I received this email from a friend of mine. It was attributed to a White woman, Dee Lee. However, when you get to her website, she makes it clear that she did not author this piece. Instead, a Black comedian--also named Dee Lee--who has a radio program in NY, is responsible for the article.
In either case, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the statements made...
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.
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 sneaker 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. A "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, a 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!!!!
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6 comments:
I don't care who said it. If it's true, then it's just true. In this case, a lot of it is true.
I agree but the email was circulated because the perception was that it came from a White person. And that became fuel enough to pass on the email and I believe the intent was to react to the person and not the truth.
Although the information hits home it is somewhat interesting how we as people view it now being that it came from a Black man.
Bottom line I agree, it was so true and it will still be true until a core of us wakes up to change reality, it is possible you know.
A more appropriate title for the article would be "Poor people are still slaves". It's a class issue not one of race.
I first became aware of this article while sitting in church. I sat there and I thought long and hard about this article. I felt compelled to come home and find this article. I needed to read the article for myself. I am a well educated black woman. I strive to help as many people as I can. However, the things in the article hit home. African Americans as a whole are yet enslaved. You see so many "rich" black people that could give back to the communities that housed them, yet they won't. That is unacceptable! If we won't help one another, why should someone else help us? We cannot continue to blame others for the situations that we find ourselves in. We have to decide what we can do, and began to do it. I've often been told that I am wise beyond my years. I am a person that will sit under "a white" person and learn everything that I possibly can. However, I will take that knowledge and use it to help myself and others. Education and knowledge is power. I tell students that all the time. You may loose your worldly possessions. However, no one can take the knowledge that you have acquired. It is imperative that we learn how to work the system and use it to our advantage. The blacks in Rosewood, FL (before the town burned in 1922) had their own stores, etc. They kept their money in their town. Why is it that we can't do the same thing now? If blacks start spending their money in their own neighborhoods, it would make a major statement.
Thanks for listening.
Silk
Its obvious that the author is using negative reinforcement to motivate blacks to work together. I do not respond well to negative reinforcement ....I'm liable to murder the the person implementing it. However, The truth is that any group of people working together towards a common goal is advantageous.
-- Gillo Brown
this is a silly argument if you direct it at us only. White, latinos, asians do the same thing as a rule. The real problem is that WORKERS haven't overthrown the rulers yet. People of all ethnicities are wage slave and conspicous consumers
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