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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Master-Slave Dialectic

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A visual representation of the concept of master-slave dialectic for my modern political theory class . [Pols 3040]
Martin Luther King
I’ve come here tonight and plead with you.Be proud of yourself and believe that you’re somebody.I said to a group last night,“Nobody else can do this for us.”


No document can do this for us.No Lincolnian proclamation can do this for us; no Ken[nedy]sonian or Johnsonian civil rights bill can do this for us.If the negro is to be freehe must move down into the inner resources of his own soul and sign, with a pen an ink of self-asserted manhood, his own Emancipation Proclamation.

Don’t let anybody take your manhood.Be proud of our heritage.As somebody said earlier tonight,“we don’t have anything to be ashamed of.”

Somebody told a lie one day.They couched it in language…They made everything black ugly and evil;look in your dictionary and see the synonyms of the word “black.” It’s always something degradingand low and sinister. Look at the word “white”;it’s always something pure, high and clean.

But I want to get the language right tonight.I want to get the language so rightthat everybody [here] will cry out,“Yes! I’m black and proud of it.I’m black and beautiful.”


CONCEPT OF DEITY BY JOHN HENRIK CLARKE
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
When the European comes to a country, the first thing he does is to laugh at your God and your God concept. And the next thing is to make you laugh at your own God concept. Then he don't have to build no jails for you then, cause he's got you in a jail more binding than iron can ever put you.
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.
Anytime someone say's your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'
And that's how we're trapped. We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world. Anything that you get from Europe that you are going to use for yourself, remake it to suit yourself.
Where did we go wrong educationally? After the Civil War, the period called reconstruction, a period of pseudo-democracy, we began to have our own institutions, our own schools. We had no role model for a school, ... our own role model. So we began to imitate White schools.
Our church was an imitation of the White church. All we did is to modify the old trap. We didn't change the images, we became more comfortable within the trap. We didn't change the images, we changed some of the concepts of the images, but the images remained the same. So the mis-education that gave us a slave mentality had been altered. But it remained basically the same.'CONCEPT OF DEITY BY JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Master-Slave
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What Hegel’s Master/Slave Dialectic Really Meanshttp://www.scribd.com/doc/32100300/Hegel-Master-SlaveOnly the Slave can transcend the given world and not perish. Only the Slave can transform the world that forms him and fixes him in Slavery and create a world that he has formed in which he will be free. And the Slave achieves this only through forced work carried out in the Master's service. To be sure, this work by itself does not free him. But in transform the world by this work, the Slave transforms himself, too, ana thus creates the new objective conditions that permit him l~ake up once more the liberating fight for . recognition that he refused in the beginning for fear of death.
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