The present Bush regime has caused the greatest job deficit in decades. Nine million Americans out of work, social services cut, and here in Georgia Medicaid went broke. So are African American people banning together to overcome our specific hardships or are we acting like slaves on the master's plantation.

Blacks who come down south from particularly the West Coast and the north allure to the perception that here in Georgia Black people have a slave or plantation mentality. Meaning, they will accept abuse, snitch, sale out, back stab, and Uncle Tom (which does not do justice to who he really was) to the white folk and the overseer if it means keeping their jobs. They won't speak up for themselves and certainly won't stand with a Black person who will. For in reality not much has changed. It's the non-Biblical golden rule.

Together we earn billions. Churches on damn near every corner (totaling millions deposited on Monday morning) and all the Black preachers on TV and radio, why are so many Black people unemployed, constantly losing their jobs, their houses, their cars, on drugs, incarcerated and even re-upping" and joining the armed services in war time. Because he who has the gold makes the rules and Christianity, as Blacks have accepted it, is not changing our condition.

The House niggers vs the Field niggers. That's right I used the "N" word. African Americans still suffer from a slave mentality. Blame it on Willie Lynch. It's the I'm better than you are, you ain't mentality. I'm better than you 'cause I got a job and you ain't, I got a car and you ain't, I got some money and you ain't, a house and you ain't, a profession, money in the bank, property, retirement, supervisor position, light skin, husband, business, live in better neighborhood.

And I'll do whatever I have to do to keep it, so I can think and feel that I'm better than you, cause you ain't, and so it goes.

How can our condition change? We must overcome and transcend our present conditioned, socialized, indoctrinated slave-master's given state of mind.

Well, how can that be done? As slaves we were not allowed to read, as civilized slaves you can choose to read, but don't. We must crack books and seek knowledge and truth for ourselves. The door is open, but "we" must walk through it. We must find security within our own selves as a spiritual not religious people. Religion has not changed our state or our mindset. We must go to The Devine within ourselves for ourselves.

We must stop being "scared". There is nothing you will take with you when you die, for you brought nothing here when you came. Everything belongs to God. We must end egocentric selfishness, share and give more to each other than lip service and a show on Sunday morning.

The gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" appears to be widening, by purpose, plan or design. Put yourself in the favor of The Most High, so as the blood was put on the doorpost, the last plague of God will pass you by.

E. Lee Sullivan is a free lance published writer/poet, spiritual life consultant and can be contacted at leesullivan2004@yahoo.com

© December 2005 By Afromerica

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