What are YOU thinking? – PART 1 So . . . what are we out here thinking? Are we even processing anything or are we just running in circles looking for the next ‘get over thing’? Are you ‘down’/involved as long as you can ‘get over’? (“I’m a Moor and I don’t pay no taxes” or “I’m a Moor and I don’t need no driver’s license” or “I’m a Moor and don’t no cop tell me what to do” - sound familiar?) This casual discussion seeks to weed out the apprehensions, fears, flags/tags, side-eye-views, doubts, and confusion we have on ‘who are we?’, ‘where are we?’, (and adding humor in this, as Richard Pryor joked . . . ‘how do we get to Detroit?’, lol – making light/fun of the migration period/trend of southern folk moving to the northern areas seeking jobs, homes, new beginnings during the early industrial age in North America). Somebody is playing us OUT!!! The picture is big but broken into many small pieces that are now a hard puzzle few people have the desire to match back up. People rather cling to a fake story for comfort sake then to put the picture together and be grown women and men and take responsibility for what the picture reveals. The story of negro, black, and colored people has always been as fake as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy. “This ain’t really your life, ain’t really your life, ain’t really ain’t nothing but a movie” – Quote by Gil Scott-Heron from song/poem entitled, “B-Movie” Many of us in the United States do not have an honest dialogue with more informed people nor do we even look to verify the information we hear. We just run and freestyle off of pieces of information and it becomes nothing more than gossip instead of useful discussion. “. . . we don’t always have all the facts. Many times we confuse facts with theories, outward appearances, or worse yet, assumptions.” – Quote by Dennis Kimbro In this ‘electrified age’ where information is truly available in the palm of our hands by way of smart phones, tablets, & internet, there are many of us still trying to figure out why our people are STILL in a slave condition. We look FREE, we act FREE but we are not a collective of FREE people solving challenges like nations of people do. We argue, we talk, we pay people to talk to us, we watch movies/videos to get us to thinking YET, there is more confusion on the answer to a question asked before Malcolm X even said one word on this earth. The question is – “WHO ARE WE”? One day, we are Carthaginians, one day we are Phoenicians, in time we are Moors, then AFTER we lost the WAR in Spain we became negro, black, Afro, colored, African-American, and plenty of other labels. Now if you were to take any of this serious, how do you even look to decide what to call yourself? One thing to ponder about - how did we get to this point? History says we were GREAT! We were Queens, we were Kings, we ran countries, we invented countless items that improved the world, we taught the world how to think better, eat better, dress better, live better, YET look at us now – lost, dazed, confused, deranged, and PLAYED OUT!!! “We have been so deceived for too long!” – Quote by Brother Marcus Garvey during a speech on June 25, 1923 A.D. When people don’t have a sense of who they are, they are liable to fall victim to the whims, labels, perversions, and anger of other people. In research you will find various names the unconscious Moors have been referred to in the United States of America - - negroes; colored folks; black people; Ethiopians; coons; lint heads; Afro-Americans; high pockets; jigaboos; spades; jungle bunnies; uncle toms; aunt jemimas; little black sambos; eggplants; African-Americans; niggers; and anything else that deludes to slavery. With all these phrases, the question to ask yourself . . . are there really people that ARE these labels? Where did these phrases come from? Why do people continue to cling to the use of these phrases when we are supposed to be in the era of enlightenment? “The white man calls the negro ‘nigger’ and yet the negro accepts it even to the length of calling himself so. . . The negro is a mimic. He has the same amount of reasoning power as a poll-parrot. . . In Europe, the inhabitants do not think of themselves as white men, but as Germans, Frenchmen, etc.” – Quote from book, From ‘Superman’ to Man by J.A. (Joel Augustus) Rogers
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