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0:00Hello and welcome to ZPR, Zano Project
0:03Rethink, and my name is Frank Zano. And
0:06today I bring you another monologue. Uh
0:08but this one is going to be intense
0:10because this topic really
0:14uh in fact, it was one of the topics
0:16that got me to start Project Rethink
0:20because um
0:21as a child and who got into primary
0:23school and high school in Africa, it was
0:26all we were fed with and we came to
0:28believe it and it became our almost like
0:32a battle hymn when everything is failing
0:35and it has never settled with me. And I
0:37have fought against that topic. Two
0:40topics, as you guys can see throughout
0:42my episodes, I have tried to hard to
0:46dismantle so that our kids would have
0:48some confidence of their own and tell
0:50their own stories. Those two topics are
0:52one, racism, and the second one is uh
0:56colonization. If you are in Africa
0:58growing up and things are not well,
1:00you're not getting a job, clinic and
1:02hospitals are empty, everything is
1:04stolen, the streets are bad, there's no
1:06safety and security, government members
1:09are stealing money, you say it is
1:11because of colonization.
1:14When man-made floods have killed people
1:17in Ghana, not because it's a disaster a
1:19natural disaster, no,
1:21people just don't understand or have
1:23information about sewage, drainage, and
1:27trash disposal. And they use plastic to
1:30seal their own sewage across the
1:32country. And then the rainy season comes
1:34and floods the entire city,
1:38the gateway to the country of Ghana,
1:40was nothing to look at.
1:44They'll say it's colonization.
1:47You see?
1:49But that is when you're living in Africa
1:50and things are not going well for you.
1:52And
1:52over 90% of the people live under what
1:55the international community consider to
1:57be
1:58poverty line. It's colonization.
2:01If you're outside Africa living in the
2:03Caribbean or as a African-American
2:06living in America or in the UK and you
2:08take a look at your people and their
2:10economic or social economic standard is
2:12not up to par as you may you want them
2:14to be, you said it's racism.
2:17If you're a Rastafarian living in
2:19Jamaica, it's Babylonian system.
2:23So, colonialism to the Africans who are
2:25struggling don't know what hit them.
2:27Racism to African-Americans and blacks
2:29who live in America who don't know what
2:31hit them.
2:33Babylonian system to the Caribbeans who
2:35don't know what hit them. And these are
2:37the three things I have been fighting
2:39against. I'm going to ask you to take a
2:41look at this video.
2:42Listen to this what this woman is saying
2:45to the world about Africans.
2:48And then I'll come with my own reaction.
2:50Just watch.
2:52>> To start with,
2:54when the colonizers came to Africa,
2:56we didn't have the issue of color.
2:59Black and white did not exist in our
3:02languages.
3:03We were Africans.
3:05The missionaries were sent in with
3:07specific instructions
3:09to make the Africans believe that
3:12everything African was bad and
3:14everything European was better and more
3:17desirable.
3:18They put in motion a process of making
3:21us dislike that which was ours and go
3:25out all out to embrace
3:28what the new invader was bringing to our
3:31beloved continent.
3:32I have to give it to them that they did
3:34a very good job at doing that.
3:37They hit us
3:40where it hurt the most, the mind.
3:44>> You see,
3:45just think about it. For someone to go
3:48on the international stage with a camera
3:50facing her
3:52and claim that
3:54colonials came to Africa
3:56and they were mandated to were given a
3:58clear job description. Go there and tell
4:01the Africans that their gods, their way
4:04of life, their traditions, their culture
4:06and customs, in fact,
4:09their being a human being alone is not
4:10good.
4:12It is the Europeans who have the
4:14standard of living that must be emulated
4:17by everyone else. That's what she's
4:19saying. So, the missionaries, according
4:21to her, came to Africa with this
4:23mandate, clear job description. In fact,
4:26I believe she thinks they were trained
4:28on how to do it.
4:29And she called it subliminal message
4:33that a black man is no good
4:35and it worked, according to her. She
4:37said, "Oh, they hit us where it hurt
4:40most,
4:41the mind." In fact, she stayed away from
4:44the brain because it'd be too
4:45biological, so she said the mind. Which
4:47means, according to her, the
4:48brainwashing program that the
4:50missionaries and colonials brought to
4:52Africa, the only place they hit us is
4:55the mind. They destroyed our mind.
5:00Really?
5:01I believe this woman has children. She
5:03has family.
5:05You go into a high school,
5:07a trained doctor who gained her medical
5:10education from the West,
5:13the United States of America,
5:15and you'll [snorts] be in a classroom in
5:16Zimbabwe or in any African country, and
5:19what you tell the high school students
5:20is that
5:21your brains here are all damaged. No
5:25good can come out of it. If they ask you
5:27why, you say missionaries and colonizers
5:29came here, they brainwashed you, that is
5:31why your brains are not working well in
5:33Africa. That's what this woman would
5:35tell them.
5:37No.
5:38No.
5:39I am going to give you guys what I
5:41called
5:42the trash bin analogy.
5:46The trash bin analogy.
5:49Did the Europe Did the European
5:50missionaries who came to this country
5:52who came to Africa, did they say, "Look,
5:54look to Christianity?" Yes, of course
5:56they did. That is what Christianity is
5:58about. That is what Islam is about and
6:00other religions will go around and
6:01telling people that our way of life will
6:04help you. Yes, they did. They told you.
6:07Did they tell you to get baptized
6:10by your own priest
6:11who are
6:12one of your own people? Yes, they did.
