Sojourner & Her Son, Peter

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Author Message   Theprophetess Newbie Poster Username: Theprophetess Post Number: 5 Registered: 03-2004 Rating:  Votes: 2 (Vote!) Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 01:26 pm:        Sojourner & Her Son, Peter Since this is Black history month I thought to speak on a specific aspect of one of the great historical figures, Sojourner Truth. One aspect that is rarely touched upon is her relationship with her son, Peter. It would be forever damaged by the demonic spirit of white racism. As many know Sojourner was held in slavery in the northern regions. She escaped and did exploits. Click on this link to read her dynamic story. http://www.africanamericans.com/SojounerTruth.htm At any rate, Sojourner escaped her wicked white enslaver. However, her children were left in bondage. One of them was her son Peter. He was 5yrs. old when her ex-enslaver deceitfully sold her son into the Southern enslavement. Mississipi to be exact. Sojourner would boldly hire a lawyer go into racist Amerikkk's court and win custody of her son. The southern enslaver was forced to bring the boy back from Mississipi where he had abscounded him. However, the boy's mental condition would be forever altered by the white enslaver. As the legal battle was going on, young peter suffered tremendously. He was severely beaten and told that his mother was responsible as she was a 'uppity "n"' word for fighting for his custody. The beatings and ill-treatment caused Peter to go insane. It turned Peter against his mother and forever altered this young lad even unto the day of his death. Once Peter was retrieved and brought back to the north. He clung to his white enslaver saying 'he did't want to be with his mother.' He eventually broke down crying as his mother embraced him. The white devil had scarred the boy so that he was warped in his outlook. After his return, he was always disobed ient to his mother. Refusing to do anything she told him to do. As he became of age, Sojourner worked extra maid jobs just to put him through trade school. Every day, he would leave the house and allegedly go to school. For 2 years this went on. Sojourner worked hard thinking her son Peter to be assured of a apprentice skillsman job, found out that Peter had not been going to school the entire 2 years, rather he had been standing on street corners with a group of ruffians. Indeed, Peter got himself in so much trouble hanging with the dangerous crowd that he was jailed. He then begged, pleaded with his mother to get him out but at one point friends intervened and told her to keep him in, to teach him a lesson. No matter what Sojourner did to help her son, he would screw it up. He just could not obey his mother and finally ended up with the choice of jail or working on a ship that went all around the world. He would choose the latter and his parting would be the last time Sojourner would ever see him. She received one letter from him of which he apologized for all the pain he had caused so many people (his criminal conduct was pervasive and on-going), he asked that he be remembered fondly despite his evil, and that was the last Sojourner ever heard from her beloved son, Peter. Now there is a multitude of sorrow in this story. One thing we learn is that white enslavement can so cripple a black that they become self-loathers, and loathers of black people in general. They end up hating the very ones who would aid them. Peter's reaction to his mother was a result of the evil of whites. The boy was forever damaged. His inability to get close to his mother was because of white evil. He had to do wrong, as he was so abused by the white devil that he lost his mind. In his mind, to see his mother as strength and goodness was to be hurt by the white devil. So he forever despised and rebelled against her. We see this sorrowful sick mentality stayed with him and charted his life course. His misconduct was a result of white racism. All the days he was in his mother's presence he could not conform to his mother's will simply because of white torture in his poor little head. We can all see, that white racism crippled the poor deluded soul to see black woman strength in the form of his mother, as evil and bad, and that which is to be scorned. Unfortunately, Peter was not the only victim and this mentality was passed down and is still pervasive in the minds of Wille Lynched Black American factions. They are so scared of the demonic spirit of white racism, that they are crippled. Have flipped out and turn their wrath not on the white oppressor but the strong black woman whose actions defeat the white oppressor. This is why it is imperative that we begin to hold Willie lynch exorcisms throughout black America. Actually, strong black men and women do do this. How? With the weapon of truth. Look at the weapon of truth wielded by Elijah Muhammad. Although I don't agree with the sexist views. I do like the way the Nation of Islam cleans up black males and heals them with the truth. All black men and women throughout our history have been healed with the spirit of Truth cleansing the damage the demonic spirit of white racism embedded in our psyche.' This is why it is important to speak the truth in season and out, for only truth will set the captive free. Sojourner could command respect from General Grant, Fredrick Douglass and the most powerful men of her day, but her son, beaten, crippled, and mentally defeated would forever equate Sojourner's strength with pain and so resist his own well-being, to his own sad, pathetic destruction. http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/bltruth_letter_grant.htm Yes, black women, we have a lot of work to do as a lot of 'petrified, Peters' are pervasive throughout our African/American society.   Chrishayden AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 77 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 02:21 pm:        This is a sad story. Did she ever find any of her other children?   Theprophetess Newbie Poster Username: Theprophetess Post Number: 8 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 06:40 pm:        Hello Chrishayden, yes hers' has a happy ending in that the other children were released from bondage. There is even a redemptive factor in it, in that she ended up meeting her own older sisters and brothers who were sold off while Sojourner was but a child. Her parents lamented over the loss of at least 4 to 6 of their children sold off south. Some, prior to Sojourner's being born. Sojourner would by coincidence and/or divine intervention meet in church these her brothers and sisters who she had often heard her beloved parents lament over. Yes, there was a silver lining of redemption amidst the cloud of the demonic spirit of white racism.