No more 'niggers' in Russia.
The De-Niggerization of The Russian People and the Rise of the Russian Republic
TO SEE THE LYRICS, IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH, OF THE SONG BEING SUNG IN THE ABOVE VIDEO, GO TO THE VERY END OF THIS ARTICLE.
This article is an exploration which begins with a hypothesis that is based on a saying of the poet, Khalil Gibran:
THE HYPOTHESIS: The current powerful ascendancy of the Russian Republic has two primary sources and a third sub-source related to the second source mentioned:
Thousands of years of the enslavement of Slavic people, as you’ll see, later, in a short video produced by Professor Colin Heaten, which resulted in a toughening of their psyches and their souls. I believe that that centuries-long toughening process, today, is obvious, as Russia now exhibits, before the world, spiritual, religious, cultural, educational, geo-political, military, self-sustaining power and strength.
Hundreds of years of wars, since 830 C.E. (A.D.), from the Paphlagonian expedition of the Rusʹ to the current war in Ukraine
The particular horrors of World War II.
This hypothesis does not include value judgements with respect to the nature of any of these wars, such as who initiated the war or wars. Nor does this hypothesis assume that any victory earned was one earned without suffering, since winning, for whichever side, cannot be said to have occurred without some form of suffering involved. The suffering can be physical, psychological, consciousness-based, etc.
The decision as to whether or not this hypothesis is correct will be made by you, the reader. My job is to collect information, and present it to you here in this article. With that information, you can decide whether or not the hypothesis has any merit.
But, why did I decide to explore whether or not a history of suffering, and an eventual toughening of Slavic people,1 may have greatly contributed to Russia’s current, fast-developing leadership of a developing multi-polar world order? Well, since Thursday, February 24th, 2022, the day that Russia began it’s SMO (Special Military Operation) in Ukraine, I have been daily staying abreast of not only the SMO itself, but also of everything related to the SMO: economics, geo-politics, religion and culture.
That may appear to be a lot to cover, and it is. But, thanks to the existence of The Internet, my job was made much easier by following the daily, extensive analyses, at YouTube and elsewhere, by expert New-Tech/Alt-Tech content-producer journalists2, as well as their interviews of geo-political, military, and intelligence experts. Here are some of the experts interviewed by those journalists:
During this daily process of information gathering, I discovered a number of things. The experts discussed the sanctions imposed by the West, led by the United States, on Russia.
I began to wonder: “How on earth did Russia successfully withstand 3,431 sanctions on entities, such as companies; 10,608 sanctions on Russian individuals; and 492 sanctions on institutions?” But not only did Russia withstand those sanctions, Russia’s economy grew and got stronger.
The expectation of the West was that the Russian Ruble would be greatly devalued. In fact, on March 26, 2022, almost exactly one month after the Russian Republic started its Special Military Operation, President Genocide-Joe Biden delivered a public speech in the courtyard of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, during which he said the following:
That did not occur. In fact, the very opposite—literally—occurred. In 2022 I wrote the following in a section of my free book, Uncle Tom’s Uncle, Second Edition, entitled, ‘Threat No. 4—Are Western leaders incompetent, hubristic, reckless, irrational, dangerously utopian globalist ideologues?’
“The next thing that happened is that virtually all of the predictions made by Western political leaders who said that, due to heavy sanctions from the collective West, led by the United States, the Russian economic system would totally fold, the citizens of Russia would rebel, and Vladimir Putin, Russia’s President, and his government, would be pulled totally down, were predictions that totally failed to occur, and the sanctions regime imposed on Russia actually backfired, putting Western governments, especially Western European governments, in economic peril. If Western leaders were so certain of the outcome of Western sanctions against Russia; if Western leaders were competent, how on earth could they have screwed up so badly? And all of them, except Hungary, it seems, screwed up.
“For instance, rather than the Russian currency ‘crashing,’ as Western leaders confidently predicted, this is what really occurred:
“1.) The Ruble became the best performing currency in the world in March 2022, and as of this writing, April 7th, 2022, the Ruble continues to perform well. Indeed, relative to the Euro and the Dollar, the Ruble is stronger than it was before the war in Ukraine began and since sanctions were imposed by the West.
“2.) Industrial production in Russia rose by 4.5% in March 2022
“3.) Food and fuel costs have remained relatively stable, as Russia is self-sustaining in food and energy.
“4.) Russia’s inflation numbers will be only marginally higher, this year, than those of several countries in the West.
“5.) Russian figures show an annualized inflation rate of 14.7%, not far out of line, it’s said, with global inflation trends. [NOTE: As of January 2, 2025, Russia’s inflation rate is 9%.]
