Together Each Achieves More.

It all began with God, when he created Adam, and later Eve. God understood perfectly the importance of having a couple for the task he is to give man. From generation to generation, the impact of joining forces to accomplish the unimaginable has been monumental.

My pastor, Pastor Bola Odutola once said, 'if there is one thing God cherish, it is the unity of purpose'. Remember the wall of Jericho, it was with a common purpose that it was raised down. The trinity that teaches God as the father, the son and the holy spirit is also based on unity. Today, what we see is a generation not at peace with itself. People are at each other's throat, trying to out do one another just to gain the spot light.

As we see today, the superiority of man is in material things he buys. 'I beta pass my neighbour' is in our homes not necessarily because we need electricity, rather, it is because, we, unlike our neighbours can afford one.

Christians and Muslims are disagreeing over the supremacy of one religion over the other. In offices, mediocres and impressionists reign supreme. People have left their core duties to embrace office politics, arrogating achievements to themselves without giving due credits to those who toiled day and night to make things work. Some will complain about their bosses, forgetting that they are part of the problems.

How about leaders and the gornerned? Pastor Rick Warren once said, 'Followers make leaders. Without followers, we are loners, not leaders'. The followers have also forgotten that they can achieve more with their votes. They forgot the need for a common purpose and the need to secure a better future for the generation unborn. They got carried away by the gimmicks of the ruling few.

Hmmmn…here is my take, we should all realise that there are innumerable gains in unity. This country was built upon the foundation of unity, three major tribes coming together with one purpose. We can do little by ourselves, we will do much more when we learn to work with others.

According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 'Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains, one thinks himself the master of others but he is a greater slave than they'. The greatness we so much desire could be in the association we form. We are not made to be an island.

According to Deut. 32:30, 'How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, unless their rock had sold them, and the lord had given them up?'. This verse buttresses the fact that two people can do much more than one person given the same amount of grace. He who has read this piece, should think on these things!

A familiar road once taken?

Honestly I don't want to write about my dear country again but for a reserved energy and an uncommon hope that we will get it right someday. My sympathy goes to the families of the innocent souls that lost their lives in the incident.

We all know that militancy has not been eradicated in the Niger-Delta region, it is a known fact that only about a quarter of them embraced the amnesty programme. The series of buck-passing that followed the event could have been avoided if Mr. President has been objective with his statement, he is the president and the buck stops at his desk. . It is only in this country that we don't learn from the past. Why do we leave the obvious truth to chase shadows?

History will not be fair to the idealists who call the shot, the pessimists that sit on the fence hoping that things will get better and the terrorists that want to destroy what is left of our national pride. As I look forward to 2011,there is a far distant voice saying that the journey to 2011 is a familiar road once taken....I only hope it's not what I’m thinking!

They are still our slaves!

My attention was drawn to an article tittled 'They are still our slaves' allegedly written by one Havard Professor called Dee Lee.

Let's reflect on the points raised and work on how they won't become real in our lives.

" THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES. We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery. Look at the current methods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.
Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, “The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in a book.” We now live in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have been their fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all.
GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars in total yearly income ( 2.22%).
Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing.
They would rather buy some new sneaker than invest in starting a business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, And they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives them “Status” or that they have achieved their Dream.
They are fools! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because their greed holds them back from collectively making better communities.
With the help of BET, and the rest of their black media that often broadcasts destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn’t want their money, and look at how the fools spend more with him than ever before!). They’ll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we market to them.
SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, Dubois said that there was an innate division in their culture. A “Talented Tenth” he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some “form” of success.
However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn’t read that the “Talented Tenth” was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented Ninety Percent in achieving a better life. Instead, that segment has created another class, a Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner.
They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them to be able to work together on any project or endeavor of substance. When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of their goal Their so-called help organizations seem to only want to promote their name without making any real change in their community.
They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels, and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best speakers, not to the best doers. Is there no end to their selfishness? They steadfastly refuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM).
They do not understand that they are no better than each other because of what they own, as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two pay checks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices and our rooms.
Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to read, continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are “helping” their communities by paying dues to organizations which do little other than hold lavish conventions in our hotels. By the way, don’t worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, THEY DON’T READ!!!! "