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This System Works To Convince Us that Our Work is Meaningless

7/26/2017

I've graduated to the point where I am able to say and feel confidently that the majority of the time, its this system that makes people behave in insane ways towards me, you, and everyone else. That would mean in a high percentage of instances, I am not the problem (believe me, for the times it is on me, I am well aware of it and working to take full responsibility for it). Recognizing this has helped me release a major element of anxiety which has led to much healthier living on my part.

For example, I lived most of the my first forty something years on Earth here in California. Then, I moved to Oregon for ten years. Then, back to California since March of this year. What separates my life from most people is 90% of my life has been spent engaging in political activism of a revolutionary nature. By saying that, it automatically means most people have no idea what my work consists of, even when it is directed at them and they benefit from it. And even people I work closely with, and especially those that I don't, are programmed every day to see someone like me as operating with a little less than sanity as my foundation. What I've discovered is this is the reality of most activist work, especially that of a revolutionary nature. So, consequently, many people over time find the stress of this unbearable. And for anyone who takes time to understand this phenomenon, it shouldn't be hard to see why this work takes such a toll on us.

When I was in Sacramento before, I did quite of bit of work here. I played a leading role in institutionalizing several instruments of resistance like African Liberation Day, the fourth of the lie, the annual N word forum, and many other things designed to build our capacity to heal and fight back against oppression. I helped build alliances and relationships with a number of organizations. I helped develop a number of organizer/activists. Now, anyone who has even a slightest understanding of this work knows that inclusive of doing all of this is the need to work closely with people, building relationships. And, this isn't something that happens overnight. You have to invest in people and I can say proudly that I did that by spending time with people. Visiting with them. Helping them with their family issues. Providing a regular ear and supporting them in spiritual and often physical ways, often in ways that placed myself in great risk. I say this because I did that as a common practice and it is no exaggeration to say I formed those types of relationships with dozens, probably even hundreds, of people over a period of two decades during my previous tour of California. That's two decades of consistent and intense relationship building, hard work, dependability. Now, you would think that after doing all of that, despite the fact I freely acknowledge I'm not the best person at keeping in contact with folks (although I'm trying to improve), people would remember your commitment to them and hold a space for you in their lives?

What I've found in returning to California is for the most part, amazingly, that isn't true. Many people who I thought I had close relationships with before barely speak to me when I see them now. And, I'm talking about people who I helped de-arrest, rescued from domestic violence, provided resources to live on, counseled in moments of extreme desperation. Barely see me to speak to me now. Now, I have to admit that this is a jolt, but I've learned that I have no reason to internalize any of this despite the fact that it feels very much like a personal rejection. I've told myself that all I did was try to be there for folks as a part of the principles I've tried my best to live my life by. I have to remind myself that despite how those folks react to me now, they reached out to me before because they knew I had some commitment to those principles. Plus, I can tell by the way they interact with me that at least some of them are not doing anything designed to intentionally hurt me. If anything, they act as if our previous history never existed. And, I know I never did anything to betray them, so what gives?

I've landed in a place where I believe what happens in this regard often has absolutely nothing to do with me. What's happening is maybe my leaving previously triggered something in those folks? Or, they have had some life experiences that have nothing to do with me. That speak more to their inability to express themselves than anything I've done materially to make them act that way towards me? That makes sense to me because I know this system teaches us to put up fronts, not deal with our real feelings. And as a result, we all do that to some degree. No one wants to place themselves out there. No one wants to risk getting hurt. Since I've always been someone who places myself out there much more than most people, I cannot lie and say these experiences are not painful. They are immensely painful, but I think I've come to understand them in a healthy way.

When I see people now that I knew before I moved to Oregon, I don't automatically greet them with complete enthusiasm as if we will pick up where we left off as I used to do. I wait to gauge where they are with seeing me again and I take it from there. If they act as if we are just meeting for the first time, although I used to watch their children regularly for them free of charge so they wouldn't lose their job, I don't take it personal. I just know what to expect from that person going forward. And, since I know I did what I thought was right, I try to let it go at that.

