Slavery's Negative Effects On The Black Community
Intro A community can be viewed as a people that share common languages. Attributes and many other cultural similarities. Strong communities usually signify a unity or bond. This bond forms a sense of sense of self and "brotherhood". However, this does not appear to exist in the Black community. Slavery has nearly destroyed the existence of any unity. When the Africans were taken from African, different tribes were mixed together on the ships and stripped of their identities. The differences between the African tribes had a positive affect for the enslavers because it caused disunity. Which helped them maintain control both during the voyages and once they arrived to the U.S. realizing the affect of the disunity, slave owners continued to develop
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Slavery has nearly destroyed any presents of unity among the African American people by forcing them to compete with each other and by targeting their differences and using them as a means of separation. Aids for minorities such as Affirmative action are nothing more than tactics to force competition, divide Blacks, and maintain a lack of unity whenever there is act to better themselves. Because of fear of an uprising or gain of power after Blacks enslavement slave, owners and other Caucasians developed documented tactics in order to maintain control and disunity of the community. William Lynch gave a speech in 1712 that gives proof to these acts by illustrating their strategy: "I have outlined a number of differences among the slaves, I take these differences and make them bigger I use fear, distrust and envy for control purposes... you must pitch the old Blacks against the young Blacks...you must use the dark skin slaves against the light skin slaves and the light skin slaves against the dark skin slaves...But it is necessary that your slaves trust and depend on us...The must love, respect and trust only you." Negative Effects of Slavery References: Noble (1986). "Breaking the Chains of Slavery". Psychological Legacy of Slavery Retrieved May 29,
Slavery has nearly destroyed any presents of unity among the African American people by forcing them to compete with each other and by targeting their differences and using them as a means of separation. Aids for minorities such as Affirmative action are nothing more than tactics to force competition, divide Blacks, and maintain a lack of unity whenever there is act to better themselves. Because of fear of an uprising or gain of power after Blacks enslavement slave, owners and other Caucasians developed documented tactics in order to maintain control and disunity of the community. William Lynch gave a speech in 1712 that gives proof to these acts by illustrating their strategy: "I have outlined a number of differences among the slaves, I take these differences and make them bigger I use fear, distrust and envy for control purposes... you must pitch the old Blacks against the young Blacks...you must use the dark skin slaves against the light skin slaves and the light skin slaves against the dark skin slaves...But it is necessary that your slaves trust and depend on us...The must love, respect and trust only you." Negative Effects of Slavery References: Noble (1986). "Breaking the Chains of Slavery". Psychological Legacy of Slavery Retrieved May 29,