Are We Really Slaves!

Below is a very challenging article I feel members of nairaland should read. I guess we all need to read this to prove the writer wrong!

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THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES
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Please Note:
For those of you who heard it, this is the article Dee Lee was reading this morning on a New York radio station. For those of you who didn’t hear it, this is very deep. This is a heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote it.

THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES
We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery. Look at the current methods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED and SELFISHNESS.

Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment.
A great man once said, "The best way to hide something from Black people is put it in a book". We now live in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read.
There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprint to reach economic equality (which should have been their fight all along), but few read consistently if at all.

GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had a large amount of money at their disposal.
Last year they spent $10Billion during Christmas, out of their $450Billion in total yearly income (2.22%). Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it.
Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by GREED. They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing.

They would rather buy some new sneakers than invest in starting a business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, and they still think that having a Mercedes and a big house gives them "Status" or that they have achieved the American Dream. They are fools!
The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because their greed holds them back from collectively making better communities. With the help of BET, and the rest of their black media that often broadcasts destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn't want their money, and look at how the fools spend more with him than ever before!). They'll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we market to them.

SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, Dubios said that there was an innate division in their culture. A "Talented Tenth" he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some "form" of success. However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn't read that the "Talented Tenth" was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented Ninety- Percent in achieving a better life.

Instead, that segment has created another class, a Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner.

They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them to be able to work together on any project or endeavour of substance. When they do together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of their goal. Their so-called help organisations seem to only want to promote their names without making any real change in their community. They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels, and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best speakers, not the best doer.

Is there no end to their selfishness? They steadfastly refuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM) They do not understand that they are no better than each other of what they own as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two paychecks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices and our rooms. Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to read, continue to anything they want, and keep thinking they are "helping" their communities by paying dues to organisations which do little other than hold lavish conventions in our hotels.
By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, THEY DON'T READ!!!!

where did you get this from, i'm sure you mistakenly got into a white supremacist website.

White supremacists are abnormal people with low self esteem.  We have them in every race.  i'm not saying racism isn't real, I'm saying that it's not intentional most of the time and should be forgiven and gently corrected.

sad but for real most of what he said is true for about 70% of african americans. but to generalize it shows he is racist so no need to care.african americans have a huge economic outpour to the nation infact most business knows that he knows it if african americans stop buying all this stuff for one christmas that little 2.22% could cause havok.

By the way, that thing must be really old. Cause the last time AfAm's grossed in the $400Bill range was like 10 years ago.  It's now in the $800Bill range. We are of the top 2% most wealthiest people in the world. With over 40Mill people, we would rank as the worlds like 10th wealthiest country. Now, that aint too shabby for a people only 40 years or less out of an extreem case of institutionalized discrimination and an minuscule 145 years out of institutionalized slavery in which lasted for nearly 300 years. 

This is on the net a long time ago, there are many link to it. try the following: http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=161&grp=7&cat=31  or this http://thebwp.com/wire/DA.cfm?ArticleID=431

I saw through it but I thought it might help someone to have a rethink about their pride

food4tot,

Exactly. Why should any African American have pride? We should be too ashamed to raise our head when we look at Africa.

And the fact that white people are the only ones striving to help there.

We are dancing like Amos and Andy for them, while our own people don't have speakers to hear the music.

(I am starting my work on the next AA pep talk letter now.)

Hero,

You make some excellent points and I know even more wonderful stories.

Yet where is the African American committee to get an accurate census of the Black people in Africa?

Where is the African Americans committee to get every African some type of Social Security number, so we do not have to work in practical darkness?

The documents are the first thing we need to get in place before we can even start to begin to get a handle on the problem.

People are running around writing constitutions for Africa. We need some people who do the hard stuff not just the pretty stuff.

wow, Dee Lee or whoever wrote the article is one mean mutha effer. but theres some truth to it though don't you think?
we have freedom now, and all kinds of resources to better ourselves, at our disposal, so it is now up to us to know how to use it. our daily struggles shouldnt discourage us either because if we sit on our asses and do nothing but complain about racim this racism that, we will achieve nothing. we still have aways to go, people! be proactive!!!!!!!!