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Capitalist Nigger: The Road to Success: A Spider-Web Doctrine

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Mr. Onyeani's book is the best book I read by an African on the state of the race in Africa and the rest of the Diaspora. He pulls no punches in showing how Africans worldwide are economically dependent on others. He criticizes his fellow Africans in Africa, African immigrants in the u.s., African-Americans, and Caribbean-Americans. He shows the lack of entrepreneurship by Africans can be traced to a deep belief of the inate inferiority of our race and the superiority of other races. He is correct in saying that many Africans have more reverance for the European, the Asian, the Jew and others than for God. One can look at our women and men who dye their hair all colors of the spectrum. Carlos Cooks of the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement said that the hair has more sense than this brainwashed person, because it always returns to its natural state.

The book calls for aggressive pursuit of capitalism, taking charge of one's destiny, and seeking out advice in your path to success. It puts out a challenge to Africans, "If you see yourselves as equal to other human beings, you must prepare yourself to play and win the game of capitalism as we do in sports, music dance and the military .This book also makes subtle calls for Black unity that has been call ed for by various leaders such Marcus Garvey, Carlos Cooks, Malcolm X, Kwame Ture (stokely Carmichael) Kwame Nkrumah and others. A united Black world economically independent will be a site to behold. I have committed myself to buying the author's newspaper "the African Sun-Times" in order to better understand and communicate with my brothers and sisters from the motherland.

This is an interesting book on the economic and social situation of Africans in Africa and the diaspora. The author is very critical of the economic underdevelopment and dependence of African peoples on other races. He ascribes this to inferiority complex and lack of self-confidence and self-discipline in the ability of African peoples to be world-renowned successful entrepreneurs, industrialists, scientists and engineers. He cites several examples of ineptitude by African leaders with the resource rich African continent being heavily debt-ridden with nothing to show where the money went.

Onyeani believes that by following the capitalist path and doing so aggressively, resolutely, persistently and with confidence, it should be possible to uplift the African race from the bottom layers of society where it is largely settled.

It is easy to dismiss Onyeani's ideas as just rantings of a frustrated African but this introspection is a critical first step towards the mental and economic emancipation of the African race. One can accuse the author of advocating a system of "capitalism" which is inherently oppressive and exploitative and is a creation by the Caucasian race which tends to contradict his basic message. However, such thinking misses the basic point that African needs to catch up or surpass the other races in building a better community characterized by prosperity, progress, mutual assistance and support and unity.

I went to the store to purchase "White Guilt" but they were out. I purchased this book instead and I cannot tell you how happy I was to read it. It took me 2 days to read it and then I read it again just to let it all soak in. This book uncovers the secret (at least the secret from African Americans) to be succesful. It should be required reading of all AFrican American teenagers age 16 and up. He explains how India and Koren immigrants to this country have acheived more than blacks have and they we should not whine about White People holding us back because by doing so, you CANNOT be focused on becoming an Economic Warrior, i.e., a Capitalist Nigger.

Buy this book for yourself and instead of money or pen sets for graduation gifts for high school and college graduates, make this your standard gift to them. They will appreciate it for years to come.

I would also suggest reading "Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery" by Na'im Akbar. It is the perfect book to accompany "Capitalist Nigger." Really, they both should be required reading for African American teenagers.

I thought the book gave a raw and uncut truth about africans,etc. Onyeani shot straight from the hip in regards to how we view and approach wealth. We need to become more aggressive, not to the point where we become blinded by wealth, but as far as being more proactive when it comes to wealth. I am an entrepeneur, and I am going to implement some the theories and concepts he mentioned so I can make my community a better place.

This book was excellent. That's the best way that I can describe it. Blacks need to stop begging and praying for the things that they want and start making them happen. Stop trying to buy your way into being accepted and start making our communities so great that others will want to buy into our communities. Stop complaining about other groups using their prejudice to bar you from the services that you should be providing for yourself and your people. No, they don't owe you open arms and smiling faces into their towns, clubs, etc. They have the right to exclude because they created their own. We can create our own, but we lack the foresight and fortitude to do it. And who's fault is that?

