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Let's talk about the Trap. What trap? It's called the Black Trap. And we can learn a little bit more about this trap by doing a simple Google search and just typing in "Black people." And what'll come up is a Wikipedia article titled "Black people." And when we click on it and begin to read, this is what it says: "Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid to dark brown complexion."
Now, we're going to stop right here because there's a lot of juiciness and gems just in this one piece right here. We're going to focus on this. And first, what we're going to do is make a correction on saying "dark brown." In our culture, we don't say "dark brown." We say "rich brown" because "dark" is an outdated word and it's a derogatory word when you're describing a person's skin tone. That's another aspect of the Trap.
So, dealing with that, let's go back up to the very first, the very first part of the sentence where it says, "Black is a racialized classification of people." Now, what you have to understand about the Trap is you need to understand the concept of racialization, racializing. So let's go and click on it and let's find out the piece of the puzzle that explains racialization.
In sociology, racialization or ethnicization is a political process of ascribing ethnic or racial identities to a relationship, social practice, or group that did not identify itself as such. So, what we understand with racialized is that this group did not choose or pick, raise their hand to be selected to be named a certain name, given by other people who are doing what? They're trying to dominate them. You got to understand that people are coming in with strategies. There's not just something that's just happening. They're coming in with a strategy. And one of the strategies is to racialize people, remove names and place them with other names for the purpose of doing what? For the purpose of domination and social exclusion. To dominate them and to socially exclude them. In the case of Black folks, socially excluded from the liberties, uh, in America, freedom, just justice, the pursuit of happiness. That's what the intended case was, to exclude and to give it to certain people, people, and to exclude others from having it. And because Black people, what we'll come to understand is that they were invented to become slaves, perpetual slaves. This is going into the creation of and the invention of Black people, right? And when we say Black people, we're talking about a racialized identity, an identity that's imposed on somebody. We're not talking about flesh and blood actual people, right, who have brown skin. We're not talking about that. We're talking about the identity of being a Black person, okay?
Let's see what else there is. "Racialization or ethnicization often arises out of the interaction of a group with a group that it dominates or wants to dominate, and the group that wants to dominate ascribes a racial identity to the other group." It's almost like putting a mark on someone so you can identify who's the group that's supposed to be dominated, who's the group that is supposed to be used for slavery. It says in the Bible that God put a mark on Cain. In this instance, the colonialists put a mark on people by calling them Black for what? For the purpose of reproducing or continuing their ways of domination and for reinforcing their social exclusion practices, right? So this is a, this is a strategy. That's what we have to understand. That it's a strategy. And it's a really good strategy. It's a very good strategy because it's digging at the core of people's beliefs in themselves. Name is like a, it is a very important part of someone's identity. That's why people don't like when people call them other names. "That's not my name." If your name is Mark and someone comes over there and says, "Your name is now Stephen," you don't like that. They don't like that because it's, it's, it's something that you hold close to you, the nearest part and, and of your being. That's what a name is. And people who do these colonizing strategies understand that the people who make the names for themselves before it was stripped away, they understand that as well. But what happens is when this gets forced on you and then you continue to believe in it, then you lose all, uh, your, you lose your mind, basically. And you take on a different mind that has been created for you, starting with identifying yourself as a, a name that a colonist or an oppressor is putting on you. So this is what's happening.
Let's see some more. "It is a dehumanization process that evolved from racism, distinguishing the dominant group's identity as comparatively different and superior to the non-dominant group for the purpose of oppression." For the purpose of oppression. What are they doing to when they create names? You don't give somebody a name when you're coming to oppress them. Something that is a value. You keep yourself with a valuable name and then you create. What is this? When we're going into the law of polarity, where everything has its opposites: up, down, left, right, fast, slow, in, out, high, low, black, white. All these things have opposites. Now, what a colonizer, when you're into them, when you, when you understand this, when they're using this law of polarity, they're creating a distance between how they identify themselves, which is going to be superior, obviously. You're coming to oppress somebody. When you're oppressing, you're keeping them down, you're pushing them down, right? So when you're pushing them down, you're giving them a name that reflects that. So, for example, if I'm coming in and colonizing a new set of people, I'm going to apply on them or attach a label to them as being called stupid. So they'll become to know themselves as, "I am the stupid people. I am the stupid people. We call ourselves the stupid people." And I would keep the name of being something like, maybe, "We are the intelligent people." We created a polarity where you use the law of polarity, polarize the two sides where you are oppressed at the bottom, and I have uplifted myself at the top. So it is with the Black and white identity. You get placed as Black, right? You remove your the traditional names, place you as Black, Negro, that's at the bottom. They end up taking on the name White, which is at the top. It's a polarity in there. You can't reconcile those differences. There is a way you can do it, but it's not within this framework of speaking and, and, and in this context of of communication. You can't reconcile that one is always the bottom, one's always the top. This is the strategy, right? This is the strategy. This is the tool. This, this is the strategy, the tool, the plan, and the intention.