6:16Did they tell you to take European
6:17names? Yes.
6:18Did they teach and introduce European
6:20curriculum to the classrooms in Africa?
6:22Yes,
6:23they did.
6:25They didn't hold a gun to anybody's
6:26head. Anybody told you so, they're
6:28lying.
6:31The question is not the things he has
6:33listed that the European missionaries
6:34and colonizers did to us.
6:37No.
6:38That is known that they colonized our
6:39countries just
6:41as they colonized other countries
6:43outside Africa. And I'll come to that.
6:45So, they did come and colonize. Let's
6:48take for the sake of this conversation
6:49that all the things he said through some
6:53clever technique of sublime messaging,
6:55they got you to reject your gods and
6:58tear them off the walls, reject your
7:00traditions, your your customs, your
7:02names, your way of life, and accept that
7:05which came from outside. Let's accept
7:07for the sake of this conversation it
7:08were all true.
7:10An intelligent person would not go on
7:13repeating those things. An intelligent
7:15person would ask one simple question.
7:19Why did it work?
7:23Why didn't the same thing work on
7:25Indians who were colonized longer
7:28than Ghana and Nigeria and Benin and
7:30Togo were colonized?
7:32India alone, when it was put together,
7:34Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh were
7:37colonized a total of almost 81 years.
7:40Why didn't it work on these three
7:42different groups of people who were
7:44bounded together the same way different
7:46tribes in Ghana were bounded together by
7:48the British? Why didn't it work on them?
7:50Why didn't they throw away their
7:52traditions, customs, religion, names?
7:56When they colonized
7:58uh Korea, the Koreans were colonized by
8:00a Buddhist 100% Buddhist country, Japan,
8:03for 51 years, 49 to 51 years.
8:06Korea was colonized by a Buddhist
8:08country. But, I share something with
8:10you. Today, Korea is the only Asian
8:13country with the largest population of
8:15Christians. Jehovah Witness,
8:19Seventh-day Adventist,
8:21Pentecostal churches.
8:27Why?
8:29Why didn't Korea become
8:31a Buddhist country
8:33and take Japanese names? You think the
8:35Japanese didn't try? Well, they tried.
8:37So, let's go to Europe. When Russia, the
8:40only official formal atheistic country
8:43for 40 years or more, colonized Eastern
8:46European country, 14 of them, and
8:48imposed Russian language, their radio
8:49stations, their television stations,
8:51their theaters were all Russia Russia
8:54Russia at the time, Soviet Union.
8:57How come all the countries did not
8:59abandon their religion, their way of
9:01life, their customs?
9:03And the list goes on.
9:06Why did it work?
9:08Not with one or two or three countries
9:10in Africa,
9:11but with the entire continent. The
9:14question we should be asking is, why did
9:16it work?
9:19Simple.
9:20And that is where my trash bin analogy
9:24comes in. You see,
9:26when you have a trash bin and it's full
9:30with trash
9:32or with garbage or with debris,
9:34anything, any bin at all, any receptacle
9:38that is filled with content. When you
9:41try to throw something into it, you know
9:43what happens? The paper hits the top of
9:46the last item and rolls down the side of
9:49the bin.
9:51Because the bin is full.
9:55If the bin is not full, is empty, you
9:58throw anything, it goes into the
10:00receptacle.
10:03So, when they came to Africa,
10:06why did it work? It worked because you
10:08had nothing going. This is not an
10:10insult. There are cultures who just are
10:14known to be secular in a way that
10:17they are not attached to any one
10:18particular thing. Because I tell you the
10:19truth.
10:21If the gods you had on the walls had
10:23value to you and for generations have
10:26shown you that
10:28they give you inspiration, motivation,
10:30protection, and value,
10:33no matter what the British missionaries
10:36and colonials would do.
10:38Under duress, maybe you would pretend to
10:41accept their theirs for the period of
10:44time that their gun would be on your
10:46neck. It's been 70 years since the gun
10:50was removed and they went home.
10:53The reason it worked, my friends, is
10:55because the gods you grew up seeing, if
10:58there were any at all, hanging on the
11:00walls in your homes in Africa, had no
11:03value. And there were no gods hanging on
11:05the walls, by the way.
11:08Go to Zimbabwe, go to South Africa, go
11:11to many African countries and just ask
11:13them, "What was your gods that had an
11:16institutions and the prophets who came
11:19through those gods had language and
11:22material written for you to read and
11:24understand and become part of your
11:27existence?" Nothing like that.
11:30It was all mythology and superstitions.
11:34Mermaids hiding in water.
11:37Somebody having an autistic episode,
11:39they said, "Oh, no, she's married to a
11:42water mermaid."
11:44Rainbow gods, gods in the sky because we
11:48were folklore, we couldn't explain many
11:51of the things around us. So, we created
11:53these mythologies.
11:56If we had something inside us that was
11:59of value, we understood it, we were part
12:01of it, and it has proven through our
12:05uh lineage, great-great-grandfathers,
12:09that if we hold on to this thing, it
12:11helps us. There is no way what they gave
12:13us would be accepted. We accepted what
12:15they gave us because when they arrived,
12:18there was nothing. We didn't have a
12:20language, we didn't have an alphabet, we
12:22didn't have no theories and philosophies
12:24and ways of thinking. We didn't.
12:28We didn't. Go and look it up. There is
12:31no photograph or drawings of 1649
12:34Africa.
