Man yall, I know it hurts. It hurts like a motha fuzzle when you think about how since the beginning hundreds of years ago, not a fizzle thing has changed for us as a collective. Not nothing. So we start to do what the mind has been trained to do: start making excuses, ignoring the truth...lying to ourselves. Acting like we not slaves. Psychologists call it "defense mechanisms." Mechanisms we put in place psychologically in order to deal with the unbelievable trauma we don't wanna admit flowing through our veins.
So some of us think about Mike Brown and to avoid the raw truth that he was killed in cold blood, some of us say to ourselves "He got what he deserved because he stole some cigars."
Self-deception would be a common and even a reasonable response to our trauma. That's nothing to be ashamed of until once we start seeing the truth we maintain a comfortable seat in that deception. This relates to this voting-works-for-blacks thing we've been discussing and what I promised the people I will continue to speak on even after the 2018 sham mid-term elections. After all the hype has subsided.
So I'm still here speaking on it.
I'm here to make the argument that blacks cannot believe in the wickedness of "racism/white supremacy" AND the "integrity" of the voting system which "racism/white supremacy" created. They are mutually exclusive and cannot exist in the same realm.
Fascinating to me, as I mentioned before the mid-terms, how I notice many people who raise the black-everything flag will lower that flag when it comes to voting; as if voting has an honest or neutralizing affect on "racism/white supremacy."
Many of us are familiar with Dr. Frances Cress Welsing's work, right? What did she teach us about white supremacy? What areas of our lives did she tell us that white supremacy exist? Dr. Welsing, may she rest in peace, said that white supremacy is found deeply embedded in all areas of lives, right? Right? Talk to me. Those are her words, her research, not mine, right? Let's deal with it.
And what are those 9 areas she listed?
1) ECONOMICS
2) EDUCATION
3) ENTERTAINMENT
4) LABOR
5) LAW
6) POLITICS
7) RELIGION
8) SEX
9) WAR
All our opinions matter. But I gotta say this. How you gone front? Talking about the white man this and the white man that and his evil can be found in all areas of our black lives
except politics?
Having that belief---while I know it hurts---demonstrates my point: that the individual is deceiving themselves. They don't wanna concede the fact that we're still in chains. They can roll with the white supremacy thesis all day long and talk that game about 'black power' and the white man is the devil and the white man keeping black people down and the white man not giving us jobs (economics) and the white man not teaching us about ourselves (education) and the white man debasing our women via the rappers and images and sports (entertainment) and the white man exploiting our potential for economic advancement through how he pays an hour (labor) and the white man is putting black people in jail wholesale (law) and the white man gave us his belief system (religion) and the white man in our bedrooms by showcasing non-black love (sex) and the white man attacking us on the daily (war).
I then ask, respectfully: "But excuse me please, what about #6, what about the white man and politics and the voting system?"
They say: "Well, naw, that's the one area the white man is honest and we can trust him."
https://www.simplypsychology.org/defense-mechanisms.html