(ThyBlackMan.com)
“Tell me why everytime me hear bout Africa a shackles and Chains
Tell me why you try fi corrupt the little rasta man brain
And you fi tell the youths Africa exits long before the middle passage
Me come fi tell the ghetto youths dem fi wise cause babylon a brain wash masses”Chronixx
Documentaries, news specials and, sociological analyses of the struggles of blacks in America are ironically rarely ever created by struggling blacks themselves. They are done by black and white academics who are mentally and physically removed from the hopeless ghettoes they critique. Their works are full of quotes and sound bites that identify African Americans as solely responsible for their condition in America. Full responsibility is placed on the blacks for their failure in school systems they do not govern, social issues that unfortunately come with poverty, and their lack of achievement despite discriminatory college acceptance and employment practices in America they have no control over. The other analysis consist of misinformed militants who blame all social ills on the White establishments, removing any accountability from blacks.
Americans of African descent have been unable to tell their own stories. The story the world has received about Africans in the diaspora is the corporate white nationalist perception of African Americans cultural, spiritual, and familial struggles. This interpretation has proven to be false and distorted filled with an interpretation that boost the ideology of white superiority and black inferiority. The tactic of controlling the masses’ view of a particular people has always been destructive. Propaganda dehumanizing people has provided justification, for history’s most barbaric demonic atrocities: genocide and enslavement of humans.
The destructive nature of propaganda is immensely more damaging now due to the lightning speed of communication, subtleness of terminology, and suffocating control corporations have on the media which demonizes anyone whose ancestry is foreign to European lands. People read about or hear of the social ills African American communities’ face, like violence, unemployment, mass 
imprisonment, teenage pregnancy, and high dropout rates, but do they ever ask why? What is society’s role or the government’s role in the existence and persistence of these social ills of African Americans? Answering these questions would expose the exclusive role of American society in the misery its poor and underprivileged experience.
Malcolm X once said how the media, “Makes the victim look like the criminal and the criminal look like the victim.” African American males have been the victims of an ideological dehumanization and social disenfranchisement that has resulted in the hopeless conditions many black males now experience. Black males in America are constantly bombarded by negative images that type-cast their whole peer group into the limited occupations of career criminal, pimp, athlete, rapper, and inmate. These images have been very beneficial to the establishment but are detrimental to the African American community. Black males endure tremendous psychological abuse, being penalized and criticized for failures in a system that never intended for them to succeed. America is supposedly structured in a way that allows educated citizens to heighten their opportunity for employment. Unfortunately, this road to the “American Dream” does not apply to African Americans, who usually receive a second-rate education due to their ZIP Code.
“Brainwash education to make use the fools…”
Robert Nesta Marley
America’s education system teaches black youth to hate their African ancestry and strive to assimilate to the European culture romanticized in school text. Europeans are viewed as loving Christian explorers, full of ingenuity, fairness, and virtue. African Americans have an inferiority complex that first manifests itself during the childhood years of schooling. During those impressionable years blacks receive immense propaganda about African and African American history.
For those born from 1980 forward, their main exposure to Africa is “Feed the Children” infomercials, indigenous Africans being mocked as primitive, clips of wars, famine, and homeless refugees. Blacks are given a false view of Martin Luther King, who professed peace and integration, but we are never exposed to the King of 1967 who professed his “Dream was really a nightmare.” History never speaks of the King who regretted integration, championing economic social reform, focusing on improving the economic disparity between whites and blacks. No one who has been through the American school system has seen footage of any metropolis in Africa. Instead they receive lies about how all Africans are backwards, disease-ridden, and poverty-stricken.
The curriculum never acknowledges the role of Europeans in the harsh current conditions of Africa and its people. No one would tell you that numerous multinational companies’ wealth derives from stripping Africa of her natural resources to make car parts and electronics Americans depend on. They would never tell the youth the Oppenheimer Empire would never be as wealthy as it is if it were not for the demonic acts of Cecil Rhodes and the slave conditions at African mines. American text-books never acknowledge Egyptians as Africans nor admit modern scientists’ inability to understand their astrological and engineering abilities. White nationalists always manage to leave the most important pieces out, so the story supports their intended result of American patriotism, while producing a misinformed and insecure African American population.
We can no longer depend on someone else to tell our story. Adults in the community must take responsibility for the youth and educate them that they may grow with pride and self-worth. Please turn off the television and learn together. Failure to do so will result in another misinformed generation, without a voice or knowledge of self. No longer depend on someone else to tell your story for they will surely leave the most important pieces out.
Staff Writer; Linton Hinds Jr.
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