the real warriors never became slaves.
Third, real warriors cannot be made slaves. They may be captured and held in captivity, but they cannot be made slaves.
Yes, the Europeans were very thorough in breaking down and our captured ancestors from the moment they put them on the slave ships. They recorded where they got the captures from and separated them on the ships so that they couldn't communicate and revolt. This is very much like today where African Americans, other Blacks in the Diaspora, and continental Africans can talk with each other but can't communicate or trust each other because we come from such different backgrounds and have had such different experiences until we speak different languages in effect. So we should be able to understand how it must have been for our captured ancestors, men and women who couldn't even understand what the others were saying.
Re the Jews, they always had their language, culture, and religion as their foundation to rebuild on after their captivity ended. The former colonized Africans on the continent help onto these too, but at this point, they're not utilizing them. However, their freedom from their former colonizer has only been a tiny amount of time, so we don't know what will happen on the continent yet, but like true Americans, we want everything to happen fast.
You said, "di the Iraqis "allow" them sleves to be dessert stormed???" The answer is NO, because the fighting is not over. Many Iraqis are still defending against the invasion -refusing to be conquered.
The Iraqis have their language, their culture, and their religion, and that's an unbeateable combination. I predict that they are not going to be conquered, because unlike the African colonies, none of their institutions have been anglicized or westernized. So the mind control will only be on the surface. The Arabs may all be killed, like the American Indians, but they won't be conquered.
There is no such thing as cheating in the game of life. There are no rules in the game of life, and since there are no rules, there can be no cheating. As Brother Malcolm said so clearly - "By any means necessary".
Now this is smack, dab in the bullseye. There are NO real rules, except those imposed by nature and humans have even learned to bend some of those rules. A human-imposed rule is nothing if it's not recognized, accepted, and followed by other humans. I agree that it borders on insanity for any group of people to recognize, accept, and follow a rule that doesn't benefit them? However, African Americans are not a "group" of people in our hearts and minds. We're simply an assortment of individuals of color that white people have stuck a label on.
This is why we need to re-organize into like-minded smaller groups of people with similar hearts, minds, and a shared vision. As we are now, we're very ineffective and won't thrive even if we're here forever.
Search your history. Many armies having superior weapons have been defeated by those with inferior weapons. It is not the weapons, it is the heart and courage of those facing superior weapons.
Yes! It's all about mind over matter. Your body may be conquered but no one can conquer your mind unless you allow it. This is the key. It's the most important piece of information I ever received.
A warrior will choose death over slavery
These days, we're dealing mainly with enslaved minds, not bodies because if a conqueror can enslave a mind, there's no need to worry about the body that houses the mind.
I'll use myself as an example. If you go back through these threads, you'll see that there have been attempts on here, especially by some of the men to beat me down in order to re-direct my mind or at least make me go away or be quiet. Sorry y'all. I learned from a very early age that a female with a mind of her own is a threat to some males. So neither the males here or anywhere else have succeeded in directing my mind and they never will because my mind is my most precious part of me. Once I let someone else take control of my mind, I'm no good to myself anymore because they will usually use my mind and thus my body to benefit them and that's not usually going to benefit me. I'm very careful about what I keep in my mind. I will consider a lot of ideas, but I only keep a few and those ideas are for the most part, the ones that I know that will benefit me and mine the most.
- a coward will try to remain living at any cost.
My take on this is that these days, a real coward is someone who allows another person to control her/his mind. Another person can control our body without our cooperation, but no human being can control our mind unless we allow them.
Besides, there is no money in the United States - there is only I-O-U's known as Federal Reserve Notes. And those Federal Reserve Notes are backed by nothing but the military might and law enforcement of the United States.
I learned this in a low level college economics class, but you don't have to go to college to read economics books. You do need to know how to read though, and this is why our youth need to shut their mouths and behave in those classrooms so they can learn how this system functions. That's fighting right there--learning how a system functions so that you can manipulate that system to benefit you and yours--whoever yours may be. That's what I call 'keepin it real.'
Keep believing that your enemy is more powerful than you are and you will continue to remain a slave.
Yes, I've actually met Black folks who BELIEVE that white folks are superhuman.
First of all, the most vital and most important weapon Black folks have is their labor.
This is another tidbit I picked up from that economics class. Labor is a MAJOR resource.
If Black folks refused to spend any money for a given period of time, that would cause many businesses to bankrupt - that is power.
Yes, sheer power and I've pointed this out on here before.
Remember this: Whether you think you can or whether you think you cannot, you are absolutely correct. If you think you are inferior, you are. If you think you cannot win, you cannot.
I agree with you, not just 100% but 1000%.
the only rule is there are no rules. As I stated in the other post - there is only two choices - be the food, or the one eating the food. You can be the dinner or the diner; the choice is yours. See, you do have a choice.
This spirit of mine.......
And mine is mine. I was taught as a young child that an oppressor--of any type--can take my body, can take my money and all of my material things, my time, my energy, but they cannot take my mind or break or take my spirit UNLESS I let them have it or unless they kill me and at that point, they've lost all resources from me. An oppressor is not going to last long if they keep wiping out all of their resources.
See, this is where "free will" comes in. An oppressor cannot see or read our minds. They don't know what we're thinking. These days, like-minded ones of us and our allies could use our minds and our bodies (unlike our captured ancestors) to do most of what we wish.