I was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. It was at the beginning of the New Deal, the "second coming" of black dependency. Throughout my community, we Negroes were indoctrinated with the idea that we were unable to take care of ourselves, and that we needed help and handouts from Mr. Charlie in the form of government programs, including public assistance, food stamps, and any other "gifts" the government bestowed. This unquestioned dependency - what psychologists called "learned helplessness" - was, I believe, one of the the many reinforcements of a deep-seated, race-based inferiority.
In addition to read texts, the young males examined and discussed portraits of propaganda that provided the foundation of the inferiority complex.
They also discussed why books focused on African American and Latino males use "monster" or "beast" more than texts not focused on African American and Latino males.
The Complexity of Inferiority
IBJ9
I
agree with the article that states “The genesis of all these attitudes can be
traced to American slavery.” I feel this way because we were brought to this
country as property and we were treated this way since. I feel that the country
was not set up for the black man to succeed in life, but instead, was set up
for minorities to be inferior to the average white man. There is an essay that
states “Black intelligence is the most feared thing in the world”, and if 12%
of black and Latino boys in the 4th grade were reading at their
grade level in the country, then that shows me that black intelligence is
something that is being destroyed. Most black people live up to the stereotype
that they will never make it out of the “hood”, mainly because they drop out of
school to be one of the “cool” kids. These are the same people that end up dead
or in jail not long after. Many children that are minorities don’t live to see
their 30th birthday. It’s like a big cycle of death and destruction.
We are literally creating the genocide of the minorities in the USA. There is a
quote that stood out to me stating, “Those who fail to learn from history are
doomed to repeat it.” This quote told me that you have to change to make change
in the world. You have to change yourself in order to help change anyone else.
The main stereotype is that most black people cannot take care of themselves
and have to rely on government assistance, like food stamps, link cards, etc. I
strongly believe that turns most male adolescents to the streets. Usually,
their mom is struggling and their dad is either in jail, dead, or nowhere to be
found, and they lack that male role model to look up to. So, they feel that
they have to step up to the plate and become the “man of the house”. They drop
out of school and start to sell drugs as a steady income to help their family
out.
The
Propaganda, Inferiority, and Indoctrination
IBR1
Propaganda
is the positive and negative – and the use of words and images to influence,
change, and even transform people’s lives. The knowledge and insights I’ve
gained have inspired me to provoke an honest discussion in the hope that the
healing process can finally begin. Propaganda can be use in a positive way like
words and ideas to control your thinking it’s good for ideas because people
want to know what’s going on in your head. Propaganda is also use in a negative
was some people can control your thinking and make you do negative thing in
life that you don’t want to do and make you say negative things.
Inferiority Complex
IBP16
I agree with Mark twain because it
is easier to fool people then to convince them they have been fooled. I think
that is true because some people let other people tell them anything to make
them feel like they’re wrong I know there’s a lot of people out here lying to
people to make them feel good because truth be messing with people.
I also agree with Dick Gregory when
he says education means to bring out wisdom. I felt that because I believe if
more black men have had an education more of the men would probably be more
successful in life because black intelligent is the most feared thing in the
world. In the book Brainwash there’s this part in that stats Africans
Inferiority means feeling less than someone
or lower than and viewing other people better than me some I view other people
better than me because I’m lock up and they go home and I’m stuck in my room at
night like a cage animal and I feel like they are better than me and I’m less
than them because they are doing something with then self and I’m still lock
waiting for something good to happen in my life and its hard being in you room
at night thinking about all the good and bad things that happened in your life
time and some of the good and bad things are still happening too you I feel
less in my room at night cause all the things that I did hit me at night in my
room cause that’s all you can think about at night.
Indoctrinated
some that’s trying to control you in a bad or a good way.
