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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