insanity: Such a mentalcondition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matterunderaction, does away with individual responsibility.



http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/insanity







if someone told you that they were been held back, physically

by forces they could not see or articulate

and that these forces made them unable to live a normal (by their own standards) life

they said theywere denied rights to things which they believe enhance the quality of their lives and that of their offspring


they could feel the oppression

for them it was real

yet they treated their condition by ignoring it



how would you judge that persons mental state?






how do africans deal with the reality of racism?




do they confront it andbring in measures to eliminate the condition?

or do many just ignore it, leaving it to the political conscious militants


to implement cures on their "blacker than thou" chip shouldered selves?



for we, the masses have no sickness



everything is as it should be



saying to themselves"everyone has their own poltergeists


dont they?"

the crazy man, talks to himself

he is used to been ignored

for he is dis-enfranchised

he did not oppose the poltergeists

now they are his best and only friends

for are we not creatures of habit?




some call it the result of self hate

others, he smoked too much gunja

"his family breakdown was the trigger, that brought on the condition " dr brown stated




breadfruit wonders to himself...........

wasn't that the man who excused:

slavery

colonialism

the organised rape of his peoples resources -
everywhere on the planet

wasn't he the mad rass who spent his mental energies

building

believing

for and in those who undermined his humanity?

"the man mad from long time" i exclaim

or is such behavior

normal?

Deep and interesting contributions breadfruit. niceone.gif

thank you african

niceone.gif.

so now my insanity has peaked

locked away from the world i meditate

my locks link me back to kemet

but the ancestors are dead



they stimulate me not

for i have become invisible

they can no longer see me



the drugs keep me high

but i'm higher than the chemicals rushing through my body

so high i feel nothing



is this life?

i dont have answers

they tell me to rationalise

irrational conditions



using rationale

created by irrational men



my daily ration

has no nourishment

it only sustains



they say i'm getting better



i guess their right

trillion dollar economies

cant be wrong



this Straitjacket hurts like hell

mmmmmmmmmmm. That's good... What do you do for a living? Is it sth artistic or is this just a hobby?

a life long pan africanist

just trying to be creative




part of my skill set is in the commercial implementation of binary bits



peace

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I don't see it as a mental condition because in United States Society Blacks found a way to measure it, the Whites in power acknowledge it and United States Exucutive order 11246 (Affirmative action), a law states that it is factual. By far it is no mental condition. I can fathom how peoples in certan African and Caribbean countries can say the notion seems absurd but in non black majority nations there is white skinned privilege, Overt racism and outright racial disrespect in media, text and more. In the Black majority Countries it is Black folks Blocking your progress.

A mental condition is different, far different but one legacy aspect of Racism/oppression is the notion that people who are often sheltered from it will come to expect those acts to take place and as a result resort to self handicapping, it becomes part of the socialization process for both the White power structure and the Black oppressed. People will complain and give up without trying and more. I see it on this site with people saying Blacks should avoid college, they dismiss the positives of many Public school systems and usually suggest this without a viable alternative. We live in a Capitalist world where if we are not competing then we simply become the welfare class or perish. We can't give up, many people are doing this, I think Cornel West called it Nhilism. I'm for a fight, I'm for going into the classrooms and changing these practices, I'm for withhold Black dollars from the corporations that discriminate and I'm for voting these people wh are for the Status quo out of office or outright physically hurting them to get parity.

There is a difference

Great summary brutha Baron. I think that in the West it would be a 'mental death' or just simply sad for any brutha or sista to take a nihilistic or teleological approach. I couldn't imagine doing that. Especially as I know many black parents tell their children to trust in God and grow up with 'God' in their house. You know what they say, you have to consider where these concepts come from, not everyone can apply them to their lives. They say anything that is not from God is from the Devil....these things like ouiji boards, seances, black magic... they are avoided and not acknowledged by many because they have too much respect for their relationship with God. I feel anyone not taking this nihilistic appproach would be doing exactly the same thing. ..... ....... . ......... ....... ..... ....... ..... ....... ....... ..... ...... ..... ....... ....... ...... ...... ........... ........ ....... .......... ..... ....... .Because nihilism is just like all these others things , IMO, to confuse you, and an approach, but not necessarily the truth. When I was a teenager, I used to buy all those girly magazines and Sistas style. Come haloween threre would be 'free ouiji boards/rune stones/horoscope books' and seance stories 'with every issue'... at first I read about it... but had too much religion instilled in me to believe it... it was too creepy, especially when the only thing you are familiar with of this kind is prayer. I read about it... I was curious...but then I thought "Calisto, you know this is rubbish... why waste you time...you have a religion. This is not good". There are many things in the West which are no good and bad influences, and fill your mind with rubbish. I think for any black to adopt nihilism, it's bad... and they should be careful of what they adopt or what is fed into their heads. Just because little 'Patrick or Jaimie' adopts it doesn't mean we should... blacks have too mant things to put in perspective to 'follow' nonsense and have defeatist attitudes. I'll never give up, what's the point..."The only way from here is down..." (if you get what I am saying).

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just some clarification

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what is it that you do not see as a mental condition?

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as my posts above were simple artistic observations and not statements on what is or is not reality, Quote: withina poetry forum

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i'm not getting your post

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we may need to create a new thread in another forum

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then again

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art does provoke thought

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Dont know if Im grabbing the wrong end of the stick here.

But our problem is definatley a problem of the mind. For me once the spirit has been defeated then you will accept any condition imposed on you. Defeated people have no solutions. And no vision or base for ingenuity which is surely needed in this post colonial/ slavery period and "great white way" which bombards us from cradle to grave.