Submitted by Terence Blackett
It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. – Samuel Adams
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – murdered Civil Rights leader and social justice modernist prophet in one of his memoirs, “STRENGTH TO LOVE” under the subheading – “The Answer To a Perplexing Question”, p.128 states:
“The first calls upon man to remove evil through his own power and ingenuity in the strange conviction that by thinking, inventing, and governing, he will at last conquer the nagging forces of evil. Give people a fair chance and a decent education, and they will save themselves. This idea, sweeping across the modern world like a plaque, has ushered out God and escorted in man and has substituted human ingenuity for divine guidance…”
Dr. King’s argument, though cited 46 years ago emerge in a prophetic window, painting an ominous picture of the cult of inevitable regression hanging around the necks of Black folks like the Albatross in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The history of ‘The ‘Middle Passage’ of the 1600’s bear a malevolent inconvenient similarity to a ship manned by dead-men, inimical to a version of “Pirates of the Caribbean”, while bearing a stark resemblance to that frightening poem by Coleridge where the souls of the dead sail perpetually through the mist of primordiality to some unknown destination.
King believes that “some people suggest that this concept was introduced during the Renaissance when reason dethroned religion – later when Darwin’s Origin of Species replaced belief in ‘Creation’ by the ‘theory of evolution’, or when the ‘Industrial Revolution’ turned the hearts of men to material comforts and physical conveniences. At any rate, the idea of the adequacy of man to solve the evils of history captured the minds of people, giving rise to the easy optimism of the 19th century, the doctrine of inevitable progress, Rousseau’s maxim of ‘the original goodness of human nature’, and Condorcet’s conviction that by reason alone the whole world would soon be cleansed by crime, poverty and war”.
Evil men through conspiratorial stichomythia have subpoenaed moral reason to appear before the judgement seat of the ‘gods’ of money, wealth-creation, immoral greed, celebrity worship and wanton excesses.
Secular humanists affirm that “the future is not with the churches but with scientific technology, not with the prophets but with scientists, not with piety but with quantum efficiency. Man has at last become aware that he alone is responsible for the realization and actualization of the world of his dreams that he has within himself the power of its achievement.”
Unfortunately, Black folks have bought into these insidious lies!
More than any group on earth, Blacks have known what it means to be stripped down to a skeletal mass. Our foreparents ousted from their homeland; erasing their psychic identity; pillaging their resources; debarring their family and cultural lenience and creating a hybridization species of subhuman that after 400 years still struggles to find meaning and purposed for their earthly existence.
The symptomology has resulted in our youth gangbanging; the prisons overflow with our males disproportionately; schools are failing our youngest potential leaders of the future; teenage pregnancy; drug addiction and personality collapse; poverty & underachievement; religious polarization and systemic brainwashing; the Black hip-hop subculture creating a parallel “underverse” of celebrity worship, the glorification of violence, the objectification of the female body with the ultimate repercussions of death and mayhem ensuing. Now some commentators argue that “Blackness is an endangered specie”.
Controversial Black leader Minister Louis Farrakhan recently answered an article by powerful multi-millionaire HIP-HOP mogul Russell Simmons over the Jewish control of Black wealth slavery and how the pernicious effects of this form of postmodern slavery is an epiphenomenon on late 20th century capitalism mired in the antebellum past of racists slavery, chattel labor and the evil exploitation of human beings as property and ownership.
In this blog is found an insightful explanation on how the Jews have cornered the music business market creating a proverbial tower of Babel scenario where the masses are subliminally influenced through the skilful manufacturing and marketing of music and where the record companies are the ultimate purveyors and winners at the top.
The subsequent fallout within the Black community due our mis-education is a tangle-web of social psychoses precipitated by misogyny and violence dubbed to the spurious lyrics of rap-music and “booty-shaking totties” as a form of emotional and psychic exploitation sanctioned in the minds of our youth as an acceptable and creative artistic artform – resulting in self hate and the internalization of static values.
Self-hate amongst us remains pervasive. Get a dozen or so Blacks intellectuals in a room and it is argued that there will be no agreed consensus between them but rather fractured relationships due to egotistical machismo and self-centeredness.
But where has this mis-education emerged from? Is it possible that Black self-hatred is mired in a form of psycho-social manipulation by the mass media and certain social elites designed to undermine the pathology of our people?
