“It’s been a long time, I shouldn’t have left you without a strong rhyme to step to, think about all the weak shows you slept through—time’s up, I’m sorry I kept you.”
—Rakim, from the song, “You know you got soul”
“The rift between Black men and women is irreparable, and the
campaign to save the Black family is officially dead.”
—a comment made on my Blog, by a “Pro-Black” sista, named
Monique, in 2014
“…THERE IS NO RECONCILIATION WITHOUT ATONEMENT; until they
(Black women) can confess to and suffer the consequences of screwing us (Black
men) over, there’s no use in talking about ‘Black Love/Black Unity’.”
—a comment made on my Blog, by a (brilliant) young brotha, who’s
a “Black Men’s Rights Activist”, named “Kev” in 2017.
To the readers of this Blog: Beyond apologizing for letting life “thangs” get in the way of
my obligation(s) to post weekly editorials here, I must confess, that
sometimes, I feel like a fool for betting on (as corny as it sounds) “Black Love”.
And mind you, the above comments (with the exception of the song lyric), are
only the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to the glacier-sized insidiousness of
our people’s self-hatred. But trust me when I say, that even though I consider
these comments to be completely erroneous, I definitely see where this brotha
and sista are coming from.
And with that said, here’s why I can’t subscribe to their points
of view…
Now, this is the part when you’re probably thinkin’, okay, he’s
about ta’ wax philosophic on looking at Black dysfunction(s) in the context of
the white fascism that created them—or, he’s gonna’ preach a sermon ‘bout the
importance of home-schooling our children…
Actually…no.
At least, not right now. *smiles*
But I will admit, that the reason I’m ultimately bettin’ on US is, I’m a bit biased. And let
me expound on what I’m talkin’ about, ‘cause I’d be doing the family a
disservice If I didn’t say this about myself. I grew up with Black parents who
stayed married for 40 years. Mind you, their marriage wasn’t a blissful love
affair throughout—actually, it was quite rocky at times, nevertheless, the
“Black Love” (again, for lack of a better term) paradigm, is one I saw modeled
in front of me, for the greater part of my life. So, when it comes to the
prospects of Black men and women being together, I know it’s possible—mind you,
not entirely probable, but possible. I
do understand that the majority of modern-day Black men and women, want nothing
to do (romantically) with other Black men and women. So, if you’re an
indigenous Black person reading this, who genuinely wants to be in a
relationship with one of your own kind (mind you, not in the context of being
with the same sex) then you must understand, it truly will be a
needle-in-the-haystack search.
I also understand that the overwhelming majority of people who
read and/or comment on this blog, are coming from a household that looked
nothing like the one I grew up in. Mind you, I’m not saying that to gloat or
boast about my homelife, but I will say, because of my upbringing, that my
thinking (especially about US) is
different.
Meaning, because I saw a Black man and woman together for most
of my life, it doesn’t seem like such an idealistic pipedream for me. Conversely,
I still do understand that there’s an element of idealism I’ve gotta’ maintain,
if I endeavor to date and possibly marry a woman who looks like me.
Now, I also wanna’ comment on one fundamental part of the whole
Black self-hating experience/experiment—and it’s the one I find the most distressing—it’s
when any brotha or sista has the audacity to say…
I don’t know what it is about Black people, that makes us unable
to work together like everyone else.
And let me just say, if you subscribe to this point of view,
then you are wHITEY’S “PERFECT VICTIM”.
Why, you ask?
Here’s the answer...
If you as a Black person, don’t realize, on some level, that we have
been worked on more than any other
kind of person to hate ourselves and everyone who looks like us, cause we have
the most genetic power(s) to breed whitey out of existence, than you (as a
Black man or woman) have been SLEEP-WALKING YOUR WHOLE DAMN LIFE!
Meaning, when a Black man or woman utters this sentiment, and
doesn’t understand why we’re seemingly more dysfunctional than other folks, I
just shake my head—cause I’m thinkin’, which country have you been livin’ in
for the past few decades?
To me, these people are like abused children, who don’t realize
they’ve been abused. Or better yet, they’re like MK-ULTRA (mind-control) victims
who’ve been programmed with psychic “alters” around their trauma, so they can
consciously forget what’s been done
to them.
Like I’ve said in the past, NONE OF OUR DYSFUNCTIONS ARE
NATURAL TO US!! NONE OF ‘EM!! THEY’VE ALL BEEN CONDITIONED INTO US BY THE wHITE
FASCIST SOCIAL ORDER(S) WE LIVE IN!
