6:31her homework. That is nothing. No law
6:34can be passed. No legislation, no
6:36prayer, no religion, no spirituality can
6:39ever make that kid
6:42pass.
6:44Same as crime, no law, no prayer, no
6:48legislation can ever prevent someone
6:53committing crime.
6:55The law is made to punish only after the
6:57fact.
7:00So here is how I'm going to put it so
7:03that it gives you the opportunity to
7:06debate it.
7:08If you are Jamaican, if you are from
7:10Haiti, Barbados, Antigga, Nigerian,
7:13Ghanian, Seneagalles,
7:16Kenyan, Tanzanian, Ugandan,
7:19if you are in Nigeria,
7:22which group in Nigeria would use the
7:24word disparity
7:27among Nigerians in Nigeria?
7:30Will it even be conceivable to hear to
7:34think that someone in Nigeria in Nigeria
7:38is saying there is disparity?
7:40Now you might talk about the rich and
7:42the poor which is something you find in
7:45almost every human society. Rich and
7:48poor that's not disparity but me talking
7:52about the things we talk about in the
7:54United States as disparity.
7:58If you were living in Nigeria, can you
8:00use that word? No, you wouldn't.
8:03Why?
8:05If you live in Kenya, would you use the
8:06word disparity?
8:09Kenyans in Kenya and you're talking
8:12about disparity. No, you wouldn't use
8:14that word. If you're a Ghanaian living
8:16in Ghana,
8:18Jamaican living in Jamaica, would you
8:20use that word in your country? No, you
8:23wouldn't. But let me take you back to
8:26some examples, right? In the 60s,
8:30starting from the 50s and 60s and 70s
8:33all the way to about the mid80s,
8:35there was a large population of
8:38Lebanese.
8:39Oh, they were common in West Africa. All
8:43the spare spare part shops and hardware
8:46uh shops were controlled by Lebanese
8:49back in the 50s, 60s,7s all the way to
8:51mid 80s across West Africa.
8:55In Ghana particularly a huge presence of
8:59Lebanese,
9:00Syrians and followed by Indians.
9:05They were economically sound. They live
9:08in the Gas which is government
9:10residential areas, beautiful places.
9:16They drive cars. They have drivers and
9:19house guards. Everything that the locals
9:22would want, they have it. They were rich
9:24and powerful and connected the Lebanese
9:28Syrians and the Indians. Huge
9:30population. In fact, the president, if
9:33he's not the founder, I may be wrong, of
9:36what became the first music awards in
9:39Ghana was founded and run financed by a
9:45Lebanese for a very long time. I'm not
9:48sure if he's still alive,
9:51but you know, Ghanaians never complained
9:55of disparity between the locals, the
9:59indigenous Ghanaians and the Lebanese
10:01Syrians and Indians. They never did. But
10:04the Indians and the Lebanese were far
10:06richer. We go to their areas where they
10:09used to live, the GRA and other reserved
10:12areas. We used to go there and pick
10:14broken bicycles and toys from their
10:17garbage.
10:19But the locals never use the word
10:21disparity.
10:22Why? Let's go to Kenya in East Africa.
10:25So that is West Africa. Let's go to
10:26Kenya. Kenya today they are referring to
10:29the Indian population as the 43rd tribe
10:33of Kenya. That means the sheer number of
10:35Indians who live in Kenya.
10:40Their concentrated community is known as
10:42Pakland in Nairobi.
10:45They are rich,
10:48wealthy Indians.
10:51The SHs, the agakans, spare spare part
10:54shops, spare, you know, you name it.
10:56Hardware, they control it in Kenya. But,
11:00you know, Kenyans never use a word
11:03disparity between the indigenous Kenyans
11:06and the Indians who live in Kenya. and
11:09some of the Dutch, the British, they who
11:11live in Kenya. No, they don't use the
11:14word disparity.
11:16In Jamaica, there's a huge presence of
11:19Indians in Chinese. In fact, the
11:22recording studios for regga music was
11:24started by a Chinese.
