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The word ruthless is regarded as a negative, when used to describe
somebody's action. But to me, that word ruthless is a very positive word.
And that is why I decided to be ruthlessly frank about the Black Race in my
book, Capitalist Nigger: The Road to Success. No more hiding what people
would say about us. Their opinion is irrelevant and meaningless. Our
situation is critical and we need drastic action if we are to begin to
discover and cure the seemingly insurmountable virus devouring our whole
organs of life. The first bitter truth we have to accept, as I charged in my
book, is that the Black Race, as now constituted and though as endowed as
the others, is a non-productive race. We have to accept the fact that the
Black Race, as constituted, basically is a consumer race, depending on other
communities for our culture, our language, our feeding and our clothing. 
And despite our abundance of natural resources, we are economic slaves
because we lack the "killer-instinct and devil-may-care attitude" of the
Caucasian and the "spider web economic mentality" of the Asian. The Black
Race is the most hospitable race of people I have ever seen. We will not
have any difficulty throwing out our own brothers or sisters just to
accommodate any other race, other than our own. We will rather be poor, let
our guests be comfortable. 
But let me be totally sincere with you here. I am tired of a people who have
one mind set, complain and whine about what others do to us. We complain and
complain and whine and whine ad nauseam about what others have done to us
and are still doing to us. We think the world owes us something. I am sorry
to say that we are delusional. Nobody owes us a thing. Nobody is willing to
give up what they have, on the excuse that we want it. If you want something
you have to go out and get it. You cannot continue to beg for manna to fall
from heaven, my brothers and sisters. You know what, unfortunately manna
never falls from heaven. Let me tell you this. 
Most African countries have been independent for more than 40 years. The
promise of independence is yet to be fulfilled and we had thought that Manna
would fall from heaven. But rather than manna falling from heaven, what we
have in Africa are wars, famine, disease, military dictatorships, human
rights abuses, despotic leaders who prefer to loot the peoples' treasuries
for their own personal aggrandizement, leaders who prefer to force the
adulation of the masses with the barrels of a gun rather than with the
provision of simple amenities to the people - like good roads, health care
facilities, good environment for learning and opportunities for employment. 
My brothers and sisters, I feel sad letting you know that Africa is worse
off today than when the colonial masters left. Everything we use in Africa
is imported. Do you know that we even still import candles from Taiwan? Yet
40 years after independence, we still blame our colonial masters for
everything that happens in Africa today. Our leaders are not men enough to
accept responsibility for the abject poverty of our people. We accuse
Europeans of plundering and pillaging the natural resources of Africa. But I
ask you, tell me, who are inviting them to do this, are they not our own
people? 
I am sure you have all heard of the late tyrants and dictators Sani Abacha
of Nigeria and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the
Congo. Abacha stole more than $5 billion of the impoverished Treasury of
Nigeria and took that money and deposited it in Swiss Bank accounts. 
Since his death, the Swiss authorities have "found" only $1.5 billion of
that money. On his part, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire took $6 billion to the
same Swiss banks. After he died, the Swiss have told us that they have only
found $7 million of that money. Tell me, which white man left Europe and
took a gun to their heads and forced them to steal $12 billion from a
continent where the per capita income is less than $500 per year? Do you
know what $11 billion could have done for the starving and disease prone
children in those countries? 
No, we cannot continue to accuse white people for everything happening to
us. At a certain point in time, we have to sit back and look in the mirror
and see the culprit of our misfortune. It is not the white, the red, the
green, the yellow or any other color. We are responsible for what is
happening to us today. 
As Capitalist Nigger: The Road to Success has charged, the Black Race is
drowning in the blame and victim-mentality game. We have three things we now
wear as body armor - slavery, colonialism and racism. We use these as
excuses for our failures. We blame all our failures on these three factors.
In Africa, we blame everything on colonialism and racism. In the Western
world, especially here in America, we blame everything on slavery and
racism. We have allowed these three factors to envelope us as a people. They
are attached to us, as the bee is attached to the honey. 
When African leaders squander the peoples' money in buying up palaces in
Europe, rather than building infrastructure in their respective countries,
and the masses revolt, they blame the former colonial masters. When in this
country, we allow others to come into our neighborhoods and buy up our
businesses because we are stupid enough not to patronize our own people, we
blame it on racism forgetting that those who came into our neighborhood
started with almost nothing. But through our generosity and patronage,
became rich and then turn around to insult and disrespect us. 
It is your fault, and it is mine as well. As I said in my book, we are not
even intelligent consumers, why, because we believe that the more we are
insulted and disrespected, the more respectable the people doing the
insulting, and the more we should patronize them. 
Let me give you two examples here. We as a people spend approximately $40
million a day eating Chinese food. That is $40 million a day, and that comes
to about $15 billion a year. That's what we give to a community that
disrespects and insults us, and treats us like dogs. In most of our
communities where there are Chinese restaurants, they erect these barriers
between themselves and us, and pass our purchases through a hole as if they
are passing food to a savage dog. Yes, we all love Chinese food - it is also
cheap; but is it better to be investing $15 billion a year in a community
which treats you like a dog? 
In economic terms, using the economic multiplier effect, we are actually
investing $120 billion a year into the Chinese community, and inversely
taking that much money out of own community. No wonder their children go to
the best schools, and they live in the best neighborhoods because we cannot
curb our taste and our laziness to cook for ourselves. Listen, I am not
advocating that we should boycott Chinese food, but I am saying there should
be a tit for tat. There should be reciprocity. And for all the billions we
give to the Chinese community, they don't even employ one Black person in
their establishments. I ask you, is that an intelligent way to spend our
hard earned money from the menial jobs that are left for us? I believe not. 
As I said earlier the more we are insulted, the more we gravitate and
patronize the people doing the insulting to us. Let's take the Japanese for
instance. Two of their Prime Ministers, at different times, within a few
years apart, publicly stated that Blacks are inferior. Mind you, the Prime
Minister is like the President of the United States, the leader of the
Japanese people. Just imagine, if these leaders said that publicly, what the
Japanese really think about us. Yes, true to form, we protested their
calling us inferior. We hollered, and made them make some kind of feeble
apology. But what do we do in retaliation for the Japanese insulting us? We
reward them with purchasing $80 billion worth of their goods a year. 
But while we are happily dishing out the little we don't have, the Asians
have perfected what I call the Spider Web Economic Doctrine, which is a
highly effective system of achieving economic power. Of course, I am sure
you all know what a Spider does? When it spins its yarns, any fly that tries
to enter its web is caught and never able to escape.

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