Thorn to the Eye (eBook)

A Black Person's Guide to Unplugging from the System

Jay Lovelii (Autor)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
260 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-112362-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Aren't you tired of the divisive world we live in? Do you find that existing is exhausting due to all the hatred and stress-filled situations? There is a reason you are facing so much oppression from multiple directions, and it begins with white supremacy.

The society we live in is based on white patriarchy. Your mindset is shaped by the white washing conditions we have all been encouraged to confirm to. Jay wrote this book being obedient to the call of the creator. Beginning in March 2025 and finishing in October 2025, this literature was nowhere in her plans.

Thorn to the Eye: A Black Person's Guide to Unplugging from the System is a bold and unflinching exploration of how patriarchy and white supremacy have shaped and stained the collective consciousness of humanity. This book peels back the layers of global conditioning that keep Black people, and society at large, trapped in cycles of division, self-doubt, and disconnection.

Through a powerful blend of historical truth and social analysis, it exposes how post-slavery America rewired human perception through whitewashing, redefining not only race but also religion, love, gender, and morality. It examines the deep roots of bias embedded in every major institution: from the political system and education to healthcare, parenting, and romantic relationships.

With each chapter, Thorn to the Eye challenges readers to confront their own implicit conditioning, reclaim their cultural and spiritual autonomy, and see the world as it truly is, not as it's been designed to appear. More than a critique, it is a call to awaken, heal, and rebuild consciousness outside the confines of oppression.

This book is both mirror and medicine. It is an urgent guide for Black people seeking to unplug from the system and remember who they were before the world told them who to be.

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Preface

There is a curse on humanity in the form of white supremacy. Biblically speaking, (which is allegorical), the awareness that came after eating from the forbidden tree is that humans are all uniquely designed and different. After Adam and Eve ate from that tree, they could no longer ignore the differences in humanity, and that is why they were able to see their nakedness. With that awareness, we created labels, and those labels led to acts of divisiveness.

As soon as you were conceived you were doomed to be projected upon by other humans. Your mother or family already likely projected a common desire onto you through your gender. “I hope it’s a boy.” “I want a girl”. Those are projections, and with projections come expectations. When your family found out what gender you were, there were expectations for you to behave a certain way or have certain interests. Your gender is the first way you were labeled and essentially separated.

It is easy to hate someone that’s different from you, especially when you’ve been taught that your form of difference is “right”. We separate ourselves by gender, race, religion, social class, educational level and so on. To what point or detriment? Through our collective behavior, we created this division to exalt certain groups of others while punishing the rest for existing “incorrectly”. Sure, we can’t help but to notice the ways we all differ, but when we ignore how we are the same, we lose sight of humanity. We must emphasize the ways we are the same.

What affects one group of us, affects all of us, even if indirectly, because we share this planet. Our behaviors and beliefs extend to the outside world. This work is extremely hard to do: the breaking and unlearning of harmful pathology. It is a painful and difficult experience to finally realize that everything they’ve been taught goes against humanity and unity. It’s amazing to see the wayward path humanity is on, and how those that complain the most contribute the least to our harmony. If you believe in anything that leads to taking from the mouths and pockets of others, or that leads to division and belief that a person or group of people are better than others, then you are a smear to the world in some way.

This book may offend you or piss you off, but it may also make you think of things in a new way. It is meant to challenge, break paradigms, and create mental shifts. It is meant to help you make internal space for a 5D world (if you know, you know). That’s the process of unplugging. Think of the movie, The Matrix. It was never pretty when they unplugged, and neither is it in reality. I named this book “Thorn to the Eye” because I have a saying, “if you look at the world through rose colored glasses, you’re bound to get a thorn to the eye.”

I love the subliminal messaging in the movie, The Matrix, and how it mirrors human’s current condition with society. The story of the Matrix was rumored to be written by a Black woman, which I find to be fitting. I believe that Black women are the most aware group of people on the planet, because we are the most likely of all groups to experience the true wrath of humanity. Because of my love and understanding of the metaphor that is The Matrix, I want to mirror some portions of what has happened historically and currently to what happened in the movie. It’s also no coincidence the oracle was a Black woman.

      This book is not just a history book or a self-help book; it is a message from the higher power. It is derived from a collection of various mediums, facts, and stories to give you a picture of the world we live in from a clear lens. I’m here to help remove that proverbial thorn I mentioned. Because of my background in psychology, I took a very analytical approach when creating this book. I wanted to make sure I was as unbiased as possible.