And another thing I've institutionalized in my behavior is making sure I let people who performed important roles in my life know it. I've done this to several people since returning to California because I don't want them to feel as I've felt. Maybe they wouldn't feel like me. I am extremely sensitive. Its that empath thing, but I am also astute enough to know when something is happening to me. Anyway, I'm glad I've been honest and open with my mentors because that makes me feel whole, despite whatever the other people are throwing at me.

And now that I've established a similar history during my time in Oregon, I'm looking forward to visiting there soon. And, when I do, I know good people there who I will definitely pick up where I left off. And, I know there are people who will act in that strange way towards me that I've described here, but no worries. I am only responsible for how I walk through the world. I can't control how anyone else does the same. I know who I am and what I'm about and I'm learning how to be good with that, despite whatever else is thrown into the mix. I know all of this is true because there are also the many, many people here in Cali who have stopped me on the street and expressed such appreciation for me being back that tears have come to my eyes. I know there is that in Oregon as well and I greatly appreciate it.

I just hope all of this can help anyone else who feels this same way because I know I can't be the only one. Capitalism is expert at dehumanizing us and producing pain. In fact, whatever pain you experience in your life, if you give me three minutes, I can tell you in a completely ill refutable way how capitalism is at the root of your pain. So, know that, and do one other thing. Let's continue to spread the word together because healthy organizers are successful organizers. The role of imperialism is to wear us down and out of the struggle. There will always be plenty happening to contribute to that. So, lets build each other up. Its a long fight ahead of us and we need each and everyone of you in it.

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A White Woman Killed by African Cop Proves Racism as the Winner

7/23/2017

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By now most everyone around the world has probably heard how Justine Damond, a European woman from Australia, was allegedly shot and killed by an African cop named Mohammad Noor in Minneapolis last weekend. Its of course not news that police are killing people. Its not even news that a young European woman was killed. Police kill people everyday, especially in capitalist countries because their primary role is to protect the interests of the system. And, since those interests are diametrically opposed to the interests of working class people of all nationalities (including European - White - people, although far too many of them are still are confused about this), anyone who makes just a cursory analysis of police functionality should have no problem concluding that part of what police are going to do is unjustifiably kill people, often.

The above statements represent a scientific analysis of the role of police in oppressive societies. And the evidence supporting this analysis is ill refutable (its been cited repeatedly in this blog and countless other sources so if you are still confused on this question, do your homework). Since we are talking science, the people who are operating on simplistic points of view around this shooting are again going to be easily discredited.

For the record, lets state that we are against all police departments in all cities in every country on each continent on the entire planet. We occupy this position because as was previously stated, we know that in oppressive societies like the U.S. police are there to repress the masses of people to prevent them from rising up against the state that oppresses. In other words, police are there to protect their bosses who are controlled by super rich multi national corporate interests. That's all police, including any misguided and confused Africans who decide to take on this sad responsibility. Still, just because a confused African who decides to become a security guard for the capitalist class (the true definition of police) shoots a White woman, that cannot be gauged to represent anything other than what it is, the state operating in a way that permits its armed guards to summarily execute people for no reason.

What makes this incident interesting in a different way is the role of racism which fuels the way we are trained to see everything within the capitalist society. This incident should provide us with clear evidence that police are not on the side of working people. And, if most white people were thinking, instead of reacting to racist stimuli as they have been doing to 500+ years, this is exactly what would be happening. Instead, white people are being consumed with the same stupid and barbaric racist thoughts that cloud their vision on everything. For example, while driving through a rural community yesterday, I heard a radio host describe the shooting as a case of an African wanting to shoot a white woman. This deranged idiot actually said that the African joined the police force just so he could develop the opportunity to shoot white people. Then, this fool had countless people call in to chime in with their own home cooked racist theories about this. And, one doesn't have to search far to hear this type of nonsense. Another racist concept floating around is that the Black Lives Matter movement supports the killing of this white woman. Now, I'm a revolutionary Pan-Africanist who has been involved in the same organization working for Pan-Africanism worldwide for almost four decades. So, I am not an activist in Black Lives Matter, but I know that this movement immediately issued statements condemning the killing of this white woman. I also know they did that because they recognize that police killing people is a function of state supported terror against the people. Simple facts that are oblivious to the masses of white people and their trained parrots from other nationalities, including my own.