11:27It was a nickname Mr.Qing or something
11:29like that.
11:31But Jamaicans never use the word
11:33disparity between the indigenous the
11:36black Jamaicans and the rest. They don't
11:40say disparity.
11:43Why?
11:47You see, because in Ghana, the Lebanese
11:49and the Indians I mentioned were
11:51immigrants.
11:54They came voluntarily to West Africa and
11:56settled and do business and they made
11:59money and became very wealthy.
12:03So we don't say that there a disparity
12:06between the locals and these people. The
12:09people knew that they were different
12:11that these people came here and they
12:13make money. But let me tell you the one
12:16country that I was talking about that
12:18uses the word disparity,
12:23South Africa,
12:26the South African black population would
12:29use the word disparity between the
12:32indigenous blacks and the African
12:35settlers.
12:36You see, if the Africans had come to
12:40South Africa as immigrants, just like
12:43the Lebanese and the Indians went to
12:45Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria,
12:49if the Africans had just come to South
12:52Africa as immigrants like Italians and
12:56Jews and Irish came to the United
12:59States,
13:01South Africans would never use the word
13:03disparity.
13:06It's because the Africans came to that
13:10region which is now called South Africa
13:11as settlers
13:14and became more or less citizens of that
13:17place not naturalized.
13:21Maybe the process of citizenship
13:25was started by them because of course
13:28colonization caused the country or the
13:30region to be named South Africa and
13:32therefore now citizenship processes came
13:35when before that it was just independent
13:37or autonomous tribes ruling themselves
13:40right the Zulus the Kosas and so forth
13:44they were just tribes scattered in that
13:46region so you're a member of a tribe not
13:49citizenship we don't use that word right
13:51you're a member of a tribe so the Zulu
13:54tribe members and the Kosa tribe members
13:57so al so so you say about Ghana the
13:59Ashanti tribe members of the Shanti
14:01tribe or members of the Ghana tribe so
14:04during that time there will be no
14:05citizenship or the process of
14:06citizenship but when the place was
14:09colonized of course it becomes a country
14:11so now you have the process of
14:12citizenship
14:15and the Africans who settled in that
14:18region were automatically backed
14:21in that citizenship. So they are more
14:24settlers than they are immigrants.
14:29Suddenly
14:32the term
14:33disparity is now
14:37the source of the anger of the majority
14:40black country South Africa that there is
14:43a disparity and they are waiting on this
14:47minority white people to level the
14:50playground so the disparities will
14:52vanish.
14:55What is interesting is these arguments
14:59and anger and the processes they are
15:01introducing as to which they never never
15:04share. By which means in what process
15:08can anyone guarantee that wealth
15:13accusation it's equal in any society. It
15:17has never happened. Neither has any
15:19scholar ever proposed it as a process
15:24that guarantees that a certain
15:26citizenship of a certain country would
15:29have equal access to wealth.
15:34It doesn't work. The the araptains and
15:37all the people who parade themselves
15:41about poverty and they will fight it.
15:44They never ever propose to you what
15:47would guarantee a certain group of
15:50people in any place to have equal access
15:54to wealth equally. The the word is
15:56equally never. It has never worked
15:58anywhere. In fact, when you look through
16:00the data and you you do and read about
16:03certain research put together some
16:05places. In fact, such attempt,
16:08artificial attempt created more gap
16:11because what it does is you are now
16:14waiting on the Superman to come so the
16:16disparity would vanish. And there is no
16:18process that has ever guaranteed such a
16:20thing to ever happen.
16:23In every human community on earth, in
16:26every human society or country, there is
16:28always the have and they have nots.
16:31Whoever even came up with the word have
16:33and have not doesn't even make sense.
16:37Those who have something don't have
16:39something they want from those who don't
16:41have your level of wealth. Always. No
16:44one has all the items on one plate.
16:48Never.
