The New Massahs

America has always been about color;

not black,

not white,

not brown,

not yellow;

slavery was never about race or skin color,

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?

it was never about race or skin color,

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 ‘massahs’ table

has provided the new slaves of choice;

the new ‘massahs’ come in all colors

but they all have one color in common,

green is the color of power and domination,

green is the true color of the new ‘massahs’;

but then it was all along

wasn’t it?

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