A Liberation Narrative – Not More Imperialism with a Black Face! – Represent Our Resistance

White citizens, invested with racial, political, economic clout, nod with approval at concocted narratives of internal and external terrorism. Someone or something is always “coming to get” their “freedom” (RED ALERT!) while the Black communities endure police harassment and surveillance and more democratic nations are subject to pre-emptive wars. These citizens can’t face contemplating the criminality of imperialism – and worse, they refuse to consider the sacrificial measures needed to realize a true democracy.

Isn’t it criminal to fund and arm the undemocratic regimes of Pinochet, Battista, BeBe Doc and Papa Doc? To kill duly elected Patrice Lumumba and to kidnap duly elected Aristide isn’t a crime? The killing of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Denmark Vesey aren’t crimes? Passes and white only signs over there and ID cards and white only signs here are not crimes? Embargoes against babies of Cuba and the support of Ethiopia in a proxy war against its neighbors in Somalia aren’t the agenda of criminals? LA, Chicago, New York, Cleveland and Baghdad live with gentrification, the corporate term for ethnic cleansing. Isn’t this a crimina,l like that of implementing the fascist removal of civil liberties? What of contracts to corporate friends of Darth Vader at millions of dollars, to build swimming pools and install generators and water treatment plants in the Green Zone while bombs, at the rate of four a day, fall on thirsty, staving Baghdad residents? Wouldn’t this be considered criminal? Or what of the rainforest in Ecuador where the Cofan children are dying from cancer caused, they believe, by the crude oil waste of Chevron Inc. Isn’t this criminal?

The face of imperialism is white.