r/blackculture Feb 22 '13

Uncle Tom is really Sambo; And Sambo is really an Uncle Tom. Uncle Tom is a man of pride and principles. So why do we get it mixed up? [REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES]

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Who was Uncle Tom

One of the biggest misconceptions among us is that "an Uncle Tom " represents a race traitor. The impression that Uncle Tom living and working in the house of the white man, lived a luxurious life and looked down upon the other slaves. He was well mannered, worked hard and kept his head down and tried to help others of his own race.

Sambo was the real race traitor

A Sambo is anyone who snitches informs or selling out his race. When the master learned that Uncle Tom was helping the other slaves in secret, the master had Sambo and Quimbo beat Uncle Tom. So the point is that Sambo and Quimbo are just self-serving slaves that only perpetuate the servitude of slavery. So who really is the bad guy here?

Because most of us don't read the book

A short synopsis of the book from here: The term Uncle Tom is now a negative term towards black men. In the book Uncle Tom:

  1. Helps a sick black slave with her cotton bag
  2. Refuses to snitch on runaway slaves
  3. Helps saves a drowning white child
  4. Made into Christ figure by being whipped to death by two black Sambo’s

TL;DR

So I don't want any of you calling a person who acts white or kisses up to white folk an Uncle Tom anymore. Uncle Tom may just be our savior.

The Sambo's and Quimbo's are your true enemy.

r/blackculture Feb 08 '13

The Forgotten Cowboys: 1 out of 4 Cowboys was an African-American man escaping from the Racism of the South looking for work | 3 out of 5 of Cowboys of the Chisolm Trail Cowboys were Black [REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES]

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r/blackculture May 08 '13

The Black Spaniard: Ludwig van Beethoven was of African ancestry? [RealBlackHistory_Series]

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r/blackculture Feb 05 '13

The Genocide of Afro-Argentine Men and the Birth of the dance the TANGO [REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES] - More inside ↓

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r/blackculture Mar 18 '13

YSK African-Americans were forced to fight a war against Africans and won! Result: Liberia [REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES]

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This is a difficult one to prove using wikipedia and other known sources because it has been suppressed and was a clandestine but a very real war [We all know the US is no stranger to clandestine wars].

But here is the story in brief, if anyone can contribute and find more links please do so.

The establishment of Liberia:

Thanks to the efforts of many black leaders (including Marcus Garvey) and the back-to-African movement (and also our white enemies that wanted to get us out of the country) many Blacks moved or were moved back to Africa to a colony controlled by the US, The Pepper Coast.

When the Black Americans arrived they started to get resistance from the native Africans. They were the same Africans that were selling their own people and people of other tribes to American and European slave traders. The returning African-American had to fight for the land they lived on! There were many massacres by native Africans against the ex-slave African-American. The Black Americans looked for logistic support from the US government who's interest was to set up a peaceful democratic nation in Africa at its former possession. Here is an excerpt from the wiki of the Commodore sent to lend support to our African-American brothers and sisters:

Commodore Matthew Perry served under Commodore William Bainbridge during the Second Barbary War. He then served in African waters aboard USS Cyane during its patrol off Liberia from 1819-1820. After that cruise, Perry was sent to suppress piracy and the slave trade in the West Indies.

Commodore Perry's mission was essentially to stop gun and machete running by the muslims traders to the muslim Africans.

There is more to this story but I am not an historian on this matter, essentially I am a fan of the work of Commodore Perry and uncovered his campaigns in Africa and his assist to the establishment of African American state of Liberia. But we must be proud that our people have fought and won a war as one nation.

If anyone has more information please feel free to add.

r/blackculture Feb 10 '13

YSK about Quilombo Culture: The Afro-Brazilian Culture of free and escaped slaves [REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES]

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Almost all the slave rebellions in Brazil had been designed and executed through the quilombo community. A quilombo was a settlement that was formed by fugitive slaves and free-born Africans. Quilombos came closest to the idea of recreating African societies in a new environment (namely, Brazil) and fighting against increasingly heavy odds.

NOTE: Do not trust only the information in Wikipedia, but check the article history and elsewhere. But for easy access I will get you started here.

[WIKI]

[VIDEO]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxj0cHtBmDY

r/blackculture Jun 02 '13

How "Memorial Day" was stripped of its African-American Roots - It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipation | Sorry I caught this too late [REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES]

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r/blackculture Feb 04 '13

The maroons of Jamaica | Black resistance against slavery | [REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES]

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An indespensible element of REAL BLACK HISTORY: How the Maroons Overcame the British in Jamaica:

Remember when Snoop went to Jamaica? Where he really went in specific terms is to the Maroon reservation in the mountains of Jamaica. I assume he went there to find the roots of Black Revolutionary Culture in the "New World". In Jamaica they escaped to the mountain highlands and swooped down at night to raid and attack the plantations. The escapee population grew so fast and the guerilla tactics of the Jamaican Maroons overwhelmed the British and they had to escape for their lives. The Maroons freed Jamaica from the grip of British rule.


VIDEO: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/places/regions-places/west-indies/jamaica_maroon/

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/places/regions-places/west-indies/jamaica_maroon/

The maroons of Jamaica

http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/against-slavery/black-resistance-against-slavery/the-maroons-of-jamaica/

r/blackculture Feb 05 '13

The popular history of the civil rights era is misportrayed (TheDukeofReddit comments) [REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES]

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r/blackculture Feb 26 '13

YSK about John Horse and that 37% of the people on the trail of tears were African-Americans [REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES]

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r/blackculture Feb 10 '13

YSK about Pascal Beverly Randolph: A close African-American friend of Abraham Lincoln who believed "the Negro is destined to extinction" in the United States. [REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES]

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Paschal Beverly Randolph (October 8, 1825 – July 29, 1875) was an African-American medical doctor, Spiritualist, and writer. Randolph is said to be part of a secret African-American abolitionist society with Abraham Lincoln and is also notable for the sex occult and the Rosicrucian order in the United States.

[WIKI] Dr. Paschal Beverly Randolph

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschal_Beverly_Randolph

Aseer The Duke Of Tiers Dr. Pascal Beverly Randolph

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ypK0GqXXM&feature=share&list=UUAoi-I6LqYBguKZ2ZidV_Lw

r/blackculture Feb 21 '13

[REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES] The Underground Railroad did not run North -- It ran SOUTH! | Florida's Southern Route to Freedom

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r/blackculture Feb 13 '13

You should know about: The Gullah Wars [xlink r/BlackPower] [REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES]

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r/blackculture Feb 03 '13

Azusa Street to Bronzeville: The Black History of Little Tokyo | Los Angeles [REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES]

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r/blackculture Feb 26 '13

YSK the Harlem Renaissance: An Artistic Explosion of our Culture! [REALBLACKHISTORY_SERIES][VIDEO]

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