Black People Made Decisions In The Past That Negatively Affect Us Today. But Here's Why Grace Is Due
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I bring two of the most heavily criticized decisions black people made in the past to the front of the conversation to ask myself and others some internal questions. Do we have enough understanding? Are we being unfair when criticizing them? Would we have made the same decisions given the same circumstances? It's a conversation worth having with oneself. I believe grace is due.
WE should start at the Top...
Black men have been mistreated for centuries ...
They are still here.. all that is needed is a HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS...
We’re gonna practice hatred and unforgiveness towards each other until we’ve self-destructed. It took about 400 yrs, but I guess the strategy of divide and conquer finally worked.
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The prevailing "Theory" is that we *_Objectively_* consider the outcomes of our, and others past decisions - AKA: HISTORY. A postmortem Forensic examination to determine _Cause & Effect:_ Critically identify the direct relationship between a past action or event and its consequence or result, so we can _Learn_ and apply this knowledge to future decisions. What's commonly known as the “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” antidote.
I like to say "Those that _Choose_ to ignore historical recurrence - the repetition of same events - deserve exactly what they get. Some famous scientist said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and again, with the expectation of a different outcome.
At what point does Grace end, and encouraging insanity begin?
I totally get it. I agree. The Civil Rights movement seemed like a good idea at the time, at least on its face. The civil rights movement was a social movement to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country. An attempt to shame the power-holding majority culture into behaving like compassionate and fair humans. Again, my favorite line: Taking a case for victimization to the very criminal who perpetrated the victimization...and expecting justice.
Factually speaking, it was the *Great Migration* OUT of the South
That's an interesting take. I will accept that our migration from the south from about half of us (you usually give a specific percentage) played a role in some civil rights legislation being pushed forward. I agree that it was 100% because of "us". However, I disagree that that action stood alone as the reason why. I would argue that regardless of the action that came to follow, it was the fact that so many of "us" were in unison on major decisions that played the biggest role in creating the changes that would come. As previously stated, strength in numbers. It wasn't just the willingness of about half of us to migrate, but also the willingness of those who didn't migrate to stand together and march with a real and achievable agenda, perform effective boycotts, host sit-ins, and just otherwise disrupt sh*t. As you've stated previously, there was a "we" back then, and because of that, "we" got sh*t done. It's certainly wasn't the "do what's best for just me" attitude that many individuals display today.
@@realityisundefeated You of all people, a _Union Man,_ clearly understands how "starving the Capitalist of Labor" - I think you guys refer to that as going on Strike? - is the only non-violent method that will bring them to their knees. The Only way. And like a Union, everybody must be in flawless _Unison_ in order to leverage that power. When 95% of all of "us" lived in the Southern States at the turn of the 20th Century, that was still predominantly agricultural, and overwhelmingly dependent upon the sale of staples to a world market, and "we" represented 80% of the _Production_ labor for the entire industry - near free labor based on the nuevo-slavery rebranded as "sharecropping" - and half of "us" disappeared?? "We" literally bankrupted the Southern States, and it shows to this day. The South is still poorer than the rest of the Country.
I will share with you what I have come to understand about the pathology of the Western Culture:
Their whole peculiar civilization developed in such a way that has made lying, dishonesty, barbaric violence, and pillage an inevitability. They've never known how to assign value properly and they built their whole society and their whole character on this confusion. This is why they believe in these 3 basic tenants of personal validation:
1.) Wealth constitutes personal worth,
2.) Violence constitutes strength, and
3.) Conquest constitutes "Devine" superiority. (a superiority that _Inherently_ places them at the top levels of the Caste System.)
Those of the Western culture retain a generational superficiality in their understanding of the world. There's no way to divorce Western so-called civilization and colonization from their Origins, their roots, and in fact their whole development. Items #2, and #3 above include Colonialism, colonization, imperialism, ethnic Supremacy, slavery, and so on. These are all manifestations of item #1 above - which supports the essential feature [and hard definition] of capitalism; where the _Only_ motive is to make a profit.
It is this expression that forms the root basis of Western civilization. All originating from their wrong assignment of value.
Even if "we" were Unified today, "We" no longer have the leverage of labor. "We" have no avenues of real (non-violent) leverage. Think about it, what if GM and Ford no longer operated manufacturing plants in the U.S., what "leverage" would the UAW have? None. Take this thought experiment a step further...GM and Ford closed down all of their domestic plants, and the UAW comes to GM and Ford seeking that they re-open the plants again...AND provide the Union members with *Reparations!* As long as GM and Ford are making profits, the UAW has no leverage.
