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A Fair & Honest Analysis of the Black Lives Matter Movement

6/28/2020

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 With the recent mass protests against police terrorism against the African masses, renewed focus is again on the Black Lives Matter movement which evolved in 2014 after the police killing of Mike Brown in Missouri, U.S.  Thousands of various types of protests are happening all over the African world and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is being identified in many of these cases as the leading element promoting speaking out against police terror.

For some reason, with most subjects of analysis, the credibility level of the person(s) analyzing it is usually a critical factor in determining the value of the assessment.  In other words, if someone with no medical knowledge and training weighed in on the techniques required for open heart surgery, most reasonable people would question the ability of that person to make such pronouncements.  For some reason, with the struggle for African liberation and forward movement, this logical principle is abandoned.  Literally anyone with vocal chords and a computer is able to vomit out analysis and if that analysis lines up with whomever reads it, these people consuming it promote, like, and share it, despite whether its grounded in material reality or not.

The BLM movement is being impacted by this approach, so the effort here is to provide a more class, nation, and gender based analysis of this movement.  Unfortunately, many Africans are choosing to focus on the gender politics articulated through BLM gatherings as an excuse to attack the movement.  I even saw a picture of one of the BLM so-called founders with that person’s love interest who happens to be European and apparently, transgender.  To the people posting and commenting about this picture, this reality evidently is supposed to discredit not only this one BLM person, but the entire BLM movement.  I cannot think of a more silly and immature analysis.  The only legitimate method to criticize any movement for justice is the principles under which that movement is based, but we will return to that regarding BLM shortly.  The point for now is African people are being systemically murdered by the capitalist police states over the world.  This is a time for African people everywhere to unite and fight for our dignity.  Anyone who is still promoting the exclusion of Africans because you don’t understand or agree with who they are, you are a big part of the problem.  And, I’m saying that as a so-called cis, or hetero African man.  Any movement we promote for our liberation that doesn’t include every African, no matter their size, height, color, place of birth, location, religion, language, orientation of any type, physical abilities, etc., is not a true movement for our liberation and justice.  Trust me, I’ve heard all of the backward arguments before those of you making them did.  You still cannot indicate one logical reason how your imitation of xenophobic politics against our LGBTQ family members helps our people’s struggle or what it is exactly that you lose by respecting the humanity of all of our family members.  I’ve had this argument with so many Africans who are claiming that LGBTQ Africans are trying to “take over our movement.”  I’ve done more work among our LGBTQ family than most so-called cis Africans and I’ve never seen that.  Maybe if some of you stopped saying stupid things like the police are shooting “our men” and started saying they are killing our people, especially Trans African women, which is what I hear our LGBTQ family members asking us to do, things would be much better.  Regardless of that, I don’t anticipate these people being capable of evolving around this anytime soon.  I’ll just say I’ll fight to you to death around these questions.

There is also a trend going around where Africans feel the need to assert that BLM is being financed by some sources outside of our community.  This rumor about BLM has been around just about as long as they have and it has been discredited just about as long.  The rumor of course initiated through white, right talking points and of course, many of our people blindly repeat the talking points of the very people who are against us. 

And then there are those misinformed people who attempt to blame and label BLM as a terrorist movement because of the righteous and legitimate struggles that escalated into righteous street anger against police terrorism aimed against peaceful protesters.  A lot of people who couldn’t find a demonstration if it smacked them right in the face (meaning they have never participated in one) feel perfectly comfortable articulating their worthless perspectives of what happens during these protests.  We understand that so many of you have PhD’s from NBC, FOX, CIA, etc., but the reality from those of us who regularly have organized and participated in demonstrations of all types for decades is that no violence from protesters is ever going to happen until they are antagonized from violence from police agents.  And, often, much of the street acts carried out are conducted by police agents designed to do things to discredit the protests.  Yet, even if we can just say for the sake of argument that every broken window, burned car, etc., was carried out by protesters independent of what happened to them by police while peacefully protesting, still, everything they do is justified.  This country was founded and is maintained by systemic violence.  Violence against Indigenous peoples and Africans.  Violence against everyone around the world who dares challenge the hegemony of this backward government.  With all of this I’m supposed to focus on a few broken windows committed as a result of the frustration people have at the hypocrisy of this system?

Also, on this last point, too many people are completely confused about the difference between a political party and a movement.  A political party, like the one I belong to – the All African People’s Revolutionary Party – is a monolithic organization with one ideology – Nkrumahism/Tureism.  In other words, every member of our party subscribes to the same ideological objectives.  On the other hand, a movement represents people who have all types of different beliefs.  In these protest marches there are communists, anarchists, Pan-Africanists, Marxist/Leninists, liberals within the capitalist system, undercover police, etc.  Its impossible to label a march and/or protest as one ideology and direction and anyone attempting to do that, using BLM for their purposes, is someone who is either extremely naïve and ignorant about political struggle or someone purposely injecting confusion to demonize BLM.

On the other side of the spectrum, there is legitimate criticism that needs to be leveled at BLM.  Its just not any of the nonsense indicated above.  Instead, we should be talking about how BLM can develop more of an advanced political analysis?  How it can begin to educate people about systems of oppression and how we must organize to eliminate them instead of being roped into the increment reforms that have come to unfortunately characterize BLM.  Also, the question of money coming into BLM has to be raised and this question should be addressed within the context of the political struggle and political education previously mentioned.  A movement against injustice cannot become a cash focused movement, but this doesn’t fall on BLM organizers alone.  The entire question of political education, the need for it, and the need for permanent organization, specifically wrapped around a worldwide analysis of the problems, and solutions, must be embraced by BLM.  Until that happens, every time someone like the African named Coates appears to trade in militant struggle for book deals and more comfortable benefits it will continue to give BLM the look of a sellout movement.
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Finally, it has to be said that the way Africans and others are criticizing BLM, using all of the nonstarter critiques identified in the first part of this piece (and other insane attacks), indicates to those of us seasoned in political organizing work how much you are not involved in this work.  Anyone involved in the work knows that no mass movement is ever going to be organized by one individual with money.  We know what movements are and what they aren’t.  We aren’t confused about why things happen in mass movements one way one day, and another way the next day.  Those people unversed in political struggle demonstrate their naivete around these types of contradictions.  Also, any African who is promoting the isolation of any of our people for any reason clearly has limited to no experience actually organizing our people for long term, sustainable work for our liberation.  Those who have this experience learn quickly that we cannot win without all of our people and the sacrifices necessary to engage in this work create a humility that these African separatists are completely devoid of.  The least these people can do is join BLM since at least that would place them into some level of African organization for justice.  Or, if they don’t want to join BLM, they have the responsibility to join some organization working for our people’s liberation.  Anything else and you are just a black rhetoric spewing part of the reason we struggle as much as we do.

