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Lifting Our People Up Beyond The Slave Mindset.

February 10, 2015 by  
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(ThyBlackMan.com) It is crystal clear that our people (African-Americans) need to be built up, encouraged, motivated and given a strong sense of identity and greatness. The need can be seen in so many single parent households where there is no example for our young men and our daughters are not learning how they should be treated, gender and sexual preference is confused, our incarceration rates are high, our abortion rates are high, our divorce rates are high, our domestic violence rates are high, our addiction rates are high, the negative and degrading music is programming our youth, school drop-out rates are awful and “black on black” crime.

Why are these things staying in place? Because the slave mindset is still in place. The mindset of being suspicious of each other, tearing each other down and defending those things and ways that are detrimental to us is exactly what is keeping our people down. Parental participation is almost nonexistent in our schools, food stamps, hustling and low paying jobs are considered the acceptable norm while financial problems take center stage. We can do better, we have to do better. And Martin Luther King Jr. or President Obama are not the answers. YOU ARE THE ANSWER!

Lack of identity is a major issue and there is a lot we can do about it. But before I share the solutions, let’s take a look at how lack of identity manifests itself in our communities. There is no longer any excuses for not finding out who you are, what your potential is and why you are here. If you can spell Facebook, you can spell Google and there is plenty of research to help you in almost any area. But you have to want to know who you are, to do more, be more and rise higher. When you do not know who you are, several key things happen.

First you act like who you are not or who someone else tells you that you are. That is evident in the fact that so many of our people act like Niggers (yes I said it). We are not Niggers and we are not even black, we are brown. Sadly, many of our people plug into the stereotypes that Racist America has set, painted and promoted. Loud music, vulgar, sagging pants, obscene and disrespectful lyrics, smoking weed, using drugs, abusing women, cheating, dropping out of school, mistreating our own and allowing ourselves to be mistreated. Of course we are not the only ethnic group that does these things, but this article is about lifting our people up, not theirs.

Secondly, our people with an identity crisis always seek to look like someone else. The long hair weaves, the flashy cars, the loud music – all, for us, are a part of being seen and trying to convince people we are “ok”. Does this mean driving a nice car or wearing a weave is a sign of lack of identity for everybody? No, but for many of our people, these behaviors are a sign of emulation and/or lack of slave-mindset-2015identity, especially when the people driving the cars and wearing the weaves are doing so in order to impact what others will think or how others will perceive them.

Thirdly, our people who have identity problems are much more receptive to negative influences and quick to emulate such influences by adopting them as role models. A talk show host (Oprah), a comedian (Bill Cosby), an athlete (Lebron or Kobe) should NOT be the people our children look to as role models. Our sons should not be emulating Little Wayne and our daughters should not be emulating trashy, classless, Nikki Minage. The games made for Playstation or Xbox should not be programming, manipulating or training our children. YOU should be raising your children, busy or not.

We are a great people but most of our people do not know this to be true. So instead they act, think and behave like monkeys ( or worse ). If you study the original Black Wallstreet of Oklahoma, you will find greatness. If you look throughout Africa (yes, including Egypt), you will find culture, heritage, strength, honor, stamina, status, passion, diligence and determination. Our history and our potential for exceed President Obama, the NAACP, Martin Luther King Jr., Charles Drew, George Washington Carver, Malcolm X, Cosby, Winfrey, Angelou, Tyler Perry and then some. So what can we do to wake up the greatness and excellence within?

First you must choose to be a proactive part of the solution or you are already part of the problem. Secondly, stop blaming or scape-goating everyone else for your failures and be honest. The only person who can hold you down is the person you believe can hold you down. Thirdly, set higher goals, standards and expectations for yourself in your relationships, in your finances and with your children. Fourth of all, we must stop tearing each other down. Be honest, be factual then offer solutions and lift others up. Stop tearing down, taking from or backstabbing your own kind. African-Americans do to each other every week what George Zimmerman or Darren Wilson did once in a lifetime, but strangely there are no rallies, protests or marches to stop “black on black” crime. Anyone who thinks they can use our people (especially if you are one of us) and get away with it or come out ahead is a fool who does not understand Karma, reaping and sowing or what comes around goes around. Fifth of all, find and follow the right kinds of role models based on your new standards, goals and expectations.