16:51When you use the word disparity, you
16:53have introduced a huge gap, a delay in
16:56the observation. proper unemotional
16:59investigation observation of a phenomena
17:02that is just as permanent as the grass
17:05on earth in every human society.
17:09Some of the words they use are under
17:12served communities and you ask yourself
17:15who was supposed to do the serving of
17:19that community. Governments don't serve.
17:25They're talking about health disparities
17:27and I'll tell you why.
17:30If you are somebody who is very
17:32knowledgeable about I keep using the
17:34word until it's about to go to lose
17:37weight. Polychronic cultures cultures
17:40are important. We must understand them.
17:42So when I talk about colleges and I talk
17:43about it a lot, what I'm trying to do is
17:46to point our young generation of those
17:49who are interested in academics and
17:51understanding of human behavior and our
17:53existence to understand
17:56just as a DNA plays a role in our
18:00temperament
18:02in life. So also does the external
18:05culture plays a role. The people's
18:08collective behavior, their collective
18:11character, their collective
18:13worldview, their collective
18:15understanding of how they evolved and
18:18therefore shape the way they see the
18:19world is culture. It will play a role in
18:23your life. There will be few outliers
18:27but they are not the rule. So it's very
18:29important for especially those who think
18:32that something external happened to them
18:34for them to be where they are.
18:37to understand culture
18:41in Zimbabwe back in 1980 maybe 95 or six
18:46I read a report by then I was in media
18:49class doing advanced multicultural
18:51understanding
18:54and they claimed that AIDS uh the HIV
18:58AIDS had hit Zimbabwe severely
19:03Clinton administration I believe was
19:04when it happened had paid for
19:08the discount in the HIV
19:12medication so that the people can have
19:14access to it. And the government paid
19:16for it and Clinton I think subsidized
19:19and it was distributed.
19:21But the report I read said
19:24you have to take the pill at a certain
19:27time at same time regularly every day in
19:31order for you to keep a hold and a press
19:34down on the HIV
19:38uh symptoms meaning a religious
19:44attention to the medication.
19:48One pill at 8 am, 8 a.m. or 9:00 a.m.,
19:50one pill at 2 p.m., one pill at 6 p.m.
19:53It has to be constant.
19:56You have to consistent on it and you
19:59would live well. According to the
20:02report,
20:05the people are not pill popping culture.
20:12Peel popping, regular pill, consistent
20:15peel popping is a culture. You can look
20:18into everything that culture does.
20:21Maintenance, attention to detail,
20:23consistent regulations, follow up, law
20:25abiding, all that is part of a culture.
20:29So here is the pill free for the
20:32citizens who are dying from HIV and the
20:35only thing they need is for the people
20:37to develop a certain discipline in order
20:39to for them to take the pill regularly
20:44and leave and yet they couldn't do it.
20:46So please explain
20:48disparity in health. Which government
20:52law enforcement, religion, prayer could
20:56make the people wake up
20:59and prioritize
21:01that medication? You can't. You can
21:05bring the horse to the river, but you
21:07can't force it to drink, they say. So
21:10let's look among and in the United
21:12States of America. Every day you wake up
21:14there is these loud accent on this
21:18statement that there is a disparity in
21:21health in America.
21:23But we all know without being told even
21:27from Africa. We are not by culture
21:30people who are consistent and constant
21:35in health checkup.
21:38It took me years,
21:41painful years long to discipline myself.
21:45For the last 18 years or more, I have
21:48not missed my annual checkup, dental,
21:52eye, blood, sugar level, cholesterol,
21:55you name it. I'm beginning to enjoy it
21:58because when the doctor comes back into
22:00the room with a smile on her face and
22:02says, "Zano, you have a very keep doing
22:05whatever you're doing." It gives me a
22:06certain relief until next year. And
22:09number two, it tells me to do the things
22:11I've done the previous year.
22:15Is that something you have seen in your
22:18country, whether you're from the
22:19Caribbean, you're from Africa, or you're
22:21an African-American, that we black
22:23people,
22:26we take health checkup seriously.
