What is Wrong With Black People? – Post-slave Psychology, Afrocentricity, Colonialism and Black Africa’s Cultural Integrity

The “Karma” is a spiritual concept that is mostly taught in Buddhism and Hinduism. It is defined as the sum of a person’s actions, especially intentional actions, regarded as determining that parson’s future states of existence. But, the Jainists, in India, have also used this term to designate some type of subtle physical matter that binds a person’s soul to earthly tribulations as a result of bad actions. In fact, the ‘Karma’ is seen as the mechanism that underlie a person’s fate or destiny, either physically or spiritually, as effect from cause. It is what most mystics refer to as a “cosmic law of compensation.”

The particularity of this law is that it only, or most essentially, affects what is known as the “superior animal kingdom” or the “kingdom of highly conscious animals”, meaning “humans”. The law presupposes that for man’s every action that has an effect – positive or negative – on another man, there is a boomerang effect with equivalent consequences on the perpetrator. In other words, “he that shall kill by the sword must be killed by the sword,” as voiced in Apocalypse 13:10; which means that if you kill a man in a certain way, you must get killed pretty much exactly the same sort of way. If you insult someone, you shall be insulted pretty much exactly the same sort of way. Anything you do to anyone shall be done to you in return exactly the same sort of way.

However, this law remains in considerable disrepute and is almost controversial because it seems to pose some serious problems to our understanding of divine mysteries. If the Karma really exists, why is it that some people who have killed or who have ordered killings by fire guns end up dying of a heart attack or a long illness? (Think of Slobodan Milosevic or Joseph Mobutu). Where is the Karma in these cases?

To this question, the most common answer that we are given by those who know a few things about divine mysteries is that “you don’t have to get your compensation in the same incarnation in which you caused pain or death to others. You may well die of natural causes to that incarnation (if the mechanisms of the cosmic laws don’t precipitate your compensation in the same incarnation); but you will then have to be born again (to be reincarnated), when you will eventually get killed the same sort of way.

This is, in my appreciation, a very understandable answer (if we are willing to believe in reincarnation). In fact, we are held to believe in it if we are to understand the reason why some killers don’t die the same sort of way in which they had killed other people. However, there is another problem of procedure that comes up at this level. What happens if you kill 300 people in one incarnation?

In the knowledge of some spiritual teachers, it is taught that, on principle, you may have to reincarnate 300 times to get killed 300 times, exactly the same way in which you killed your 300 victims, one by one. And if you keep killing more people during these successive compensatory incarnations, the bill will only get bigger and longer to pay over more and more reincarnations.

Well, it seems that there is ground to take on board this explanation too. Indeed, it sounds pretty logical. Killing is not like the rest of sins. Killing ends life. If you cause a man to lose an eye, and cause another man to lose an arm, you may well get both compensations in one incarnation and end up like Francisco Franco. Or else, if you cause two men to lose both their arms each, since you only have two arms, you might have to lose both your arms in two different incarnations; in the meantime you can still receive many other compensations in the same incarnations in addition to the loss of your arms. But if you kill, you have to get killed, and once you die you cannot take any more compensations.

The problem that we are facing here is that people like Paul Pot, who killed millions, may have to reincarnate millions of times; which may take thousands and thousands of years for the cosmic law to settle the account of only one single sinner. What is the end of this?

To answer this question, the teachers say that, in this sort of situation, the law of the Karma has to call upon a section or segment of itself known as the “law of consolidation”. It means that the numerous killings that you may have perpetrated may be consolidated into one, making it possible for you to get killed only once the same sort of way. This mostly happens if the people that you killed or whose death you ordered died the same sort of way. In Christian mysticism, it is known that it was this law that descended upon John the Baptist – if you see what I mean –; think of Elijah and the 150 priests of Baal (Kings 18:40), and then refer to Matthew’s testimony of Jesus’ ministry (Matthew 11:14) to find out whose reincarnation Jesus informs us that John the Baptist was) – I hope that you already know how John died; so you can understand what I am saying.

We are back to square one, almost, if we consider the question as to what happens if you kill or order the killing of three million people in different deadly conditions and circumstances. To settle this issue too, what the teachers say is that the “law of consolidation” will still consolidate your three million different types of killings into one, and make you die only once the average kind of death between them all. This means that the Cosmic Law has to make use of a mathematical principle – take all the different three million ways and levels of feeling the fear, anguish, sorrow and pain leading to death as endured by each victim, sum them up, and divide them by the number of victims, to get the average death experience that the killer has to endured, only once.

