THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES
Why: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.
Post Response by "Street Poet"
Why: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.
Post Response by "Street Poet"
Pictorial Embellishment by RBG Street Scholar
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| Feb 20, 2007 3:58 PM |
 The Dream {Street Poet} Black people & Reading... :/ {Repost} |
| yo.. im lightweight heated off this shit! (excuse my language). especially because it's coming from a white man and he's telling the truth! they're str8 clownin' us, they're laughing!! i mean i'm not gonna sit here and say that we all are alike but the majority is caught up in all this bullshit... that's why hip hop is everywhere! they know that it's big money for them...jus like with jay z and that team that he owns like 1%! of.. they're just using him to get to us and he is soon to be working with coca cola if that hasn't taken place already..we have to unite as 1 and show these P*ssies. We can acheive and create more successful things all by ourselves, that greed has got to stop... break bread and educate our ppl, u dig me!.. it's cool to read and learn.....shhhit just look at me ... hahaha ----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- From: Victory Photos - Joey D. Date: Feb 20, 2007 4:25 PM BLACK PEOPLE, PLEASE, READ & HEED. POIGNANT.  The sad thing about this article is that the essence of it is true. The truth hurts. I just hope this sets more Black people in motion towards making real progress. Chris Rock, a Black comedian, even joked that Blacks don't read. Help prove them wrong! Read and pass on. Please Note: For those of you who heard it, this is the article Dee Lee was reading this morning on a New York radio station. For those of you who didn't hear it, this is very deep. This is a heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote it. Dee Lee, CFP Harvard Financial Educators Dee Lee  THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES We can continue to reap profits from theBlacks without the effort of physical slavery Look at the currentmethods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS. Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, "The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it ina book." We now live in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have been their fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all.  GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars in total yearly income (2.22%). Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing. They would rather buy some new sneaker than invest in starting a business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, And they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives them "Status" or that they have achieved their Dream. They are fools! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because their greed holds them back from collectively making better communities.  With the help of BET, and the rest of their black media that often broadcasts destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn't want their money, and look at how the fools spend more with him than ever before!). They'll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we market to them.  SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, Dubois said that there was an innate division in their culture. A "Talented Tenth" he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some "form" of success. However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn't read that the "Talented Tenth" was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented Ninety Percent in achieving a better life. Instead, that segment has created another class, a Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner. They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them to be able to work together on any project or endeavor of substance. When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of their goal Their so-called help organizations seem to only want to promote their name without making any real change in their community. They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels, and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best speakers, not to the best doers. Is there no end to their selfishness? They steadfastly refuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM) They do not understand that they are no better than each other because of what they own, as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two pay checks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices and our rooms. Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to read, continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are "helping" their communities by paying dues to organizations which do little other than hold lavish conventions in our hotels. By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, 'THEY DON'T READ!!!! (Prove them wrong. Please pass this on! After Reading it..)   "Extracts from our community discussion" QueenPearl9 said... Nov-25-07 6:31pm Dear RBG Street Scholar, your agreement with the observations of a white man who described black people are selfish, ignorant, and greedy merits serious contemplation as all of humanity is guilty of these faults. What we should all be asking is why are these very human characteristics be such an impediment to progress when it comes to Black people. Greed, ignorance, and selfishness has not served as an impediment for anyone else. I no longer use such statements as "black on black" crime because a general observation of crime in general will reveal that there is "white on white" crime, "Latino on Latino crime", "Asian on Asian crime" etc. Although our society is diverse, it is still very much polarized and people live and associate with members of their own group for the most part. the statistics on murder committed in the usa reveal that most people know the person who killed them. if we are slaves because of our human characteristics of greed, selfishness, and ignorance are we saying that other groups of people are exempt from such characteristics? are we saying that they are morally stronger than us? black people are suffering from slavery of yesteryear and from "Jim crow" of yesteryear which has obviously had a traumatizing affect. It is important to always remember that slavery and Jim Crow were enforced through law and thus, our oppression was legal, something that many people forget when these topics are being addressed. black men are only group of men who dare not run down the street for any reason because of fear of apprehension from the police whether he has a criminal record or not, whether he committed a crime or not. are black men the only men committing crime in America? we kill ourselves everyday by internalizing that we are somehow inferior, by thinking that only we suffer from social ills. I would love to see how other groups would fare if they went through the trials and tribulations of the African American.  