shitholes<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, generating global uproar especially among blacks who criticized Mr. Trump for being racist.<\/p>\nBut Pastor Mensa Otabil in his sermon said, \u201cIf God has called us to reach African people then we have to find out what is the problem with African people. And the problems are quite self-evident. We are the poorest in the world. Just look around us. We have been described very unsavorily not too long ago by the president of a prominent nation, in terms that are very uncomplimentary. And as annoying as that description is, it is not prescriptive but it is descriptive. It doesn\u2019t tell you that is where we are going, but it seems we exhibit symptoms that conform to that description. \u201d<\/p>\n
He told the congregation at the ICGC Christ Temple, Abossey Okai in Accra, that he had identified inferiority complex as a major issue impeding the development of Africa and blacks as a race.<\/p>\n
While citing the continent\u2019s seemingly over-dependence on foreign assistance in terms of human and monetary resources and logistics, the revered spiritual leader lamented that the current situation depicts blacks as \u201ca broken people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel that one of the biggest challenges that we face as people is a sense of inferiority. It is almost as if you can\u2019t do anything about your problems. We almost feel incapacitated before our problems. \u00a0We feel as if somebody from somewhere should help us all the time. We are like a broken people, we either need the British to help us, or the Germans to help us or the Americans to help us, and now we even want the Chinese to help us, Indians to help us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u2018Why should we feel helpless?\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\nDr. Mensa Otabil further stressed on the apparent state of helplessness of most Ghanaians in the country over the level of development and happenings in the country, indicating that the phenomenon of feeling or being helpless as a Ghanaian in Ghana must not be entertained.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have problems with Chinese or Indians, but why should we feel helpless in our country? I don\u2019t mind feeling helpless if I go to Germany because, I\u2019m not a German. But I shouldn\u2019t feel helpless in Ghana. If I go to Germany and I feel inferior, that is normal, it is okay, but I shouldn\u2019t feel that way when I\u2019m here in my own country.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that problem is not really a political problem. We felt that way before we became politicians so when you become a politician, you just go and manifest what you were already feeling. The sense of the inferiority is one of the things that I think God must help us to break,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n
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