‘Daddy Bucks’ and the paternalistic fascination

for Him by his Black folk

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White folk have a similar fascination, but it has a more 
profound consequence with Black folk. It’s the perception 
that “With riches things would be so much better..”.  
I disagree and think that money isn’t going to fill the void 
of a developed psychological insecurity about one’s worth 
as a Black human being in Amerikkka, per se.

Money with its trappings and conveniences will not cure the 
pathologies that have developed with the obsession for it, as 
is often heard:

“If I only had some money..”. What people are willing to do 
or be given that negates any dignity or integrity for the 
virtues of inner creativity and resilience to be the source for 
their own prosperity are exhibited in the solicitations and 
shameless testimonies for the willing debasement of 
themselves for what they would consider the practical means 
for a “necessary” ends.

In doing so doing, they not only degrade their own worth as 
humans, but at the same time they enable the further 
neglect of those faculties that would provide them the 
self-constructed means for doing and knowing how to accomplish 
those aspirational ends. As was noted ..
  by 
Frederick Douglass  and as declared a century earlier by 
Jean Jacques Rousseau
 ..

Let it be said, that the disparities of comfort and convenience 
when being in slavery and then the deprivational terrors of 
de jure, segregation in the South  
made any comfort or convenience a luxury to cherish. That 
sentiment has carried over as the relative disparity  in the 
standard of living between the working class of few privileges 
to those of greater privileges from the exploitative, 
discriminatory institutions that favored the privileged few has 
given cogency to the notion of “by any means and for whatever 
ends..”

The opportunity cost for the price of such a conscious neglect 
and dismissiveness for the utilization of the gifts of the inner 
faculties reverberates through time 
as the invisible curse of the soul upon the inhabitant of the 
body who have let go to waste what could have been a long 
term benefit for the short-term expedience of forsaking the 
experience of development of self for the reliance upon transient 
outside factors delivering the illusions from a lack of effort.