Introduction To All Posts:
Black women’s problems with Black men started in Africa LONG before the arrival of the Arab man and the White man.
Black men have been betraying Black women since BEFORE the White man ever came to Africa. If you haven’t already done so, please read the following 2 posts:
This Is An Ancient Betrayal, Part 2 - African Art & Dance Document BM's ANCIENT & ETERNAL Betrayal of BW
And now on to today’s post.
I’ve
been lurking online and watching the reactions that many African-Americans are
having in the aftermath of the recent election of Donald Trump as the 45th U.S.
President. [Which I predicted in Dystopia Now, Part 2: Reaping The Whirlwind Of Symbol Over Substance & Lesser Evilism Politics.] I’ve watched many
African-Americans (AAs) panic. And now on to today’s post.
And
really, mainstream African-Americans should be afraid. Because this
election has snatched the Obama-induced rose petals off our eyes; and revealed
just how politically and economically naked, unprotected and downright
powerless the masses of AAs are. That’s something to be upset about. For real. Complacency
is never a good thing. See the article Alarmism saved my family from Hitler:Why I won’t tell anyone to calm down about Trump.
AAs
should’ve been worried about our collective failure to build a self-sustaining
infrastructure of our own long before this election result. Because we’ve
collectively squandered roughly 50 years of government-backed opportunities (affirmative
action, set-asides, Head Start, and other programs) to make ourselves
economically competitive with other races and ethnic groups. We didn’t do that.
Instead, our Black male misleadership class led us into the abyss.
To see a
Let’s Crunch The Numbers-based
breakdown of just one example of how pitiful our collective economic state is,
jump to 46:31 into the video below, and watch up to 50:00 to see a numbers-based
comparison of Black banks’ dismal financial performance regarding “return on
average equity.”
Of course, a large part of this is due to the AA consumers’
ongoing undeclared, generational mass
boycott of visibly Black-owned businesses that I discussed in the post If You’re a Black Business Owner Who Wants to Succeed, Leave The African-American Consumer Behind.
Instead
of building any kind of self-sustaining African-American infrastructure, generations of affluent Black
males in various fields gave their money right back to nonblacks via the White
women and other nonblack women these men marry. I described the generational
effects of BM’s mass money transfer to nonblack women in the post Follow The Money And Resources Trail, Part 2 – Generations of BM Entertainers Transferring Wealth To Nonblack Women (Reason # 457 Why 21st Century African-American Artists Still Have Nothing Of Their Own).
Obviously,
this election result represents a crisis for certain demographics of
African-American Black women (AABW)—such as single Black mothers of multiple
children—as I described in Part 9 of this series. I’ve seen several people online give warnings
about this. Here are a couple of examples. Here’s a comment from THIS Facebook
discussion:
Here’s a
video I’ve seen cited multiple times on Facebook.
Also see
the post How To Prepare For Trump’s Middle Class Tax Hike.
Nevertheless, the election of Trump also represents an opportunity for savvy AABW as I described in that same post. It’s an opportunity to let various other demographics (Black males, White women, Latinos, Asians—really, everybody else who’s not a BW) fight their own battles and take all the hits from the crackdown that’s coming once Trump gets into office. Instead of gullible, idealistic BW continuing to serve as human shields for all these other people who never reciprocate that favor.
It also
represents an opportunity for savvy AABW to give themselves CHOICES. Choices
that mainstream AABW won’t have.
Why
should anybody take heed of the following suggestions? Because, as discussed
during THIS post, many of the specific predictions I’ve made regarding matters
that disproportionately affect African-American women have come true (including
my prediction that Donald Trump would win this election).
Here’s a short list of the sorts
of things that many savvy and shrewd African-American Black women have been
doing and continue to do right now.
ONE: Disconnecting from whatever
remaining “Takers” (aka “Grasshoppers” as discussed during this post) are left
in their social networks.
Y’all know who the Takers/Grasshoppers are.
TWO: Disconnecting from whatever Religious
Mammies are left in their social networks. Here’s why: The vast majority of Religious Mammies
are haters. Period. And, whether they’re open or undercover about the burning
hatred they feel, Religious Mammies’ hatred is focused on other Black women. As
I’ve said during an exchange I had with commenters on another blog:
I hope I’m wrong about this, but I think for the immigrants in the U.S. (and certain other categories of native citizens such as African-American Muslims, and “out” gays and lesbians) the risks during this Trump era will be parallel to the suffering endured by Japanese-Americans during WWII (internment camps). That’s one set of risks.
