Abstract Warning:
This article articulates a paradigm shift and could greatly effect the psyche of the reader. Reader discretion is advised. Should one develop acute consciousness, please debrief with the following article.
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In the age of 21st Century Colonization, it is vital to understand the widespread complacency of African Americans in agendas that both subjugate, manipulate, and control their mental aptitude, stagnate their spirituality, and limit their physical prowess to a calculated box of containment. If the question is proposed, how is it, that the African American population, amid a host of accomplishments, inventions, eras of progress & contributions to society, access to wealth, land ownership, various fields of labor, educational attainment, and attempts at resistance, is still subdued by European colonization in North & South America, and on the continent of Africa (This question is not limited to African Americans in the diaspora because the same colonial devices are at play and used on the various tribes and countries on the continent of Africa.)? Then, one must consider, like the late clinical psychologist, "unnamed," the African American must be thinking mentally backwards, operating against their own interests, and virtually, in a constant state of mental, spiritual, and physical insanity.
A Trip Along The Underground Railroad
In 2021, a friend and I took a trip from Baltimore to western Maryland, rediscovering in person, the story of Harper's Ferry. Then, we traveled up the Appalachian Mountains along the old Underground Railroad Trail. I had no idea, enslaved Africans were canvassing the wild mountain countryside to get to liberty. It was very tough, dangerous terrain and I was in awe. Slavery had to be a torturous hell, to choose to face this wilderness rather than remain in bondage. Our destination was Blairsville, a small city, just outside of Pittsburgh. The city tells a story of a dark past like all of America. The Underground station, was an old Black church manned by surprisingly, a middle aged white woman. Getting out the car, I figured, "I'm not going to learn nothing from this white lady?" Then, she took us inside, showed us the accommodations under the floor board of the church, and told the story of the station. I found a sister.
(Photos Courtesy of American Mastodon Publications 2021)
Mid-Atlantic Enslavement & The Enlightenment of The Enslaved Mindset
You see, enslavement in the hot humid southern states, was quite different from the Mid-Atlantic States. In the South, you have warmer months for farming. North of the southern region, it gets cold for the majority of the year, thus there are less months for agricultural farming. So, when the enslaved could be driven hard in the South to produce a crop for harvest and sell. In these Northern states, after the warm summer and the long winter begins, the business of slavery here, was breeding. Sexual breeding slavery was also practiced in the south, but it was the primary form of slavery in the Mid-Atlantic alongside servitude and waiting. The worst type of slavery, where your physical body, your most sacred parts is not your own. All Black young women were frequently advertised as "able wenches," or "breeders." While young Black men were referred to as "bucks." I learned that the term, "Mother fucker," was created in this region. Men and women were forced to breed for selection, breed with their family members for experiment, and breed with the Master in a crucible of sadistic hedonism under the guise of free capitalism and a skewed version of "American liberty" to inflict harsh punishment or death on one's property. Which many, would prefer and oblige. My spirit sank into heaviness. This is why, those enslaved Africans rather brave the wilderness fighting bears and wolverines, than to abide in the house of these devils. And I learned, the evil was so great, it pierced the veil of "whiteness," as families and folks like Jim Brown, or the local underground hero, John Graff, denounced their own whiteness, in the spirit of human decency, morality, and justice. Race is a social creation for division. It does not exist in actuality. The American slave system must of been so evil, that even people who benefit from the privilege of race, and the privilege of being called "white (which is a social not natural creation)," denounced their privilege and some their lives, in contention against this system of human depravity afflicted onto other human beings. It was a moment of common heaviness, real tears, and gave me hope in the spirit of truth and unity between people in the United States, to not just see right and wrong, but to stand on it with conviction, even at the risk to their station, livelihood, and lives. And so, I digress back to the point, we all saw that one of the main tenets of slavery is the African or "Black" Broken Family.