From this point, it seems pretty clear, in a nutshell, that the Karma is the cosmic law under which one gets inflicted the same type of pain that one has inflicted to other people, either in the same incarnation or in a future incarnation, with the option to consolidate several deadly inflictions into one average kind of compensation.

Now, despite the clarity of the explanations that are brought forward to alleviate some of the technical controversies found over this special cosmic law, a lot of people still refuse to believe in it mostly for moral reasons. The most important one of those moral reasons is that the law of the Karma seems to presuppose that evil will never end on earth. It even seems to presuppose that God is stuck in a vicious circle, even in the light of the law of consolidation, since those who are put into motion to kill former killers have to get killed too. The number of times they have to get killed does not matter in this issue. The thing is that they will have to get killed at least once by someone who will also have to get killed at least once, and so on; which makes sinning and re-sinning an eternal activity on earth, not just because of evil, but because of God’s own law. Is this how it is meant to be? Where is the sinless Kingdom of Heaven that has to come?

To appease those who refuse to believe in the law of the Karma on these grounds, there is a very straightforward answer to the question. In fact, it is said that the spirit of the Karma has to invoke another three laws from its own bosom at this level to remedy the situation. The first one is known as the “law of balance.” This law stipulates that if you do exactly or approximately as much good as evil (like, say, you kill someone to save someone else’s live, like warriors who kill a group of people with the intention to protect another group of people – Milosevic might fall into this category), then your own good deeds will engulf your wrongdoings automatically. This means that you will never have to get killed for your killings, since those that you saved and protected by killing others justify your actions. What this law does, eventually, is to reduce the number of compensation executors considerably, decreasing the circle of killings on earth to a great extent. At the end of the day, most people who do evil things don’t just do evil things all the time. They do an awful lot of good things too.

The second law that comes into play is the “law of innocence.” In fact, what constitutes a sin in the eyes of the Cosmic Law is the intention, not the action. We commonly call it ‘premeditation’ in human law. By contrast, a child that plays with a charged gun, with no intention whatsoever to kill its father but ends up killing him accidentally for his bad Karma, such a child will have no compensation to collect from such innocent killing. The child will remain pure as if it had never done anything evil at all, and therefore will need no compensation executor at any point in its live or successive lives.

The third law that intervenes here is the ‘law of passive execution’. It is a process by which a compensation execution is taken charge of by an element other than an independent human being. It comprises not only compensations executed in the form of self-harm, including suicide, but also those carried out by ferocious animals, venomous reptiles, dangerous machines etc. etc. – any elements, both natural and artificial, that are likely to cause harm or death. Lethal snakebites, fatal car crashes, deadly viruses and the rest of such tragic occurrences in the absence of a human executor fall into this category.

Mathematically, we get another considerable decrease in the number of compensation executors through the ‘law of passive execution’ as we do through the ‘law of innocence’ and the ‘law of balance’. This means that the more wrong doings we get through the “law of balance” and the “law of innocence”, the less people will be needed to kill former killers, or to do harm to former wrongdoers. It also means that the more suicides, crashes and incurable diseases we get, the less humans will be needed for Karmic executions. In the end, thus, the number of intentional wrongdoings will near zero towards infinity – like in an inverse mathematical function – and humanity will become purer and purer, sinless. This way the vicious circle will eventually be broken, making it possible for the Kingdom of Salvation to settle among us.

This is how the whole thing is explained. And I hope that we understand all of it. In fact, the law of the Karma is a very practical law; even more practical than human justice; and is too intelligent to get stuck in any kind of endless cycle.

Meanwhile, there is one thing that I need to point out before we part. It is even for this reason that I chose to preface this book by invoking the law of the Karma. I have personally been struggling with this law for quite some time. And the one single reason why I have been struggling with it is historical. If the Karma truly presupposes that man ‘B’ has to get inflicted the same sort of pain as the one that he inflicted to man ‘A’ by man ‘C’, I have, however, been struggling to imagine a human race that the law of the Karma is going to charge with the duty to treat White people exactly the same sort of way in which White people have treated Black people over the past five hundred years.

What is this race that is going to be created, or perhaps that already exists, and that is going to be so powerful as to take around ten million White men, women and children away to a virgin land or a conquered land where they are going to be starved, beaten to death, thrown into the sea, put to work on plantations like machines round the clock; where they are going to be whipped and flogged all day-and-night long every day-and-night, and where they are going to be burned alive, cast away like dirty animals, deprived of the most basic human entitlements, raped, humiliated, discriminated etc. etc.?

