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by Johnnie Cordero (Author)
THEODICY AND THE POWER OF THE AFRICAN WILL, is a product of a lifelong search for answers. It is also the response to the call of the Intelligence-Of-The-Heart. It is an amalgam of empathy, frustration and disgust. Let the reader be warned that the ultimatum contained in its pages is not tempered by polite words fashioned to soothe political or religious sensibilities. Only those who seek knowledge for the sake of enlightenment need proceed.
I do not claim to be anything other than a displeased and displaced member of the human race. I do not claim divine inspiration although it is true that my association with Oudja enables me to see things, in the broad sense, that perhaps others, unfortunately, do not.
I am a Black man, descendant of African nobility brought to these shores proud prisoners of war and reduced to abject slavery. As such I am born into the hell that is this European dominated world. My experience in this land of progressive slavery has not, with the exception of interactions with family and friends, been endearing. I readily acknowledge the existence of a bias against the hypocrisy of this country that masquerades as democracy. I have compensated for my bias by stating it foremost and prominently. I alert the reader that her analysis will be the more scrupulous and exacting. I do not hide the bias I wear it as a badge of honor.
This is in my view a thoroughly racist and condemnable society. Its touted contributions to civilization and human progress are belied by its festering underbelly of poverty, racism and wholesale environmental contamination. The obscene wealth of the few juxtaposed against the poverty of the many speaks volumes about its true cultural tendencies and moralistic pretensions.
Those who proclaim that European civilization is the greatest in history do not know history and, apparently, have a limited capacity for objective analysis. When the value of this country's technological advancement is viewed against the backdrop of nuclear proliferation in the passage of amere two centuries plus of existence, the term greatest seems hollow, underserved and certainly premature.
The reader is cautioned that this is not a scholarly work. Nor is it intended to be one. It is not written for the jaded academic whose imprisonment in academe has desensitized him by removing his antiseptic objectivity.
This is a prognostication. It is written for the layperson who is in search of answers and who breathes the fire that is the affinity of Critical Mass.
This is a diagnostic view of history seen through the mind's eye of an ancient people whose perspective is foreign, but by no means inferior, to that of the European. The distinction is more than semantic, it is revolutionary because it predicts a necessary, unavoidable, imminent and radical change. Admittedly, that which is revolutionary is often considered subversive.