The Chinese don't owe you better food because you keep supporting their non-ventilated, dingy storefronts. The Arabs don't owe you better quality gas because you keep filling up at their lackluster stations. The Indians don't owe you a ride in their taxi because you don't have your own people driving taxis as well. My point, the world owes nothing to anyone. It is not fair, but if you're waiting for all the peoples of the world to apologize to the Black community for lack of respect and lack of services, then you'll be waiting forever. Besides, it's not their duty to provide for us-that's our job. We're pathetic internatinally because we can't provide and protect ourselves without the help of others. And Blacks wonder why we are looked down upon by every other ethnic group?

Blacks have the responsibility to be our own standardbearers and our own providers. That's our job and noone else's. Respect is earned and even taken. But it has never been given. At least for real.

Had this book been written by a white person,he would have been crucified.I'm a South African and I experience what Onyeani is writing about on a daily basis.Athough I'm white,this book is painful to read.
The book came to my knowledge about two months ago and I do not know what kind of a stir(if any)it caused when it was first published.The danger inherent to this book is that it may be abused by militant right-wingers,but anyone doing that would loose sight of the fact that the book was written by an Afro-American and that it is an outcry aimed at Afro-People everywhere to get off their duffs and to be Capitalist Niggers-you have to read the book to understand this expression-and to stop being passive,waiting with cupped hands for the seemingly endless hand-outs.
If one looks at Africa:where are the success stories,the lasting democracies?(Except,hopefully and perhaps,South Africa)I agree with Onyeani-Africa is a beautiful and bountiful continent and it's high time that all its people manage it to its full potential and not run it into the ground as is the case currently,eg,Zimbabwe which became a pathetic,sad,broke and broken country run by a madman 20 years after the 'colonialists' left.
White or not,it's my fervent wish that Oyeani's call to Afro-People everywhere to become Capitalist Niggers,is heeded-it will be to the ultimate benefit of all the people of all races.
About race,race relations and what's wrong with the world in general and Britain in particular,check out THE LIGHT'S ON AT SIGNPOST by GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER,the chapters titled 'Angry Old Man'.Compulsive reading.

I was truely amazed at how the author was not ashamed to tell the truth.I am in contruction and I see first hand how other races get along and help each other.I can even find any help among my own people,it brings my heart.I wish it was mandatory in school that you had to read this book my black brothers& sisters.

A ubiquitous adage in the African community - "The truth is better to hear".
This book is a must read for the African community. The book challenges the African "consumerist" mentality that far exceeds the current uncommon quest to be independent "producers". Albeit often times shrewd, the author reminds his readers time and again that this is not an attack on other races or persons, but rather a challenge for Africans to understand that we will remain "fatally dependent" on the producers of the world if we do not make a concerted effort to develop a relentless pursuit of success in the area of becoming business providers of goods/services we need and can supply to the world.
This book is a must read for everyone regardless of race.

The author is a strident capitalist as suggested by the title of the book. His focus is on getting the black community to be motivated to pursue a life in business rather than being employees and explains some ways in which immigrant communities in the US have achieved remarkable levels of success through the 'spiderweb doctrine" which is basically communities spending money in their own communities first wherever possible.
The book is thought provoking and is as relevant today as when it was first published ; the author challenges us as black people to create our own models of success rather than moving through life on auto-pilot.

The author of this book is right when he says that black people have low self-esteem. What I don't like about this book is that while the author criticizes blacks for trying to look white, he advocates blacks adopting white culture. In fact, capitalism was invented by whites, and was the political/economiacal system responsible for slavery, racism, and colonialism. If you are proud of being black, you should instead live an African lifestyle, respecting the earth, the environment, and other tribes. Africans enjoyed of much more cultural diversity and natural resouces because they knew how to respect the land. Following the steps of the whites will only prove that you are a good copy-cat, and that you have no pride for the rich culture of your ancestors. The very word sucess in this book is completely seen from a white perspective, in which a person's worth is measured by money and education.