E. Slavery

Hi everyone, I'm your host, Tempie.

In the last episode, I talked about five black inventors to let you guys know that we were more than slaves in history that is taught to us. Right? So with that being said, today's episode over European Slavery.

Slavery is the foundation on which America herself is built-on. Right? Which means institutional racism is sewn into the flag. You can't talk about slavery without talking about institutional racism, also known as systemic racism. European slavery is what started it all; it was that seed that was planted years ago that grew into this tree with so many different branches. Each one represents a different issue that people of color face in society. Our history doesn't start with slavery. In my opinion, slavery was an intermediate segment of our history. The Europeans did not invent slavery; I don't think many people know that. Slavery had always existed within the African tribes. When different tribes or kingdoms went to war and lost, those who lost were considered slaves and, therefore, indentured servants for life. Europeans introduced harsh treatments into slavery, and to justify enslaving Africans; they made it about race. Being that Africans are darker than Europeans, in their eyes, we were an inferior race which made it ok to enslave Africans and treat us with the utmost cruelty. Then there are people who will say, didn't their people sell them into slavery? Yes. In my opinion, I don't think they knew that their people would be treated inhumanely.

Because as I stated previously, slavery wasn't new. Slavery already existed in Africa; they were indentured servants without harsh treatment. Being that Europeans made slavery about race, this created division among slaves. Dark skin Africans were considered field slaves, while lighter skin Africans were house slaves. There's this PBS documentary narrative by Henry Louis Gates, jr called The African American: Many Rivers to cross on amazon prime that I encourage you all to go and watch. The 6 hours docu-series is very informative on how slavery transpired; it also talks about the different obstacles that African Americans faced throughout history leading up to the first African American president. The purpose of this episode is to inform you all about the start of systemic racism through European slavery, which leads to pain, sorrow, and despair within the African American community.

With that being said, I wanted to close this episode out with a song by Jay z called The Story of O. JAY, but since there is no clean version on Spotify. I will tell you all the overall meaning of the song. The chorus of the song is to let you know that no matter what you do or how good or great you are at whatever you do, the world will still see you as a black person, and it also talks about the way to financial freedom and how to build wealth through investment.

I hope you all enjoyed the podcast, and may you all be blessed.