“6.) The approval rating of President Vladimir Putin, by Russian citizens, stands at 83% as of April 7th, 2022, a sharp rise from three months earlier, January 2022, when his approval rating stood at 69%. So, even after Russia began what it calls its ‘special military operation’ against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s approval rating rose by 14 percentage points. [NOTE: I am writing this note on January 2, 2025. As of three months ago, October 2024, Vladimir Putin’s approval rating was at 85%, three percentage points higher than his approval rating in April of 2022]
“And what’s fascinating is that the Russian polling company that conducted the poll, The Levada Center, is an anti-Putin, pro-Western, Russian polling company. In sharp contrast, Rasmussen, a Western polling company, poled President Joe Biden at 43% approval rating as of April 7th, 2022, 40 percentage points lower that Vladimir Putin’s. [NOTE: As of January 2, 2025, President Genocide Joe Biden’s approval rating, according to the prestigious polling company, Rasmussen, is at -19% [Yeah, MINUS NINETEEN (-19) PERCENT]
“7.) The government of President Vladimir Putin did not fall. In fact, that government has strengthened dramatically, with nations like China, India, and some Middle Eastern countries openly strengthening their political and economic ties with Russia. The next page presents two screen shot examples, taken from Alex Christophoru’s YouTube channel, that make the point.
“Keep in mind that a number of Western leaders have repeatedly travelled to India to attempt to persuade India to join Western sanctions against Russia. Indian government leaders have repeatedly refused the requests of those Western leaders.
“How could Western leaders have not anticipated that India would choose not to join in with sanctions against Russia? Aren’t Western leaders competent? Don’t they have economic, geo-political experts that help them to make decisions that make sense? I had thought that, in addition to their own abilities, they had experts at think thanks, universities, foundations, councils (e.g., Council of Economic Advisors, an agency within the Executive Office of the President) to consult.) What happened?
“8.) Mixed messages are coming out of Germany, one being that Germany will abide by sanctions and not purchase oil from Russia, the other being that Germany will not abide by sanctions and will continue to purchase oil from Russia. From The Wall Street Journal:
“‘Germany will continue to buy natural gas, oil and coal from Russia despite Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine, the government in Berlin said Monday.
“‘Germany and Europe are too dependent on Russian energy imports for power, heating and industrial production to be able to cut trade links with Moscow in the short term, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a statement.
“‘Europe’s supply of energy for heating, for mobility, for electricity generation and for the industry can’t be secured otherwise at the moment,” Mr. Scholz said. Russian energy, he added, was essential for the daily lives of citizens.’”
“As of this writing, May 10th, 2022, the European Union has decreed that European nations must not import gas from Russia. But there is confusion, because several European nations are complaining that they need Russian gas and oil, as there is currently no economically feasible alternative.”
“9.) The Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, concluded, in early April 2022 (Bolded and italicized emphasis is author’s):
“‘I must say this very clearly: the sanctions we have imposed so far don’t work. The best evidence is the Ruble exchange rate,’ Morawiecki said on Saturday. ‘The Ruble exchange Rate, this litmus test, has returned to the level it was before the Russian aggression against Ukraine. What does it mean? It means that all economic, financial, budgetary, and monetary measures have not worked as some leaders wished. It needs to be said very loudly,’ he added, speaking at the Center for Ukrainian refuges in Otwock, near Warsaw.’”[3]
“So we, the common people, now have to suffer heavy economic misery, because we do not live in countries that are isolated from each other economically. When prices of a commonly used commodity go up, the impact will be felt by countries all over the planet. What’s interesting is that Russia is a country that is self-sufficient in agriculture, minerals, oil, gas, etc.”
“But our ‘leaders’ apparently were not aware of that. And their attempts to destroy Russia economically have failed miserably and backfired against us, as energy prices in the West are beginning to skyrocket. If you drive a car, you’ve seen the dramatic rise in prices for gasoline. We don’t live in isolation. The sanctions against Russia have hurt the rest of us, while the Russian economy has survived and stabilized, contrary to what we’ve been told would occur. What happened? Incompetence?”
And that was up to April 2022. It got worse and worse and worse, as even the American mainstream media news organs, which had previously been spitting out government narratives, began to record:
“On May 19th, 2022, The New York Times reported (bolded and italicized text is this author’s):
“‘A decisive military victory for Ukraine over Russia, in which Ukraine regains all the territory Russia has seized since 2014, is not a realistic goal. Though Russia’s planning and fighting have been surprisingly sloppy, Russia remains too strong, and Mr. Putin has invested too much personal prestige in the invasion to back down.
“‘The United States and NATO are already deeply involved, militarily and economically. Unrealistic expectations could draw them ever deeper into a costly, drawn-out war…
“‘Recent bellicose statements from Washington — President Biden’s assertion that Mr. Putin ‘cannot remain in power,’ Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s comment that Russia must be ‘weakened’ and the pledge by the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, that the United States would support Ukraine ‘until victory is won’ — may be rousing proclamations of support, but they do not bring negotiations any closer.
