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Preppers: NYC Is Your Final Warning--Why Are Americans So Determined To Die?

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by Monica Davis

Way back in the dark ages in the mid-sixties, I had an aunt who, at best, would be called a black nationalist survivalist. This was long before I understood any of those terms. Born in 1916, she came from two generations of black farmers in western Kentucky. Her grandfather, my great-grandfather was a former slave who managed to buy a section (600 acres) of farm land, and cleared hundreds of other acres in the area.  

His landownership allowed him and his family a degree of independence that black sharecroppers could not have dreamed of. He and his son were firm believers in self-reliance and self-sufficiency, so much so that the family pretty much kept to themselves, except for school  and the ocassional involuntary excursion to see the world–WWI, WW2, Korea, and Viet Nam.  In the outside world, the boys learned trades–automobile repair, institutional cooking, and factory assembly.

The wars allowed the men in the family to see the outside world, good or bad, and to escape g-grandfather’s heavy hand. Yet, the men would return from war, some bought farms with their service pay, others went to work doing odd jobs to supplement their family’s farm income.

And then there was my aunt. Auntie would scare the snot out of me as we rolled down the road pass an aluminum factory. Then she’d start a spiel about how the factory was making bombs and the Russians (whoever they were) were going to bomb us to smithereens.

She always said she wanted a farm with a bomb shelterer.  And I, as a kid who thought I knew everything, thought she was nuts.  I didn’t know who those “Russians” were.  I didn’t understand all of the nuances of the Cold War, and I didn’t understand how self-sufficiency could be a weapon in good times, or in times of economic catastrophe.

My aunt, uncles and grandparents understood that being prepared was a weapon against an uncertain, often hostile world.  The farmers in my family held on to their land, even though my great-grandmother and uncles lost a lot of land after great-grandfather died.  

Whites managed to steal 80 percent of the land: they put a white lawyer in charge of g-grandfather’s estate and sold most of the land off to whites.  The idea was: blacks didn’t “need that much land” and therefore, they should take the land.  

My people were and are survivors. My aunt was a domestic, nurse’s aid and entrepreneur.  She did manage to buy her farm and bomb shelter. And, along the way, to temporarily become a Black Muslim during the Sixties. She and my mother and my uncles always had some kind of garden going. In fact, although we lived in the city, my mother was the family gardener, and when she wasn’t feuding with my uncles, she’d put in a garden or two on thei farms.

We didn’t have a lot of money in those days, but between my uncles’ livestock and my mothers gardens, we ate pretty good. My mother and her kin were survivors—preppers, before anyone knew what the word meant.  As such, when kinfolk in the cities were scrambling to put food on the table, my mother’s garden behind our house and the ones in the country kept us fed and happy, in our small world.

Now, what’s so different between the mindset of my aunt and today’s “preppers?”

Both understood that you can’t always depend on “stores”, “the gubmint”, and “civilization.”  In their minds, it is better to be prepared than look and the sky and moan when the crap hits the fan, catastrophe hits the cities, and people are left to themselves.

Indeed, many folk were “left to themselves,” because welfare did’t exist for blacks.  People did what they had to do to survive: plant a garde, can and preserve food for hard times.

This nation, as a whole, as been trained to be dependent.  To assume that the gubmint will take care of us.  What happens when the government runs out of money, hostile forces take control of the purse strings, or catastrophe disrupts food distribution channels?

If we don’t learn from Katrina and the latest series of storms, floods and shortaged, we deserve extinction. Catastrophe is alway right around the corner: storms, earthquakes, civil unrest or other catastrophe.  We must make preparedness part of our way of life.  We can’t say we haven’t been warned.  

MONICA DAVIS: BOOKS



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    • muckracker1

      We talk about the national deficit as if it is the number one and only major problem. Without food security, the deficit is a diversionary paper tiger.
      :sad:

    • Redfor

      Actually… There’s a Difference.. This would actually fall under homesteading and no prepping. Homesteading is self reliance. Prepping is preparing for a major change.. Tends to be towards the negative.

      The problem with todays society is that people rely on the Government to come running to their aide for their lack of foresight. The Fed was never designed to do this, it’s the states responsibility, Not the Federal Governments. The US was never designed to be a Entitlement Country… Allowing it to continue will be our Downfall. 1/3rd of the Deficit comes from entitlements.. And we just added another 440K people to it in October-November.. Non-sustainable spending people…

      • muckracker1

        Many people prepare for catastrophe by their lean, mean iifestyles. They do not wait until catastrophe is on the horizon before running around like headless chickens, trying to find the best deal on heirloom seeds, and trying to prepare for castrophe in a flood plain apartment. The “entitlement country” is a manufactured entity, wherein government entities enact the first rule of organizational behavior: expand n survive.
        There are millions of people in this country who, according to the government’s own figures, avoid entitlements, eschew food stamps and try their best to avoid the tenacious tentacles of enslaving entitlement programs.
        Food stamp program has a built in survival mode, but too many people are unaware of it; you can buy edible seeds with foodstamps, but not too many people know that, few stores have their registers prorammed to ring up seeds n tomato/vegetable plants as food stampable. We have the seeds of survival, but people buy junk, prepackaged poison with food stamps and forever enslave themselves.
        Entitlements are self-expanding enslavement devices, designed to keep people in bondage. Once u get in the trap, it’s like a giant spidah web.

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