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U.S. Intel/Police Agencies; African Resistance & White Right Orgs

6/27/2020

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With recent worldwide mass protests around the world against police terrorism against the African masses, and the capitalist system’s violent responses to those protests, many people are openly raising questions about disparities in state responses.  The question being raised is why U.S. police and intelligence forces always demonstrate a violent and coordinated response to our demands for justice while seemingly ignoring the terror that has been and is regularly directed at colonized people by white supremacists for centuries?  The recent white, right so-called protests against coronavirus restrictions are often being raised as an example of the disparity.  In those so-called protests, white supremacist militias appear at state houses with automatic and semi-automatic weapons while seeming to have a cooperative relationship with police on the premises.  These same armed white terrorists appear at peaceful demonstrations against police terror brandishing weapons and even appearing to stage to attack demonstrators, with no resistance or response from police agencies to their activities.  For observers of this phenomenon, the optics are that armed white supremacists have license to intimidate peaceful voices against injustice while those same voices are harassed, brutalized, and systemically prevented from having their voice. 

The intentions behind raising these contradictions are sincere, although somewhat naïve about the framework of this racist system.  Its already been widely documented through this blog and many other credible sources how police departments as institutions evolve from posse patrols designed to terrorize Africans simply seeking a better way of life away from slave plantations in the Southern U.S. The so-called Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) evolved in the form of the so-called U.S. Department of Justice.  In 1919, the 24 year old newly appointed director of this new department – J. Edgar Hoover – cut his teeth in U.S. law enforcement by tackling the task of dismantling, sabotaging, and discrediting Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the growing Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which Garvey was building as a worldwide Pan-Africanist organization at that time.  The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created in 1948, specifically to serve as a violent and clandestine operation designed to sabotage any efforts worldwide that were and are working to develop socialist movements that, by their very existence, pose as threats to the U.S. led worldwide capitalist network.  A network that owes all of its wealth to the systemic theft of Africa’s human and material resources. 

Clearly, there is no so-called law enforcement entity within any capitalist society that exists to serve any interest beyond ensuring that the capitalist system is upheld.  And, upholding the capitalist system means repressing and attempting to destroy any social justice movement.  Whether it’s the worldwide revolutionary Pan-African movement, Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, or any movement fighting to challenge the capitalist power structure, this is true.  In other words, social movements for justice are attacked by the U.S. police and intelligence apparatuses simply because those government entities exist to uphold the oppressive nature of the capitalist system.  The confusion is so many people desire to see these institutions as entities that can be reformed to represent justice.  This desire is not realistic.  When police terrorize us and shoot us down, they are engaging in behavior that is completely consistent with their founding as terrorists against our people who were just seeking peace.  When the FBI engages in its counter intelligence program (COINTELPRO) it is only carrying out the mission its long time leader – Hoover – stated clearly in 1968 when he said the greatest threat to U.S. security is “Negro unity.”  Even if we are confused, Hoover understood that the capitalist system can only exist and thrive by keeping Africa and Africans oppressed and disorganized.  He understood that his role as director of the U.S.’s largest internal intelligence organization was to ensure we did not organize to challenge the foundations of this backward system.  When the CIA plots to assassinate revolutionaries from Che Guevara to Patrice Lumumba to Muammar Qaddafi, they are only fulfilling their primary function of ensuring the entire world is left wide open to capitalist imperialist domination.

These points all true champions for justice must acknowledge because once you do, the confusion is easy to clear up.  The Ku Klux Klan, neo-nazi groups, right wing militia/Trump supporting people, etc., represent a very different reality.  Regardless of whether they organize to terrorize us.  Regardless of whether they carry out that terror.  No matter what these people do, nothing they are doing poses any challenge to the capitalist power structure.  Zero challenge.  In fact, much of their activities actually supports and upholds capitalism.  When they “demand” that the economy opens up, who is really going to benefit from that demand being fulfilled?  Obviously, the first benefactors will be the capitalist businesses who can open and continue to profit.  Certainly, the highest risks in this scenario are being held by colonized people who perform most of the most dangerous jobs that regularly expose them to becoming sick in this society.  Nothing about any of that does anything to change the basis of how this oppressive system operates.  And, when those same people show up to challenge and/or intimidate protests against police terror, capitalism, etc., by carrying out their terrorist activities, they are actually assisting the works of the organized state institutions who, again, exist only to ensure capitalism’s interests are protected. 

With this ill refutable analysis, its ill logical to expect capitalist police and intelligence agencies to do anything to challenge the forces of white supremacy who are enacting the same interests that the policing agencies are sworn to protect.  It’s a simple equation.  One side upholds this backward system while the other side challenges it.  Even with historical examples where the FBI has placed a infiltrator within groups like the Klan, that was only done due to the intense pressure being placed against the federal government to do so by the mass movement that was being terrorized by Klan (etc) activities.  There are numerous examples to illustrate this point, but there is no evidence to substantiate that the FBI was truly committed to challenging the Klan or any white supremacist organization.  Most of the records of this so-called “infiltration” show a complete lack of production in terms of doing anything to stunt the terrorism of these groups.  All of the major crimes against civil rights activists from the Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. church bombing to the assassinations of activists like Sammy Younge, Herman Lee, and Medgar Evers, very little was done to confront and address that.  And, in the case of the white Detroit mother Viola Luizzo, who was murdered in Alabama attempting to support organizing efforts against white supremacy, she was killed by a Klansman shooting at her from a vehicle in which the FBI informant was seated in that same vehicle. 
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What’s going to be essential going forward is pursuers of justice must come to terms with the reality that once you take your stand, you are standing with the masses of people who you are standing with.  And, even if you don’t realize it immediately upon your entry into the work, what you are really fighting against is the entire capitalist system, not just manifestations in it like police, etc.  Everyone must learn about and accept this cold hard reality.  This government isn’t going to investigate, arrest, and punish police and/or white supremacists who terrorize us unless we mobilize mass pressure them to do so.  And, even then, we are only going to be treading water until the next terror act is committed against us.  Resolving this oppression will  only ever result from our mass organizing efforts to build capacity for revolutionary organization and violence that will serve as the only mechanism that will ever effectively address these questions once and for all.
 
