By Brandon Seward, Nottoway Correctional
Slavery! consisted of bond servants coming to Amerika for new opportunities for them & they families. A paid workforce, that turned into a million plus Solomon Northrup's. Used for physical, mental & spiritual warfare. Brainwashing the Afrikaan mind White. A complete transformation. To eliminate/kill everything African. Just like Malcolm would say tricked! bamboozled! hoodwinked! by a brutal force. The plantations of old was described by Harriet Tubman as "War!" & brothers what happens during war? When an open enemy dehumanize u & I overnight. Any level of education/progress could warrant serious consequences which would include mutilation, disfigurement, to be burned, or worse hanged. Anytime u could walk around free in the North & b kidnapped & branded/viewed as chattel is disgusting. & now during Black History Month our youth as well as the old don't even embrace the struggle. The many sacrifices that were layed down so "we" could live a better life. This is equivalent to any government recognizing the Holocaust, which was a complete calamity. Now in the dictionary the Holocaust defines as the killing of European Jews by the Nazis during world war 2: see word genocide." As if the concentration camp was not a plantation. As if a child being burned in the oven was not as horrifying as a pregnant mother being hung up side down & be gutted like a pig & their child be used as a soccer ball. When she too would die suffering in pain, & not her own bu being able to assist her innocent child that did not deserve to be murder. Or during the transatlantic slave trade we lost millions for defiance, of not giving in to slavery. Some of these things r a normal reaction, to resist. This is the same as saying don't run, when u & I had a slave catcher on our backside, & knowing the end result. How can u not respecting the Blk Holocaust that went on Amerikan soil? Hitler was know as an enemy to the Jews for a total of + years. Then our country as usual (the police of the world) fought hand & hand for their infliction of pain. To eliminate oppression, bigotry, prejudice, racism, discrimination, murder, rape, etc. They called Hitler a ruthless dictator/ hate mongrel. But where was the same energy when they had slave children in the backyard? As their children would have a string around black children's necks as if they was a pet/yo-yo. Or a slave being whipped & the rest of the slaves r so immune to the brutality! it becomes so natural don't nobody bare to look. Or our women being raped mercifully on the ground, or in the same household as her husband to show who has the power? Or even if a white sympathizer was to feed/help read/assist with the aid & abed they would be fined/chastised/hanged. Its the biggest contradiction known to history. This is exactly y I choose to write this document, cuz u don't get this raw teaching in standardized school, or in the church. Its the same teaching that Malcolm X was taught, we was slave for 300 & then it was over. Not to also mention to biggest lie, was that nigger looked at me & wanted to rape me, this alone got thousands of innocent black men lynched (even after slavery). It always goes down as a fake respect thing. So how could u call Hitler a savage when this country did way worse? Do u no the German gov rewrote their constitution? That if u commit a crime u can truly be rehabilitated, forgave, & accepted back into their society? Do u no if u mention the Holocaust it is a crime? As tears flow down the cheeks of all humanity! Including me. I too am sympathetic to their struggle. But I feel it is time to speak of ours. Billions of dollars r sent to their country every year. To make a way of all that was lost. Now we can't get paid a livable wage. When our families framed & built every thing u all have. Not only u but your family to strive for the next 50 years. How is it I can go into debt trying to obtain a better life for mine, but billionaires don't pay one tax dollar? Now I don't want anyone to think I/others r playing the victim role. Because these r the hands we r dealt. I no how to bluff. The person who is writing this is in prison a modern day slave. Parole for violent prisoners has just been turned down, can I use the argument u taught me violence? I just recently listened to 2 black lawyers in impeaching Trump & the 1 from Georgetown said if u don't consider my argument to be true, what type of message do we send to our children? Especially in demonstrating right & wrong! Elijah Cummings had prepared an argument against a cheater, who conversed with a foreign gov against an Amerikan. Does that make u a traitor? So the only sympathy is to the ones who is in powerful seats. Or born into powerful families. This is y every year I acknowledge John Brown.
An X slave owner turned revolutionary. Cuz somehow he changed & told truth to power. He had to get the blood off his hands. How is any person nonwhite a slave? How was u able to play God for 400 years? Using the constitution, the bible, & racial preference to whose on top. Now if u was wrong when do y'all atone for your actions? Bill Clinton a president who was impeached for abuse of power established truth in sentencing, that effected millions of black people. But later apologized for his role. Knowing the gov imported the drugs & hired Ricky Ross, etc. However what they didn't apologize for the generations of feigns & junkies who will do anything!! to obtain the drugs u imported!! Which goes along with the crime. It run concurrent. I mean we r only talking about the ones who gave poisonous blankets to the Indians, syphilis to the Tuskegee air men, & exposing the green monkey to the mother land.
Also I live in VA which is the last state that let the slaves go. Now they only r sympathetic to drug dealers. Now we can point fingers & cast stones, however just like the people we adore, respect, represent as our heroin/hero when do we take the torch ourselves? Everything in life