I WAS SITTING THE OTHER DAY WHEN I WALKED IN AND MY GIRLS WAS WATCHING THE BOONDOCKS (NOT MY CUP OF TEA) BUT IT WAS A EP ABOUT CATCHER FREEMAN, AND IN WATCHIND I SAW A SCENARIO IN WHICH THE SLAVES WERE MAKING FUN OF THE "MASTER" AND IT GOT ME THINKING.
WAS SLAVERY REAL OR WAS IT A "MIND TRICK" TO SOMEHOW PAINT BLACKS AS WEAK AND STUPID OR ON THE OTHER HAND PAINT BLACKS AS SO TRIFLING THAT THEY WOULD SELL THERE BROTHERS TO WHITE PEOPLE FOR A LITTLE OF NOTHING.
AND I AM IN NO WAY INSINUATING THAT BLACKS HAVENT BEEN THROUGH SOME THINGS, BUT THERE ARE MANY REFERENCES TO SUCCESSFUL BLACK PEOPLE ALL THROUGH HISTORY (BLACK WALL STREET, MADAM CJ WALKER William Alexander Leidesdorff ) TO NAME A FEW BUT MY POINT IS SEEING SOME OF THE THINGS WHITES HAVE DONE COULD SLAVERY HAVE BEEN A BIT OF A EXAGGERATION ON THEIR PART TO PAINT US IN A BAD LIGHT. BECAUSE I JUST DONT SEE ANY ONE MAN CONTROLLING A GROUP OF 50 OR MORE PEOPLE WITH A "SIX SHOOTER" ESPECIALLY A GROUP OF BROTHER BEING CONTROLLED BY A CRACKA.
WAS SLAVERY REAL OR WAS IT A "MIND TRICK" TO SOMEHOW PAINT BLACKS AS WEAK AND STUPID OR ON THE OTHER HAND PAINT BLACKS AS SO TRIFLING THAT THEY WOULD SELL THERE BROTHERS TO WHITE PEOPLE FOR A LITTLE OF NOTHING.
AND I AM IN NO WAY INSINUATING THAT BLACKS HAVENT BEEN THROUGH SOME THINGS, BUT THERE ARE MANY REFERENCES TO SUCCESSFUL BLACK PEOPLE ALL THROUGH HISTORY (BLACK WALL STREET, MADAM CJ WALKER William Alexander Leidesdorff ) TO NAME A FEW BUT MY POINT IS SEEING SOME OF THE THINGS WHITES HAVE DONE COULD SLAVERY HAVE BEEN A BIT OF A EXAGGERATION ON THEIR PART TO PAINT US IN A BAD LIGHT. BECAUSE I JUST DONT SEE ANY ONE MAN CONTROLLING A GROUP OF 50 OR MORE PEOPLE WITH A "SIX SHOOTER" ESPECIALLY A GROUP OF BROTHER BEING CONTROLLED BY A CRACKA.