Author and academic Franklin G. Jones in his groundbreaking book – THE BLACK MATRIX: The Modern Mental and Social Suppression of African Americans Under National Interest, (2008 revised) believes so and argues that “media psychosocial program perpetuates a depiction of Black people that expresses a profoundly distorted view that elevates what is wrong with Black America above all that we know is right with Black America. Its portrayal of Black America is one that ignores all facts that conflict with the racist conceptions of the white elites and sees the endemic problems of Black America as rooted primarily with Blacks themselves, instead of emanating from white racism. This program revises the past to conveniently make whites appear less inhumane throughout America’s brutal racist history; and despite a brutal history to the contrary – fraudulently depicts whites as being the standard of ethics and morale values while portraying Blacks as being all that’s wrong with America. It also facilitates a national consensual environment of where in which Blacks cries for equality are lesser heard and their mistreatment appears more justified.”
Jones believes that “although this media psychosocial program is less blatant than those earlier racist systems used in the past against Blacks, its affects are very real and detrimentally so. In fact this method is by far the most proficient system ever deployed against America’s Black population.”
This conspiratorial ploy has since had global ramifications throughout the Black Diaspora affecting Black men and women everywhere – impacting on all our lives.
Jones further opines that “this Black mortifying psychosocial program is deployed with both subtlety and thoroughness in its management of the news that is presented to its Black population. Furthermore, it is not distant and impersonal; it reaches into the homes of every African American, working its will during nearly every waking hour. It is the power that shapes and molds the mind and perceptions of virtually every Black citizen, young or old, rich or poor, simple or sophisticated, unknown or famous. For some of its Black victims it can be so detrimental to their psyche that it may even cause them to feel that there is something not quite right about their Black humanity.”
Conclusion
So how can change be engineered given that conditions have travelled so far down this crooked historical road? Anthony A. Samad – author of “50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality In America” (Kabili Press, 2005) provides some great insights into the challenges which face Blacks in the Americas and throughout the Diaspora. Samad pulls no punches in reminding us that “Blacks are more divided now than at any point in their history. There are more strands of religious beliefs (non-denominationalism being the fastest growing of organized religion), the point being that Blacks can’t agree on the best way to reach God, much less serve God. African American political beliefs are just as twisted. Blacks are still in the pockets of the Democratic Party, and are getting literally nothing (beyond individual concessions) in return, while its becoming more and more obvious that Blacks don’t even believe what democrats say they believe anymore (partly, because the Democratic Party doesn’t know what it believes). Blacks are more socially conservative than they’ve ever been, splitting on abortion, same sex marriage, and even the death penalty (as we found out around the Tookie Williams issue).”
His conviction is that “talking religion and politics are the quickest way to start war…The Black community has long been at war with itself, largely over its shifting beliefs and its shifting politics. Shifting beliefs include the shift away from the traditional family unit (the new ‘traditional’ Black family is now a single parent or a mixed family, couple with children from prior relationships), and shifts away from the traditional male-female relationship (same sex and bi-sexual relationships representing the biggest shift in African American sexual politics since the master-slave sexual politics of slavery). This further convolutes what African Americans say they “believe.” The shifting politics are centered egalitarian pursuits of equality that, in essence, force Blacks to accept race-neutrality in order to achieve some semblance of equality, by assimilating America’s cultural beliefs, partaking in “American dream” material benefits,” namely work (job), wealth (land/home) and culturalization (Euro-scholarship). The wealth and education divide among African Americans is greater than it’s ever been-since slavery. Blacks who are doing well, are doing real well, and Blacks that are not have become a part of that self-fulfilling prophesy called “the permanent underclass.” Much of the “Black on Black” conflict that we see in Black communities nationwide is class conflict, the have-nots attacking the haves, or the ‘wanna’-haves (those who have the desire and ambition to leave their deprivation behind). This creates frustration on both sides, not exactly conducive to unity.”
Samad reflects Farrakhan’s position where he believes that “there’s the agendas that work against Black unity – profiteering (pursuit of fortune), notoriety (desire to be famous), and self-hatred (anti-Black sentiments within the race). Those who put money before unity (whether it’s at the street level [gangs/drugs] or so-called businessmen “getting theirs”) will not put their economic interest at risk for collective interest and thus, will limit their involvement to tokenism. Those who want to be famous will do anything (and say anything) to be famous, thus neutralizing themselves in the unity movement. You can’t say you’re for Black unity or Black dignity while degrading the race in music and film, or saying what the white man can’t say (the rise of the Black conservative) to undermine Black equality. Then there are those who, no matter what you do, will not trust Blacks enough to pursue an interest agenda. You have rich Blacks distrust of poor Blacks (and vice versa), educated Blacks that devalue uneducated Blacks (and vice versa), nationalist Blacks distrusting integrationist Blacks (an argument that goes back 100 years to the DuBois-Washington conflict), then throw in religion, politics, lifestyles, and you have what we have in the Black community today, a total, directionless, mess.” What a state of affairs!
Surely, is time for a modern-day MOSES* to arise and lead a loss generation away from the shackles of structural and in many ways, self-inflicted slavery…
May God help us!
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