If you are a man, be a man – not a woman and not something in between. Take care of your children, know where they are, be there for them, listen to them and expect excellence from them. Don’t chase everything in a skirt and be selective, nor desperate. If you are a woman, be a woman and believe there are good African-American men out here because there are. Avoid pettiness and immature gossip. Realize that you are a treasure and don’t open your legs for the man who knows just what to say. Guys and ladies join some organization, be productive, speak up, write something, give something, DO SOMETHING.

Ironically I see so many of our women walking around saying they are looking for their “King”. But upon close examination, are they queens? A queen has the mind of a queen and her behavior, character and identity all line up with that mindset. Proof of the right mindset is not simply found in how much you make or what you drive. It is found in who you are in the inside. Stop waiting on men to pay your bills and handle your business. Stop waiting on men to pay for your hair, nails, cell phone etc. Handle your business. No single man owes you anything and if you manipulate him to get into his wallet, you will reap what you sow. Lift up the African=American man or leave him alone.

Likewise with African-American men I see more of you guys bowing down to women, failing to take the lead, running from the court system, making babies just because you can and thinking only about yourself with no knowledge that we are all connected in one way or another. I see our brothers letting the woman put the gas in the car, pay all the bills, move the furniture, cut the grass, take out the garbage and discipline the children. Men wake up and handle your business. A King does not behave that way but a slave does so which one are you?

The value of an African-American who knows his or her identity is priceless. Smoking weed is beneath him/her. Using foul language is beneath you. Living in poverty, using others, stealing, running game and going after “strange flesh” are not traits of who you were created to be. You should be setting the tone for yourself and the example for those around you instead of following those who are going nowhere fast. You have greatness within you and you cannot let it be clouded or choked out by foolishness, ignorance, poor examples or those who do not care about you.

Once you know who you are, act like you know. The legal system cannot stop you. A lack of money cannot stop you. Coming from the projects or a single parent home cannot stop you. Having been a victim of ANY type of abuse cannot stop you. THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN STOP YOU FROM REACHING GREATNESS IS YOU!!! Anybody else has to have your help and permission to do so. Think for yourself. Never defend anything that will cloud your mind, blur your judgment or otherwise enslave you. You don’t have to wear long weave or the tennis shoes everybody else wears just to fit in. Maybe it’s time that you do more stepping up and standing out instead of just fitting in. Here is to your success which begins the moment you wake up. I pray that is right now.

I specialize in deprogramming our people from the slave mindset. My knowledge of indoctrination, brainwashing, subliminal manipulation and mind control as well as my former background as a detective and in counseling, psychology, sociology and ministry is extremely helpful in building awareness, waking people up and deprogramming them out of the slave mindset. The irony is that the people who need to be deprogrammed are those who battle against me the most. I am available to lecture. Contact me at brainstormonlline@yahoo.com   Do not fight to stay locked up in the slavery of your mind.

Staff Writer; Marque-Anthony


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10 Responses to “Lifting Our People Up Beyond The Slave Mindset.”
  1. Tiffany says:

    Okay I was agreeing with you, but you lost me at the “hair weaves and fancy cars means you have an identity crisis” comment. You lost all credibility at that point. What does that have to do with anything? Black people who drive nice cars are abandoning their blackness? Ridiculous statement. And as for the hair weave comment, I am really really so tired of black men saying this. For Christ’s sake, IT IS HAIR! So preferring to have a more manageable/versatile hairstyle means that you are pretending to be white? Not everyone black woman prefers to wear their hair natural, just like not every curly haired white person embraces their natural texture. What if an Asian woman with stick-straight Asian hair decided she wanted to get a curly perm? Is she denying her race! GTFOH – it is a damn hairstyle!! You wonder why black women are starting to treat black men with more and more disdain, stop finding petty reasons to belittle and criticize us!!!

