Many have expressed objection to the male characters of "preacher," "Mr." and "Albert"etc., in Novel "The Color Purple," as a "brutal misrepresentation" of the Afrikan male image and the relationships of the African family... Yet, you can't tell me that what was depicted in this novel did not go on for real in our communities in the US,-then and now!
The point I am making is, this US race supremacy society has played a demonic role in maintaining a culture of enslaved and downtrodden people depleting their economic capacities, and rendering them from an early age through the school to prison pipeline and the prison industrial complex, Illegal Drugs,poisoned and nutrient depleted foods to foster care and low wage jobs, then to release them back into their families and neighborhoods. The traumatized, perverted, and depraved ACTIONS that are continuing to metastasize and take place on our Men, Women, Youth, and Elderly of our communities in a never ending cycle! We have been severely suffering with PTSD- Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder! We continue to pass down a legacy of sick behaviors onto our girls and boys, who grow up to act out these illness in so many ways! We keep our secrets, hidden and unchecked. We also normalize these demented behaviors, as if these dysfunctions are accepted and consensual! It is NOT normal for women or men to be beaten, and for girls and boys to be molested and raped! WE ARE DOING THIS TO EACH OTHER! Black on Black! By our loved ones and family, the very people whom we should trust! So the physical chains are off but our minds are still in shackles. We have racism- Yet now we lynch ourselves! Our men and women are also being released from prison, only to return to our communities to act out demented acts on their families, that they learned while they were incarcerated. Statistically, white males, above all other males of any race, have sustained the highest rate of incest, rape and abuse. So, it is not in our nature as a people to treat our women and children in this way.
I've been watching John Henrik Clarke's film "Christianity Before Christ." He made a profound statement about the order and civility found throughout the African diaspora. He stated that there was no word for "orphanage" in their language because their communities embraced all children. They did not have "old folks homes" because our elders' leadership was highly regarded and respected and they were treasured within their own communities. There was no word for "Prison," or "mental institution." Women could walk safely down the streets, Children had freedom to roam...They were in their own natural element, by their own design...
Our people who are community leaders, pastors, etc... are getting away with committing dysfunctional acts of incest, molestation and abuse FOR YEARS without any accountability or responsibility for their actions by family or community! From the pulpits of "black" churches, they espouse the platitudes and edicts of their slave-masters, who taught them their religion. The act of beating our children, is still thought of as an acceptable discipline and determent. We perpetuate the idea of beating the child so that the slave master won't have to. This continues the status quote of slave mentality. There is no counsel of elders to stop a man or woman from beating their spouse or child. We don't practice our rites of passage and initiation for our children, We live in a community of strangers toward each other.
To continue the status quo, the few Black businesses that exist in African American neighborhoods, provide inferior-overpriced goods services, often bought wholesale from alien producers and manufactures, and not from the community of African Americans or even African resources.. to their own people, and there is no community actions to regulate this. Then, we look outside our community for assistance -this only adds to the problem. -the city police, county and state offices don't have our best interest in their minds. In fact, all of the outward systems promote and perpetuate the poverty and school to prison pipeline. Other cultures have councils in place- Hispanic, Oriental, Muslim... We are still trapped in an alien assimilated mind and way of life. This "euro", middle class value system is an inappropriate model to follow.
One solution is to return to our own Matriarchal, communal, moral, cooperative familiar ways and Live autonomously and divest completely from our oppressor's system. The knowledge is out there now, in abundance.
Marcus Garvey was on the right path- (that is why they imprisoned and subsequently exiled him unto death!) We have taken on the alien nature of our oppressor! It is NOT OUR NATURE to be abusive, greedy, materialistic, and competitive!
We need to grow our own food , speak our own language and make our own toilet paper!
We will only survive if we return to our original roots to CO-EXIST with this planet! We don't own the earth-We have no right to take without asking(manifest destiny.) If we continue we will be expelled like any virus!
