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The Bushes/Obamas & Our Dysfunctional Lack of Memory

12/2/2018

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Now that George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the U.S., has died we will be faced with a barrage of propaganda designed to paint him as some sort of servant of the people of the U.S.  There will of course be a state funeral that we will be forced to be subjected to, whether we want to or not.  And, when that funeral happens, the Obama's will undoubtedly be there, hugging and cuddling with the Bush family.  This is the nature of U.S. imperialist politics.  People who are elected act like each other's enemies when its politically expedient to do so, but the reality is that all of them represent the same class interests e.g. upholding capitalism.  Or, at least, none of them have the same class interests that you have.  So, don't act surprised when the Michelle and Barack Obama are tongue kissing the Trump family when that old dishrag who is the current president finally keels over.  

My shock isn't with the Obamas.  I'm not confused about the undeniable reality that they are an entrenched part of the international bourgeoisie.  In other words, they have more in common with the super elites who maintain and perpetuate oppression against the masses of people on the planet than they have with me or any of the masses of people on earth.  What I marvel at is how easily so many people are so quick to forget who these people are and what they have done against humanity?  And African people are the absolute worst.  We have been been so brain-dirtied by the imperialist version of religion.  We are so indoctrinated from the last several hundred years that we have permitted this dysfunctional religious teaching to convince us that the only way we can get into heaven is to forget and forgive our oppressors.  What a wonderful scam for those who keep us downtrodden.  

So many otherwise well meaning African folks are spending this time giving condolences to the Bush family for the loss of that old oppressor.  Its as if we don't remember that he was the guy who got elected by appealing to the worst and most primitive racist beliefs of Europeans in the U.S. with his "Willie Horton" ad campaign in 1988.  So many of us have pictures of Nelson Mandela in our houses, yet we apparently forgot that George Bush senior was a Central Intelligence Agency official in 1962 who played a role in helping the apartheid government in Azania (South Africa) locate and imprison Mandela for 27 years.   We conveniently disregard the fact that Bush Sr. was a key player in continuing the strategy of permitting crack cocaine to infest inner city communities as a way of controlling those communities and stalling any potential grassroots organizing efforts against our systemic oppression.  We don't recall that Bush Sr. led the campaign to assist the racist apartheid regime in making all of Southern Africa apartheid in the late 80s.  We evidently missed the reminder that Bush was also a key player in the mass incarceration plot against our people as well as the architect of the "new world order" strategy which subjugated the masses of people on earth to U.S. imperialism through illegal invasions of - everywhere from Panama, Libya (two countries of African people) to Iraq, etc.  

Its as if we are the bullied person on the playground who thinks the only way we can function is by responding to the brutality against us by showering our bully with love and respect.  This is the example we demonstrate for our youth?  That those people who reap oppression and brutality against us need to be memorialized by us?  That is absolutely sick and a complete slap in the face to all those who fought and sacrificed so much for our dignity to remain in place.  But, that's actually the problem here isn't it?  The people today who reap all of the benefits of that struggle didn't have to suffer all of those sacrifices to achieve our current comfort level.  So, to many of us misguided souls today, these people who manage this empire are to be respected because at least we have been able to live as comfortable slaves with no agency in our lives.  That may be enough for some people, but that will never be enough for most of us.  George Bush 41 and 43 are enemies to African people and all of humanity.  The evidence is infinite.  Barack and Michelle Obama may give some misdirected persons some sense of pride at seeing capitalism in blackface, but both of them are agents of imperialism and I can suggest many other much better suited role models for you to demonstrate for your children.  How about Malcolm and Betty Shabazz?  Sekou and Madame Ture?  Marcus and Amy 1 and/or Amy II Garvey?  But, I know those couples won't do for some folks because the real objective these folks are searching for is acceptance within the very system that oppresses the masses of our people.  So, for these people, having bourgeoisie role models who represent the system (of oppression) is the only viable gauge for progress.  This is again a severe slap against our dignity as a people.  

Kwame Ture was accurate when he said poor and powerless people cannot belong to the same political party as rich and powerful people because these poor people don't have the same interests as the rich people.  And, they have no way to enforce their interests within that political party against the rich people.  In other words Africans, you aren't in the same political sphere as the Bush or Obama families.  These people don't even see you in their vision for this country.  You don't register with them.  And, you look pitiful offering condolences for the people who worked overtime to keep your communities oppressed.  We realize that truth and justice are completely divorced from material reality in today's capitalist world, but the role of justice seekers is to expose that contradiction at every turn.  

We mourn Bush Sr. as much as he mourned the millions upon millions of people around the world he helped murder and oppress.  The millions of LGBTQ people he cut services against during the height of the AIDs epidemic (many of which who were African).  The masses of incarcerated Africans in prison from the drug trade industry.  This man was an international criminal and Obama is one just as well.  And their wives equally so.  It was Barbara Bush you remember who said that Africans who were forced to evacuate New Orleans after her son cruelly elected to ignore their suffering after the flood of Katrina, had never had it as good as they had it in the survival camps.  And Michelle Obama?  She'll be kissing and hugging all of those devils in the next couple of days just like she'll be slobbering over the Trumps when that old basticle's days end.  Actually, if that old basticle attends this funeral she'll probably be doing it right now because whether people want to acknowledge it or not, that's who these people are.  Its who they always were.  And, its who they will always be.  Bush Sr. was the ultimate domestic and international abuser.  Hell is too good place for him, his family, and the Obamas.  But, don't let that little fact stop some of you from your fictional pursuit of fake forward progress at this expense of our hard fought dignity.

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Nephi Davis
5/22/2022 08:42:07 am

It's a pyramid scheme, and we the people can not access it as long as we see each other as our enemies. They don't why do we? Martin Luther King said it best we die together as fools when we don't live together as brothers.

It's true and exactly what we are doing.

There are married couples fighting with their spouses (you don't understand my struggle or our children's) you're a family, you struggle together.

Most of us are related to each other, yes slavery was terrible, the legacy of Jim Crow is still with us and will always be until we the people learn to overcome.

We learn to listen to eachother most of us have the same needs, we want affordable energy and food.

We want good infrastructure, we want jobs that pay and don't work you to death in a new kind of slavery that effects everyone no matter what color they are. As long as you see someone else as the other they will be your other. We need eachother, and yes black lives do matter. 13% of the population does not commit 70% of the crimes. Most white people don't think about that or understand that they don't understand that if you want a better job where you're not working 12-hour days seven days a week (yes that's common in 'right to work states) Mississippi is the best example of that division hurting everyone it's nearly 50/50 do we see each other as people and work together no we do not. And what happens every single election. What is this state like.

It's time to end this and end this together.

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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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