On this 12 year commemoration of the physical transition of Kwame Ture, we are reminded of his immortal words: "organization decides everything!" Today, people all over the world are deciding that it's time to step out of the slave role. They are deciding to throw off the narrative that the capitalists came to power by way of hard work and strong work ethic. People are starting to understand better and better that hard work and work ethic have absolutely nothing to do with why the people in power who have money have those things today. The simplist math suggests that those who disagree remember that wealth as we know it today results through direct lineage from the tri-angular slave trade - which enslaved and murdered literally hundreds of millions of Africans - and the theft of the Western Hemisphere - which caused the same calamity for the Native peoples of this region. Since the immense wealth accumulated from those pirate activities of the European colonialists and capitalists was never shared with the people they pilfered it from, not to mention Africa or the original peoples of the Americas, then the only honest conclusion is that the people who have inherited wealth, have had opportunities to obtain wealth, and have continued to enjoy and participate in the trappings of wealth they amassed at people's suffering, are doing so at the expense of the majority of humanity.
So, if you understand that ill-refutable history, then you also realize that the argument that people who can't afford to pay mortgages and rent to banks, developers, and other pirates and pilferers, should not be entitled to decent housing is an argument even grade school children know is without legitimacy. Everyone deserves decent housing and there is clearly a growing movement of people who understand and are willing to fight for the fulfillment of this principle. So, they can send all the riot police that they want. At some point, those police have to acknowledge they are on the wrong side of justice and history, but even if they don't, that won't step the forward progress of this movement for peace, justice, and human development. No empty houses! No more evictions!
So, if you understand that ill-refutable history, then you also realize that the argument that people who can't afford to pay mortgages and rent to banks, developers, and other pirates and pilferers, should not be entitled to decent housing is an argument even grade school children know is without legitimacy. Everyone deserves decent housing and there is clearly a growing movement of people who understand and are willing to fight for the fulfillment of this principle. So, they can send all the riot police that they want. At some point, those police have to acknowledge they are on the wrong side of justice and history, but even if they don't, that won't step the forward progress of this movement for peace, justice, and human development. No empty houses! No more evictions!
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