12:36If there were, it looked like Chaba
12:39from the Tanzania tribe who is now
12:41trending on social media. There is
12:43nothing to be shameful about that. Are
12:45they not enjoying Chaba now? Yes, they
12:47are. That is the trash being analogy,
12:50and it confuses people. Why did we
12:52accept it?
12:54She knows very well that she has woken
12:56up every day with that question on her
12:58mind, "Why did we accept it? Why did it
13:01work?" But, she dare not ask because she
13:03doesn't know the answer.
13:05And when you don't know the answer, then
13:07you have to replace "I don't know the
13:09answer" with some bogus answer, which
13:12does nothing good
13:14but demoralize children, make them look
13:17stupid when they are with others who are
13:18not like them.
13:20We got to stop it. This slavery blaming
13:23for 70 years.
13:26No country on earth today. You wouldn't
13:29meet Singaporeans or South Koreans or
13:32anyone.
13:34South Koreans accepted Christianity. You
13:37know why? Because after the war, any
13:39place that is ravaged by war, of course,
13:41Christians flood in there with blankets
13:43and powder milk and other support.
13:47Including
13:49the word of God.
13:50It's up to you whether you like it or
13:51not. And many places accepted this word
13:54of God, like Korea, like many other
13:56places outside Africa, and became
13:58Christians. Let me take you back to the
13:59Greeks era. Era. They were myth
14:03and superstitious.
14:05They created gods, Apollo, Zeus, you
14:07name it.
14:09And they hang on to it.
14:11They were colonized, weren't they?
14:14Yes, brutally.
14:17But you will never meet anyone from
14:20Eastern Europe, Central Europe, anywhere
14:22in Europe that is today using
14:24colonization to explain any of their
14:26problems. No. Of the 46 countries in
14:29Europe, almost 30 to about 40 of them
14:33were formally colonized countries.
14:39Of the almost 48 countries in Asia, 35
14:42of them were formally colonized
14:44countries.
14:48And you know how many countries in the
14:50Middle East were formally colonized? 14
14:52countries.
14:54Which means that the three major of this
14:56world continents, none has escaped
14:59colonization.
15:00Australians, New Zealand, the United
15:02States, Canada, which you all Africans
15:05are flocking to go to in seeking refugee
15:08asylum and run away from persecution,
15:11this and that, lie as you can to get
15:13citizenship.
15:15They were colonized.
15:19You run to colonize formally colonized
15:21countries. Not by any stranger. The same
15:24countries were colonized by Britain just
15:26as they colonized you.
15:29But you won't stop using this
15:30colonization
15:32as a reason for Africa to be where it
15:34is.
15:36And then when you look at this first
15:38video she just played, I'll play you a
15:40second video where she finally
15:42contradicted herself on a painful level.
15:45Listen to it.
15:47>> The African mind must change. We need
15:50more people like this young man here.
15:53Because what is happening in Africa
15:55today is unacceptable.
15:57We can't take care of ourselves.
15:59We have the largest arable land on the
16:01continent and yet in some countries we
16:03are importing food.
16:05I sit in some meetings. I will be very
16:07honest with you. I am embarrassed
16:10when you look at the things that we are
16:12doing as Africans. It's unacceptable.
16:15So yes, at the African Union level we
16:17are talking about regional and
16:19continental integration. The buzz is
16:21there. We all know what needs to be done
16:24in order for Africa to move forward.
16:27>> Imagine.
16:29When I'm with my colleagues in meetings,
16:31I feel embarrassed when the African
16:33problem come up. Why would you feel
16:35embarrassed? Let me ask, for example,
16:38if you have a child and your child is
16:41suffering from malnutrition because of
16:44some sickness. She's thin and very weak.
16:48Would you be embarrassed
16:50when you and your child are outside in
16:52public? You know very well that her
16:55condition was caused by some natural uh
16:59sickness. Why would you be embarrassed?
17:01No, you don't No one feels embarrassed
17:03for something they did not cause.
17:08Embarrassment is when you could have
17:11done something but failed woefully for
17:13one or two reasons and couldn't do it
17:15properly. Then you say, "Oh, I feel so
17:17embarrassed right now." Let's say for
17:19example, you met someone
17:22who was once your supervisor or a very
17:24good friend, but you have not seen each
17:26other for a long time,
17:28and you couldn't recognize the person
17:31until the person have to refresh your
17:33memory. You say, "I feel so embarrassed.
17:36I am supposed to recognize you."
17:40But, why did she say that when she's at
17:42meetings and the African issue comes up,
17:44she feels embarrassed?
17:47She feel embarrassed, she's right, but
17:49she didn't tell us the real reason she
17:51feel
17:52embarrassed.
17:54She feel embarrassed because she knows
17:56she wakes up every day, in her own
17:58privacy, she asks this question
18:00constantly,
18:02"Why are we the way we are?"
18:05And when she does that,
18:06colonialism doesn't come to her mind.
18:09No, she know damn well she's traveled
18:12and she's seen just everywhere she's
18:14seen black, whether in Europe, in
18:17America where she schooled, in Asia
18:19where she travels for work,
18:21in her own country,
18:23she sees it to the point that she's been
18:25asking this question secretly, "Why are
18:28we the way we are?" But, here is it, she
18:30can never accept
18:33that it's because
18:35that is who we are.
18:37No, no, no, because she thinks she can't
18:39tell her colleagues who are from
18:41Singapore, a once colonized country. Her
18:43colleagues she meets at meetings who are
18:45from Malaysia, a once colonized country.
