Let's pretend for a moment that we were unlucky enough to be a slave on a 19th century Dixie cotton farm. What would you do, if you were granted the privileged position of a 'house nigger'*? Would you count your blessings and thank God that you don't need to work in the fields? Would you do everything in your power to prove to your slave master that he has made the right choice? Would you spend day and night to make his life easier and help him make more money? Or would you use your direct access to kill him. Killing one of them, you say wouldn't make any difference and most likely cost your life? Well, then, why not wait until the slave masters have one of their regular get-togethers and take them all out?! Who knows? You might inspire one or the other of your peers to do the same! No, you say, they are not really that bad, plus why should you risk it? You are quite happy with your privileged life as a 'house nigger'. Admittedly, your Uncle Tom cabin is nothing compared to your master's mansions. But it sure is much more luxurious than the field niggers' huts.
So what do you teach your children? Do you teach them read, write and whatever other skills will make them useful? Do you teach them to work hard and serve their master well, so that they will never have to work in the fields? Or do you teach them to run away, somewhere, where there is no slavery, because it is better to be dead or struggle for your daily survival as a free man than being a well taken care of slave?
And how do you react if one of the other slaves says anything bad about your master? Will you tell them that your master is really a good guy? That God wants you to be your master's slaves? Will you no longer talk to him for fear to be suspected of harbouring similar thoughts? Or worse, will you dob him in to please your master and prove to him what a reliable slave you are?
Most Middle Class people I have come across are no different. They study hard to be the most useful tools they can possibly be for our ruling crime families. They do their masters of this or that to prove how well they can memorise their lies. They do PHD's to prove how well they can help them come up with even better lies and scams. As lawyer they help maintaining the illusion that there is so such thing as a 'rule of law'. As politicians they help maintaining the democracy hoax. As media people and academics they help spreading the mobsters' lies. As corporate executives and bankers they steal from the poor and give to the rich. What for?
Just look at them, how scared they are, when you confront them with the truth on the New World Order, 9/11, global warming, or any other holy hoax. They know that their privileged lifestyle depends on maintaining the illusion and being seen to be reliable slaves. So they will either attack or ridicule you, and shun you from then on. House niggers, that's what they are.
Footnote:
* I'm using the term 'nigger' merely as historic term with no disrespect to any black people, slave or otherwise. We are all slaves to our ruling crime families and I don't subscribe to any form of racism, because all it does is help those monsters to divide us and rule.
9 AM
, a real huge threat or another mega-hoax by the myth-makers? We know that by far most of the scientists & academics are mere mercenaries in thrall to JAR ("Regime"
Very perceptive Editorial. Thanks!!
This editorial is not about black people, or any specific racial composition - but about mental colonization. Just wanted to say that again to underscore the author's intent.
But it is also not a binary dichotomy as I see it.
This mental colonization is so pernicious, that in my experience, it is not just middle class, but across all strata of society.
The following John Cleese "class" video sorta kinda attempts to capture the relative nature of this mental colonization which further refines the antiquated and binary House-Negro vs. Field Negro into more shades in the hierarchy of power (and wealth) in modern society:
John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett: Class.
youtube.com/watch?v=w0DUsGSMwZY
And the following passage from MLK Jr.'s A Testament of Hope, is very descriptive of what I see around me regardless of the skin color:
'The white establishment is skilled in flattering and cultivating emerging leaders. It presses its own image on them and finally, from imitation of manners, dress, and style of living, a deeper strain of corruption develops. This kind of Negro leader acquires the white man’s contempt for the ordinary Negro. He is often more at home with the middle-class white than he is among his own people. His language changes, his location changes, his income changes, and ultimately he changes from the representative of the Negro to the white man into the white man’s representative to the Negro. The tragedy is that too often he does not recognize what has happened to him.', -- (Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope, page 307, page snapshot: humanbeingsfirst.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/mlk-defines-the-negro-leader-in-a-testament-of-hope.jpg )
With one modification to MLK's description, the last line: In my experience, the modern House Negroe, at every level in the power hierarchy, knows very well "what has happened to him".
I find no buffoons and retards today, although some may pretend to be. I find only very willing Accomplices, willing to be "innocent of knowledge" (as per MacBeth to Lady MacBeth: "be innocent of knowledge" and perhaps "all the perfumes of arabia" will wash away all the blood from thine hands)
So with those types of nuances added to the character of mental colonization, Malcolm X's incredible differentiation reproduced below, of House Negro vs. Field Negro, can actually be observed to be exactly applicable to the modern glorified "slave laborers" in almost all societies relative to their immediate elite, ahem "class" as noted in John Cleese.
This is what this this editorial has attempted to present, albeit at perhaps a tad coarser granularity:
Here is Malcolm X:
“There was two kind of slaves.
There was the house Negro and the field Negro.
