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How We Came To Be: - The Story of America's Black Nation
The above situation of Egypt and the nation of Israel are similar, if not identical to the crises of the American black man and his taskmaster the white man. The only difference in the two is that, the Israelis left the land of Egypt to dwell in the land that God promised the Father's of Israel, yet after blacks were freed from the bondage of slavery, they remained to this day within the land of the whites. This is central and vital to understanding the underlying concept of ethnic equalization between blacks and whites because the possibilities of group threat increases. This was one of the reasons the Egyptians decided to enslave Israel because Israel's population had increased even to outnumber the Egyptians. Although whites willingly brought blacks to America against their will, after a number of years the black population increased, yet not perceived as a threat. At one time, the rumor circulated that there was a conspiracy to annihilate the black population in America using drugs as a self-destructive force among blacks. Again, many today believe that the prison system is another form of population control of the black male, yet these are mere presumptions. Nevertheless, now that blacks are free and the population continues to increase, whites may feel threatened in other areas such as economically and politically. Rarely have one nation had to live among the oppressor as have blacks among whites. Normally, in history, the slave nation was sent afar off into a place prepared and especially made for them, or they were slaughtered by the dominant race in an attempt to annihilate them all together. In several ways, the latter act of annihilation, or at least possible destruction of the black slaves of America, was eventually considered as opposed to shipping them back to their native land. Yet was there ever an attempt essentially to send the black nation back to Africa, or did the black nation decide to stay after being giving an option. The answer to this question is another central point to this study because compared to a case of a battered wife by an abusive husband, out of phobia and over-assertiveness, both fall into a state of either severed love or intense hate. In other words, blacks and whites have established a love-hate relationship, which may mean an improvement between the two that carries with it a mutual respect for each other's social role. Nonetheless, there is an attachment between the two cultures and exist a bond that, even though formed by the act of slavery, has come to endurance, acceptance, and tolerance on both ends, black and white, yet what constitutes equality? There are various forms of equality such as personal respect, social status, and simple humanity. Of course, after hundreds of years of slavery, the descendents of any nation who are born and die in the state of slavery come to accept it, even long after protruding through the questions of why. At the same time, the descendents of the oppressor grow to accept their role as master, and possibly even to a gracious manner. Thus, even in the process of an unbroken cycle such as slavery, social roles, regardless of what nature, eventually lead to some form of equality, which in this manner is in terms of mutual respect for that role. For instance, during the rule of Egypt over the Israeli people, Joseph, the son of Jacob, an Israelite, rose to a status higher than that of many Egyptians, demonstrating personal acceptance and stratification among two different cultures. Therefore, it is possible for two individuals performing opposing social roles, one of slave status and one of superior, to respect one another for that role. Nevertheless, the assimilation of two nations and the question of equality requires more than personal acceptance. Blacks themselves began to adapt the white man's mentality as he grew in America. In comparison to a child that grows under the influence of his or her parents, blacks actually had no choice but to accept one or more of these mentalities, be it oppression, arrogance, or violence (for instance, street gangs emulate the gangsters of the roaring twenties and can never be accused of possessing a violent temperament by nature). Supremacy, though, is a characteristic of the white man that can never be adapted by the black man, simply because blacks were not born into that state of mind. Although, arrogance due to superiority can easily be adapted, and even now is. The superiority mindset among blacks has repeatedly proven to be detrimental to the well being of a black person and especially those around him. The reason is, blacks do not fully understand what it means to be superior, at least not in the present cohort, they only imitate what they see whites do which erects a wall more of pretense than authenticity. In other words, whites are better at superiority and arrogance than blacks because they were placed in this position naturally and blacks only assume it. A black person lacks the confidence that upholds arrogance and replaces it with pretentious assertiveness that no one adheres to but other blacks. Whites will never seriously accept the authority of a black person but only endure it as an act of accommodation or standardization at the most, but never superiority. For this cause, blacks that assume superiority status are as outcast to the white man and by other blacks that contend the supremacy theory all together. A subculture of blacks is anomies within a nation of cultural assimilation and especially inequality. In an attempt to gain recognition among whites through what whites said would gain them that recognition - which was an education and hard work - blacks blindly and vainly followed the advice only to realize that it gained nothing more than high social status within a world of their own, with that in question. Striving to better themselves and fit into the cultural norms and mores' of white America, blacks received some acknowledgement of their achievements on a personal level by way of individual compliments by white friends presumably under the constraints of courtesy, yet on a social-institutional level that acknowledgement has but scratched the surface of equality in the face of supremacy.