18:48Her colleagues she met in the United
18:49States when she was a permanent
18:51representative to the AU,
18:54from India, she couldn't tell them.
18:56But, they were also colonized. She
18:58couldn't tell her friends or colleagues
18:59she meets from New Zealand, Australia,
19:01Fiji Island, because who were also once
19:04colonized. She couldn't tell them that
19:06it's because we are this way because of
19:09who we are. She couldn't. She think that
19:12would make her not respected.
19:14But that is not true at all.
19:16In fact, what she has just done in that
19:18video is what makes people around the
19:21world not to respect the black man.
19:24Either the ones who live in the United
19:25States and blaming racism for their own
19:28foolishness in terms of broken homes,
19:31youth who are on chain and behaving like
19:33animals in the streets, taking over
19:35cities across this country, breaking
19:37into stores and stealing goods and cause
19:39smash and grab, or just fighting and
19:41tearing each other's hair and they don't
19:44know why they do these things. So, they
19:46blame racism.
19:48Or you the African
19:50who is not able to maintain a simple
19:52drainage in your own country, build a
19:54public toilet, or maintain a government
19:56budget and use it as described.
20:01So, you use colonization.
20:03These two reasons, these two excuses we
20:05make is why the world just cannot
20:09respect a black man.
20:12Let me give you an example.
20:14If you, John, is an alcoholic, why is he
20:17an alcoholic?
20:18John wakes up in the morning with what
20:21we call liquid medication. He finishes a
20:23bottle of vodka before 4:00 p.m. on
20:25everyday basis. Of course, he's an
20:27alcoholic.
20:29If John goes into any counseling session
20:31or
20:33you know, support group session,
20:35and someone says, "John, why are you an
20:38alcoholic?"
20:39And John says, "No, I'm not alcoholic.
20:41It is my great grandfather or my
20:43grandfather who made me this way."
20:46You think John will receive respect and
20:49sympathy from the group? No.
20:53No, he's not taking responsibility.
20:56He's not self-aware.
20:58That man, John, the alcoholic,
21:01cannot even begin to think about
21:04intervention. It's impossible if the
21:06person keeps saying it is my
21:08grandfather.
21:11Now, compare that to
21:12if the group says, "John, you alcoholic,
21:15you drink a bottle of vodka
21:17every day." And John says, "Yes,
21:21I am alcoholic
21:23and I'm working on it."
21:25These two scenarios, which one do you
21:26think would attract sympathy and respect
21:29for John? Of course, the latter one.
21:32It's called a man who is self-aware,
21:35who is willing
21:37to allow himself an intervention.
21:40A man who is working on his own problems
21:43at his own time
21:45with no shame and doesn't point fingers.
21:48So, the second John will be respected.
21:50This woman, if he had gone to Singapore
21:52at a conference and anybody at all
21:55should bring up the African problem and
21:57she simply tells them, "There's nothing
21:59really wrong in Africa.
22:01What you see, our conditions, what we
22:03have been able to build is simply based
22:04on who we are
22:06and our abilities." You think they would
22:08not be respected? Then, standing at a
22:11conference in Singapore
22:13and saying, "We throw We throw trash on
22:16the streets in our countries.
22:19We don't dispose
22:20trash at the appropriate places in our
22:23countries.
22:24Our government
22:27misuses budget meant to provide
22:29infrastructure to the citizens in our
22:31countries.
22:32All because we were once colonized."
22:36You think people would stand up and give
22:37her
22:38an applause?
22:40How has colonization ever caused this?
22:44Look at this environment
22:47in one of the countries in East Africa.
22:49Where on Earth
22:51that was ever colonized outside Africa
22:54do you see this kind of sanitation havoc
22:57caused by colonization?
23:00You said that
23:02the missionaries were trying to change
23:04you to be like them.
23:06But they never lived in this condition.
23:09Take a look at Accra.
23:12This, the Ghanaian government and the
23:14president held a press conference to
23:16inform the citizens of his country about
23:18a couple of months ago.
23:20According to his words,
23:22this is not an engineering problem.
23:25This is about neglect and citizens not
23:29disposing of trash properly, especially
23:31plastic.
23:34President John Mahama declared, the
23:36question is,
23:38where is the entire cabinet?
23:40The municipal assembly or district
23:44offices?
23:45How many years have they turned a blind
23:48eye
23:49until these plastics piled to the point
23:52of causing a national havoc of flooding?
23:55You are blaming the citizens for being
23:58for the ones who dispose plastic
24:00indiscriminately.
24:02But the question is, how many years has
24:06the government come and go?
24:08Politicians come and go, inspectors come
24:10and go, and nobody saw the danger. If it
24:14didn't flood, you wouldn't talk about
24:16it, which means nobody in that country
24:20knows anything about what they are
24:22doing. And colonization definitely
24:25doesn't create that kind of mindset.
24:28But let's look at what
24:30the story is. I'm going to give you a
24:32story.
24:34And it did happen.
24:36It is an important story.
24:39I plead, do not
24:41do anything but listen to this story.
24:44>> At least three people have been killed
24:46after torrential rains triggered severe
24:48flooding across Ghana's capital, Accra.
24:51Emergency crews used boats to rescue
24:54trapped residents, including at least 15
24:56children and an infant as rising
24:58floodwaters submerged homes, roads, and
25:01vehicles. Authorities say one man
25:03drowned in Alajo District.