Over time, the racialized and ethnicized group developed, the society enforced construct, internalized oppression that races are real, different, and unequal in ways that matter to economic, political, and social life. And this is why you'll hear Black people say, "We can't." They, they, they're in a defeated mode because they've taken on that worldview. "Man, we can't do nothing. Always a struggle story. It's always a down-and-out type of story." For a good portion of Black folks, many, some, some of them are able to find success in certain areas, but as a collective, it hasn't happened. Taking on that worldview, still worrying about what, what the white man is doing, or who they perceive to be the white man. This, this is the power of doing this. This is the power of racializing someone and placing names that are loaded and filled with other types of derogatory meanings. That's how you would do if you're an oppressor. That's exactly what anybody would do if they are an oppressor and you're really trying to come through and take somebody down, right? You're doing the whole thing.
Let's get some more. "An unhealthy norm that strips them of their dignity, of full humanity." And that is the case with what happened in the Americas. Taking people, bringing them over, and even the people that were here, same thing. Whoever got caught in the fire, got caught in the fire. That's how it went, right? Whoever got caught there, the Native Americans, the natives here, they got caught in the fire too. And there's other people too, who, even the Irish, right? And other groups too. There's parts of Asia who's got, whoever was caught in the crossfire, that's who got caught. That's what dominant, the dominant characteristic and trait does. And this dominant trait could be in any group, no matter what the color. It just happened to be that the Europeans were the ones who were, who were able to play that role at that time. But throughout other times in history, it could have been someone else. In the future, it could be someone else. Just depends on whoever that character trait gets on and if they have the power to impose. If they can impose their will, and this is something they want to do. They come through and oppress, right? And they can come up with all types of tactics and strategies to do that. This right here is a, is a, A+ strategy. I will say an A+ strategy on how to oppress people.
Now, let's go back into the other article on Black people and see what else we can find in there. "Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid to dark brown complexion." So we can see on here that it has nothing to do with skin tone because everyone can look and see skin tones are brown from the mid. And it's saying on here from mid-brown all the way to rich brown. Those are the people who they're trying to jam into these categories of being Black. For Black, for what? So you can be subjugated, slave, chattel, and property. That was what the intention was.
Now, when you take on this term and you start calling yourself a Black person and you have brown skin, what it does is it starts to distort your own reality. And what I mean by that is that in the mental realm, your realm of imagination, the realm of ideas that everyone has access to, you can come up with many different things in that realm. Many different ideas, many different imaginative types of concepts. And in that realm, they work out perfectly fine, right? You can see yourself doing a thousand backflips. You can see yourself being half shark, half monkey. I mean, you can see yourself jumping up and going to the moon, right? Now, you could do anything you want in that realm. The problem is when you try to take some of the fanciful things and you try to bring those down into the physical realm, the actual realm here of existence, there becomes a disconnect there. If I could do 50,000 backflips in the mental realm and I come down here to the physical realm and try to do 50,000 backflips, it's not going to work.
So what happens is, when this is how they, they understand the nature of reality and how the mind works. So what is they went and they have went into the, the mental realm and they have hijacked the conceptions in the mental realm and they have made someone believe that those concepts in their mental realm are here in the actual physical realm. So you, in the, in the mental realm, they'll make you believe that you're a Black person. And therefore, it has transitioned down into the physical world as people with brown skin thinking that they're Black people, thus distorting your reality and the way you perceive your everyday life and the way you see yourself. This is key, very key, very key to understanding just how reality works in general. Because there's people who got clear vision and they can see and they know how it works and they use that to their advantage to other people who don't know how it works, right? And they can manipulate, adjust, and manufacture people's perception of reality. And this is one of the ways that they did it by creating this classification.
