Do we enjoy
being the victim?
Have we been conditioned
to think like victims rather
than problem solvers? © 2016
During the very active Civil Rights period of the 1960s, history is clear, neither Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, the original Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers, Stokely, Rap, nor others, encouraged Blacks to think of themselves as victims. They taught us by example, and they promoted an enpowering message.
Since those days, however, African Americans have been subjected to a new type of leadership. It is a “leadership” that has essentially crippled us. This new leadership has conditioned and convinced African Americans to believe they are perpetual victims.
It is a leadership that makes excuses for our failures and doesn’t challenge us the way previous black leaders did. It is a leadership that blames all of our problems on others and tells us we’re hopeless and helpless victims who cannot stand on our two feet without the approval of Whites.
This new “leadership” has done has convinced a good number of African Americans to avoid taking ownership of the issues that affect us. Due to the conditioning of these poverty pimps, too many Blacks now enjoy the role of the victim. If you’re not portraying us as a victim, some of us will consider it an insult.
Take crime.
So many of us will complain about crime, police response, etc. Yet, our response to crime in the ‘hood makes no sense. We refuse to snitch. We refuse to work with the police. We refuse to set-up neighborhood patrol. Yet, we still complain about crime.
Here’s the thing.
When you think like a victim, nothing’s your fault. It’s always the other guy’s fault. It’s always the other guy’s responsibility. It’s always what the other guy did rather than what you didn’t do.
When we think like victims, we act like victims. When we think and act like victims, we never explore what we can do to improve your own plight.
Here are a few recent examples of how we behaved like victims:
• A whole lot of African Americans complained about the election results. Yet too many either didn’t vote, or they voted in ways that actually helped Trump get elected.
• Parents complain about the schools and the education their children receive. Yet parents set few expectations for their children and they allow too many distractions from studying, TV, cell phones, hanging out, etc.
• Too many sisters wind up with the wrong guys over and over. They get pregnant, and the guys skip out on their responsibilities. Yet, they place all the blame on the guys, but they are the ones who choose the guys.
• We claim Black Lives Matter, but we only protest and claim black lives matter when a white police officer has killed a black person. We will protest, riot and loot in those instances, and we make the police the enemy. But when we’re killing each other, there’s no one else to blame.
• We complain that business interests and governments neglect our neighborhoods. But we’ve allowed too many of our neighborhoods to become infected by crime and indifference. What business would be eager to move into areas where crime rates are high and the people refuse to fight back?
• Too many young people believe they can opt-out of education. But when they opt-out, odds are, minimum wage jobs, unemployment, or prison time will figure prominently in their lives. Then, they will blame everyone but themselves. If they have a minimum wage job, they will insist on $15 an hour but will say nothing about increasing their skills or education.
All of those scenarios are examples of Blacks acting and reacting like victims rather than acting or reacting to solve problems. How can a group with a $1 trillion dollar income think of itself as victims? You can credit the poverty pimps, who have made a good living for themselves by promoting black misery and convincing others that we’re helpless and hopeless.
Unlike the black leadership of a Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, Black Panther Party, or the original Nation of Islam, today’s “leadership” has convinced the masses of Blacks what they cannot do rather than what it can do.ces what we cannot do rather than what we can do.
Jesse Jackson once put it well.
“We’re like giants with a pygmy self-image.”
Which path will you choose? We can be pitiful, or we can be powerful.
being the victim?
Have we been conditioned
to think like victims rather
than problem solvers? © 2016
During the very active Civil Rights period of the 1960s, history is clear, neither Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, the original Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers, Stokely, Rap, nor others, encouraged Blacks to think of themselves as victims. They taught us by example, and they promoted an enpowering message.
Since those days, however, African Americans have been subjected to a new type of leadership. It is a “leadership” that has essentially crippled us. This new leadership has conditioned and convinced African Americans to believe they are perpetual victims.
It is a leadership that makes excuses for our failures and doesn’t challenge us the way previous black leaders did. It is a leadership that blames all of our problems on others and tells us we’re hopeless and helpless victims who cannot stand on our two feet without the approval of Whites.
This new “leadership” has done has convinced a good number of African Americans to avoid taking ownership of the issues that affect us. Due to the conditioning of these poverty pimps, too many Blacks now enjoy the role of the victim. If you’re not portraying us as a victim, some of us will consider it an insult.
Take crime.
So many of us will complain about crime, police response, etc. Yet, our response to crime in the ‘hood makes no sense. We refuse to snitch. We refuse to work with the police. We refuse to set-up neighborhood patrol. Yet, we still complain about crime.
Here’s the thing.
When you think like a victim, nothing’s your fault. It’s always the other guy’s fault. It’s always the other guy’s responsibility. It’s always what the other guy did rather than what you didn’t do.
When we think like victims, we act like victims. When we think and act like victims, we never explore what we can do to improve your own plight.
Here are a few recent examples of how we behaved like victims:
• A whole lot of African Americans complained about the election results. Yet too many either didn’t vote, or they voted in ways that actually helped Trump get elected.
• Parents complain about the schools and the education their children receive. Yet parents set few expectations for their children and they allow too many distractions from studying, TV, cell phones, hanging out, etc.
• Too many sisters wind up with the wrong guys over and over. They get pregnant, and the guys skip out on their responsibilities. Yet, they place all the blame on the guys, but they are the ones who choose the guys.
• We claim Black Lives Matter, but we only protest and claim black lives matter when a white police officer has killed a black person. We will protest, riot and loot in those instances, and we make the police the enemy. But when we’re killing each other, there’s no one else to blame.
• We complain that business interests and governments neglect our neighborhoods. But we’ve allowed too many of our neighborhoods to become infected by crime and indifference. What business would be eager to move into areas where crime rates are high and the people refuse to fight back?
• Too many young people believe they can opt-out of education. But when they opt-out, odds are, minimum wage jobs, unemployment, or prison time will figure prominently in their lives. Then, they will blame everyone but themselves. If they have a minimum wage job, they will insist on $15 an hour but will say nothing about increasing their skills or education.
All of those scenarios are examples of Blacks acting and reacting like victims rather than acting or reacting to solve problems. How can a group with a $1 trillion dollar income think of itself as victims? You can credit the poverty pimps, who have made a good living for themselves by promoting black misery and convincing others that we’re helpless and hopeless.
Unlike the black leadership of a Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, Black Panther Party, or the original Nation of Islam, today’s “leadership” has convinced the masses of Blacks what they cannot do rather than what it can do.ces what we cannot do rather than what we can do.
Jesse Jackson once put it well.
“We’re like giants with a pygmy self-image.”
Which path will you choose? We can be pitiful, or we can be powerful.