And, because this dysfunctional racism is the dominant ideology that operates within this backward society on everything, you can expect the accompanying circus of sickly behavior whenever something like this happens. While Africans are killed by police on a routine basis with no response from police, politicians, capitalist media, except to justify those killings and dehumanize the victims, the police in Minneapolis respond immediately to express their condolences for this white woman. Not only that, there are no efforts to reduce the quality of her character. No queries into any questionable behavior in her past and because white lives do inherently matter much more than our lives in this sick society, the fact that this incident happened at all is enough to force the police chief to resign, before any clear facts of the case are even made public. So, for those of you well meaning people who expect police and the state to condemn police violence because a white woman was killed by police, you are going to be sadly disappointed. Since racism is always the go to weapon for the capitalist system, whereas the state moves to protect police (of any nationality) who kill Africans, which is their role, in this instance, the state will isolate this African police officer. Within hours of the incident, we already knew he had three issues of misconduct and you can expect the efforts to discredit him to continue. And I'm saying this not to say he should be protected. I have a difficult time understanding how any African would ever want to become a part of any police department. My point is he cannot expect the state to rally behind him because everything the state does is designed to protect its interest and its interest is to widen the divide between working class people.

Since white people continue to demonstrate that they are completely committed to serving as committed hoes to the capitalist system, despite whatever it does to dehumanize them, why wouldn't the state continue to play that card? When white or other police kill Africans or Indigenous people its because we are criminals and they are doing their job. Works with white people. When an African cop kills a white woman its because that cop wants to kill white people or is unfit to be a cop. Works with white people.

Most of the time I believe that white people around the world will eventually wake up to this sham they are being pimped over, but sometimes I feel like that will never happen. Its not a major source of emotions for me because our objective is Pan-Africanism and we will achieve that whether white people get their stuff together or not. Still, when these things happen, I wonder if white people ever will figure out how they are the primary caretakers over their own oppression. Of course, the source of my doubt is the lack of wide spread work taking place within white communities. The seemingly most conscious elements of white activists seem to be content to just engage in ego gratifying physical acts against individual working class white supremacists without doing anything to challenge the power of the system itself. Then, others within the white activist community keep articulating this fantasy vision of a society without government where everyone functions based on values of altruism. This concept is laughable and elitist to the masses of suffering Africans who possess a mass culture which teaches us that any level of consciousness we will achieve will only happen through our mass struggle together. No progress will be made through individualism and anyone who believes that is operating through lenses of bourgeois idealism. Yet, this is the status of white activism. Meanwhile, the masses of white people are being bombarded with racist ideology at unprecedented levels. And while the masses of so-called conscious whites are patting themselves on the back for punching one white supremacist, who doesn't even represent the power structure, hoards of white people are being recruited over to white supremacist thought everyday with no one offering a counter perspective to challenge this process. Yes, we are aware of some recent efforts being made to work within white communities, but excuse us if we reserve judgment - for a long time.

This system is rotten to its core so anyone who is paying attention shouldn't be surprised by what is happening surrounding this killing in Minneapolis. The racism isn't what's surprising. The fact that it continues to work, without any extra effort or even any new criteria and/or implementation...That's the part that's just pathetic.