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Why Juneteenth has a Focus Denied to African Liberation Day

6/23/2020

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This past weekend, the concept of Juneteenth was discussed and celebrated all throughout the U.S.  Spurred by consciousness brought about by people in the streets protesting police terrorism against the African masses, Juneteenth serves as a pressure point for supporting the history of our resistance against oppression. 

For anyone who hasn’t figured it out yet, Juneteenth is the commemoration of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation which ended slavery in the U.S. in 1863.  Due to the corrupt and oppressive nature of chattel slavery as an institution, the slaver masters in Galveston, Texas, U.S., didn’t even bother to tell the enslaved Africans there until June 19th, 1865.  Since that time, Africans everywhere throughout the U.S. have commemorated Juneteenth each year around the 19TH of June.  I’ve grown up commemorating Juneteenth like lots of Africans.  Despite the fact the U.S. capitalist system perfects its annual violent effort of pushing the Fourth of July, U.S. independence day, down our throats, I was taught by my community as a youth that we were enslaved in this country on July 4, 1776 – the time the Declaration of Independence was signed (which the 4th of July was designed to commemorate).  As a result, it became quite clear to me at 10 years old that July 4th could never be for us.  So, we had Juneteenth as our day of independence.

Fast forward decades later I fortunately have a much broader sense of who we are as Africans and what we are in relationship to the U.S. capitalist system.  For the past almost 40 years, I’ve developed an appreciation for African Liberation Day (ALD) as the national day of commemoration for African freedom and forward progress.  Although I will always respect and appreciate the concept of Juneteenth, besides speaking at and providing information at Juneteenth events, I haven’t purposely commemorated the day in decades.  So, it’s a little interesting to me to see so many people out commemorating it this year.  People who last year at this time had no idea what Juneteenth, ALD, or any day or activity commemorating African people is, was, or could be. 

A part of me experienced the typical irritation that exists with pretty much everything that involves our people in this country.  The irritation results because I see the corporate sponsorship of Juneteenth and I know the street level activism that pushed Netflix, Target, and all of corporate U.S. to acknowledge Juneteenth will never be recognized for our efforts.  I’m irritated because I know these corporations decided to choose Juneteenth because this is a historical commemoration that makes no demand for what we need and deserve for the future.  Many Juneteenth commemorations are dominated by corporations.  As a result, they maintain the flavor of a celebration.  A party.  A big BBQ.  Most of the time, the most political message articulated at Juneteenth events is for African people to vote for one white supremacist over another white supremacist because these people tell us over and over again that a hierarchy of white supremacists is a choice and a thing.

I’m irritated because ALD is completely different from Juneteenth.  And, that difference will prohibit ALD from ever being promoted and celebrated the way Juneteenth was this year.  ALD is no party.  Its no BBQ.  Those things can and do happen at ALD, but ALD is unquestionably a call for African people everywhere on earth to unite and organize to create a worldwide fighting force to overthrow international capitalism and imperialism.  To run capitalism out of Africa and to achieve one unified socialist Africa to address the needs of African people struggling and suffering everywhere. 

Due to this clear and uncompromising focus from African Liberation Day, no U.S. capitalist corporation will ever sign on to support ALD commemorations.  And, since the capitalist entities won’t support it, that means their ability to spread a message won’t exist.  That means the average person who found out about Juneteenth in one way or another because of capitalism’s partial endorsement of it, won’t hear anything about ALD and therefore it will pass with a much smaller focus and emphasis.

What’s interesting is questions like this serve as true gauges of who is really serious and who actually has our backs.  Anyone truly concerned about stopping police terror against the African masses has to elevate to recognize that Pan-Africanism, the objective that ALD is designed to promote, is a clear and present solution to eliminating police terrorism against us.  So, for those of us with clear vision, we are looking for people to move beyond the typical parameters to identify true justice for the African masses.  Standing around at a corporate sanctioned Juneteenth event isn’t accomplishing any of that.  What’s required is the willingness to step ahead and find out what African people are doing, not just in the U.S., but all over the world together, without corporate support (because the master will obviously never support anything that brings about their overthrow).  The need is for Africans to plug into and participate and/or at least support those independent efforts.  For others who claim to stand with us to lift up our actual work to achieve liberation and not just symbolic efforts that do little to change our actual material conditions.
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Juneteenth is a great commemoration.  It speaks into the reality that African people in the U.S., as well as the rest of the Americas, fought relentlessly against slavery and as old racist Abe Lincoln himself stated when preparing to sign the Emancipation Proclamation, the constant slave revolts made maintaining the slavery system untenable.  So, we hold up Juneteenth and all displays of recognition of our people being freed from chattel slavery, but focusing on this isn’t enough.  If the current conditions of oppression is the thing that opened people’s eyes to Juneteenth, than obviously there is a need for us to discuss what is needed now to continue our struggle to eliminate the vestiges of oppression that continue to impact us.  African Liberation Day, the symbolic call to action for the Pan-African movement, is one of those institutions.  ALD encompasses the history commemorated in Juneteenth while expanding to include the struggles of all Africans (not just those in the U.S.) because our struggles are all one.  Slave raids separated our families, so we all have relatives in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, as well as obviously in Africa.  Its ill logical for us to permit anyone to convince us that we are just confined to the U.S.  ALD accomplishes everything Juneteenth accomplishes and so much more.  But, we don’t say don’t commemorate Juneteenth.  Instead we say acknowledge Juneteenth, but learn to step up your game and understand and support African Liberation Day as well.  A great clue is whenever oppressed people are organizing and commemorating something like ALD with no support from the capitalist system, that should always be a sign to you that this is something with integrity that I need to get behind.

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There's No Debate About Toppling Racist Capitalist Symbols

6/16/2020

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This entire Hemisphere, from Alaska down to Chile, was founded and has been maintained on principles of domination, violence, terror, exploitation, and injustice.  The capitalist system, the overwhelmingly dominant economic system on Earth today, was built on this exploitation of colonized peoples and their lands.  The mere fact that you are reading this and speak English (from colonizing Britain), or French, Portuguese, German, etc., is a testimony to those colonial efforts. 