Five hundred years have gone, with a substantial number of generations and therefore a great number of reincarnations in the White race, and we are still waiting. When is this going to happen?

This is my only problem with the law of the Karma. And perhaps you may need to pay some particular attention to what I am trying to say here; because not only is it possible to find it ridiculous to put the issue this way, it also makes me sound like a blood-thirsty, resentful, vindictive, rotten Black demon, desperate to see White people in trouble, in compensation for what they did to Black people. There are even people who are now more likely to accuse Black people of being incapable to “get over it!”

First of all, I do not see any good reason why they should be asked to get over it. The Jews are still very sensational about what happen to them in Germany 60 years ago (their European spiritual brothers even join in with them to commemorate the ‘Holocaust Day’ every so and so). They are even still very passionate about what happened to them in Egypt over 3,000 years ago (their Christian sympathisers all over the word can’t help implanting their terrible story into the heads of their proselytes). Why should Black people be summoned to get over what happened to them in the Americas and the Caribbeans? Secondly, I am not interested in vengeance. I am only talking in terms of the technicalities related to the law of the Karma as explained by the teachers. My only passionless and technical point is that if the law of the Karma really exists, there has to be a group of approximately ten million White men, women and children who have to suffer under some other human race exactly the same sort of way in which White people made a group of approximately ten million Black men, women and children suffer, not because I want to see it, but because it has to happen, at least, for the law of the Karma to prove itself.

So, why are we not getting approximately ten million White people enslaved exactly the same sort of way in which White people enslaved approximately ten million Black people? Where is the Karma?

I recently visited a very wise man with great knowledge on divine mysteries and to whom I put this question; because I really needed an answer. The man laughed and laughed and laughed, at the end of which he turned to me to tell me that I was just missing the point by putting the matter that way. According to his knowledge of divine mysteries, there is another law, within the Karma’s bundle of laws, which is called upon by the spirit of the Karma in certain situations. That law is very similar to the “law of consolidation”; but it is rather known as the “law of harmonisation”. By that law, people from different races, nations, affiliations and so on, who have committed similar types of sins can be forced to reincarnate in one common place where they are all meant to be hit by one common harmonised type of compensation, making cosmic justice easier to carry out.

In the light of this explanation, it seems that there were Arabs, Chinese, Persians, Malaysians, Russians, Maya, Spanish, Zulu, Sinhala, Norwegians, Luba, English, Wolof, Italians etc. etc. who might have ill-treated their servants in their previous lives and whose souls may have been commanded by this Law to be reincarnated in West Africa where they were all going to be hit by the slave trade for a joint compensation.

It sounds like a fairy tale. But it might not be one. And if you think about it very carefully, you will surely find that this explanation is pretty meaningful in the sense that it seems to be telling us that the slave trade was not necessarily an evil, racist enterprise aiming to brutalise Black people for being Black, but rather a cosmic compensation aiming to punish people from all races in the world who had behaved very badly in their previous lives but who had to be reincarnated in one common geographical point that was going to be hit by the slave trade; but a geographical point that was just randomly inhabited by Black people. Hence they happened to be Black.

If you think about this seriously, don’t be surprised if you finally come to the realisation that what we are actually being taught here is that all the cruelties that took place during the transatlantic trade were not aimed at Black people, but rather at bad people who just happened to be Black due to the “cosmic law of harmonisation”.

The implications of this deduction are quite huge, particularly in the sense that we are led to attain to an instance of our conscience where we tend to be spared of the energy that we spend to feel for the victims of the slave trade; since they were only bad people paying for their own inequities. This deduction is particularly meaningful in the sense that we are equally spared of another amount of energy that we spend trying to fight against those that we hold responsible for the cruelties of the slave trade, since they were only executing a cosmic law. In fact, we tend to realise that nothing bad really happened. It was only a cosmic law doing its job – cosmic justice.

We may really need to make some effort to put ourselves in the shoes of those who believe in these things if we are to make any sense of the point to be made here. We may even have to put ourselves in God’s own shoes if we accept that this law is most certainly a divine law; because what is happening here is quite serious. We are in a very disappointing stalemate. Some people have brutalised others very badly; and we are trying to count on a divine law that is supposed to bounce back to them; but it seems that this law makes allowances and compromises in a way that may even now result in the full cancellation of the expected compensation; and, on top of all that, we now seem to be learning that the victims of these cruelties did actually deserve their plight; it does even sound as if they might have been serious criminals who might only have had to be castigated for their own crimes. This is very serious.