Inferiority
IBK10
I agree with the quote, that stated hatred and
killing one another is public demonstration of inferiority complex. As Mark
Twain argued, he said that it is easier to fool people than to convince them
they have been fooled I I agree with that too . Last but not least Dick Gregory
is right, that Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination is to push
in knowledge. What the quote that
stated hatred and killing one another is public demonstration of inferiority
complex means to me is like someone is in control of us , and black people
killing and hating each other is basically showing inferiority that we go
through being black. For example Like I believe the system is set up for blacks
to lose because an intelligent black
person is dangerous. Why are we killing
ourselves ? Why is the joke always on
us? The text stated that Africans were innately inferior and it was indeed
completely justifiable to treat them as subhuman beast. It is easier to fool
people than to convince they have been fooled I agree with that quote because
from my prospective from what I have seen folks get fooled all the time and in
their mind they don’t believe that they have. For example I told someone that a
building just burned down downtown , then said I was just playing. I told him
it was a joke and fooled him but he said he seen it burning because he
didn’t won’t to convince his self he
been fooled. Dick Gregory quote makes sense to me because education is to bring
it wisdom witch also means in other word to bring out what you know and
learned. Indoctrination is to push knowledge so you can learn new things you
didn’t have a clue about and be able to pass it on to help knowledge others.
IB23
MARK TWAIN IS RIGHT, THAT IT IS EASZIER TO FOOL PEOPLE TO CONVIENCE
THEM THEY HAVE BEEN FOOLED. PART OF THE BLACK INFERIORTY
MARKETING CAMPAIGN IS TO CONVINCE US THAT WE CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH….. THAT
WE’RE BETTER OFF NOT KNOWING WE ARE CAPAABLE ENOUGH TO HANDLE THE TRUTH.MOST
PEOPLE SEEM TO GO BY WHAT THE NEXT IDIVIDUAL SAYS OR DOES SO THEY BELIEVE AND
GO BY THAT. INSTEAD OF MAKING SURE THE INFORMATION THAT PERSON PROVIDED IS TRUE
THEY RATHER BELIEVE THEM, BUT I SUPPOSE THEY SHOULD LOOK MORE INTO IT AND DO
RESEARCH THAT ISNT VERIFIED. IF WE PUT TOGETHER ALL OUR RESOURCES, WE HAVE THE
CRITICAL INFORMATION WE NEED SUCH AS THE NUMBERS, THE VOTING POWER, AND THE
PERSUASIVE SKILLS, TO HELP US TO FIGHT THE COMBAT THE ILLS THAT DERIVE FROM
LINGERING RACISM. IT STATES IN 1971, MARK TWAIN AND HIS PARTNER, EMMETT
MCBRAIN, LAUNCHED WHAT WOULD BECOME BURRELL ADVERTISING, A FULL SERVICE
ADVERTISING AGENCY SPECIALIZING IN PROMOTING PRODUCTS AND SERVIUCES TO THE THEN
LARGELY IGNORED AFRICA AMERICAN CONSUMER. BURRELL ADVERTISING BECAME AN
INDUSTRY LEADER BECAUSE OF ITS POSITIVE, REALISTIC, AND COMPELLING DEPICTIONS OF
BLACK LIFE AND CULTURE, PARTICULARLY IN THE MEDUIM OF TELEVISION. IN OTHER
WORDS, THEY CREATED AND DISSEMINATED “POSITIVE PROPAGANDA”. AS A MARKETING
PROFESSIONAL WHO RESPECTS AND ADMIRES BRILLIANTLY CONCEIVED AND DEFTLY EXECUTED
PROPAGANDA, EVENTUALLY RECOGNIZED THAT ONE OF THE GREATEST PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS
OF ALL TIME WAS THE MASTERFUL MARKETING OF THE MYTH OF BLACK INFERIORITY TO
JUSTIFY SLAVERY WITHIN A DEMOCRACY.PRESIDENT OBAMA UTILIZED A SAVY NEW MEDIA
CAMPAIGHN TO CHANGE HEARTSBAND WIN MINDS AND VOTES HAS OPENED THE DOOR FOR A
COUNTER PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN, ONE THAT BENEFITS NOT JUST THE BLACK PEOPLE BUT
WHITES AS WELL. WE CAN SEIZE THIS MOMENT IF ONLY WE TAKE CHARGE OF OUR OW
DESTINY, OUR OWN REPROGRAMMING.
Indoctrination
IBK3
Indoctrination
“its
easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled”. ~ mark
twain
I agree with this quote “propaganda”
because there is a lot of people out there that would rather be blind than know
the truth, its harder to know when your wrong rather than not knowing at all.
