There
are a number of rebuttals to such a simple-minded observation,
but they start with US History 101 and the White
man�s documented propensity to randomly kill Black folks
on a whim... The desire to declare �Open
Season on Ni**ers�
is an age old, All-American concept.
But
let look at this from all-sides. An internal family
conflict is one thing - the ��brothers can call each
other all kinds of names - beat the hell out of each
other - but let the Spaneilli family or the Pagona brothers
call little Billy O�Leary a cheat and a liar... that�s
another different kind of thing all together, and that�s
merely human nature.
Can
you say the Hatfields and the McCoys... internal
conflict?
I
do not need to draw with the written word a picture
depicting the Black mothers who beg for peace in the
ghetto. The community activist, politicians and preachers
operating �this program� or funding �that project� achieve
only feeble results in attempting to slow the internal
self-destruction we Blacks wage upon ourselves.
No
one, not even angry White folks, can tell me there�s
no effort by Black folks to halt the murders of Black
boys by Black men, nonetheless we face millions of Black
boys who were born into a contrived, make-believe world
where they�ve been painted n� tainted by the White majority
as inherently inferior, as well as violent, war-like,
and extremely over-sexed... and a sorry but significant
portion lower themselves to such gutter-low expectations.
On
top of the brainwashing, there�s no debating we live
in a designed-to trickle-down-society, where
the folks at the bottom are there by design, not coincidence
nor happenstance, and purposely divided along lines
of color, class, gender and religion, left to fight
over the crumbs and make our collective / individual
conquering a coldly calculated given.
And
my God, Black folks have been stuck at the bottom now
for four hundred years. Scores of us have been mentally,
emotionally, financially and physically pushed and shoved,
beaten down into believing, accepting the value
placed on our Black lives by White folks - which is
zero, absolutely nothing, the same identical
value the Sanford Florida police force placed on young
Mr. Martin. It is accurate and true; we don�t think
much of ourselves, by design.
It�s
no secret that there is an elite power base in America
which endeavors to make sure the condition of Black
America is critical by out-pricing quality health
care, undermining the funding of public education, and
making a concerted effort to mark and tag from birth
Black males as �thugs.� It starts with the tip-top establishment,
from the Heritage Foundation to the Koch brothers
and the Coors family, sexist and racist elitists
who underwrite politicians who, in turn, write more
laws than create US jobs - laws which authorize the
building of more prisons than preschools.
Insert
Ronnie �666� Ray-Gun�s Revolution and specifically the
Iran-Contra-Compton-Crackgate, which upped the
ante, put AK 47s and Uzis on the streets ushered in
this latest era of gangster warfare being waged by young,
mildly educated and very desperate Black men who see
the �underworld� as the only world in which they are
equipped to prosper... and you�ve got a wild, wild west
frontier mentality enveloping Black America.
Need
I pull out Chuck-the-Chalkboard and graphically
illustrate in Black n� White how the deliberate, coordinated
economic evacuation of the US industrial and manufacturing
base, the strategic exodus of urban Breadwinner gigs
eroded any slim chance held by Black workers at achieving
the American Dream? The transference of jobs
to India created drug dealers
and hustlers in the Gary and Peoria Indianas all across
the land.
Please,
it doesn�t take genius to recognize the Blue-blood aristocrats
and their butt-kissing wanna� be sidekicks - those in
the investor class. They have, in a calculating,
Vulcan-like manner, sold out the American worker, and
specifically the Black worker, tactically pulling the
floor from beneath the American worker.
The
last hired... very first fired.
Please
note: today it is the haves, the have mores, the
have every damn thing there is folks who
sit-back and sip wine, openly marveling at the barbaric
measures the little people will take to survive.
Ain�t that a...
Every
night, hundreds of White men beat their wives, and I
mean beat the hell out of them, and despite the anger
management programs out there and the shelters for
abused women, White men continue to beat women. White
men with degrees from Ivy League schools, military academies,
noted private religious institutions, from some of the
best homes in the best of neighborhoods... And some
of those same credentialed White men steal retirement
funds, knowing they hurt working class people of all
colors with real dreams of college or retirement. So-called
�White collar� crimes also damage.
But
before I allow card-carrying John Birch Society members
to take some high n� mighty moral high road, presenting
themselves as innocent spectators in American violence,
I must ask the obvious: Why do White men on Wall Street
pimp n� exploit, loot and pillage poor White women on
�Main Street?� Why do minor league investors allow the
undercutting of 90% of the American work force so that
they can buy another German made car or purchase another
vacation home in Cabo? What about the molestation which
takes place in the Catholic Church...
Dysfunctionalism reigns free in US
society, and no racial group, no �tribe� has a monopoly.
No racial group has cornered the market on Neanderthal
behavior detrimental to our overall good.
Why
do the vast, overwhelming majority of White folks sit
silently as half the country cries out for justice?
Is it because this silent-majority believes Black people,
as a whole, are little more than criminals and drug
addicts? Expectations are that low?
If
they do sit as mutes, and millions do, it only verifies
that today�s Republican TEA Party member sees Americans
of Color just as his father did, and his father before
that, and his father before him. Yes, we�re just Niggers,
Injuns, Spics and Chinks. We don�t love our children,
we don�t have morals, values, character nad goals -
we just want to make little brown people and have White
folks foot the bill.
I
don�t know. I don�t have a easy answer why Black boys
kill each other. Why did all Euro-American immigrant
groups spend a few decades mired in organized crime
before being permitted to drift into mainstream America
� to assimilate and be absorbed. Oh, what do you say
- Black folks aren't welcome in Mainstream USA?
That�s
what White Flight translates into.
This
is where I get lost. Have Black folks forgotten recent
US History? No! The last two generations, those born
into a post-apartheid America seemingly, apparently
never learned it.
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