Wednesday, April 16, 2008

DADDY SORRY EHN!PELE.....

Hello happy people!Now I’m so sorry it took me a long while to update my blog which I would have last week but I was as busy as the way that leads to hell plus I badly bruised my leg over the weekend and its just healing.I initially wanted to blog about my business ideas and my fraustration about the nigerian enviroment(I’m an entrepreneur,remember?) but I just finished reading a biography on Frederick Douglas(FD) and I’m moved by a wave of compassion to blog about the sorrow,tears and blood of the black slaves under their white masters.FD,born in 1818,was a slave who taught himself to read and write afterwhich he cames across many books(including the bible,works of cato,ceasar,Washington e.t.c) that made him understand that:-

1) all men are equal and God loves everyone(the whites made them believe they were a superior race)

2) slavery is not good(though there were laws in some states in the US especially in the south that legalised slavery)

3) there are some free states especially in the north e.g New York(slavery was illegal there,FD was even shocked some whites did not like slavery there and they conducted enough anti-slavery campaigns)

With this little piece of insightful information he ran away from his master(after another failed attempt which he was miraculously speared) to NY where he joined anti-slavery campaigners and from there there was no stopping him.He made friends all over America and Europe(though he was still legally a slave!)campaigned for Abraham Lincoln(cos he was also against slavery) After abe got elected,he pressured him to pass a bill into law that would legally free all slaves I America—which abe did!

Are you in the UK and you think you are suffering because you keep 3jobs?(aba!y now,u won kill urself?) you need to see what our fathers went thorugh!The book was really illuminating on the subject of slavery.According to their laws(constitutional law ooo!can u imagine!)blacks were not seen as humans but as properties.Hence,if a slve master possessed a “property” he could do ANYTHING he liked to “it”—including rape,murder e.t.c

Do you know many bastards(which were rejected) were born to this slavemasters thorugh rape but the black female could not find justice anywhere just because the law said she belonged to him

Do you know if any slave ever got rebellious or he is feeling like one superman he wants to fight for freedom he would be sent to a “slave breaker” that specialises in torture--their own kind of mosaic(Israeli SSS)

Do you know the masters allowed their slave to do enough “xtra-curricular” activities like singing,fishing,drinking to stupor e.t.c but if any dared learn to read let alone write he was flogged 39horsewhips and sold to the south where he would surely die due to HARDLABOUR in the cotton and sugar plantation!This was recurrent throughout the book,they didn’t want blacks to read,they believed if the blacks could read they would know the truth and eventually rebel.So I’m thinking to myself “Is education really that important?”

Our fathers were subjected to a lot of inhumane degradation and labour but I really cant say all that’s why yahoo boys and 419ers would tell you they are collecting back the wages for their fathers labour!Anywais 2wrongs don’t make a right sha!

28 comments:

Afrobabe said...

There is a saying that if you don't want a black man to find something, just keep it in a book...

lmao...just saw the slogan up here "yarn me ur church mind" u don make me forget wettin I been dey talk sef...

Ok, 419...sometimes I think it's justified...I just hate it when its a black on black crime...

Afrobabe said...

and sorry about ur leg...what happened to it???

Eyin'ju Oluwa said...

LOL@the yahoo yahoo logic.

Knowledge is indeed power.

Pele about your leg, take it easy o!

Nigerian Drama Queen said...

Aww sorry about your leg.

I agree with afrobabe, "yarn me your church mind" is hilarious.

True Story though: In the face of what black slaves had to go through, our petty plights seem just that: petty.

Jennifer A. said...

Blacks were not seen as humans, but as property. They could do ANYTHING they liked to them. I feel saddened that a human being would treat another human being as a property.

If a slave ever got rebellious he would be sent to a "slave-breaker" for torturing. I didn't know that, my heart breaks just thinking abt it.

Slaves were not allowed to read or write...because they knew that through education their freedom would emerge, as they would read about rights of human beings. FD really tried in his propaganda with Abraham Lincoln. His name deserves to keep resounding...

A lot of African Americans find it hard to move forward today (even though I think they shd try as they can to progress) because they are stuck in thinking about the evils of what the white man did to their fore-fathers. Many minds are still enslaved till this day...

princesa said...