  2. Great article Marque! I respect how you offer solutions in your writings and not just address our issues like others do. I also appreciate the fact that you offer your time up to provide counseling and mentoring to people. In the age where most of our black leaders are selling us out, its refreshing to see a brother who actually cares for our people. Keep fighting to liberate the minds of our people my brother! Shalom and Blessings!

  3. Marque-Anthony says:

    Terri try emailing me again. Double check the email spelling
    brainstormonline@yahoo.com

  4. Great article and what I believe to be the truth.

    Black Unity is the solution, 3ufirst.com is the plan.

  5. Terri says:

    I emailed to brainstormonline@yahoo.com, but mail was returned.

  6. Marque-Anthony says:

    Jacob email me at brainstormonline@yahoo.com and I will give you steps to deprogramming. First it depends on what programmed a person. Was it parents, church, religion, society, education, racism, past experiences, brainwashing, mind control or other indoctrination? What programmed a person has everything to do with how the de-programming must be initiated.

    A person first has to realize he/she has been programmed with other people’s thoughts, not his/her own. That’s the case with many weed smokers. If we fight the truth and the facts while we ignore the harm, we are programmed. Self-destructive self-sabotage is programming.

    You gotta find out what is keeping the programming locked in place. That is called “Maintenance”. Is it your role models? Is it TV, video games, what? Then you have to cut off the maintenance.

    This just scratched the surface but email me for more info. This is what I do and ironically those programmed the deepest are those who fight me the most.

  7. Marque-Anthony says:

    Joanie you hit the nail on the head with a sledge hammer. Justas many of our people have an inferiority complex, many Caucasian people have a superiority complex. They, as a whole, are no smarter. They just set up the board game and made the rules, thus they know how to play right out of the gate. If we did likewise, the same would be true,

    Kirk you are missing the point. There is nothing wrong with having nice things but for too many of our people, the things HAVE THEM. Going into debt to buy what we can’t afford to impress others we don’t really like and convince everybody we are “ok”? Really Kirk?

    Many of our people are buying things that depreciate in value. Many of our people are spenders and buyers, not investors for the future. Running up credit cards to compensate for no plan to acquire and no patience to wait for it.

  8. Steve says:

    I can feel your passion. Nothing is going to change externally unless change first happens on the inside. In order for that to happen, like the character Morpheus said in the movie The Matrix, we have to be willing to take the red pill. In that movie the red pill represented the painful truth of reality, while the blue pill represented the blissfulness that often comes from staying ignorant.
    Many black people, by and large, are afraid. For all the posturing and chest beating, many of our men, at their core, are afraid of taking the red pill. So they build monuments to the illusion that the blue pill offers. All of this talk may sound silly until you recognize the fact that it was a Black woman named Sophia Stewart who wrote the Matrix movies (she won the lawsuit against Time-Warner in court for those of you who doubt). Could she have been sending a message to black people to wake up? I believe so.
    Keep on being the voice that wanders in the wilderness. If you just get one person to wake up then you are successful.

  9. Jacob says:

    Thank youfor a well written article. How does one de-program one’s mind besides what we stop feeding it? Once the manipulation of tv,media,education & religion is removed and replaced. It would appear that another onslaught on one’s thinking comes from the very food one is eating in the name of pleasure & comfort, as opposed to energy & healing. What do you suggest as a means to continue this vigilant, disiplined walk of healing thyself and passing on this information to those who want it ???
    I am always open to continued instruction & actions to further develop. Reach me at lux101164uria@yahoo.com

  10. Marque Anthony says:

    EMAIL ADDRESS CORRECTION
    Author’s email address is brainstormonline@yahoo.com

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