MEANING: NO OTHER
GROUP OF PEOPLE ARE TAUGHT THAT THEY’RE THE DUMBEST, UGLIEST, AND POOREST
PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, BUT US!
AND IF YOU DON’T KNOW THIS, YOU’RE DOOMED TO HATE YOURSELF AND
EVERYONE WHO LOOKS LIKE YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!
Now, is this an excuse for us to stay in our dysfunctions?
HELL NO!
But the first step in resolving any problem, is knowing that you
indeed have one—and KNOWING ITS CAUSE!
Mind you, I was speaking to a brotha on this very same topic,
and he told me that he knows what whitey did to us—before telling me, straight
out: “I don’t care about the cause!”
So, what he (and other Black folks like him) are doing, is
giving whitey a pass for all the dastardly things he’s done to our people.
Needless to say, I’m not around that guy anymore.
And it’s with this (sentiment) in mind, that I’m writing about
what really inspired Don Trump (and
his white fascist handlers) to shut the american government down. Also, I
recently came across an interesting factoid that I must share with the family: american
census bureau data from the years of 1994 til’ 2006, shows that incomes of
Black americans, surpassed those of white americans in Jamaica, Queens, NYC.
And this is the community I grew up in.
Additionally, being from Jamaica, Queens, I remember going to
school with Damon John who created the “FUBU” fashion line. And I recall actually
seeing LL Cool J, Run, from “RUN-DMC”, and being old enough to realize that Ja
Rule lived 20 minutes from my house—and so did Irv Gotti, the music executive
behind “Murder Inc.” records. And mind you, I’ll leave a link for the New York
Times article(s) that’ll corroborate my community’s economic status.
Moreover, I remember attending high school in Jamaica, Queens,
and how I was taught by a white teacher, that asains (especially fair-skinned
asians) were harder working (and smarter) than my people would ever be. Mind
you, I recently came across another article proving that asians are the poorest
ethnic group in NYC (and I’ll leave a link for that too). And these kinds of
economics are the central issues I’ll be tackling in this post. And might I
add, looking back on this info. infuriates me, ‘cause if facts like these were
readily available to me and my friends (like crime was on the local news), so
many lives in Jamaica, Queens could’ve been saved behind us feeling empowered
by our community’s financial state(s) of grace.
With that said, I’m askin’ (one mo’ time), for your kind
indulgences, behind this post running a bit longer than usual and behind this
topic being a bit dated. And as always, I’m writing wit’ y’all in mind, so I’ll
do everything I can to make this a comfortably fluid read. And once again, I encourage
your feedback, as this space was created to not only give a voice to our
problems, but to offer solutions to them.
And lastly, for the intrepid amongst you who made it a point to
visit my Blog while I was away, I say (again), thank you, thank you, and THANK
YOU!
—MontUHURU Mimia
Gordon Parks, the quintessential portrait of an indigenous Black
renaissance man (meaning, he was a writer, photographer, musician, and film
director) wrote and directed his film, “The Learning Tree”, in 1969. Now, this
movie was based on Gordon’s novel of the same name, and it’s basically a
retelling of the travails Gordon himself suffered, growing up as a young Black
man in a small Kansas town in the pre-Depression era of the 1920’s. Mind you,
having seen this movie, a couple of times, I can say that it’s a quaint
dramatization of living under the tyrannies of white fascism, but Gordon was
smart enough to realize that something was amiss with this flick.
And he came to this conclusion after the Melvin Van Peebles
movie, “Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song” hit theaters in 1971. Gordon saw that Sweetback
(played by Melvin himself), was a brotha who dared to beat up corrupt white
cops and think he could get away with
it—and did at the movie’s end. Gordon
also saw how Sweetback got mad love from brothas and sistas on the street, ‘cause
he was a man who refused to shuffle and buck-dance for whitey. Gordon also dug
how Sweetback’s movie persona gave us some pride. And as Melvin himself said,
“I wanted my people to leave that movie with their heads up.”
Thus, taking a cue from Melvin, Gordon came out with the film “Shaft”
in 1971. Now, the movie Shaft took a 180 degree turn from “The Learning Tree’s”
(TLT) narrative, insomuch as John Shaft was not only a one-man army who took on
white mobsters, but he defeated them at the end of the flick. And again, this
was in stark contrast to the Black townspeople of TLT, who seemed altogether
deflated and defeated. Now, Melvin’s “Sweetback” and Gordon’s “Shaft”, are the 2 movies
that kicked-off what was known as the “Blaxploitation film” era of the 1970’s.
