Blacks Emancipate Yourselves From Mental Slavery

The black race is still enslaved: blacks are crabs in a bucket?

Bob Marley said that we should emancipate ourselves from mental slavery.  As a child I could not understand how applicable those words were but my father would play that song over and over again. As I grew older, I understood the concept. It simply meant that even though the black man is free in body, his mind is still enslaved.  

Jamaicans are free in body but few have been manumitted psychologically. It may seem that European ethos coupled with black denigration is continually embraced by the black populace.  This is evident by the divisive and malevolent schemes that blacks concoct against each other to ensure the demise of someone that they perceive has a greater quality than they do. Additionally, if a black Jamaican thinks you are predisposed to be more successful that he is, then he will devise any measures possible to ensure your failure and destruction. Hence the term, my history teacher used “black people are crabs in a bucket”

                                       According to my history Teacher, blacks were kept in slavery for centuries because they were unable to unite. Even though the blacks had a common enemy they had far more animosity and divisions among themselves to fully collaborate against the small white minority in the West Indies that were the slave masters.  According to history most black slave revolts in Jamaica failed because a black slave betrayed the group and apprise the master of their activities. There is always one black person who wants to remain enslaved and ingratiate the white plantocracy.     

               Additionally why does the black man blame white men for enslaving  black race and devaluating the pigment of his skin when it was blacks who sold their brothers’ and sisters into slavery in exchange for ornaments and guns.

            Now I understand the relationship the black man has with the gun and why he sees it as a symbolism of power. Why the black man accords such importance to its acquisition and proprietorship.

                  Maybe this is the reason why it is very difficult to separate the black man from the love of the gun. It was the desire for the gun that place black people in slavery and ultimately continues to stymie the progression of the black race. It was the gun that Europeans armed black tribes with, so that they could murder a rival tribe and sell the spoils of wars into slavery. It is the gun that the elite and politicians armed black youths in Jamaica with to fight against each other and murder one another for the sake of political spoils and favoritism among the mulatto elites. It is the same technique” divide and conquer”.  

                      Some claim that the love for the gun among black men may be attributable to slavery and the fact that the slave revolts were not successful due to whites being far more armed with guns than blacks.  Blacks have attached a certain level of importance to the possession of weapons which continues to destroy the race.  Even today, people come into Africa and create wars by arming blacks with guns and they murder each other to satisfy a dictator or tyrant in the name of wealth creation.

                Blacks are still enslaved, if they continue to believe that in order to feel any iota of power over their brother or to generate respect and accumulate wealth they must possess a gun. The truth is the race has not accomplished much from the days of the transatlantic slave trade and the West Indian sugar plantations, if black men continue to glorify the gun and attached its possession to wealth creation and a symbol of societal ascendancy as did our ancestors in Africa.