There is absolutely no way to separate the trauma and terror of this domination from the capitalist empires that dominate the world today.  As a result, nothing that exists under these empires, from the games played to the cultural practices, language, customs, history, statues, monuments, even the money.  All of those things reflect the history of domination.  The money in capitalist U.S. for example, is filled with people who brutally owned African people and/or slaughtered Indigenous people.  The very people who are credited as “founding fathers” such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc., all represent this oppressive legacy.  It cannot be separated.  Domination, exploitation, and the current empires are all one and the same.
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Consequently, there can and will be no discussion about justifying the existence of any symbol of this white supremacist history.  We understand the complete ignorance and disaffection that most European people hold in the Western Hemisphere.  We also understand that there are always going to be colonized people who figure out that there is a lane to profitability by siding and becoming the voice of reactionary white supremacy.  Regardless of all of that dysfunction, the cold truth is any and all representation of the U.S. automatically denigrates the histories of colonized people.  This is difficult for people to accept who wish to believe we all started at the same point and have the same history. Nothing could be farther from the truth.  This reality is so institutionalized that you can take any area of these colonized lands and you can quickly find the contradictions.  Here in the city I live in, Sacramento, I live blocks from Sutter’s Fort, a monument to a military leader who indiscriminately and savagely murdered Indigenous peoples.  A little farther away is Kit Carson Middle School where my daughter attended.  Kit Carson was another savage murderer of Indigenous peoples.  In Memphis, Tennessee, where my daughter lives, in a park not far from her residence, a status of Nathan Bedford, one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan stands.  You can find statues of Klan members everywhere throughout this country because many of them were also highly respected public officials.  Throughout Baja California, the Spanish missions are looked upon by settler colonial cultural protectionists as historic monuments when in reality, these are retro tributes to a brutal history.  The current efforts to destroy these so-called monuments is symbolic in itself.  Its an effort to challenge the racist narrative that has upheld the contributions of these brutes by honoring them with these tributes.  As Franz Fanon discussed in “Black Skins, White Masks”, by toppling those racist symbols, the people heal the scars of that suffering so that we can strengthen ourselves to step up our game to fight on further.
By fighting on further we mean the resolution of this racist history isn’t to replace slave owning George Washington on the one dollar bill with an African or Indigenous person.  Instead, the correct solution is to struggle to dismantle the racist system that the symbols glorify.  The toppling of the statues, etc., is simply the opening salvo.  And, although the petti-bourgeoisie elected personnel are jumping on board to try and take control of the narrative (and reduce it to one of just reforming certain elements of this racist system), even an alien who has landed on Earth can recognize that the real issue is this backward system, and changing it.  Not, just the symbols of the system.  Everyone understands that when a person decides to leave an abusive relationship, they don’t often just up and leave.  Instead, they engage smaller symbolic actions first to grow their resolve.  They remove their wedding ring.  They create personal space, etc.  The toppling of the statues is the removing the wedding ring phase.  Understand this so you aren’t distracted into participating in a useless discussion about whether the statues should come down or not.  They never should have been there in the first place.  Tear them down.  And, when you do, make sure you organize protection for your actions so that when reactionary, yet armed, white supremacists show up, you have people trained and prepared to confront their presence to prevent any disruption against your efforts.  Then, as we tear down these savage symbols, we must continue to talk about how we can build organized efforts to increase our capacity to fight effectively for systemic change.  For the complete eradication not just of the statue of the fathers of capitalism, but the elimination of capitalism itself.  
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Please Stop Conflating Police Murder with Inner City Violence

6/9/2020

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In my usual weekly dose of white supremacist hatred directed at me for the analysis I offer, no less than three European (white) men used the same talking points against me last night.  And, as always, not to be outdone, many African and other colonized people are parroting the same rhetoric.

It’s the same tired talking points promoted non-stop by FOX television news.  The propaganda arm of the right white ruling class members, FOX has spent the last several years reiterating the same talking points over and over again.  This network has taken on a special relationship with the inner-city areas of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.  They can’t get enough of Chicago.  That city, like many like it, suffers from inner city tensions and violence between African street organizations.  The FOX strategy has been to take that inner-city violence in Chicago and sloppily compare it to police and white vigilante killings of people like George Floyd, Brionna Taylor, and Armaud Arbery.  Their main thesis is why so many protests against the police killings, but a much more muted response to the inner-city violence among African people?

To the untrained eye, this may sound like a logical question, but to those of us steeled in this work, we can detect white supremacy in its most finite level.  Plus, on these questions, the clear answers have been presented many times.  Like most things in this backward society, the problem is a lack of accountability.  As a result, people can easily get away with studying nothing, doing little to no work, talking and fetishizing our suffering, and they can exist on such a low level of production with no one ever telling them to shut up and sit down. 

The answer (articulated widely, but apparently to no avail) is that prisons are filled with Africans who commit all types of minor infractions.  Here in California, Africans live only in the larger metro areas like Los Angeles County, the Inland Empire, the Bay Area, and Sacramento.  The entire rest of this state has few Africans.  As a result, Africans only represent about 8% of the total state population, yet we are 39% of this state’s prison population.  And, the same level of disproportionate numbers exist everywhere.  So, if an African kills another African, they are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated.  On the other hand, the reason why the police and vigilante killings generate much more interest and protests is because most of those cases happen with no justice towards the victims.  No one is arrested.  No one is punished.  In fact, many of the police and vigilantes who carry out these heinous crimes like George Zimmerman (Trayvon Martin) or Darren Wilson (Mike Brown) carry on, financially benefit, and exhibit openly hostile attitudes towards the terror they have inflicted on those unarmed people.  These are clear and distinct differences.  Its difficult to understand how so many people are so easily confused by this.  

Another tired and basic trick FOX has used is to point out the fact that Africans are killing Africans in Chicago.  They use this tactic in an attempt to defuse the white cops killing Africans as a tool of white supremacy narrative.  This “analysis” ignores the clear reality that all ethnic groupings typically exist in social proximity to the people in their own ethnic grouping.  As a result, people by and large marry and/or partner with those of their own ethnic grouping.  They live around their own ethnic grouping.  They socialize around their own ethnic groupings.  And, they kill mostly among their own ethnic grouping.  So, contrary to FOX’s propaganda efforts, the truth is 91% of Africans kill Africans.  Eighty-seven percent of Europeans (whites) kills other whites.  Eighty-five percent of Asians kill Asians and 89% of Indigenous people kill Indigenous people.  So, contrary to the propaganda of white supremacy that so many people have been convinced to accept, there is no great self-hatred regarding inner community killing that impacts African people more than anyone else.  The percentage ratio difference between inner community ethnic groupings is so small (about seven percent) that using social science evaluation techniques, its considered negligible, meaning the difference is so small its not even relevant.