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The Enslaved Mindset
It is the crux for how enslavement is enculturated into a soul by separating a person from the mother, Father, siblings, and cousins, at a moments notice. Then stripping one's identity and giving them a new name, new language, new religion, and new way of life. The enslaved mindset. The Mid-Atlantic version of slavery in my opinion was the worst kind, sexual breeding and human trafficking for sales, tax liens, local, or far. Therefore, without knowledge of oneself & purpose, upon departure, or emancipation from the plantation, it is impossible to forget the traumatic experience. It is possible for a slave to leave a plantation, but the enslaved mindset remains with them in thought, name, language, experience, and custom. The slave mindset is branded into their very souls and so, their mannerism, fears, desires, expectations, and actions, are all predetermined and limited by their Slave Mindset. And this is the case for the African American. We all have had to wrestle with this mindset, internally and externally. Enslaved Africans, who did not subscribe or agree with the institution of slavery had limitless potential, and their accomplishments are used to improve our society, debase the theory of race, and its confines. Still, Today's issues in the Black American community are rooted in the inability to escape the experience, the trauma, and the Enslaved mindset. For example, the late epidemic of Black Mothers, separating the children from Black Fathers, out of their protection to defend themselves in a cold unkind world, is rooted in this enslaved mindset. Even the use of the US Courthouse as the Auction Block, is the same legal authority, same back drop, and literally, the same physical emotional traumatic break, that occurred during legal enslavement, and still occurs today. Black on Black violence, self destruction, and the sheer devaluing of anything Black, while simultaneously, overvaluing everything "white," coupled with fear, is in part of the legacy of enslavement. Psychologically, it is the same behavior, desires and social characteristics created for black men and women to remain in mental and physical slavery, regardless of time or generation. Nothing has changed. The Slave Mindset often justifies their enslavement and is complacent in its system. Out of this justification comes a created behavior set, particular to one's station: Uncle Tom, Mammie, Sambo, Jezebel, Jim Crow, the Black Brute, the tragic Mulatto, and Sapphire, among other socially invented caricatures. All the characters made popular in the American Minstrel Show, the most popular form of entertainment during the Antebellem & Postbellum period of the United States. The comic variety show exemplified exactly the reflection of socially popular desired and acceptable behavior for African Americans, or "n****rs (Negroes)," Blacks, day in and day out during the enslavement period and often, today in some environments. It is crucial for African Americans to understand that these are created expectations or stereotypes of Blacks by Whites. White Americans are just as much, predetermined and limited by this form of thinking, even confined to a certain station, maybe intentional, or hubris. Thus, if "Whiteness," doesn't exist, as theorized by Herman Melville in the famous novel, Moby Dick (1854), than "Blackness," doesn't exist either. Neither does any of these stereotypes exist, in actuality. They are not real, but created personalities for domination and the subjugated. Therefore, to embody these caricatures, in one's life, is to exhibit the behavior of the enslaved, which is by definition against one's own benefit. And if this behavior is instinctive, it is the sign of insanity. It is impossible for a collective group to survive in nature by doing what is not beneficial to your survival. To serve a Master or in service of "Whiteness," as a life's goal, and not the service of Africans, is particularly problematic. Unfortunately, many African Americans, or Blacks, are not surviving because of this mental restraint.
I will include our previous writings on this subject for consistency and clarity:
"The subjugation of the African image... is an important commodity. It allows a foreign culture to dictate the story, the history, and the message for the future of the African people. This message through the European scope, creates a fictitious people, now erroneously called, Black People, and creates a homogenous race of people, imposing upon them one heritage, physical/social/economic characteristics, and one destiny. The subjugation of the African image by a Foreign culture, occurred during the early 1800s, during what is known as, The Minstrel Show, the most popular form of American Entertainment, until the 1930s. However, in reality, there is no such thing as Black people and its label on the diaspora people of Africa, is one of the lasting vestiges of the Pseudo-scientific racial classification system (Negroid, Caucasoid, & Mongoloid) brought on during the European colonial & military conquest of the Americas, and modern Western world, from the 1500s to the present.
