On the first day of January 1863, then President Abraham Lincoln made the proclamation that the Negro was free. Two and a half years later in Galveston Texas, 1865 General Granger rode into town on June 19th and made the emancipation act known. Two and a half years after this emancipation law was passed it was broadcast in the state of Texas. Big Whoop. The State of Texas is also known as the first state to recognize the date of June 19th and the Negroes emancipation. Another big whoop. In the year 2011, they still hang Negroes in Texas.
The slow snail like pace in which whites reacted to giving the Negro his freedom shows that for all intents and purposes the Negro still has not achieved his freedom in this land. Blacks had to do another form of slavery by paying for whatever lands he lived on by being a share cropper. That meant he had to produce more than enough for himself and family, but also he had to have enough to appease his new land owner, to pay for the land.
The reaction and hatred of whites was astounding. The Negro was not allowed to eat in any establishment of whites, drink water from the same fountain, or use the same lavoratory. The mass killings of blacks in the South continued unhampered for quite some time. The term picnic came from when whites gathered together to watch a Negro being hung. Our children were called pickaninnies. So whenever they picked a Negro or his child to be hung they would have a festive gathering to pick a nigger hence the picnic.
Prisons were built in rapid fashion as whites realized they would no longer have the free labor that they wanted, but had to have some means as to access this labor pool now leaving their hands. The field Negro who hated the brutal treatment at the hands of whites left with an attitude of to hell with massa and all his rules. Of course their were Negroes who had always wanted to be house Negroes. It was a Negro who was promised a position in the house who betrayed Nat Turner.
Marcus Moziah Garvey Planned on taking each and every black man, woman and child in the U.S. back to Liberia, Africa. It was one Negro along with the so-called Jews who thwarted the plan by charging him with mail fraud. Why? These fake Jews knew that if the Negroes left America their kingdom would have fallen and the grace of God would have left this place. The Negroes despite his faults is still the beloved children of GOD.
The House Negroes glad that they never suffered the brunt of the brutality inflicted upon the field Negro, for some unknown reason never saw themselves as in the same boat as their brethren in the field. The field Negroes capacity for self hatred and self destruction has far exceeded the hopes of the whites. The field Negroes disdain for 'massa's rules made him an easy target for jail and prison as the police who were nothing but racist's enforcing the policies of the rich could arrest any and every negro in sight for real or imagined infractions of the law.
Indeed to this very day there are many a black man in prison put there by racist police despite them being innocent. These practices gave birth to having dirt cheap labor for many a state and their business partners who profited from such a labor force.
In today's world as much as in the days of the sharecropper,the rent for where one lives is indeed prohibitive. Rent is two thirds of what one brings home in take home pay. Add to that the cost of utilities, transportation cost's, and the fact that food prices are spiraling upwards out of control makes for nothing less than the fact that we are slaving. Those with any sense of consciousness always refer to the job as the 'plantation'.
The house Negroes who after being taught by 'Massa' have in today's world considered themselves to be above the field Negro who resides in the ghetto [the hood]. See the classic movie "The Spook Who Sat By The Door". Many who see themselves as succeeding have never taken the time to stretch out their hands and teach or impart to their communities any of the knowledge gained to try and help the less fortunate.
Many of us having graduated from Harvard or Yale have done so having the mindset of the totally brainwashed slave. The Movie "Django" having exposed a part of what the field Negro had to go through, by them fighting to the death for massa on different plantations. This mentality has permeated our young men down through time, and now in the ghetto [hood] the same Willie lynch mentality of divide and conquer has our youth killing each other over colors or geographic locations.
For many of us the entertainment industry or sports have been the dream or aspiration to be out of the hood[ghetto]. To have a 'good job' and to move to a mixed neighborhood containing mostly whites is considered getting out, simply because the field Negro mentality of self hate and destruction has been so prevalent in the hood.
Our Youth has also not been instructed of the struggle of those who came before us. They currently have no respect for their elders in their communities and they go by the notion that they are free to express themselves because they can, not knowing that the hammer is about to drop on them/us as a people. Oprah Winfrey despite being almost a billionaire, was recently denied entrance into a French establishment simply because she was black.
Bill Cosby who had one of the most successful shows on T.V. had his proposition or request to buy CBS flatly denied. the message was "Negro you are getting past your place". No way was the white power structure who runs the media letting a black own one of their prestigious stations. The same thing can be said of Micheal Jordan who wanted to own the Washington Wizards, or of the rapper J Z who wanted to be the owner of the now Brooklyn Nets.
Motown, which produced so many great songs and legendary black artists was the first to fall to the encroaching white power structure. They quickly began to dismantle the label and any semblance of what blacks used to do there that now Motown is just a thing of the past. The same can be said of BET. They were bought out by white owned conglomerate Viacom.
Black radio and T.V. can and could be used by us to make us more aware and helpful to each other as a people. These our enemies upon seeing this have done their best to wreck this. In New York City, the majority of black owned or operated radio stations has dwindled from a dozen to almost two. Now stations that play "black music" play only that Satanic I got more than you rap crap along with a myriad amount of 'white music' get the drift so far?
Again in New York City, in the borough of Staten Island, Eric Garner a man who had just broken up a fight was targeted by the cities'finest'. He had objected to being always targeted by the police as a matter of habit by them and was objecting to their unjust targeting of himself when he was attacked from behind, given a chokehold while standing and can be seen on the ground with his killers hands still around his neck.
The racist murderous heads of the PBA have always justified murder by the kkk dressed up in blue. They supported Francis Livoti before and during his trial for the murder of Anthony Baez. They supported Justin Volpe for his sodomizing Abner Louima while in police custody. their motto is if the black man has any kind of history with the justice system then they are justified in killing him. Bastards like Patrick Lynch {must be one of Willie Lynch's relatives} will get their comeuppance for surely God is not asleep, and Karma is coming in the form of payback.
When Amadou Diallo, an African was gunned down in a hail of over 50 bullets, Negroes were in protests all over the city. If Mr Diallo was dressed in his tribal dress code he would not have been shot. Dressing like a regular Negro got him killed. Now one of our own has been killed and our people are more concerned with having a cookout instead of what has occurred on Staten Island. Who Knows, it could have been your brother or uncle this happened to. Next time it could be you.
The chains may have been taken from off our hands and feet, but we are still enslaved with the image of a white 'God and Jesus'. Until we as a people get rid of that image, talk of freedom will be just that, talk. We must shake off the apathy that has us in it's grip, wake up and see GOD in and through Black eyes. Then and only then will we be able to start being free, and so until next time, live well, be happy, make love, we bid you Peace.
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