Its difficult for us to believe people don’t understand these explanations, but even if that’s still not clear to people, we can take all of those factors and lump them together as resulting from white supremacy.  Violence exists in inner-cities because of the systemic oppression that places people there, keeps them there, and engages in consistent terror and repression against them while they are there.  Any people placed in those inhumane, stressful, and unhealthy conditions would react in ways that are not always admirable.  And besides that, it already been reported that police play such a vital role in perpetuating inner-city violence, but that’s an entirely different article.  If you are not qualified to see the obvious parts of this issue, we will need to wait to talk about police corruption and the major role it plays in sabotaging our people in the communities we live in.
 
The point is all of these variables are the direct result of white supremacy.  So, when people protest against police terror, they are not just protesting against the individual act of police terror.  We understand that those who are short sighted may see it that way, but George Floyd was just the one case that caused the cup to overflow.  It could have been George Smith, or George Johnson, or Sam Floyd, etc.  It was time and the people moved.  And when people protest, they are protesting the entire system of white supremacy from the systemic oppression that creates and sustains inner-city ghettos to the police violence against us.  Even if they don’t have signs expressing concern about Chicago or wherever, that is as much a reason they are out there as anything else. 

The binding factor, whether talking about Chicago violence, or police terrorism against Africans, is that all of this reflects the disrespect and oppression against African people.  A systemic “throwing away” of the African masses that results from the fact our existence stands in the way of the capitalist system’s clear path towards continuing to profit from exploiting Africa’s rare earth mineral wealth. 
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That last piece is an advanced one like the question of police corruption.  Still, we wish to encourage anyone who is genuinely confused and not working to protect white supremacy and capitalism to study this deeper.  We can assure you that all African revolutionaries involved in organizational work with our people struggle to address all elements of our oppression at all times.  We certainly don’t need some European from Montana attempting to argue with us on social media about “why we don’t protest what’s happening in Chicago?”  These types of worthless people have made it quite clear that they are against any form of protest against the capitalist system (because they have been unwittingly convinced that its their job to protect capitalism, despite the fact it never protects them).  Their dishonesty and their inability to address the obvious flaws in their lack of integrity would be funny if we didn’t have more important work to do.  As for the colonized people who parrot the same talking points, that’s just an issue of our low level of political education.  Like the capitalist system intends, we analyze everything happening with our people not from a historical class, gender, and race analysis, but through the same flawed anecdotal one up example approach that the white right relies on so consistently.  The answer here is organized political education for everyone.  The people challenging the reasons people are protesting are protecting forces who they don’t need to protect.  People are protesting injustice.  We should support that on all levels while at the same time figuring out ways to challenge, encourage, and inspire people to step up our game to a higher level of organization in our fight.  As always, political education is going to play a central role in that evolutionary process.

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Black Lives Matter Signs Everywhere;  Real Progress or An Illusion?

6/5/2020

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 Protests against police terrorism are taking place everywhere on earth right now.  Even in small U.S. towns where few African people exist, protests with clear Black Lives Matter messaging are taking place.  Literally hundreds of thousands of Europeans are wearing Black Lives Matter (BLM) shirts, using BLM hashtags, calling on their people through social media to declare that our lives matter.  And, in many instances, their family and friends are responding.  High level politicians like mayors of major cities and even a governor or two of U.S. states, are participating in demonstrations.  Police are joining demonstrations, dancing and marching with demonstrators.  I usually travel by bicycle.  I just drove my vehicle through my city for the first time since the rebellions.  There’s a curfew here because of recent urban uprisings.  My guess is in response to that, at least 45% to 50% of the businesses I saw had Black Lives Matter and other smash racism messages clearly displayed in their windows.  Their boarded up windows.  The question is does all of this mean there is a clear breakthrough in support of African lives?  Or, is something else happening here?

There are clues yelling at those of us who are well versed in evaluating the psychology and sociology of white supremacy.  The large crowds at demonstrations and all of the things mentioned above are extremely positive, but if we truly desire qualitative changes, we have to engage in a critical assessment here.  Our argument is that there’s really only one way that African lives will ever really matter.  This system is built on the dehumanization, exploitation, and murder of African (and Indigenous) people.  Since we know this, we also know there’s no way our lives can ever really matter as long as the system that enslaved, colonized, and exploits us is still intact.  To suggest that both things can exist at the same time i.e. we can be respected and have our lives matter, while the capitalist system – which manufactures and facilitates our lives not mattering – continues unchallenged, is illogical.  It would be the same as saying an abuser can present a convincing presentation of love and respect in public while continuing to abuse the other person behind closed doors.  In other words, that’s still defined as an abusive relationship. 

This isn’t an argument to suggest that all of these hundreds of thousands of people are insincere.  The reason why their efforts have so much potential is because I’m sure sincerity is dominant in most of what we are seeing.  What is being suggested here is that the capitalist system is insidious.  Its eats naivete for breakfast.  Those clues I mentioned?  The actions of police pretending to support demonstrations is nothing except a public relations stunt to suck the anger out of protesters by convincing them that the system is on their side.  The same with businesses displaying those signs.  The business owners probably believe they are doing something good, but the truth is if they really believed that African lives mattered, it wouldn’t have taken a physical threat to their businesses for them to display those signs.  There are a few businesses who have always displayed signs like this, but we all know those businesses are clearly in the minority.  Many of those businesses displaying those signs now are places I’ve walked in before and when I did, I received the same “what are you doing here” stares and interactions that characterize the African experience.  So, they may mean well on some levels, but the reality is businesses do what best serves their economic interests.  And, business interests and African lives is like oil and water, despite the continued tired efforts of the black capitalist crowd to try and prove otherwise.

