“The House Negro and the Field Negro”
Because an overobsession with someone else’s business when we’re not affected either individually or as a family is purely a slave mentality. (i.e., who’s trying to escape massa’s plantation, who’s not doing their fair share of work in massa’s HOUSE AND FIELDS, who’s eating massa’s pig tails, who’s not taking care of massa’s farm animals, who’s looking at massa’s wife, who impregnated massa’s favorite slave, who’s unwilling to get an abortion for massa, who’s shunning massa’s sexual advances, who’s trying to learn how to swim in massa’s pond, who’s trying to dig up massa’s tree, who’s unwilling to eat massa’s leftovers, who’s trying to learn how to read massa’s books, who’s trying to reorganize massa’s slaves, who’s asserting their freedom against massa’s will, who’s denying massa’s good deeds, who’s disrespecting massa’s rules, who’s mocking massa, etc.). Though the vestiges of slavery still exist, massa wants us to mind our own business because slavery is officially over in America.