22:30Look, we're not stupid. We're not dumb.
22:33We don't just wake up and refuse to do
22:35it.
22:37Culture dictates priority,
22:40not the other way around.
22:44We come from a culture where the mind
22:47our our whole outlook in life says
22:51if it is not broken you don't fix it.
22:56Some people especially in my village
22:58people do come with a mobile clinic and
23:02they would intentionally say no I'm not
23:04going according to them if I don't know
23:07I have it I'm fine
23:10and some would say and if if they tell
23:12me I have it then what
23:17you think when they took my great great
23:19grandfathers from Africa you think that
23:21behavior was left behind just because
23:23they've lived
23:24in the western world for 500 years. No.
23:28So wherever you move this group of
23:30people,
23:31that disparity, if you want to call it
23:33that way, would forever be there.
23:40It is not a disparity.
23:44Is the same thing goes for the economic
23:46social status of any place. It's not a
23:48disparity. When you use that word, you
23:51have stopped every
23:55enlightened brain from accepting what is
23:59supposed to be accepted
24:02and maybe
24:04things would change on their own if the
24:07people make it a priority. I have been
24:10in the urban schools in Connecticut for
24:13a very long time. Once as a volunteer,
24:16as a mentor and then I run a non youth
24:18development nonprofit organization where
24:20I worked with the urban schools
24:24you see kids in class one arm stretch
24:27and their head is on it sleeping and the
24:29teacher is going up and down we say it
24:31all the time discipline is 70% and
24:35attention to class is only 30%.
24:39They can't sit still.
24:42No regiment is not part of our culture.
24:47That's why our police forces are
24:48indisiplined. Our army forces are
24:50indisiplined.
24:54So they can't sit still and listen to
24:56the teacher in the classroom.
24:59They are either talking,
25:02playing with each other, hitting each
25:03other, throwing paper at each other,
25:06bullying, teasing.
25:08And you have to continue going up and
25:10down in the class saying stop it, stop
25:13it, stop it all day long.
25:18They are the last. They are late to get
25:19to the bus because we are a tardy
25:21culture.
25:23college people's time, African people's
25:25time, Jamaican people's time
25:28because the household is loud every
25:31night with uncles and nieces and nephews
25:33and stepfathers and stepmothers all
25:35bundled under one roof. So the kid can't
25:37sleep, television is on. So the next
25:40morning he or she is tired, gets to the
25:42bus stop late or gets to class and
25:44sleeps. No law, no prayer, no religion,
25:48no legislation can ever change that.
25:51Impossible.
25:53during the co I saw the data I read it I
25:56saw it myself starting with Michigan LA
26:00Baltimore and all the black inner cities
26:03across this country they have to turn on
26:07teams Microsoft teams to do virtual
26:09classes by the end of the co
26:14the ratings both attendance and ratings
26:17had dropped in this country with people
26:2213 years old reading at a 5-year-old
26:26level because the discipline required
26:30for the child and her parents to be
26:32there to say hey John I've made your
26:34breakfast sit at a table flip up the
26:36micro Microsoft teams and sit down there
26:39looking at the screen for two hours
26:42requires a certain discipline which can
26:44only start from home at birth if you
26:46introduce schedule structure from birth
26:51to 3 to 6 to 9. Then the person at that
26:55age of 11 12 13 when COVID hit is able
26:58to sit and look on the screen knowing
27:00that his or her life depend on this
27:03academic achievement. Now I'm going to
27:06share something with you to clarify the
27:09point I'm trying to make. So one, I have
27:11identified the country that only screams
27:14disparity because of the relationship
27:16they have with the nonblacks.
27:20The non-blacks there are not the
27:23traditional immigrants like you find in
27:25any other places. So they can't scream
27:30disparity. Now take a bunch of black
27:35South African kids. if they should go to
27:37school in a predominantly white school
27:39in South Africa
27:42math let's say STEM right science
27:44technology uh and math
27:49and they are not doing well
27:52they will scream disparity they will
27:54blame someone for why black kids in
27:56South Africa are not doing well in those
27:59predominant Indian white schools they
28:01will say it is somebody who is making it
28:05Yes, they will say it.
