This was forwarded by a friend. This might be offensive to some and for sure
raise your BP but will make one start thinking twice! Check to see if the
same scenario applies to Africans all over the Globe?
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This is some food for thought circulating the Net! It's a heavvvvy piece
about our black brothers and sisters, which was written by a Caucasian.

> > > THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES!
We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of
physical slavery. Look at the current methods of containment they use on
themselves:
IGNORANCE, GREED, SELFISHNESS.
Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said,
"The best way to hide something from black people is to put it in a book."
We live now in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read
any book on any subject, through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet
they refuse to read.
There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble and
Amazon.com, not to mention their own Black bookstores, that provide solid
blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have been their fight
all along), but few read consistently, if at all.
GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition
of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal.
Last year, they spent $10 billion during Christmas, out of their $450
billion in total yearly income (2.22%). Any of us can use them as our target
market, for any business venture we care to dream up, no matter how
outlandish. They will buy into it.
Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed.
They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing.
They would rather buy some new sneaker than invest in starting a business.
Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU. And they
still think having a Mercedes and a big house gives them "status" or that
they have achieved the American dream. They are fools!
The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because their greed
holds them back from collectively making better communities. With the help
of BET and the rest of their black media that often broadcasts destructive
images into their own homes, we will continue to see huge profits like those
of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn't
want their money. And look at how the fools spend more with him than ever
before!) They'll
continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the
profits from our businesses that we market to them.

SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major
ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, W.E.B. Dubois, said
there was an innate division in their culture. A "Talented Tenth," he called
it. He was
correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture who have
achieved some "form" of success. However, that segment missed the fullness
of his work; they didn't read that the "Talented Tenth" was then responsible
to aid the "Non-Talented Ninety Percent" in achieving a better life.
Instead, that segment has created another class, a buppie class that looks
down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner. They will never
achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them to be able work
together on any project or endeavor of substance.
When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way
of the goal. Their so-called help organizations seem to only want to promote
their name without making any real change in their community.
They are content to sit in conferences and conventions, in our hotels, and
talk about what they will do, and award plaques to the best speakers, not
the best doers.
Is there no end to their selfishness? They steadfastly refuse to see that
TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE!
They do not understand they are no better than each other because of what
they own. In fact, most of those buppies are but one or two paychecks away
from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices
and our boardrooms.
Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to read,
continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are "helping"
their communities by paying dues to organizations that do little other than
hold lavish conventions in our hotels.
By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter.
Remember,
THEY DON'T READ!!

(Prove them wrong. Please pass this on!)

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