THE SLAVE'S MIND IS OFTEN FULL OF RELIGION AND EMPTY OF HISTORY...because he is a victim of the slave master's trickenology

Slavery has long passed, they say, but it has left behind a totally BROKEN-IN and DOMESTICATED people. No other word can better describe the character of the slave descendant than the word "DOMESTICATED," for it implies total subjection to the spirit of another in the same way that is witnessed in cats and dogs.

The un-informed would think that the slave mentality should have changed by now, but they do not recognize the role that present-day economic muscle plays in the maintenance of spiritual subjugation. By maintaining tight control over every necessity, and by maintaining the sharecropping system of debt control, the slavers of today are able to perpetuate the same subservient slavery mentality of yesterday.

Because slavery has left a legacy where money and power are generally white, and poverty and powerlessness are generally black, the head that bows and smiles ingratiatingly to get a job, to keep a job, or to get a loan or a grant is also usually black. Survival equals conformity to the white value system. Those ever-present dynamics of power ensure a continuation of the slavery mentality.

As a direct result of this long ongoing system of racial domination, it is no surprise that the spiritual and cultural orientation of the slave descendant is still stuck in the mud of slavery. The need for a serious study of slavery is therefore not so much to prove that a grave injustice has been done, but more importantly to demystify the present injustice that is being done in the still ongoing process of racial domination and subjugation as it manifests itself culturally and economically.

Faced with this unique phenomenon of a people existing as if they are under a spell, one is forced to search history for some answers. Why is it that no other race walks more faithfully in the white man's footsteps than those who were made virtual clones or carbon copies by centuries of terrorism and enforced subservience?

Because the formal abolishment of slavery did not shift the economic balance in the slightest way, Mr. domination and Mr. subservience have continued to walk hand in hand up to this day, one enforcing his will and the other left with no other easily discernable options but to bow and obey. When bowing and obeying become the norm, DOMESTICATION too becomes the norm.

The generations after physical bondage have therefore inherited NORMS that are really abnormal, and cling naturally to lifestyles is unnatural.

In not so long ago times, when domination needed to be more terroristic, the slave owner would castrate his slave in the process of making a eunuch. This now thoroughly broken-in and domesticated slave would tend to become very attached to his owner just like a cat or a dog, and would even try very hard to look like his master or mistress wherever possible. When you remove a people's Godhead, it is just like castrating them spiritually. With their natural inborn spiritual power, pride, and self-respect removed, they function under remote control. They have now become re-programmed worshippers of the master's blonde or straight-hair godhead.

Because their true Godhead has been tightly corked down in a bottle and buried in a forgotten place on the old plantation, the generations after physical bondage therefore tend to be governed by the belly and the genitals. and they prefer to eat from the slave master's hand.

A bellyful of cheap junk food followed by sex and poor TV can therefore make them quite happy, and the opportunity to use loaned houses and loaned cars actually makes them feel that it is a privilege to be owned by the new slave master called "THE BANKER."

When your life is totally owned and controlled by the banker, "It has its benefits"...they say. "This is not slavery, because see how many material things we have... I mean how many things we are able to use conditionally on the basis of a loan."

Formerly, slaves and share-croppers would pray for the day when the plantation would burn, now modern industrial share-croppers pray for the day when the plantation would get more "upscale."

And how can slavery ever end when every slave now believes that he too has a chance of becoming another American Idol...if he wins the lottery...if he becomes another big-time rapper...or another big-time athlete? That is why the slave master created IDOLS in the first place...to make the slave believe in the plantation, and hold a sense of optimism that some day the owner may promote him... if he follows the rules faithfully.

All in all, most of today's modern sharecroppers actually care little for leaving the plantation or changing the plantation, they are more preoccupied with the task of getting a better position on the plantation.

Gone are the days when slaves could be convinced that slavery is their main commonality. Now, it is all about which box you are in. Is it the middle class box, the Muslim box, the Christian box, the Democratic/Republican box, the religious Binghi/Twelve Tribe/Bobo box,......the box that does not allow you to see the sameness next door?

"THE BOX IS MORE IMPORTANT." They say. ...Never mind the underlying landless, exploited, vulnerable, powerless, and totally dependent commonality.

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(THE ABOVE SHOULD GIVE THE READER SOME IDEA WHY THE AUTHOR HAS WRITTEN THE TWO EPISTLES "PUT THIS IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT" AND "GODS ARISING FROM THE GRAVE OF NEGRO-HOOD")

Ras Jahaziel - jahpaint@aol.com

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