The Miseducation of the African-American

The passage of time does not effect the mindset of American Blacks.

One hundred years from now, if the ‘mental slavery’ continues, American Blacks will still hold that aspect of their history as the centrepiece of their existence. This is because there is and was a concerted effort to keep American Blacks ignorant of the past, unaware of the present, and shroud the future in self perpetuating inferiority.

It is this belief which cripples the American Black.

Firstly, it paints Africans as an easily dominated race. Secondly, it seems to suggest persons resigned themselves to their enslavement. Thirdly, it suggests that if compassionate whites had not freed them, they would be slaves today.

Is any of this true?

Can one actually believe Europeans, who had never been to Africa could so easily invade and capture, not kill but capture Africans alive and transport them for export?

If you believe this, and are Black, this is the root of all your problems. This is where your feelings of inferiority and resentment begin. This is why you see yourself as a victim.

If you are White, you believe this because it adds to your glorious power. Your super Rambo image, which is why you invaded Vietnam and lost, failed in your attempts to free the hostages in Iran, and are currently dying in Iraq.

The lie of the European as all powerful is accepted by both sides of the equation, and the truth is obliterated.

Africans were captured by other Africans. Wars of this nature were not unknown. One tribe would invade another tribe’s territory and capture and carry away members. In time, the victim tribe would raid the victor tribe and free the captives, capture and enslave the previous victors.

Europeans could not penetrate far into Africa. They would be killed, if not by human then by mosquito. Hence the involvement of Africans in the Slave trade needs to be spotlighted. Not to castigate but to proclaim; if your brother didn’t sell you to the slavers, you would not have left Africa.

As offensive as the concept may be, the truth of it removes the guise of the ‘all powerful’ European.