25:06>> Once upon a time,
25:09two different shoe companies
25:12two different shoe companies sent
25:15their salesmen to a remote village
25:18somewhere in Africa or somewhere
25:22to see how they can create new market
25:26for the shoe company.
25:28So, two different shoe companies,
25:29competition, they arrived each
25:32shoe salesman or whatever scout to this
25:35village.
25:37Everybody in that village was walking
25:40around barefooted.
25:43Are you listening? Follow this story.
25:46So, the two salesmen arrive in that
25:48village and observed every single person
25:52in that village was walking around
25:54barefooted.
25:57So, the first shoe shoe salesman from
25:59company A wrote to the nearest post
26:02office and fired home a telegram. He
26:06goes, "Please, withhold shipment. Do not
26:10send shipment. These people do not like
26:15shoes."
26:17The second shoe salesman rushed to the
26:20post office and fired home a telegram
26:23saying to his company, "Please, increase
26:27shipment. Add more one more container.
26:30These people are in dire need of shoes."
26:34One condition, two observations.
26:37Which one of these two do you think
26:40is correct?
26:42You see, in your mind, you are rushing
26:45to get the answer. Already, you are
26:47thinking of the two.
26:50Some of you are thinking of the second
26:52person.
26:53That is what caused the problem in the
26:55first place for the two of them.
26:58What do you think is missing
27:00from the observation made by these two
27:03different shoe salesmen? What do you
27:05think is missing?
27:07Information. What type of information?
27:12What is missing from their behavior?
27:16Curiosity.
27:19Curiosity.
27:21Cultures where there is a very, very
27:24minimal behavior in curiosity, they rush
27:28to conclusions. You find those in
27:30cultures that are highly superstitious
27:33and full of myths.
27:35These two people were educated in a
27:38Western system or in an African system
27:41or in an Asian system, but the one thing
27:44they are missing is that educational
27:46system that does not include the healthy
27:49dose of curiosity that must be brought
27:52to everything and anything. Cuz if they
27:55were educated, you see, one is the
27:58classroom education, the other one is
28:01the healthy street education that comes
28:03from folk wisdom, create curiosity. You
28:07find those You find a high curious
28:10cultures as those who have limited or
28:13minimal superstition and mythologies.
28:16There was a comedian, and this is where
28:18I hate comedy, that has some important
28:20messages that comedians carry. But you
28:24see, because they said, "I'm going to a
28:25comedy show," the audience are waiting
28:28for the punchline when they can burst
28:29out laughing because they paid to laugh,
28:32and they miss some very important
28:34lessons and information in comedy.
28:37Recently, I came across
28:40uh a YouTube or TikTok, I can't remember
28:42where, and this comedian was talking
28:44about the behavior that is different
28:46between white people and black people.
28:49He said, "Black people, all they have to
28:52see is somebody running and they start
28:55running also before when they go get far
28:58away, then they stop and said, 'What was
29:00that?'"
29:01There is no curiosity. In such kind of
29:03cultures,
29:04they have very minimal level of
29:07curiosity.
29:09It's true.
29:10Those of you from Africa, whether you're
29:12from the southern part, the eastern,
29:13western, or northern part of Africa,
29:15this is very true among us.
29:20We see something that is strange. For
29:22us, we've been taught by our folk that
29:25strange means danger.
29:28That's it.
29:29There is nothing I should be curious
29:31about. If it is strange, it's dangerous.
29:33So, when something is strange, you first
29:36run away, far away where you cannot find
29:38any information about that thing, and
29:40then you stop and you say, "What was
29:41that?"
29:43And they are asking each other, but they
29:44all run away anyway.
29:46You go to societies and cultures where
29:48there is a higher level of healthy
29:50curiosity.
29:51When something is strange, that is when
29:53they dust themselves to get close first
29:56to see,
29:57gather some information. If the
29:58information is not pleasant, then they
30:00run.
30:01If it is,
30:02so for those cultures that are highly
30:04curious, strange means new information.
30:09To cultures that are very highly
30:12not suspicious, but full of superstition
30:14and mythology, strange means danger.
30:19So, to this woman who come from one of
30:20those cultures, which is the
30:22poly-chronic culture of Africa,
30:24for her, colonization that other
30:27countries saw it as danger and strange,
30:31but embrace it, collect information
30:33about it. That is why today the formerly
30:35colonized and the colonizer have very
30:38healthy, good friendship.
30:42That is why when you see them talk, they
30:43never use it as anything. Because they
30:46came to understand what it meant.
30:48And when they did that, they knew what
30:50to tap out of colonization.
30:53But not for us.
30:55There is zero curiosity in our culture.
30:58So, things like colonization is now
31:00deemed as strange behavior, therefore it
31:03was dangerous. And you have to cook up
31:05and cook up and cook up all kinds of
31:06things
31:08just to support it.
31:10It is unhealthy.
31:11This woman, when those of you who go
31:14into my comment section to say, "Stop
31:16bashing blacks."
31:18If you really understand English and
31:20understand the word bashing, what she
31:22did in the first video is what it mean
31:24it meant bashing your own people.
31:27This woman just told the whole world
31:29that her people, Africans, blacks,
31:33have no brain left
31:35because the experience of the colonial
31:38system.
31:40Those of you cheering her and thinking,
31:42"Oh, she spoke something for me. Now
31:43when I go out, people will have sympathy
31:45for me." No, people will see you as an
31:48idiot. The woman just informed the
31:50entire world that the African black man
31:53have no brain because the missionaries,
31:56the colonizers, hit us intentionally
31:59where it hurts. I'm quoting her
32:00verbatim.
