To keep Blacks ignorant, hide knowledge in a book. To keep Blacks in poverty, apply institutional discrimination. To keep Blacks divided, create false leaders, and to keep Blacks loyal, lie to them daily and/or never tell them the whole truth. When will we rise above these obvious strategies to keep us down? We must realize and acknowledge the truth to break the yokes of oppression.

Believe this, whites figure that Blacks will believe anything they tell us, especially if it is written in a book, one that they wrote. They figure if we study their ideologies, concepts, and laws long and hard enough, there will be nothing that we will not believe and they can thereafter do and or say whatever they want and we will follow.

One logical way to assure their concepts are passed on to us and our children, is to recruit and train (indoctrinate) Black journalist, publishers, politicians and business people and exalt them to suburban status with a swift pat on the back so they can pass along these ideologies to the rest of Black America.

Take for instance Black periodicals, newspapers, and journals, which mimic the content and concepts of the white world. Many of these publications - especially the upscale magazines and journals - feed Black readership with the fantasy lifestyles that only whites enjoy. Ebony, Jet, Essence, including websites and television station such as AOL Black Voices, BET, and other white owned/Black operated media.

As a result of being educated in their schools, indoctrinated with their academics, captivated with their digital images, and dependent on their information, our own originality and desire for discovery has waned to the point of slothfulness and we trip through life without a pioneering thought, but as sheep to an intellectual slaughter.

We are being lied to. Made to believe whatever is placed before us and too many of us soak it up and continue on, laced with false doctrine, misinformation, unbalanced beliefs, and immoral values thinking we know what life and living in America is all about.

Our brains are programmed to think, breath, and function as they want, and we have wretchedly accepted this fate. We have no knowledge of what life really is or what it can truly offer, but walk around believing that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is the ultimate goal in this so-called land of "equal" opportunity. Opportunity they give us, not that we ordain for ourselves.

As long as they can get us to see the images and watch life lived on television and believe this is what it is all about, they can program us on how to act, how to think…what to think, and how to behave when around them, not ourselves. Not at all for our own best interest, but for the satisfaction of them and their plans for us.

They supply us with the look and the accessories that give us the look. They know if we believe we have to have the things that will give us favor in their world, we will ignore the truth and everything associated with truth. The truth being, none of those things make us who we are but classify us as a people in their society. This is how you lie to Black people. Show them everything they want to be.

© August 2005 by CR Hamilton