THE DOUBLE-CHALLENGE THAT GRADUALLY KILL THE BODIES & SPIRIT OF A PEOPLE

It is easier said than done.

More than a half of the world population live in poverty. Half of that, live in abject poverty struggling to have at least one meal a day. Poverty as a term comes with appealing conditions that seriously deteriorate the status of mankind. This does go beyond only physical catastrophes but also and most importantly the psychological state of man. Man does very little with an empty stomach, however, an empty brain is the worst of all. Since we work to eat and eat to work , the two are not separate entities and must all be safeguarded  strongly for the development of the human body and brain. 

The exclusion of poverty in our society is a hyperactive ambition which most humanist everywhere propagate for because of the depressions it breeds on the majority of our society. This might not be easily achieved but the availability of basic need like food and medicine should not be negotiated. It is an obligation on those shoulders who are inflicting painS into the minds and bodies of billions of people. Those institutions that make laws, implement and sing them, hover over the death bodies and spirits of the majority. Legitimising their evil makes us cultivate eternal poverty and languish in inequality, calling many people to their untimely graves.

When the whole world become silent about evil, even a single truthful mind can be liberating to those minds and bodies enduring the pain they have no hands in.

Poverty as a political adjective is deductive. One has to be poor to know how it feels but one does not need to be reach to know it is nice. Our connotation about poverty has graduated from honesty to corruption. We cannot define and fight poverty well when we live in five-star hotels or fly over the tenements of those people in The Gambia, Brazil and Syria. It will be unfair(as it already is), defining the physical and mental conditions of survivors of your own actions and inaction without allowing them a say.

When same exams or texts are drawn for both the poor and the rich without giving prior consideration to their state of affairs, this is what I call obscurities of our institutions. When mothers are compelled to undergo mosquito bites for survival, and the ministry of health ask them to stay indoors without providing them medicines or basic needs, this is what I sum as dehumanization. When our governments campaign for birth control without providing basic knowledge on sexual and reproductive health, free contraceptives and food for the upkeep of that very slogan, this is what I call blackmailing. When medicines are manufactured at higher prices for the poor to purchase, foods are made for a short duration, education is made expensive for the majority, jobs are created for machines and a few people, weapons are made justifiable against the poor and the week, when lands of the poor are rubbed and waters are given at a market price, this is when women and children are intentionally made to suffer.

Where life-threatening  diseases are abundant and associated to the poor, one is made confused as to whether  all these diseases are natural occurrences. However, any wind behind this very force of human disturbance is not far from capitalism. Any system that enslave the minds and bodies of a people is not only unfitting but highly illegal. When human labour is put at a market price and survival is based upon what one produce and what one produce is determined by a market force, this is when private hands become legitimated against a common good and even the strongest bone of unity that exist among the poor and less privileged are made unsolidified. The poor majority become divided among the very components of the market. Their  worst enemy.

When markets have a private concern against the more appealing concerns of the majority, and they are empowered to operate for that vision by laws made by corrupt politicians who either are the owners or shareholders, illegality is institutionalised and becomes a common hood. Hardly can the poor majority triumph against this strong force when they are ignorant and made divided by those powers. They are institutionally made blind, deaf, and dumb.

The worst enemy of our this century is the market that is empowered against our common good. “Now that democracy is prevalent as a market force, it has disenfranchised many and legitimised its own actions and inactions”. I am saying no to this type of “semboocracy”( A Mandinka word meaning the rule of the most powerful”.