FACING THE HORORS OF SLAVERY
What do you mean? I am not hiding from slavery! I don’t know why you say that! You are crazy!
FACING THE HORRORS OF ENSLAVEMENT
Most blacks shun slavery. However, if confronted with such a statement, they will say, “I don’t hide from slavery. I just don’t care to talk about it because it’s in the past. Same response white people give… but for very different reasons.
White Americans use the phrase because it tramples on their sense of morality. Slavery was cruel, inhumane and animalistic. Whites want to be viewed as loving, kind and humane. Blacks on the other hand, run away from slavery because they feel shame, guilt and “less than.” Today, because of the many accomplishments, upper class blacks feel in many instances, that “They have arrived.”
SERVITUDE AND BONDAGE
Slavery presents a problem for many Americans. It reminds us of the darkest days in America. It engenders inhumane treatment for some and a wishful return to it for others. But . . . it must be looked at for what it was and denounced for the remnants of it today.
DENIAL OF ENSLAVEMENT
When my book An American Story: My Family and Yours was released, a relative told me, “I don’t want to talk about slavery… that’s living in the past. I want to focus on today. We need to stop talking about what other people have done to us, and start doing for ourselves.”
Sound familiar… that is exactly what many whites say. Either this person has been strongly influenced by the white mentality and believes what they believe or, he’s hiding. Slavery was and is America’s conscious desire to dehumanize part of its inhabitants, deny them citizenship and spread inequality and discrimination. It was racist, separative and exhibited “white supremacy,” but it is part of who we are. I could agree with my relative more if those same attitudes about slavery did not exist today. The Trump administration sanctioned those same values, voiced them, established polices to support and live them! That’s the main reason “slavery is not in the past!” Wake up people!
COMING TO GRIPS WITH BONDAGE
Calling all African Americans! Face your inner demons! Admit: Blacks Shun Slavery! Recognize you have been brain-washed! There is nothing to be ashamed of. We are not “less than,” inferior, lazy with no business aptitude. We have the same qualities as white, blue, green and yellow people. Don’t buy into that inferiority complex! God made “man in the image and likeness” of Himself, not the “white man in the image and likeness of Himself.” Don’t believe the lie that has haunted African Americans for over 250 years. We are what we believe!
” An American Story” Looks at Slavery
One of the reasons I wrote the book “An American Story: My Family and Yours” is to look at slavery from many aspects. It analyzes the impact slavery had and still has on both blacks and whites.
We must break free from the schisms of the past. Read and understand the words of the greatest man who walked the face of the earth–Jesus, who said, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid (John 14:27).
The world says freedom is external, Jesus preached it is internal. The world says be afraid of what the laws and lack of civil rights can do to you, Jesus preached “Be not afraid.” Fear shocks the consciousness and rapes the soul. The man of God’s creation is neither black or white…he is spiritual.
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I know my people were slaves. But I know some who say their family never was. I need receipts on that. And if not what roll did ur people play in the fight for freedom. Being poor black and at the will of white Jim Crow America was no easy thing don’t care how mean you supposedly were according to family history. That’s family and black community history. Too mean to be slaves or bound by Jim Crow or Black Codes I have a hard time believing Erving was a thing. Not wanting to acknowledge the infringement on ones civil rights is something else. I respect the fact they may want anonymity but don’t deny to your family their true background when it comes to researching where you come from and how you came to be. If you are of African decent you came by way of a ship. It’s a matter of your status when you got here and how your family maintained that status over 400 years of persecution.
Words of wisdom to live by.