Now, let's, let's see if we can get some more in here. "Not all people considered Black have dark skin." You can create this group of people and lump them in the label of Black, no matter what skin color that they have. If you can get them to believe it, and you can get other people to believe it, then all of a sudden, it becomes a reality for people. On my job that I had worked at, they took me to be white. And my best friend, she, uh, took me to be white. She was shocked when I told her, "I'm not white. I am Black. I am a Black person." And it was, "Well, you're, you're not that. You think you are." "No, I know I am. I was raised that way." Right? At one time, it was, if you had one parent that was considered Black and the other one considered white, that child is considered Black. Then they took it up even further. If you have one drop, then you're considered Black. You can play all types of games with this. Understand? You can create however you want. I told you, you could do anything in the mental realm. 50,000 backflips, a million push-ups in two seconds. You can create anything in that realm. So someone gets someone to believe that in that realm that this person's Black, these people are Black, you can lump anything in there. All of a sudden, people start accepting it. "Oh yeah, I guess that person is Black. I guess that is a Black person. I, I guess, I guess I am a Black person." Here we go. It can get spicy in here. It can get real spicy. Let's see some more.
"In certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western World, the term Black is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned compared to other populations." That's what they did with the Italians. We can just use them for example. They have a little bit richer skin than like, uh, um, an English European. You can create a polarity between those two groups off of skin color alone and you can say, "You guys are the Black ones. We're the white ones." Right? And they can play that game. They do the same thing in the, in the, uh, the Black community. You can create a polarity out of that too. You can say the light-skinned people are the white people. And then you can say the people with richer, uh, skin tones are known as whatever, Black people. You can play the game however many ways you want to play it, right? And you understand this stuff when you become a free person. You can understand it. You can see all the games being played, how they're being played. You can choose which games to play, which games not to play, right? "I don't want to play that game." Or, "Yep, that's a game I want to play." Or you want to get other people to play that game.
"It is most commonly used for people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, indigenous Australians, and Melanesians, though it has been applied in many contexts to other groups and is no indicator of any close ancestral relationship whatsoever." Letting you know that this doesn't have anything to do with someone who's related to who. The Indians were one time were called Black. You can make anybody Black. You can literally make anybody Black. The Native Americans, they called them Black at one time. You can do it to anybody, right? Whoever has the power, who understands the, the workings of reality, human mind, have the power to enforce. You can create and and forge and force people to accept realities that they would not and otherwise would have never accepted.
"Indigenous African societies do not use the term Black as a racial identity outside of influences brought by by Western cultures." So some of the indigenous Africans, they don't use that term Black. That concept is foreign to them. They don't understand what it's like to be called a Black person. What does that mean? They're confused. "No, I'm a this tribe or I'm a that tribe. This is our people." But notice the key word in here or the key phrase in here is that it's outside of influence brought by Western culture. Who's bringing that, that ideology over there and hijacking minds? People from Western culture who, who are locked down with that mindset or they perceive themselves to be locked down with that mindset and go and pass it on to other people. The television is one of the, the greatest tools invented to that can be used to oppress. All you have to do is turn it on and watch it. No one even has to be there. Whatever program they have, put it on there. That's why it's a television program. Put it on there. And if someone's sitting in front of the TV, you're just basically just getting hypnotized, just bringing, just taking it all in, internalizing. So if you're listening to Western propaganda and you're over there, then eventually you'll start thinking to yourself, "Maybe I am a Black person." That's one way it can happen. The other way is some people from those African communities come over to Western societies and get educated and go and bring that stuff back on over there and start referring to other people as Black people, teaching them that ideology and not really understanding what, what it is that they're doing. Not, not understanding what it is that they're doing that you're creating them and, and lumping them also into a, a group of people who are meant to be on the bottom, in the pit. Who else is doing it? You have Black people who already have an inferior complex, they're going across continents and then propagating that stuff and then also teaching these people over there, "Oh, you guys are Black people." Forcing that stuff on people, forcing the, the Black virus on people.
