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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3184111" data-attributes="member: 56035">one of my supervisors jokes about being a dictator.&nbsp; some people make the connection between capitalism and tyranny alot easier than others.we have slave mentality on my job.&nbsp; most guys just listen to the corporate mind numbing radio, or satellite which is a mild improvement although not really politically.&nbsp; but the major problem is alot of guys (especially the east indians) work pretty fast AND are on hte supervisors plantation even though he is a chronic liar and probably racist too.if they didnt have slave mentality, they would sign a petition to get rid of him, and have solidarity with the workers who have been jerked around by the company including working much slower.&quot;So you have two types of Negro. The old type and the new type. Most of you know the old type. When you read about him in history during slavery he was called &quot;Uncle Tom.&quot; He was the house Negro. And during slavery you had two Negroes. You had the house Negro and the field Negro.The house Negro usually lived close to his master. He dressed like his master. He wore his master&#039;s second-hand clothes. He ate food that his master left on the table. And he lived in his master&#039;s house--probably in the basement or the attic--but he still lived in the master&#039;s house.So whenever that house Negro identified himself, he always identified himself in the same sense that his master identified himself. When his master said, &quot;We have good food,&quot; the house Negro would say, &quot;Yes, we have plenty of good food.&quot; &quot;We&quot; have plenty of good food. When the master said that &quot;we have a fine home here,&quot; the house Negro said, &quot;Yes, we have a fine home here.&quot; When the master would be sick, the house Negro identified himself so much with his master he&#039;d say, &quot;What&#039;s the matter boss, we sick?&quot; His master&#039;s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master&#039;s house out than the master himself would.&quot; - malcolm x</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3184111, member: 56035"] one of my supervisors jokes about being a dictator. some people make the connection between capitalism and tyranny alot easier than others. we have slave mentality on my job. most guys just listen to the corporate mind numbing radio, or satellite which is a mild improvement although not really politically. but the major problem is alot of guys (especially the east indians) work pretty fast AND are on hte supervisors plantation even though he is a chronic liar and probably racist too. if they didnt have slave mentality, they would sign a petition to get rid of him, and have solidarity with the workers who have been jerked around by the company including working much slower. " So you have two types of Negro. The old type and the new type. Most of you know the old type. When you read about him in history during slavery he was called "Uncle Tom." He was the house Negro. And during slavery you had two Negroes. You had the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negro usually lived close to his master. He dressed like his master. He wore his master's second-hand clothes. He ate food that his master left on the table. And he lived in his master's house--probably in the basement or the attic--but he still lived in the master's house. So whenever that house Negro identified himself, he always identified himself in the same sense that his master identified himself. When his master said, "We have good food," the house Negro would say, "Yes, we have plenty of good food." "We" have plenty of good food. When the master said that "we have a fine home here," the house Negro said, "Yes, we have a fine home here." When the master would be sick, the house Negro identified himself so much with his master he'd say, "What's the matter boss, we sick?" His master's pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master's house out than the master himself would." - malcolm x [/QUOTE]

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