The men are gone from our community and no longer raise boys to grow into men. As a whole we are a fatherless child. Until we black men take charge of our lives and take on the gangs, the crime, kids having and making babies and all other self-inflicted evil in our community nothing will change.
The men are gone from our community and no longer raise boys to grow into men. As a whole we are a fatherless child. Until we black men take charge of our lives and take on the gangs, the crime, kids having and making babies and all other self-inflicted evil in our community nothing will change.
6 Blacks who claimed freedom then earned exponential wealth as slave owners
Statue of a child slave (Photo credit: Shutterstock / elyn)
Contrary to popular opinion, slavery was not singularly unique to the United States and North America. Over the centuries it has been carried out on six of the seven continents. During the 13th century, the Mongols enslaved millions and frequently sold them in markets across Eurasia.
Mansa Musa, King of the Mali Empire in the 14th century and considered to be the richest man to have ever existed, owned slaves and took more than 12,000 with him on his pilgrimage to Mecca. He became extremely wealthy selling Africans as slaves. Slavery was also widespread in many West and Central African societies before and during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. A true historical understanding of history in terms of U.S. slavery must acknowledge the fact many Blacks owned slaves from the time of the revolutionary war until the ratification of the 13th and 1
ThyBlackMan.com) Ghostface Killah of the WuTang Klan made a song on his first solo album called ‘
Motherless Child.’ Although not the original, it used a sample from a version recorded by O.V. Wright’s “
?Motherless Child” which was taken from an old Negro spiritual from the times of slavery. The way I see it, a new stanza should be made to state ‘I feel like a fatherless child.’ Nothing against the song but rather a new accoutrement to express the emotions of the time. As such, this new verse or what ever one would like to call it is a more accurate reflection of the occurrences in the black American community over the past 50 years, for there are mothers, but fathers are as rare as the evasive sasquatch. And regrettably, it is all by plan to no benefit to the black community and a frequent intentional re-occurrence since slavery in the United States.