My theory on white people and why the hell they are EVERYWHERE! This is my attempt to answer the age old question (at least outside of the white community) “Why can’t we have ANYTHING?” That is to say; why is it that whenever any ethnic group or culture of people create something truly original or amazing, white people have to come in and try to take it, steal it, imitate it, innovate it, retool it, or just plane MESS IT UP. We had Jazz, they came out with Kenny G, we had Rap, they came out with Vanilla Ice, we had Soul they came out with Jon B, we had “Black Wall Street” (look it up people, good stuff) and they BOMBED IT, we had the Harlem Renaissance and they Gentrified it, we had Africa and THEY MADE IT AIDS central (and if you don’t believe that then you can just substitute that with any other bad thing you can think of, start with slavery perhaps…) even the Natives had America and the “white man” “discovered” it. But I think everyone sees where I’m going with this. The culture of the white man is literally the “Culture of the conquered” (but that is a whole other blog…). So what I offer here is a brief but slightly thought out answer to why this happens. EVERY time something comes out of a culture… Oh, and before I forget. I can’t exclude my brothers from the far east they had little things like writing, the calendar, MATH, and complex system for, well, everything, and "The Man" came over and YOU GUESSED it. Jacked it! Ok, NOW I can move on…
So, why is the white man so anxious to spread out? I propose it is because of their lack of space. Let’s take a step back and look at where white people come from (generally), Europe. Now lets look at our Black and Brown brothers and sisters. Generally from the larger continents, Africa, Australia, South America, North America… basically anywhere the people have color. Now if we contrast these places one of the big differences is size. All though on most Eurocentric maps North America and Europe seem huge compared to the other much larger continents (think about why a map would show an inaccurate view of the world…) Europe is actually a very SMALL place, with very few natural resources. One of the fundamental urges of ALL people is to procreate. To perpetuate the species and all that jazz. However, if you are a early civilization European one of the first things you are going to have to deal with is space… or lack there of. Practically, before this whole marriage thing became the law of the land men used to have like a 100 wives… as many as they could support. But if you are a man with a large family you need a lot of land, especially in an agricultural time… So you would need to deal with your neighbor if you are working with a limited amount of space. I suggest that because of this limited amount of space that the early Europeans were dealing with they developed an almost INNATE urge/ability/desire to kill, conquer, and steal. Not out of enjoyment (although over time I believe they began to enjoy it) but out of necessity. Basically it was a matter of “I need more space, you have it, and I’m taking it…” Ultimately it just developed over thousands of years to become what we know call “War on terrorism” “apartheid” “Slavery” “Native American Genocide” and, my personal favorite “Socio-Economic Gentrification”
To contrast lets look at what the early non- European experience was probably like for example places like African and North/South America. All three very large land masses tons of space and even MORE natural resources. I think Africa alone has like a TRILLION times the natural resources Europe has, lol. If you are an African or Native you are not pressed for land at ALL. I mean even historically when you look at these people they are generally a sharing communal people. They don’t “own” land in the sense that white people take and trade it… they just live on it and if you should so happen to need some, it’s yours. Why? Because we have so MUCH, lol. A man at that time could have a plantation full of wives and kids and pets and cattle and all that and still not infringe upon his neighbor. Even when there were wars or battles it took DAYS to reach the enemy cause it was SO MUCH SPACE in between. Space just was not an issue. So, because space was such a big deal over in their land they spend time and energy developing ways and strategies to take it, divide it, own it, steal it, and laws and rules concerning it… the very first constitution said we had the right to “Life liberty and the ownership of PROPERTY” that’s all these people spent their time one. Us, however, (black and brown folks) didn’t need to spend time with that so we spent our time on other things like life and enjoying it! So, naturally when Europe finally got to Africa, America, the Caribbean and tried to understand us through their lens it just didn’t work and because they had, by then, spent centuries perfecting their “craft” we stood no chance… and here we are today. A world dominated by Europe… If you disagree with that ask yourself why is English the international language of, well, EVERYTHING? Why is it the first language of so many countries that AREN’T England or even close to it? Why do so many countries trade in DOLLARS? Why does everywhere have a McDonald’s and Starbuck's? Why is over half of the UN military force the United States? And why is European history standard for almost every “1st world” school curriculum”?
On a more personal note, I think we can take a page or two from the white mans book. I mean it may be a page bound to the next by blood and the sharp end of a sword or at this point the dark barrel of a gun. But lets face it the system they set up works. It’s almost immaculate! Here we are, almost 1000 years after that fact still being force to deny the very ESSENCE of who we are to assimilate and make sure that Europe still has enough Space…
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