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Socialist Cuba, Not Canada/Europe, is the Best Health Care Model

7/17/2017

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I'm pretty much ready to vomit every time I hear some so-called progressive thinker hold up Europe and/or Canada as the example of quality health care in the world. Not that any of those countries don't have strong health care systems. They all have socialized medicine and health which means you receive whatever health care you need without paying for it. You don't pay because your care is paid for out of tax generated revenue collected from you and everyone else. The purpose of that revenue is to provide money to fund the essential services in those societies and there is no more essential service than quality health care. The only people who won't agree with that statement are people who (are primarily going to be from the U.S.) have never experienced serious health issues in their lives. The reason why its difficult for me to credit these countries on the level that Cuba deserves credit is because Canada and all of Europe are capitalist countries. The definition being their economies are primarily based on private profit generating corporations. Consequently, these countries only have the health systems they have because of the demand from their populations to provide quality health care without cost. So, the people in those countries get all of the credit, not the governments which as I mentioned, are still dedicated to the capitalist model of production.

Cuba, on the other hand, is a country that courageously decided, 58 years years ago, to buck the capitalist standard, and initiate along the road of socialist development. As a result, despite the problems they continue to work through to properly build their socialist system, they are a government that is dedicated to eradicating the dominance of capital. And, they are to be righteously commended for their genuine efforts in this regard because they are answering the essential question that their alleged critics on the left could not even form their mouths to address: How does a collective society come together to build a truly democratic society where people's needs dominate over money? Cuba deserves more than many people today will ever realize for their boldness in attempting to answer that critical question, but already, they deserve respect for their outstanding advancements in all areas of health care. Since the beginning stages of their socialist revolution in 1959 they have prioritized eradicating health issues and disparities in their country, and in 1959 they had many. Since that time they have developed a system where there is roughly one doctor for every 100 people. This is compared to their neighboring Caribbean countries like Haiti and Jamaica where there are thousands of people for every doctor. And, they not only prioritized creating doctors by making the university education, including medical school, free of charge. Their medical education included a socialist orientation of training their doctors to see service to the world and humanity as a responsibility that is steeped in moral incentive. And, because they have this socialist political education foundation, their doctors don't graduate with the focus on rewarding themselves for their education after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for their degrees.

So, with that type of solid human focused socialist foundation, it is no wonder over the last 50 years, Cuba has completely eliminated disease that is quite common in other Caribbean countries like dysentery, cholera, and even malaria. And despite the crippling U.S. economic blockade against Cuba (since 1961), which has prohibited any technological trade with Cuba from virtually every resource in the world capable of providing it, their highly conscious medical community hasn't blinked an eye. They have discovered creative and natural medicines in place of the medicines they were not permitted to trade for. And all they have done with that is eliminate mother to child HIV transmissions, cervical cancer, and they have avoided the pandemics like diabetes and hypertension that adversely affect practically every other country with large African populations on the planet Earth.

And the Cubans didn't stop there. Their standard of health e.g. the health index of their people, is the best in the world. They encourage healthy living and eating and their government sponsored bicycle program, despite it being generated partially because of the blockade against newer automobiles being imported, has played a major role in advancing a healthy exercise based lifestyle for Cubans. They made medical school available, and free to hundreds of thousands of students who wanted a medical degree, including many from the U.S. As a result of their system they have developed and sent doctors all over the world to serve humanity. When the alleged Ebola outbreak took place in Africa in 2015, while the U.S. initially sent troops, Cuba sent doctors. Hundreds of them. They have doctors in countries all over the world, including within inner city communities and reservations within the U.S. Places many U.S. trained doctors would never agree to go to.

Any side by side comparison. Any numerical analysis. Any study of anything even the imperialist World Health Organization has to say about world health, acknowledges that Cuba's medical and health care system is the best in the world, hands down. So, stop talking about what's happening in Canada and Europe. Cuba has done so much more with so much less. Why? Because of socialism. A concrete fact many so-called progressives always want to leave out when discussing Cuba's health care system. Without Cuba's Marxist/Leninist socialist system, you don't have the health care gains mentioned here. And I can say that without being a Marxist/Leninist. Truth is truth and give due credit where it belongs. Socialism won't fall out of the sky. It has to be built and that's a process. Real revolutionaries understand this and are not stuck in trying to play some stupid ideological purity game where mistakes never happen. Cuba is building and moving forward.

