Missing by perception – that’s why you will remain an economic dwarf!!!

Lo, it’s damn wrong to use your eyes for thinking as well as your brains as the habitat of indoctrination in you. Many of you have overwhelmingly thought of being rich and that’s all; and maybe seeing things and taking them as your eyes interpret and not the brain. You have groomed yourselves into deviant thinkers who think money-money-money, riches-riches-riches; and that’s all, not even thinking of how to get the money and acquire riches.

A great percentage of economic dwarfism routes right from the way you view and understand issues, especially when it comes to economic development. Perception in this sense is referred to as the identification, interpretation and administering of information by common sense in order to understand and represent a situation. This is what the perpetrators of such economic dwarfism miss. They see things differently and wrongly in particular.

How development is perceived?

To a number of you guys out there, development has been translated as westernization. And the most erroneous instance is when one uses the eye to judge development. Poor guy, the development you are seeing is only virtual and imaginary, and that is why you are able to see it but can’t feel it – sorry, if you do not change, you will continue seeing it but without feeling it at all. Not all good looking expensive mansions depict development! It doesn’t, and not necessarily in a country like Uganda.  If you start judging development depending on the number of vehicles and buildings you are seeing in Kampala, then you are damn wrong! This is simply seeing but failing to understand.

Development is identified differently by various countries, each with its own inference, although most of them seem universal. Does development mean richness, wealth or income levels? Many countries would consider the available quantity of resources to society as an indicator of development, these being income among social groups and services such as health care, education, communication and so on.  To others, production, environmental protection, standards of living, and the like are also crucial indicators of development. It is however no wonder that countries with same level average incomes can substantially differ when it comes to people’s quality of life: access to education and health care, employment opportunities, availability of clean air and safe drinking water, the threat of crime, human rights, equality, and so on.

Weird perceptions

It is unfortunate the way you see things – it’s just like seeing a very beautiful girl without recognizing her beauty. If you can’t see her beauty, then it is you with something wrong.

How dazzling a body of a car is, does not render it a good car, and there are many sayings related to this phenomenon – such as “do not judge a book by its cover”.

Are you the kind who judges wealth people depending on their expenditure? Then you are a damn wrong judge! You cannot even differentiate between a big spender and a rich man! Most people you call rich are only big spenders, and that is all. Big spenders are kind of people who always buy great or big things, and probably that is all they have. A big spender can buy a posh car worth 150,000 US dollars and that is all he has, but when you see him driving, you tend to consider him rich – a reach man with no house, no land, or business, but rather with a huge bank loan and dwelling on public funds! What matters? Is it the picture he paints or its worth? How do you judge?

You even can’t tell the difference between being rich and having money! You can have money but when you are actually not rich. Not all people with money are rich and not all rich people have money. Suppose I have a farm of a thousand heads cattle on 100 acres of land and another person has just borrowed twenty million shillings for a business start up – who is rich, uh, how do you judge? 

You blame your failure on lack of capital!

It is a common practice that whenever you tell people to have something to do they will always tell you that they have no capital – No capital? Of what you even don’t know! I thought you first come up with ideas, develop them and accordingly your financial requirement will be projected.

The high tendency of claiming that you need capital when you even don’t know how much it is, or even what you want it for is the most erroneous being of your brain! A more significant and elaborate way of using the mind as your fundamental capital is given in part two of this article, “what should be done?”   

You’re an admirer of impression

Many men and women out there spend almost 80% of their time struggling to look rich rather than striving to acquire wealth – but why? You prefer to be seen as a rich person and don’t care whether you are actually rich?

Keeping in disguise is one tendency which will keep people always dependant, although many feel comfortable with it as they claim of not being vulnerable to stress while they are behind someone no matter what he/she takes them through. This is where people do not prefer to start jobs, but rather want to be with benefits as cars, housing, loans and probably looking at the status of their positions as a prestigious.   

According to Caucasian in his article: BLACKS DON'T READ, he asserts that: Some blacks even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU. And they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives the "Status" or that they have achieved the American 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.

You don’t read!!!

It is very unfortunate that you don’t read! Not reading is the most indispensable perpetrator of ignorance, and ignorance itself is poverty. One Caucasian elaborated on this in his article titled, BLACKS DON'T READ: They Are Still Our Slaves. He asserts that the blacks will continue to be the white man’s slaves as they do not read. To some extent he could be right, but this is the time to prove him wrong – if you want anyway.

Caucasian laments:

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 live now 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.

SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, W. E. B. 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 the 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 the best doers. Is there no end to their selfishness?

What should be done?