I recently read this article and found it very disturbing how about you?

Please Note: For those of you who heard it, this is the article that was read on a radio station recently. For those of you who didn't hear it, this is very deep. This is a heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote it.

鈥淭HEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES ...鈥?br> 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 busines! s. 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. 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 鈥淏uppie鈥?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 of what they own as a matter of 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! After Reading it..)

The name of this article is BLACKS DON'T READ!

I'm embarrassed by what people in our country say...

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Wow dude...just wow....

It is very disturbing and I cannot believe it even got published. And I find it disturbing that you posted it in its entirety...although you may have good motives, it will offend many and nothing is worth that; you could have just posted a link.

Prejudice = ignorance Thats about all I have to say.

This article isn't even worthy of a discussion. The person who wrote it isn't all there in his/her mind. If that person would look around, she/he would realize that there are a lot of great black scholars in our history, even when it wasn't easy to become one. In today's times, it is right there in our faces how the black people have overcome and still became successful individuals. In fact, many of my black friends are therapist, doctors, and professors. I must say the person who wrote it is either ignorant or just trying to cause some trouble.

Have the audacity to say"Please pass this on"?????

Sure it's ugly! But it sounds to me like your not all that disturbed by it. You say you are, but, you made yourself sound hypocritical by posting the whole(?) article, then ask others to read it.

What made you do this????????