Here we are, two weeks away from the election and blacks of every ilk are preoccupied with saving Hillary or going into hell with Trump. If we look closely at America's history, we will find that blacks in particular and the poor in general have been a political football for decades.
I find it difficult to swallow in my own community when independent thinking is
shunned and the only way to be heard is to submit to the group think of
political correctness. One example would be Obama.
Speak critically of Obama
and many blacks are ready to form a lynch mob to rid themselves of such a
blasphemous ingrate. The fact is that under Obama, war has never ceased, blacks have swarmed the
prisons in record numbers and law enforcement and the criminal justice system
has increased it's war on blacks replete with murder and unjust incarceration.
Yes, Obama has freed some people from prison but our
political prisoners remain behind bars. Their plight is sealed under the fear
of white political backlash.
I might add that Hillary Clinton is touted as the most qualified person to ever
run for the office. Yet, she has supported the Crime Bill and the Welfare Reform
Act to name a couple and touted young blacks as "super predators."
Hilary is presented to us as the lesser of two evils.
This nearly insane retort to evil in general is like being a little bit
pregnant. Trump is as obvious as the nose on your proverbial face; racist,
sexist, overtly war mongering and completely unstable.
To contrast that to Hillary's calm demeanor only
equates to the fiery style of Hitler compared to the calm of Ben Carson. Both
are insane. More importantly, is the fact that the entire American
system, founded on institutionalized white supremacy, in spite of the profound
contradictions encountered by slavery and the founding fathers.
Despite their debates over the matter and the pinhole
light of decency that emerged through the pulled shade of greed and hatred they
ultimately displayed, is yet a sham.
The rich and powerful run this system through money. The elections are not
"rigged" as Trump suggests. Something has to be legitimate FIRST in
order to rig it. Elections and the so-called "electoral college"
which is also a sham, are ruled by those who have the most money.
Certainly we can all go out and vote and numerically we
may see some transparency. Votes DO COUNT. But as we saw with Gore in 2000, in
the end, when they want someone to win, it happens regardless of your so called
"vote."
Here in Michigan, we voted down Public Act 4, which literally stripped even the
veneer of democracy from majority black cities. Stripping city councils and
mayors of ALL their power to legislate and gave it over to Emergency Managers,
people of the lowest character and countenance as monarchs to gentrify and deep
cleanse the communities of their resources and bring in the friends and family
plan, firing long time workers, denying pensions and hiring outsiders to have
those jobs.
Even after Pub Act 4 was voted down by the people of the state, Lansing
Republicans and some Democrats by stealth simply wrote another bill, Public Act
436, which was even more despotic than the previous voted-down bill and
stripped Pontiac, as an example, of ALL its resources; fire department, police,
DPW, all the tax-paid-for trucks, cars, buildings...you name it and now Pontiac
is a city ripe for the expansion of deep gentrification of Carthaginian
proportions. So much for the vote.
Yet, we cling tenaciously to voting as though it is our ONLY resource. We
hearken back to the good old days of the Civil Rights movement as though it was
a way of life....Civil rights was a strategy not Buddhism or Kemetic
Spirituality.
Civil Rights is not a way of life!
Those old washed-up, rough-dried has-beens of the past who urge us to practice
posterity instead of intelligent planning and progressive action keep telling
us that marching, singing old songs, and begging the system for justice will eventually
shake the tree of morality and justice will come falling down like manna from
heaven. This too is a hapless myth.
Martin Luther King showed us that this fallacious assumption can't happen in a
country that feeds on war and greed. How can one appeal to the moral conscious
of a system which has no conscious to appeal to? They killed our most peaceful
protagonist in this age-old saga of cat and mouse. They killed him anyway.
What am I saying? Nothing really - I am only suggesting that America is stupid
in so many ways. We reveal our stupidity and gullibility by even allowing a
circus act, and a poor one at that- like Trump to even enter the discourse let
alone run for office.
We equally show our collective ability to be had and bamboozled by a dynasty
(Clinton's) of wide-lapeled, double-knit, polyester leisure suit wearing used
car salesmen/hucksters who tell us despite serving blacks up for Crime Bills
and Welfare reform Acts which have ripple effects Tsunami-style to this very
day we should be willing to eat the gruel and drink the piss so long as it
comes from a Democrat.
For me, Self Determination; the ability to chart one's own destiny, peacefully
when and if possible - to at the very least be in a position where no matter who
is in office, our economic self sufficiency is stable and then we aren't, as
Comrade George Jackson so aptly put it, "at the whim and caprice of the
system."
Are Chaldean merchants who control our communities economically worried about
who is in office as long as we buy from them? Are the Koreans who do our nails?
As long as the cottage industry of black economic
exploitation exists and as long as black complicit behavior patterns and apathy
exists with it, we depend on a system which has historically exploited us,
while those who exploit us locally depend on us.
Vote. Go ahead. But as the song says, "after tonight, Will you still love
me, tomorrow?" No pimp answers that one.
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