32:02The mind.
32:04Contradiction
32:06she then goes, "Even though we didn't do
32:08this to ourselves, if it didn't happen
32:10at all."
32:11When she's at meetings, she feels
32:12embarrassed. Contradiction number two,
32:15she's now calling on Africans that she
32:17claimed they were hit where it hurts,
32:20the brain, the mind,
32:22to come together and form one voice, and
32:25let's stand together. How can a people
32:28with two legs and two hands, long legs
32:30and muscles, but no brains are able to
32:33come together and form one voice over
32:35what mandate?
32:38Dr. Chimbori.
32:41I thought you would spend your time on
32:43the video to tell the African, from your
32:45experience as a medical doctor, when
32:47people are hit where it hurts, which is
32:49the mind, and kill it.
32:52I thought you would spend this video
32:54informing the African
32:56what steps
32:59what exercise, what food, what medicine
33:01to take so the brain can grow back so
33:03they can function.
33:05But he jumped from saying that their
33:06brains are damaged from colonization,
33:09subliminal messages, brainwashing, and
33:11then call on them to suddenly do some
33:13magic, come together and have one voice.
33:16One voice around what topic?
33:19So, this woman is saying every year we
33:21spend good money by the taxpayer
33:25for 54 head of states to gather in
33:28Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, in a building
33:31that was gifted to them by China, called
33:34the African Union headquarters. An
33:36entire building bugged
33:39with listening devices by China.
33:42And yet they have no brains.
33:45The same group of people who she claimed
33:47colonization hit them where it hurts,
33:49the mind, damaged it, brainwashed, can't
33:52function properly. Those people came
33:54together and picked this woman to become
33:57the African Union permanent
33:59representative to the United States of
34:01America. No wonder she failed her job
34:04and they fired her.
34:06Or the dead brain people fired her.
34:10So, ask yourself.
34:14When you go out to seek for job, whether
34:15you are in the
34:17in Europe or in America or in Caribbean,
34:19anywhere, from Africa, as a black
34:21person, and you go to non-black
34:23countries seeking for jobs, and they
34:25take a take a look at you twice.
34:27When you're a black doctor sent into a
34:29room and And patient says, "Can't you
34:31get me a white doctor?" I say, "That is
34:33racism." No, it's not racism.
34:36Dr. Chimbouri just informed the world
34:38that colonization killed our brains.
34:42So, why would any investor in his right
34:45mind head straight to Africa
34:48to pour his good old money investment
34:51into that country where a very respected
34:54doctor who traveled the United States,
34:56studied in the United States, became a
34:58diplomat is telling the world, "My
35:00people were hit where it hurts, the
35:03mind, brainwashed to forego and leave
35:06everything that was good in their
35:08culture and grab that is not good from
35:10Europe. Only a dead-brained people would
35:13do so. Wouldn't you agree with me?" Now,
35:15do you see why people look at you? They
35:17don't trust that you can do the job, you
35:19call it racism? No. You, each and every
35:22one of you with a megaphone is informing
35:24the world that we black people are
35:26dead-brained. Some say, "Through
35:28slavery." Oh, yes. But Marley informed
35:31you, you want to be respected,
35:33emancipate you from mental slavery. But
35:35he didn't tell you how to do it. He told
35:37the whole world, "His people in Jamaica
35:40and the blacks, we all in mental
35:42slavery."
35:43And yet, the world should forget that
35:45and respect us and accept us and give us
35:47very challenging jobs and positions.
35:52This woman believe that her lineage and
35:54grand great-grandparents were
35:56brainwashed and hit where it hurts, the
35:58brain, the mind. Done, gone. Europeans
36:01took it away.
36:03But when she wanted to reclaim it, do
36:05you know where she went to?
36:06She went to the same person who
36:08brainwashed her
36:09and studied in their country to become a
36:11medical doctor. I will not give my
36:13finger to her to fix it.
36:18Do you see
36:20how these quick unguided
36:23narratives that you think you're saying
36:26something to make the people look bad.
36:30Indeed,
36:31you're destroying your own people. No
36:33wonder the world sees us and can't
36:35respect us.
36:37For what we ourselves admit
36:41that we are.
36:43No sensible investor will go into that
36:46in No wonder the Chinese come into your
36:48country. They don't even employ you.
36:51They bring their own kind from the
36:52villages
36:54to do things as simple as being a gate
36:57man at a construction site.
37:00When I was living in Kenya,
37:03uh his name is Matiang'i, I believe,
37:06minister. He was formerly the Minister
37:07of Education, and then they made him the
37:09Minister of Interior. One day he was on
37:11social media screaming, "I don't like
37:14what is going on. I don't like what is
37:15going on." He said he went to a a
37:18Chinese construction site in Nairobi,
37:21and the gate man who allowed the trucks
37:23to come in and go out
37:26was a Chinese.
37:28And Matiang'i's question was, "How can't
37:31they employ a Kenyan to do that job?"
37:35No, they wouldn't, Mr. Matiang'i,
37:37because according to Dr. Chimbori,
37:40the colonial masters, which didn't
37:41include China and Japan and Korea and
37:43all these people,
37:45they hit us where it hurt, our mind. And
37:49she said, "I will give it to them. They
37:51know how to do it. They did it through
37:53sublime messages here and there, gave us
37:56white gods. But you see, what you did
37:59not understand,
38:03you have nothing.