And some of those flicks had names like “Hitman” (1972), “Black Caesar” (1973),
“The Spook Who Sat by the Door” (1973), “Three the Hard Way” (1974), ”BuckTown”
(1975), etc. And the common theme running through all these films were Black men beating the hell outta’ white cops,
or any other kind of white male authority figure. Additionally, these films
saved the failing american movie studios in the early 70’s.
Now, these films weren’t only a source of entertainment, but they
gave a lot of Black people, and Black men especially, boatloads of inspiration
to stop being abused by white bosses and get better jobs, or to start creating
their own independent businesses, period. Now, even though whitey was caking
off behind our patronage of these kinds of movies, he was thinking, wait a
sec’—if these people see too much of these flicks, they might stop fantasizing
about retaliating against white cops, and start taking up arms against us.
That’s when white fascist freemasons like Jesse Jackson, coined the phrase
“Blaxploitation”, and gave it to these movies for the expressed purpose of
getting rid of them. Which they eventually did.
Mind you, those films were but one factor that contributed to
the median household income of Black americans nearly doubling in the 1970’s.
The fact that more of us were obtaining college degrees also gave our
collective salaries a boost. And there’s tangible research to back this up by
organizations like the “Economic Policy Institute”, who crunched the data and
showed that during the years of 1968 until 1979, the “inflation-adjusted”
annual income of Black americans increased by 42.8%, and mind you, that
slightly outpaced typical income growth for white households during that same
period, since their increases only totaled 36.7%. To top all this off, the song
“Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now”, by the singing duo, McFadden and Whitehead,
encapsulated the aspirational zeitgeist and upward mobility of Black americans of
that era.
And, as a matter of course, this scarred whitey’s fascist
sensibilities. Thus, in the Reagan 80’s, we got the lethal troika of “Reaganomics”,
Crack and AIDS, to eradicate any progress our communities had made.
Fast forward to 2018—Now, instead of Reagan, we got good ol’ Don
Trump shutting down the american gov’t behind Dixiecrats, I mean Democrats, and
Republicans being unable to resolve an ongoing standoff regarding Trump wanting
$5 billion dollars to build a border wall to keep undocumented latinos out.
Hey, serves Julio and ‘em right for thinking they’re “whiter” than us.
Now, no diss to the twenty-somethings out there, but it’s times
like this when I think, man, I’m glad I’m older. Reason being, is wisdom
affords middle-aged folks like myself, an even-temperedness and conflict-resolving
temperament that only comes with age. Meaning, I recognized this “border wall”
dispute for the white fascist maneuvering against Black folks that it really was.
So, I instinctively knew that if whitey’s engaging in these kinds of
destabilizing methods, 3 things must be happening—and those are:
#1. Crime rates must be down.
#2. The collective income of Black americans must be up.
#3. And lastly, more Black americans must be going to college.
But ultimately, this was just a collective hunch, until I could
back it up wit’ some research—so, here’s 3 mo’ facts I found when I did just
that…
#1. In the case of overall crime rates in america, according to
FBI stats, violent crimes have fallen 49% between 1993 and 2017—and according
to the “Bureau of Justice Statistics” (BJS), violent crimes fell 67% during
these years. Additionally, FBI stats say “property crimes” have fallen by 50%, and BJS stats say
these crimes have fallen by as much as 69% during the same time. Mind you,
property crimes include burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft—and they’re
far more common than violent crimes.
Now, scores of statisticians have waxed philosophic about what
brought this dip in crime about. And some common, working-class folk are
reluctant to believe these stats saying, “Crime ain’t down in my neighborhood.”
But regardless of what anyone believes, the bottom line is this: less crimes,
means less arrests, which might mean less
incarcerated Black men—and that’s surely a problem for white folks and fascists
everywhere. However, I’ve come up with my own theory, and it goes a little
something like this: 2 things are contributing to (Black) crime rates falling
so precipitously, and those are…
A. More than anything else, the explosion of white drug use in
america (a.k.a. the “opioid epidemic”) has swelled america’s prisons with more
white inmates at alarming levels. Understand, the same drug laws that put Black
men behind bars for multiple years, are now being used to sentence their own
kind—so whitey’s being forced to concentrate more on whitebois in a system set
up for Black men—but instead of pointing this out, they’d rather cover it up by
saying crimes, where we usually find them (in Black neighborhoods), are down.