Being an African America black male trust is hard to come by when I have been
lied to most my life, it’s easier to trick a person that doesn’t want to know
the truth rather than telling them that they’ve been lied to.
Hatred [and killing one another]is
public demonstration of inferiority complex. “
~“Inferiority”
Inferiority
is one of pride, I agree with the quote Inferiority because that’s all this
world is made of. Everybody wants to be right or one doesn’t want to see
someone else progress and prosper. We were taught to hate one another other
than love, and this hatred is destroying our communities. killing one another
is wrong but if we weren’t taught how strong we are as a unit what’s stopping
us from killing or hating the next person.
Education means to bring out wisdom.
Indoctrination is to push in knowledge.
~
Dick Gregory
Indoctrination
is receiving knowledge embracing and absorbing it in Dick Gregory’s words. An
educated black man is the most powerful weapon know to man.
I
agree with dick Gregory because
Section
2
Section 2
Brainwashing is a normal situation when you
put your mind to notice different situations in the universe. Anybody can grow up to become the most known
anything in this world so its up to you to demonstrate for the next
person. People notice things you do and
the routes you choose to take whether its good or bad or even in the middle you
will set an example for the next person that’s viewing your every move. For
example, a god that gets looked down upon on which is Satan is based off
situations people make the worse out of.
You can use him as a resource of having bad outcomes in your life
because he isn’t a god that you prefer to worship and based off of little
information stories that were handed to an individual which is now up to you to
explain horror and tragic inside your life.
Escape routes not noticing other choices you can make leads you down to
a lower self instead of analyzing the plot we move around it and not help
ourselves. Having education helps you
read between lines that are given to you but using it can go many ways. African American humans are known for being
destructive and not well placed together and that’s based off of a certain
group of people trying to place labels on people without finding their selves
first. Starting life without finding
your personal self out first is a simple sign of Inferiority. Why take charge in the universe with make
believe stuff without knowing yourself you are still living life with no real
morals that benefit you. Thinking you
fooled somebody knowing later in life it really wasn’t what it seemed makes a
fool of yourself so whatever you bring out comes back to you whether its
mentally or physically you must find yourself first. Knowing killing people is bad is a known
thought but people still take the time to repent for the sin they will commit
it’s a sign of Inferiority because you know you can higher achieve without the
act of hurting somebody but having already installed that mindset shows no
worry about a none known consequence for yourself in the future. You don’t know which day you’ll die but
knowing you hurt somebody else is lease of your worries because this is
something to do while on earth even though it may not seem right. We are put on earth to see what we can
achieve inside of the brain as we can all come to an agreement but what are we
really placed on this earth to accomplish with the same situations recycling
generations to generations. Helping you
helps others but following in line with negativity helps others do destructive
things that doesn’t show people how to maneuver in this universe
Indoctrination
IBD5
I
agree that and think indoctrination and brainwashing is real because its just
like teaching someone something if you tell someone something over and over
they will believe it and run with it because that’s all they think of them self
of but in can also be backwards because if you speak to someone with respect
and tell them that they are something and make them feel good about themselves
then they will think they are valuable and have potential to be something
because you built up their self-esteem. In the reading it states “black
preference for high-end status brands was driven by the need to compensate for
feelings of low self-esteem” and that’s indoctrination because someone gives
you a reason to have low self esteem because what they say to you and how they
down talk you and degrade you when your just as valuable and important as they
are in every way. To compare it to the reading by saying its like reprogramming
you so are you a robot no but they treat us like we are because they brainwash
us and turn us into something were not and we go along with it because we feel
that its right and you never realize it until its to late so by then your
already what they programmed you to be a “MONSTER”. For example, I read a book
called monster not knowing that it was a form of indoctrination so everyone out
there reading books with these titles that’s actually were it comes from and if
you think back on it you can actually learn something from those books no
matter if its non-fiction or fiction either way it’s a form of indoctrination
so think back on that and never let some one put you in a category or put a
title on you because that’s not what were made to be and were not that were all
human just like everyone else and were all equals so when some try to make you
up to be something your not and you would never be like an animal or a monster
because your not you’re a powerful individual and your word means some as well
as the next man or women.
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