At that moment in the 1950's, instead of listening to the promise, "we" should have closed "our" ranks even tighter, refused the seduction, and banded together to capitalize "our" own GM and Ford's. But 400 years of subjugation and debasement will do a number on any group.
I wish I could remember the documentary but Black women didn’t give up their men the men where put in a situation where they couldn’t take care of family so the men urged the women to take the housing while low key living there until caught.
I believe a lot of that was in play. I saw it in my home in the early 90s with Section 8. My mom's boyfriend at the time had to put all his clothes in the car when it was time for an inspection. So I can definitely see how we would've finessed the benefits back then also.
Black women gave up their men for welfare, and THEN became the most disingenuous excuse makers on planet earth. No matter what black men were going thru, if you opened your legs to them, you should have stayed with them, encouraged their greatness, and kept your families in tact. Period 🎯 it’s 💯% on black women and their extremely misguided choices. You did it to yourselves. By choice
This is exactly right. I remember my aunt having to say that her and her husband were separated and he had to disappear when it was time for inspection.
@Blsvkdove... Having been a child during those early years, I can honestly state that you are stating nothing but the truth.
The truth is that Black women did as they were encouraged to do... And by many of the very black men whose sons/grandsons now turn around as their accusers!! 😄
No! No! Very few women just "went for the gold". Instead (in the early 60's) much of the adult black community (in the north - at least) spoke much of "getting over on 'da man' " (who was the government in the face of "the white man'). In so doing, they (both parties) were short-sighted and failed to see at what cost it would be to the futures of their children.
All that to say?
It took.about a decade for the erosion to start. For there to be some unspoken thread (particularly with teenage girls) that, if you got pregnant, the government would take care of you. Not only give you WIC and food stamps but also welfare ("public assistance") and put you in housing.
And most of the men?
They didn't care. Many (but not all) of them were rolling stones like the father of Dick Gregory, and even if most of them were raised in a 2 parent household?
What they'd lost most of all had little to nothing to do with poverty but a steady turning away from God.
The deterioration of turning from God lead to increased immorality (not that there hadn't been any) and with it came a push away from ethics, integrity, and diminished concern over what black society deemed proper.
Add to that the crack drug crisis of the 80s, a further lack of shame, gang violence, rebellious rap and hip hop lyrics, an elevated sense of what it what it meant to be black, and ever decreasing morals (across the board)????
I cannot be the only person who watches black (teenagers and adults) go into places, strip them down like locusts, walk out the door as I wonder, "Who raised them?" in utter amazement.
Who raised them?
Sin and the world raised them -- that is who. 😞
But so many of us have volunteered for that assignment and as, having been freed from the shackles of slavery, we remain captured by our thinking???
There was a time when we might have hoped that education would change things but as (over the last few years) I have watched the antics of many of "the educated" (both in government, politics and the church)?????
I would say that while most blacks (in the 60s) thought they were getting over "da man", the truth is that it backfired and, instead, we are bringing to an end our own destruction. 😞
May God show mercy to those with the courage to put to death their "stinking thinking" and ask to have their eyes fully opened and hearts softened.
If we don't?
As Black Americans we (those of us who are innocent and all the rest) will be the first to suffer as life here in America (a better land than many I have visited) begins to implode.
@@dcarr-kr7hk very well said!
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THE WORD SHOULD BE- AFFECT- NOT EFFECT!!!
You are correct.
Keep speaking these truths 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Always.
@chrismiller755... Based on my experiences during the time, there is little truth in it. Perhaps it depends upon the community you were in. (I lived in a poor one.)
Nice video. Overall how was your 2020?
Overall, it was an enviable experience, from my perspective, of course. I didn't lose anyone close to me, and I got to spend a lot of time with the people I love and care about. My income was effectively cut in half, but as I explained in a previous video, I had taken a major loss in 2019, so I was already living below my means, so it didn't sting any. I was also exposed to my weakness at the time. All of my skill sets required access to outside, so while others made a lot of money during the situation, I had to accept what the government was giving. But today, including content, I have 3 separate incomes that are generated from home.
Y’all still spreading that lie
This is a blatant lie
What part?