NIgga or Slave

[Aaron (Al) Lewis]

Why are people so upset with the use of the word nigger or nigga when it fact it has no meaning? Look or search as you may you will not find a definitive etymology of the word. It has multiple definitions and so called black people seem to love being offended that is for the young bloods who defined the word for themselves.

However, the object of this post is not to exalt or demonize the word nigger. There is a much more insidious word that is taught to our children from cradle to grave, from the family, to school to church, to news programs and I don’t see the NAACP or any other outcry from any group opposing its teaching and that word is SLAVE. It brings up images of one who submitted to a condition or master. How then can one attain personhood when they see their ancestors as slaves?

If you truly want to explore the implications and impact of being relative to slaves post your questions or comments here and see what comes out of the lamp.

[Clifford Black]

MY BROTHER I can dig it, NOW we are ROLINGGGGGGGGGG/*/!!!!!!!!
(B)

[Emenike La]

The nature of this word and how it is used to oppress persons relative to me was hidden under my nose my entire life until it was deliberately pointed out. I am grateful it was pointed out to me and I accept that the deprogramming process takes some time. The question that immediately comes to my mind is what other words such as this are lurking right in front of my eyes? Will a systematic study of every word in the dictionary bring into awareness all other insidious mental processes that impede freedom? What if there wasn’t a guide available to point this out to me, what method would I have used to uncover the insidious nature of this word?

[Aaron (Al) Lewis]

La, great responses and equally great and well thought out questions.

You wrote,

"The question that immediately comes to my mind is what other words such as this are lurking right in front of my eyes?"

Actually thousands of words like that are lurking and they too have deep impact. Mr. Black refers to them as 'power words" designed to highjack and derail one's course of thought to another path. However, I must add that the word SLAVE is an especially powerful one as it relates to people of color because its use was and is DESIGNED with US in mind for a specific purpose ...... to keep our minds and thoughts subservient! That being even equality is out of reach and getting ahead is impossible. Anytime the sons and daughters of slaves sits down with the sons and daughters of slave masters they have nothing to negotiate with.

Someone figured out that the first imprinted picture on the brain is a lasting one. They also knew the power of defining (limiting) what a word comes to be associated with.

Will a systematic study of every word in the dictionary bring into awareness all other insidious mental processes that impede freedom?

I don't think it will happen just by employing etymology alone; but it (etymology) definitely will put one way ahead of the pack when coupled with other methodologies, disciplines, modalities, techniques and sciences. It can provide one the insight, foresight and even hind sight to determine what lies beneath the surface of things to avoid what has been happening to people of color for the last centuries.

What if there wasn’t a guide available to point this out to me, what method would I have used to uncover the insidious nature of this word?

Unless you were an extremely astute student or the universe just happened to conspire with you at a certain point and time you would in all probability be where so many other Negroes are, stuck in the thick of thin things.

What do you think?

[Clifford Black]

Sounds to me like the two of you are living proof that the RED PILL method works

[Emenike La]

In a conversation with a respected guide and mentor, it was suggested that the issue of modernity with regard to the concept of Ancestors is that it (modernity) is based on the basic premise that people do not dramatically and irrevocably change and that people are in their essence bad evil sinners.

As he said that I had a full bodied reaction in a place deeper than my bones. I began to see that the suggestion I was implanted with during my hypnotizing process (primary conditioning) was that my Ancestors where in fact bad, evil, inferior sinners and could never under any circumstances, including death, change that.

Tell that shit to a child just by saying, "your Ancestors were slaves."

To suggest that someone is SLAVE at their very CORE, the unchanging essence that is GOD, is to cast a curse so deep and insidious only a genius or some other profound being will be able to see it and reverse it.

I have been fortunate to witness time and time again when a person glimpses their essential goodness, that is to say, the God within or the Light. All the ideas of being bad, wrong, sinner, evil are exploded. This type explosion is a dramatic line of demarcation in the way that death is a dramatic departure form the body into another world. From the other side of the river, looking back, my Ancestors where never slaves. So what is an Ancestor? or shall I ask, what is a PER SON?

[Aaron (Al) Lewis]

Damn, bro you flying way above the flock. If we can but change that program in the minds of so called black people we can perhaps prevent the criminalization of so called black children via the government education system.

However Negroes are deeply embedded in being the progeny of slaves. IN fact some make a living on it.

[Clifford Black]

NO, absolutely NOT, These words are not synonyms

[Aaron (Al) Lewis]

How were they able to focus the great majority of people's attention on the pros and cons of a word (nigger) that has no meaning while projecting the word slave on us and our children's brains and no one caught the implications and consequences for decades?

Why would, have learned differently, a person continue to use the word slave to describe people they may have been relative to?

Why is there no mass resistance to what public education (government schools) are doing to the children?

Where are the descendants of those "slaves" today?

Just asking, if anyone cares to address these questions feel free to.

[Clifford Black]

ONE MORE TIME---If you uncover the information that is here you will DISCOVER something that has been out of sight right in front of YOU.

B.

[Adisa]

Truly great insight and thinking on this post. The word slave does have the power to keep on subserviant and its usually followed by the word mater. Hearing this word or reading the word slave immediately recalls a picture in my head. Even the term runaway slave does not provide an image of a powerful and courageous person that decided to run, fight and die to be free from bondage and enslavement. The architects that created the word and imagery truly understood the power of creation and defining. Now, some choose to embrace the word as a part of their heritage and culture. How can those that decide such a fate ever rise above or free themselves from the trap designed to keep people right where they are?

[Clifford Black]

Namaska Adisa,

like or not, it appears that u are on your way to being the next "Father Divine"

B.