Hi QueenPearl9, thank you for the intelligent and passionate comment...and most of all thank you for the respectful tone you bring with your different views. Despite the wealth of solid information presented within this page / course alone, I am nonetheless not surprised that you would not agree. But if you are a true seeker of truth..read the full page and follow some links before your take your final position on this most important topic-"THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES". The long answer as to why I / we hold the position that we (Afrikans in Amerikkka) are still slaves is articulated in the body of the communiversity's content quite well I think ...Ones cumulative overstanding of content once they spend some quality time with it. ...For those who choice to pick one lil thing out of the larger picture and formulate an ill informed position, here's the short version of my / our reasoning: The idea that we are still slaves is not merely my observation, it is a well documented fact, researched , written about and struggled against by many more learned then I for the past 150 years ( post emancipation proclamation). All one needs to do is look at the data / indices of "well being" during chattel slavery times and compare that data to our condition as a group today. All qualifiers included, the masses of our people are even worst off today then during those times: RBG Street Scholars Think Tank "State of Black America" Its just that your "education" dose not view these things as of primary importance, RBG does. That is what much of what we do here ( look at problems & offer solutions). But people see what they want to see and read what they want to read, more frequently the not, with a total disregard for all facts. Everything I put on the more than 20 websites / 5,000 learning objects-media assets is well documented by the most respected and scholarly sources (Afrikan scholars, educators, psychologist, historians, sociologist, personologist, elders, ancestors etc...are our professors). Fact, selfish, ignorant, and greedy are not Afrikan peoples original way.You can't explain away how these things keep us enslaved by saying "other people manifest them also", because every other people has a history the is quite different from ours. In order to come up with the correct perspective you have to put what a people does in proper historical context. No one else has our history... DeAfrikanized culturally ie, we lost our land, language, religion, God, folkways, mores and power of our own being. DeHumanized in the eyes of the rest of the world as to justify the slavery, rape and murder. Inferiortized in our own mind and spirit to hate our self. These things took place systematically over the course of hundreds of years...And you dare say that we should be bunched in with others who have these flaws--WRONG. Please see and read: THE OFFICIAL AND ONLY STATEMENT, "I speak for no one, EXCEPT" If you study the school closely you will find that selfish, ignorant, and greedy are the ways of a European conceptual framework, ie white supremacy. There is no separation between the past, present and future--based on our history we can't afford to do what others do, epically our former slavemaster. Let's look at an illustration: Afrikan & Traditional Afrikan American Family Worldview / Definitional System / Conceptual Framework vs The European's: >we, ours, us--not I, me, mines >cooperative--not competitive >groupness--not oneness >collective--individualistic >spiritual-not material >man & women were a complimentary dualism--not man vs women >man in harmony with nature--not man vs nature >peace and harmony--not greed and violence...and I can go on and on. The main take home point here QueenPearl9 is we are other than our self / controlled by anothers way--that's a slave sista and the primary cause of 99.9% of current intergroup problems. For example, if you look at the characteristics to the right in the above illustration you don't know if I'm talking about the dope game on the corner or corporate america--because the dope game as it is played out in every ghetto/barreo is merely a microcosm of the corporate American ethos. Finally, on a most fundamental level, any people who don't provide food, clothing, shelter, energy, education protection and recreation (to name a few) for themselves are slaves to those who provide those things to them. Just look at all that I present in this school. Ask yourself, are the things RBG Street Scholar presents important for Black people to think about ? Once you answer yes, ask yourself this, are they taught in such a comprehensive manner in K-12, college, graduate school?--hell no. Why BECAUSE WE ARE STILL SLAVES and slaves must stay ignorant of self. In other words its still against the rules for us to educate ourselves. Its still against the rules for us to defend, define and development in our own image and interest. An the main culprits today in this self-alienation process is us; because of the brainwashing of white supremacy/racism (socio-structural, institutional and interpersonal)...I mean, it use to be against the white man's law and rule for us to read and many were lashed and kill for trying to do so; but today you have to lash us to make us read. This is called intropression: When the opressed are subject to oppression as long as us we internalize the oppressor and thus do to ourselves what the oppressor once did..THAT IS A SLAVE. Do myself and yourself a favor and take the time to read the Willie Lynch Letter above with close attention. Its saying the same thing. Again, thank you for your comment. Hope this helps sista, it certainly will help others.             "NEVER AGAIN"See: Still Not Up From Slavery: A Comprehensive, Yet Concise, Review of Our American Odyssey "Chattle Slavery Making A Comback" Work Camps 1 Work Camps 2 |
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