“‘In the end, it is the Ukrainians who must make the hard decisions: They are the ones fighting, dying and losing their homes to Russian aggression, and it is they who must decide what an end to the war might look like. If the conflict does lead to real negotiations, it will be Ukrainian leaders who will have to make the painful territorial decisions that any compromise will demand…
“‘But as the war continues, Mr. Biden should also make clear to President Volodymyr Zelensky and his people that there is a limit to how far the United States and NATO will go to confront Russia, and limits to the arms, money and political support they can muster. It is imperative that the Ukrainian government’s decisions be based on a realistic assessment of its means and how much more destruction Ukraine can sustain.’”[4]
More time passed, and we were now in June. I wrote:
“Speaking of ‘perverse,’ what seems perverse to me is that, for the entire length of the conflict in Ukraine, the mainstream media has been telling us that Ukraine was winning; that Russia’s economy was on the way to perdition; and that the Putin government would collapse. Here’s more from Bloomberg (Money talks, bullsh*t walks):
“‘In early March, as the US and its allies unleashed a wave of sanctions on Russia, President Joe Biden stood in the White House and said they wanted to deal a ‘powerful blow to Putin’s war machine.’
“‘But as the war in Ukraine approaches its 100th day, that machine is still very much operational. Russia is being propelled by a flood of cash that could average $800 million a day this year — and that's just what the commodity superpower is raking in from oil and gas.
“‘For years, Russia has acted as a vast commodity supermarket selling what an insatiable world has needed: Not just energy, but wheat, nickel, aluminum and palladium too. The invasion of Ukraine has pushed the US and the European Union to rethink this relationship. It’s taking time, though the EU took a further step this week by hammering out a compromise agreement on Russian oil imports…
“‘Even with some countries halting or phasing out energy purchases, Russia's oil-and-gas revenue will be about $285 billion this year, according to estimates from Bloomberg Economics based on Economy Ministry projections. That would exceed the 2021 figure by more than one-fifth.”’
Well, by now I was becoming more and more fascinated by Russia’s resiliency and power in withstanding the economic sanctions imposed on it. But what about the pressure on Russia by the economic and military assistance given to Ukraine by the West?
As the graph shows, Ukraine received a total of €71 billion euros ($78 billion dollars) from the United States and €35 billion euros ($39 billion dollars) from the European Union for a total of $117 billion dollars in financial, humanitarian and military aid. Despite all that money, Russia has not only withstood the West’s proxy war against it, using Ukraine as the proxy, Russia has crushed the West’s effort for “regime change” in Russia, as well as the West’s long-desired goal of balkanizing the Russian Republic.
Russia, phenomenally,
had checkmated and buried the West’s hopes for destroying it.
had exposed the West and NATO as “paper tigers,” compared to Russia.
had thrived, in the process, with its economy improving and growing, and non-Western nations forming more and stronger relations with Russia, especially through BRICS.
Having witnessed the progression of all of the above Russian successes, my eyebrow was raised.
It was time for me to dig deeper to see if I could uncover the real roots of Russia’s power. In my mind, there just had to be some deeper reason that Russia had withstood such a humongous effort to destroy it. So, let’s dig.
I. WHAT IS NIGGERIZATION?
The use of the words nigger, niggerization, de-niggerization, in this article, refer to the second definition of the word “nigger” that is offered above in the color red, not the first definition. Niggerization has two definitions that I have invented and that I think are appropriate:
Niggerization refers to the external process of using force, either physical or psychological or both, to create the perception that a given people are contemptible, inferior, ignorant and, as such, “deserving” of being disrespected, hated, persecuted, discriminated against, and reduced to a state, if possible, of permanent subservience.
Niggerization can also refer to the conscious or subconscious acceptance, by a given people, of an external force’s perception of those people as niggers. In my humble, or not so humble opinion, an example of the acceptance of being perceived as a nigger is seen in the entertainer known as Lizzo. From NBC News3:
Personally, I consider the acts allegedly to have been encouraged by Lizzo to be “contemptible, inferior, and ignorant,” the three descriptives used in the second definition, given above in the color red, of the word nigger. [NOTE: I said nothing about her race, which is MY race. Read that second definition again]. Thus, Lizzo appears to represent an example of someone who has either consciously or subconsciously accepted niggerization. Forces that could have influenced Lizzo to consciously or subconsciously accept niggerization could be one or a combination of the following:
Direct human influence
Parents
Siblings (if any)
Friends
Promoters
Indirect human influence
Environment. For example:
Perhaps an outdated, but still heavily discussed, amongst liberal Whites, alleged, all-pervasive, anti-Black “racism” in American society, a perception that no longer indicates truth. Those liberal Whites may still, subconsciously, perceive Blacks as inferior beings who need White “protection.”
Liberal Blacks, on the other hand, who are still engaged in a form of conscious or subconscious psychological warfare against Whites. The spark that may have ignited that psychological warfare against Whites, in my humble, or not so humble opinion/perspective, could stem from inferiority complex, the subconscious “defense” for that state of mind being an “offense” which takes the form of perceiving, and projecting, all Whites as instinctively and perpetually racist.
