Black people all across the world — and this dispersion should not exist in the first place, plus is a symptom of the fundamental problem — are always the most underdeveloped, least cultured, most downtrodden and largest members of the underclass, including in sub-Saharan Africa, the homeland and area of largest concentration. Non-blacks who are guests in sub-Saharan Africa have a lot more of everything than the black natives.

Back in 2016, the Nigerian literary writer Chigozie Obioma wrote an article titled "There are no successful black nations" in which he theorized that the biggest reason black people are treated like filth all across the world, is the historical low-dignity status of black people due to a long-term civilizational weakness. He said that this would likely not remain true if a developed black country existed actually worthy of respect and capable of advocating for black people globally.

The public reaction to Obioma's article was as expected (and you can look this up online right now on platforms like Reddit and Twitter): broad denial about the naked truth by everyone including black people, and especially good-natured liberal white people. The counter-argument by these people was mentioning "successful" black countries like Botswana and multiple Caribbean islands i.e tiny (landmass and, or population), resource-rich or tourism-dependent states which do not actually matter.

While it is probably not literally true that a single successful black country would change everything for black people, the correctness of the argument for why black people are globally treated like filth is impeccable. Also absolutely correct in his piece is the attitude and orientation of black leaders (and also a broad section of black people) globally to discussing why the indignity exists.

A developed black state in the sense Chigozie discusses would still be operating on the terms of non-black people and basically negotiating the dignity of black people, which is almost as embarrassing as the current situation. It is not right for black people to exist on the terms or in terms of a different set of people.

The interesting thing is that the primary problem to deal with isn't even with convincing non-black people that black people deserve dignity, but convincing black people their own selves that they do deserve dignity — because that is currently not what they believe. Black people are themselves the vanguard of the global belief in their own inferiority.

It is absolutely true that black people feel profoundly inferior to most other human groups, especially whites. It is not a surprise that this is the case considering recent history. When everything about yourself (religion, language, name, tradition, etc) is proclaimed "not good enough", to be replaced by other things, from and by some other people, it is not a surprise that you lose your dignity and come to think of yourself mostly in terms of those other people.

It is apparent in how Africans (West Africans particularly) think of everything local to themselves in comparison to foreign stuff by foreign people. In the perception of locally-made material goods vs foreign (non-African) stuff. In the relationship to language: some West African status privilege is determined by how much distance you can maintain between yourself and your ethnic language.

It is visible in the obsession with emigration too. The highest aspiration of a West African isn't to do anything monumental to contribute to the development of their immediate society, it is in fact to abandon their homeland to be a slave in the metropole (UK/France), or maybe even the US.

There is a profound psychological problem with self-dignity in Africans which needs to be reckoned with.

It is not a surprise that Africans are like this in lots of ways. Foreign people showed up in Africa to tell the African people that basically everything about what and how they understand the world, how they do things and the things that they do are wrong. It seemed that those foreigners were right too since everything about the African material life seemed to improve thereafter. And therefore, Africans gave up everything about themselves, to aspire to foreign things.

Africans adopted foreigner religion, culture, language, names and basically everything fundamental to their identity. The psychological impact of this in the sense of the threat of a permanent damage to the African self-esteem is severely understated.

Africans fundamentally genuinely believe that they are bottom-tier people inherently inferior to other human groups and thus deserving of maltreatment. Individual Africans may try to tell you that no they have a decent self-esteem blah blah blah but this is not genuinely true.

Worshipping a God brought to you by foreign people which requires you renounce fundamental parts of your ancestral tradition to take up new ideas brought by those foreign people lays this foundation. By jettisoning your evolved tradition for foreign stuff, you are admitting fundamental incorrectness about your ways and proclaiming the superiority of the foreign ideas (and thence the people). And because you cannot become one of them due to the permanent bridge of genetic difference, you are locked in an eternal state of relative inferiority.

While it may be true that the existential and mythological beliefs of your ancestors are wrong, the Abrahamic ideas of the foreign people aren't actually right either. The correct thing to do is to find a better path, locally and independently.

African cultural norms dictate that people lie about all things, including this specific issue of a belief in African inferiority. People can always say whatever they want, but the way to know a person's true beliefs is not based on the things that they say, but the actions that they do take.

The African admittance of fundamental inferiority is apparent in how Africans individually treat one another relative to how they treat foreign people, and their willingness to allow foreign people to treat them like filth. It is apparent in foreigner approval-seeking with everything. In the associated prestige with marrying a non-African. In the obsession with emigration to foreign societies. In the fondness for foreign languages and cultural practices. In the subservience to foreign religions. In the comparison of every new thing anyone in Africa tries to do to what is done in foreign societies (maybe there are other ways to do things whether or not foreign societies realize this? And maybe it is possible for Africans to do new, original things?)

The problem of black inferiority exists in the same way among diasporic African Descendants of Slaves. The incredible status of America as by far the world's most powerful country does a lot in trying to hold up the status of African Americans globally, but within America itself, the black inferiority of American DOS is loudly on display.

A particularly bad mark of black inferiority is that black people feel inferior to basically every other human group. This is noticeable in things like out-marriages to the most random, non-high-status group out there. Anything is better than black. It is also noticeable in things like the interaction with foreign entrepreneurs on African soil (say Indian or Lebanese entrepreneurs), the relationship between Middle Eastern people and Muhammadan blacks, and the emigration of young sub-Saharan African women to be maids (read: slaves) in war-torn Middle Eastern countries. Anything is better than Africa.

A particularly big pointer to a broad belief in black inferiority is how black people who have the best contemporary material outcomes because they are "natives" in their non-African-developed countries (South Africans and African Americans) love to brag about how much better than other blacks they are. They do not directly admit this, but it is clear that what makes them better than the rest in their own minds is a proximity to nonblacks.

Poor self-dignity is a self-reinforcing loop. Every other group notices it. Poor self-dignity results in bottom-tier behavior, which reinforces poor perception and poor treatment, further reinforcing poor self-dignity.

To achieve genuine black dignity, there is a need to correct history by departing from the path that has led to the existing situation and move away from foreign religions, languages, material culture... and other things that give a people a sense of identity. Black people must begin to think well of their own selves and things. Inward-lookingness must be maximized. Outward-lookingness, in all forms, must be severely curtailed. Only with these changes can it become apparent that black people believe in their own dignity. And after which the rest of the world can begin to believe in black dignity.

Begging for dignity by persistently pathetically moaning about racism and similar such things will achieve nothing. The only true solution is making the necessary fundamental changes.

Black people all over the world — and again, this dispersion shouldn't exist in the first place — increasingly feel hopeless because there does not seem to be a nearing to the end of black humiliation.

This is directly because no one knows what they are doing. The solution to achieving dignity is not a thing people are willing to accept.

Unfortunately, as long as black people keep doing low self-dignity, low self-esteem things — persistent infatuation with foreign religions, languages and material culture; black African leaders stealing money acquired from pawning invaluable natural resources to be exchanged for gaudy material things from foreign societies; black American leaders following the liberal progressive party line and continuously moaning about racism and making excuses for dysfunction within their society; black Africans actively abandoning their homelands to be used as slaves to fill demographic gaps in foreign societies; black people generally desperately seeking non-black romantic partners — as long as everything remains as it currently is, there will only increasingly be more and more distance between black people and dignity.