38:06Think about it this way. Even a blind
38:08man knows when you give him a currency,
38:11a note, paper note. Some of them rub it
38:13and they can tell if it's $20, $50, or
38:15$100. Well, let's say two people who are
38:18not blind, they can see.
38:20I have $100 in my hands, you have $10 in
38:23your hands.
38:24They are both paper, isn't it? Yes, they
38:27are they are both paper. But there is
38:29something on that paper that makes one
38:31have more value than the other.
38:34A simple figure.
38:3610 and 100. If you are giving your 10 to
38:39me
38:41saying I should exchange it with my 100,
38:43I will say no, simple. Mine has more
38:46value than yours.
38:48Yes.
38:49Paper.
38:52But a 100 has more value.
38:54But if I agree to say, "Oh, yeah, you're
38:57right. They're just paper." And I gave
38:59you my $100 and collected your $10 and
39:02walk away smiling, something is wrong
39:05with my brain that I don't see value in
39:08what I had. That is what happened. If
39:11there was something valuable in what we
39:14had, it was in building us, it guided
39:17us.
39:19There is everything showing that while
39:21we were coming on as human beings in
39:22Africa, this is what made us strong and
39:25vigilant and diligent and determined.
39:28There is no way anyone who came to
39:31Africa would have told you to leave your
39:33name and you jump on his name, Jonathan
39:35Goodluck. Double English name makes you
39:38a better man.
39:40There's no way anyone coming from any
39:43place would tell you, "Your kinky hair
39:45is not good enough." And he repeated it
39:47so much that you you said, "Yes, it's
39:49not. It doesn't make me look beautiful
39:51because you saw beauty in" Nobody ever
39:54tells anybody,
39:56"Look at me. I'm more beautiful than
39:58you."
40:00We just have to take a step back and
40:02examine why some of our early what do
40:05you call them?
40:06Independent fathers and scholars and
40:08writers and people like her
40:11started picking this word
40:13and they will never leave it. And yet,
40:15like I said,
40:1746 countries in Europe, almost if not 35
40:20to 38
40:22were formerly colonized. Okay? You will
40:24say Europeans and Europeans.
40:26Asia,
40:27it was Europeans who colonized some of
40:29those countries in Asia,
40:32including Singapore, Malaysia,
40:33Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India.
40:37You think they didn't impose the same
40:38conditions telling them that
40:40Christianity was better than whatever
40:42and that
40:43if they
40:45their white gods were better, if they do
40:46this is better. Yes, they did the same
40:48thing. They were missionaries and
40:50colonizers. If they played the same
40:51trick on Africans, then they played it
40:53on all other places, including the 14
40:55countries that were colonized in the
40:57Middle East.
40:58All you need to be to do as an African
41:00is look outside Africa.
41:03Since you've made the word Africa become
41:05synonymous with colonization, the
41:07colonized, as if nobody else went
41:09through this phenomena.
41:11All you have to do is look into these
41:13countries that were once colonized and
41:14ask yourself,
41:18how come they are not today, as we
41:20speak, contemporary of countries?
41:23Why are they not inflicted with what you
41:26are inflicted? What is special about
41:28you? Nothing. Colonization is
41:30colonization.
41:33Establishing a foreign administration of
41:35a different legend on other people, as
41:38simple as that, to either extract
41:40resources so they want to or create
41:42markets for their companies.
41:45Why did Singapore come out trashing
41:47their streets, fighting in the streets,
41:49stealing, lying,
41:52destroying their countries? Why didn't
41:54in Malaysia, Indonesia, why not South
41:57Korea?
41:58They are largely Christians. They took
42:02the Western man's religion, accepted it.
42:05Oh, let me tell you, Paul Yonggi, later
42:08on his name changed to Paul Saul or Saul
42:11Chong. He's a Korean. When I was living
42:13in Korea, every Sunday is 5,000 people,
42:15including the United States ambassador.
42:18It's an island
42:22where he had his church.
42:24Beautiful church. It was the first time
42:25I saw streaming of church, two screens
42:28outside.
42:31Yonggi Paul, yes. I think he passed
42:32away.
42:35Was Korean.
42:36But his country was colonized by a
42:38Buddhist country.
42:40But Korea being Christians largely in
42:42Asia, but look at them. Majority of
42:44Africans are now in Korea
42:47cleaning trash on the streets.
42:50Why didn't it happen to the other
42:51colonized countries? Is the question you
42:53need to ask. But like I said earlier,
42:56in polychronic cultures where strange
42:59means danger, they saw the phenomena of
43:02colonization by strangers like white
43:05people to be strange and therefore is
43:07dangerous. And when it's dangerous, you
43:08have to cook up something to replace it,
43:10which means from now going on, my
43:13friends, nothing happening in Ghana,
43:16Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali, anywhere,
43:20would the people ever look within
43:23to find out is it that we don't know how
43:27to do it
43:28or you simply this is who we are.
43:32We don't build industrialized countries.
43:35By this admission, you'll be respected.
43:38That is only when people will think of
43:41an intervention for you.
43:44But if John keeps saying,
43:46"I finish a bottle of vodka every day,
43:48but I'm not alcoholic. It's my
43:50grandfather."
43:52No one,
43:54even the kindest of all human beings,
43:56would not think of an intervention for
43:59John
44:00because the lack of acknowledgment
44:03of who you are
44:07is the closed gate to any if there is a
44:11raw solution?