Young, innocent Blacks who have become influenced by liberal Whites and liberal Blacks. I personally fell into that category, in the late 1960s, even though I was born and raised to productive Black parents, who eventually moved our family to the family home that had been purchased by “Sugarbaby,” my grandma, that home located in a working-class and middle class, totally home-ownership area of the south side of Chicago called Princeton Park:
Our large, five-bedroom, Princeton Park family home, purchased by Sugarbaby, my grandma Heavy propaganda from liberal Whites, liberal Blacks, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Black Power/Black Consciousness movement had convinced me and many young Blacks, in the 1960s, that every single one of us was “oppressed” by “the White man.” I had even worn my “Mau Mau” uniform while sitting on the roof of our family home, reading a book entitled, The Wretched of the Earth, by Franz Fanon, and convincing myself that I was “oppressed,” while Sugarbaby stuck her head out the back door, and hollered up to me, “Boy, you want Sugarbaby to bake you a PIE??”, to which (of course) I would respond, exitedly, “Yeah, Sugarbaby!!” and then continue reading about how “oppressed” I was.
My girlfriend, Jamesetta, did not live in Princeton Park, Chatham Village, Bronzeville or Pill Hill. She lived in a housing project for poor folks at 51st & State Street. When I handed her that book, The Wretched of the Earth, she asked me, “What’s this about?” I answered, “It’s about oppressed people.” She handed it back to me, while saying, “I already know I’m oppressed. I live in the f*cking PROJECTS, nigguh. And you want me to READ about that shit??!!”
“Is you outcho damned MIND, nigguh?!”
I quickly changed the subject. Jamesetta and I were tight. But, over the years, we lost contact with each other. Decades later, I went back to her hood to visit a childhood buddy of mine, and asked him about Jamesetta. He said, “She od’d.” She’d died of an overdose of heroin. Sometimes, I think about things.
money (“Pay me enough, baby, and I’ll be yo nigga!!!”)
power (“Pay me enough, baby, and I’ll be yo nigga!!!”)
II. WHAT IS DE-NIGGERIZATION?
First, a few important words before explaining what de-niggerization is. Please understand this from jump street: Anyone who has read my Substack articles knows two things with certainty:
I do not live in the world of blaming White folks for everything under the sun.
I suppose I fit under the category commonly known as a hard-nosed “Black conservative,” for lack of a better description, who believes that no barriers exist in front of Black youth except the psychological barriers within. And even if that’s not true, it is better to use such a belief as incentive to succeed in life.
So understand that my use of the words nigger, niggerization, de-niggerization, are not being used as bullets against White folks or Black folks. This is not an article about the American racial experience. Rather than spend any more time explaining my perspective on the American racial scene, as I’ve done in many articles, the reader may, if he wishes, read those articles by examining my archives page.
If I do make any reference, in this article, to the American racial experience, it will be only for the purpose of discussing two realities that occur in the human experience: the development of inferiority complex, and the escape from inferiority complex through a form of strengthening that occurs through suffering, as I believe may have occurred in the case of the Slavic people, particularly with respect to the current rise of the Russian Republic on the international scene today.
De-niggerization has been achieved when,
Primarily, the nigger, or the person, persons, or entity perceived—either by himself and/or by others—to be, or have been, a nigger, no longer carries, within himself, the perception of himself as a nigger. He has been de-niggerized.
Secondarily, de-niggerization has been achieved when others no longer perceive the person, persons, or entity as a nigger. This secondary, externally based perception of a person, persons, or entity as a nigger is essentially irrelevant if the person, persons, or entity does not accept or internalize the externally-based perception of himself as a nigger.
Have the Russian people, and/or the Slavic people, ever been niggerized? (See the second definition—shown in the color red, above—of the word “nigger.”) Is there a difference between Russian Slavic people and non-Russian Slavic people? What does it mean to be a “European?” Are Russian people “Europeans? And if so, are they “Europeans” psychologically? culturally? religiously? spiritually? Historically?
This article is an exploration. In part, I’m writing this “on the fly,“ so to speak. I’m not an historian. But, since I live on this planet; since global events are moving at lightning speed; since the Russian Republic seems to be right dead-center of the rapid evolution of global events; and since Substack is a cool, truly free-speech platform, I decided to do the best that I can do and put my “pen to paper.”
I was simply curious to see if there may have been a history of either the Slavic people at large; the Slavic people of Russia; or the Russian people in general, which includes non-Slavic citizens such as Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Kazakhs, Kumyks, Yakuts, Tuvans and others that may have presented similarities to the experience of niggerization that was externally imposed upon, as well as internally accepted by, any people in history that had been niggerized. Again, read the second definition of the word nigger, above, given in the color red.
