Destroying my Kaffir (Nigger) mentality, once and for all

October 14, 2008 by Chief K.Masimba Biriwasha ·
Filed under: I was just thinking

Because of my Kaffir mentality, I have suffered many a loss and lost opportunities in my life.

Today, loudly, boldy, I declare - no more of this Kaffir mentality. Like many people I know and have grown up with, I have for far too long carried the kaffir mentality. Now, it hangs about my neck like a heavy load.

Put simply the kaffir mentality revels in its limited self, and has a few characteristics: eating, drinking, spending, smoking, gossipping, church-going devoid of action, bearing children, complaining, slaving for others, dealing, and then heading off to a freshly dug grave where people wail and extol non-existent virtues. I am sick and tired of the kaffir mentality, period.

And as I write, I am armouring myself, ready to break out of the cocoon of this kaffir (nigga) mentality and be the change that I seek.

O, far too many of our people are dislocated, locked up in comfort zones that only serve to inhibit our God-given human potential. We are comfortable with the tested, tried, and tired. We settle for the way things have always been done. Like many of my people, I am victim of a mental condition known as homeostasis. Homeostasis refers to a striving for constancy, trying to remain consistent with the familiar, with what has been said, done and practiced in the past.

The condition of homeostasis presents itself through being tense, uneasy or simply unwilling to change. It is a disease that affects me, and today, I declare a jihad on it. No more. No more of this Kaffir mentality. I hate it with a passion, and want it to go away so that I can awaken to the freshness of my being, and to the freshness of what today’s season brings.

I can longer continue to be a slave of what the past dealt on me, colonialism included. I declare today that I am a new person, born under the African sun to be who God wanted me to be, and that all the fear and self-inferiority complexes that I have carried have no part to play in my being. Neither do the actions of my fellow people, and their trifles, their limited selves that serve nothing but to lead to early graves.

At an individual level, I fully recognize the condition of homeostasis, and I observe it in others too. I need a revolutionary reformation, a breaking forth, an arising like that flame lily. As I map my way forward, I will strive to do new, different things with my God-given abilities and talents.

I fully understand that the path ahead will be ardous, but so be it. I will rally all my faculties, and marshall all the energy in my bones, I will focus all the capacity in my spirit in shaping my new self. I will strive to befit all my giftings. I will exercise freedom and responsibility to equip myself with the power to think differently, creatively without fear - All the garbage that was poured into my mind will undergo spring cleaning, spiritually, financially and otherwise.

All the self-defeating thoughts and action - I drop. I will fashion my mind and character into a superior order; and with softness, natural grace and quiet dignity, I will rise. I will rise again.

I have made my case. May history keep this record.

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