View Poll Results: Most potent tool of slavery
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Thread: Most potent tool of slavery
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12-30-2013 #11
Re: Most potent tool of slavery
I think it's important to point out that while all the afore mentioned tools were indeed powerful & potent, none of them alone or in tandem was ultimately successful (as slavery itself was doomed to failure though it took 400 years to kill [overall] in this hemisphere[Western]). Many of these tools were, in fact, double-edged and caused as much harm to the majority/master-class as to the enslaved. The poor white[so called "trash"] was often as uneducated as the slaves themselves & held in a worse system of degradation because of the reliance on forced-labor-for profit in both agriculture & trades. Violence could just as easily be utilized by the oppressed as a weapon( see the numerous revolts in Hait, Jamaica, and the other islands as well as the Gabriel Prosser, Denemark Prossey & Nat Turner rebellions in our own country.) It was often said that no slave owner slept soundly. As to religion, once our people embraced Christianity, we used it as a weapon of resistance against our oppressor; often the story of the Exodus & the loving, emancipating embrace of a Savior in a world beyond the immediate mortal/material plane was used to show the hypocrisy of "masters" willing to defy the rule of "love thy neighbor as thyself" for comfort & profit.Religion became a means to resist. & of course the Church became the bedrock of the Black Community(as would be clearly evident in the post-Emancipation Jim Crow years, the Great Migration North & the Civil Rights Struggle.)
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01-02-2014 #12
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Re: Most potent tool of slavery
All slavery was not created equal. Why do you think the idea of "superiority" exists in slaves, in some human beings but not all? That is right, they are uneducated. Education is the only weapon you will ever be able to wield endlessly. Religion, violence, superiority, the lack of identity. These are all results of being uneducated. Look at the American public schools, the hispanic schools get the second hand me downs, the black schools get the third hand me downs. Nobody wants to teach in inner-city schools, the black community is being conditioned to hate education. Why? Education is the only thing that will set all impoverished communities free, yet the impoverished can't help but shame each other for trying to remove themselves from the very situation they all hate.
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01-02-2014 #13
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01-02-2014 #14
Re: Most potent tool of slavery
I agree. One issue I see in education, is that it is culturally biased. Youth outside of the dominant culture, often feel disenfranchised. One of the main purposes of education is to bring about critical thinking. Shakespeare's works are, often used for this purpose. I respect him, but I also believe the works and image of Beyonce could be used for critical analysis, as just one example. And it would have the double benefit of teaching youth to look beyond current media images, such as gangster rap. Many studies show that youth trained in music do better at math. Yet schools today are dropping music programs to concentrate on proficiency tests. Rather than broadening approaches to education, it is actually narrowing the focus, compared the education of my youth. This is actually excluding more youth, and returning the US to it's slave roots. It has been claimed more Black males are in jailed, or otherwise involved with the justice than were enslaved in 1850.
This discussion is much need today. Thanks all, for participating.
Yes the benefits of education to a productive society, have been sublimated to channeling money to the investment class.
Last edited by yodajazz; 01-02-2014 at 04:25 AM.
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01-02-2014 #15
Re: Most potent tool of slavery
Actually, I'm not...[& I'm not just referring to that business with the 13th & 14th Amendments] I never went in for the whole "student loan" thing in college; I did one year at a private liberal-arts university in Va. on Mom & Dad[the remainder at a State College in Md. out of my own pocket a la working part-time] Haven't owned plastic in years, happily drive a Chevy Impala & follow the sage advice of Tyler Durden: no more "working jobs I hate to buy shit I don't need"[hawked to me incessantly by greedy marketeers like the ones I used to work for]...
Yeah I spotted the trap long ago...
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