This curiosity of mine is also fueled by what has become a fascinating phenomenon: the rise of the Russian Republic as the clear leader of the non-Western world. Russian status in that regard is witnessed by its role in the ongoing formation of an independent alternative global economic system being developed, it seems, mostly through the BRICS alliance of nations, of which Russia is a part..
I was wondering if Russia’s current position arose out of any historical hardship that, over time, strengthened the Russian people for their current role. As Khalil Gibran said, “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Russia now heads and energizes the expansion of global institutions, such as BRICS, that are actively and seriously creating an alternative global economic system within a rapidly developing multi-polar world. Many experts, such as Alistair Crooke, Larry Johnson, Scott Ritter and others have claimed that Russia, traditionally, had suffered from a sense of inferiority with regard to how it perceived itself vis-a-vis Europe and the West. But Russia’s ongoing emergence as the leader of a rapidly-developing multi-polar world proves the following: You’re a nigger only if you ACCEPT being one, and then ACT like one. If Russia ever suffered from inferiority complex, here’s the current reality:
III. A PERSONAL NOTE, FOR CLARITY AND HONESTY SAKE
Every year our family gathered at Aunt Vanessa’s home, at 4408 1/2 Drexel, in Chicago, to celebrate Thanksgiving. And every single year, one feature of the gathering was Aunt Vanessa’s stories about the 1920s.
As if to kick off the celebration, my big brother would wink, raise his voice, and, while Aunt Vanessa was still back in the kitchen cooking say, “Yeah, that Capone was a vicious, murdering gangster,” and he’d go on and on. Eventually, Aunt Vanessa would leave the kitchen, walk to the living room, waving a butcher knife [which no one took the chance that she wouldn’t use] at my big brother, frowning and saying, “Now, boy, don’t you START that stuff!!! Mr. Capone [MR. Capone!! 😊] was a GOOD man!!!”
My brother would go, “Aunt Vanessa, that man was…” and he couldn’t get two more words out. She’d interrupt, “They just LIED about him!! Now you just shut yo mouth!!” She’d storm back to the kitchen, mumbling angrily, “I’m gone KILL that boy one day!!!” We’d all look at each other, smiling, but wisely suppressing laughter.
Aunt Vanessa worked as a cook in one of Capone’s restaurants, which was one of the stories she’d tell us about the 1920s—how, “Every Thanksgiving, Mr. Capone would give all of us workers TWO free turkeys to take home!!” It would be another year before you’d be able to eat aunt Vanessa‘s apple pie, sweet potato pie, minced meat pie, turkey, and other delicious fare. So, if you want to eat (and not get your throat cut) keep your damn mouth shut about “Mr. Capone.”
Another story had to do with the plight of Black folks back then. She said that, from the mid-1920s onward, for a while, there were only three places, due to severe racism, by White America, against Black folks, from which Black folks could obtain monetary loans:
The Black Church
The Italian Mafia
The Communist Party (founded in 1919)
Yes, the Communist Party’s activities within the Black community did exist, and this has been attested to by two excellent, Black-produced documentaries, Uncle Tom and Uncle Tom II. Certainly the Communist Party, back then, saw the propaganda value of reaching out to Black folks. But, for Black folks, though there did exist card-carrying Black Communists, the essential issue was not ideology. The essential issue was treatment. Indeed, it was the severe mistreatment of Black folks, back in the 1920s, in the United States, that caused an actual migration of Black folks to Russia.
From a 2014 LA Times article:
“‘Most of the African Americans who came to Russia were seeking a better life, desperate to flee the social inequality and Depression-era hardships that racked America at the time,’ said Allison Blakely, professor emeritus of history at Boston University who has written a book on the African American immigrants.
“‘They were looking for a society where they could escape color prejudice and racism,’” Blakely said.
“Today, fewer than 50 descendants of these African Americans are believed to still live in Russia. In all, their numbers in the former Soviet republics could be between 100 and 200, according to researchers.
“‘They have become footnotes to African American and Russian history,’ said Yelena Demikovsky, a New York-based Russian film director and researcher who is making a movie, Black Russians — The Red Experience, about the immigrants to the Soviet Union and their descendants.
“Officials actively recruited skilled foreign laborers and professionals, Blakely said. About 18,000 Americans answered the call to work in the 1930s, he said. Among them were several hundred African Americans who traveled to the Soviet Union, including dozens who lived there for ‘the good part of a decade,’ Blakely said.
“Their ranks included graduates of historically black colleges such as Tuskegee University in Alabama and Virginia’s Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, later called the Hampton Institute. They were engineers, educators, entertainers, journalists, lawyers. The actor-activist Paul Robeson and poet Langston Hughes were among those travelers captivated by communism.
“The Soviets gave the African Americans red-carpet treatment, including fat paychecks, subsidized housing and free vacations.
