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George Floyd was murdered over one year ago. We are one year beyond massive protests throughout the country. We have declared that the police should be defunded in multiple communities. We have declared that choke holds should be banned. We have declared that no knock warrants – resulting in the death of Breonna Taylor - should be banned. Protestors demanded that policing be “reimagined” and not simply reformed and retrained. Where are we as a country on the topic of racial justice? There is a brewing backlash across the southeastern US directed at the Black community. I have personally witnessed an increase in the number of white men, not associated with law enforcement, openly wearing holsters and carrying handguns. I have lived in the south for the past twenty years and I have never seen so many white men openly carrying guns. To be clear, it is legal in these states, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, to openly carry a hand gun. No license is required. I have seen individuals in supermarkets, farmers markets, and walking in the downtown areas of towns in these states carrying guns. This is the local manifestation of the backlash against the protestors for racial justice across the country last year. Before someone says that “you can’t know if a person is law enforcement or not” – if I see white men from fifty to seventy years old in tee shirts with tattoos from their neck to their bellies with gun holsters – guns in place plus extra clips walking down the street or in stores – I know they are not officers. The message is clear that they intend to exert their power and control over Black people as they believe it is their birthright and duty. This is what the attack on the Congress was all about on January 6th. The intention of white men to hold on to and exert their white supremacy powers in America.  There is an aggressive, belligerent, and deadly disposition coming from white men at this moment. The Black community has cast their faith and our power in the election, in the legislative system, in the system of democracy to no avail. How many times will we be played, how many times will we be suckered by the Democrat Party to continue to vote for their candidates and get nothing in return but death, hell and destruction.
My advice to you is to be aware, be prepared, be ready. In an instant you can find yourself in mortal danger of white men who have declared themselves to be in charge when they are no more than ordinary citizens like yourselves. Be aware, be prepared, be ready because I do not see any other steps that can be taken utilizing the system that we currently have.
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Today Derek Chauvin will be sentenced today. This seems to be a good time to review where we are in our fight for racial justice. George Floyd was murdered over one year ago. We are one year beyond massive protests throughout the country. We have declared that the police should be defunded in multiple communities. We have declared that choke holds should be banned. We have declared that no knock warrants – resulting in the death of Breonna Taylor - should be banned. Protestors demanded that policing be “reimagined” and not simply reformed and retrained. Where are we as a country on the topic of racial justice? In my opinion there is little that has changed – legislatively. Particularly at the national level. Scholars have documented systemic racism is the result of national policy and processes in the execution of federal programs in almost all cabinet level departments. In fact, one could argue that there has been regression. That we are in the middle of a cultural backlash against protestors and the Black community in general. We have had laws passed in the state of Florida that makes it virtually impossible to participate in protests. If you happen to participate in a protest that even one person destroys property or assaults a law enforcement officer, you will be charged with a felony. Even if you organized and help fund this protest but did not participate, you will be charged with a felony. The many will be charged based on the behavior of the even a single individual. All individuals arrested must be held in jail until their first appearance in court and officially charged. All indications are, based on President Biden’s directives, more money is being allocated to the police based on recent crime statistics indicating an increase in violent crime in communities across America. Police still enjoy the protection of “qualified immunity” in the face of illegal and improper conduct regardless of the jurisdiction. Black lives in fact do not matter to the new Biden administration. Joe Biden is exactly the president that everyone on the left feared he would be prior to the South Carolina primary. Recall that James Clyburn rallied the Black vote in South Carolina to coalesce around the campaign of Joe Biden. Joe Biden’s chances were fading until his victory, only due to the Black vote, in South Carolina. Now President Biden is proving to be a 78 year old white man who has always respected the norms of congress and has never done anything bold to advance the cause of Black working families in America. He is exactly who we thought he was. He is now declaring that his legislation must be bi-partisan. He is a moderate, go along – get along president who would have never been elected without the Black vote. Progressive leaning members of the Democrat party knew that Joe Biden would never do anything bold to advance the cause of racial justice. He will never twist the arm of any senator or representative to advance the cause of Black working class people. I seldom use the word “never” because never is a long time and situations always change. In this case, I am confident that Joe Biden will never do anything bold and controversial on the behalf of Black folks who voted him into office.
Once again the Black voter is playing the role of sucker. Being played by the Democrat party is a position that the Black voter is happy to occupy. We’ve done it so many times and we tend to forget the so called Black leader that paves the way for us to be played. In this case its James Clyburn, a respected leader in South Carolina. Unfortunately we have not seen or heard Mr. Clyburn rebuke or pressure Joe Biden to deliver on his commitment to the Black voter. The Democrat Party has empathized, supported, aligned with, marched with, and rallied the African American community for the past year. The promise from liberals and progressives alike was a racial reckoning. Over a year later, we have seen much talk but little, if any, legislative action and policy changes from Washington DC with regard to police reform, voting access/rights or reparations. The Democrat Party has not and cannot deliver on any of promises made pre-presidential election. What I have repeatedly presented on this blog the true face of America. All the facts are known. The brutality and immorality of chattel slavery and the structural racism designed to keep Blacks in perpetual servitude is a documented fact. The Native American genocide committed by the colonist and white “settlers” in North American is a documented fact that is indisputable. There is effectively no recognition of responsibility or accountability by the US federal government for the heinous acts post emancipation during Reconstruction, Jim Crow, or since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The wealth, health, education, employment, and incarceration disparities between African Americans and White Americans has been scholarly reviewed and confirmed. The only objective conclusion to draw from the historical facts since the founding of this country is that America wants to see Black Americans, particularly Black men, dead and gone.  Consciously or unconsciously, intentionally or passively, belligerently or psychologically manipulative, the goal is the same – to maintain wealth and power exclusively in the hands of White Americans by any means necessary and to do it under the law. Unfortunately for White America, the country was built on a lies and greed. A foundation of lies and greed will always, in time, crumble and fail unless a fundamental correction is made. Lie #1: Blacks are not people, they are property. Lie #2: Slaves were happy with their condition and were not brutalized enmasse. Lie #3: America would have been successful without the free (forced) labor of Black people. Lie #4: The wealth amassed by forced and under compensated labor is the inheritance of a superior people/race. Greed: The depth of the unmitigated greed of the founders (all 13 original colonies) is demonstrated by the pervasive brutalization of the enslaved and the resulting fear of retribution that was voiced in writings at the time. The entire white population was mobilized to instill fear and commit heinous brutality on all those enslaved – children included. Black people have several significant advantages in this fight.
The African American community – regardless of socioeconomic status - must determine if we are willing to burn the house down to build a better one on a solid foundation of truth and reconciliation. This is an important point. We have been using advantages 2 & 3 since 1964 to make collective gains in this country. Every one on all sides knows that everything accomplished to wield power is done out of the barrel of a gun (or some other offensive weapon). Now is the time to activate the African American citizenry to purchase and carry firearms at all times. Make no mistake, this is a high risk – high reward strategy. The pressure will build as more and more ordinary, law abiding Black people purchase firearms. The pressure from guilt and fear will continually rise until a decision is made to attack the Black community or make peace with the lies and greed of the past by demonstrating responsibility and accountability at the US federal government level.
Give me liberty or give me death!
When these words are proclaimed by an Black American, we are branded as criminals and treated as such. Do you want to die with dignity or a slow death over centuries. We don’t need to look far to see the slow death. Our Native American brothers and sisters are a living testament to the future of the Black community if we don’t take our future into our hands. |
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June 2021
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