44:13If the African is too ashamed to simply
44:15say, "Oh, no, no, no. What you see in my
44:17country
44:19is just what we are." Cuz if you are not
44:23that,
44:24then how come it's possible you are
44:26behaving that way?
44:29People are just what they are, who they
44:32are.
44:34You trash your cities, that is who you
44:36are. That is why it is a common
44:38phenomena from the Caribbean to even the
44:41United States of America where blacks
44:42have lived for 500 years, they still
44:44trash their cities, including what you
44:47just seen in the video. So, my question
44:49to you, what is different from one
44:52colonized people and another? Nothing.
44:56Except
44:58like the two salesmen,
45:00you are not curious enough.
45:05For the black man, he runs away first
45:08and then determine flight or fight.
45:11The majority of the time,
45:14they are fighting.
45:17We are not curious.
45:20And that is why not a single problem
45:23in Ghana or West Africa, East Africa,
45:26Southern Africa for the last 75 years,
45:31not a single problem
45:33has woken up to see
45:36the light of day of the solution.
45:40No.
45:41We, the only continent
45:44who has not been able to solve a single
45:47problem internally for ourselves,
45:49political, social, economic, culturally,
45:53geographically, zero. We haven't been
45:55able to. You know why? Not because we
45:57are stupid or dumb or slow.
46:00There's one thing we don't know about
46:01us.
46:03We don't understand our own culture.
46:06We are the most information starved
46:08continent on Mother Earth.
46:12Because we don't collect information.
46:15Why? Because we are from a poly-chronic
46:17culture.
46:19Curiosity killed the cat. That word was
46:22made for us.
46:29That's why we don't engage a lot in
46:31extreme sports.
46:35And where there is no curiosity, my
46:37friends,
46:39technological innovation,
46:41intellectual innovation,
46:44zero.
46:45And that is the continent of Africa. No
46:48intellectual innovation,
46:50no technological innovation. Not because
46:53the people are poor, stupid, slow. No.
46:56We are strong people.
46:58Curiosity is absent.
47:01We are left with muscles.
47:03And this woman didn't understand her own
47:05culture, which means she's not
47:06self-aware.
47:09The first books published in any culture
47:11outside Africa were books to deal with
47:15the human psychology.
47:17Namely in Greece, in the Roman, in the
47:20European, in the Asian, in the Middle
47:21East. They are so constantly always
47:24curious
47:27about the human psychological dynamics.
47:30That is why most of the early
47:32philosophers named Plato and Aristotle
47:34and Plato and all of them, Schopenhauer,
47:36they all talked about things to do with
47:39human behavior.
47:41They were curious. They never condemned.
47:44They said, "Why do we behave this way?"
47:47Us, we are quick to point to the dark
47:51area. There is somebody, something over
47:54there
47:56who is causing
47:57what is happening.
47:59I end with the story.
48:01There was a village with a king.
48:03The village wasn't do no skilled workers
48:05in that village. They can't even
48:08put on a roof on a new build a newly
48:10built house.
48:12When it rains, they could not even
48:16do what is called rain collection.
48:20So, every time there is a harvest, the
48:22food get harvested and the chief will
48:24come to town.
48:27The next village
48:29has skilled workers.
48:31Constantly roofing and renewing their
48:34roofs, harvesting, doing rain
48:36collection.
48:38The chief over here
48:40so ashamed,
48:42so jealous, he asked the goons of his
48:45village, you know, go and destroy that
48:46village for me.
48:48The goons went and they destroyed the
48:50village completely, destroyed it.
48:54A year later,
48:55harvest time came. The raining came and
48:58they needed new roofs. Nobody was found.
49:01The roofs the the buildings were all
49:03without roof.
49:05Crops were dying in the farming and he
49:06called his people and said, "What is
49:08going on? Why are these houses not
49:11roofed?" And somebody leaned on and
49:13whispered,
49:14"Because for the years past, sir,
49:18it was that village people who used to
49:20come and help with the roofing and the
49:22harvesting.
49:23The village you asked us to destroy."
49:27I leave you with this. In 2026,
49:30if you are anywhere between the ages of
49:3219 and 25, stay away from this message
49:35shared by Dr. Ching
49:38She's asking you to destroy,
49:41bite off,
49:42if you can,
49:44the very cultures and societies
49:46that made it possible for her to become
49:48a medical doctor. But she's asking you
49:50to destroy it.
49:52And then we turn around when you don't
49:53have any more
49:55and be saying, "Why don't we have
49:56doctors?" Sir, because you asked us to
49:59destroy the very societies that used to
50:02train our doctors.
50:05She was one of the people who was
50:07screaming like a chicken when USAID was
50:10shut down in the African countries.
50:12Please help join this fight.
50:15We need to end this victim mentality,
50:19especially when you see it coming from
50:20people of her status
50:24living contradiction to herself.
50:27Destroyed by colonial mentality,
50:29according to her brainwashed, and then
50:31rushes to the very source from where the
50:33brainwash came when she wanted to become
50:34a medical doctor.
50:36So, this is a brainwashed medical
50:37doctor.
50:39I don't know how she practices.
50:41But, this
50:43all jokes beside,
50:45please help stop this conversation. It's
50:49making us look stupid and stupid every
50:52day.
50:53And that is my monologue of monologue
50:55for today. I'm Frank Zano from ZPL.
50:58Don't forget to subscribe and follow us
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51:02Please, I want to hear what you think
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