“‘My father felt the U.S.S.R. treated him better than America,’” said Tynes-Mensah, a former university chemistry instructor who was born in the Russian town of Krasnodar and now lives mainly in the United States, spending summers in Russia. ‘He was happy here.’”4
Back then, the promise of equality in a collective “proletariat” was welcomed music to those Black folks who learned about Russia, and who found the means to leave the extreme racist brutality of the U.S. and migrate, permanently, to Russia. And nobody dared stand in Aunt Vanessa’s way, while she was obtaining that loan from the Communist Party, lest they were prepared to be sliced up with her butcher knife.
So, I have two points to make, for clarity and honesty sake:
With respect to the subject of this article, the reader should understand that there’s nothing disparaging meant by the title of this article, with respect to the Russian people. This should have been understood by the reader from what I’ve written earlier.
There are two realities, for me personally:
The Russian people, not “Communism,” as far as I’m concerned, reached out to Black folks, back in the 1920s, as you read earlier concerning the good treatment, by the Russian people, of Black immigrants to Russia then.
My family benefitted directly due to the Russian people, in the sense that my Aunt Vanessa was able to improve her life through loans extended to her that she could not receive from the racist American institutions of that time. It’s called perspective. It’s also called reality.
Although Black people of my era (pre-1960s) lived conservative lives, I cannot, these days, label myself “conservative.” These days, the label “conservative” can be used by civic nationalists (cool); proponents of traditional values (cool); supporters of the reestablishment of the civilization state that America, despite itself, had created by the 1950s (cool. And see my article entitled, What is the Future? Liberalism? The Civilizational State? Or Guanxi and BUSINESS?). Those forms of conservatism I support.
But there also exists racial nationalists (not cool); closet racists (not cool); war-mongering neo-conservatives (not cool); and other like-minded assholes that hide behind the label “conservative.” American conservatives who, when they hear, “Russia” or “Russian people,” think of the stereotypes that our ROTTEN POLITICIANS hold out in front of us for propaganda sake, so that they can continue receiving donations from the MIC (military industrial complex), and use OUR money to engage in blood-spilling proxy wars against Russia.
The Russian people, during the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist era supported, in word and in deed, the anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist forces that were resisting the murder and exploitation of the people of Africa and the South. So, quite frankly, I got no beef with the Russian people.
They have demonstrated—from the 1920s onward—a propensity for helping oppressed peoples. Cool. Here is a short excerpt of the November 7, 2024 Valdai Conference, in which President Vladimir Putin briefly speaks of Russia’s historical and ongoing support of Africa and the African people:It’s quite fascinating that, with respect to Irish people, a somewhat parallel phenomenon of helping oppressed people occurred when, “During the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), many Irish-American immigrants abandoned their posts to join Mexican forces due to their solidarity through shared discrimination, and persecution of their Catholic faith by protestant Americans.5”
It’s called, giving credit where credit is due. And as my ex-wife used to say when I’d get super pissed off at one of her criticisms of me, “The truth is the light.” 😡🤬 Well, her telling me that did not bring any light to the household, as far as I was concerned. But, yes: the truth IS the light. In summary, I’m wondering if either, or both, of the following factors can be cited as fuel that, over the centuries, eventually led to the proud, confident, and strong Russia that has emerged today:
The literally hundreds of wars that Russians suffered through
Any sense of inferiority complext that Russians may have suffered from over the centuries.
I don’t believe the propaganda, dished out to Americans by our corrupt political “leaders,” especially through our lying mass media. In short, I’m not anti-Russian, no matter how much Boris and Natasha6 bullshit propaganda is thrown at me.
I am not an expert. But, I think I have a pretty good sniffer [intuitive sense], and I do take the time to perform research, as best I can. By the way, although many Americans do not feel they have the time to keep up with foreign affairs, they ain’t stupid. These days, most Americans know that our leaders, in virtually every sector of society, are corrupt, incompetent, and dangerous. With that out of the way, let’s begin.
I: THE KARPMAN DRAMA TRIANGE
“Enslaving people in chains, for forced labor; owning them as property, as well as their offspring, was practiced long before the European powers even first set foot in West Africa. And European Slavs were the primary targets for enslavement in eastern and central Europe, for several thousand years, by many empires.”7
Check out the above 10-minute video. Whew!! Pardon my ghetto, but, in the hood, it would be said, “Damn!! Seems like eebody and dey MAMMA used the Slavs as slaves!!” Well, as Professor Colin Heaten said in the above video,
“It is often believed that the word “slave” was derived from the Latin word for Slav as the Roman Republic, and later, the [Roman] empire expanded into eastern Europe.”
Of course, Slavic history was not totally dominated by slavery and oppression. But, to be used as slaves “for several thousand years” would certainly seem to have become a dominating influence within the psyche of Slavic people that may have crippled their souls, at least for a significant amount of time in their history. So, it’s fair to at least suggest, with some confidence, that the Slavic people may have become the victims of the process of niggerization, especially since, as Professor Heaten said, they were used as slaves “for several thousand years, by many empires.”
