Teaching anyone to think of themselves as helpless recipients of external circumstances–as victims–is a sort of soul theft. You are leaching off vital energy, possibility, response-ability, freedom, dignity.
And there are people out there who are very eager to make others weak, so that they can enslave them, or at least make them reliably dependent, and thus reliably passive and compliant.
It’s a suckers game. A con game. A game played for fools by charlatans and hucksters. As I have said before, the biggest strike in my book against black folks in this country is that they have let this game go on this long. They keep hoping for the winning lottery ticket that never comes. Next election, they are told, next election. And they believe it.
What I see is an ocean of wasted potential talent.