1963
America, US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy nearly had his head
blown off in Dallas, Texas, then a welcoming southwestern home to the
Neo Confederacy: some things never change. Malcolm X, when asked by
the media of the day what his thoughts were, stated the iconic, “the
chickens have come home to roost.” His explanation of the
poignant answer was, “America is a victim of the climate of
hatred it has produced.”
We
seem to be an empire built with and by violence. Violence is a way of
life. Gun-play abounds because everybody and they momma’ got a
gun.
Well,
guess what? Today, America is caught up, engulfed in a
climate of hate. That
hatred seems to be widespread and deeply entrenched, however, the
“chickens” are more akin to “Condor Vultures”
or those giant flying dinosaurs, Pterodactyls,
coming home to roost…
Yes, without question, the bad karma this nation has mass-produced
around the globe and within its borders has come back to haunt the
country.
Most
Americans, most of the countries which constitute the
United Nations, and most
of the globe agree - the US history that DeSantis and his disciples
don’t wish to discuss is conflicted and convoluted, and it will
make most White folks feel
some kinda’ something -
if they’ve got any feelings, any conscience, any desire to
acknowledge the global truth.
Sorry,
not everyone sees the White guy as the
hero in the story.
Honestly, at best, you’re viewed as the conqueror, the
conquistador…the subjugator. There’s a big, big, big
difference between the two polar-opposite viewpoints.
One’s
the truth, and the other is some delusional fairy tale, the epitome
of “pissing down my back, but yet telling me it’s
raining.” It’s as horrific as “kiss me before you
rape me, baby…”
And
I’m forced to agree with you, or else!
Many
would suggest that theories abound which illustrate in high
definition detail that this nation is guilty,
guilty as hell of, as
Frederick Douglass
said, “crimes which would shame a nation of Savages…”
In light of 5th grade US History, how can one rationalize, let alone
forget, dismiss and move on when it comes to the undeniable
oppression and exploitation, imposed via Imperialism and colonialism
- mass enslavement and genocide? Americans of color would like to
critically examine other theories beyond his former master’s
version of the story… dah!
You
know, the ruling minority group, White folks, who refuse to allow the
conversation to even be had. We mustn’t speak badly of Massa…
Yes,
not surprisingly, most of White America, as a monolithic,
locked-in-step subgroup, simply don’t wish to talk about these
issues - it makes them feel uncomfortable
to sit down and
critically examine the
making of America.
They really can’t defend the overt cruelty - some see no wrong
with it - and, as a whole, they don’t want to apologize for
anything. If you say you’re sorry, now folks want restitution,
reparations. The WASP company line thinks talking about it makes too
many white folks feel guilty, hence civil rights and the dreaded
race-mixing they’ve permitted. Additionally, by examining US
History - it pisses people of color off because it’s just so
deliberately brutal.
You
don’t want to see the making of some things, you know?
McNuggets, Jimmy Dean Sausage, and empires. In all three instances,
it’s disgusting as hell.
So…as
all “colored” folks know, White folks hate to feel
uncomfortable. That’s
a part of why they strive and struggle to stay isolated and insulated
from interacting with people of color. Self-Segregation, endless,
continuous White Flight: the opportunities and outcomes are mostly
segregated - and it’s not by chance or happenstance, n. No
coincidences here my friend; rather, it’s by strategic
deliberate design.
Adult
conversation, ok? America is an empire born out of the barrel of a
gun, has lived the “hi-life,” the “good life”
alas the American Dream
through its embracing of
the gun, and the violence it creates. It appears it will be a
decadent nation that will die by the gun…
Exchange
“gun” for “violence” and isn’t it all
so undeniable?
Audacious
Power, exercised through: brutality,
brute force, roughness, ferocity, savagery, cruelty, sadism,
barbarity, barbarousness, brutishness, murderousness,
bloodthirstiness, ruthlessness, inhumanity, heartlessness,
pitilessness, mercilessness… all
descriptive terms which describe the American
Way of conducting
business and value the concept of brute force. These were the tools
and attitudes used to handcraft America’s overnight ascension
to its alleged Utopia status.
America
is a glass house, don’t throw no rocks.
America
has a lusty love affair with caveman violence. And I’d argue
there’s a price to pay for the serial commission of so many
despicable deeds, and it appears that right “here and now”
is the point in this story that White America is being asked, if not
demanded, to “pay up.”
It
is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note
insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring
this sacred obligation, America has given its colored people a bad
check, a check that has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We
refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great
vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this
check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom
and security of justice.
America,
i.e., the White male, refuses to pay up, and instead of standing up,
we get these trifling cats: from Trump and his Stormtroopers to angry
White boys like Dylan Ruth and The Buffalo butcher.
America
is a house of cards… don’t let no high winds start
blowin’…
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