BLACK FOLKS..WE STILL N SLAVERY & WE DONT KNOW
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Posted By: Brittany Janaye Jeffery on November 14, 2005 Someone sent this to me a while back and I thought that the group should discuss some of the items that are outlined in this essay. BLACKS DONT READ I know most of you are not in this category BLACKS DONT READ. This is the article Dee Lee read on a New York radio station. This is very deep, and unfortunately, very true. This is a heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote it. THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES. We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery. Look at the current methods 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 in a 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 the American 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 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. In fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two paychecks 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 DONT READ!!!!" If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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Brittany Janaye Jeffery
From vacherie, LA Dillard University class of 2009 Member Since March 2005 |
Comments
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This is deep. Spread this word around.
Tuesday, November 15th 2005 at 10:40AM |
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AS a Black Man "I'm Not in Slavery" because I know who I am but as a race we need to find out who we are. As a race we need to get to the root of the problem because it didn't just start. This whole article is just to turn Blacks back to the Whites if you feel me. The author wrote we don't read, so what that make you want to do go buy a book, join some book club, or something else along those line. Notice they gave a shout out to the stores they want your money to go to. WHY NOT MENTION THE INTERNET OR LIBRARY were it's free. ARE YOU TRACKING ME! The author goes on to talk about greed but if you notice it's another shout out to "TOMMY & NIKE" and a little talk of investing and saving probably at a bank own by the White Man. Catch the line were the author depict Bet as a negative station. The author probably never watched BET to see what is aired. COME ON PEOPLE CATCH UP! And lastly the author talked about selfishness. Why do we have to read someone who chose to write something so vague. If you are Black and reading this, you know when it comes to being TOGETHER we work TOGETHER. We been in the struggle for a long time and that's how we made it through. Being Together. We all have opinions and differnece that's what makes us who we are. But for the author to talk about our organizations and conventions that is just a plot to turn us away from going. But we don't have to use their hotels but that's why they tell us that so we will rebel thus making them more money. SMARTING UP NOW! I'm writing all this because I don't want to be the one who lead the sheep astray and if you feeling me remember what I say, slavery is a mental thought and If you think you are free you can never be bought! NOW THAT'S LOVE ....TRE'
Wednesday, November 16th 2005 at 6:41AM |
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I don't to leave anything out so as you read that, catch up on a little independant research of your own. Here is a start http://thetalkingdrum.com/wil.html. See with reading, the "White Man" isn't going to put it all it the books so you have to educate yourself. Check your history and you'll find that most of the successful blacks were self educated. To All Who Read This Holla Back If You Feel Me. I Got More Of This Realism
Wednesday, November 16th 2005 at 6:51AM |
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I read the same thing awhile ago. My dad gave it to me and I totally agree. We (the black race) need to do something about this, if we don't then we're in serious trouble. Wednesday, November 16th 2005 at 10:03AM |
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