I made sure to include data that backs most of my opinions. I am writing about issues that pull at my heart strings. These are issues I have noticed over my long, yet young life that negatively impact humanity the most. It is time to call it out. This book is a message and love letter to MY people. “My people” does not just mean Black, either, but that is mostly who will be addressed in this book.       

While reading this, try not to take anything so personally. It is better to learn multiple perspectives and beliefs to either solidify your own or to allow you to grow. You can change your mind about anything at any time. There’re no rules that say just because your family, friends, or you have always done something, that you always should.

Everyone acts so afraid of change, but we all want to grow, right? Isn’t growth changing? If you gain 20 pounds, will you not need to change your pants or shirt size? The truth is, people fear the change, and that is our biggest enemy in this world: fear. Any truth surrounding a behavior can change.

I believe that most people have a distorted perception of reality. Many of us are still dealing with the effects of slavery and colonialism. I believe that some people look at the world through rose colored glasses because the truth of our past, along with the passing down of generational pain, causes us to want a better world than the one we currently live in. This is especially true for Black people. We want to act like the past doesn’t affect the present.

Many of us are still viewing the world with a slave mentality, no matter the race. We are conditioned and not fully sovereign. In turn, many Black people get angry that we’re not living in a better reality, while some of us become delusional. That is the thorn to the eye I am referencing: the pain of delusion. No matter where you fall on the spectrum, all people have a level of delusion, or they have had it in the past. I want to free us from that delusion and realistically center the energy of our anger and pain into something more meaningful and productive.

On the other hand, white people get to live in delusion due to their privilege. They can’t understand the real effects of racism, because they’ve never experienced it. When you are the cause of the pain versus the one experiencing the pain, you could never understand the role of the victim. Because of their skin color, they turn a blind eye (sometimes involuntarily) to most of the real injustices in the world because it is committed by people that look like them, or it doesn’t directly affect them. It is the ignorance that white privilege grants them. That is why they seem so blissful.

We live in a world that tells you to be yourself while judging the things about you that make you unique. There is an unwritten, common standard of humanity we all think of when we are considering standards of beauty and popularity. We have the same knowledge of those standards related to multiple areas of humanity and socialization. In this patriarchal system of white supremacy, women are judged by a specific set of standards, as are men. Those standards differ based on race, culture, and many other factors. The “rules” and standards are more toxic than healthy, and ultimately lead to increased division, and even violence, in society.

As mentioned earlier, we judge other humans based on the labels that separate us. If someone is shorter than you, you’re likely automatically noting that observation in case that difference becomes significant later. We can’t help but to notice the differences amongst us. Some of us embrace those differences, while others use them to act out and cause harm.

If or when this book makes you uncomfortable or question your beliefs, think of it as a symptom of healing. Just like when you are feeling unwell and go see a doctor. The doctor is going to poke and probe and may press on wounds causing you discomfort. That is what emotional healing feels like, too. This book is meant to push the bounds of everything you think you know. It will test the whole system you have been taught from religion, sexuality, love, relationships, economics, and some other fallacies you’ve likely been conditioned to believe.

In each chapter, I will present the commonly accepted and internalized thought process Black people have surrounding certain topics as well as lay out a better way of thinking about those topics. I will do my best to offer solutions. We have to dismantle the mental chains of white supremacy and anti-Blackness bit by bit. We are no longer slaves, so we shouldn’t think like them. Someone said, to fix a problem, you can’t do it with the same mindset you had when it was created.

Black people are the FIRST people. It’s inarguable. Science has confirmed it, hell ya mama probably told you, too. Your DNA and energy have been here for millions of years and your soul even longer. It is important to start there first, because when you realize how we began this whole humanity thing, you can start to understand where you came from and why we are here. Your history is rich with knowledge, prestigiousness, royalty, and not just pain and trauma. We must retrace our steps.

My ultimate disclaimer is that this is not a book to make you hate white people, but I will not hold back on the facts and my opinions of what they did to this world, primarily to Black people. I am not attacking all white people personally, but WHITE SUPREMACY. At times, it may be hard to distinguish the difference between attacking white people as a whole versus white supremacy as a concept, because they created it and benefit from it. Those who benefit the most from white supremacy will hate a lot of what was written in this book the most.

I appreciate every group of people on this planet, because I know we all...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.11.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-00-112362-9 / 0001123629
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-112362-5 / 9780001123625