And truth be told, the majority of drug use in Black neighborhoods involve us
selling narcotics to the whitebois coming to our ‘hood to get ‘em—even though
stats bear out, whitey’s the ones doing the majority of the drug selling too.
B. Under the Barack Obama presidency, unemployment rates dropped
by 4.8% overall, and the economy gained 11.6 million jobs—and this is the same
low unemployment rate that good ol’ Don Trump is saying he’s responsible for.
So, bottom line is, Black americans are using less drugs
(especially compared to whites), and more of us are working—which means, at
least half of us are NOT out committing
crimes.
#2. In the case of median incomes for Black americans, the
“Brookings Institute” conducted a study showing that the household incomes of
125 communities in “majority-Black” cities actually “outpaced” the
national average for ALL american ETHNIC GROUPS. Mind you, the
national average for american household incomes (annually) is $53, 889—and this
data comes by way of the “American Community Survey” of 2015. And according to
the survey, the Black communities that are doing exceptionally well seem to be
concentrated in the state of Maryland—meaning, the largest of these thriving neighborhoods
is in Waldorf, MD. (earning a median income of $81,592) with a population of
71,399 residents, and Highland Beach, MD. with a smaller population of 110
residents, earning the highest median income for Black americans overall, at $158,750 annually.
Now, once again, I must confess, THIS IS WHY I LOVE BEING A
BLACK NATIONALIST! Cause if I was just an anglophilic kiss-ass of a Black
man, I’d be conditioned into thinking that our people are the poorest, dumbest,
and ugliest people in the world—and that’s wHITEY’S PLAN FOR US Y’ALL!!
So, if you encounter a brainwashed brotha or sista who’s calling
us folk in the “Black Conscious Community”, a bunch of stupefied “pro-Black”
“Hotep-pers”, just give ‘em a facepalm and keep it pushin’. Let ‘em stay stuck
in the morass of deifying white folk—'cause truth be told, they’re happier
feeling inferior to those pale-skinned dead-enders.
Moving on…
#3. The American Council on Education crunched numbers to show
that there’s not only more Black
men in college than in prison, but it shows how this has been a fact since the
year 2000 (at least). And I’ll leave a link for their website too. Moreover,
since 2008, incarceration rates for Black men have been DECREASING. And
that means what? It means, more Black men are not only out of jail, but
(according to these stats) more of us are educated and gainfully employed than
in previous years—and whitey don’t like that.
Now, I’m gonna’ sound like a broken record here, but the reason
good ole Don shut this gov’t down is not only for the 3 reasons above—it’s because
WE HAVE THE MOST GENETIC POWER TO BREED THESE INBREDS OUTTA’ EXISTENCE! AND
AS WE SPEAK WHITEY’S COMMITTING SUICIDE LIKE CRAZY, OVERDOSING ON DRUGS IN
DROVES, AND THEIR BIRTHRATES HAVE FALLEN BELOW REPLACEMENT LEVELS OVER THE
COURSE OF THE LAST FEW DECADES!
And to put it in more layman’s terms: THEY FINISHED Y’ALL!!
IT’S A WRAP FO’ ‘EM!!
Now, does this mean whitey’s got no more power?
HELL NO!
But it does mean that they see the end is near—AND THEY CAN’T
STOP IT! NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO!
So, the indigenous Black people of the world should feel
empowered and emboldened to “UNIFY” NOW, MORE THAN EVER! Cause whitey
also sees that their fall means OUR RISE! And they also realize that
whatever they do to us, WILL ALSO AFFECT THEM!
MEANING, THE DEVIL’S TIME IS UP Y’ALL!!
AND IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME!
WELCOME TO 2019 FAMILY!!
Later…
MontUHURU Mimia
P.S.
You can check out stats that show the incarceration rates of
Black men are down HERE.
P.P.S.
You can check out stats showing that a large number of Black
america’s communities have median incomes outpacing other ethnic groups HERE.
P.P.P.S.
You can read up on the exalted economic status of Black
communities in Jamaica, Queens HERE.
Also, if you wanna’ see the news article showing that asians are the poorest ethnic group in NYC, you can check it out HERE.
Also, if you wanna’ see the news article showing that asians are the poorest ethnic group in NYC, you can check it out HERE.
Lastly, here’s the song, “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now”, by McFadden
and Whitehead. Now, this vid clip is one of an episode of “Soul Train”, where the singing duo performed this song. I just ask that you don't laugh too hard at the flamboyantly gay men dancin’ to this tune—ENJOY!
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