Comments on: Yes 2012 and Negroes More Slaves Than Ever…

By: Deshown Harris

Deshown Harris — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:48:05 +0000

I think it’s impossible to accurately analyze the African American psyche when it comes to material consumption unless you start from the root.
In so many cases the African American perspective is viewed as negative or less than equal. For so many generations we have had to take an apologetic stance for the decisions made by black people as a body while other creeds are afforded the luxury of being able, in many ways to disassociate themselves from less desirable social classes within their genome. If a upwardly mobile person of color is for whatever reason successful, their success is often marred by compensating facts that may have either propelled their success, or limited their potential. I think Chris Rock said it best…. He is world renowned within his niche, while his neighbor is a dentist. The minute we, as African American people break ground on something fresh and new to the world it is often viewed as ghetto, urban, unruly……. Without a trusted caucasian co sign we are often left to fend for ourselves when trying to retread the wheel.
I’m proud of the way we are front running in personal consummation, it shows that as a whole we collectively agree that happiness starts from within. We live in a country, a reality where we are damned if we do and damned twice if we don’t. I for one am proud of the fact despite our “factory issued pole position” we are taking self esteem by horns and making strides off the grid, making strides financially in the face of opposition despite the lack of opportunity. Different is the new Normal and I think we should pat ourselves on the back for that. We have never been a complacent people and in my opinion that’s why we suffer such rigid opposition. In the eyes of our oppressor it’s ok for a white man to hold controlling stock in a black fueled company such as interscope / aftermath records, but a crime against humanity for the Michael Jackson estate to own the Beatles lol! Gotta love it! #crumbs2bricks

By: dogonpriest

dogonpriest — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:42:12 +0000

FYI:

Atlanta – Thieves break into Midtown CVS, steal hair weaves and cigs

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/thieves-break-into-midtown-1343101.html

By: MS

MS — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:09:08 +0000

The most enslaved person is the one who does not see the chains that bind them.

Slavery is now essentially economic. The only difference now is that you can choose who your master (employer) is. Slaves were never an unpaid workforce – hence the term slave wages. What they were paid was just enough to keep them fed with just enough left over for some tobacco, liquor and maybe if they saved all those pennies they could one day buy their freedom. Just enough to give them some hope to prevent revolution. Today the only difference is the slave contract is now called a mortgage.

Also when talking about slavery and ethnic heritage it should not be forgotten that it was the tribal leaders of africa who enslaved their brothers, not the white man. The only color that matters now is green. If you don’t have it, you’re a slave.

By: JD

JD — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:21:28 +0000

PBJ, i dont think that was what he was trying to communicate. I understood it because i work with older black folks. i feel fortunate because it has given me a better understanding of “their reality”.
i have had quite a few tell me de-segregation was the worst thing to have happend to the black community. they were not telling me that they hated white people, but back then they had their own communities and controlled what went on in “their communities”. most went to black schools and were educated by black teachers, black police officers patrolled their neighborhoods, many owned their own homes, the businesses that were in their neighborhoods belonged to those that were from their own neighborhoods. im in college now, and one of my professors ( a mature black woman with a phd) told our class how everyone in her “black school” was crying as they were all being shipped out to the different white schools in the area. that black high school that she was going to, her mother went to, her aunts, went to it, uncles, father, etc. according to her, it was not all that great of a thing. i have had for other classes, and once she felt comfortable with me, and on a one to one basis, has come out and said what many other older black people have told me. its not that they were better than whitey, or any other way someone wants to construe it, but put simply back then, they had a sense of “self”. and their exposure to whites or any one else for that matter was gradual and more of an individual basis, and how many percieve race relations in certain areas being better back then. please dont be offended by this post. im just relaying what has been passed on to me. may all have a safe weekend.

By: PBJ

PBJ — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:20:46 +0000

So black people are less free now than during slavery? I don’t think so. To fail to recognize the difference is a great affront to those who were actually forcibly deprived of freedom.

Just because you don’t like what black people are doing with their freedom doesn’t mean it’s the white man’s fault.