1. They don’t want you to remember what crimes were committed for profit at the expense of all original, indigenous people of the earth. That’s like asking a burglar why they don’t want to leave fingerprints or DNA at a crime scene. They can claim superiority and “manifest destiny” all they like. Behind every fortune is a crime.
2. If they erase all the greatness of the original people, Mayans, Toltects, Aztecs, of Central & South America, The Carib of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, The Sioux Nation, Chicawa, Crow, Blackfoot, Comanche, of North America The Zulu, Ndebele, Maasai, Ethiopia of South, Central and Western Africa, Egypt, of the Nile Valley, Ur of Mesopotamia. They can deceive you into thinking they were creators of knowledge and bestower of civilization and not the plunderers of wealth and grave-robbers they actually were.
There is no greater crime than to rob a people of their history, traditions and culture. It is what gives a society a sense of stability, pride, self determination and fuels technological advancement. And in the lean times, a sense of identity, collective purpose and hope. To be void of those essentials is to sail a ship without a rudder or North Star to navigate by.
They will blind us, then ridicule our lack of sight, they will hobble us, and speak ill of our ability. They would make it so our children are robbed of their greatness. So disconnected from their proud history and self-knowledge, we must accept their whitewashed narratives of us the descendants of black & brown people not as rulers of great peoples, but only enslaved or savages.
This view supports the oppressive White Supremacist status quo.
I’ve never accepted the “melting pot” American analogy.
The melting pot is an antiquated, monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements “melting together” into a “harmonious whole” with a common culture or vice versa, for a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural background with a potential creation of disharmony with the previous culture.
Historically, it is often used to describe the assimilation of immigrants to the United States. The melting-together metaphor was in use by the 1780s. The exact term “melting pot” came into general usage in the United States after it was used as a metaphor describing a fusion of nationalities, cultures and ethnicities in the 1908.
This is a violent, destructive, oppressive act.
A melting pot is used to amalgamate precious metals into tools to be forged for the benefit of the smelter. He has has no need of nor value for the individual components that went into the pot, the only concern is the end result, to be sculpted, twisted and used for their means.
All colonized people are only tools fashioned by white colonizers to serve their purposes. For us to wake from our ignorance, recognize our dilemmas, or worse, to refuse to conform to our pre destined function as fodder for their morality-free sideshow of avarice.
What happens to a tool no longer suited to be used for its original purpose?
It’s discarded.
Police Brutality of Blacks is an object lesson. “We have no further use of you unless we can lock you up, bury you or watch you score touchdowns.” “Zero Tolerance” cruelty of stripping Latinx children from desperate parents on the border is ADMITTEDLY deterrent against future asylum seekers. America is a festering wound, laid open for all the world to see courtesy of the unjust policies of this Administration.
You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth. – Malcolm X Teaches the Youth
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