I think we all fell into a deep sleep and thought the fight was over. A sister referenced the Willie Lynch document in which a slave master held a meeting with slaveholders in Va. Apparently they couldn't continue to kill the slaves, because their was a massive amount of dead bodies, and a big stink, so they had to come up with a different way to control our people. Part of the blue print was to pit light-skinned against dark-skinned and to teach them not to trust in each other, but only in them. There were many laws passed in that time to make sure we didn't unite. This blue print plan was to be taught to all slaveholders and their children. They said if this plan was successful, it was gauranteed to work for at least 400 if not a 1,000 years. Thus, the statement, the chains have been lifted from our ankles and put on our minds.
I know it is successful, because when I talk to my sister or some of our sisters and brothers, they don't believe many things we talk about until they hear it from a white person. Also, if we say something good about our race and don't include white people, then our own people call it prejudice.
I don't view myself as prejudice or racist. I treat people the way I want to be treated, and I don't allow any other race to tell me who I am or who I'm supposed to be. A lot of our race go's along, to get along. I even get the sisters at work rolling their eyes or feeling uncomfortable if I challenge wrong doings. They told me they can appreciate my "crusade," but they need a job. Then when they are treated unfairly, they run and complain to me and want me to put my neck on the chopping block to help them.
Our biggest problem is that we claim to have so much in faith in the Most High, but we don't act on it. We give away our power to others because we fear them over the Most High.
Honestly, it's refreshing to talk to brothers and sisters who have a deep concern for our liveliehood and understand it is not "I" but "We". Until we speak and look at ourselves from a united front, then that's the only way we will succeed. To many of us feel that just cause "I" made it and "I'm" comfortable, then that's all that needs to be said and done. But I guess that's why we have the new president in office to really remind us that we are "one people" and that he has no intention of helping our people out with anything.
Much Love
I know it is successful, because when I talk to my sister or some of our sisters and brothers, they don't believe many things we talk about until they hear it from a white person. Also, if we say something good about our race and don't include white people, then our own people call it prejudice.
I don't view myself as prejudice or racist. I treat people the way I want to be treated, and I don't allow any other race to tell me who I am or who I'm supposed to be. A lot of our race go's along, to get along. I even get the sisters at work rolling their eyes or feeling uncomfortable if I challenge wrong doings. They told me they can appreciate my "crusade," but they need a job. Then when they are treated unfairly, they run and complain to me and want me to put my neck on the chopping block to help them.
Our biggest problem is that we claim to have so much in faith in the Most High, but we don't act on it. We give away our power to others because we fear them over the Most High.
Honestly, it's refreshing to talk to brothers and sisters who have a deep concern for our liveliehood and understand it is not "I" but "We". Until we speak and look at ourselves from a united front, then that's the only way we will succeed. To many of us feel that just cause "I" made it and "I'm" comfortable, then that's all that needs to be said and done. But I guess that's why we have the new president in office to really remind us that we are "one people" and that he has no intention of helping our people out with anything.
Much Love