28:09Take the same black kids from South
28:11Africa out of those schools and bring
28:13them to the United States of America,
28:17especially in these urban schools
28:20and graduate graduation. The same South
28:23African students who were not doing well
28:25in South Africa in the predominantly
28:26white and Indian schools suddenly are
28:29among top of the class in America. I've
28:32seen it.
28:34visit Bridgeport, Hartford, Waterbury,
28:36Baltimore, Maryland, DC
28:40and go to those urban high schools
28:43graduation day. If there are eastern um
28:46Asians, East Asians, Vietnamese,
28:48Laosians, Jamaicans, Nigerians,
28:51Ghanaians, they are among always the top
28:5510 that makes the passing.
28:59These are blacks
29:01in Bridgeport or in Connecticut where
29:03I've been in the school system. I've
29:06seen it
29:09when GE and Microsoft and all these big
29:11organizations come to give the academic
29:13scholarships is either a Haitian, a
29:15Jamaican, a Nigerian, a Ghanian
29:19or that is Indians. Yes.
29:22Then there is the other group that is
29:24screaming disparity.
29:26So you ask yourself,
29:29this white man or the white institution
29:32that makes sure that certain blacks do
29:34not pass or do well academically,
29:37how are they able
29:40to differentiate
29:43and the system they set up does not
29:44affect the Haitians, the Jamaicans, the
29:47Nigerians, and the Ghanaians in the
29:49classroom that they are able to pass.
29:53And it's only one uniform group. The
29:56only group in the United States of
29:58America that is not considered an
30:00immigrant group, African-Americans or
30:03black Americans or MBAs,
30:06they are the only group. They are not
30:08immigrants.
30:10Secondly, when you look at all the
30:14things that gave birth to why people are
30:16beating their chest asking for the
30:17police to be defunded in the last 70 uh
30:2050 years,
30:23nobody bags goes to the Caribbean.
30:26Nobody bags goes to Africa because
30:29racist white policemen killed black men.
30:33Because if you are from Africa or the
30:34Caribbean, you are black. The police
30:36don't know.
30:38Why is it that the fatalities
30:41that came out of these police encounter
30:44at traffic stops especially always
30:47happen to come from one particular group
30:49but they will scream disparity and
30:51nobody is asking the question about then
30:54how about the other blacks who live here
30:57who came here from their independent
30:59countries
31:02disparity if you apply it to groups
31:05especially as I spoke about like the
31:08United States and South Africa if you
31:10apply it it's a myth
31:14anything
31:16that no one can do anything about
31:19because the problem is not external
31:22if there is a problem at all the problem
31:26is internal so
31:29get rid of the 7.8 eight or eight% of
31:32whites in South Africa. Get rid of them
31:34as they did with their fellow African
31:37countries recently which they nicknamed
31:39xenophobia. All right? Get rid of the
31:43white people out of South Africa
31:48and suddenly
31:50the condition will remain the same but
31:54the world disparity will suddenly
31:56vanish.
31:59Apathide
32:01the condition has remained the same
32:05but the word has disappeared.
32:09So somebody else took the blunt for what
32:12could have been a power fight. Suddenly
32:14there is a disparity according to them
32:16between fellow Africans from Zimbabwe.
32:20Nigeria and Nigeria suffer the most.
32:24Do you see the point I'm trying to
32:26drive? Disparity is a myth. Cuz
32:30if you take the boogeyman out, the
32:32condition will remain the same.
32:36There are predominant black
32:38neighborhoods in America, churches,
32:41schools, you name it. The condition
32:45remains. So let's go from country to
32:48country. In 1976 or 77, Idi didn't use
32:52the word disparity. No, he could not
32:55understand it
32:57and he failed to recognize it that
33:00everything he was saying was not
33:02external, it was internal. The Indian
33:05had a certain discipline the Ugandans
33:07don't because the Indian sees themselves
33:09as Indians who came to Uganda
33:13from a source
33:16a reference culture
33:20with certain work ethics
33:23ability to innovate
33:26and some capabilities the indigenous
33:29don't have.