So for all the so-called progressives, especially those within the U.S. and its most backward health care system, who keep crediting Europe and Canada as having the world's most progressive health care systems, stop parroting this anti-communist line. What people should be looking at is if Cuba, a small country of 10 million people with an island economy, can accomplish all that it has with heath care, what is possible under one unified socialist Africa with all its resources properly organized and utilized? What of the resources available in the industrialized U.S.? What could happen if that organized apparatus was set up to administer a socialist health care system instead of the fraud posing as health care in the U.S. today? Even many of the basic economies in the neo-colonial micro-states in Africa today have health care systems that are more advanced and humanistic than the capitalist system in the U.S. that is based on private health care that prioritizes profit over making people healthy. Free universal health care under socialism! That's clearly what everyone wants so let's declare it and make it come about.

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National Rifle Assoc Video Implies Arming Against Africans is Good

7/7/2017

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This isn't based on my opinion. Like everything you read on this blog, you can Google the National Rifle Association (NRA) video just released. It has a young European (white) woman narrating a tall tale about how the poor white folks of the good ole U.S.A. are so oppressed because of movements like Black Lives Matter that engages in protests that dare to inconvenience white America. The young woman, speaking with a continued sarcastic tone, suggests that by protesting acts of police terrorism, the protesters are somehow pushing non-protesters (read white people) into some sort of oppressed corner. And of course, despite the fact white people have been telling us for centuries that we always need to show restraint and patience when fighting for our justice, this young woman suggests that no patience and restraint should be shown to anyone who decides they want to do something to challenge police terrorism.

I also viewed a response video produced - I believe - by the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter (BLM). This BLM video was well done, but from my standpoint, I long ago grew tired of trying to fight immorality and savage racism in this society with moral appeals for justice. Kwame Ture, when he was a young Stokely Carmichael in 1967, said correctly that "the problem with moral appeals to America is she has no conscious." The NRA is not a collection of confused souls who just need the right moral message directed at them. They have a long history of siding with state oppression against oppressed people. Their support of the California Don Mulford bill in 1967, which was specifically designed to take guns out of the hands of Black Panther Party members on patrols against the police (carrying guns was legal then) is just one indicator of who the NRA is. As this information about their contradictory stance against the Panthers has become much more public in recent years, the organization, which bases its entire platform on gun rights - for white people - has engaged in a campaign to justify its support for the Mulford Act in 1967. They are arguing that during those days the NRA hadn't developed the commitment to protecting the Second Amendment as they are doing today. They direct their critics to the fact they supported a national gun control act in the 1940s as proof, but they must think they are talking to slaves who would pick cotton at night. Its feasible that the NRA would have tried to defend their Mulford Act position. They are a money hungry lobbying organization with a massive budget. I know that at one time, they would have loved to have large numbers of Africans join their ranks as having that would have solved a couple of problems for them on the credibility front. Back in the 90s, I remember being approached by NRA representatives while shopping at gun stores for years. And, they approached me despite my wearing Che Guevara, Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, or other symbols that should make it plain that I'm not a recruit. I even had political conversations with a couple of them back in those days who were trying to recruit me, but that was then. I frequent gun stores and shooting ranges regularly and I never see them anymore. At least not talking to me. Well, these latest anti-African videos may signal a turning of the corner by the NRA. The tenor in the video I saw isn't one that seems to have the slightest concern about how its interpreted by the African community or anyone who is concerned about police terror. Their audience for these videos is clearly that white man and woman who is full of testosterone and ignorance in a way that only hardcore racist beliefs could hold together. Well, I say this is a good thing. You see, African people in this society have been effectively cut off from Africa - who we really are. Many of us believe our absolute only solution is to be accepted in capitalist America and as a result, we will stop at nothing to become an accepted part of this country. And we will tolerate indignities that most whites would have organized a revolution over centuries ago to pursue that acceptance. That explains the moral appeals, which we will discuss further in a minute. First, its important to say that the weak efforts by the NRA to justify its earlier stance against the Panthers shouldn't be seen as an exception. The NRA has never stood up for African people's rights to bear arms and the Second Amendment hasn't either.

