When the Europeans said we Blacks were the most ignorant race, we got offended and thought they were referring to education. Thus, for several decades we have had the fastest growing rate of people pursuing "higher" education in the world. Yet we are still disempowered.

This is because when the Europeans said we were ignorant, they were not referring to our education in their system. They know our history as the founders of the sciences and arts even when we don't know this.

They were not referring to science or arts, they called us the most stupid race because they are referring to our ignorance of our own best interests.

1. We worship a deity in the image of our enslaver. No other race does that.

Even if they adopt a foreign deity, they make it clear that it "racially" relates to them. We are the only ones to not make this connection important. We make excuses saying race doesn't matter, meanwhile everyone else is showing the divinity made in their racial image.

This is why the Blacks of Afraka, India, and Australia are subjugated.

2. We go to pilgrimage where many of us were taken as slaves (Saudi Arabia). How is a land where you were enslaved more holy than the land where you were free?

3. We use the enslavers' language as our sole language of education and business. Even though the Hindu-Aryan uses the English language, he still perpetuates his own language throughout his country and it is not threatened by extinction.

Even small countries like Korea, Denmark, the Netherlands, etc are not foolish enough to give up their own language for the lingua franca.

4. We allow any enslaver with a drop of our blood to identify as us and become our leader based on this drop.

5. While many peoples throughout the world were not only enslaved but removed from their land, we are the only enslaved race that has overwhelmingly sought to remain in the land of our enslavement instead of go home like the mythical Jews of the bible we so ignorant read but…

…not follow.

6. We hand over our sick to the people who war on and oppress us. The foolishness of this move cannot be overemphasized. It is actually shameful.

7. We are the only race that hands over our most valuable commodity, our children, to be educated about truth by the very people who continue to oppress us.

This is why the Europeans call us the most ignorant race and as harsh as it sounds, we have proved them right.

This will not be solved by arguing with Europeans about human equality. It will not be solved by getting more pieces of paper with printed faces of Europeans on it; you will never have more printed paper than the printmaker.

It will not be solved by getting degrees in his schools. It will only be solved when we reclaim our responsibility to fulfill our best interests and the interests of our children.

Ankh, udja, seneb.

(Osanyin.The Yoruba orisa of the need to heal yourself through knowledge of holistic medical practices and not rely on your enemy for healing)