What we should be shooting for is a clear message in these demonstrations that the only way to support African lives is to respect the rights of African people to have self-determination. That means abolishing not only police – which are merely a symptom of the overall problem – but, abolishing the entire capitalist system which is the reason why our lives have to matter today in the first place.  We all know that discussion is not being had at any demonstrations.  At least not in any dominant way.  Instead, we are talking about police body cams, defunding police – whatever that means – and electing more bourgeoisie politicians who will join the never ceasing list of bourgeoisie politicians who have done absolutely nothing to address this problem.  More cameras that they will continue to find ways to turn off before they brutalize us.  More police who may not be funded to be at schools, which is good, but will still be funded by our tax dollars, which is bad.  So, instead of brutalizing our youth in the school, they will do it a block away once the school funding is taken away.  Any and everything except the conversation we need to have which is how those hundreds of thousands of Europeans, Africans, Asians, Indigenous people, etc., can continue to claim to support African lives while simultaneously supporting an exploitative capitalist system that fuels the murder of African lives?

The answer is most of the people demonstrating are doing it to feel like they are contributing to solving a problem they don’t like.  They are out there because they wish to feel like they are a part of a solution and not the problem.  And, kudos to all of them for that.  Its important that people be out there, but the insidiousness of the capitalist system demands that those of us who are aware of its tricks are out here also, doing everything we can to expose it.  So, we organize, write, and engage to try and get people to recognize that our contributions cannot be centered on doing things that make us feel better about the oppression.  We have to step up our game so that we are doing things that move us towards eradicating the causes of the oppression.  How many of us are willing to confront that?  And, if you attack the people trying to explain all of this to you, which is what usually happens, despite it being pointed out in reasonable and humanistic ways, then you are a part of the problem. 

The signs, the shirts, chants, and the smiles I get everywhere I go right now are nice, but if I don’t smile back its because I’ve seen this movie before.  I’m not interested in helping someone’s efforts to validate that they are a good person.  Nor should I be.  I’m ready, and have been ready for a long time now, to address the problem.  And, that problem is this capitalist system has got to go.  And, along with capitalism going away, anti-colonial and anti-neo-colonial struggles have to flourish.  The way that happens is African people unite and organize for Pan-Africanism i.e. one unified socialist Africa.  While that happens, Indigenous people struggle for their unity and the return of their lands.  While that happens the Irish people run the British out of Ireland.  While that happens, the Palestinian people smash the Zionist state and reclaim their lands.  While that’s happening the Filipino people run the neo-colonialists out of the Philippines.  And, while all of this is happening, the masses of Europeans on earth fight to provide unconditional support for all of those anti-colonial and anti-capitalist and imperialist struggles.  And those Europeans do that not by crying about us being brutalized.  They do it by organizing around the correct concept that they are Europeans committed to eradicating capitalism and imperialism.  They denounce the lie of American democracy and freedom.  They stop repeating the lie that “this is not who our country is.”  They start saying that this is not only what this country is, its what its always been.  They run up to beat me in burning the U.S. flag.  They denounce any loyalty and connection to this evil empire.  If they really believe in African lives mattering, they have to be willing to grapple with those contradictions.  At some of the smaller town demonstrations, I’ve seen people with U.S. flags.  That’s like Jewish people waving the Swastika and saying its in support of Jewish lives.   Most of these Europeans at these demonstrations are not ready to do any of these things just like many of the colonized people, including Africans, are not ready to support our own struggles.  The reasons why this is, people have to figure out if we are ever going to move beyond this point in any real way. 
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Until all of those things happen, all we are really doing is getting high on each other to avoid the real problems which means those problems will continue.  And, another year or two down the road, we will go through this process again, and again.  Believe it.  The capitalist system is planning on and depending upon this cycle repeating itself.  They are even figuring out how they can profit off of it while it runs it course.  At some point, we have to wake up and recognize that we are chasing our tail, over and over again.  Then again, there’s no real threat to us individually when we chase our tails.  And, we get a good workout from that which makes us feel pretty good.  For some of us, maybe that’s all that matters.

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Candace Owen; Malcolm X's Classic House Slave Narrative

6/4/2020

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 If you don’t know her, she’s a young African (Black) woman who gained notoriety in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign when she was a leader in the right-wing front group Turning Point U.S.A.  Since then, she has built a large social media following to express her anti-African, pro-U.S. imperialist views.  She, like many others like her, has built a lucrative career based on building a strong and supportive audience among Europeans in this country who salivate at the idea of an African validating their racist beliefs.

I’m choosing to write about her, not because I spend five seconds thinking about the reactionary racist views she and the people who support her spout and believe.  I’m writing about her because I’m constantly faced with viewing her stupidity on my social media feeds.  I’m a writer.  I have written and published full length quality literary fiction books.  I’ve also had a European based publishing company find enough merit in my graduate thesis on mass incarceration to publish that study into a book.  Since all of my books articulate an uncompromising perspective of support for revolutionary change and the complete dismantling of this backward capitalist empire, all of the promotion for my books, I generate.  Due to that work, I know how expensive it is to promote through social media platforms like Facebook.  To have the level of visibility that this Candace Owens women has on social media is not cheap.  She clearly has strong and well-oiled support which shouldn’t surprise anyone who understands how propaganda is spread in this capitalist society.  The only democracy that exists in this society is the democracy you can afford to purchase.  To have a voice that reaches the multitudes, you have to possess the capital to buy that airtime.  The only people who have that type of capital are the people who benefit from this system.  The exploitative nature of this system.  An exploitative nature that has to be upheld by justifying the mechanisms from which this system achieves its wealth, power, and control over the world.  Candace Owens definitely provides that type of analysis.  Were it not for our desire and responsibility to defend our people from attack, I wouldn’t spend a moment thinking about worthless people like Owens and her flag wavers.  The issue here is everything she vomits out is based on lies and she clearly has support to spread those lies as far and wide as possible.  And, since unlike her, I work regularly among the African masses, I see the damage these constant attacks against our dignity pose for our people.

Calling her out is worthwhile because so many of our people are hurt by this type of justification of our oppression.  For example, recently, this sad piece of human flesh distributed a video denouncing the character of George Floyd.  To do that, she referenced a highly unimpressive list of African sellouts like Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele, people who have been discredited within the African community decades ago.  The ridiculous perspective she advanced about George Floyd is that according to Sowell, Steele, and other parrots of white supremacy, the African community is “the only community that calls for justice for those who” as she called it are “the lowest levels of our community.”  In other words, her point is that Africans are the only people in the U.S. who herald justice for someone who was committing a crime. 

