The New 'Massa'

America has always been about color;

not black,

not white,

not brown,

not yellow;

not any skin color

of the human race;

slavery was never about race

or white supremacy,

slavery was about economics,

pure and simple,

using black men just

made it feasible,

gave it a sort of

justified nobility;

did skin color matter to the Romans

when they enslaved conquered nations?

did it matter to African chiefs and sultans

who enslaved their own people,

then sold them to white slave traders?

do you really think plantation owners

cared about the skin color

of their cheap, disposable work force?

don’t you think they would have used

poor, uneducated whites and saved

all those costs of traveling

half way around the world

if they could have gotten

away with it?

but the truth is they couldn't,

so they justified it with black men

brought from the dark continent of Africa;

after all,

they weren't real men;

were they?

but it was never about race

or the color of skin,

it was always about

something much deeper,

it was about those who have,

taking from those who have not;

fear of homelessness and starvation

has replaced bullwhips and chains,

fear of losing what little one has,

along with crumbs from the

‘massas’ table,

has provided the new slaves

of choice;

the new ‘massas’ come in all colors,

but they all have one color in common,

green is the color of true

power and domination,

green is the color of the new ‘massa’;

but then it was all along

wasn't it?

America has always been about color.

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