We have let the world come into us and treat us like something to be used.
We open our doors and our hearts, and too often we do not protect what is ours.
This is not gentle talk. This is a wakeup call. We are sick in ways that go deeper than medicine.
The sickness is spiritual, mental, emotional, and yes, physical. We accept poisons and call them normal.
If we do not speak plainly about what is happening, no one else will save us.
We allow people to move through our communities and take what they want.
They come in with money, with promises, with rules that hurt us more than they help.
We let them control jobs, land, media, and power in ways that leave our people with little.
We trade dignity for quick gains and then act surprised when our families fall apart.
This cheapens us and weakens our future.
Many of our leaders and influencers act like pimps for outside interests.
They broker deals, silence critics, and turn our pain into profit for others.
When our own protectors sell us to the highest bidder, who is left to stand for us?
We are made to carry chains we did not forge. We wear them like a second skin.
This is not guessing. This is what we see when we look honestly.
This problem is not only external. We fight among ourselves in ways that destroy progress.
Brother fights brother. Village fights village. Country fights country. We do the dirty work for others.
Instead of building, we spend energy in violence, envy, and betrayal. That is a luxury our descendants cannot afford.
We must face the hard fact: our enemies are not only outside. Some are inside our ranks too.
Until we stop killing our own chances, outsiders will keep taking our place at the table.
This article is a blunt mirror. Read it and do not look away.
I will name the forces that come into our lives. I will name how we let them.
I will show the cost in health, spirit, and money.
And I will refuse the soft language that hides the truth.
This is for anyone who cares about the people in our communities and wants to fight back.
We Let Them In
We are open to the world without rules to protect us.
Outsiders move in and take key roles in our economy.
They create jobs that leave us with scraps while they keep the real profit.
We cheer when a foreign firm comes and call it progress, even if we lose control.
We must demand ownership, not just the paycheck.
We accept relationships that harm us.
We trust those who have shown us they do not care.
We allow people to use our bodies, our labor, and our youth for their gain.
That acceptance has a cost that lasts generations.
If we are serious about change, we must change who we let inside our lives and why.
We have tolerated leaders who act for foreign interests.
They sign deals that ship our resources out and bring little home.
They use our votes and our images to climb while our schools and hospitals decay.
We must stop mistaking spectacle for strength.
Real power means control that benefits our people first.
The Pimps and Their Chains
Call them what they are: promoters of profit over people.
They place themselves between us and our future.
They manage who gets rich and who stays poor.
They use debt, contracts, and influence to keep us dependent.
That kind of control is modern slavery.
These actors come in many forms: business owners, media chiefs, political operatives.
They do not always look like enemies. They can appear as helpers.
But the pattern is the same: they profit while we lose ground.
They make rules that fit them, not us.
We must see the pattern and refuse to play the role they write for us.
Sickness: Spiritual and Biological
Our harm is not only in money and land.
We carry wounds no doctor can stitch.
A spirit drained by constant betrayal will not heal on its own.
Add disease, poor healthcare, and neglect, and we face twin crises.
We must treat our minds and souls with the same urgency we treat our bodies.
When a community is spiritually weak, it makes poor choices.
Those choices invite further harm.
We must rebuild health systems and healing practices that respect our people.
If we do not, our sickness will be passed down like an inheritance.
Who Benefits?
Not us. Not our children.
The ones who benefit are often not part of our future.
They profit now and plan to leave.
We must ask: who stays when the lights go out? Who invests for the long run?
If outsiders profit off our labor and resources, they will never share power.
We must make clear rules: ownership, fair wages, and local decision-making.
We must build institutions that protect our rights, not sell them.
That can be messy, but the mess is worth the price of freedom.
African Against African
Too often we turn our anger inward.
We kill one another, not just in war but in crime and petty hate.
We are trained to do the dirty work for those who profit from our division.
This internal violence is the strongest sign of our damage.
We must stop being easy targets for divide-and-rule.
When we fight among ourselves, outsiders win.
Unity is not about sameness. It is about shared purpose.
If we bind together around education, health, and local power, we break a key tool of oppression.
We can choose cooperation over chaos.
What We Must Build
Schools that teach our history and our rights.
Businesses owned by our people that hire our people.
Media that tells our stories honestly, not through a foreign lens.
Healthcare that serves the whole person, not just profit margins.
Leadership that answers to the community, not to distant boards.
We must create spaces where young people learn to value themselves.
Teach them to resist quick money and false fame.
Teach them to hold leaders to account.
A strong people build lasting institutions, not temporary headlines.
This is how we survive and thrive.
Steps for Change
1. Demand local ownership and accountability in every deal.
2. Build community banking and cooperative businesses.
3. Invest in clinics, clean water, and affordable housing.
4. Reclaim media and education spaces so our voice leads.
5. Hold leaders accountable with clear transparency laws.
These are not small tasks. They need commitment and sacrifice.
But small sacrifices beat generations of loss.
We cannot wait for outsiders to give us permission.
We must make the changes we need with what we have.
Every step forward weakens the grip of those who profit from our pain.
A Call to Parents and Elders
Teach children to love themselves and their people.
Model dignity, hard work, and accountability.
Do not teach them to bow to whoever brings the loudest promise.
Teach them to build and to protect what they build.
Our future walks on the lessons we give today.
Elders must stop enabling quick deals that harm the young.
If you sign off on the sale, you must live with the loss.
We need elders who guide with wisdom, not those who trade our future for a few comforts.
Stand up. Speak out. Do not be silent when wrong is done.
You are the memory and the backbone of our community.
Responsibility and Reckoning
Blaming only outsiders is a trap.
We must own our role in letting this happen.
That does not excuse the harm done to us. It makes us responsible for fixing it.
A people that claims responsibility can also claim power.
Reckoning means truth-telling, justice, and restitution.
It means changing laws, leaders, and systems.
We must demand fair contracts and stop selling our resources without conditions.
We must also rebuild trust among ourselves.
Without trust, nothing of value will endure.
This is not a comfortable truth.
We have allowed exploitation in many forms and we have paid dearly.
But we are not helpless. We can choose a different path.
We can close the doors to those who come only to take, and open doors to those who build with us.
We can refuse to be cheap in spirit and in practice.
We must stop performing for outsiders and start performing for our people.
Real leadership is service, not spectacle.
We must lift our children with institutions that last longer than a campaign or a contract.
If we act now, we can save what we still have and create more for those who follow.
The choice is ours. Act with courage.
We will have to make hard decisions and hard meetings.
We will have to call out our leaders and demand more from ourselves.
This is work, and work is not always popular or easy.
But it is necessary if we want dignity to be more than a word.
We owe it to our ancestors and to our children.
This is the time to stop being sold and start owning.
Build institutions, protect bodies and spirits, and stop the internal violence.
We can reclaim our story and write it in our own hand.
The first step is speaking the truth without softening it.
You have heard that truth here—now go and do something with it.
Thank you for your support,
LanceScurv
