Rising Fascism: Debates into Civilizing Decadence – Represent Our Resistance

You can cover up white American fascism and call it “right wing” or “Republican,” but it’s American, Democratic, left, and right down to its bone. White America is in love with itself – this is the bottom line. And everybody had better love white Americans or there’ll be consequences, here and abroad! This debate of U.S. presidential candidates couldn’t address ways to end corporate greed that feeds on the poverty and deaths of millions of people – not with the representatives of the Walt Disney Corporation. Since the end of the U.S. Civil War, the great debate has focused on whether or not this nation’s white population can/should (even) “cohabit peacefully”(Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II) with freed Black people. Look again at the debate in Pennsylvania 2008. The answer: Can’t! The freed Black slave has never been free of those with the power to declare us decadent and see it through to the fruition of this declaration. Unless we, the Black, be absorbed through a process of whiting more than our teeth, unless we forfeit our identity as Black, as free human beings, we can’t enter the Kingdom of Pax America. To be American is to be non-Black! We ultimately spare America of its Black population!

Here is the danger: We spare the truth about America’s inhumanity to certain of its citizens and to others in the world. The truth for us is that we hurt ourselves – for we can’t, as an individual or a collective, save white America. White America has to save itself. We, in turn, must not forfeit recognition of America’s inhumanity within its borders and without or we will capitulate to the will to hate. Hate – not love – is the real story about white America! Its “humanitarian” and warring missions are one and the same business of corporate domination motivated by hatred, blinded by self-love, and ultimately serving a god that reflects the deeds of a decadent civilization. Indeed, the greatest American business of all is that of assuring worship of hatred: the repression of Black and Chicano/a people in urban American cities, the CIA-backed coups, the occupation of sovereign states and pre-emptive wars against other resisting nations, the 700 air bases around the world, the Haitians dying daily, the secret meetings to approve torture for others, and the mining and drilling of other nations’ resources, leaving their people with bulging stomachs and bulging IMF debts. U.S. discourse on the Other (a discourse promoting white supremacy), ascribes to Black people living in America the classification of decadents while rejecting (forcefully) its responsibility in the Euro-American attack waged against Black people globally.