Russia itself, an essentially Slavic country, was invaded by outsiders at least 18 times in part of Russian history (1237-2024), over a period of 787 years, perhaps giving us a clue that the Slavs, including Russian Slavs, may have carried a sense of inferiority complex. But, at this point, rather than focus specifically on factors that could have caused a niggerization that, later, morphed to eventually produce the de-niggerization of the Slavic or Slavic Russian people, let’s check out something—quite fascinating—called The Karpman Drama Triangle.
“The Karpman drama triangle is a social model of human interaction proposed by Stephen B. Karpman. The triangle maps a type of destructive interaction that can occur among people in conflict.[1] The drama triangle model is a tool used in psychotherapy, specifically transactional analysis. The triangle of actors in the drama are persecutors, victims, and rescuers.”
Examine the pictures below, especially the second one, carefully.
Mila Lana, of Bratsk, Siberia, a contributor at Quora, says that Russians do not suffer from inferiority complex. I would characterize inferiority complex as a possible sign of niggerization. She says that, of the three different personality types outlined in a psychological theory called the Karpman Drama Triangle, Russians would be classified as Rescuers, being over-helpful, self-sacrificing, and needy.
But, from my knowledge of the history of my own people, African-Americans, aka Negroes, aka Black folks, aka Afro-Americans, being “over-helpful, self-sacrificing, and needed,” vis-a-vis our former White American slave-masters/owners/oppressors, most definitely emerged from a sense of inferiority complex that had been engrained in our people. While on the surface Russians may not have appeared to not suffer from inferiority complex, it seems possible that lingering strains of inferiority complex may have been embedded within the Russian psyche, on a subconscious level, even as it emerged out of that state of mind. So, let’s look into this.
At first, when I read Ms. Lana’s claim that Russians do not suffer from inferiority complex, I thought, “Well, that’s obvious. They’re currently kicking big ass on the planet, what with 80% of the world, seemingly, supporting Russia in its SMO, and, more importantly, aligning with Russia in it’s bourgeoning status as a potential leader of the non-Western world, one sign of that being its strong and ever-growing influence within the BRICS coalition.
And then I asked myself, “If Russian people, according to Ms. Lana, do not have inferiority complex, and if Russian people, as she claims, under the Karpman Drama Triangle, are defined as Rescuers, how did they develop the three identifiers of Rescuers:
Over-helpful
Self-sacrificing
Needs to be needed?
I asked myself whether or not, during the thousands of years of being used as slaves, the Slavic people had developed the above three characteristics. If so, how would those characteristics have manifested themselves while they were under oppression as slaves? And if they manifested themselves in very negative ways, in the form of inferiority complex, could the suffering and struggle, over time, have transformed those three characteristics of the Rescuer as something positive? Mila sees those characteristics as decidedly negative characteristics that should be discarded. Well, as I said: This article is an exploration. So, let’s explore!
Whether perfectly analogous or not, with respect to the three identifiers of the Rescue persona in the Karpman Drama Triangle, I thought about a speech that was given by El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, aka, Malcolm X, entitled, "Message to the Grass Roots." The speech was delivered on November 10, 1963, at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference, which was held at King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan.
During that speech, Malcolm drew an analogy between the slave mentality of Black folks, during slavery, and what he perceived as the slave mentality of modern “Uncle Tom” Blacks, particularly Black preachers and certain Black leaders of his time who were calling for “integration.” At that time, Malcolm was a member of the Nation of Islam, which wanted the very opposite of integration, and which was demanding the creation of a separate nation for Black folks carved out of five States in the south of the United States. Here is a short audio segment of that speech.
In his house Negro/field Negro analogy, you can hear all three elements of the Rescuer personality. Click the picture to listen to that 2-minute segment:
From listening to that segment, the reader should easily notice that Malcolm had given examples that reflect all three characteristics of the Rescuer personality: over-helpful, self-sacrificing, needs to be needed. But, I have a few words before outlining them.
It’s a bit uncomfortable for me to relay this. But it’s important, because it places me as an eye witness to the unfortunate reality of the form of slave mentality that created the Rescuer personality amongst Black folks..
The most independent person I’ve ever known was Sugarbaby, my grandma, Emma Chism. Through her own efforts she purchased our family home that you saw earlier in this article. Yet, sometimes, while the rest of the family was in the living room, Sugarbaby would say something, while on the phone in the dining room talking to a Church friend, that reflected one or the other of the three components of the Rescuer persona, such as the need to be needed.
Sometimes, my dad would hear it from where we were sitting in the living room, and bark, “Goddamit!!” He would be furious that Sugarbaby was exhibiting a mentality that made no sense whatsoever for such an independent and strong Black woman to exhibit. After dad barked, my brother and I would look at each other and smile, though there was nothing funny about it to my dad.
