Build up your knowledge base and they can never fool you.

Knowledge will enable you to see the games that are run on you all throughout your life.

You can see them coming a mile away if you study ahead of time what you are dealing with.

You can beat anybody, it doesnt matter how big or how smart they are, if only you first study them and make appropriate preparations.

Since a young child i always knew the value of knowledge.

I still do but of course its not going to mean anything if you dont apply to whatever goals you have in life.

I was in my first year of college and i was in a history class.

At the time my history teacher was talking about the scramble for afrika (when most western european countries met together back in the late 1890's to decide who would get what country in afrika after they conquered that territory).

He showed a documentary about the time where the european nations were giving their rationalizations for the takeover.

Rudyard Kipling in his book said it was the "White Man's Burden" to civilize the savage afrikans because without them to make us into full fledged human beings we would seep more and more into chaos.

Then they went on to talk about many of the reasons we are supposedly genetically inferior to them.

I was heated.

What made it worse was that i was in a room full of white people (because i went to a predominatly white school).

I felt like i was being stripped of my dignity because i couldnt think of a single event in history prior to our contact with europeans that would negate all of these harsh statements.

I hollered during this lesson,"i aint inferior to NOBODY."

I know i startled a lot of people but i just couldnt take it anymore.

I didnt return that next semester because i knew i had to dig in our past to find some information that would prove all of these suckers wrong (and boy did i find it).

I started reading books about my history that fired up my intellect.

My appetite for the great aspects for our history was insatiable and i was amazed at what i found out about our people.

Suffice it say that that event completely changed my life (and i wouldnt take it back for all the tea in china).

Be curious people.

Never stop learning and never stop growing.

Read this book too up top.

Its a good place to start f you want to get some significant information about our history as a people.

I hope you have a great journey of self discovery.

I know i did.