Y’all know I love the history of African Americans. I study them a great deal. I listen to the thought leaders from the black community like Prof. Thomas Sowell btw he’s got a new documentary out, for those of you who are his fans. Cornell West, James Baldwin among others.
As Africans we are removed from the results of slavery or in our case colonialism. Our ancestors were slaves of the colonizers but in their own land. They were the majority and as they say there’s safety in numbers even when subjugated. They did not have any traumatic surplanting to foreign lands where they lost their identity and language and roots.
African Americans on the other hand are a minority. I believe about 13% of the population. African Americans are concentrated in inner city ghettos, what they call ghettos. The equivalent would be slums or shanties where large numbers are concentrated in poor neighborhoods. As underdogs, black Americans especially males have been forced to resort to underground economies like illegal gun running equivalent of small arms proliferation in the African context. Drug dealing and pimping.
Pimping is a very interesting culture. The Genesis of pimping was during slavery where if a white master took a liking to your wife and you comply then you would get preferential treatment for sharing your wife with the master. In marriage we find alot of parallels with the power structures of slavery, taking the name and identity of your master/husband and bearing offspring with the same surname. The white man recognized that power structure in marriage and therefore gave the husband and father of the black women he wanted the opportunity to cooperate or be killed. If the men complied they received preferential treatment. The defiant ones went through public buck breaking or feminization by rape by the white masters and if that did not work to subjugate the man he would be lynched as an example to the other black men that insubordination would not be tolerated. This is the real Genesis of the pimp Culture we see glorified in hip hop and rap. By both male and female rappers.
In poor communities the world over exploitation and predation is a way of life. So pimping actually targets vulnerable people usually children who have run away from home to escape abuse, women who are addicted to drugs, homeless, poor and disposed women and children.
The techniques used during slavery to break and subjugate blacks are the same methods used by pimps. Kidnapping or selling a woman whose trust you have won to a pimp, the same way, Africans were lured by people they trust or kidnapped then sold to the whites abode slave ships. Transportation to different states to ensure that the child/woman is not familiar with the environment and has no roots in the area to ensure that they cannot escape. The beating of the child/female prostitute if they do not reach the quotas, just as blacks would be beaten for not picking enough cotton to meet the quotas set by their masters.
There was also branding where slaves were branded with hot iron with the initials of their master, equivalent to tattooing of the prostitute with the pimps name. Dependency on the pimp via drug addiction, slave masters ensured that black slaves could not read and write or have any sense of independence to ensure dependency.
Human trafficking is the new slavery and it is a billion dollar industry. Essentially white nations perpetuate a more acceptable form of subjugation like neo colonialism in Africa where governments are like the prefects who facilitate the white nation’s and corporations to loot resources that benefit the white nations and the impoverishment of black Americans and incarceration to offer free labor to various white owned corporations. For 13% of the population to make up 60% of the prison population says alot.
How society works is capitalist and subjugation of one group by the other to form a hierarchy. Blacks are subjugated by whites. Women are subjugated by men. The poor are subjugated by the wealthy. The people who own 90% of the world’s wealth do not exceed 400 people. The remaining billions are living off the 10%. If you are part of the subjugated groups you will have a hard time escaping subjugation particularly if you belong to the lower echelons of the subjugated groups. Btw subjugation is so engrained in the minds of subjugated groups that it feels abnormal not follow the oppressors script. It’s a century old Stolkholm syndrome. The fact is that very few humans engage critical thinking most just follow the script they find. If you are black or if you are a woman you are being pimped. Your script is to be the beach or the punda of the white nation’s or to men especially once you enter formal arrangements with your oppressors. Women are subjugated by men in various non contractual interactions or arrangements such as if a man buys a woman food, alcohol or a phone and some perfume then she has taken the bait and has no choice but to rudisha mkono by having sex with the guy and is how date rape happens or to be exclusive to the guy meaning that if she takes the goodies and dates other men it’s OK to buy an axe and chop her up with it or even if the guy has never even bought you a sweet but you end up alone with him, you have to give him sex or he will rape you bcz what do you as a subjugated class expect when you are alone with a person who you know wants sex from you and is stronger than you but when the subjugation is formalised and the subjugating contract is sanctioned by the state it is looked upon as a benevolent dictatorship. The same way dependency on foreign aid is looked at as a benevolent dictatorship anyone would be lucky to have. Marriage and dependency on foreign aid manifests as the indentured servitude it is after the excitement dies down. If you look at global cashflows you will shocked to see that the beneficiaries of the current system is not the 3rd world countries receiving the so called Aid as we have been made to believe . It’s actually the first world country who benefit most. Same way it looks like a man is doing the woman a favor to marry her, only for it to end up as beneficial to only one person who is not the woman. The same way we as 3rd world glorify foreign aid and want it so much only to later realize it is a trap to enslave us.
The methodology is the same across the board. Apparently human nature is more predictable than it appears. Anytime you are about to be taken advantage of, you will always be shown how you are the main beneficiary and the other party is the benevolent one. Always without fail, it always ends up to be the opposite. From pimping, to gambling, to marriage, to foreign aid to pyramid schemes the ruse is always the same.
As I study more of the black American history and culture I understand society alot better. Black American society is a microcosm of the wider contextual framework of society as we know it. The aspect I am currently studying is the brainwashing of the black American community via pop culture, celebrated icons and hip hop culture. Blacks are constantly told that their niche is to be a sports person or an entertainer which is what blacks were allowed to excel in in the era of slavery. However the real money making aspects such as owning teams and record labels is dominated by whites. Noam Chomsky explains how society is brainwashed via media. In the black community it is on steroids. Anyway, that is another topic for another day.