We should read more.
Education truly broadens the mind and equips one with the right tool to combat life's challeges.
Nice post though it wasnt as ur usual posts

Today's ranting said...

Hmmm slavery is the worst thing any man can experience. Funny enough it still thrives in our society in different forms.j ust like the legend Bob Marely said only if we can emancipate ourself from mental slavery, then we would move forward as a race.

SOLOMONSYDELLE said...

sorry about your leg. How is it now?

wellsbaba said...

@afrobabe,so u just saw d slogan?my leg is fine now sha!
@omosewa,as4me knowledge is potential power.it bcoms power wen it has been properly gathered n put into use
@9jadramaqueen,thanku ooo
@jaycee n todays ranting,I TOTALLY AGREE WITH U,abe lincoln only succeeded in freein d slaves legally but mentally loads of blacks are still enslaved n thats d greatest battle!
@princesa,well that reveals some other parts of me to u,im not all comedy n u will b havin more of dat!
@solomonsydelle its fine now!

ejura said...

I'd love to read this book oh. I'd go look for it. Meanwhile well done ehn. U no fit wash undies abi? Who told you undies are g-string, bras etc. lol!
Those slave masters those days wer sumthing else sha

SOLOMONSYDELLE said...

just checking in

Zayzee said...

u go play football abi? ur leg receive healings now.
Seun, i doubt i have seen u in my blog. i don't mean aroundlagos oh, the other one.anyhow,aroundlagos is updated,and that stuff is coming on fine, so expect to be real busy soon. sorry i wasted time. at least we no go follow dem do yahoo yahoo.

wellsbaba said...

@ejura,lol,LOL,LMAO!....ow I go wash g-strings now,which kin lyf!I can b romantic enuf to wash her sergio Ts n baby jeans but not.....nolongtin...lol
@solomonsydelle i'm touched'll soon update,u hear?
@uzezi,I havnt seen u hear in like4eva!anywais I didnt even knw u had anoda blog'll look4it...thankGod u've decided,hav bin waiting to start!

Zayzee said...

zayzee.blogspot.com

its there on my profile now

bumight said...

don't even get me started on this slavery thing.
first things first, these people are not "ur fathers" best of all, they might be "your uncles", cos if they were ur fathers, u'd be an African-American.
39 horsewhps were some of the milder punishments given to slaves, the harsher ones gross me out, including castrations, cutting of limbs, burying neckdeep with honey on ur face etc

The sad part is when Blacks refuse to liberate their minds even after they have been physically liberated. That is the difference between most Africans in the US and African americans...

wellsbaba said...

@bumight,I totally agree with u,they aint our fathers but u get the idea... the are our ancestors anyway u wanna see it! I really dnt knw y african americans are still enslaved mentally!

Bunmmy said...

hope your leg is better.

i know apart from reading is really vital and educative. travelling and reading are two needed activities for a better education/interaction.

Chari said...

Ayn yahoozee aint justified in ma mind oh...cuz very few of the descendants of the actual slave master are "yahoo-ed" so like what's the point...yahoo peeps jus say that to appease their own consciences

NikkiSab said...

U took ur time updating....sorry on ur leg dude, feelin beta?
I fall into d category of pple who educated but HATE to read. I'll try a little more so i dont get played.

Mz. Dee said...

sori bout ur leg o...!
I actually quite love this post and i'm thinkin of postin a similiar on my blog..
I watched the Amazing Grace(nollywood movie) and it really got to me...its sad that a lot of blacks had to suffer.. but on the other hand, at times we can confidently look back and think to ourselves... we made it!!!!
Really love this post...

wellsbaba said...

@bummy,I totally agree
@charizard,u ar on point!
@nikkisab,WHERE HAV U BIN?missed u big time!....u need2discipline ursef2read ooo
@mz.dee,missed u chic,thanx ooo

Zayzee said...

u no go update. u've been tagged by me, so update. check my blog for the rules

Mz. Dee said...

ahem....its lyk we're gna hv to track ur house down or sumn...
update naa!!!
I've held my patience long enuf ooo!

NikkiSab said...

mwah .... mwah.... I de o sweetheart. Its not my fault dis lack of reading tin but pictures r just so much cooler n faster. lol but i promise to b a beta psn. email me on nikkisabis@gmail.com

NikkiSab said...

onome tagged me o. but not to worry i will do it for u both.

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