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Written by Dabs from the blog DABS VERSES on 09 Apr 2008
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Hey guys I just got this through an e-mail, I don't know who wrote or said this.
Just thought I should share and hear your views about it. Do you think it's true??

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 now live 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 them "Status" or that they have achieved their 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, 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 their 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 to 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, as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two pay checks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices and our rooms.

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!!!!



19 Comments

Dabs
09 Apr 2008 03:39

This is just so sad, but thing will be okay. We might not be ruling the world but God is watching every step we take as human beings.

Dabs
09 Apr 2008 03:59

is the article that boring peeps.

Fluffy Head
09 Apr 2008 04:07

Dabs......Its said but very true hey..
Just something that makes you think and almost wanna deny it.
Donno what the writers intentions were but for me, the points he's making are a true reflection of what I see.
Mmmmhhhhh

Sugarcandy
09 Apr 2008 04:08

By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, 'THEY DON'T READ!!!!
Ooops the scary part is that no one has replied thus far meaning not many has read this article...............

Dabs
09 Apr 2008 04:14

Maybe it's too boring because it is long and deals  with the real issues that us black people face.

@ Fluffy head Eish I think it's true aswell. It hurts hey.

felfel
09 Apr 2008 04:22

I think plp are just bored with these fingerpointing emails, true or not, they don't offer solutions, they just pointing out wat plp already know and are comfortable with plus they are really old, this email has been doing the rounds for sometime now and plp have reacted already. Like i said, whether its true or not, the point is we are going to discuss it here and feel like sh*t...blah blah blah....by the time we get home its over, we won't talk about it to our kids at home (so we can try to reverse the cycle, wheel keeps turning), our communities don't care, our leaders don't care, empolyers don't care, WE don't care....so why act like we do here......

Nonny
09 Apr 2008 04:34

Well said Felfel!!!

sponono
09 Apr 2008 04:46

thanks felfel...*sigh*

Zee Babes!
09 Apr 2008 04:53

@Dabs - We might not be ruling the world but God is watching every step we take as human beings.

The picture I have of you when you wrote these words is dat of  a person who is crying....am I correct Dabs plz feed my curiousity.

Fluffy Head
09 Apr 2008 04:57

Felfel.....well said as it is. 
I for one do care_and that's the problem I guess. There's very few blacques who care about this and most just don't give a ish....But I think that the few that do care will definately make a difference.

I know we are said to be non-readers, according to the writer of this old e-mail. But please read the book by Steve Biko, its his biography. It will change the way you think about things in general. It talks about black consciousness and how ignorance is affecting the black nation. (I don't wanna get into that debate though). But it makes a lot of valid points about stuff. Or watch his movie_cry freedom I think it is. And when you do don't just watch it as another apartheid movie_but watch it wanting to learn from his life.

sponono
09 Apr 2008 05:06

Zee Babes! ....LOL...i also think she shed a tear or two..while writing that sentence...If i was next to her i woulda sang that senzeni na song...hi hi hi .
shem  kuzolunga mntakama...umntomnyam'akaphel'amandla....

Dabs
09 Apr 2008 05:07

Zee babes I was about to.

Fluffy Head
09 Apr 2008 05:11

Nisile nina Zee Babes, LOL...

spice
09 Apr 2008 05:40

Dabs Babes I reacted the same way when i first read this KAK Angry frustrated full of rage I wanted to murder sumone LOL but then i realised that its the author's intention to mess with me like that i re-read it i think a 100 times but  now I know that 

Earth
09 Apr 2008 05:48

I am lost for words...maybe its cos it is true.However I still have faith in us,I'll never lose it.Just out of curiousity,how many of you guys actually thought that this applies to other black people and not yourself??Can you imagine how many other black people out there are thinking the same thing?

Earth
09 Apr 2008 05:49

I am lost for words...maybe its cos it is true.However I still have faith in us,I'll never lose it.Just out of curiousity,how many of you guys actually thought that this applies to other black people and not yourself??Can you imagine how many other black people out there are thinking the same thing?

Amaka
09 Apr 2008 06:01

Ha ha ha. Very funny Zee Babes

Dabs
09 Apr 2008 06:09

Earth that is true, I distanced myself thinking eish mara these blacks. Come to think of it I'm not a reader. So this is true and there's fact about each and everyone of us. So we must start by fixing ourselves. First things first, where is the Mail and Gaurdian..... (LOL)

Vutmi
09 Apr 2008 10:57

mmmm...the email is sad...true.....it is the true reflection of us...true. we all agree to his neh?...but the very sad thing is what we are do after reading things like this. Do we toyi-toyi? scream rascism? or simply ignore it? 

Everything the email say is exactly what 90% of an average darkie will do. The question is....why do we think like that? 

I believe that this is what these people programmed us...they brainwashed us to actually belive that everything they said up there, is exactly what we are! I refused to be brain-washed, I refuse to feel like there's someone with a different colour better than me! 

Its all nice and well having those beliefs....but am i going to sit on my laurels with those beliefs or do i do something to change my situation? 


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