This entry is part 9 of 17 in the series: Secret of Racism

This part of the series will share how rap music and movies are being used to maintain the system of racism/white supremacy and its effects on black people. It’s often said that rap music plays apart in the demise of black youth—and I would agree. But while the artists behind the destructive lyrics are to blame, nobody ever points a finger at the owners of these record labels who control the content, and its distribution. When you dig into who’s really running the show, you’ll find a few corporations and a handful of people of so claimed Jewish descent.

I briefly shared in part 3 how news media is used to manipulate the minds of both black and white people to keep us divided and to engineer thought and behavior. In part 7 of this series, in the last video interview with ex-drug kingpin Ricky Freeway Ross, he mentions how the 70s Blaxploitation films were a primer for the drug culture, prostitution and violence in black communities; and how the music now, specifically rap, is used as a weapon.

Before I move to the music I want to share what black film archivist and historian Charles Woods (a.k.a. The Professor) had to say about Blaxploitation films reason for their rise to popularity.

You can check out his exclusive interview on Reel Black TV below. This video is part of a series, and I have to warn you, it does include short clips from those early movies that contain explicit content, so be prepared to mute and look away briefly.

To summarize the video: “black” movies were created to calm black people down. The civil rights movement was still in effect during the late 60s and blacks were still raising hell because of their oppression. The system of white supremacy realized that cinema could be used as a tool. Up until the 70s, cinema was “all white”, and while black characters were included, they were subservient, weak and losers.

This new genre depicted black people as the heroes. The leads were either fighting crime, or being heads of their own criminal organizations. And for the first time it showed black people kicking white butt; it even had interracial sex. These were all the things black people wanted to do in real life but weren’t able to express on a broad scale without terrible consequences; and all of which was never allowed to be depicted in cinema until then.

In these movies, blacks were the winners and whites were the losers—and the system worked—black people calmed down. Instead of going outside, protesting and rioting about oppression, a black man could sit inside a theater and watch Jim Brown kick some white tail, and that was satisfying enough for him. However he was still oppressed, but now pacified through a fictional story.

The Effects

While these films seemed like a good thing at the time, it wasn’t. It may have paved the way for more black actors in Hollywood, and put more money in a few pockets, it did a lot of damage. It pacified the cry of oppression, it created new stereotypes about black people, immorality was glorified and it preconditioned the black community for the onslaught and devastation of crack-cocaine, gangs and violence scheduled for the next decade.

When you think about how black film was used in the 70s back then, blacks aren’t the only ones this is being done to. Many of the major American movies have long been used as tools to shape the minds of people. Conscience movies like The Matrix is a good example, and the latest one is the Hunger Games Series. We’re expected to enjoy these movies, agree that there’s some truth to them, be happy the hero won and then go back to our real life cages doing nothing about our collective oppression under a world controlled by the devil.

Movies are not evil in themselves, but they are used to distract, pacify any uprising against the establishment, indoctrinate us with lies, defile our souls with immorality and, of course, program us for future events.

The oppression of black people and humanity as whole is real, and movies are one of the tools used to keep the world in bondage.

Now back to the music.