Bro.
Alarm Clock, maybe the farther away we get from the time when we were enslaved, the more numb we become to the modern practice of enslavement.
Maybe we don't really talk to each other because we've our ability to trust each other anymore -- self-hate?
Maybe we have become complacent or comfortable. In spite of how badly we're treated, daily, many of us are okay with sitting and playing with the latest electronic toys, gossiping and chatting about nonsensical stuff. What percentage of time during our days (24hrs) is spent working in our communities to improve our condition as a people, as opposed to on ourselves as individuals?
Maybe we got caught up in the drama brought on by integration and desegregation. It ain't all what it was cracked up to be, I'm a witness to that.
Maybe we didn't realize how really DEEP the construct of racism had been embedded into everything we touch, see, smell and taste in America.
Maybe we've become functioning 'drug addicts' due to the lies our government / media feed us everyday and our minds are suffering from atrophy. Crap in, crap out.
Maybe we underestimated our oppressors and thought a house sitting on some acres was the plantation. Who knew the entire country was one big plantation?
Maybe we were too naive in thinking that obtaining the right to vote, live where we wanted to live, and working along side of white folk, even marrying them would end slavery and free us as a people in America.
Maybe we're too focused on what other people call us in the 21st century and being 'shocked' about that, and don't spend nearly enough time keeping our eyes on the bigger picture, our collective 'freedom' from oppression.