As long as ethnic-assimilation is stressed with equality as an objective, there will never be unity among blacks, because the struggle is not one for the black man, but for the black man to be white. The pursuit of this goal is in total ignorance and indignity of ones own ethnic identity, but pursued through envy of an attribute of sheer self-indulgence. Essentially, the initial question is whether the two races should be integrated, or segregated, not whether they will ever be, or rightfully be equal: that is biblically impossible, at least in this life. Although blacks socially, occupationally, and institutionally integrate with whites, there remains, within those times, segregation which gives rise to inequality. In the cafeterias of culturally diverse institutions of learning, and in the high-rise office buildings of every downtown, in more instances than none, the whites will sit with the whites and the blacks sit with the blacks. The blacks that have fallen into the norm of racial anomie, or the elite, black middle class who believes in being socially equal to the white man, are forevermore separated from the black masses, which challenge the theory of social equality and request by nature, human equality. Therefore, the black population is divided on the surface. Middle class blacks believe as the white man believes. He agrees that with hard work and stick-to-it-ness, any one, no matter what color can achieve the American dream. He is also convinced that racial inequality is not as serious a problem as perceived by the masses of blacks, simply because if he made it to such status - no matter how irrelevant that status is to the white man - that any one can make it. He believes that there are not as many barriers that halt the black race where it pertains to succeeding in this nation especially when he is seated beside the white senior corporate officer of one of the nations fortune 500 companies, making suggestions already being considered by the executive. He is convinced that the opportunities offered by the American government to the underprivileged is more than sufficient for a person who wants to succeed, and furthermore, that poverty is now only a condition of those who accept it, not of those confined to it. This mentality is spreading rapidly throughout the nation, that poverty is a result of ones own choice. No one has to live in poverty if one does not want to because there are many opportunities for equalization among the elite. Whites truly believe that the days of black ghettos are over and the only reason the residues of blacks remain in poverty is by choice. This is no more than a quick cop out to clear the conscious of the white man. In addition, he has convinced the black middle class - who never ceases to emulate his mindset - of the same. In other words, slavery is over, Jim Crow is dead, equal opportunity is there if you want it, so do not blame the white man any longer for your troubles, or feelings of inadequacy. They have literally, and with a sad attempt, tried to clear themselves of the troubles of blacks and their own shame of racism. They are freeing their conscious' of the guilt that will never actually cease to be a part of their mind simply because slavery and discrimination is a deep-rooted, immoral sin against humanity, and one never forgotten of God. The fact remains that there is an ethnic-inequality problem in America. Whites own and control all the means of production in America, at least the ones that matter, and blacks own none of it. Would that be because blacks are incapable of organizing and operating a productive industrious facility? No, it is because they lack unity. The division among the black race, driven there by the white man in the early days of slavery, can be repaired at the discretion of the black race itself. Yet, it never will be if the only power structure of the black race is fashioned after the white mentality, that of oppression and arrogance. To control any means of production is not yet a realization of blacks, at least not by the ones who have the most influence, because they remain caught up in the power and status structure of individualism. They continue to seek equal rights and fight for ways to further assimilate with the white man without regard to what is central for the growth of the black race, which is unity. No other ethnic culture in the United States or in the world is more divided than the American black man is. The middle class blacks seek recognition and acceptance into the white race continually by agreeing with his theories, adjusting to, and following after his lead. The suburb is the gathering point of the black middle class: a means to attain and compete with the whites. They want equal schools and equal political representation in the communities, yet status is the hidden factor, which can only be gained in the suburbs, and not where it pertains to their own communities. Status and recognition is important to the black middle class. Without it, they have no identity. Lost and confused by the strategies of the white man, middle class blacks are going nowhere fast in the plight for social and economic equality. Without knowledge of controlling and maintaining industrialized institutions of economic productivity, not to mention of themselves, blacks are no more than what they were in the early part of the twentieth century, service workers. They succeed in occupations of individual services such as physicians and lawyers and consultants, in addition to small capital ventures like small presses and government funded educational institutions, but they have yet to embark on larger entities. Clothing manufacturers, steel corporations, mining, oil, and lumber ventures are what the white race controls and no black man has dared learn or attempted to establish a corporation of this stature. If there are some who have tried and failed, and their reasoning is because whites have cornered the market and placed large monopolies on those type industries, then how can any black man in his right, logical state of mind say there is not an immense inequality problem in this country. There is not a race problem, no, not according to the blacks that have succeeded in menial service occupations, because there is opportunity, and the average black has no excuse not to succeed. However, where is that same mentality where it pertains to industry? At, and in the corporate boardrooms and office cafeterias, no, there is no such thing as inequality, not as long as a black man is giving used advice to some fat-cat bureaucrat. Yet, in the world of reality where domination plays a key role in the survival of the fittest, the black middle class service worker is no more than a peon in the wheels of society.
The black middle classman, who would rather fend for himself under the windows of opportunity, and equalize these United States to his power-seeking advantage, than unite with his own to establish an identity based nation. Who would rather believe that there is not a race problem, or that there is a race problem but only when it affects what it is he wants to accomplish. Never mind the souls of the ghetto in which his white counter part has poisoned his mind against to believe they are, in fact, lazy, shiftless, hustlers who live off the government that only tries to help him. How can cultural assimilation and equality be good for America? If the white man ever realizes that, the resources of the world are here for everyone and not for him to control. Greed drives him to divide, conquer, and manipulate, and by any means necessary, he will protect what is his and continuously believe that he is ruler of the world. Nevertheless, the time must come when he must subside to the next supreme ruler, and who knows if then it will be his turn to slave. America is in a state of decline simply because the lies and hypocrisy of the white man has surfaced even to the obvious. The less obvious, such as the black middle classman, will never see what the bible has projected for the world because he is fascinated with the power structure of the white man. Therefore, when the white man falls, so will he. Separation for the sake of maintaining assimilation, and acknowledgment of the fact that as a nation blacks will never be as the white man's equal, is a temporal solution for America. It would be better if the white man agreed to get along with his black counterparts instead of continually attempting to neutralize him, and others, for the sake of greed and selfishness. The black man will survive longer if he realizes that without unity or at least equalization between his own, there is no nation. Individualism destroys any form of unity and that is why the black race is divided at the present. The supremacy theory practiced by white men have been taken too literally by the black middle classman, because regardless of how many poor whites there are and how many of them are rich, there is a common goal among them all. They have an identity that is fueled by supremacy and arrogance that, again, the black man lacks. He feeds off the mentality of the white man and turns to express this blatant and illiterate form of bigotry on his own people. Nevertheless, when God decides it is time to finish off humanity, because of their constant disbelief and bickering among each other over who gets what and when, then the world will understand why there was never any one world ruler, but only one God to acknowledge.
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