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(Mammie/ Uncle Tom/ Sambo)
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(Sambo w/ a Fiddle/ Jim Crow/ Nat Turner- Black Brute)
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(Black Brute/ Enslaved Woman Punished by Revolt / Jezebel)
(Tragic Mulatto/ Sapphire)
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(Watermelon Pickney/ Alligator Bait)
The Colonial Mindset
(Photo courtesy of The World Fair, Atlanta 1895; For informational & historical use only)
In post modernity, we may not value the extent of the sacrifice made by many Whites and Blacks during this Antebellum generation, who sacrificed dearly to walk hand and hand with the enslaved African for liberation on the basis of human rights, often against the law. To rise above the station of advantage and privilege, in the pursuit of justice and higher human ideals is quite a feat, when surrounded by a culture of militant imperial expansion, European Supremacy, blind capitalism, land & cultural appropriation, legal racism, and debauchery, in your favor. Enough cannot be said in appreciation, but it lends to the notion of the latter thought, how terribly wicked, unpredictable, and sadistically evil the times were to elicit such a widespread universal apprehension in varying degrees and commonality from White Americans, in regards to Africans in the caste system of slavery. The greatest American Generation, is this Antebellum Abolitionist generation, who together died in mass to achieve the liberation of the African in American society against blind capitalism, systematic legal racism, wealthy aristocracy, and sadistic hedonistic pleasure branded and disguised as "American." Many early White Americans, like their English Abolitionist counterparts in England, were able to finance a military directive in eliminating the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade on the basis of human rights, rising above the mere notions of whiteness and blackness in placement of moral uprightness and justice. I always say, President Abraham Lincoln and many like him, didn't have to go against their station and privilege as White men and women in America, but they did and paid the ultimate price for their conviction. Alongside, the deaths of over 650,000 White & Black men serving as Union & Confederate Soldiers during the Civil War, is the fate of a nation, and the moral question of whether humanity is of higher value than the system of capitalism? Yes, the victory for humanity will be short lived, in the United States, and in England, but capitalism will again become the main focus in the Western world. The era of Reconstruction ended, Westward expansion against Natives and Mexico, vengeance of the "Lost Cause of the Confederacy," & the propaganda of Thomas Dixon's Clansman, would set to reignite an romanticized version of "White Supremacy," across the United States to foster reconciliation between the South and North (World Fair, Atlanta 1895). Territorial westward expansion of the American Colonial nation became a primary priority over the protection of human rights for the former African enslaved population. Thus, the colonial mindset proved useful in recruitment of White soldiers, although it was devoid of realistic practical customs
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White Americans, irrespective of their Northern or Southern sensibilities, will be likewise entrapped in an idealistic "Colonial Mindset, of what they believed were glorious times for Whites in America's short history. The caricatures are the The Northern Merchant & Industrialist (Yankee or Carpetbagger), the Wealthy Plantation owner (Confederate, Rebel, or Democrat), the Overseer, the Slave Patroller, The Mistress, the Innocent Virgin Daughter, the Merchant, the Captain & Sailor, the Soldier, the Christian Preacher, the Sheriff or Marshall, The Magistrate, the Lawyer, The Judge, the Auctioneer, the Farmer, the Poor Whites, the Landlord, the Banker, the Brothel Owner & Prostitutes, the Miner, the Tanner, The Blacksmith, the Confederate Soldier (Rebel or Johnny Red), the Confederate Officer (Rebel or Johnny Red) and Cattlemen. The confines of the Colonial Mindset, equally limit White Americans to predetermined and limited destinies. These destinies were seen as necessary to ensure the expansion of White Supremacy, the confiscation of Native lands, and the circumventing of African American progress. So, these occupations were restricted to White men and women. Blacks, could not obtain these occupations and would be out of place, or Uppidity, should they be found performing any of the duties. Of course, it is vital to remind readers, Whiteness is a social construct, it does not exist in actuality. Most Whites arrived as indentured European servants to the British Crown and leased to the colonies. They did not refer to themselves as "White," upon arrival, this would develop once their station passed from indentured servants to voting citizens, allowing them to benefit from the systematic extraction of land and resources from the various Native tribes. The reality of their arrival is far from the idealized version of themselves held by their descendants. It is more like the harsh winter of the Pilgrims, having to physically fight the Natives and brave the winter environment to survive and settle on the continent. In reality, life came at a price, hard work, and sacrifice. Christianity will play a major role in organizing a common belief system, legal code, moral ideal, and common European heritage. There is no such thing as Whiteness and so, people, naturally are capable of anything. Any British, French, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, or Irish-Scot European, who naturally did not subscribe to this "White American, " ideal would have unlimited potential and their community contributions are well documented to our American society. All the American