Ghetto Girl Blue Blog: Response on the Subject of "Black Privilege"

Hey Ya'll This is Jessica Holter, restarting my Ghetto Girl Blue Blog to share thoughts with you. Today I got caught up in the feedback portion of an article a woman wrote and titled "Black Privilege." I just wanted to share my very long and unsolicited responses with you. Her article was so wack, but many people responded about various things. I have selected just a few to share with you. This first response was for the writer:

1. "You have not listed any "Black Privileges" here. Rather, you have listed the many hurdles we have had to overcome and the power of our resilience despite them. Dig deeper into our true identity, and you will uncover just how diabolical the plot to own and misuse Black and Indigenous People of Color really is. The truth of the matter of so-called "White Privilege" is that it exists only as a word to reinforce the idea of it. Perhaps "favoritism" is a better term to use when talking about how the system sets people up to win or fail this game of changing rules. The Black struggle has been hard and long because we have not been conditioned to do favors for one another and because when we build, they burn it, flood it, massacre it, terrorize it, and change laws. But, since the original White settlers came to America, finding people of color already here, they have worked diligently to offer favors for peasants and businessmen alike with land grants, bank loans, and land grant colleges ~ turning Black villages into public parks. The success and camaraderie found among Black Americans today were created out of familiarity, tribal love, soul connection, and necessity. We keep inventing; they keep taking, conning us with paper, from treaties to music cons, I mean contracts. There is no "Black Privilege," ma'am. There is only a nation of nations who trusted greedy foreigners but survive and thrive through faith in God and an innate desire to live well, love life, and be beautiful. This is why we feed the economy more than the average white citizen. It is why they dance to our music, follow our fashion trends, and love everything about us but us. Our joy and connection to The Most High is why they are confused by our happiness. Truly, it has been the settler's privilege to meet Black Americans." 

2. Many people talked about Africa and slavery and how Blacks came here from Africa, bla, bla, chattel slavery, and poor us. Well, you know how I feel about that.

"We do not know who we are. Look at the racial Integrity Act of 1924 and you will see that Indigenous People of Color were turned into Negroes, then they were called Black, then called African American. The land theft and the massacre of Indigenous people happened on paper. If this was not the case, according to their history books, there would not have been any Indians left after first contact. Yet the American Indian Wars continued until 1924, the same year the Indian race changed. After that, the uprisings are called "Riots." If anyone took the time to read the treaties, they would see that the Negro tribesmen were delivered into the hands of the state governments, made into slaves, and once they were allowed, or forced into education, they were taught that they came here from Africa. Black History Month and all these slave movies reinforce this erroneous story. Most of the people who came to the West from Africa did not come to the United States. They went to the Islands and South America."

3. Some guy in the feed brought up Anthony Johnson: "Have you ever heard of Anthony Johnson? He sued in federal court to keep his slave for life. Here is the kicker, Anthony Johnson was a black man. So technically he started legal slavery in the country so you can blame him.  Again, how is this a white issue?" He said.

My response was: "You are on here catching hell I see." (He really was too.) Well, if it is a true story, it only explains that slavery was a working system that already existed in America among BIPOC people, mostly families and tribes. But leave it to White folks to corrupt it (just like they have corrupted Hip Hop.) Not only did that force people to be slaves for life, removing their ability to negotiate their own live-work agreements, but they also brought the menacing, abusive practices of torture with them. Do your research, and you will see how White Europeans tortured White peasants. So, How is it a White issue? Absolute power corrupts absolutely, that is how. Removing the autonomy of the workers by making them slaves for life was a thing done under the White man's law. Ending slavery only meant that now workers had to pay taxes if or when they could find employment in a reorganized or "reconstructed" nation, where instead of having steady work and a home, they had to compete with the settlers for it. Working whites believe they are free, but nobody and nothing is free in America. They tell you you have "privilege" to get you to obey. Stop obeying and see how black you become, sir. LOL. Trump went from billionaire to basketball shoe-peddling felon before our eyes. 

4: One guy wrote, "The 3 largest slave owners in Louisiana where I'm from were black families."

Bingo, I thought. I posted another long ass know-it-all lesson, sharing something I learns while I was working on my book Truth is a trap House. 

"I believe that. So, you can see Black Americans had a live-work system that White people came and corrupted. In Georgia, for example, in 1735, just 2 years after the settlers arrived in the state, the Trustees, which was the governing body, outlawed slavery. Why? What? Yep. To commandeer the industry, they told the Indians, who were the traders of their own slave population, that they did not have a need for slaves and would not allow slavery but would trade other goods, such as furs. The natives, After giving up their slave trade, the government legalized slavery. So, instead of running their own slave system, the government armed the Indians with firepower and said, now, you can become slave catchers instead of slave owners. This is not unlike how record labels will put a producer of music in their employ rather than doing business with them. The producer is paid a salary and gathers artists to put under a contract for them. It is also akin to how, in the crack era, they would drop off guns to create infighting between "gangs" or tribes. So, who were these slaves they were catching? Were the Indians going to Africa to get slaves? No. Emmigration, with an E, is moving from one part of a country to the other. Ask yourself, if the settlers were bringing their own slaves here from Africa, why would they need Indians to deliver slaves to them? They were catching and delivering all the Indians who had brown skin, "negroes" was the order, people of color from enemy tribes, women, and children. You do not need to think hard about this to know these slave-trading Indians were people of color. We still move like this today. And White people still take advantage of our tribal allegiances and infighting."