The Second Amendment was actually only created to ensure that slave posses in the South and so-called City Watch patrols in the North (created to keep Africans from moving into white neighborhoods) would have their rights to carry weapons protected. That's why the original version of the Second Amendment, written by James Madison, was not accepted with the word "Country" instead of "States" because the framers had to make this a states right issue so they could maintain more control over their racist agenda of terrorizing African people. That's why the term "state's rights" is nothing other than code language from the Southern strategy to direct the multitudes of mindless white people into supporting racist agendas against African and Indigenous peoples. And of course, this strategy continues and continues to work. The NRA videos are just another of a long series of manifestations of this.

The NRA didn't stand up for Brother Castillo in Minnesota when police illegally gunned him down (if you don't remember, he had a valid conceal and carry permit to carry a firearm. He notified the cop of this and that cop immediately shot and killed him). Castillo would have been a clear case for the NRA to take on if they ever had any desire to stand for gun rights for everyone. They have also been dangerously silent on the growing number of African gun clubs and groups who are patrolling African neighborhoods armed. They were silent when officials cited these African gun clubs and organizations as the reason they wanted to impose a ban on carrying all weapons during the Republican National Convention last summer in Cleveland. When all that was happening the NRA was notoriously silent on our gun rights.

I make those points about the NRA not because I'm suggesting they need to stand up for our rights to defend ourselves. Malcolm X told us that we should always be against that which this government is in favor of and that certainly hasn't changed. The NRA is nothing except the private gun lobby of white supremacist ideology which is more concerned about protests against police terrorism than the impact of that terrorism against our people and our communities. Also, if you have been paying attention to this blog than you know I'm not just some keyboard warrior. I helped lead several security efforts against hardcore, often white supremacist, folks in militia groups who certainly were supporters and probably active members of the NRA. So, I can tell you from those personal experiences that when those people saw me they harbored no concerns about protecting any gun rights for me or anyone who agreed with me. So, to me, the NRA is another stooge for the capitalist system which means they could never be for us. That leads me to my final point. Going back to the question of morality. I respect and appreciate the effort behind the BLM response video to the NRA. I am afraid that we are missing the point if we still see our primary option as that of using the U.S. Constitution, or the First Amendment in particular, as our protection against massive white organizations who are essentially calling for white people to stand up and challenge our rights to survive against efforts to systematically eliminate us. These NRA videos have to help us understand that its far past time for us to start organizing ourselves to protect ourselves and our communities. Clearly, there will be very little disagreement within the African communities that we cannot expect this protection to come from the blue terrorists who patrol us. Many of our organizations, from my All African People's Revolutionary Party, to the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, to the Nation of Islam, Uhuru Movement, etc., have advanced examples of how we can get organized to do what we need to do. And, if you don't like any of the existing organizations, start your own, but if the NRA is helping us understand anything, its that the gloves on racism are completely removed. There is open warfare against African people. Many of us see it. And, we are not planning on depending on America's corrupt and racist institutions to protect our people. Now, more than ever, we must demand that our folks make a decision to get involved in this struggle by joining organizations fighting for our liberation. And, that other communities do the same. The NRA can do what it does because it is or-ga-nized! If we are going to defeat these threats, we will most definitely need much more than reliance on a U.S. Constitution which has no practical purpose beyond that of toilet paper.

