Self-preservation, the primal instinct or natural desire to protect self and stay alive, is a universal, normal and natural phenomenon for all living organisms. In the event of a perceived threat, the life form settles into survival mode and begins to exhibit those behaviors that ensure the organism’s existence. However, human beings’ ability to self-protect is far superior to that of the basic organism’s “fight or flight” only option. Humans have a brain capable of perceiving and solving problems, and consciously responding to or altering the response to a stimulus; self-preservation is a coping mechanism one (a person) needs to prevent emotional trauma from distorting the mind and adversely affecting one’s mentality.
It seems as though all groups—regardless of race, creed and nationality, if felt threatened, would follow their survival instincts: These groups have the ability to think beyond the basic, primal level of individual survival and use their leverage—the human brain—to ensure their on-going protection and existence. They identify the threat and appropriately respond to it in a way that allows them to not only physically survive, but to smartly organize themselves and collectively strategize on ways of ensuring the problem’s suppression and making sure it has long-term implications on their “pack”. Dismally to report, the African-American group does not exhibit these same types of superior, group survival tactics. Many African Americans have been conditioned to distance themselves from their collective group. They are either in denial or just simply despise their race—uncertain of what, or even why, they are denying or despising their cultural truth, and care not to identify the reasoning behind or damaging ramifications of the particular feeling of separation. The notion or concept of a collective identity is totally foreign or ludicrous to many blacks, and whenever any attempt to enlighten is made, some quickly brand these attempts as evil, racist and non-productive.
Unfortunately, there are those blacks who feel that anything black is inferior and anything white, superior; and adopt a mindset that “if you are black stay back, if you are white you are right”. These brainwashed blacks have abandoned their community under the false pretense of supporting a post-racial society; it would be altruistic if all could simply be acknowledged and looked upon as just being “an American” without any reference to one’s race—which in an ideal utopia world, the post-racial position would be believable and possible. However, this is America, a country that once blatantly accepted the idea that the oppressor exists only for the good of the oppressed person and people; one that worked relentlessly to keep blacks separated and detached from their roots—for these oppressors know the power in cultural unity and collective identity. Further, if all Americans were treated as first class citizens and acknowledged as such, there would be no need for the passing of any civil rights bills or laws. As such, trading collective preservation at the race or cultural group level for a post-racial stand is not logical, seems quite delusional, and perpetuates the idea of keeping blacks—and any other oppressed group—broken and separated rather than united and powerful.
Non-black groups continue to preserve and protect their community from the inside out. Whether these groups believe in post-racialism or not, they continue to build and enhance their cultural “infrastructure” to ensure survival and existence of their race. Non-black groups understand the importance of a collective identity and as such, support their culture. Even though the notion of black inferiority and white superiority has been ingrained and structured into the thinking of people of African ancestry for more than four centuries—having been indoctrinated by systems and policies that they are indeed inferior, Black America must learn to pinpoint the internal and external threats preying upon the group and work collectively to ward off these race-killing advances to ensure the long-term existence and stability of the black race.
Clearly, there are many within the black community who are delusional as a result of 400 years of mind control, but with all the happenings in the world today, it is not impractical to believe that the black community is doubly oppressed. On top of the Black community dealing with trying to break away from 400 years of mental enslavement, the American government has begun to devise strategies of chipping away at the non-black American’s civil liberties and withholding even more of Black Americans’ freedoms:
Since the infamous 9/11 terrorist attacks, we have had the passing of the Patriot Act and the establishment of Homeland Security—all supposedly to protect Americans from the threat of terrorism. The price: a melt down of the Constitution. Due to fear, Americans have given up some of their precious liberties and freedoms on the premise that terrorism is a serious threat to America’s welfare. On the horizon, to supposedly further keep terrorists in check, is the pending reality of all Americans being issued National ID cards. This seems innocent enough, but it’s just another point that proves that a little more of Americans’ liberties and freedoms are slowly eroding. After the issuance of ID cards, all Americans are supposed to be implanted with RFID chips to support a cashless society. Civilians’ every move can and will be monitored. If an individual dissents, protests or violates any of the powers-to-be rulings, their chip can be disabled, preventing the individual from being able to buy food or anything else; the consequences of this kind of totalitarian control can prove to be calamitous not to the Elitist, but to all other Americans—eliminating the middle class in the process, which is currently fast-becoming an endangered species.
Ultimately, the moral of the story is that brainwashing has proven to be most effective on anyone who refuses to think for themselves, on anyone who refuses to apply their superior survival mechanism to ensure their group’s collective existence. Based on the afore-mentioned information, there seems to be an even greater threat looming on the horizon of what can only be described as a nebulous future at best, not just for Black America but all Americans who are excluded from the Elitist class. In order to combat this “double-layered” veil, it is imperative that Black America begin to develop some collective sense of self-preservation to be able to present a united militia when the time comes to stand with the rest of the American, non-elitist class, and fight for their civil liberties.
H. Lewis Smith is the founder and president of UVCC, the United Voices for a Common Cause, Inc., http://www.theunitedvoices.com a writer for the New England Informer Online, and author of “Bury that Sucka: A Scandalous Love Affair with the N-Word”.
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