here is what I said in another thread
If you'd recall in my post that I said African Americans did not create that mentality by themselves. It was inflicted by racist, scared and ignorant whites who were intimidated by blacks. That is why slave masters were affraid of blacks reading, because there scared, that is why the Jim Crow Law came into affect, thats because they were scared. They needed something to feel better than blacks. I also mentioned that the African American people were a mentally whipped group of people.
Even though I am African and black, you nor I may never fully understand what it is like to be an African American in this country, a place where they're suppose to call home. If this country is suppose to be there home it is one uncomfortable ass home....lol!!
Some people tell African Americans that mention the inequalities in this country to "Go back to Africa"....A place that they once knew, but is now a stranger to them. For the most part African Americans can not even trace back there roots in Africa, losing apart of themselves. I can trace back my roots down to as far as I want....
You and I could say "Well you could never go anywhere if you believe that, your being held back". Remember, we are looking at it from an outsiders perspective. Our minds have not mentally tapped into an African American psychy. However we could read books by intelligent African American Men to understand what is going on in the community from there perspective, and what we need to do to be apart of that solution. If we turn our backs from it we are just as much the contributors indirectly to there pain and suffering instead of being part of the solution.
I think the problem is that people do not understand the severity of slavery and the post-slavery oppression has had on the African American Community. If my people were stripped of ones culture, enslaved, oppressed, raped, you better believe I would feel like shit in this country. 200 + years of torture, and 70 + years of the Jim crow law will have an affect on people. Because of the psychological affects of slavery on Africans, we have light skinned blacks whether they are from Jamaica, Barbados or here in America that believe that there better than dark skinned blacks. We have blacks in America or even in Jamaica trying to bleach there skin to be as light as possible. These are the fraction of the damages slavery has had on blacks today and of course in the past.
