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DIY Grandma Farmer

4 months ago

Oh my, did you say the Last Poets? Yes, Yes, Yes!  Original Rappers, from waay back in the day. I'd have to say, The Last Poets taught truth with ease, style, rhyme, and genius!

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BlackSapphire8804

10 years ago

@crammasters 

Exactly.....and if Black People unified, the world would see a POWER never seen before.

If only enough of us realized this!

 

 

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Trojan Pam says:

May 2, 2015 at 9:54 pm

@ Jay

Unfortunately, brother, the only power we have is what we say, think, and do. There are things we do have power over and I have said this over and over again.

We have the power to NOT spend our money where we can’t work and I”m talking about non-essential items. We do have the power not to spend time and money on demeaning entertainment. We do have the power not to drink expensive alcohol, buy expensive designer shoes, and big houses and cars we don’t really need.

We do have the power not to shun a black male or female and go chasing after a white “prize.” We do have the power to turn the TV off and teach our children the JOY of reading (and thinking). We do have the power to not call each other foul names (often, just for “fun”)

And this is where I have a problem with most of the black people I meet, including many who come to my blog.

Now, I might step on a few toes but that’s alright. I’m not getting paid to do this so nobody can fire me.

It’s the PASSIVITY and lack of PARTICIPATION that concerns me.

The same people that complain about our condition are the same ones who won’t, for example, sacrifice ONE MOVIE that demeans black people because, “Well, I want to see it.”

We don’t seem willing (most of us, anyway) to make ONE SINGLE SACRIFICE, no matter how small, to gain our liberation.

There are a lot of things we can do or not do. At the very least, at least we can TRY

 

 

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Trojan Pam

@ Fan

I agree, and sometimes, I remind myself as well as other black people–

just look around the world, look at the chaos, greed, wars, cruelty, corruption, and the oppression of women all over the planet

it’s clear black people are not the only ones who are damaged.

There are a lot of issues and a lot of mental illness within the black collective but the people who damaged us are far worse off psychologically as can be seen historically in the long bloody trail of victims worldwide

How can a villain be in better mental health than their victims?

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Trojan Pam

@ Anne

While I appreciate any attempt at empathy, I also caution black people about putting too much faith in such overtures.

Unfortunately, we are often more impressed by people just because they aren’t black. We’re like the child in the playground that nobody likes and are overly grateful for any crumb of attention, which still does NOTHING for that child’s self-esteem or self-respect because he or she is STILL looking to others to validate them.

I always advocate that black people concern ourselves MORE with what we think of ourselves and each other than what any other ethnic group thinks of it.

We should practice not caring at all and focus on SELF and GROUP VALIDATION, building each other up and insulating ourselves against those who use our collective low self esteem to exploit us

and we see this happen every day by a variety of ethnic groups who have no vested interest in seeing their black cash cows start doing for self.

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 Mary Burrell

I am truly sad to learn of the passing of Trojan Pam. She was a great teacher and activist. I loved post when she broke down systemic racism. Rest In Peace and Power Sister.

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Sharon53 says:

May 7, 2015 at 7:58 am

Sharonw53:

Timothy,

Thank you so very much for your comments. You are so right when you say “Our ancestors were never weak and their memories will forever be in our minds and in our hearts.”

They had to be resilient to endure what had to be “hell on earth.” Anybody else would have crumbled under that kind of brutality.

Something came to mind when you said ‘their memories will forever be in our minds and in our hearts.” I once was taking a tour of Ananberg Ruins in St. John, Virgin Island. It’s hard to believe in this beautiful part of the world that a slave plantation existed. And as we were standing in this cane field, the tour guide was giving us the history on it and this intense feeling came over me as if I could feel what our ancestors felt. I had to walk away because it was just that intense. I hear cane fields were worse than cotton fields and I can’t imagine anything worse than working in a cotton field in sweltering heat.

You also stated “…we have to work via working in our communities, supporting black authors (including black enterprises), improving our health, never supporting TV shows or movies that degrade us (in order words, we shouldn’t buy products from anyone who slanders us and we shouldn’t economically fund anyone who is anti-black), and treat each other as human beings.”

Yes indeed, I strive to do that every day. I don’t have a TV and can’t remember the last time I saw a movie. I try to treat others the best I can also.

Something I have been doing for the last 25 years is support at least one black business every week. I get a lot of lip about this. One person pointed out to me that I was wasting my time because all the owners of those businesses will do is go spend their money outside the black community. I replied to him by saying ‘that at the end of the day, I can say I did my part.’ I will not allow someone else’s spending habits to affect where I spend my dollar.

