Cultural Trauma and Know What I MEAN? study questions

[Pragmatic]

• pg.65 Cultural Truama Dubois says ..."it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races"...Did Dubois agree with the black people voting for there own civil restrictions during Reconstruction?

• Did Dubois understand the criminality of citizenship as a double standard in the 13th Amendment which still enslaved/convicted black people under the Black codes according to their skin color?

• Did Dubois, and the Talenth Tenth, ever stand out against Black Senator's and Represantives, who allowed black people to vote for there own repression during reconstruction?

• Was it effective to stand out against Washington and Garvey?

• Is African American a shared identity? Is African American a collective identity that advocates education of the ignorant, and the exploitation of the literate?

• pg.132 Do Black people see Obama as the New Deal? Do Black people regard his recovery administration as an interpretation of progression? Is Obama the black Roosevelt winning his election with the overwhelming majority of Black votes with little question of radical representation?

• pg.133 1932, Congress was opposed to any alteration of American race relations. 2009, Slavery is still legal.

• pg. 134 The New Deal legislation created a second ghetto, facillated by the federal government. With the rise of homelessness, in 2009, due to a New Deal housing bust, what will be the future of black migration with a collasped industry and the reoccurrence of economic depression?

• pg. 136 While Blacks particpate in there own oppression by voting into a social movement organized and expanded upon the perspective of slavery; The African campaign of organization looks to be a narrative for scientific institutionalization?

• Is Scientific Institutionalization, a facist commissioned pattern of conditioned rationalizations, used to stratify the inhabits of imperialism through caste, class, interest, particpation, advancement, and integration? Is Scientific Institutionalization, throughly reinforced interpretations, of a White romantized Hiearchy and downtrodden subculture expectations?

• px. In the intro of "Know what I MEAN?", Jay Z says, Dyson reminds us that our situation does'nt have to be an excuse but a resource. Jay says lust, bounce, violence, and hatred came from America; He says Hip Hop is American, Blackness is American. I am American

• In the book of Matthew 9:24 The Prophet Jesus says, " A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master; it is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Be-el-zebul, how much more will they (ED note *they meaning servants) malign those of his household.

• ma·lign 1 a: evil in nature, influence, or effect :injurious <the malign effects of illicit drugs> b: malignant , virulent2: having or showing intense often vicious ill will : malevolent

• Matthew 12:25 ..."Every kingdom divided against itself laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand; and if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand? And if I cast out demons by Be-el-zebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges..."

• Is being black, being American? Is this argument cogant?

• pg. 26 The Black Codes of the South..." If any negro or mulatto, bond or free, shall at any time lift his or her hand in opposition to any person not being a negro or mulatto,...punishment.., not exceeding 30 lashes....Mississippi and Florida incorporated into their legal codes "abusive and provoking language to, or lift his hand...extended lashing to 39 lashes. The provision in most of these laws that the Negro might escape punishment if he opposed a white man in self-defense was practically meaningless since he could not testify against a white man and white solidarity virtually assured acceptance of the man's oath.

• Judge John B. O'Neall of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina in summing up State vs. Harden in 1832

..."Free negroes belong to a degraded caste of society; they are in no respect on an equality with a white man. According to their condition they ought by law to be compelled to demean themselves as inferiors, from whom submission and respect to the whites, in all their intercourse in society, is demanded; I have always thought and while on the circuit ruled that words of impertinence and insolence addressed by a free negro to a white man, would justify an assault and battery."


Evidence that the attitude of Judge O'Neall was not unusual may be seen in the statement of Judge Richmond M. Pearson of the North Carolina Supreme Court in State vs. Jowers, in December, 1850:



..."It is unfortunate that this third class exists in our society . . . A free negro has no master to correct him . . . and unless a white man, to whom insolence is given, has a right o put a stop to it, in an extra judicial way, there is no remedy for it. This would be insufferable. Hence we infer from the principles of the common law, that this extra judicial rememdy is excusable, provided the words or acts of a free negro be in law insolent."

• If were doing such a good job integrating *(gradual assimilation), why are whites still murdering & enslaving black people? Hows it working for us? Is it a coincidence that it affects our reality? Are white people intutively right, and black people intutively wrong? Are we still living in the past?

• 42:42] The wrong ones are those who treat the people unjustly, and resort to aggression without provocation. These have incurred a painful retribution.
  