. . . Let me speak specifically about right-wing, religious zealot Black women—the women that are Church Mammies (Christians), Mosque Mammies (Muslims) and Temple Mammies (Black Hebrew Israelites). Not every BW religious believer fits into these various categories of brainwashed mammies, but many of them do. THIS is who I’m talking about in this comment—and not the religious believers who are willing to live and let others live their own lives.
Black Church Mammies (Christians), Mosque Mammies (Muslims) and Temple Mammies (Black Hebrew Israelites) have a LOT of frustrations in their lives*.
*Mostly revolving around the fact that the BM in their houses of worship generally don’t follow the rules that they preach to these women. And these BM generally don’t choose the BW who follow those rules about modesty, etc. that they preach. No, religious BM—just like the rest of BM—tend to reward and choose so-called “worldly” women as wives. See for just one recent example, Israel Houghton and Adrienne Bailon. See also the example of many self-described Christian BW’s anger at Meagan Good.
These frustrations lead Black Religious Mammies to be extremely angry with and resentful of the BW who are not following the various religious rules they believe in. Instead of being angry with the hypocritical religious BM who preach one thing to the mammies in their midst and then marry women who don’t conform to that behavior, Black Religious Mammies focus all their rage on the BW who didn’t follow their rules. Black Religious Mammies get downright enraged when they see a BW winning in life who is *not* following their religious rules!
I believe THIS is what’s underlying the sheer rage and hateration many BW feel for Ciara after she was courted by and then married to what appears to be a good man (despite having previously had an oow child). THIS is what has so many enraged BW calling Ciara a “ho” for getting pregnant by her husband within the bounds of her marriage. [Which is crazy because getting pregnant by one’s husband during one’s marriage is the very essence of propriety, but I digress…]
Black Religious Mammies get resentful to the point of wishing suffering on those BW who aren’t following the rules these mammies believe in. . . [ ]
. . . This obvious hatefulness and desire to see women who don’t follow their rules punished in some way (= desire to see such women suffer) is why a lot of people DON’T trust right-wing/religious/conservative zealots. People aren’t totally stupid. They can see through all that “We only want what’s best” talk. No, a lot of right-wing/religious/conservative zealots don’t simply want what they think is best. Everything about their statements and behavior suggests that they want to see people punished—that they want to see people who aren’t following their rules suffer.Which why they almost never have any answer to the questions I earlier asked of crazed pro-Trump commenter [ ] when I said:
—–”Do you also hate women having access to birth control? Since you hate welfare AND abortion, how do you propose the millions of existing bastard babies that BW have birthed be fed, housed and clothed? Would you be comfortable with seeing the large percentage of Black bastard kids born into poverty starve in the streets? In other words, what is your plan for the already existing bastard spawn of BW welfare queens/Section 8 recipients?”—–
These are dangerous times. You can’t afford to have people you can only have superficial interactions with inside your intimate circles. Because if something negative goes down, these people will be among the first to betray and harm you in whatever way they can! At best, they’ll turn their backs on you in your hour of need. As mentioned in an earlier post,
They don’t have any answers for these sorts of questions because for them it’s mostly about punishing women who engage in non-marital sex. Period. Again, people aren’t stupid; they can see that. . . . [ ]
Marie Antoinettes/Special Snowflakes don’t notice the “small” acts of anti-BW aggression as they accumulate. The historical Marie Antoinette didn’t take heed of the public hatred being whipped up against her and her family until it was too late for her to escape a violent death. Similarly, the modern BF Marie Antoinettes don’t notice any anti-BW aggression or problems until they’re at the point of (figuratively) having their heads chopped off.
Comedian Sunda Croonquist apparently didn’t recognize there was a problem with her racist in-laws. She didn’t understand that her White husband’s failure—for years—to police his racist relatives, and protect her from their racist behavior was a problem. Her husband basically did what most Good Black Men™ do when BW are under attack: nothing. She seemingly didn’t recognize this as a problem until after these racist in-laws sued her.
Glenda Moore (and her White husband) apparently didn’t recognize there was a problem with moving into a neighborhood filled with a high percentage of racists. She didn’t recognize this as a problem that could affect her—and her small, half-Black sons—until after these same racist neighbors ignored her cries for help during Hurricane Sandy. Her sons drowned.
