Manhood is written

If you did not know then you should know now that the way a person becomes self-confident, gain strength, and success, is by living through times and daily experience. Paul D new that oppression is as real as its oppressor because he was a victim of slavery. Furthermore, manhood can live strong but can also be violated, shaped and ruined by genuine evil. “We are controlled by our confusion far more than we are aware." (James Baldwin) It is certain that slavery is an experience that has multiple destructive side effects that can solidify a person’s Manhood and their life. The idea of the notion to enslave people was created by those who have been mentally corrupted and misguided by the power of supremacy, evil, time, and most of all greed. Looking back in time, “Some of the most devastating conditions that the poor face today are legacies of the Reagan era. Reagan slashed the budgets for so-called entitlement programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, the Environmental Protection Agency, Community Development Block Grants, and federal education programs by 60 percent. He froze the minimum wage at 3.35 an hour and cut public housing and Section 8” The Rich and the Rest of Us (63). That is a prime example of higher power moves made while introducing the “advanced oppression using punitive acts on the people living in poverty,” by Ronald Reagans red hands.  That was U.S evil power trip that benefited the rich and demonized the lives of poor Americans. There is no question why American citizens today have less power than we should. And we the people are being like cattle. We have to avoid being raised to be eaten up by society and its future plans. It is immoral to have another person’s freedom; moreover slavery is as real as a slave master and trauma..

 Sometimes people have to fight to gain freedom or respect, which will eventually form order in their man hood that birth from psychosocial development. Paul D was using the strength of a man who has been violated and abused but not yet spiritually broken. With his man hood in affect he had fired back at “Beloved” out of her flesh “Leave the place alone! Get the hell out!” A table rushed toward him and he grabbed its leg. Somehow he managed to stand at an angle and, holding the table by two legs, he bashed it about, wrecking everything, screaming back at the screaming house. “You want to fight, come on!” (22) Being strong, brave, and knowledgeable are key factors of one who has control over their man or womanhood. “Manhood is the state of being human or manly (Webster dictionary)

 Responsibility, trials and tribulations, are the things that would govern the limitations of one’s capability or well-being. Paul D wanted to protect his new family so he fought the only way he knew how. Though everyone has a breaking point, which is the moment when all negative pressure becomes uncontrollable. A soul can be broken and lost and sometimes one would have to seek for answers like “tell me something, stamp. “Paul D’s eyes were rheumy. “Tell me this one thing. How much is a nigger supposed to take? Tell me. How much? ” “All he can,” said Stamp Paid. “All he can.” “Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?” A sane man can crack but it is up to us not to brake. Search long and hard for answers to the problems that matter in order to revers confusion. If you did not know, then you should know now “As the number of Blacks in “Frying Pan Park” swells, it adds to the empirical data that attempts to argue that racism no longer exists, even though you know it does.” Obviously is alive, being that the ratio of our past presidents is 43 whites to one black today. Post black, Toure (117) Connecting to the caseloads living with the after effects of being descendants of enslaved victims. Organized hatred is crucial and extremely hindering the roots of black culture, spirits, and human growth. It is amazing how the turkey analysis is aligned with today’s time. Just because we have some rich and wealthy African Americans does not mean that in today’s time is not corrupted by the same type of evil.

Wickedness is true and it is combined with slavery connecting back to slavery’s era of black brutality at operation sweet home. The name Sweet Home is the biggest oxymoron of all, because it was nothing sweet about it. It is the Dragons who ran the slave trade for profit, that we forget about and they are still active and at large healthy and alive.  Paul D was a strong man who had a love-hate relationship with the “ghost of slavery” Beloved, because “he wanted her out, but set had let her in and he couldn’t put her out of a house that wasn’t his. It was one thing to beat up a ghost, quiet another to throw a helpless coloredgirl out in territory in the affected by the Klan. Desperately thirsty for black blood, without which it could not live the dragon swam the Ohio at will.” (79) Some type of love was there accompanying manhood. His actions spoke as the Head of the household and black protector. He wanted her out but his conscience would not let his heart be voided. He was his own best thing at that particular moment because if he would have made her leave and she died by the evil he had knowledge of, his conscious would have eight him dead. It is time for people to start to live so that they can live longer while we have more privilege. Whereas ciphering slavery, “it was school teacher who taught them otherwise. A truth that waved like a scarecrow in Rye: they were only sweet home and at sweet home. One step off that ground and they were trespassers among the human race. Watchdogs without teeth; steer bulls without horns; gelded workhorses whose neigh and whinny could not be translated into a language responsible humans spoke. His strength had lain in knowing that schoolteacher was wrong.” (Beloved) Common sense comes naturally as well as karma comes in due season. Living in knowing that “they are more of us they drowned then there is all of them ever lived from the start of time.”(287)

Owning yourself and claiming man hood is being aware of “current” events and being able to raise questions as well as embracing self-opinions for change are all part of expressing ones strength. Taking control and counter acting trauma is vital in one’s quests for liberation. “This probably sounds like therapy speak,” said Wahneema Lubiano, “and I probably have spent too many years in therapy, but there’s a moment when you’re hinting for the 50^th fucking time about some trauma and you suddenly realize that you’re really not venting anymore, you’re just telling the story as it happened.” You’re no longer tearing up every time you think about it. You’re no longer shutting yourself for what’s happened to you. You just saying yes, so then this thing happen, and you hear it in your voice. You’re really bored with the trauma. So for me watch and Chappelle I thought, “is what it looks like when you are no longer caught up by your own trauma about racism and the history of black people in the United States.’ Then everything is up for grabs as a possibility of art and performance art. Because you are not wearing the trauma anymore, you get to use something that produced all that, and do something else with it.” Post blackness (60) it’s time to use the trauma created by slavery as fuel for the fire that burns for S.O.S.

