Writer: Unknown
Source: BWP NewsWire
Background: This article is believed to have been written sometime in 2002 or 2003. Because of its explosive nature, it is still widely circulated. Interestingly, the author still remains unknown.
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 to put it in a book.” We live now 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 blueprints 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 large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars 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 sneaker 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 the “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, W. E. B. Dubois 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 endeavor of substance. When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of the goal. Their so-called help organizations seem to only want to promote their name 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 doers. 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 because of what they own. In 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 boardrooms.
Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to read, continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are “helping” their communities by paying dues to organizations 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!!!!’
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DUNIA Mag: Prove them wrong! Let’s continue to instill in ourselves and our children a culture of reading.
- “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is.” – Allan Bloom
- “A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury
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Very disturbing article this one is! It is the provocative nature in which it is written. Yet the provocative power it has can alo instigate change. Still a very annoying article. I know for sure we don't read. When I grew up devouring books, it was only a few of my mates whoever picked up a novel to the read. Women did generally well.
U are saying african‘s are greedy people, dat is not a lie but saying we still remain ur slave dat is a lie. We are not slave to any bastard dat we spend our money on cars designer cloths dosin‘t make us a fool is because we want to be comfortable. U are placing dis on facebook, don‘t u no it will make us more wiser? Dat makes u d biggest FOOL in d wold.
yes its true we dont read but its u the whites that have contributed alot towards this for instance eversince the colonial days, the school syllubus in african countries has never changed from theoritical to practical making us crammers than researchers. This was instigited by u whites with a purpose of keeping us back words. Also whites hve done alot by keeping selfish govts into power. Therefore africans, take the advice and lets us teach our children how to research but not read bse even if u read u still remain a slave bse what u readind is already a theory not practical.