Shelley's Plumbline: The Plantation Ghost
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Today Shelley shares an interview from 1995 with Ezekwa Abdullah. Ezekwa argues that Blacks still repress themselves and suffer a form of psychological slavery in the collective subconscious psyche because attitudes of repression have been preserved and passed from one generation to the next. The ghost of the plantation exists today because not enough has been done to condemn this point of view.
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1. Introduction to the Ghost of the Plantation (00:00:00)
2. Shelley introduces the topic of the Plantation Ghost with an interview from 1995 with Ezekwa Abdullah (00:01:45)
3. Flashback to interview (00:05:03)
4. Ezekwa talks about the plantation mentality (00:07:13)
5. The psychological destruction of the collective black psyche (00:09:00)
6. Attitudes toward work (00:12:22)
7. The master's property (00:14:41)
8. The heroic struggles of Black people (00:19:25)
9. The desire to look like the master (00:22:59)
10. The illusion of power (00:28:43)
11. Shelley's closing comments (00:31:04)
12. "Young, Gifted and Black" -- Closing credits (00:36:14)
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