Imagine we lived in a world where there was peace and harmony. Imagine we all were one color, one race. Would we still be as we are today? Why are the people in power still carrying on the conditioning to oppress? Why are people of power trying to eliminate our African American race? Do you see it? It is not a secret that the prisons of the United States are the only places where African Americans are the majority of the population.

It is not a secret that laws are different for African Americans than they are for White Americans, with the exception of poor whites. Stereotyping of both is alive and growing--Proposition 21, a ballot measure to send youths to prison is an example.

African American children are targeted the most while Caucasian children are terrorizing in mass.: "Remember Columbine High."

A cartoon was printed in The San Francisco Chronicle, May 3, 2000.

It is laid out in front of you, in black and white. This cartoon tells the truth; don't wait until it happens to you to do something about this. The first thing you need to do is get involved with your children: educate them, and teach them to do right.

The United States continues its oppression and slavery, clothed in ways that allow you to have your eyes open and still be blind. The Mass media help promote the negative outlook of different cultures, repeatedly casting the same images only in exaggerations.

African Americans are one of many cultures that are stereotyped and focused on the most. That should make you wonder what is this fear. In California colleges, in intercultural communication classes, students are asked to list stereotypes next to each race. African Americans were thought of as athletes, bad attitudes, drug dealers, drug users, Ebonics users, lazy, loud, poor, underprivileged, uneducated, welfare users, and criminals. This shows that conditioning against us has successfully been implemented by the mass media, judicial systems, etc.

Those stereotypes/descriptions of blacks can fit any individual, but where does this compulsion to categorize come in? Through continual conditioning of our cognitive, it has gone to our subconscious mind.

During World War II, prejudice towards Japanese Americans was strong. The newspapers would print "Japs" this and "Japs" that. The Japanese were interned in concentration camps, and their proverties were taken, as America declared "This is a White man's Neighborhood." \

In 1988, the United States government officially apologized to the Japanese for violating their civil rights. They were compensated $20,000.00 each by the federal government.

It should be stated that African Americans are the only race that did not ask to come here. We were forced here; and we are the most hated by the system. We have been used, misused, abused, dehumanized, separated, kidnapped, raped, tortured, had our identity stolen, our religion stolen, our language stolen, our ideas and inventions stolen, etc., and we still I have to fight to get our message to the floor of congress. We still have not gotten a hearing on reparations to Blacks for the hundreds of years of slavery.

America should pay for the conditioning it has created in people--programming many to hate Blacks and programming blacks to hate themselves. Some African Americans are continuing to kill themselves. We were taught to kill, to sell dope, to remain slaves and dependent on masters. America owes African Americans, and most importantly, African Americans owe themselves to break this conditioning.

Seemingly society is changing, people are changing, and things appear to be good. However, things haven't changed that much--just another set of clothing. Federal, state and local governments keep hate alive; the powerful keep hate alive; the powerful entities tell you who to vote for, and you are conditioned to accept their voice. It is astonishing how some of our minds can't see the forest for the trees, simply because we have been able to afford a few trinkets in life, we get complacence.

Stereotyping is a part of culture as a whole; it is used to change and promote behaviors. For African Americans, our culture is dying in front of your faces; our youths' minds are not our minds. The American conditioning machine is in full force.

Can you see the picture?

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