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    Black America:Breaking The Code
    Black America:Breaking The Code
    Black America:Breaking The Code
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    Black America:Breaking The Code

    By Joseph Harris

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    This book takes a look at Black America from within. There is a focus on some aspects of Black American history. This book also explores Black American men and women and examines the necessity to identify ourselves as American citizens.
    Finally, this book identifies ways to change the thinking that perpetuates adverse behavior such as crime, drug abuse and violence.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph Harris
    Release dateSep 20, 2012
    ISBN9780615684529
    Black America:Breaking The Code
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    Joseph Harris

    I have a criminal and drug addiction history, which I have been free from for 39 years. My experience in these two areas is what motivated me to write, "Escape From Critical Confusion". Besides the history,I also have been working in the field of chemical dependency for 38 years and I have a bachelor's of science in counseling and human development.

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      Black America:Breaking The Code - Joseph Harris

      BLACK AMERICA: BREAKING THE CODE

      JOSEPH B. HARRIS

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      Copyright 2012 Joseph B. Harris

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      As I sit here in thought related to my people, a wonderful people who are talented, courageous, strong, brilliant, honorable, loving great humans, the pride fills my entire being, and my soul generates feelings of comfort and pleasure. Black Americans have made enormous progress since 1619, when the first slaves were brought to our country. It was not our country in 1619, but we made the United States of America ours through fighting in the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War One, World War Two, Korean Conflict, Vietnam, and most recently the war in Iraq.

      We worked for two hundred and forty six years in hard labor, making this country rich and powerful, while being oppressed, tortured, murdered, and denied the right to pursue happiness in freedom like many who came from other lands to gain riches, power, and education, from the fruits of our daily tortuous work to make this country the richest and most powerful in the world.

      Black Americans are as American as the American Flag, and the Constitution of the United States.

      After we were freed in eighteen sixty five, we had to fight for employment, fight for education, fight for decent housing, fight Jim Crow, fight to vote, fight to use public libraries, fight for the rights of real citizenship, etc. Nothing was given to us.

      We had to fight and struggle with perseverance to obtain anything that we needed or desired in our efforts to reach our highest potential.

      When I think of some of our people today that are not aware of who we are in our country, which is demonstrated in their adverse behavior such as crime, drug abuse, lack of interest in education, assaults on other blacks, disrespect for self, freedom, family, community, and life itself, my spirit shutters, and my heart cries out for an awakening in the minds of all Black Americans to the many opportunities that we made possible through our contributions to the United States of America. In viewing Black America today, too many of us are still immersed.

      In this book we will take an in depth look at the core of Black America from within, and provide solutions to bring consciousness to those of us who are unaware of our great potential, and to claim our rights as citizens in this great country.

      Chapter One

      When we look at the people of the world, there is something about all of us that generates the desire to reach our highest level. The term used in social science for this desire is called intellectual and physical self-actualization, it means that we all want to reach our highest potential then use that potential to excel in life. It is not normal for humans to work hard for failure, to suffer, to lose meaningful and loving relationships, to lose their freedom, to limit themselves to an unhealthy painful existence that dictates no hope. People in general have a profound interest in living good healthy prosperous lives.

      People living in the United States of America have an advantage over many others, because opportunity is boundless, unless of course, you see yourself as an American who does not have the right to seek these opportunities.

      It is hard to believe that any American living in the United States could entertain the thought that education, job training, or meaningful employment is not possible. However, there are some of us who place such psychological limits on ourselves.

      It does not matter what ethnicity you are, this is a form of psychological bondage. The message that one gives himself is I can only raise myself to this level of life, and because this is as far as I can go, I may as well be the best that I can right here. Right here might be the person who is a professional social services recipient, who knows how to masterfully stretch his money received from one check to the next.

      Right here could be the criminal minded individual who pushes his brain to its peak potential to outwit law enforcement. Right here could be the drug addicted person who has weakened his brain with the poison chemicals crack, heroin, the liquid drug alcohol, marijuana, or any other intoxicant, to such a level that he/she can only function like a rodent. A rodent lives in a hole, comes out for food, and then returns to his hole. A drug addicted person comes outside for drugs, then goes back into his hole which could be a crack house, a heroin shooting gallery, a dwelling where marijuana and angel dust is smoked, and repeat this behavior for years, while trying his best to be the person in this group who can use more intravenous heroin than the rest, smoke more crack than the rest, be the most successful criminal, be able to cope with more time spent in jail than the rest, etc.

      When people think like any of the right here, a seed had to be planted somewhere in their life for it to grow into a full blown mental bum hood. A bum is defined as a shiftless irresponsible person, one who wastes time, a loafer, an incompetent person, someone who sponges off others. A bum is a person of poor quality, a beggar; someone who is false, erroneous, invalid. It is an injustice for a person to work long hours each day for years, just to mold themselves into a bum, especially when one has choices. It is a horrific act for another person to treat you unfairly and cruelly, but when you treat yourself unfairly and cruelly it is the ultimate act in self destruction. Any time a person is not in control of him or herself, that person is a slave. If one is living in an environment that encourages a lackadaisical attitude about employment and education. Violence toward their peers is normal, and criminal behavior is how to meet your financial needs. If a person allows his environment to train and control his thinking into a dogmatic perspective of this type, that individual will be a slave to his or her environment, and most likely result in being a bum.

      One of the ways to plant the seed of self-destructive mental slavery, and no vision past your present environment, is someone close to you at some point in your life begins to teach you how to think about yourself, and your expected limitations in life. For those of us who are Black Americans, when we submit to limitations, we place ourselves back into slavery.

      I read a book The Mind of Frederick Douglas written by Waldo E. Martin JR. where he stated that when Frederick was a slave, the slave master only wanted Frederick to know the will of the master. He did not

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