forefathers, viewed themselves originally as British subjects of the King, or some form of tribal European, no identity of whiteness existed before the French & Indian, and the American Revolutionary Wars. Many were bilingual, speaking French, German, Spanish, Dutch, or Gaelic as well as English. After the defeat of the Confederacy, the Southern White American reverted to an idealized Colonial Mindset, in search for an common redeemed identity, and return to glory culminating into the Confederacy. After Reconstruction, they would create the Jim Crow System of segregation from the formerly enslaved Africans, and apartheid laws to enforce social restraints that were not even practiced during open American slavery, in an attempt to take American society back to an idealized glorious time. Lynchings, race riots, deportation of Eastern Natives, wars/legal treaties against the Natives, backstabbing Catholics (Pope Letter to Jefferson Davis 1863), Jews, and successful Freedmen all galvanized many White Americans in the Colonial Mind Set. Again, it was ideal, but it was literally impractical to upkeep. It confined or limited many White Americans into a "White Supremacy mental block." This is the same Colonial Mindset in function today, and in various periods in the short American history, it has gotten the White American in trouble. For example, the Indian Wars coupled with western territorial expansion of a Christianized "Manifest Destiny" for a "promiseland," for the former European settlers. This brought major conflicts with the Natives, who fought against one sided Treaties, and violations by White settlers constantly encroaching on their lands in confiscation. During the Spanish American and both World Wars, the foreign concept of Whiteness, prevented African American soldiers from their duties as soldiers in the American & European spheres of war. This played out in the open, when White and Black soldiers got into battle domestically in Florida over the use of local children as "gator bait" for target training practice (Tampa Riot 1898), before shipping out to battle the Spanish in Cuba, as well as clashes in England and France (Battle of Bamber Bridge England 1943). It got so bad, the French commandeer, an African American Company to fight under the French Commanders and proved overwhelmingly the usefulness of Black soldiers on the Frontlines. (Harlem Hellcats 1917; Tuskeegee Airmen 1940) These examples served to debase the foundation of White Supremacy, and the French, who sees the American "whiteness," as without merit, ahistorical, simplistic, and unrefined, readily publishes the successes of these military units in securing the liberation of France, against the Germans, turning the tide of the war, on two separate occasions. Hollywood... To be edited and continued
The African American Post Civil Rights Era Assessment.
The African American community in the post modern era is under the legacy and control of various inputs from the past. To be edited and continued...
What is Happening? (International Colonized Mindset)
The African is not wholly and constantly engaged in their own positive development, but has rather been "leased," in huge segmented populations, for a very long protracted period, to develop other foreign interests, particularly, Islamic and European (The Eastern Asia interaction with Africa is not predatory, but cooperative and complimentary.). The entire population of capable homo sapiens from Khemet, now called Africa, has been subjugated for over 500 years by a combined Islamic and European colonization (the evidence is the Door of No Return in Ghana & the Slave Ports of Zanzibar), in an effort to restrict (") their accumulated experience and existence of hundreds of thousands of years and billions of individuals, into a widespread systematic caste system. This forced enslavement or constant state of oppression would be isolated to mere force and punitive campaigns, save the Islamic and European insatiable appetite for African resources, agricultural, mineral, land, intellectual, cultural, animal, historical, scientific, and our literally, physical bodies. Thus, the attempt to classify the African as inferior, or subhuman, has been debased, debunked, and refuted by the sheer explosion of knowledge, wealth, and contributions made in the various European or Arabic languages, expanding far beyond their original confides to, for example, the Spanish guitar (the guitar is a West African instrument refined in Spain after the Moor Conquests) or the use of hanna by Arabic and Indian maidens (native plant ink used by women of local Eastern Khemetic cultures). The most glaring contribution of Khemetic influence on Europe is in fact, their very use of communication through writing. The conquest of the Moors, which brought civilization or, in European History, the "Dark Ages," and African Empires in Europe from 622 CE -1492 CE, introduced the Alphabet and numerical system to Europe. One might ask, why isn't Roman numerals used academically in Europe? You will find, the West African Moors established the first Academies (Cordoba, Granada, Seville, Toledo) using the alphabet, numerical system, mathematical algebraic expressions & geometry, and formed the basis for the university system in Europe sparking the Renaissance. You find Julius Ceasar and Augustus Ceasar in the months of the year, but you find the system to be based on the Khemetic twelve month calendar. Therefore, the subjugation of the African by Europeans and Muslims, is in 1/3 part, by force and another 1/3 part by control of all their resources, intellectual, mineral, agricultural etc., and last part, the spread or dissemination of everything African. This is how the Ethiopian native, coffee becomes owned by an Arabic or London Based firm. This is how cocoa beans of Central America & Liberia are shipped, owned, and packaged in a name for company in Switzerland. But the question again, is why? How?
