Good Friend O Mine: I watched 'Goodbye Uncle Tom' last night on YouTube and it was a real eye opener for me. It helped me to see how horribly blacks were being treated by slaveowners as well as their own people during those times. So, here's a message to black Americans today: Before you try to complain about how hard life is, check this ...movie out so you can see how good life is for us compared to how life was for our African ancestors.
Another Good Friend O Mine: That's right, cuzzo! Educate 'em...
Good Friend O Mine: Hell!! Someone has to!!! A lot of us are so quick to complain about how things are hard without realizing that those before us had it much harder.
Everett D: Yeah, Black people had it much harder back then obviously. However, that does not mean that we are to be satisfied because we aren't slaves. Look at the public schools and look at where we live. Look at the regentrification. Their isn't room for complaining but their is room to voice injustice
Good Friend O Mine: Good point. However, you can't deny the fact that at least we have the opportunity to go to school, get an education, and makes our lives better. The reasons why we in general don't is beyond me. If slaves were even caught attempting to go to school, let alone reading, there would be hell to pay. It's a shame that sacrifices made before the current era are looked at in vain.
Everett: I agree with that but, the fact that we were slaves in the first place contributes to the mentalities that many Black people have today. Read the Willie Lynch letter on how to make a slave and you will see what I am talking about. In order to turn Blackc people into slave mentally you had to take away their names, separte their families, turn them against one another, and treat them like animals i.e. as if they do not have value. Now look at today: Nobody knows their history; not African American History or their own families history some don't even know who their father is. This is institutionalized by the drug laws, prison system (lack of resources results in dealing drugs which results in jail time. They get out have to put their record on a job application, dont get hired, only thing to do is to do what got me to jail in the first place because I need to take care of my family....back in jail again). We are all against each other: Light skin seen as more beautiful than dark-skin (I like a long hair-thick red bone- Lil Wayne) Poor against not so poor, South-Side vs. West-Side, GD vs BD vs. Stone vs Blood vs. Crip vs etc. (kill whoever is not apart of us). The lack of value: Blakc people do not value themselves simple because they are Black. They have to have somthing that puts value on their life. Thats why so many people feel like they have to have the latest this and that or rappers always rapping about their cars, clothes, and women; thats what makes them valuable. Nikki Minaj always rapping about being a bad bitch and how she dont look at price tags and refering to women without money as a broke bitch or a pig. We don't see the inherit value that comes with being in existence. Which explains why so many people are being killed. If I dont value my life and my blackness then you just another me that Im looking at, so why do it matter if I kill you or not? You JUST A NIGGA. But, if we all knew our history, we would understand who we are and where we come from and we would learn to value ourselves and our people. But because we don't, we allow ourselves to be disrespected on the daily, calling to and even referring to ourselves as niggas and bitches and answering to it (which is what we we're referred to as when we were slaves). Allowing the killing to take place in our communities and doing nothing about it. Nobody wants to be a snitch, with good reason because if you are found out, somebody might kill you. But, if we look into our history, the 1960's, our civil rights leaders knew that they had a very high chance of dying before they went on a protest, a march, a freedom ride, etc. But they were not afraid because they would rather die before they sat back and let themselves be disrespected and before they let the ways of that era carry over to the next generation. They died for us, Jesus style, ultimate love and sacrifice for their people and here we are killing each other and and nobody loves us enough to stand up for something to snitch to die. Which is understandable but we need to know what we are capable of. Oh, and by the way, if we go back to slave times, a "snitch" was the house slave who told the master when slaves would be running away to freedom. A snitch was someone who stopped our ancesters from being free, not someone who wanted them to feel free within their own neighborhoods, who wanted to stop the killing of their friends, famiies,a nd children; just saying because the way that the label snitch is used is misinformed and perverted. Also about all the racism that Black people have received and still are receiving today on a hidden and insitutionalised agenda is ridiculous. Do we live in a post-racial society? If you say yes, you are also answering to the question: Are you stupid? Look at the laws of our country: It is now legal to discriminate in Arizona against Mexicans. Why? Oh, because they are country and taking all of our jobs. Really? So, what about the other borders? You know, those borders that Canadiens cross, the borders that other people who are not Mexican, El Salvadorean, Cuban, etc. cross. Nothing to say about those people? Are they not coming and taking jobs? Maybe you should blame the companies who are hiring illegal immigrants and paying them less than minimum wage not those people looking to better themselves. Maybe you should blame the American companies that ship their jobs overseas for cheaper labor. OH! and since when this was YOUR country. How many of your ancestors help build it? Who are you to tell somebody they cant cross a line on thats on some land that belongs to you just as much as the next human being? Its racism, it has nothing to do with jobs or immigration. Also, the new gun laws which make it legal to have a concealed weapon. Nobody considered the amount of children that have been killed due to gun violence? If they were White children dying, that law would not have been passed and those who even wanted guns would change their tune. But, if we are killing ourselves and we don't care or seem not to then why should they? I mean, they should but why? Last thing, Black people have been oppressed since slavery. Slavery, Indentured Slavery, JIm Crow Civil rights movement, Desegregation but their is still racism. Just look around and compare where you live, what school you went to, where you shop, etc. There are not any White people in any of those places for most of us. This isn't intentional? And just to go back to the gunlaw thing. The argument is that we need guns (these are White people saying this) to protect our homes from thugs, gang-bangers, and burgulars. We need to protect our families. Now we all know that we they say thugs, gang-bangers, and burgulars what they are really saying is Black people, because over 70% of White Americans associate these negative terms with Black people. Now, if they don't live around and rarely interact with Black people who THEY not ME deem as thugs etc. What are they protecting themselves from? Their are protecting themselves from stereotypes. Because statistics show that White people have 4 times a greater chance of being victimized by another White person that a Black person. And then you have those White people who say, well a Black person robbed me or assaulted me, as if that justifies their racism. Just because a Black person victimizes a White person does not justify their racism or stereotpes. Because If I we're victimized by a White person, I would not say, "Oh okay. All White people are like this. They should make guns legal so I can shoot one whenever they are near me. What proves my point further is this: If this same White person were attacked by another White person they would not attached that stigma to White people, which shows that its racism and White people get into altercations with each other often Im sure and they don't steretype each other so why stereotype Black people? I'm done. It's long. I know. Holla.
