Slaves didn’t have multiple children for financial gain
For the financial gain of the slaveowners. It was inculcated as a way to make money, psychologically separated from a real desire to be mother and father to a child.
Black on black crime is mostly the result of gang activity something that didn’t exist during slavery.
The psychology of less value being placed on black property and black life was inculcated by slave owners.
During slavery, the crab bucket phenomenon was an effort to impress the white master, today it’s because of jealousy, so they won’t look bad, to put down those doing better than you; completely different reasons.
The original purpose was not so much to impress the slave owner as to avoid the pain of one slave standing out above the rest (rather the way when unions work poorly, they don't like one worker to produce more than the rest). But that psychology still remains.
Though not nearly as much as it used to be, there is still some colorism; but I see colorism more prevalent in white folks.
You're not paying attention. Ask any dark-skinned black woman if there has been any decrease in colorism. The spike of biracial children since the 80s has actually made it worse, particularly for dark-skinned black women, because biracials qualify as black for the "diversity requirement." Hollywood casting calls--particularly by black producers--will often even specify "light skin." The paper bag test is still very much real. There was much less colorism in the late 60s and 70s.
The least colorist group around these days are white men, particularly with respect to black women. A white man who is concerned with skin tone will simply stick to white women. White men who get over the race issue in the first place don't appear to consider dark skin a problem at all, and are more likely to choose a dark-skinned black woman than a light-skinned one.
I see many white people getting tans, perming their hair so it is not so straight, even women putting on lipstick in a way to make their lips look fuller! Yet you never see white people accusing each other of trying to look black.
If you think that's colorism, you don't know what the subject is about.
There are aspects of all ethnicities where women are disrespected. This is not something slaves learned from whites. Even today many Africans have disrespect of their women; especially Muslim africans.
Let me explain this more clearly. Yes, in many cultures there is a significant amount of misogyny, but yet in each of those cultures, the concept of an "ideal woman" is still a woman of their own culture and ethnic group. An Arab may be significantly misogynistic, but his ideal woman is still his own mother's phenotype. You won't hear an Arab say, "I can't stand Arab women." He might like European women, but his concept of beauty still includes his own mother's phenotype.
A couple of years ago, while I was still a youth leader in my church, I was sitting in the pew waiting for the youth service to start when I years one young man behind me say to a friend, "...I just don't like dark-skinned girls."
I turned to him--because he was coffee-colored himself, and I knew his mother was as well--and had a quick heart-to-heart talk with him.
But that's not unusual, that's all too common.
Slaves didn’t know about Romen and Juliet, we learn what we are taught in school. Slaves didn’t go to school.
The Anglo culture of Shakespeare was inculcated into slaves, which is why a black kid today can relate more easily to a 500-year-old English play than a 500-year-old Ghanian story.
I can see this as something more prevalent in the days of Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X as opposed to today
Yet all those dysfunctional cultural factors remain...if anything, worse now than 50 years ago.
