Why are "Sisters" so jealous of one another?

[auneeqsol]

I was just thinking about how Sisters in the church can sit and talk and exchange recipes and laugh and all that, but when one of them gets recognition, or gets a new house or new ride, or new outfit, there tends to be some kind of jealousy wave. And there are some sisters that think they are better so they act like what we call "uppidy".
Why is that in the church? Is it a special device that the enemy uses on the women? (mind you that's not one of my character traits, but i know some very well and it hurts to know it)
What makes one sister feel inferior to the other?Is it spirituality, shape, great personality, special recognition in the church? What is it, because its swarming in churches really bad today, where is the love for the sisterhood?
Why does that spirit hit the sisters hard in the church?

Any comments?

[guest]

Don't let a sister get married and leave the single crew

[jasmine nsi]

Its not a special device.

I would almost call it a learned behavior. It was learned during the slavery days. Dark female outside in the field, while the light skinned, female became a "house negro".

Can you see:

Why she gotta be in the house cooking and cleaning, eating the massa's food, and resting with the massa, while the rest of us outside hot and sweating, fingers bleeding from picking cotton....Massa' must prefer her cause she closer to white.

I know im exaggerating this, but i believe it stems from slavery.

Can You see:

being in school and all the white girls choosing the "lighter" blacks to play with, or being a lighter black, and often told by dark skinned girls that you aren't black because your skin is lighter.

It causes division between the females of all shades in our race.

[jasmine nsi]

Instead of being happy for one another, instead of rejoicing with each other, its hating time!

[lanl ns]

jasmine said:

Its not a special device.

I would almost call it a learned behavior. It was learned during the slavery days. Dark female outside in the field, while the light skinned, female became a "house negro".

Can you see:

Why she gotta be in the house cooking and cleaning, eating the massa's food, and resting with the massa, while the rest of us outside hot and sweating, fingers bleeding from picking cotton....Massa' must prefer her cause she closer to white.

I know im exaggerating this, but i believe it stems from slavery.

Can You see:

being in school and all the white girls choosing the "lighter" blacks to play with, or being a lighter black, and often told by dark skinned girls that you aren't black because your skin is lighter.

It causes division between the females of all shades in our race.

Jas, good points! It is the residue of the Willie Lynch letters "separate blacks by skin color and that will forever keep us seperated"........

[lanl ns]

Hi everyone I decided to post the Willie Lynch letter just in case everyone is not familiar with the context:

Gentlemen:

I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our lord, one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First , I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the of the colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me in my modest plantation in the West Indies where I have experimented with some of the newest and still the oldest method for control of slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious KING JAMES, whose BIBLE we CHERISH, I saw enough to know that our problem is not unique. While Rome used cords or wood as crosses for standing human bodies along the old highways in great numbers, you are here using the tree and the rope on occasion.

I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of miles back. You are losing valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires, your animals are killed, Gentleman,...You know what your problems are; I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them.

In my bag, I have a fool proof method for controlling your slaves. I guarantee everyone of you that if installed it will control the slaves for at least three hundred years. My method is simple, any member of your family or any OVERSEER can use it.

I have outlined a number of differences among the slaves, and I take these differences and make them bigger. I use FEAR, DISTRUST, and ENVY for control purposes. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies, and it will work throughout the SOUTH. Take this simple little list of differences and think about them. On the top of my list is "AGE" but it is only there because it starts with an "A"; The second is"COLOR" or shade; there is INTELLIGENCE, SIZE, SEX, SIZE OF PLANTATION, ATTITUDE of owner, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, east or west, north, south, have fine or coarse hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list of differences, I shall give you an outline of action- but before that, I shall assure you that DISTRUST IS STRONGER THAN TRUST, AND ENVY IS STRONGER THAN ADULATION, RESPECT OR ADMIRATION.

The black slave, after receiving this indoctrination, shall carry on and will become self-refueling and self-generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands.

Don't forget you must pitch the old black VS. the young black males, and the young black male against the old black male. You must use the dark skinned slaves VS. the light skin slaves. You must use the female VS the male, and the male VS, the female. You must always have your servants and OVERSEERS distrust all blacks, but it is necessary that your slaves trust and depend on us.

Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to control, use them. Never miss an opportunity. My plan is guaranteed, and the good thing about this plan is that if used intensely for one year the slave will remain perpetually distrustful.
-WILLIAM LYNCH-1772

[auneeqsol]

Oh my that's terrible!!! I didnt have knowledge of such a letter.

Hey is his last name where we got "Lynchings" from? That might be far fetched but I was just wondering.

[lanl ns]

auneeqsol said:

Oh my that's terrible!!! I didnt have knowledge of such a letter.

Hey is his last name where we got "Lynchings" from? That might be far fetched but I was just wondering.

Uneeq Willie Lynch is where the term Lynching derived.