33:31It's internal my friends.
33:33My passion is until we develop a
33:37critical thinking and analytical
33:39reasoning ability in the 21st century in
33:43this age of massive instant information.
33:47We are doomed. Our children are doomed.
33:51Give up your hobbies playing golf and
33:53start thinking how can I develop a
33:56critical thinking ability?
34:00Our hope lies today in our ability to
34:05analytically reason about almost
34:07everything.
34:11We will change this world.
34:13It guarantees your own mental health
34:15first and foremost. And if you have that
34:18mental health balanced unemotional
34:22and start using your slow thinking
34:25process or system, your children will be
34:28happy wearing cheap sneakers.
34:33Your children will be happy well
34:35organized wearing humble dresses or
34:38clothing.
34:42Analytical reasoning,
34:45the only prescription required for the
34:4721st century massive instant information
34:50age.
34:53Otherwise, you are in for a bad ride and
34:57you would continue using and coining up
34:59words to explain phenomenas and those
35:03solutions have no problem they can
35:05solve.
35:11Let me repeat the key points.
35:15So Idiiamin then said to the Indians, I
35:18can't do anything about this phenomena.
35:20I look at my indigenous almost how many
35:22tribes are in Uganda? Heidi is of only
35:26one tribe. So he doesn't even look at
35:29the other tribes as equal. No, he
35:31doesn't.
35:35So he knew he couldn't do anything about
35:37the internal factors. So he asked the
35:39Indians to leave and he took what they
35:41have built
35:43and he thought if I give it to my people
35:48maybe things would balance off. Now the
35:51Indians who departed Uganda in 1977
35:56go look for them in Kenya, Tanzania, the
35:59UK, few came to the United States. They
36:02are all back to the level they were in
36:04Uganda when they were chased out and the
36:07Ugandans who inherited on civil platter
36:11what they build they are worse than zero
36:14when they took over we go to Zimbabwe
36:18Robert Mugab didn't understand the
36:20phenomena he couldn't call it
36:23disparities so he thought if I can just
36:28wholesale take everything from them and
36:30give it to my people. Hey, look, he
36:32loves his country. Why not?
36:36No, it went below. Oh, yeah. I know some
36:38people are going to scream sanctions.
36:41Took away what the white man built from
36:44scratch without
36:48and he continue today. The EFF.
36:54The same person who participated in the
36:56youth wing to say apartheite must come
36:58to an end is now saying I want economic
37:01freedom from a black government
37:05because there is a foreigner in that
37:08country who is not an immigrant cuz if
37:10he was an immigrant
37:13the word disparity would not exist just
37:16as it doesn't exist in Nigeria with lots
37:18of immigrants it doesn't exist in Ghana
37:20with lots of immigrants in fact in 1984
37:2379 84 the then revolutionaries John
37:27Jerry Rollins of Ghana also decided to
37:29follow in the footsteps of Mugab and
37:32Ugandan he chased away all the Lebanese
37:36they left under Rollins
37:41the condition didn't change my friends
37:44the condition didn't change
37:48even without the Lebanese it didn't
37:51change in Ghana have you seen the
37:53pattern I think this conversation is
37:55important for any young person out there
37:57who may have a leadership position
37:59tomorrow to think about it.
38:04You are not going to fill the prisons of
38:07America,
38:09even if they stop putting blacks in
38:11jail, whites are not going to take their
38:13place in prisons. Asians are not going
38:15to take their place in prisons.
38:19And even if you increase the prison
38:22population of white and Asians and
38:24Middle Eastern people in America that
38:25you start sending them to jail, it's not
38:28going to decrease the number
38:30of blacks who are going to jail. The
38:33condition would not change is what I
38:35mean because the factors are not
38:37external,
38:39they are internal.
