I’ve spent most of my adult
life talking and writing about America and its
“problem.” i.e., Black people.
Yes, there’s little debate
about it, WEB DuBois was correct when he said
“race” would be the combustible issue of the
20th century, so much so, now, two decades and
one Black President into the 21st century it
remains unquestionably the most pressing issue
confronting this polarized empire.
Virtually all my life I was
told, by folks from all walks of life, I was
wrong. From the time I was a teenager in the
late 1970s, White folks were claiming
they were “colorblind” and did not see
nor consider race - we were all just people.
How both quaint and
hypocritical.
By the time I was in college in
the early 1980s, Black folks were telling me
race didn’t matter anymore, we’d overcome. I
was an angry militant with no civil war to
fight.
How delusional were we? In
hindsight, we were undeniably unaware of how
much of mainstream White America felt about
us. Slavery, Black Codes, Jim Crow, Separate
and unequal everything, nationwide White
flight, and still our naive behinds thought
they wanted us for neighbors, bosses, and
in-laws.
How wrong and clearly ignorant
are we of our surroundings? The miseducation,
under-education, and brainwashing of Black
folks was and remains prevalent and
successful. It’s as if some of us had a
lobotomy at birth!
By the millennium, you could
see the nation’s reckless expansion was driven
by “White Flight.” White America is
perpetually always in motion, always moving as
far away from people of color as they can. And
if they chose to remain in the urban sections,
they create fortress communities, where they
have their own shopping and dining options,
separate schools, and private parks and pools.
The sheer price of living there ensures
minimizing the presence of Black and Brown
people.
Segregation is imposed and
maintained by economics. And the economics are
predictable, based on low-paying jobs, not
well-paying careers. Academic underachievement
ensures under-employment, dah! It is all but
guaranteed by an inferior, subpar preschool
through 12th-grade education.
And this factory which mass
produces is not ready for the world of Black
people and is by strategic and deliberate
design. It’s not chance, coincidence or
happenstance.
Obama’s election, instead of serving as a step forward
toward a civilized and enlightened America,
ignited a White backlash that has culminated
in King Trump’s reign of looting, pillaging,
and tyranny: The Great White Dope has robbed US History of some of its most significant
human rights advancements, via the stolen and
rigged Supreme Court he pulled out of his….
His five fascists are hellbent on dragging
this nation back to the good ole glory days of
separate and unequal everything. The Supreme
Court was intentionally, wittingly, and
enthusiastically handcrafted to manufacture
these critical Neo-Confederate victories t
would counter the voting booth victories that
produced FDR’s New Deal, LBJ’s Great Society,
and gave a hint of life to MLK’s dream.
Can’t bake you a cake today,
can’t let you stay in my hotel, eat at my
cafe, shop in my store tomorrow watch, wait
for n’ see.
I submit what we are witnessing is a slow-moving “Coup,”
where elements of the government, from all
levels and categories, are working “closely
together” to somehow, someway steal power back
so they can ram apartheid, “White minority-rule” down the
throats of 60%-65% of the nation’s
population.
And since over the last few
hundred years, they have yet to display a
moral conscience to the world, they don’t care
if they have to lie, cheat, steal, or kill to
attain their White Nationalist empire.
Today it’s the rigged courts,
tomorrow it’ll be... what?
From the local dogcatcher
position to the Governor’s Mansion to the
White House, and all the stops between, “Moms
for Liberty,” “Proud Boys,” and “Minuet Men”
are waging a guerilla warfare-type assault on
the mechanism of policies and governance,
determined to “take back” their empire, and
make it “Klan” sheet white again.
They will regain power, and
then halt Brown, Yellow, and Black immigrants
from coming. Then, after cutting off the flow,
actually, simultaneously, they’ll put the rest
of us back, back…, back in our pre-civil
rights places.
We’re witnessing a fabricated,
stacked, and stolen Supreme Court, the highest
court in all the land, in a cold and
calculated manner, reverse time and reverse
history.
Look, angry, paranoid White
men, who are the backbone of Trump’s cult and
roughly maybe 35% of the overall population,
their “power and control” is, what, 90%? From
the financial systems to the
military, to the local police - Mr. Charlie
and Karen hold the control stick.
Whether we want to admit it or
not - this is still “White America,” not
“Mosaic America.” And I’d say, if left up to
WASP folks, it never ever will be.
Yet, we are sitting here,
watching “The Game” and the “Housewives of
Hood-opolis,” while Trump, DeSantis, and all
the good ol’ boys who’re woven into society,
Secret Service agents, FBI, Navy, police,
bankers, doctors, politicians - more than you
and I want to believe - are plotting “how to”
put us back in our assigned “1619” places.
Our destiny, and tragically, that of our children is in
the hands of folks who struggle with the
notion that Black folk are equal and deserve
decency and respect - US History 101 illustrates their doubt in stunning digital HD black
and white.
That’s my humble observation.
Now, my bold suggestion is
this: “Conservative/Confederate” minded White
folks aren’t going to “wake up.” Instead,
they’re going to get worse. This nation is
going to regress into civil/race war. I’m
advising my children, suggesting to family and
friends - to get the hell out before this
decadent empire implodes. America is 12 months
pregnant, with demonic triplets, and ready to
blow baby, blow!
And interestingly, for the
first time ever, it’s resonating, striking a
chord, making sense. Why? Because one race
cannot educate, shame, or force another race
of people to change their evil ways. You
cannot force people to like, love, respect, or
live next door to you if they do not want to.
I’m going to circle the block
and blast that on again, both barrels: Why?
Because one race cannot educate, shame or
force another race of people to change their
evil ways. You cannot force people to like,
love, respect, or live next door to you if
they do not want to.
What part of that do my Black
people not get?
Most White Americans don’t
yearn for racial or cultural integration,
diversity, or unity, they just don’t. It
carries no inherent value to them. With that
noted, they have crafted a Supreme Court to
manufacture that primitive reality.
The question is, when do we as Black folk put down the Spades and Biz-Wiz cards, come over to the big table with the world’s adults,
armed with more than domino books, more
insight beyond the only “book” we’ve read
since high school, Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit
edition, and come up with a plan, an “exit
strategy?”
I know, the vast majority of Black America will never
leave this unwelcoming land, the same way they
wouldn’t run away from the cotton plantation.
Ask Harriet Tubman about that, ask Malcolm
about the “House and Field Negroes” but I’d
expect, there’s a quarter of us, DuBois and
Booker T’s disciples, who are astute enough to see beyond the trees and are willing to
free our asses for a better life… somewhere
else.
Run?
Yeah, sure!
Where?
“Anyplace else” is going to soon
be better than “Anywhere” USA.
Reparations, for me? Well, I’ll take a plane ticket and
1.5 million greenbacks, and we’ll call it
even-steven baby, I’m out, see you at the
beach, under the palm trees.