The house Negro, they lived in the house, with massa. They dressed pretty good. They ate good, cause they ate his food, what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near their master, and they loved their master, more than their master loved himself. They would give their life to save their master's house quicker than their master would.
The house Negro, if the master said 'we got a good house here', the house Negro say 'yeah, we got a good house here'.
Whenever the master would said we, he'd say we. That's how you can tell a house Negro.
If the master's house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house Negro would say 'What's the matter, boss, we sick?' We sick!
He identified himself with his master, more than his master identified with himself.
And if you came to the house Negro and said 'let's run away, let's escape, let's separate', the house Negro would look at you and say 'man, you crazy! What you mean separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?'
That was that house Negro.
In those days, he was called a house nigger. And that's what we call him today, 'cause we still got some house niggers runnin around here.
This modern house Negro loves his master. He wants to live near him.
He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about 'I'm the only Negro out here. I'm the only one on my job. I'm the only one in this school.' You're nothing but a house Negro!
And if someone come to you right now and say 'let's separate', you say the same thing that the house Negro said on the plantation: 'What you mean separate? From America? This good white man? Where you gonna get a better job than you get here? I mean this is what you say. 'I ain't left nothing in Africa'. That's what you say.
Why, you left your mind in Africa!
On that same plantation, there was the field Negro.
The field Negro, those were the masses. There was always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house.
The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers.
In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog.
They call them chetlands nowadays. In those days they called them what they were, guts!
That's what you were, a guteater. And some of you are still guteaters!
The field Negro was beaten, from morning till night.
He lived in a shack, in a hut. He wore cast-off clothes.
He hated his master. I say, he hated his master.
He was intelligent.
That house Negro loved his master. But that field Negro, remember, they were in the majority, and they hated their master.
When the house caught on fire, he didn't try to put it out, that field Negro prayed for a wind. For a breeze!
When the master got sick, the field Negro prayed that he died.
If someone come to the field Negro and said 'let's separate, let's run.' He didn't say 'Where we going?' he said 'Any place is better than here'.
We got field Negroes in America today.
I'm a field Negro.
The masses are the field Negroes.
When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talkin bout 'Our Government is in trouble'. They say 'thee Government is in trouble.'
Imagine a Negro, 'our Government'. I even heard one say 'our astronauts.' They won't even let him near the plant, and 'our astronauts'. 'Our Navy'. That's a Negro that's out of his mind.
That's a Negro that's out of his mind!
Just as the slave master in that day, used Tom, the house Negro, to keep the field Negroes in check.
The same 'ol slavemaster today, has Negroes, who are nothing but modern Uncle Toms. 20th century Uncle Toms, to keep you and me in check.
Keep us under control. Keep us passive and peaceful. And nonviolent. That's Tom making you nonviolent.
It's like when you go to the dentist, and the man is going to take your tooth. You're going to fight him, when he start pulling. So they squirt some stuff in your jaw called Novocain, to make you think they are not doing anything to you. So you sit there and because you got all that Novocain in your jaw, you suffer peacefully. Hahahaha.
There's nothing in our Book, the Qur'an, as you call it, Koran, teaches us to suffer peacefully.
Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful. Be courteous. Obey the law. Respect everyone.
But if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery!
That's a good religion. In fact, that's that old-time religion. That's the one that Ma and Pa used to talk about.
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, and a head for a head, and a life for a life.
That's a good religion.
And then anybody, no one resist that kind of religion being taught but a wolf, who intends to make you his meal.
This is the way it is with the white man in America. He's a wolf, and you're sheep.
Anytime a shepherd, a pastor, teach you and me not to run from the white man, and at the same time teach us don't fight the white man, he's a traitor, to you and me.
Don't lay down our life all by itself. No! Preserve your life. It's the best thing you got.
And if you got to give it up, let it be Even Steven.” -- (Malcolm X, House Negro vs. Field Negro Speech, youtube.com/watch?v=8zUIjP4KWok Transcription by Project Humanbeingsfirst.org)
And then there is yet another type of mental colonization which is new to modernity. It is the one where a House Negro pretends to be a Field Negro in order to serve his "massa". A specific case are the Trojan Horses on the "Liberal" and "Progressive" so called "Left" who try to lead the House Negro back to the "massa's" house but only through a circuitous route. This kind is familiar to us under the nom de guerre 'fabricated dissent', a pernicious variant of 'native informant'. Read more about it here:
print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-is-intellectual-negro.html
And what's the bloody cure for all this?
I have to say this is a problem as old as hegemony, as old as mankind.
it is not as simple as locking up all the massas in a particular epoch - and all live happily ever after in eternity.
This problem is beyond the simplisitic prescription some commenters have mentioned above.
But I have to say that unless one locks up all the Hectoring Hegemons first who continually wage wars by way of deception, there is likely to be no way to transform society in a given epoch to mitigate its inequities.
This is a struggle that must be waged in every generation, in every time, afresh.
Thank you.
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org