Being Black in America is to Be the Elephant at The Circus

Slavery did a job on black people.

The entire mindset of Competing Against one another instead of Collaborating WITH one another, comes directly from the Plantation.

If I own a website, and you own a website; too many of you think our websites should compete; when we are both BLACK in a very white world - filled with White owned websites, that continue to drown us 'both out' Individually.

We'd make more noise, and more impact through collaborating; Lift up my site, i'll lift up yours, we lift up each other and it draws more in; Our people do not understand this - as this understanding was taken from us during slavery.

Living in this white world we fail to examine just how much damage has been done to black people; and how much work it will take to fix us.

If I share an idea with a black person; rather than work 'with me' on that idea; Too many will take that idea, try to develop it on their own, so they can keep MORE of the profits off that idea -- and will act like I didn't give them the idea :::: then they'll say it's just business .... when it's not.

It's slave mentality.

That isn't business; as it doesn't put either of us in a Better position; this is a huge reason progress stalls in our communities; too many of us are still working Against one another, and calling it business. Talking ourselves into thinking it's all good - swearing someone 'else' would have done the same to us, so we might as well do it first ..... it's all backwards.

It's detrimental - and it is the kind of thought process that comes from a People being Enslaved for several generations then 'suddenly' Let Go -- FREE To do as they will -- only to find out this nation has 'law men' who are allowed to kill them, rape them, imprison them; They learn entire governments endorse the behavior; and 'this' creates yet another Mentality for black people - that also gets passed down 'with' slave mentality, as this goes on for more generations.

Then ... 1964 comes, and black people finally overcome the bull... .finally pulled together ... only to see THOSE movements broken apart by more ideology, and eventually CoIntelpro ..............which leads to the assassination of more black leaders, and once again, the disbandment of the group.

50 years later, we are still afraid of what happened to Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and too many who spoke out; Now we won't speak out; we won't like photos, content, or videos that might make our 'white friends' upset. We are still in the cage ....

We are the elephants at the Circus.