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Caramel Velle · Thursday, June 2nd 2005 at 1:16PM · 85 views
BLACKS DON'T READ!!!

For those of you who heard it, this is the article Dee Lee was reading
this morning on a New York radio station. For those of you who didn't
hear it, this is very deep and true!

This is a heavvvvy piece and a Caucasian wrote it.

BLACKS DON'T READ THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES. We can continue to reap
profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery. Look at
the current methods of containment that they use on themselves:

IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.

Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once
said, "The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in
a book." We now live in the Information Age.

They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through
the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There
are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes &Noble, and
Amazon.com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid
blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have been their
fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all.

GREED is another powerful weapon of containment.

Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money
at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during
Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars in total yearly
income(2.22%). Any of us can use them as our target market, for any
business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they
will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function
totally by greed. They continually want more, with little thought for
saving or investing.

They would rather buy some new sneaker than invest in starting a
business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or
FUBU. And they still think that having a Mercedes and a big house gives
them "Status" or that they have achieved the American Dream. They are
fools! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because
their greed holds them back from collectively making better communities.
With the help of BET, and the rest of their black media that often
broadcasts destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to
see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even
jeered them, saying he doesn't want their money, and look at how the
fools spend more with him than ever before!). They'll continue to show
off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from
our businesses that we market to them.

SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the
major ways we can continue to contain them.
One of their own, Dubois said that there was an innate division in their
culture. A "Talented Tenth" he called it. He
was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture
that has achieved some "form" of success. However,
that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn't read that the
"Talented Tenth" was then responsible to aid the
Non-Talented Ninety- Percent in achieving a better life.

Instead, that segment has created another class, a Buppie class that
looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner. They
will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them
to be able
to work together on any project or endeavor of substance. When they do
get together, their selfishness lets their egos
get in the way of their goal. Their so-called help organizations seem to
only want to promote their name without making
any real change in their community. They are content to sit in
conferences and conventions in our hotels, and talk about what they will
do, while they award plaques to the best speakers, not the best doers.
Is there no end to their selfishness?

They steadfastly refuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM)!
They do not understand that they are no better than each other because
of what they own. In fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two
paychecks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our
pens in our offices and our rooms.

Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to read,
continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are "helping"
their communities by paying dues to organizations which do little other
than hold lavish conventions in our hotels.

By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter,
remember...

'THEY DON'T READ!!!!'


Prove them wrong. Please pass this on!

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Comments (3)

Caramel Velle Thursday, June 2nd 2005 at 2:24PM

This article is not brand new. I got it about last year and decided to save it to help motivate me to reach all my goals!

Jamar Simmons Thursday, June 2nd 2005 at 2:34PM

yeah I saw this about a year ago also. It bothered me, but not really being that i've been able to read fluently since I was three. It's a shame that those who observe our race and culture can spot this type of thing in today's world. It's true and this topic can be argued in many different variations. It's partially our fault (some may say it's all our fault), but when you look back at times of slavery the whites didn't want us to read or write. And then on the other hand we don't live in the times of slavery any more, so it's our responsibility to go out and further educate ourselves without the help of momma or the school system. I think it is truly wonderful when a caucasion is willing to help the colored succeed. I have had a few caucasions push and vouch for me to succeed and I think that is a sign of a changing world, there still has been those caucasions (blacks also) to harass and try squander any hopes of success. I think if we all could blend the good times of the past and the good times of the present then the future of the world would be phenomenonal. -=Fresh=-

Kelley Jones Thursday, June 2nd 2005 at 2:58PM

This is my first time reading this article, and it is so true!!!Most blacks are so worried about their status, and being clean they don't even realize how "ignorant" some of them do look. There might be some of u out there that say, " I do read books", but reading books, by Omar Tyree, Eric Jerome ****ey, Sista Souljah, etc. ( who are great authors) is not the reading that makes u grow to be a stronger and wiser person. We as a race, down each other prolly more than any other race would down us. Don't people understand that there are still caucasians out there that don't want us to succeed, they want us to continue killing each other, they want us to continue to stay in poverty. Why do we still live up to the the small expectations that SOME white folks have for US as a whole. I think about this stuff all the time. I hope everyone does take out the time and READ this whole article because it is true and some of us need to have a reality check. Why are we content with less and not the best????

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