38:42So the words like underserved population
38:44marginalized population disparities
38:48these delays
38:51not only that creates unnecessary
38:54anger.
38:58So now you have seen it starting with
39:00the United States like I said the three
39:03different types of blacks who live here
39:07two those from the Caribbean and those
39:09from the continent who voluntarily came
39:11here none has this problem. The very
39:15South African kid who may not pass in a
39:19predominant
39:20white school in South Africa would
39:23scream racism and apathide and
39:25xenophobia and disparity.
39:30If there is a black school next to it,
39:31they will say it's because the libraries
39:33are not well stocked up and the
39:35computers are not new enough. That's why
39:36our kids are failing.
39:40That same black kids if you bring them
39:43outside of South Africa to the United
39:45States I bet you they don't fail in the
39:47urban schools or the public schools in
39:48America they don't suddenly they are
39:51passing
39:53oh well from another path racist country
39:55South Africa they come to another racist
39:57country in America but here they are
39:59doing very well
40:01passing
40:03if you take the poverty of West African
40:05countries subsaharan countries the
40:06poverty there blaming it on some white
40:09systems outside their country, right?
40:11Neoconization, imperialism, what is it?
40:14Oh, stealing of our resources.
40:17But you take the bunch of that same
40:19population outside Africa, bring them to
40:22the United States, to the UK, Canada,
40:24whatever, and boom, they are doing well
40:27in classrooms. Have you seen a bunch of
40:29failing Nigerians in America
40:31academically? No.
40:34Have you seen a mass indicisipline among
40:37Ghanaians and egales Gambian Nigerian
40:39students in classrooms in public schools
40:41in America? No.
40:47We have to rethink the word disparity.
40:50Next time you hear it from anyone,
40:53go to your second thinking or slow
40:57thinking system and just put these
41:00questions to it.
41:02Don't try to defend it.
41:04Disparity among different races in the
41:07same country, it's a myth.
41:13If you take the the people away, the
41:17condition has always remained
41:22in the case of Zimbabwe, in the case of
41:24Uganda, in the case of Ghana and many
41:27more
41:28disparity. We've been fed
41:31by the captains and his schoolmates
41:35and he has caused everyone to stop
41:37looking within.
41:40And when you fail, you just scream. But
41:42you know I live in a community or in a
41:44country where the system has disparity.
41:49Take our attitude to health care. It's a
41:53cultural thing. If it's not broken, you
41:55don't fix it. I don't feel bad. Why
41:58should I go for an annual checkup? The
42:00insurance is there. It's free. The
42:02doctors, in fact, there are free centers
42:04where you just go today the Bahamas.
42:08Diabetics is killing people. You just
42:10wake up, fall down, and die. Jamaica
42:12diabetes, Haiti diabetes, Kenya
42:16diabetes.
42:18If you take a bunch of white people and
42:21make them become a visible population in
42:24Kenya, you would have a disparity
42:26suddenly between the health condition of
42:29these Danish or Finnish or Norwegians
42:34visav
42:35the locals. Diabetes is killing people
42:39in Kenya, in Africa.
42:44Bring in a group of foreigners from a
42:46different white or Asian country and
42:49boom, you're going to see clearly. Then
42:52you use the word disparity, which
42:54doesn't happen in these cases, but in
42:56the United States, it's only one group
42:58who don't see themselves as immigrants,
43:01right? So they see themselves holding
43:03the same place citizenship wise with the
43:07white people. So they think everything
43:09and anything the white person is getting
43:13or has I must have it too because we are
43:16not immigrants.
43:19We both are on the same level of
43:21citizenship. And this is what is
43:23informing me. Informing them saying then
43:25why do they have this and I don't have
43:28it?
43:30No.
43:31They brought you from somewhere
43:34and with it
43:36the baggage of culture,
43:40it never sheds itself away easily. It's
43:44in the system. You have to look within.
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