Remember: the reason why I said that I personally did not believe in the Karma was because I could not see how the law of the Karma would get ten million White people enslaved in exactly the same sort of way in which White people had enslaved ten million Black people during the slave trade. It is true that nothing is impossible to the Divine Law; but all things that are possible to God are possible because they are propitious to His Law, not simply because anything is possible to Him. The idea of ten million White people being treated the same sort of way as ten million Black people in the Americas and the Caribbeans during and after the slave trade is very hard to visualise, not because science fiction specialists would not be able to make such a movie, but rather because it is simply not happening.

Therefore, either the law of the Karma does not exist, or the perpetrators of the cruelties of the slave trade were all innocent executors of the Law, put into motion by the Law Itself to punish bad people who just happened to be Black.

From here, we may have to take on board the assumption that the souls of such innocent torturers – the White slavers of the Americas and the Caribbeans – will never have to reincarnate to go through similar plight as those ten million bad men in black skin. So, we are quit.

And, trust me; I myself was absolutely certain, on the basis of this conclusion, that we were finally quit, until something else made me think again. In fact, the issues that we are dealing with in this exploration is really not just about ten million very bad people from all around the world who just happened to be Black from West Africa where they were meant to be hit by innocent torturers for cosmic compensation four-hundred years ago. Actually, it would be too naïve to believe that this is the whole issue. It is not. The problem is that most people look at the matter through historical lenses. But this is not the main angle. If you look at it through sociological lenses you will not fail to observe that the torture of Black people goes far beyond the slave trade. It is not a matter of one historical event, in one specific geographical point, in one determined period of time. No. It is now – if it has not always been so – rather a universal [spaceless and timeless] rule.

If the Karma really exists, it seems that we are living in a period of the sovereign time when all people from all races and nations and affiliations who have committed and keep committing any type of cruelties have to be reincarnated as Black to collect their compensation. The Black race now appears to be, in God’s own mind, as far as I can see it, the most appropriate race for all people in the whole world who have to pay for their sins to be born in. It seems to have become an established spaceless and timeless cosmic rule that you have to be born Black if you have to be brutalised for your sins.

Natural calamities and tragic incidents of all types, including military conflicts, happen in all places around the world, and considerable numbers of people suffer and die in these instances (they are all most certain inscribed in the mechanics of the law of the Karma). But none of them is about suffering inflicted to men by other men on a daily basis on the grounds of their distaste for the way they look. This kind of Karma is quite difficult to discern.

If you have an attentive eye and a sensitive heart to receive what is going on over the five inhabited continents of our planet, you will surely devote at least a few minutes once in a while to cry over what you see happening to people of black skin. It is very hard to watch. It makes me explode in tears quite often. And this is the problem that I am trying to bring to your attention here. If it is truly for Karmic reasons that this is happening, what is it that, in God’s understanding of human evolution, makes Black people so appropriate for torture to the point of turning an entire human section into a Karmic target?

On the other hand, if it is possible to emit the hypothesis that the reason for this to happen may not have much to do with the law of the Karma, and therefore that the law itself might not exist at all, what is it, then, that, in human psychology, makes a Black man so good to torture?

When we get to a question with no answer such as this one, most of us turn to superstition. I have met some people who have told me that the whole thing must be due to the fact that our world is dominated by evil. So, the people who have been torturing Black people on a daily basis over the past four-hundred years are simply evil people.

But there is, then, a question that needs answering in this case. What kind of evil is conditioned by skin colour? What is wrong with evil always tending to choose Black? What is the link between evil and Black? Why does evil love Black so much? – To be clear, the actual question, here, as the author has so well put it on the front cover of this book, is: what is wrong with Black people?

I have finally come to the surprising conclusion that the law of the Karma does actually exist. Yes, it does!

But, just one thing is to be noted. The law of the Karma is not just a simplistic kill-to-kill law as a compensation rule for people’s mortal sins. It is even much deeper than the notion of sin itself. In fact, it goes beyond good and evil. In much clearer terms, the Black people who get brutalised every day in the world today are not necessarily former sinners who have to be hit by daily brutality to pay for their sins. No. They are something else; and they are paying for something else. All I can say here is that “What is Wrong with Black People?” (ISBN 978-1-84799-323-6), is the only book that can help us understand what is actually going on; because the book simply personifies a totally different type of intuition, where the most unsuspected – yet, the most damning – causes of the suffering and the struggles of Africans in today’s world are not only laid open with courage, but also resolved with vision