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I’ve said this a million times: The only thing wrong with Black folks is how many of us think there’s something wrong with us. People can’t organize if they’ve internalized the myth of their own inferiority and the superiority of their oppressors...
...I don’t even know where to attack this from. Consider the evidence, the evidence. Not some occult Hoteppery, but the books in your local library. All the evidence of Black inferiority and White superiority you think you know is false, fake, hokum, bullshit, garbage...
...I guess we should take the matter at hand first: Poor people have worse health, they have in every society there has ever been. They eat worse food because that’s what they can afford, they get the worst, most sickening jobs because rich people don’t want them...
...They don’t go to the gym because they don’t have the disposable income and its all they can manage mentally and spiritually to drag themselves back into their hell holes of employment as it is. Their neighborhoods are more unsafe...
...How often do we joke about White people jogging as a sign of gentrification? That’s why, safer streets. Poor people get the filthiest water, the worst air. Poverty kills people, slowly most of the time, then with disturbing rapidity...
...Why is Black America disproportionately poor? Because Whites have spent 400 years keeping us poor. But let’s say you acknowledge that, surely we only got into the White man’s power because we were naked stone age savages who White men caught with nets right?...
...I posit, the the reason a lot of folks can acknowledge discrimination and still hold onto the idea that there’s something wrong with us goes back to the Middle Passage, the assumption is Whites just outsmarted us...
...Folks don’t know Black history, they don’t know African history, they don’t know White history, so they buy Whitey’s bullshit by the shovel full. They don’t know the west coast of Africa was full of powerful states that casually slapped Europeans around for two centuries...
...They don’t know that it took 200 years of industrialization fueled by slavery to finally put Europeans in a position to be able to rule Africans on our own ground. They don’t know that slaves were only taken from Africa because Africa happened to have massive slave markets...
...Africa happened to have massive slave markets because Africa had a low population density relative to its landmass, which meant capturing people to work your land was a greater priority than capturing land for your people to work...
...Consequently, since humans as a commodity were on offer, Europeans and Arabs took advantage. Europeans then used this new wealth to turn around and colonize Africa. It wasn’t a meeting between modern Western technology and “primitive Africans,” that launched the slave trade...
...Which brings me to my next, Africa’s population density was low because Africa is a really hard place to survive, you must be at the top of your game. I’ve dispelled in a thread the idea that Africa was an outdoor grocery store that didn’t tax our brains and made us stupid...
...I also take on the myth that Europe was an arctic hellscape that forced the European to develop intellectual superiority and the racist mythology around the exodus from Africa: https://twitter.com/negrosubversive/status/1069959833078718464?s=21 https://twitter.com/negrosubversive/status/1069959833078718464
...I’ve beaten this drum so much and so enthusiastically on here and in person that it’s a miracle it hasn’t kicked my ass back. A very short series of question will reveal that 90% of us are carrying around in our heads a library full of the White man’s lies...
...Whitey ain’t superior, Whitey ain’t impressive, Whitey ain’t all that bright, Whitey is the beneficiary of some happy historical accidents and has been building on them for half a millennium. There’s a whole false system and model of reality behind self hatred...
...Ok, I’m gonna stop before I get onto something else. Just stop looking down on your own people and up to people whose ancestors spent centuries trying to figure out which end of the horse to penetrate.