  [42:43] Resorting to patience and forgiveness reflects a true strength of character.
  
  [42:44] Whomever GOD sends astray will never find any other lord, and you will see such transgressors, when they see the retribution, saying, "Can we get another chance?"
  
  [42:45] You will see them facing it, humiliated and debased, and looking, yet trying to avoid looking. Those who believed will proclaim: "The real losers are those who lost their souls and their families on the Day of Resurrection. The transgressors have deserved an everlasting retribution."

Peace be upon you

[Pragmatic]

pg. 43 ...."Whether we call it the justice or injustice system in not really important, because the crime in America has to be reexamined to account for the fact that crime is a political question.

pg. 44 If Clinton's policy is that Black people support criminal acts, againt each other. What is he to embelish about letting drug traffickers court cocaine through Mena, Arkansas. Under full blown investigation, he allowed the provision of the aircraft to maintain, funding Drug cartels. Then was elected President. This reminds of the Hayes Conspiracy. White people torture you and humilate you. You flee away from them. They find you, afraid of looking inferior for there lack of humanity. Introduce all kind of handicaps, from legal discrimination, lynchings, truancy laws, guns and crack. Leave this desolated, experiment. Manifesting Learned Helplessness, through institutional joblessness, breeding a criminal behavior, then locking you up...this is Double Jeopardy for Black people, this our Due process. Then they call us uncivilized. The whites of that race are deranged and psychopathic.

pg 49. of Rac. Justice.." We have, in effect, the same captive slave population in 2003 as in the beginning of the nation".

pg. 68 from Know what I mean, ..."Many conscious rappers are understandably nervous with the term "concious rapper" because it segregates them from the broader body of hip hop. Moreover, the term can be used to set them up as "better" or "more enlightened," which most ". . . understandably" . . . want to avoid.

I'm evaluating his position on rap, foreal,. . .

by looking at pg. 45 where he qoutes..."The tragedy is that we have failed to come to grips with the enormous achievement of our own children, because we're so angry at them. The larger world embraces them in ways we've failed to do, collectively, within our race.

..."I'm not suggesting we can't be critically engaged with our children's aethetic expression. But how can we be effectively engaged if we don't know we're engaging with? We don't have to romanticize our young rhetorical artists to appreciate them."

First of all, black people are the major supporters of Black music, before there children turn on them. Black people do cannibalize stereotypes. As you can see by Mr. Dyson's flip/flop responses on morality, by not taking an Authoratartive stand, African people are manifesting a plural pathology. One legitamizes coming up on each other, but by any means necessary. There can be no appreciation of the sort.

Actually he shouldn't understand why young artist wouldn't want to express there discomfort with the collective irresponsiblity in the Art form of Hip Hop, in other words he should encourage them, by there lack of particpation in artiscal demoralization; unless he believes the platform will always provide a landing strip for his perspective. pg. 70 says..." Such a role for the artist (conscious) should not be down-played, underestimated, or even, undervalued.

My question is, Mr. Dyson, should they know there place though?

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pg. 70 There's got to be a division of labor that recognizes the talents that each person possesses, although those of us who are fortunate enough to have greater amounts of leisure, labor flexibility, social support, and cultural recognition are held to a higher standard. In a sense, we are more responsible to the common good. As we say in Christian circles, " To whom much is given, much is required."

From Slave Religion pg. 143

..."black ministers in the South was always threated by restrictions. It was not only the civil authority which curtailed the ministry of black preachers. Officers of the Baptist Chr. in Cedar Springs, S.C, for ex., decided in 1804 to allow brother Titus, "to sing, pray, and exhort in public, and appoint meetings in the vicinity of the church," with the understanding that "all his acting... be in Subordination to his master, and that "all his master council him in particular cases as his prudence may dictate."


pg. 160-161 of The Slave Religion

..."We should protect ourselves by Law, as far as possible, from the Circulation of Incediary publications, and from the teachings of incediary Agents; and then should we look at home, and enter upon a discharge of our Duty to the Negroes, as will meet the approbation of God and our consciences, and commend ourselves to the consciences of other men. One important step towards a discharge of our duty to the most effectual manner, we believe to be, a general and judicious system of religious instruction. . . . No means will so effectually counteract evil influences, and open up our way to the proper improvement of our colored population, as a "judicious system" of religious instruction."

peace be upon you