A Commentary From An Outsider: MONEY MONEY MONEY

Congratulation KSAA, you guys have managed to get $10 000 for a mental health awareness, what a great achievement, my sincere gratitude goes to the National committee. I think that this has been the first major step forwards since the National Committee took office to go into a number of controversies. In no doubt do I think that it is a victory for all, ‘the NSW, KSAA as a whole body and even for people none members to KSAA like me’. When one comes to precisely investigate why such an achievement is a victory, I think that is where what comes with that victory could be reveal in one way or the other. Primarily, most of the people will agree that $10 000 is achieved to be added in to the KSAA's account. “Membership payment declined and money from KSAA’s initiated projects in the rise” that is equal to incomes sustainability, fair enough. As I have solely advocated before, "money is as good as evil", this is where I still wanted to draw people's attention to if that may be welcomed. I will say it anyway, an outsider commentary welcomed or not. I guess I may not be a frequent contributor as I have been as a member but I will still express my opinion on general, unavoidable and striking issues till ‘They’ decide to lock me off from the site as I have requested when I resigned from KSAA. I will particularly want to try and refocus people attention on the evils side of some grants and the grants’ money. For instance, draw people’s attention to an issue such as “what do particular grants do to the image of the whole organization’? I do not have time to go about explaining what a grant is and why is it offered, I will assume that the readers know exactly how to answer any question related to the nature of grants offered in societies like Australia. I will particularly want to think that the grant and money offered to KSA in this particular incident is intended to help people cop-up with psychotic implications, the psychotic implications KSAA may be facing as a community. Applying for such grants bears a number of implications with it. One of these implications is that there is an admission of the fact that the majority of the people members to the organization applying for such grants are psychotics or have major psychotic problems, the psychotic problem/s that may be eradicated by awareness. Maybe by referring members to places where the can get help with their psychotic problems, telling them about the available options for resolving the mental health problems and or helping them to diagnose their own psychotic problems. To me the above is as equal to saying that KSAA has officially admitted that most of it progress is being hindered by mental health problems and fundamental that the lack of competency of its members [to carry on with their day to day business and or commit themselves to their personal and legal obligations] has become a persistent problem. From the above, one can see why it has been that ease for KSA to be granted $10 000 in NSW. One can also see why it has been too difficult for KSAA to be granted some money for excelling in competitive projects such as of the establishment of writing, drama, debating or fine art clubs. It has been the expectation for many years that a mental problem existed in the African communities and particularly African communities with predominantly refugees' backgrounds. Till today, none of the groups of people living in the broader African communities had taken the step KSAA did to admit that a whole section of people from Kongor are in mental health crisis. One may asked why KSAA first and why others have deny to admit to such a collective thing expected of them. Many people will foresee such expectations as the remaining aspects of imperialism. Basically, some people will agree to think that other people intend to generally disadvantage them from being able to appropriately develop and attain their full capacities from institutions where people’s progresses in the acquisition of skills and essential elements for progress in these industrial societies are assess and awarded for. For example, when one is psychotic, [be it self-admitted, labeled or declared] one can officially be denied admission to a medical school, this of which is also equal to sayings that even if one had performed well at school no one will want to believe them [psychotic and no more reasons to believe them]. The above will not be a problem if a proper assessment was done by KSAA and the intention for applying for such grant was as mentioned above, “to admit that KSAA is a pool of the mentally compromised people of Kongor” and the other intention was, of course, to do something in order to help KSAA’s members. The second implication is encountered when one thinks about the issue of education and tries to explore the relationship between education and the KSAA’s self-declared state of mental health problems. Say a particular focus is required when one decided to explore how much KSAA had shifted in policy and orientation for the first time from mounting its pride in academic excellence to admitting that people have gone mental. It is a big shift there, I had not expected a Kongor organization to have a stand like that in my life time, and anyway, I will leave the implications of such a shift in policies and orientations to be read in between the lines of my article by the readers. As I have said before, my intention for writing this article was to highlight on issues that might be relevant to people or people's associations' actions, I am just trying to get people think about the unattractive parts of major decisions. I think that we have developed a bad habit of which is being often too overwhelmed about the first and few good impressions indicated in the projects we are involved with to masked our important skills for having to foresee the bad and long term bad consequences of the projects at hands. I think that above mentioned bad habit was inherited from generations before us and that the habit has be the problem why none of the generations we have had had not enjoyed the fruits of democracy, the bad habit has made our generations the regrettors of their own votes and consents. Say for example, you decide to day and tomorrow you say the decisions was not just enough to be legitimate. Anyway, the third implication that comes in mind when thinking about KSAA is the issue of money and what new strategies are being initiated by KSAA to fill its pocket. That is to say, “If KSAA is not a pool of the mentally compromised people” and KSAA had applied for that grant just in order to get the money, how vulnerable is KSAA getting and in the face of money [the evil] and how to fund itself with the evils. Does KSAA have a value and dignity? Is there anything KSAA can not do when it comes to getting money just in order to preserve its values and dignity? Putting in mind that I did not have any intention to suggest or making suggestions in the article, I will end by saying Good day KSAA, that was a friendly opinion from an outsider, all are free to think about it in any possible way and either keep quite with what they think about my article or tell me and others about their opinions in relation to this particular article. I will just hope that you had enjoyed reading this article. Deng Dau Atem