Comments on: Winning Support From the Black Community. https://thyblackman.com/2018/01/15/winning-support-from-the-black-community/ Black News 24/7 Online for the Black Community. Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tonya Mead https://thyblackman.com/2018/01/15/winning-support-from-the-black-community/comment-page-1/#comment-278129 Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:31:47 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=73668#comment-278129 Thanks for your insightful article. It is interesting to note that a few days before MLK celebrations, politicians attack Trump for allegedly making disparaging remarks about Blacks. This has happened for 2 years now. Isn’t this a public relations ploy to generate disdain during a time when MLK should be celebrated? When will we learn most politicians only care about our votes and forget about us once they are elected. We’re for jobs, economic growth and increased wages (same as a majority of other Americans). Splitting us apart because of race only serves those who profit from our separateness. I’ve written Extreme Are you Woke Yet? Awaken from your Slumbers and Rise on Your Wings, http://amazon.com/author/tonyajmead because we need to get beyond this collective groupthink nonsense and focus on our own individual and economic survival.

]]> By: M Anthony https://thyblackman.com/2018/01/15/winning-support-from-the-black-community/comment-page-1/#comment-278123 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 06:09:57 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=73668#comment-278123 What’s sad is that we African Americans are still calling ourselves BLACK because Caucasian oppressors called us that to contrast their color and to assign to us all the negative things BLACK is equated with in the dictionary. The fact is, like it or not and believe it or not, YOU ARE BROWN and your car tires are black. You can say black is a culture but when they deal with you, they deal with you based on it’s definition – dismal, gloomy, dark, diabolical, treacherous, devoid of light. WAKE UP AFRICAN AMERICANS.

We do not call the Asian yellow man because he would not stand for it. We do not call the Native American a red man because he would not stand for it. We do not call the Hispanic man a brown man because he would not stand for it. And many Africans, Haitians and Jamaicans do not accept being called a color they know they are NOT.

Ironically, African Americans are the only ethnic group/race on the planet which allows ourselves to be called a color we are not, allowing ourselves to be defined by color, by someone else and to allow ourselves to be attached to a color we are not – a color they filled with negative denotations. Then we fight to help keep the lie in place. Is it any wonder that cops treat us as BLACK people by the definition of dismal, gloomy, treacherous, evil etc? We will never rise and overcome as a people if we allow other groups to define us, to define us with a lie and we are sadly willing to help them. AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES MATTER PEOPLE. Black is the color of my car tires, not my skin. I am a family and relationship counselor who specializes in deprogramming African Americans from slavery mindsets.

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