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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