"Contemporary anthropologists and other scientists, while recognizing the reality of biological variation between different human populations, regard the concept of a unified distinguishable Black race as socially constructed." So what is socially constructed? We've been talking about that. That's in the mental realm of ideas and imagination, which is a very important realm. We'll talk about that in other videos. It's one of the core pieces of creation in the mental realm, your realm of imagination. It's saying someone is creating things in that realm, whether they be true or not. In the physical realm, in this case, it's not. There's no unified distinguishable so-called Black race, right? There's no gene that says, uh, Black. There's no gene for white. There's no gene for Christian. There's no gene for Muslim. These are all in the same thing. There's no gene for Democrat, a gene for Republican. Those are all ideas in the mental realm, right? They, they're in the mental realm of creation and accepted by society and agreed upon regardless of if it exists down here in the physical realm. So this is what socially constructed is. When you read anthropology, now they already understand that. And genetics, many of the scientists in the genetic field already understand that. There's none of this stuff exists in the physical world, right? We're not going to prick somebody's skin and say, "Okay, there we go. That's the Black gene right there." This is something that took place prior to the understanding of genetics. These are people lumping other things together just how they see fit. The colonist, "We see it this way. This is how it's going to go. We see it that way. You guys going to that group? Nope. That's your name right there." And they have the guns and all the other military to back it up to say, "If you don't, you're going to take this name. You're going to take this name, right? You're going to take the name." So that's what we're dealing with when we're talking about socially constructed. And you see that word a lot in a lot of the anthropological, uh, cultural anth, uh, cultural anthropology that'll be brought up a lot. Many of the things that we think of in society are socially constructed. It's something we agree upon whether they exist or not in the real, in the actual physical world, right? And you'll be surprised how many things are in that category. Race being one of them. This is the, the one of the major ones right now that's talked about. So the geneticist already understand, many of them understand that this is something that you cannot continue to perpetuate. Anthropology, they're moving away from that concept of race because it's outdated. It's already outdated. It served its purpose. It's destructive and it serves the few and it's detrimental to the many. Believe me, believe me, it is.
"Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified Black, and these social constructs have changed over time in a number of countries." Societal variables affect classification as much as skin color. And the social criteria for Blackness vary. A person being a free person could choose to change it, how they want to change it. They can change, they can decide to accept it or they can decide to reject it. But you have to understand your own powers as an individual before you have enough confidence to really make that type of decision because then you know, "You can't force me to believe in that. I'm not taking that. No, I'm not taking that. I'm not checking any of those boxes." Marked right on out. There we go. It's marked out. You check the box for, for example, you want to play the race game. You take on the title of being Black. Why don't we switch titles then? We can switch titles. Nobody has this, this, um, these skin colors in the real world. Nobody has those things. So we can switch colors then. We could play that game, right? I prefer not to play any of those games, though. I don't have time for that stuff.
"Some perceive the term Black as a derogatory, outdated, reductive, or otherwise unrepresentative label, and as a result, neither use nor define it." So some people perceive the term Black as derogatory. Who is some of those? Some people. We're talking about us. There are some people. Notice that it says "some people." Why does it say "some people"? Because most people haven't gotten control of their minds yet. And most Black people, especially, haven't gained control of their minds yet. So they don't see that it's a derogatory term and what it's intended to do, right? They don't see that yet. Eventually, who knows how long, most of them, many of them may come to that realization, and many may not. It was a powerful system that they set up. So I'm, I'm still undecided on if it will be something that will be undone with many of them, or will there always be a society of people calling themselves Black? Who knows? Especially in African countries with little to no history of colonial racial segregation. And especially in those countries who don't know anything about that. Like I said, they don't want that term. They don't want anything to do with that. Some people have their mind still and they're like, "Nope. We see the plan. We see the game plan. We see the strategy. It's pretty good. It's worked on other people. Not on me." That's how they're thinking about it. "Nope. We don't take that. We don't know anything about a Black thing there." There we go.
So this is a little bit more of the understanding of the Trap of Black and what it is and how you can maneuver around it. How you can see that it's set up. And essentially, if you can really grab the gem out of it, you can see how to remove yourself from it. Because the same process that was put into, uh, making someone a Black person is just the reverse of removing yourself from that type of ideology and that inferiority position in, uh, this world. But the, the, the understanding that you have to have is that no one is going to do that other than you. There's not going to be anything that happens for someone to come and to save you. You're going to have to do it yourself. You're going to have to take responsibility. You're going to have to become educated, get some confidence, and then you're going to have to make the leaps by yourself. And then as a collective, people can start to come together. But no one can do anything for what has happened, right? You can't rely on the government. They can't fix that problem, as what, as what has happened because that was a forced problem. Only way you can fix that, you have to force people to not be Black again, to not have that culture, to not see themselves that way. And that, that way is already over with. No one can force anybody over here to do anything now. They're not forcing people to do that, right? There would be a lot of stuff that goes into that. So you have to take it upon your own self to do it. You got to put the work in. You got to be dedicated. You have to study. You have to spend your time studying. You have to spend a times, uh, your time removing yourself from a lot of the, the, the habits that were attached and that were, um, learned from the people that came before through this process of being forced into an identity and then taking on behaviors and characteristics that reinforce that identity, in, in essence. And, and essentially, what I'm saying is you have to become another person, right? And that's the job. That's the task at hand. There's no other way around it.