First, her logic is continuously absurd.   This entire country was built on crimes against humanity so that means her and her supporters, all of whom are flag waving patriots for US. Imperialism, are clear examples of what she’s attempting to denounce.  Also, in her “analysis” she adopts the same tired and discredited position of attempting to analyze the conditions of the African masses without including the forces that oppress our people.  Her position is based on the capitalist logic that everything that happens results from individual decisions and that no analysis of the objective conditions is required to understand the decisions people make.  People like George Floyd or Eric Garner, who were harassed and murdered by police were accused of committing low level crimes of the most insignificant manner.  If police spent just a fourth as much time in rural and suburban communities harassing petti bourgeoisie and working class European youth, its not like they wouldn’t find illegal drugs, sex work, guns, and all the things they prey on us to prosecute against our communities. And, there isn’t a single logically thinking European from any of those rural and/or suburban communities who can realistically deny that last sentence.  People protesting against police terrorism understand these contradictions.  What is being protested is the systemic basis for how our people are set up.  Then, the brutal basis from which police terrorize and murder us.  Finally, the systemic discrimination from which those who manage to avoid death by police gestapos are railroaded into the prison system.  Candace Owens says nothing ever to repudiate anything I’ve just articulated.  Instead, she sticks with the individualist decisions value which plays well with the masses of Europeans in the U.S.  Europeans who spend their entire lives making bad decisions just to have the systemic benefits of not being held accountable like we are.

Besides the analysis above, just on face value, her dumb statements about us being the sole community in the U.S. pleading justice for “low level” members of our community should be viewed as a poor attempt for any thinking person.  This is true even if you dismiss colonialism and slavery.  Today, there are hundreds of thousands of Europeans in the U.S. who rally every-day to support preserving the confederacy.  This is a segment of the population who celebrate people who serve as some of the most brutal and barbaric in human history.  It doesn’t get more low level than that. 

Finally, Candace Owens and the primitive approach she utilizes is nothing new.  Malcolm X told us about the house slave and the field slave.  As he articulated, there are always Africans who make the decision to commit class war against the African masses.  They do so because, and Owens is an example of this, its profitable for them.  Any African who can create a portfolio, is articulate, and adopts an analysis that favors capitalism and white supremacy can always find an enthusiastic audience among the masses of racist Europeans.  In fact, as those two clown women who apparently had a show on FOX news illustrates, you don’t even need to be able to logically articulate your betrayal to the masses of African people to cash in. 
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Candace Owens will continue to be the mouthpiece for capitalism and white supremacy.  All one has to do is look at her life to confirm she appears to have absolutely nothing to do with African people in the political and personal realm besides passing herself off as an analyst of our people.  She belongs to no African organizations and can produce no evidence of any substantial work she’s done in African communities.  None of this is ever required by the scum she caters to.  So, she will continue.  That shouldn’t be a concern for us because as Malcolm told us, there have always been Africans like her.  Our responsibility is to continue to build our struggle so that we can inoculate our people against the harm this anti-African rhetoric does to the mentality of a people consistently reeling from our oppression.  Also, building our movement permits us to build capacity to hold people like her accountable to the damage they do to us so that one day soon, they will think twice before enacting such a predictable house slave routine.

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Destroyed Business Owners Are Not Innocent Victims.

6/1/2020

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Protests focused on police terrorism against the African masses during the last week have largely evolved into full scale urban rebellions against capitalist exploitation.  The corporate media was created to serve as the propaganda arm for multi-national capitalist values.  When something like the anti-police terrorism uprisings happen, their job is to convince you that no matter what terrorism takes place against anyone, the most important thing is always preserving the stability of the capitalist system.  No one can argue with their success in achieving their objective.  Everyone reading this has friends, family, co-workers, even some of you, who are regurgitating some form of the capitalist propaganda line.  “The non-violent protests are okay, but the rioting is the real problem.”

Anyone paying any attention knows that non-violent protesting is not okay with the power structure.  And since its not okay with the power structure, and we have just discussed how the power structure uses its propaganda mechanisms to condition the masses of people, that means non-violent protest isn’t going to be okay with many everyday people as well.  The very same people who are now claiming support for non-violent protest are the same people who violently opposed Colin Kaepernick’s protests during professional football games a few years ago.  Of course, logical people understand that no form of protest against the capitalist system is okay to the power structure and anyone influenced by their messaging because reform protests always have the potential to feed into and connect with larger campaigns of resistance against the capitalist system itself. 

By the same token, another related line the capitalist media is propagating is the continued sad face grieving for the businesses that are being ransacked during the last week.  The line on this propaganda is “what does destroying this business have to do with justice for George Floyd or any police terrorism victim?”  If you are willing to delve below the surface analysis, the correct answer will always be everything.

As a student of politics and economics, I know that the reality of who is dominantly successful in business within capitalist countries is largely based on understanding the history of this system.  Of course, there are always going to be exceptions to the rule in everything in the universe.  There will be some individual examples of people who figure out a business model that excels and permits them to experience financial success, but that happens only on an extremely limited and insignificant basis.  Anyone who suggests that the rags to riches model is the norm in capitalism is either a person who deals with complete fantasies or a person who tells intentional lies.  There are many fantasies about success in capitalism.  There are stories about people sleeping 15 to 20 people in a house, saving every penny they earn and investing these hoards of cash into successful business practices.  Or, the people who organize in their respective communities to save money as a community to serve as their own community loan model to help people become successful in business opportunities.  All of these stories are deeply flawed.  To confirm that, all you have to do is request that the person(s) telling you these stories provide you a real life example i.e. showing you where those practices have taken place from A to Z.  Good luck and don’t hold your breath waiting for the examples.

Fundamentally, those examples are deeply flawed.  Anyone who saves thousands of dollars (a penny over $9,999.99 to be exact) is going to be required to demonstrate the source of that money.  In other words, you cannot take $30,000.00 cash to buy a business, house, car, anything, without demonstrating through forms required by federal law from the Internal Revenue Service where that money came from.  Of course, Uncle Sam is always about his money and he is not going to permit anyone to walk around with thousands of dollars in cash conducting any business until he has confirmed that he has received his cut.  This would present a very difficult scenario for all these community savings sources and the money under the mattress people, especially since according to the people relaying these stories, many of these people are coming from immigrant communities.  I doubt those folks are going to want to have the exposure that you experience when the Internal Revenue Service is pursuing you. 

