Slave Masters Sociology

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The reason I believe this is because these steps above describe exactly what slave masters did in order to change the whole mindset of a slave, and get them to comply to the religions that were unknowingly being forced upon them. For example number four on the list describes “the manipulation of the totality of the person's social environment to stabilize behavior once modified”. An example of this action is when the slave masters would split family members from each other so they wouldn’t worship the religions as a unit that they had created on their own, way before coming into slavery. According to academia.edu in a study on the role of religion in Africa. With their family units broken, their African beliefs were broken too, making them …show more content…

Often speaking bad things in the name of the government can get you in a lot of trouble, even if it is the truth. The government doesn’t care about honesty towards its people, it cares about control and power. If we as a people, particularly people of color, had a say in how our country should work, things wouldn’t be the way they are now. Our religion would still be our own as a black society, and not this fabrication of a religion. We would praise to our original gods and know of are true culture, and who we really are in this world; because it was not just slaves. We as a black community do not know our past in depth, so it is way easier for us to give into Europeanized religious views. Since we don’t know what to question in religion, and are not taught what to question, we bow down to every word in the bible. Think about something, the “white” Jesus… He was beaten, hated, and killed for no reason, does that not sound like a posterior black slave to you? There is only one example of an “organization” I can think of truly changing the mindsets of black people. This “organization” comes in the form of a person named Dr.Malachi Z York, who professes the original teachings of Africa, and gives insight into who we truly are as black people. He has been imprisoned and sentenced 135 years, allegedly for child molestation. Being a black man, with the kind of knowledge he held, and sharing that knowledge of who black people are, of course the system would bring anything against him, in order for him to shut his mouth. We need more people like Dr Malachi to spread our truth and to wake up our black community. Having people like him to create websites, videos, books and more, is the only way we are going to influence the change of mindset in our black society. All you have to do, in

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