tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post3744369584224622225..comments2023-11-03T07:47:05.286-05:00Comments on Blogging While Black version 4.0: Oppression Is Worse Than Death: You Should Have Killed MeThe Brown Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892123380005014339noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post-72403299781180764832008-10-28T11:57:00.000-05:002008-10-28T11:57:00.000-05:00"Freedom is NOT free" - Dr. John Henrik Clarke"Freedom is NOT free" - Dr. John Henrik ClarkeAly Cat 121https://www.blogger.com/profile/16546872299549844249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post-34394350882019735852008-10-21T19:16:00.000-05:002008-10-21T19:16:00.000-05:00I'm going to take this piece by piece....my first ...I'm going to take this piece by piece....my first question is "don't the people have to be oppressed to suffer from oppression?" All of the characteristics you've listed that plague us black folks....are not considered as oppressive actions by "us black folks". You say we are in an oppressed state. My response to that (on behalf of other black folk) is that I like to eat and live inside. Which means working/earning a check to buy inflated groceries and pay high ass rent to live in a duplex with functioning heat.<BR/><BR/>Something else to consider is that your definition of free is obviously different from a lot of peoples. So YES...a scared negro will get YOU killed. See, you want a type of freedom that allows you to operate without the biases and rules of "the system" because "the system" is dictating to us that dreams and goals of higher achievement, entrepreneurship, and independent wealth are standards set by white people. Standards that we are constantly trying to meet. So at some point we decide that those aren't really our goals after all. Our goals are simply to eat and live inside. Are we oppressed? Have we settled? Are we being "safe"?<BR/><BR/>The key points you talk about; land ownership, cultural and business opportunities, and active involvement in the political process; at some point in time we decided that those either didn't apply to us or are not things that we want.<BR/><BR/>Example....we had a discussion once about the perceptions. When you talk to people (friend, family, etc...)about owning property (outside of the typical 30 year fixed on an as is house) and owning your own business...you are viewed as being one of those bourgie/uppity coloreds. Why is that? Because that is not something that WE do. Those of us that do are exceptions to the rule. You know....sell outs.<BR/><BR/>That magic potion you eluded to.....it's called eating and living inside.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post-33886223881422741202008-10-21T17:02:00.000-05:002008-10-21T17:02:00.000-05:00Terry's point is elegant in its simplicity. I try ...Terry's point is elegant in its simplicity. I try to tell my kids at the school I teach at this lesson. I wonder if it is reaching them. To quote someone famous, I must do it or die trying...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post-28537561632120603292008-10-21T12:36:00.000-05:002008-10-21T12:36:00.000-05:00Terry,We're not going toe to toe, we're 'going ove...Terry,<BR/><BR/>We're not going toe to toe, we're 'going over the budget, line by line reducing earmarks and cutting excess spending. We're doing this together in a non-partisan effort to control greed and corral run away behavior'<BR/><BR/>Sorry... I try not to get caught up in the election.<BR/><BR/>Nail on the head here Terry, that's why I love and respect you. It's not that I try to garner a response or to get folks to think, we're supposed to do that anyway without folks like me prompting for anyone to do so and that's the problem...<BR/><BR/>We just don't think anymore. The desire to want to be free has been supressed so much that there aren't many folks like me questioning the new status quo and that bothers me.<BR/><BR/>There isn't that much high fructose corn syrup, bad TV, mindless hip hop, alcohol, ghetto fabulousness brought on by drug culture, easy pussy and menthol cigarettes to cloud my mind because I still know that we are no ways near freedom as a people in this country.<BR/><BR/>Sad that a lot of people are watching this blog to see my self destruction, waiting for something negative to happen and no one gets a clue. My words and thoughts are mere entertainment for many because only a few actually know that they can be free.<BR/><BR/>You are one of them. And it ain't weird that you are one of those 'white people' either.<BR/><BR/>It makes sense because you aren't a scared negro, and technically you can be one if you choose to be but you can see the matrix, hell we both helped program the damn in some way, shape or form thing back in the day.<BR/><BR/>Scared negroes get you killed.<BR/><BR/>Now who's blogging inside a blog?The Brown Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05892123380005014339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post-87208737263252180032008-10-21T12:05:00.000-05:002008-10-21T12:05:00.000-05:00Okay, we’re going toe to toe on this one Hassan…so...Okay, we’re going toe to toe on this one Hassan…sorta.<BR/><BR/>Knowledge is power. Not even money is power any more. Ask anyone on Wall Street. So if knowledge is power where does the real control dwell? In your mind of course.<BR/><BR/>A free people can only truly be free when they control their own fate. <BR/><BR/>There is no doubt that from the beginning of Slavery at Jamestown in 1619, to today, African-Americas have been victims of the greatest brain washing effort in the history of our planet. <BR/><BR/>Let me tell you how White People do it, and I know this because I am a White People.<BR/><BR/>To make any race feel inferior you have to first crush their idea of self worth. You have to make them feel less than anyone else. That’s easy to do. You tell them that they aren’t smart enough, you lock them out of institutes for higher learning, you make sure that their primary schools aren’t as good, and you continue to present negative images in the media. It works every time. But ya can’t let it look too obvious, so throw a few of them a bone. I think you have called them the “House Niggers” as I recall. It’s all a matter of appearance.<BR/><BR/>But that’s not enough; you have to make sure you keep them in bondage. Since we can’t throw shackles on them anymore, we do it in another way. We control their economy, reduce them to poverty, decimate their neighborhoods with drugs and violence, and then turn the whole thing into a police state. We incarcerate their men, degrade and abuse their women, all the while telling them that they aren’t good enough. Remember, we’ve been telling Blacks Folks this for almost 4oo years so we have that part down. All we have to do is perpetuate the myth.<BR/><BR/>Some today laugh at the notion from the 70’s of "Black Power". Laugh if you must, but Huey Newton was right. The Brother had it figured out. Take care of your own neighborhood, educate your own children, develop your own economy, you take care of you because the ideals of the White Institute of slavery are still alive and well and living in the inner cities and in rural America. So you need to counter that shit, and as Booby Seale once echoed from Malcolm X, by any means necessary.<BR/><BR/>Here’s the deal, while Barack Obama I think will be good for the country, he isn’t going to change the fate of Black Folks at all. He can’t, African-Americans will have to do that for themselves, and they can. As you pointed out Hassan, they have to throw off the chains of bondage. Arm yourself with education and develop your society on your own. Don’t wait for White America to do what is right. We simply aren’t going to.<BR/><BR/>Free your mind!<BR/><BR/>Obviously, I would like to say that the African-American community is everyone’s problem living who lives in this country, and personally, I think that it is. But the fact remains, Institutional Racism does exist, and as long as the power structure is what it is, the situation will remain.<BR/><BR/>Sorry for blogging on you blog Hassan but you know it goes on occasion. You have a way of making people think.Bananashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176853633460981781noreply@blogger.com