 

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 Trojan Pam

@ Fan

What I have found in my experience the white supremacists are pros at identifying the “wrong” type of blacks — those who actually care about their own people and those people

Case in point, a former best friend of mine studying to be a doctor was asked by the white male in charge of the residents what she wanted to do once she finished her residency at a prestigious hospital. Well, she made the mistake of saying she wanted to come back to the black community to help poor people.

From that point on, she was blackballed, harassed, and they did everything they could to make her drop out. She was on the verge of a nervous breakdown before the torment ended. Today’s she’s a doctor working in the black community but she’ll never get a prestigious appointment anywhere.

The odds that an integrity driven person of any ethnicity getting the power to effect real positive change in today’s corporate and political world is becoming as rare as the do-do bird.

There are many in the psychiatric community who claim the people most likely to rise up the corporate/political ladder today are sociopaths and psychopaths. Based on what I have seen, I say they are absolutely correct.

 

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Nixak*77*

 

Say it one more time again... China's 1 child per couple policy definitely slowed its population growth, yet China economic policy over that same time span has resulted in a HUGE increase in its GHG gas emissions. Thus this fact challenges the meme that reduced population [growth] guarantees reduced GHG gas emissions- 'It ain't necessarily so.'

 

 

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 Nonso Nnaemeka

9 months ago

Malcolm X is the real deal

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Trojan Pam

Interesitng post.

I think this is a very, very, very important topic because the white supremacists love to pretend that all people do the same things but they never pretend that all people are equal. I have a long response so I’m going to break it up into two or three parts.

White supremacy is Racism. Racism is White Supremacy. White people are the ONLY people on the planet who have devised a SYSTEM to mistreat people based on skin color alone. This SYSTEM embraces EVERY aspect of human existence — education, economic, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war.

That is why black and non-white people CANNOT BE RACIST. We do not have a SYSTEM — the power or the institutions– that allows us to mistreat people based on color. Of course, black and non-white people can be PREJUDICED (meaning to pre-judge) someone based on color but that prejudice is limited to what that INDIVIDUAL can do to another INDIVIDUAL.

In fact, most of what black and non-white people do and say is BASED on what they LEARNED under the system of white supremacy – a GLOBAL system that includes India and Japan and their skin color madness. That is NOT ‘internalized racism” because black and non-white people cannot practice “race-ism.”

A more accurate term (in my opinion) for a black person mimicking white racism would be “anti-blackness” or “self-hatred” or “anti-self” but it is NOT racism because we do not have the systems to mistreat other people. Words are important. We should NOT include ourselves as complicit in the practice of race-ism anymore than a concentration camp prisoner who have been brainwashed (gone insane) against his or her fellow prisoners should pretend he or she created the prison or is responsible for its existence. Let the white people responsible for creating and practicing racism TAKE ALL THE BLAME.

 

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Marilynn Jones

4 days ago (edited)

Everything is always about " FORCE"  when we Advocate for ourselves. This is why the Police (Bad Ones) operate with impunity--they are the largest gang in America operating under " the Law".

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 Charles White

2 days ago

How can it not be a law for members of Congress who support and/or participated insurrection against USA Government to be allowed to be a Member of Congress? Congress needs to pass bill to banned members who support sedition.

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Vitin Manuel

2 years ago

Proud to be an Afro Boricua !!!!  Always....

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TROJAN HORSE

7 months ago

African Americans stand with our brothers and sisters living in Brazil

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Bre Bre

6 months ago

I stand with my black brothers and sisters around the world. its crazy how here in America they deny white supremacy. but you see it around the globe.

 

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judo 101

11 months ago

I’m a black Puerto Rican both parents  born on the island! I love ❤️ my blackness 🇵🇷✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

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 Trojan Pam

@ Kushite Prince

when people accuse black people of being “just as racist as whites” they NEVER give any real examples of this “power” that blacks allegedly have over whites.

All they can say is, well, a black person cussed me out and called me a “honk*y!” or some black person (usually one person) said or did something which may or may not have happened because they were white.

If a black criminal robs you on a street corner, they’re not doing it because you’re white, he or she is robbing you because he or she wants your money, phone, etc,

but they call this “black racism”

Even when black people have powerful “titles” they still cater to white people and are still following their orders from their white bosses but as soon as the black person does or says something white people don’t like (like Michelle Obama talking to black girls)

they call this “black racism”

It’s so bad that even black people are calling other black people “racist”

“Oh, so and so said something unflattering about white people so that black person is a racist!”

that’s why it’s important to know the definition of words and how they’re used to confuse and deceive us.

 

 

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Shelayna Oskan - Clarke supports Healthy Active Me initiative

Words from the Late Sister Trojan Pam.

