Full Circles

So I have been asked why black people get so militant and stick up for each other as a race so much. Well, the simplest answer that I can provide is that in a lot of ways, we, as in the people in this country, still suffer from the slave mentality. Just as the masters and the their family stick up for; excuse me, stuck up for the other masters and THEIR families, we stick up for other people like us. If you look at it, the entire country STILL suffers from a cyclical slave, master and plantation mentality. Think about it. Slaves were pitted against each other from the onset. You had the house slaves that looked down on the field slaves. The field slaves hated the house slaves. The butler abhorred all of them because he thought that he was the master's right hand while the master's left hand was up the dress of the butler's wife's dress. Meanwhile, the master's wife was mostly in charge of the house slaves and would pit then against the field slaves of the time all the while she was finding the nearest pit in the field to be taken by a slave. The master would find out that his wife was getting smashed, the butler would be in charge of punishing the field slave, the wife of the butler would be in charge of cleaning the wife, the field slave would be beaten, sold and/or killed and the master would continue to make his money all while still sleeping with the butler's wife behind his own hypocritical views. In all of that you have black on black crime (still relevant today), hypocritical politics (still relevant today) and we wonder why we can't all get along. History dictates the actions of future behavior. Everything has changed, yet nothing really has. Hatred is still alive, it just has greener eyes. Slavery is still present, just has a different master.