Surely, life is full of evil and unjustified criminal actions and on the flipside Love is also alive and healthy waiting to be used by caring people. Love can be used to kill the ideas of evil. The same evil that test other people’s man hood exist because it was not taught the nature of loyal human etiquette. Leadership is needed along with parental guidance and love. “A man ain’t nothing but a man,” said Baby Suggs. “But a son? Well now, that’s somebody.”(beloved) It will be hard to become a man without a man providing manly information and confirmation to manhood especially when there is a nation of people against you being human. The men without skin is without it for a reason “It makes sense for lots of reasons because in all of Baby’s life as well as Sethe’s own, men and women were moved around like checkers. Anybody Baby Suggs Knew, let alone love, who had run off or been hanged got rented out, loaned out, bought up, brought back, stored up, mortgage, won, stolen or seized.” African-Americans were moved around for a reason and that reason was to disrupt the improvement of their cognitive abilities.man hood was naturally in Paul D  But “if you didn't know you should know now how” to outsmart oppression with the power of knowledge utilizing manhood. The fire in you have should never go out, for justice and love awaits, and remember even after death our souls are alive enough to be loved.

“The Raise of Reparation for the Victims of Forgotten Crime”

A Dark Revisit of the Cold and twisted History of Slavery

The rebirth of sanctity is past due after a mental and physical chain of nasty events. Beloved, by Toni Morrison, explains a series of national, historic, slavery enriched, real-life moments. The notion of slavery was not too long ago. This saga reveals multiple lives abuse while being enslaved and how moments in time can either live to haunt you or die without an apology then forgotten by future generations. If a person never knew about their past they will never know where they came from. Details of slavery and oppression should be analyzed and revisited for safety precautions “It was not a story to pass on” (324). This novel helped raised important questions about maintaining efficacy of African-Americans past future justice. The reason why it is not a story to pass on is because if you were to try and tell this tale specifically, it will be told incorrectly due to the fact of its mystic complexity. The world has fixed the minds of today’s society to forget our evil past. “Everyone knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name.” (323)

Although Morrison may have been writing about the murdered third child of the character by the name Sethe, she was subliminally calling upon the readers to remember and research the past of African American slaves in general. The call of community duty applies. My collective if unconscious started to raise valid demands about how much justice is owed to my race. Flashbacks of films and powerful black leaders being assassinated streamed my mind while soft whispers of my conscience said to me “Jim Crow’s ideas and oppression is still alive and working to annihilate true black activism.” Black love is constantly fading away in today’s time our younger generation knows nothing about slavery, yet they are products of the after affects. “So they forgot her like an unpleasant dream during troubling sleep.” (324)

 If you don’t know anything about the harsh and heartless type of slave owners without skin of the past, then you would not know how to be prepared or deal with those of today or the future. The knowledge of greedy without mercy or integrity will be lost; therefore you would not be cautious of any of its organized attacks. “By and by all trace is gone, and what is forgotten is not only the footprints but the water to and what is down there.”(324) Obviously, what is down there is the names of actual victims unknown without justice given to them or the care and notion to “be loved” enough for someone to take the risk to fight for their faces like Beloved tried to do for herself. To be love is to be remembered, but when the heat is on sometimes like “the spring ice thawing to quickly” unexpectedly, things can get out of control, bloody. The notion of blacks asking for justice to be served, people to be arrested, and the worldwide apology to be given with reparation that will count is vital.

3 acres and a mule is not enough payment for the pain and suffering of our forgotten abused ancestors. Restitution is long past due for the blood sweat and tears shed in order to build the United States of America. That is the loneliness that roams. “No rocking can hold it down. It is alive, on its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one’s own feet going seems to come from a far off place.” (323) Understanding now how this book was written to inspire us to never let time change without knowing true history and what had happened in detail; will allow you to bring justice for the ones who died a victim of a crime. If you don’t have knowledge of what happened in times before, you may find yourself assisting evil as it repeats itself. The clueless never knows what is to come. Sometimes a victim can forgive, but they should never forget any wrongdoings. Karma is as real as the universe and is connected to the spirit of mistreated people that never dies.

Sometimes we the people have to revisit the sour and unpleasant past and lose the appetite for the present even if it is sweet and tastier. Don’t be uninquisitive especially when you have a sample of the abnormal and cruel. Demand the world to explain things you question, or you may find yourself being an accomplice to our oppressors. It is sad that people can be so evil that “a pretty little slave girl recognized a hat, and split to the woodshed to kill her children.” (186) revelations of hell on earth haunted my thoughts multiple times reading the living chapters of this book.

Beloved was murdered and died violently without justice and that is why she returned for restitution and revenge. If African-Americans of today was to try to retrieve compensation for the free labor and the abundance of offenses; it would be a long tough fight. Evil that existed in the beginning of time is still alive and strong enough to prove good to be old and irrelevant. But we have to claim our self-worth, “freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” (111-112) moreover, that is after justice for all victims, of the past and present, did or alive yet forgotten and unloved become valid in due season.