tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414290528721230538.post7763032349919972010..comments2024-01-13T05:32:19.026-05:00Comments on just a conservative girl: Uncle Tom - A Profile in ConvictionJust a conservative girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11982406297072353275noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414290528721230538.post-86274592308347340062010-05-07T10:35:34.518-04:002010-05-07T10:35:34.518-04:00The revisionist history of afro-centrism teaches t...The revisionist history of afro-centrism teaches that blacks were rising up, running away, and resisting everywhere.<br /><br />The sad fact of history, which is not at all disparaging to blacks, is that the vast majority of them accepted their condition from birth to death over hundreds of years. Most of them didn't understand a condition other than slavery.<br /><br />But that reality doesn't jibe with the spirit of heroism, resistance, and fighting oppression with which we endow history's great revolutionaries. They celebrate Nat Turner and the Underground Railroad, but there was no equivalent of Spartacus.<br /><br />The reaction to Uncle Tom arises from the SHAME that there were not more Nat Turners. They want to believe they weren't...slaves.<br /><br />Blacks have no reason to feel ashamed. Put chains on me and whip my back enough times and I'll pick your damned cotton too! When my kids and grandkids and great-grandkids are born only to know the lash and the labor, they won't be writing any Declarations of Independence. Revolutions are almost always led by the wealthy and the educated.<br /><br />We celebrate wondrous stories of people who broke their bondage, but many people for THOUSANDS of years suffered under the yoke of oppression. Many still do.<br /><br />There have been and will be millions of black heroes. They have an opportunity for heroism every day by rejecting dependency on government and the crime and poverty around them to make their lives better than the one they were born into.<br /><br />Uncle Tom wasn't a failure. He was a survivor and you need to live to fight another day. There would have been no Nat Turner, no Frederick Douglass, no Rosa Parks, no Martin Luther King, and no Michelle Obama if there had not been MILLIONS of Uncle Toms whose only goal for their entire lives was to survive.<br /><br />Revolutions don't always turn out well. Revolutions need funding, arms, leadership, organization and resolve of which black slaves had little. They couldn't have had it.<br /><br />Afro-centrism, like liberalism, is founded in LIES and SELF-HATRED.Hot Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10848778804406692799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414290528721230538.post-6217229112554668522010-05-06T03:22:40.227-04:002010-05-06T03:22:40.227-04:00You ladies really should read the book. While I w...You ladies really should read the book. While I was doing some research on the book I discovered that NAACP and other groups have worked hard at getting this book taken off school reading lists. So many people have probably not read it. The story is so totally different than what you think Uncle Tom means. <br /><br />I do understand that the book has a racist stilt to it, but it was written before the civil war, so of course it did. Since people don't read it, they just believe the statements that Uncle Tom is a sellout. It simply isn't who the character is. He was just passive with his resistance. <br /><br />It was a good book and I am glad that I read it.Just a conservative girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11982406297072353275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414290528721230538.post-50812596467844696382010-05-06T02:20:12.791-04:002010-05-06T02:20:12.791-04:00I've never read the book either. Your post ma...I've never read the book either. Your post may boost it's sales. Thanks.The Conservative Ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03669596582233642119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414290528721230538.post-37810176082806150582010-05-05T11:27:49.272-04:002010-05-05T11:27:49.272-04:00Thank you for your thoughtful post. I have never ...Thank you for your thoughtful post. I have never read the book, but I might now. - NancyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com