Kanye West ~ Slavery Was a Choice ~ They are really starting to piss me off with this BS too. I am about to let one rip. First, to refer to slavery as a choice is very disrespectful to our ancestors. How can such a statement honor our ancestors and acknowledge the atrocities they have suffered at the hands of our enemy. The power of choice is bolstered by the number of choices (options) you have. Pick cotton or die does not leave much to consider. It is like saying everyone chose to go to prison without considering the options they had before them to feed their families (but multiply that by a million).
What is evident is that none of the ones talking about options would have chosen death back then because they won’t even stand up the tyranny that we face now on a daily basis. Hell, most of them get up every day and go into a job that they literally hate and kiss the ass of a boss that disrespects, overuses, underpays, and marginalizes them. Do we really want to talk about choices?
We have our women getting beaten and undressed in public and you mean to tell me there was not one Black man in there to defend her? But you are going to stand up against a whip and rope that almost always meant death? GTFOOHWTBS!
We are so immersed in celebrity worship that we don’t have the slightest capability to think for ourselves. I bet you the Native Americans aren’t sitting up talking about how millions of them chose to die, have their entire food supply slaughtered, wrap up in blankets filled with smallpox, etc. I bet you will never hear a Jew say that even one of their members chose to be rounded up and put in concentration camps. Only a colonized mind would frame slavery as a choice — using a technical definition to underwrite their postulation.
You will never be able to properly contextualize or frame a complex reality with a simplified technical definition. That is a strategy that they have used against incessantly. If we are not careful, they will have us believe that our ancestors rented ships to come over and take up the role of subservience just to be a part of American Dream.
“The essence of power is the ability to define someone else’s reality and make them live according to that definition as though it were a definition of their own choosing.” ~ Dr. Wade W. Nobles
What is hilarious is the fact that this idiot keeps bolstering about free thinking while regurgitating an idea subliminally submitted to him by someone else.
“If you don’t understand white supremacy/ racism, everything that you do understand will only confuse you..” Neely Fuller Jr.
Not one of these idiots backing that statement has studied social conditioning, social engineering, learned helplessness, vicarious learned helplessness, subliminal messaging, or any of the other methods used to convince Blacks in this country that the position they hold is the one they deserve.
In the words of one of my most admired ancestors, “Who taught you to hate yourselves.” (Malcolm X)
We are so consumed with celebrity worship that our vicarious reality will not allow us to see them assaulted because assaulting them is assaulting us. I wish that many of these Black men caping for Kanye West would defend and protect the Black woman with the same ferocity. There are a few of us out there, but I don’t see these freethought masters on deck.
Every time we get these evil MFs on the ropes, here comes one of their mouthpieces in Blackface attempting to alleviate the pressure. I don’t use Slavery as an excuse nor a crutch, but I damn sure use it as motivation and a warning of what these bastards are capable of.
No one chooses to be kidnapped and separated from their family and villages and taken to a foreign land to become chattel — surrendering all of their freedom and power. Those born into slavery were socialized to believe that slavery was simply the life they were given. They were not told about the choices that existed, so in reality, those choices did not exist.
When I examine the choices that my ancestors made, I see the choice to choose life over death. I see the choice to hope for something better for their progeny. How does such a statement, presented by Kanye West, honor our ancestors and the atrocities they suffered at the hands of White America? It is time that we stop allowing others to write, frame and contextualize the narrative of our history in ways that don’t serve our interests. ~ Rick Wallace, Ph.D., Psy.D.
Wendell Pierce’s sums it up quite proficiently!
“When you hear about slavery for 400 years … for 400 years? That sounds like a choice.” — Kanye West, yesterday on TMZ.
Wendell Pierce
✔@WendellPierce
It is clear that @kanyewest is being sensational for the sake of publicity. I could care less about that. But for you to use the murder and holocaust of slavery for your own self aggrandizement is at the core of your vile appeasement of white supremacists.
You glorify those that murdered our mothers & fathers,raped our women, & swelled our numbers with bastards. You @kanyewest embrace those who inhumanly experimented on our bodies to watch the ravage of death for decades in Tuskegee.
You lift up those that taught us a religion that they disgraced. And in the name of Jesus bought, sold,tortured and killed in the name of God. Slavery wasn’t a choice, it was a crime against humanity without a denouement of Justice.
You @kanyewest need to visit the new memorial of the lynching victims, Whitney Plantation of Louisiana, Goreé Island, the Slavery museum of Liverpool and learn about the suffering of this nightmare of human history.
The visit the grave of Aristile Harris, sold as a nigger and a half with his mother, as he lost the rest of his brothers, sisters, and father to the darkness of separation, never to see them again. He was my great grandfather who created a family he lost to slavery.
Apologize to his spirit and the souls of all our ancestors who were denied the life of privilege you lead. When that is done, I pray the world chooses to forget you and the trite, monotony you call music.
