The Black Deception

TOO MUCH SKIN IN THE GAME Attention, More Breaking News. YOU ARE NOT A BLACK. Someone told you that black will be your defining call sign from now on, and you said OK? Look in the mirror, take the book with you and go look! You may be blessed with some beautiful shade of brown skin, but you are not a black. The term black as it is used in racial categorization today, is not even a statement of skin color. It is a stealth racial epithet. The stealthy nature of this racial epithet is where its power lies. This one description applied to a group of people has wrought far more damaging consequences than, coon, nigga, or spook ever could. Ponder the questions in the next paragraph honestly and carefully. Deep inside, you most likely always knew the answers. Though we are many wonderful shades of brown, why should we insist on painting ourselves in black face! What are the historical connotations of black? Since it is not your accurate skin color, who decided to put this label on you? Who has the right to define you, other than yourself? You have heard it all of your life. Black people this, Black people that, Black people don’t “blank” and of course Black men are “blank”. When you fill in the blanks, it’s almost always inferior and negative. The Black Deception is a life manual that will help you discover the answer to these and many other crucial questions. As you discover these answers you will begin to see why so many grovel at the bottom of the barrel in the American socio economic order. Since we all agree that black is not an accurate description of skin color, what is it meant to describe? Who created the rule, “that if a person has one brown skinned distant relative in in their linage” that they must be considered black! Barak Obama’s mother is not black, but he is? Barak has medium brown skin; he has a white skinned mother but he is the first black president. Where is the logic in that statement? In many cultures the child is always assumed to be the same ethnicity as the mother. This way of thinking makes perfect sense, because the ethnicity of the mother is never in doubt. We all remember the old saying “Mommas baby, daddy’s maybe”! Go back to your childhood, reach into your crayon box. There is only brown and white crayons left. Grab a brown and a white crayon and start coloring, mixing them all together. Would your art work ever turn out to be black? Wouldn’t it be just a lighter shade of brown? Take this example a step further. Your teacher looks at your coloring book and says. You mixed brown and white you’re a terrible artist, your pictures are always so black. She would not be referring to your color pallet in her description, would she. She would be telling you that your artwork is dark and ugly, that it is negative and inferior in content. If this teacher is someone you respect, her words have power. If you believe what she teaches, your schema concerning the color brown might be permanently downgraded to something less than desirable. Something unacceptable. Your schema can be altered to perceive brown as black, black with all of its negative connotations intact. Here is a question that even the most deceived among us, will still know the answer. Does a greater amount of melanin in your skin limit your academic capabilities, work ethic, or business skill? Does this trace chemical cause men to disrespect women, shoot their brothers, or depend on government programs to support their offspring. I could keep the questions rolling, but I believe that I have made my point. Everyone with a fully functioning brain knows that the answers to these silly questions is simply no. The presence of an abundance of melanin in your skin is a blessing, not a curse. This substance can create a beautiful skin tone as well as provide built in UV protection. Since we all agree that melanin is good for you, there must be another reason for the dismal social economic statistics attributed to Black American society today. Now before you reach out and grab the low hanging and much too obvious answer of racism. We must look back in time, back more than one hundred years ago. Let us observe the lives and philosophy of those recently freed slaves and their offspring. Authentic history tells a different story than conventional wisdom portrays. The true story is as follows.