In 1973 there was
a bank robbery in the city of Stockholm, Sweden. The people that were held hostage by the
robbers in this bank after six days not only began to love their oppressors,
but became readily mentally and physically to fight and defend their
oppressors. Thereafter, the term
“Stockholm Syndrome” became known as the term to describe the mentality of an
oppressor’s victim. Before 1973, this
term was not available. What is so
amazing about it, unlike the “Willie Lynch Syndrome” is that is only takes a
few hours for the victim’s mindset to program itself into thinking, seeing, and
feeling such affection for its oppressor.
I am diagnosing a problem we have with melanated people by a name that
was tagged back in 1973. This is why so
many people ask, “why are melanated people so religious?” Prior to 1973, this mentality would have been
looked upon as what psychologists and/or psychiatrists would call “Cognitive
Dissonance.” What this means is, when a
person is in fear of his or hers life, or there is some sort of specific
traumatic affect, the victim begins to adhere to the oppressor’s plea. In other words, the victim begins to think
that their oppressor is looking out for their best interest. So, there is a shift that happens in the mind
where a person begins to “envy his or her oppressor.” The victim begins to defend and or defend
the oppressor’s ideologies by accepting them as logical. The victim is no longer recognizing that he
or she is in a state of “fear.”
Having said that,
let us look at this within the context of racism/white supremacy’s affect on
melanated people by way of the “Stockholm Syndrome.” Melanated people’s ancestors of chattel
slavery were given a belief system from the Racists White Man and Woman that
essentially said to them, “this is your ticket of justification for you to
continue to suffer and endure chattel slavery.”
Now the few people that were kidnapped from the continent of Africa and
brought to the Americas, because most of us were already here but that’s
another blog, which I will not address right now, were given this ticket by way
of the bible. Another term for this is
called “bridal kidnapping” which the God of the bible authorizes in the book of
Judges, chapter 21. When these women
found themselves in this situation of “kidnapped” they were more apt to go
along with their oppressor’s desires because of the trauma. Therefore, the offspring of these women were
taught the ideas and ideologies of their oppressors. This is how we become a people who are
comfortable with submissive acts towards our oppressor and hostile against each
other. You see, with the fear that has
been supplanted, we make ourselves “comfortable” in our misery in order to
survive because the power over us is too great.
Melanated people have been oppressed for so long that when we get
leaders such as Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Sojourner Truth, etc., or anyone who
have some type of “Godlike” complex about them, melanated people associate
their efforts to help us become liberated as the “God of the Bible” was helping
us. Muslims will say Christianity is
wrong, and Christians will say that Islam is wrong, in other words, the god
that each of them are following is not the same. Yet, they both will state that the progress
of melanated people is due to their God.
The reason why we have “Stockholm Syndrome” is because we have been and
are mentally captive and oppressed and will go along with our oppressor’s ideas
and ideologies and love the Racists White Man and Woman for it all at the same
time. We love the doctrine that is
taught to us by their hierarchy. So we
begin to make ourselves comfortable in our trauma because that is what
“Stockholm Syndrome” is all about beloved.
You will love and life by what the Racists White Man and Woman is doing
to us in order to survive. You see, in
the Stockholm Syndrome, you feel there is no other choice, so you manipulate
your mind to see eye to eye with your oppressor. Melanated people lack intelligence and
understanding because we are continually in a state of trauma/fear. Do not get me wrong beloved, I am not saying
that we don’t have the ability to be intelligent or to understand, but that we
lack it due to the state in which we are continually placed. It takes Divine Ancestry intervention for us
to recover from such a situation. The
slave who loves his or hers chains have no reason to be free. Sojourner Truth said, “I set a thousand
slaves free, and would have set more free if they only knew they were slaves.” Hotep!
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