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Kaepernick in Africa on July 4th and the Hate that Warms My Heart

7/5/2017

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If you haven't seen it yet, National Football League (NFL) Quarterback Colin Kaepernick recently spent time in Ghana, West Africa. While he was there, he had the presence of mind to shoot a very impressive video of his visit to Accra, Ghana, the slave dungeons at Cape Coast, Ghana, and his travels to other parts of the country. Since I love Africa I would have been satisfied with just that. Its not often that well known African celebrities speak highly of Africa. I pay attention looking for it. It doesn't happen that often. And for every one of them like Jada and Will who do say something positive about our mother, there are many more like ignorant Floyd Mayweather who willingly feed the well of stupidity on this question. In fact, even if the results were evenly mixed, the reality that we are operating on 500+ years of negative propaganda about Africa (as an ongoing tactic to justify exploiting Africa and her children) makes the positive that much more needed. So, anytime any African goes to Africa and makes the point of highlighting their connection, our connection, to our mother, that's encouraging, but Kaepernick of course, didn't stop there. He issued a statement questioning why any African in the U.S. would celebrate the 4th of the lie since what the day was founded on, and certainly what it represents today, has absolutely nothing to do with our forward progress as a people.

Since we have been telling people these same things for decades, it warms the spirit to hear our youth, especially those who other youth are more inclined to listen to, articulate the same very powerful messages. We should think for ourselves as a people and we shouldn't parrot and fall in line with the logic and interests of our enemies. We should seek out our mother - Africa - and understand our continued connection to her and the role she will play in our forward destiny. Very strong and necessary messages. And if that alone didn't give me all I needed for this past weekend, I had the additional privilege of seeing all of the hatred directed at Kaepernick by so many people for his continued bold stances. Now, when I say so many people, I'm talking about the rabid and overt racists all the way to the liberal petit bourgeois who are all for Black Lives Matter until there is the slightest discomfort on their part. I'm also talking about the many Africans in this country who suffer from a disease called SM2017, or slave mentally 2017. I know, I know, people always say "don't read the comments", but in this case, I wouldn't dare not read them. The naked hatred and racism serve as excellent gauges from which to truly evaluate the growing insecurity and desperation on the part of these creatures. I mean think about it. As if anyone who understands what Colin Kaepernick is really doing. As if any African youth, Indigenous youth, even conscious European youth, are going to listen to ignorant and naked racism and/or the constant apologizing for capitalism that has become standard fare for the African sell outs. In other words, nobody cares what any of you people think about us, our struggle, and who we choose as our heroes and sheroes. No body. We aren't talking about you, we aren't concerned about you, and we definitely aren't intimidated by you. I read the comments because its great case study material. Its astounding to me how these people cannot even grasp what's happening and what Kaepernick represents. He has clearly found his vision in life and he is correctly connecting it to his people's culture and history. From that, he is finding truth and harmony. I know this because I've been to the slave dungeons he displayed in his video multiple times. I know he is opening himself up to listen to his ancestors. By going to Africa, he is following in the footsteps of W.E.B. Dubois, Shirley Graham DuBois, Malcolm X, Franz Fanon, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and all the many Africans who have paved the way for so many more of us to see this light. And once we accept the light, we are then in the position to hear their messages to us. That's why we know that once this light is revealed, it is impossible for people to go back into the darkness that plagues us in this backward society. Kaepernick has what he needs now and nothing any of these dimwits say can do anything to dent his armor. More importantly, he is teaching so many of us that we can strengthen ourselves the same way and that is really what these idiots are afraid to see happen. So, I'll be reading those comments. Its great humor to me to see these people unravel at the sight of us waking up.

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Your Declaration of Independence is Toilet Paper! (Troll Me!)

7/3/2017

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For all of you who would mindlessly wish someone a "happy 4th." Especially the brown people who somehow find a way to fix their mouths to utter that ridiculous statement. To those who, with the best of intentions, engage in outstanding creativity in attempting to apologize and legitimize this empire and its overwhelming destruction against humanity. And a special shout out to the multitudes of racists who are proud of yourselves for being stupid enough to actually believe that anyone from the bourgeois class has your pitiful interests at heart.

