Whose Social Contract Anyway?

What’s a Social Contract when only one party is obligated to respect it? This has been the dilemma of black people in the United States from its inception. African culture is Nature’s culture, yet we are expected to forgo our ancestral connection to Nature to live in peace and unity with those whose ancestral culture downplays Nature’s role in human existence and elevates their idea of “Reason.” We are “forced” to live among a People who have some deep cultural need to embrace the concepts of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau; a People whose cultural world view accommodates a Social Contract as necessary to create a power hierarchy and thereby can make laws that ignore Natural instincts or other cultural people; a People who have used that hierarchy to oppressed non Europeans for their social-economic-political gain under their social contract based on their “Reason” being the primary ideal.

What are we to do when the ancestral European idea of living in a so called State of Nature, is in conflict with their cultural idea of Reason? We are a communal people, a so called “soulful” people which is Nature based. (Some of that base is still apparent even in underlying aberrant things that we created like “hip hop” or participate in like computer dating and sex) Dubois expressed similar feeling when he talked about two souls, two irreconcilable strivings living in one body. However I believe he didn’t go deep enough as to why the Negros “striving” to live peacefully and in unity with the European is still a problem today. Their Social Contract doesn’t take into account our ancestral world view because they see our native ancestral cultural longings as “primitive, childish, and in many instances, when juxtapositioned against "reason," the results can be criminal.” (See television) I find it interesting that when Europeans succumb to their "Natural instincts" and display aberrant behavior, if at all possible, it is either explained, questioned, excused, or ignored with "reason." Examples: school shootings and infanticide.

Since we don’t have the power to change or seriously incorporate our deep seeded cultural views/thoughts into the prevailing European cultural thought, we must, to our own detriment, remain a divided people. Our other choices are just as dire. We must leave or culturally die in America if things say the same. (This is a good case for Reparations).

I know many who read this will think this is malarkey. However if one can see the point I’m trying to make (please excuse the writing, this is complex), they will also see this is the cutting edge of what holds together ideas of white supremacy. This is what the European elite and intelligencia hide because if it is truly understood, it can be liberating and not just for descendants of African people. It will allow for the masses, both European and Non Euro to examine their Social Contracts with their civic systems and perhaps even write a new one that doesn’t demean Nature’s People.

From Wikipedia:
The theory of the social contract is based on the assumption that we as human beings live in a state of nature which is not ideal. In order to move away from these conditions, we may enter into a contract with each other, allowing us to live in peace and unity. The theory of the social contract can be seen as a justification for the formation of the state. All members within a society are assumed to agree to the terms of the social contract by their choice to stay within the society without violating the contract; such a violation would signify a problematic attempt to return to the state of nature. It has been often noted, indeed, that social contract theories relied on a specific anthropological conception of humankind as either "good" or "evil". Thomas Hobbes (1651), John Locke (1689), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762) are the most famous philosophers of contractarianism, which is the theoretical groundwork of democracy. It is also one of a few competing theoretical groundworks of liberalism, but Rousseau's social contract is often seen as conflicting with classical liberalism which stresses individualism and rejects subordination of individual liberty to the "general will" of the community.[1] There is also an example of it in Plato's writings of Socrates in Crito when Socrates refuses to escape from jail and remains to fulfill his death sentence.