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 now live 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 dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars
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 that 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, Dubois said that 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
that has 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 to work together on any project or endeavour of
substance. When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos
get in the way of their 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, while they 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 (TEAM)!
They do not understand that 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 rooms.
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 which 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!!!!'
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