WHITE SUPREMACY OR ELITISM

Rachelle AKA BlackLit101 wrote two excellent posts over at the blog with Eurocentric Brainwash: The Bain of Black Existence In North America and Eurocentric Brainwash: We Simply Don’t Need Your Sensitivity.  Rachelle laments that “Although we’ve been “physically free” for almost 200 years, through using systematic colonization tactics in North America, Black people are largely still in bondage of the most dangerous form; Mental slavery.”   She goes on to say that “Currently, it is the schools that are majorly responsible for socializing, instilling values, moralizing and instructing Black learners.”  I get from this that we are actually being oppressed by the culture of another group, foreigners that came several centuries ago to the shores of the Americas and began to overwhelm our people with a deceptive culture of lying and subversion.  

Brotha Asa added on to BlackLit101’s subject matter honing in on her assertion that “…it is the schools that are majorly responsible for socializing, instilling values, moralizing…Black learners.”  Asa in his post From Mis-Education To Self Education: Taking Responsibility For Our Mental Freedom relates a conversation he was having with a friend and responds to the friend with “Why as a people should we again… go with our hand out… and beg demand that the “white man” teach ourchildren about our history!?”  Asa, big up, why go and beg the government for something we can do?   Lack of drive, fear and most of all lack of knowledge are the main reasons we are not doing more in the home school arena.  That, however, is not an excuse.  In the States there are several groups that are home schooling their children.  In July 2000 Joyce and Eric Burges started the National Black Home Educators Resource Association in Baker Louisiana.  Approximately 50,000 Black/African Americans are being home schooled, which is a stat from 2011.  The numbers could have grown since then.  How then do we move this mentality from; (1) the belief in white supremacy and (2) like the homeschoolers, move away from taking the government’s pharmaceutical medicine.

I have wondered if we are aware how deeply this idea of white supremacy is entrenched in our thoughts that we only relate it to overt forms of racism, or the lack of teaching our children about our heroes in government schools?  White supremacy, as we all know, does not stop in the government schools, the courts and jails, but also exists in the medical world.  Do we think that we simply are ok and white supremacy stops at the hospital’s front door when we go?  One place we can immediately combat white supremacy is within our own bodies.  In 2010 12.9 percent of Black people vs 7.6 percent of whites were diagnosed with diabetes.  Diabetes (type II) is developed in the body, not contracted as one would catch a cold virus.  There has been an overall increase in the development of Type II diabetes in the U.S. since 1990 but, Blacks in the States numbers have increased more than any other group.   

Two things come to mind here for me.  The first is that Black people in the States (this includes Puerto Rico and D.C.) are more affected in this increase, yet so are all other “racial” groups here developing diabetes to unprecedented levels.  The second, is that if this is the work of white supremacy, they are sacrificing a lot of their own.  Type II diabetes is directly related to one’s eating habits.  What are the victims of the diabetes epidemic eating in common?  SAD.  Standard American Diet.  All racial groups are eating in the culture of the States.  The eating of processed food and animal products are the main feed stuffs people consume in this culture.  All races are participating in this culture of fast heating and eating.  Quick burgers and fries, tacos and burritos, naming only a few of the culprits.  But, Black people here are falling more heavily to the diabetes after effect of this eating style.  So, then is white supremacy purposefully targeting Blacks?  Or are Black people ignoring proper eating for our Black bodies?   Are we not studying ourselves and our bodies to know that we cannot and should not eat on the same level as whiter skinned people. 

If white supremacy is the culture of whites being better or greater than all the darker skinned people on the planet, they sure don’t seem to mind killing those of the same skin hue.  But, we have a choice.  Like the Black homeschoolers have chosen to do and teach their children at home, then we too, should choose to learn to eat like our ancestors, study what they ate and what is comparable to their diet.   Or, we can continue to eat like the U.S. culture of eating the most meat in the world, eating more than any European country each year.  We need to work from our own kitchens right now and start the fight against white supremacy today.  No waiting.  

The cadeuces is a symbol of commerce and not health.