Every year this so-called holi - day comes around and with it the sorry propaganda that qualifies much better as a fantasy action movie than any actual human history. And, the contradictions are so obvious, even the most pathetic fool cannot miss them. From the clearly racist song you use as your alleged national anthem to your stupid condemnations of Colin Kaepernick for courageously calling you out for it. To all your cowardly inspiration to relinquish your naked racism on any person you encounter that you have already sized up as safe to bully, to your recognition that you cannot behave that same way against someone who will hold you intellectually, and physically, accountable for your abusive actions (as I sit here in a mountain town of 3500 people wearing Black Panther and other African militant shirts while I type this, with many people giving me dirty looks, but they're apparently smart enough not to expand beyond that). To the bourgeois and their systemic work to hold the backward values of capitalism in tact. They deserve a special shout out. They are the architects of all of this. And they do a masterful job. They have concocted this annual propaganda fest where they have converted an actual history where rich European (white) men created a country for themselves into a charade about freedom for all of us. And, they weren't finished there. On top of that, they have installed this absurd narrative to the initial lie where the U.S. military is billed as the protector of this sacred freedom and democracy when the truth is those who "serve" are actually the manipulated working people who are tricked into fighting, and dying, simply to defend the immoral interests of the super rich. Then, to add insult to injury, this bourgeois class riles so many people up into a frenzy that even the publication of these words, and all others like them, will infuriate so many people when its clearly evident that all of this is ill refutable truth.

But, if you are interpreting this piece as a statement of gloom and doom, you are missing the point completely. We know that Sekou Ture was correct when he said that "truth crushed to earth a 1000 times will rise again." So, no matter what the bourgeois teach. No matter what the masses of white people want to believe. No matter how many of us are tricked into defending the plantation (instead of wanting to burn it down), what's real is becoming more and more exposed with each passing tick of the clock. Even if you argue (incorrectly) that the Emancipation Proclamation "freed" African people, that document didn't go into effect until 87 years after the so-called Declaration of Independence, or July 4th. So either way, if you are brown, or even a white woman, there is absolutely no reason you should logically see July 4th as your day of freedom. And since the bourgeois forces who used slavery to industrialize and establish this empire continue to perpetuate that same system of oppression today, there is no reason to be duped into believing that these contradictions are a thing of the past. Without question, the same mechanisms of oppression still oil this system today. So, we see the bourgeois efforts to ramp up their propaganda as strong evidence that they recognize their time is running out. And if you don't accept that, you have to acknowledge that this uptick in aggressive street racism is the last ditch and desperate effort by sick and cowardly people to do everything they can to try and hold you back. Whether they know this consciously or not, their actions reflect their awareness that their time is coming because desperation is always the avenue traveled by those who believe they have no other alternatives. So, all your dumb@ss relatives, friends, co-workers, etc., who subscribe to this ideology, as long as you continue to cling to it, you won't have any other alternatives. And when we march towards victory, if you are still on that other side, we will gladly, and without pause, march right over your chest right along with the rest of the bourgeois scum.

So whatever you end up doing tomorrow. Whether you sit around with your people, BBQ, play music, try to convince yourself that what you are doing isn't advancing the imperialist agenda for the day in a subtle way. Remember what time it is. The masses of people on the planet are getting organized. Tired of allowing the few imperialist countries to control all of the world's resources, the masses are rising up. Use your down time tomorrow to think about how you can contribute to this process. And, talk to your children please. And stop being so lazy and tell them the truth. But to do that, you have to know the truth yourself. The U.S. is built and maintained through theft, murder, oppression, and the subjugation of the majority of people on the planet Earth. So, there is absolutely no way possible that you can be a person dedicated to justice and peace while considering yourself an American and a supporter of the Fourth of the lie. American identity equals white supremacy. There's no easier way to state it. There's no painless way to embody it. And while the masses of people march forward, there's no way to sit on the fence. You should definitely ponder this while eating that BBQ and lighting that firework tomorrow.

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