AFRICANGLOBE – For those of you who heard of it, this is an article Dee Lee was reading 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.
“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.
(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
sneakers 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.”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, 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!!!!
Now that you have read this, I want
to get an ongoing discussion on the topic. I want everyone who reads this to
post your opinions of this letter. Do you feel that is true. If so, in what
ways? How can us as the African race get away from these stereotypes or
accusations that are raised within this text?
The evidence is provided in this
letter. Did this letter take you aback as it did to us? Let us know what you
think. Tell your friends to read this also. Remember that in order to have
progress you must address the issues pertaining to your people so please keep this
in mind and educate your friends and most importantly educate yourselves.
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