OWNERSHIP IS A CONVINCING ILLUSION, BUT AN ILLUSION NONE THE LESS. YOU ARE BORN WITH NO POSSESSIONS, AND YOU LEAVE THE SAME WAY. YET SOMEWHERE ALONG THE HISTORY LINE, CASTE SYSTEMS WERE DEVELOPED. ONCE YOU DEHUMANIZE A PERSON, YOU CAN REDUCE THEM TO A COMMODITY, & TURN THEM INTO PROPERTY.
SLAVERY IS ALIVE AND KICKING IN THE MODERN WORLD, IT IS JUST RE-MASKED IN DIFFERENT CULTURES, TO DIFFERING DEGREES OF SEVERITY. LONG BEFORE “SLAVERY” WAS AMERICANIZED INDENTURED SERVITUDE WAS THE NORM. SO FLASH FORWARD TO 2015 & PEOPLE STILL LIVE PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK, NOTHING HAS CHANGED. AT LEAST WHEN YOU ENDED YOUR SERVITUDE YOU WERE GRANTED 50 ACRES OF LAND. TODAY PEOPLE LIVE STACKED IN CITIES ON LAND THEY WILL NEVER OWN, THE COST OF A CIVILIZED LIFE.
EARLY TRADERS BROUGHT CHEAP BEADS FROM THE NETHERLANDS, AND TRADED THEM WITH NATIVES FOR VALUABLE ANIMAL PELTS. TODAY PEOPLE EXCHANGE MONTHS WORTH OF LABOR FOR OBSOLETE TECHNOLOGY. SAME GAME DIFFERENT GENERATION. SLAVERY HAS BEEN RE-VISIONED AS THE GLITTERING BASTION OF CONSUMERISM.
THOSE WHO FORGET HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT, & NOW MAKE A SPECTACLE OF THEMSELVES IN THE PROCESS. DEBASEMENT & HUMILIATION HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SADISTIC CONTROL METHODS.LONG BEFORE THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, THERE WAS THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. IF YOU WERE TO BELIEVE WIKIPEDIA, WHITE WASHED ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE PAGE, THE NUMBERS AND DETAILS JUST DON’T ADD UP. REVISIONIST HISTORY HARD AT WORK.THE TRUTH IS BLOOD CURDLING, BUT YOU HAVE TO GO EVEN DEEPER. WHAT ENTITLES SOMEONE TO DE-HUMANIZE ANOTHER? WHAT DIVINE RIGHTS & MORAL OBLIGATIONS ENTITLED THIS WORLDWIDE ENSLAVEMENT? IDEOLOGIES ARE DANGEROUS THINGS, BECAUSE THEY ARE INVISIBLE, YET PEOPLE DEFEND THEM FOR DEAR LIFE.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS MORE THAN HIGHLIGHTING A FEW HISTORICAL FIGURES OF COLOR. IT ISN’T ABOUT WATCHING A HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY RE-WASH OF BLACK HISTORY. IT IS ABOUT UNDERSTANDING THE UNDERPINNINGS OF DEHUMANIZING ANOTHER PERSON. FLASH FORWARD TO THE SONY LEAKS, & THE DONALD STERLING PHONE CALLS, IT IS CLEAR TO SEE THE DUPLICITY OF PUBLIC PERCEPTION, & PERSONAL BELIEFS, ARE VERY DIFFERENT TO THE KUMBAYA EQUALITY MESSAGES. IT IS ABOUT EXPOSING INSTITUTIONALIZED & UNDERGROUND RACISM IN PLAIN SIGHT.WINNING MISS MISSOURI IN 2006 MUST HAVE COME AT THE EXPENSE OF ETIQUETTE COACHING, AND ELOQUENCE LESSONS. EVEN NEIL PATRICK HARRIS IS GAME FOR SOME OLD FASHIONED FUN! HONORING HOLLYWOODS WHITEST & BRIGHTEST STARTS. THE FUN DIDN’T STOP WITH THE OPENING REMARKS, JUST GOOGLE THE RACIST OSCARS.
PROPS TO WAYNE DAWSON FOR KEEPING IT PROFESSIONAL ON AIR. THIS STYLE OF UNDERHAND RACISM IS NOTHING NEW. MAIN STREAM ENTERTAINMENT & MEDIA ARE REINFORCING SUBLIMINAL RACISM TACTICS DAILY. BLACK HISTORY MONTH ISN’T ENOUGH TIME.
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