 

 

TrojanPam says:

January 31, 2014 at 3:50 am

@ AJ

I agree that trying to raise healthy children who feel loved and valued is a difficult task for non-white people under the system of white supremacy. This is why it’s so important to share valuable information rather than present “feel good” information.

And that is a major problem, how we avoid unpleasant truths and issues — all while we are still catching hell in the real world. Of course, I understand this need, since I have it, too.

At the same time, I don’t see how we can solve a single problem we have be it economics, education, family, children, etc., without solving the problem of racism.

We can do our best to plan for and raise our children — and the system will derail those efforts — because it’s DESIGNED to do it.

And until we deal with that reality and oppose it with constructive thoughts, speech, and actions, nothing will change.

 

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Trojan Pam says:

April 19, 2017 at 7:08 am

I will be the first to leave a comment by admitting that I am also “guilty” — if that is the right word — for being MORE of a consumer than a producer. I tried many home-based businesses over the years — mail order, photographic business cards, flea market seller, A.L. Williams multi-level marketer of insurance (for which I left a good government job, bragging about not working for anyone else (and a year later I was relieved to find another “good government job.”)

My last “venture” so to speak was writing four counter-racist books which I sell and promote on this blog and to be honest, those types of books don’t sell very well SO I have to keep a job to make ends meet and a roof over my head.

Ah well… .

Over the years, I ran up credit cards for things I didn’t need (and some things I never wore or used). Things I didn’t have the cash to pay for meant I couldn’t afford it, but I ignored that nagging feeling that I was messing up and continued using cards to finance my lifestyle, knowing another paycheck was right around the corner.

A word to the wise and not so wise:

Anything that requires credit because you don’t have the cash to pay for it (other than big purchases like homes and cars) probably means you CAN’T AFFORD IT (and might not NEED it).

I finally got myself down to a small amount of debt but even that amount is like a milestone around my neck. I hate debt now, but I know that a shift in attitude could send me right back to using cards again, but I seriously doubt that will happen because it’s hard to owe so many people money when you hardly have enough for yourself.

Now, some of you may be able to afford a lot of debt due to your income but JUST THINK about how those dollars could be better put to use than buying stuff you don’t need.

II know it’s nice to live in a big pretty house full of nice things with a TV in darn near every room, and carry an overpriced I Phone (that cost Apple less than $20 to make using slave labor), and drive a really nice car, and wear clothes and shoes and carry purses with rich white people’s names on it (who don’t appreciate your business), and sit in nice restaurants feeling all prosperous among people who wonder what you’re doing there (??) and staying in nice hotels (i admit I love a nice hotel room!)

but at the end of the day, who really gives a flying (I won’t say the last word)?

People really don’t care what you wear and drive and live in (they really don’t)

And after you get those two to five seconds of envy you think you’re getting from strangers, nobody’s thinking about you or your car or your clothes or your house except those who are secretly hoping you lose it all.

Are those the people you are busting your butt trying to impress?

Because the need to impress is a sign of self-esteem damage and growing up BLACK will do a number on your self-esteem, making you super self-conscious of the image you present — good or bad — to the world. Totally understandable. I suffer from it, too,

What troubles me most is not JUST how we spend our money (consumers) but that we don’t PRODUCE anything and some of us never think about what a precarious and dangerous position that is.

That makes us a PERMANENTLY DEPENDENT CLASS OF PEOPLE who cannot feed or clothe or supply even our most BASIC NEEDS

and that is NOTHING to be proud of. In fact, it should scare the S out of us

but it doesn’t.

I hope that something Dr. Anderson says will be a spark to thinking differently. I am going to post more videos like his in the hopes that some seeds will be planted

We (and that includes ME) must stop being the planet’s biggest CASH COWS — meaning we are the most exploited and disrespected and disenfranchised consumer class on the PLANET — blacks who live in America.

We can do better. We built BLACK WALL STREET, an economic miracle of the early 20th century with our own movie theaters, homes and businesses (that WE built ) and this happened shortly after 400 years of slavery. We were totally SELF-SUFFICIENT. If you’ve never heard of it, google it.

Now, in 2017, we are trapped in a different kind of SLAVERY, one of mind, body and spirit that is guided by MATERIAL THINGS WE DO NOT PRODUCE.

IT IS TIME TO CHANGE OUR FOCUS from being CONSUMERS to PRODUCERS and to find a way to circulate our dollars among our own communities — which means black business people MUST LEARN HOW TO BE better business people who respect their customers and offer great service and products.

The same way some of us do for the white businesses we work for.

as my post is long enough, I’ll leave it at that

 

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