And maybe it didn't make sense to them until they were put in a culture where the discrepancy between being a slave and not being a slave was, like, really fucking obvious.

I don't know, but maybe the mentality of slaves came from, like, a culture that kidnapped and imprisoned their own people and sold them as slaves and shit. So even when they were brought to a new land, they thought of themselves as slaves because that was their first culture and it just was how shit was.

I mean, that's fucked up and shit, but I think that maybe that's kinda Kanye's point: they were already, like, imprisoned in their minds, and they couldn't comprehend how things could be different, no matter where they ended up.

Because when you're not treated as human, it can be hard to understand what being human is. And maybe it didn't make sense to them until they were put in a culture where the discrepancy between being a slave and not being a slave was, like, really fucking obvious.

And then maybe the biggest turning point was the slave-owners teaching the slaves Christianity and shit. Because, even if you're being told you're a slave, you're also being told that you have a soul, and are worth redemption.

And if you're worth redemption, maybe you really are worth being free. So teaching the slaves about Jesus and shit maybe let the cat out of the bag. But then they stopped reading about Jesus and the Bible and shit, and the cats went back into the bag. Because I have a cat that likes getting into bags, even though there isn't rally anything in there for him to do. But I don't keep him trapped in the bag, he can come out whenever he wants, and that's cool.

I figure I'm probably wrong about this, because it kinda makes sense to me, which is usually when someone smarter than me says I'm, like, wrong and shit.