I hope I’m wrong about this, but I think for the immigrants in the U.S. (and certain other categories of native citizens such as African-American Muslims, and “out” gays and lesbians) the risks during this Trump era will be parallel to the suffering endured by Japanese-Americans during WWII (internment camps). That’s one set of risks.
There
are another set of risks in this Trump era. Don’t get complacent if you’re a straight
Christian African-American Black woman. Especially don’t get complacent about
the risks in this political environment if you’re a single Black mother of
out-of-wedlock children. If you’re a Black single mother, you’re in a lot of potential danger.
As a
single Black mother, YOU’VE already been made the “public face” of various
negative social problems. The risks you face is a situation in which your
neighbors, coworkers AND church/mosque/temple members turn on you. It’s
happened before. In the former Yugoslavia. See the article Your Neighbors Try To Murder You: 6 Realities In A Genocide.
If there’s
a scenario in which the Religious Mammies that you go to church/mosque/temple
with can harm you in some way and not face any consequences for harming you,
they WILL. Just because you might have joined these women in condemning
homosexuality and fornication does NOT mean that these women feel any less
hatred for you. The moment you step away from the conversation, they’re talking
about you as well. I’ve been
watching these women’s behavior since I was a teenager many years ago. Because
I’ve never been a baby mama and have always been perceived as a “good girl/woman”
(who follows various rules) I’ve been able to hear what these women say when
the baby mama steps away from the conversation. Ladies, don’t be naïve about
Religious Mammies!
It’s
obvious that any AABW stuck in Blackistan is in a lot of danger from her
immediate neighbors when something goes down.
What’s
not so obvious is that AABW who live in nice areas outside of Blackistan are
also in a lot of danger from people they only have superficial relationships
with when something goes down. Because these people won’t help—and even worse, many
of them will turn on you—when something goes down. Which leads to the next
point.
THREE: Forming trusted networks. During turbulent times you need
people you can really count on during a crisis—what used to jokingly be called “ace boon” friends. People who will—without
question—take you into their home if there’s a crisis and you’re in need. Don’t
blindly assume your church/mosque/temple acquaintances fit into this
description. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Look
around your social life. Who (if any) are the people that have actively gone out
of their way to help you?
FOUR: TWO: Developing
location-independent income streams.
Tens of thousands of workers were displaced from their flooded workplaces
during Hurricane Sandy. One writer estimates that “Hurricane Sandy displaced
150,000 workers in the first two weeks after the storm hit, with 70,000 jobs
lost in New Jersey and 50,000 lost in New York.”
There
was often a real difference between workers whose jobs require their physical
presence and those whose jobs are location-independent. For Some After the Storm, No Work Means No Pay.
I would
strongly urge you to check out the How To Find A Dope Remote Job course by
Sheila K. Brown.
FIVE: Getting or renewing their passports. As noted during the comments to
Part 8 of this series.
I’m saying this to reiterate the core message of my book and two blogs:
You can thrive (and not just survive) during this time of collapse if you get back to basics and learn from historical examples.
Do what you can to position yourself to live well regardless of who is in office. Take action to give yourself extra CHOICES.
cattusbabe said...
If you think preppers are nuts then you have my prayers, they will get through these times better than most. Make sure you stockpile the goods that you need to stay alive, safe and comfortable. Learn the skills you need in order to be self sufficient.
If you do not do anything get out of majority black places and spaces. There is a storm headed our way and if you do not want to be chum for the two legged predators that inhabit most majority black communities you need to move.
Finally if you do not have a passport and a plan to relocate out of the USA then I would suggest strongly they you do both. You may not need either now but you should be ready.
You are truly on your own, there is no cavalry or savior coming.
As I’ve said since Part 1 of this series of posts, I’m not saying these things to scare you.
Something else occurs to me: It might be a good idea to get your passport applications sent in as soon as possible. Meaning, at least 1 month *before* Trump is inaugurated.
It's safe to assume that LOTS of the current federal rules and regulations are going to be changed once he gets in office.
It's also safe to assume that those changes will tilt toward imposing more controls over not just the population flows coming into the U.S., but ALSO the population flows going out of and within the U.S.
I’m saying this to reiterate the core message of my book and two blogs:
You can thrive (and not just survive) during this time of collapse if you get back to basics and learn from historical examples.
Do what you can to position yourself to live well regardless of who is in office. Take action to give yourself extra CHOICES.