Black People : Can We Defend Ourselves Against Re-Enslavement?

[Destee]

Consumerism with Planned Obsolescence is nothing but share cropping anyway.
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Thanks for sharing "Teach" ... ...

So is that a yes or a no, "Are we (collectively) in any better condition to defend and protect ourselves from re-enslavement, than our Ancestors were?"



Destee

 

[Destee]

Because "My Teach" @umbrarchist has joined this discussion, I thought it best to do more work (as I need the extra credit) and well, he does lead by example ...

I went and found exactly where Dr. Amos N. Wilson asked this question. The entire paragraph and book for that matter, is a great read and freely available online:

Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children
Amos N. Wilson
Copyright 1991

https://ia802303.us.archive.org/22/items/soi-book-collection-1/Awakening-the-Natural-Genius-of-Black-Children-Amos-N-Wilson_text.pdf

Page 4 :

Can we as an Afrikan people defend your children from re-enslavement any better today than your forefathers defended themselves against enslavement?

I will update the opening post (from 2006) to include the above as well.

Loving Us!



Destee

 

[umbrarchist]

Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children
Amos N. Wilson
Copyright 1991

He mentioned "Mr. Spock" on page 3. LOL

I started reading Science Fiction before Star Trek.

Star Surgeon by Alan E Nourse

Three of the reviews of that book in Goodreads say that book is about Racism. I read it when I was 9 years old.

Nourse was a doctor. He wrote about a heart transplant in that story almost 10 years before it became worldwide news.
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[Destee]

He mentioned "Mr. Spock" on page 3. LOL

I started reading Science Fiction before Star Trek.

Star Surgeon by Alan E Nourse

Three of the reviews of that book in Goodreads say that book is about Racism. I read it when I was 9 years old.

Nourse was a doctor. He wrote about a heart transplant in that story almost 10 years before it became worldwide news.
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Peace and Blessings Brother @umbrarchist,

The "Mr. Spock" reference is in the book, in quotation marks and seems within context of the paragraph and the time, but I guess every reader gets to assess it for themselves.

Three reviews saying the book is about racism, means what exactly, that you agree with the reviews? Any time Black People focus on achieving equity, or the mistreatment faced for generations, or racism in general, there will be those that scream racism back at us. In fact, Trump is talking about giving white people reparations for DEI. I'm not sure what these reviews mean to you.

What does Alan E Nourse have to do with the question at hand? Did he write about enslavement of Africans, African Americans, their children, or provide paths insuring it will never happen again?

You have posted twice and still have not answered the question. Does this mean you do not think the very pointed question, is worthy of a very pointed answer? Or that it does not matter that we cannot collectively protect our children from what was done to our Ancestors?

I mentioned in the opening post that some are satisfied with white people not wanting or needing to physically enslave us again, evidenced by the fact that they are not doing it (outside of prisons). You'd not be the first to post like sentiment, but you have not even said that. You're not saying anything as it relates to the question at hand. I do not understand what you are saying or why you are saying it, but my understanding is not a requirement for participation. Thanks for sharing.

Loving Us!



Destee

 

[umbrarchist]

Three reviews saying the book is about racism, means what exactly, that you agree with the reviews? Any time Black People focus on achieving equity, or the mistreatment faced for generations, or racism in general, there will be those that scream racism back at us. In fact, Trump is talking about giving white people reparations for DEI. I'm not sure what these reviews mean to you.

I read that book, for the first time, when I was 9 years old. In discussions of literature you will find the term "metaphor" used quite often. I doubt that I knew the word metaphor when I was nine but that Nourse was making an analogy to racism seemed pretty clear at the time.

I probably mentioned the 3 reviews to imply that it was not any bias from me that came up with that interpretation.

What the story was literally about was an alien, a Garvian, coming to Earth to be trained as a doctor. For some reason humans had a near monopoly on medical expertise. This is absurd but Nourse was a doctor so he created stories related to medicine. Anyway lots of humans were opposed to an alien learning their "secrets". So lots of comparisons can be made to this like making it illegal to teach ****** to read.

Another childhood experience was growing up with two sisters, 4 and 5 years older than me. I was sick of hearing about slavery and the word slave before I graduated from grammar school. Somehow they talked about it as though it was Black men's fault. I remember thinking, "What am I supposed to do? Invent a Time Machine and go back and fix it?

I tend to think in terms of POWER!

Economic Power Games
Military Power Games
Political Power Games

Women often think that they can play Sexual Power Games. They want some man to come up with money for whatever, clothes, restaurants. They seem to think of the money as spent on them while I think of it as throwing the money back at the White man for ********. I know a Black woman who bought a new car with insurance money from her husband's death.

And of course technology comes into it.
Who was Hiram Maxim? Did he ever kill anybody? He was an American who went to England and invented the machine gun. Of course no one knows the name of the first person killed with a machine gun but we are pretty certain that it had to be a Black man in the first Matabele War in South Africa where British and other Europeans were carving up Africa.

Slavery is merely the most extreme form of economic servitude. Having to Pay these White people to live on this land that they annihilated the Indians to steal is slavery. So where have Black Leaders been saying that Accounting/Finance should be mandatory in the schools for Black kids since Sputnik?

So the issue is Economic Power Games and Economic Servitude not SLAVERY.

Consumer Slavery is Stupid!

Was that post long enough?

PS: Mr. Spock was the only human being on the Enterprise. ROFL

PS2: Of course if the issue moves to the level of Military Power Games things change significantly. But it reminds me that one of the complaints that my mother had about my father after years of divorce was guns in house. I remember 4 or 5 rifles or shotguns in the closet in his bedroom. I would spend weekends with him. To me a gun is just another machine, like an electric can opener. It is just a matter of circumstances.