But there was a reality. And my dad understood it clearly, though it pained him and sometimes angered him to hear her carrying a mindset that was from a past age. We all understood the reality:
In the 1920s, Sugarbaby was a young woman in her 20s. She was raised at a time when Black female maids were called “mammies.” Slavery had ended only 55 years earlier, but a brutally dehumanizing, “master/servant” relationship still existed between “Blacks” and Whites,” i.e., between African-Americans and European-Americans.
It was an unwritten rule, for instance, that Blacks must not speak the English language as well as Whites. A Black maid was not to respond to the White woman that she offered maid service for with the words, “Yes ma’am.” She was to say, rather,“Yasum.” My grandma lived as a young woman during those times. And that culture of suppression and degradation left a permanent mark on her psyche. Perhaps this 3-minute video will offer a better example than what I can explain. Below the video I identify excerpts from the video that clearly reflect the three components of the Rescuer. Lines from the background song deeply color the scenes in the video.
The video, in my view, clearly depicts the three identifiers of the Rescuer persona within the Karpman Drama Triangle:
RESCUER
over-helpful
THE MAMMY: “Here you iz.”
MAE WEST: “Listen, what are you doing, working for me or sleeping for me?!”
self-sacrificing
“I’ll work 20 hours a day! I’ll wash all the sheets in America!”
needs to be needed
“I’m yo mammie, child! I ain’t yo White mother!”
Okay, let’s now examine the Rescuer persona within the analogy given by Malcolm X:
RESCUER
over-helpful
“If the master’s house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would.”
Self-sacrificing
“They would give their life, to save their master’s house, quicker than the master would.”
Needs to be needed
“And they loved their master more than the master loved himself.”
You can keep the Karpman Drama Triangle in mind as we move on. I find it fascinating that the Rescuer persona within the Karpman Drama Triangle appears to match the personality developed by someone that has been impacted by the Stockholm Syndrome, in which, it’s claimed, hostages develop a psychological bond with their captors. Let’s now see if we can go further back in time and find any information that might suggest that Slavic people, or Slavic Russian people may have been niggerized.
II: THE ROLE OF GEOGRAPHY
(“The Slavic countries and their main languages are generally categorized in three groups: Eastern (Russia, Belarus and Ukraine), Western (Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia) and Southern (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia and Bulgaria).”8
Starting at 3:33 into the above video, Dr. Sowell states that a mountainous area in southern and southcentral Europe called the Dinaric highlands “had certain environmental features that fostered poverty, population pressure, political fragmentation and conflict.” Those features greatly contributed to the fact that Slavs were being enslaved on a massive scale.
For example, costal ridges and, further inland, other ridges separated inhabited regions, making the Slavs of each region more vulnerable to outside attack by non-Slavic invaders. In short, there was no ability, by Slavs, to form a united effort to stave off invasion from non-Slavic people.
The natural environment itself, unfortunately for Slavs, acted as a divide-and-conquer tool, as it were, that invaders could use to conquer and enslave the Slavic people. Obviously, it was extremely unfortunate, for the Slavic people, that, simply by virtue of their geographical location, they were rendered more susceptible to being placed into slavery, with a high probability of suffering all of the consequences—physical, emotional, and psychological—that, historically, have accompanied slavery.
Or was it unfortunate?
It stands to reason that the longer an individual, or a group, remains in a condition of servitude under others, the longer that individual or group will suffer, as well as exhibit signs of inferiority complex. One wonders whether or not the strengthening of a people might be directly proportional to the intensity of and the length of suffering that that peoiple endured. That certainly seems to be the case for the Russian people.
So, what do you think? Does Khalil Gibran’s outlook apply to the Russian People?
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this article. Please inform others.
I am fully aware that the Russian Republic is composed of non-Slavic people. I doubt that it can be denied that the Slavic people are foundational and indispensable to the history, growth, and current power of the Russian Republic.
Judge Napolitano, Alexander Mercouris, Alex Christophorou, Danny Haiphong, Max Blumenthal, Clayton Morris, Natali Morris, Stephen Gardner, Jimmy Dore, Tarl Warwick (aka, Styx or Styxhexenhammer666), Ania K (at Throught the Eyes of), and others.
See: African-Americans found good life in Russia, an L.A. Times article reproduced in the Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper
See: Ireland–Mexico relations, at Wikipedia
Boris and Natasha were two cartoon characters that appeared on the animated television series, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, which ran between 1959 and 1965 during the height of the Cold War. Boris and Natasha were western-imposed stereotypes of the Russian people, designed to caste Russian people as evil and dangerous: Here’s an excerpt:
Taken from the YouTube video, Slavs - Chattel Slavery? - Forgotten History
From Simply Slavic
Fascinating analysis, Ron! I found your link while listening to Scott Ritter and Larry Johnson on Danny Haiphong’s show. I am an American woman married to a Russian /Ukrainian man for 35 years. I have long felt a strong link between the psychology of American blacks and Russians based on their shared history of slavery. Your essay really hit home to me, along with your short historical videos. Please keep up your excellent work and I look forward to hearing more from you on Substack.