SUPERPOWER LEGACY or Who Accepted Satan's Mandate To Rule This Material World? Pt 1

SUPERPOWER Legacy or Who Accepted Satan's Mandate To Rule This Material World? 

                                         By Nzinga Nzinga

Part 1
“…all people, nations and language, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down...” Daniel 5:19  

“…But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride..." Daniel 5: 20    

            
Let us stretch our imagination far out enough to envisage this world run by black people. A world where black people run things. By this I mean a world where black people behave the way white people have been doing for centuries, embracing all the capitalist evils of racism, Jim Crowism, slavery, colonialism, apartheid, neo-colonialism, in short, a display of Babylonian power at its apogee. 

If Africa had been the continent to take on all this world-power seeking, achieving, and maintaining roles, then when a melanin-endowed black-skinned person like my Taata, Richard Watson, or any of these thirteen beautiful Africans portrayed here, show their faces anywhere, whether in Africa or outside, people would recognise a member of the most powerful and privileged race on earth and treat us with the privilege and respect they think we deserve. Black would be the power colour. Black would be the acceptable, wanna-be-colour that all non-blacks would want to be. It is not altogether an impossibility. 

Mwalimu Nyerere & Osagyefo Nkrumah

Maya Angelou 

Martin Luther King Jr.

Peter Tosh

Komla Dumor

Dennis Brown

Whitney Houston

Ken Saro Wiwa

Miriam Makeba & Kwame Toure wed

Ella Fitzgerald

Chinua Achebe

There was a time when slavery, Jim Crowism, colonization and their grandchild, 

apartheid forced the black man to walk with his tail between his legs while the white man flashed his bumptious and cocky one in the black man’s face; when the black man shuffled with his face held down and his 

shoulders bowed, while the white man strutted about, huffing and puffing, with his nose in the air, his chest pushed forward and his shoulders thrown back. 

Then along came emancipation, independence and one-man-one-vote. The black man was legally free but the system was still not geared for his development, and the ones who succeeded the white rulers, behaved like their white predecessors.

That is why it is not inconceivable to see the black man behaving exactly like the white man if he should become superpower of the world as the white man now is. That the white man can get the recognition due to the most powerful race on earth, is simply because of the power attached to his race. The world system is set up in such a way that we have come to believe that it is the deficiency of melanin in him, the lack of colour in his skin, the texture of his hair and other aspects of the Caucasian appearance that generate unto him this recognition.

Hendrik Verwoerd

Although it is easy to believe that the paleness of the skin is what distinguishes the white man’s powerfulness from the black man’s powerlessness, the homage paid to the white man from the lack of homage to the black man, the respect to the one from the disrespect to the other, we know deep in our hearts that it is not really the colour of the skin that determines the reaction or response to these different individuals. The source is more than skin deep. It lies in another element which man has come to worship and adore, SUPERPOWER. 

Balthazar Johannes Vorster

The Caucasian man, from the moment that he started to taste the addictive ingredient or narcotic drug of power, used the differences in colour to get more and more power by making non-white races as powerless as he could render them. This race of pale face men, women and children, used the oppression of colour to subjugate the other two continents, Africa & Asia, destroying their cultures and sucking their nations dry. They set about successfully stealing and perverting the souls or spirit of their already civilized victims under the guise of civilizing them. Ask the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Australia and New Zealand about spirit thievery! They have quite a tale to tell about these spirit thieves in the physical form of the Caucasian from abroad.

P.W.Botha

This man, portrayed here, the late apartheid leader P.W.Botha, of the pale skin, straight hair and typical Caucasian features, belongs to a race of homo sapiens which is known from experience as the one which conquers all other races and seems invincible on land, in the air or on sea. They are all over Planet Earth practising racism, bigotry, colonialism, imperialism and such evils. They are wealthy enough to establish welfare states so that their people can have access to material benefits while the system is left wide open for millionaires to operate. They erect elaborate and forbidding edifices to hold, store or dispense their wealth, their treasures, their religion and their education, as the situation and circumstances may warrant. They live in huge, strong, exorbitantly expensive dwellings, often guarded by man, beast or electronic devices.

They take holidays and travel in tourist droves in search of sun, sea, sand and sex, or as they say, relaxation and rest, while some seek more dangerous adventures on safari hunting trips. Their control of international media gives them a free hand to disclose or hide, to smear or exalt, to build up or destroy, to caress or to slap at will.

The most remarkable feature of this most powerful race is their materialistic indulgence as manifested in conspicuous consumption.

If Africa were the one to hold the reins of world power, I am confident that we would behave the same way because that is the way a people who accept the new magna carta to rule the whole world must behave. We would be, if possible, even more showy, conspicuous consumers. Nearly every black man who could, would drive a Benz or a Cadillac, a Hummer, an SUV or any other state-of-art car of equal status. We would behave this way because the essence of this world is very showy and materialist. This world has to be ruled with a materialist imperative, and concomitant with this policy, is a hard, tough, merciless and totally self-seeking personality and nature. I echo Marcus Garvey’s prayer on this eventuality:

‘I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.  Marcus Garvey p. 11

And now I come to the main point of this matter. We read in the King James version of the Bible, that some 2000 years ago Satan took Jesus up to a high place and showing Him the glories, wealth and power of the world, told Him that he would make Him supreme world leader of the whole tempting package if He would fall down and worship him. Here is the episode live and direct from the King James Version of the Bible as related in Matthew 4: 8-10. Read it for yourself:

‘Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.’

It is not difficult to imagine the supreme power that would accrue to the appointed or anointed supreme leader of the whole world. Jesus was supposed to know everything about divine and human affairs, so if He allowed Satan to take Him that far to offer Him the world and all that went with it, then we have to conclude that the whole world and all that went with it was for Satan to promise out. The world must belong to Satan for him to be offering it to the one individual who would know whether he was lying or not, and whether it was his to offer or not to offer. Jesus didn't say:

‘Get away from me, Satan. You are lying. You can’t help it since you are such a chronic, pathological liar! Ultimately, this world is not yours to offer. Yes, you have it in your sieve now but the time will come when the rightful ruler will wrench it from you without even as much as a by-your-leave gesture.’

If we remember, elsewhere Jesus refers to Satan as the ‘father of lies’. The world had to be Satan’s or he couldn't offer it to the hardest nut to crack. Yes, Jesus was the hardest nut Satan ever had to and would ever have to crack. As we know, Satan did not crack that nut with all his attractive temptations. The devil knew who Jesus was as shown in his reference to Jesus’ identification in the first two temptations. Satan sought out the highest personality with an offer for him to administer all the nations of the world which he, Satan had in thrall.     

Without any hemming and hawing, without much ado, using

the Holy Scriptures as a weapon of rebuttal and refusal to the supreme tempter, Jesus refused the beguiling offer. Satan, who knew the Scriptures inside out, tried to use it in the second temptation to beat down Jesus’ resistance. But Jesus never faltered or weakened in spite of the wily tempter’s charm and his own famished state after forty days of fasting. He turned down point blank the offer to run Satan’s kingdom here on earth. Indeed, Jesus gave a lie to the well-worn adage that every man has a price. He was not for sale. Some of us, who would give anything we possess, even at the cost of our soul, for even a tiny guaranteed niche of privilege in this world, would consider Jesus’ refusal as that of a crazy or foolish ‘sandal-wearing’ ideologue.

To be continued

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