We understand why those stories exist.  They exist to substantiate and support the myth that anyone can make it in capitalism if you just put in the effort.  Those stories glorify the individualist interpretation of history from capitalism by reinforcing the myth that if you are struggling in capitalism, the sole reason is because you haven’t worked hard enough.  This is the belief that many people share towards the masses of African people and others who are protesting against police terrorism today.  The idea that the protesting elements are only doing it because they are making excuses for their own lack of individual success serves to diminish the real reasons for the protests – institutional white supremacy and capitalist exploitation and repression of the insurgent masses – while reinforcing the myth of rags to riches.  The truth is the overwhelming majority of people who experience wealth in capitalist societies are people who benefit in some way, form, or fashion, from having some elements of wealth passed on to them, all the way down to and including understanding the language of the capitalist business world.  For many of these people they benefit from the expertise, culture of profitability, as well as access to material resources, either through relationships they carry or the ability to convince someone to invest in their vision. 

The point is capitalism is based on maintaining exploited classes and exploiter classes.  This entire system was built that way and its certainly maintained that way.  The people who are at the bottom of capitalism objectively work the hardest and receive the less.  Those people are also objectively the results of systems of exploitation like colonialism and slavery.  On the other hand, the people who own wealth are people who have objectively benefitted from the institutional exploitative system of capitalism.  So, no current business owner in capitalism is innocent because all of them benefit from the historical and systemic exploitation of this system against the majority of people in the world.  Whether you own a business in poor neighborhoods, this is true because what you are doing is setting up to profit off of the misery of poverty.  Or, whether you set up in rich neighborhoods, this is true because you are establishing exclusivity based on the exploitation of poor people.  So, again, none of these business owners who are seeing their businesses go up in smoke are innocent.  What’s actually happening is what Malcolm X talked about i.e. the chickens coming home to roost.

The people who are out in the streets, and I’m talking about the ones setting the fires on these businesses and taking the merchandise, they understand the contradictions being raised here.  And, none of this I’m saying is to glorify and/or romanticize them.  Anyone paying attention knows that we push non-stop for revolutionary organizing, not spontaneous urban rebellions.  Much of this activity is driven more by individual frustration and anger and not by an organized vision for creating a better society.  I know this because I myself have engaged in that same behavior in years past. Yet, our revolutionary organizing over spontaneous uprisings argument in no way deflects from the criticism we wage against the forces of capitalism who are attempting to demonize these street efforts and make them worse than the crimes against humanity that have people out on the streets in the first place.  So, we say the people understand these contradictions and if you still don’t, consider this.

From a personal perspective, I have existed in this society my entire life.  What I mean is I live the day to day existence as an African man in this society.  My day to day experiences can serve as a textbook for white supremacy and how its implemented against us and this statement is true for most Africans and Indigenous people who are paying attention.  I walk in businesses everyday.  I’m always courteous and conscientious.  I don’t make a fuss and never behave in a difficult fashion.  I  clean up after myself every time and treat all workers well as a rule.  Still, 99.9% of the time I enter a business and engage there, I’m treated like a foreign entity.  One who the people there would certainly prefer not be there.  In fact, its become a game for me when I enter a business to observe how all eyes will be on me.  Even in businesses where I’ve developed relationships with the staff and other customers, its still somewhat irritating to me because I shouldn’t have to “prove” myself.  I should be respected as I respect them on face value.  Yet, it rarely if never happens.  I know that this is the common experience for many people whether African, Indigenous, physically challenged, LGBTQ, poor, houseless, etc.  If you can acknowledge this point I’m making right now, it shouldn’t be difficult for you to visualize why people on the streets who have these same experiences in these businesses that I’ve described, who come across these types of businesses I’m talking about during these confrontations against police where emotions are high, why those people wouldn’t use that time to strike out against those businesses.  In truth, what else would they be expected to do at that time.  Dr. King was correct by saying “riots are the voice of the unheard.”  We go farther and quote Kwame Ture, one of King’s contemporaries who greatly influenced Dr. King, who said “organization is the weapon of the oppressed.”  Even without technology and television the oppressed, properly organized, can overcome, but we are not at that point yet.  We are still at the point of reaction and emotionalism.  So, in that realm, the business is going to go down.  And, I have zero empathy for them because not only do they benefit from exploitation (while ignoring that reality), but they not only ignore the culture in their businesses that encourages people like me to be “othered”, but they do everything they can to perpetuate that culture.  So, when it’s the people’s turn, then it’s the chickens coming home to roost. 

Capitalism, a system based on prying on people’s exploitation already has a solution for those business owners anyway.  Its called comprehensive insurance.  You know, you pay extortion money so that if something happens, you can be covered.  We won’t discuss the number of insurance claims that are going to be actively denied because of the number of them coming in at once.  It’s the capitalist exploitation way.  Yet, these business owners didn’t care much about fairness and equity before the result of the injustices spread to their businesses.  Now, I’m having about as much empathy for them as they are having for us being shot down in the street like dogs by agents of state repression.

For a different view, imagine businesses (of course this is simply an exercise because nothing of the sort happens on anything beyond a token level) who actively supported communities.  I’m not talking about just little league softball, but actively provided spaces for organizations.  Provided resources to the extent they could.  Regularly speak out against injustices.  Hired people from oppressed communities and made every attempt to pay those workers livable wages and healthcare.  Create business environments that respect all of humanity and create spaces where everyone feels respected and welcome Do you think businesses who take that approach would be targeted and burned down and gutted because I can tell you for a fact they aren’t?  Of course, you should not hold your breath waiting for capitalist media to provide you these perspectives.

For anyone wishing to puruse a more balanced perspective on critical questions like this, we invite you to join our All African People's Revolutionary Party weekly seminar series.  This Sunday, June 7, 2020, we will discuss "Looting" & Rebellion and Reform.  4 to 5pm PST @ facebook.com/ahjamu.umi

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    I don't see disagreement as a negative because I understand that Frederick Douglass was correct when he said "there is no progress without struggle."  Our brains are muscles.  Just like any other muscle in our body if we don't stress it and push it, the brain will not improve.  Or, as a bumper sticker I saw once put it, "If you can't change your mind, how do you know it's there?"

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