Rule By Fear, Lies, & Trickery
Is it military? Being physically crushed by a foreign army? Or is it the fear of being crushed by a foreign army? The propaganda imagery of death, rape, or prisons, which force the population to comply? Is it capitalism and complex financial instruments? Or is it the systematic confiscation of resources under the guise of dollarization or currencies? Many Africans Americans were brought to the colonies, as laborers and still largely, remain, laborers, trading their time and skills for paper money. They are enticed by poor living conditions to work for better station, teach their skills to others or learn new skills, and become conflicted by their need for basic necessities versus collectively fighting the plotted agenda against their community. In the slave quarters or segregated fields, selling out the community could get one literally stabbed in the back. Still, the collective resistance against being subjugated and enslaved to the system as a group of people, has lost its footing due to the enticement of paper green backs and shiny things. Selling out in 2025, can buy you a nice home and weapons to defend yourself from the community, you once sought to save, now as a paid informer & destroyer of your own people, just so on no longer had to live in poverty. The trick has been laid on Black men and women, greater than I. Preachers, musicians, drug dealers, Pimps & Players, gangsters, gang leaders, rappers, scammers, On the continent, Africans are literally trading cocoa beans for paper money, gold for paper money, uranium, cobalt, lithium, phosphate, premium oil, diamonds, opals, emeralds, copper and land for paper money? Its truly insane and one of the greatest tricks of the Ages. One must be tricked, naive, and mentally backwards to continue to allow such a massive robbery to occur, for generation after generation. A good example would be the gorgeous prostitute, misunderstanding the value of her body or, capitalizing on the market value of her body, trading sex for currency. The intangible for the tangible. In the right mental training, the gorgeous woman, would turn her femininity to matrimony, motherhood, and ownership of men and women. Does this suggest the African is naive, inferior, or simply, outflanked? As a accumulated group of various tribes, and a massive lost generation in a worldwide diaspora, they have offer no answer to the late military conquests of the Islamic Jihadists (flank or betrayal), and the European Christian Crusades. The sheer number of massacres, violence, and atrocities are unspoken and unheard. In Florida, knowledge of the Seminole Wars is all but forgotten. General Thomas Jesop say, "this is a Negro War." The massacres and burning of Maroon villages is lost to the elders past. The practices of slave breeding and trafficking in the Mid-Atlantic states to the slave quarters of New Orleans. There are military campaigns, and then there is sheer evil work, daily.
Thus, what is the slave or enslaved mindset? The psychological equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome, where a kidnapped victim, begins over a long period of time to develop, feelings of affinity and care for their kidnapper? Imagine being kidnapped by a raging lunatic and being forced to remain in a house for a lifetime with your assailant. Then, imagine having children in that household, with the assailant, and raising them under the guise of the power of death and fear. Imagine dying and your children being left in the household with the same assailant. Imagine your children were inherited to be owned by the direct children of the Assailant? And their children, and their children after them in the same situation, perpetually for five hundred years. Eventually, the story of how the children arrived would be lost and the true history erased. The hatred would be replaced with veneration and praise, for the blessings of a house and good life.
To Be Continued... (This article is still undergoing formatting and editing...)
Sources:
The Mid-Atlantic; The Equal Justice Initiative
Frederick Douglas Quotes
Alphabet of Ben Sirach
Popular & Pervasive Stereotypes of African Americans; Smithsonian
The Danger of Freedom, Equal Justice Initiative
Slave Resistance; A Caribbean Study
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