The New Massa

‘meet the new boss, same as the old boss’ – The Who, Won’t Get Fooled Again

America has always been

about color;

not black,

not white,

not brown,

not yellow;

America has always been

about color;

slavery was never about race,

or white supremacy,

slavery has always been 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 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?

slavery has never been about race,

or the color of skin,

it has always been about something

much deeper,

it has always been 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,

provides the new slaves of choice,

who patiently wait for crumbs

from the Massa’s table;

the new Massa’s 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;

America has always been about color.

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