Black People, When Will Your Bodies Stop Being Chattle?

African Americans' bodies and capitalism go hand and hand in America. For Caucasian slave traders, the sale of an Enslaved African on the auction block fetched a healthy bounty. Today, African American boxers, football, basketball and baseball players make millions for Caucasian sport franchise owners. The cycle of the American American body and White capitalism is a brutal one.

African Americans are chattel! Merriam- Webster defines chattel as an item of tangible movable or immovable property. If you disagree, please analyze the similarities between Enslaved Africans being bought, sold and traded on the auction block  and  the NBA draft. If you analyze the weighing- in of boxers before boxing matches and Enslaved Africans on the auction block, the similarities are scary.

 White America's exoticism with the Black body can be seen in Tyson Chandler's ESPN cover. Tyson was oiled up until his skin gleamed. The Caucasian photographer focused on Tyson's buttocks, arms and back. Tyson was photographed with the stereotypic gaze of the " Mandingo warrior."



No! I did not forget the sisters! The psychological effects of slavery are still affecting Black women. Black women during slavery were violated, raped, watched their children sold off and were told they were property. They were owned by their White "masters" first and then their Black husbands.  They were forced to "mate" with different Black males, just for the sake of procreation without love relationships being involved. 

Today, sisters still believe and internalizes the ideology of " my self worth is tied to my body." Enslaved African women were placed on auction blocks nude, Caucasian buyers grabbed at their breast, buttocks and vaginas to "test" the quality of the merchandise. This phenomenal is the brainchild for strip clubs, there is even a stage that resembles the auction block. In strip clubs, men are able to feel, touch and caress the "merchandise" for as little as $10.

Video Vixens and strippers are one in the same, these beautiful sisters are still on the auction block without a clue of how to get down! Who taught them to owned and love themselves? This is a movement that needs to take place, one of self love for sisters!