For Whom Does The Bell Toll? For Them or US?

My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.  Hosea 4:6

You know, each and every single day, as I watch the news, it becomes like a box of chocolates: you just never know what you’re gonna get.

White racism has made it’s return, or should I say…it’s been swept from under the carpet in full view of the world.

Black men all over America have become the targets of stone-racist white cops, and being tried in a system of white jurors, high on white privilege and Adrenalin, as they are given legal nooses to hang some Niggers by proxy; carrying out subliminal lynchings, just so “they don’t have to fear for their lives“, as they smile while handing the judge that white piece of paper with a GUILTY verdict written in red.

This the reality in light of having a Black president.

An irony or oxymoron?

You know, I swear…every time I look at the next situation that causes our community to react, I think of the many conversations about race that I initiated on my old Alma-mater, Blackvoices over 15 years ago. Back then, people didn’t want to discuss racism. It was all about the bling-bling, celebrity news, superficial nonsense, Black intellect had died–ignorance was on fire in many of those forums. Nobody wanted to discuss the hatred that was still being inflicted on Black people socially, on the job, and subliminally. Remember Multiculturalism?  It was being marketed all over the place. Everybody started calling themselves, “mixed or biracial.” Interracial marriage became the new Black. The census allowed this in 2000 for the first time in its history but no one asked why. The Big why was that in 1996, the white population reached Negative birthrate. In the year 2000, Hispanics became the largest minority, surpassing Black people.   And the white media played this up. Why? No one saw the sinister intent behind all of this: To create division in the Black community by creating the illusion of inclusion and making Negroes believe that racism didn’t happen anymore.  This covered the true reality of a declining white population; and infusing the original people of this earth to participate in the boosting their numbers, albeit, theoretically.  We were now all the same.

It almost worked.

The art of war is deception; and our enemy has mastered Military Science.

There were so many issues that many tried to infuse into the daily discussions on the new racism but everyone was asleep.  Those like myself, who never slept on the Oppressor, were called The Soul Patrol.

It was well known that whites were planted on those websites–even paid to disrupt conversation of serious topics. Many would actually report certain people on those websites for their comments, causing many to be censored or banned.

Anytime a white person tries to befriend a Black person; it’s not because they like you, they are trying to uncover your thoughts and actions and have a proper counter.

Many Black people got their degrees, nice cars, SUV’s, stock options, and told the Black community and Black issues to kiss their black ass.  They took pride in being middle-class; uppity and proud, turning their nose up at their people–and having the nerve to crack ghetto jokes.  Then, in 2008, the economic structure was threatened, those same Negroes got laid off; and as karma would have it, those ghetto Negroes honked at you while you were standing in the unemployment line.

Frankly, some Black people allowed themselves to get played.

People in high places care about what Black people think. The prevailing fear is that we can destroy everything built by White Supremacy if we actually start  and organizing. Since the days of Cointelpro, our government is on high alert of this happening.

And then, Trayvon Martin got killed–and everyone finally woke up!

Many deaths later, the intensity has built up and everyone now wants to march and protest this and that. The signs were there but you chose to ignore the warnings.

My question to you today, all of these years later: Why didn’t you heed the warnings of the messengers before all of this happened?

Now Hispanics Want To Form Coalitions With Blacks?

While watching the Arsenio Hall show last week, comedian guest, George Lopez suggested that Blacks and browns form a coalition.  I sat there listening to his reasons: making babies (albeit the hair issues) for one.  And logically, that’s not really news.  This has been happening for a long time, however, things that make you go hhhmmmm…as Arsenio used to say.

Blacks and Browns forming a coalition.  Really?

Even George Lopez admitted that once upon a time that wasn’t even a logical possibility, but at the same time; Black people don’t need Hispanics.  What we’ve accomplished as a group in large part has been without their help–we owe them nothing; thus, why would they now be interested in forming a coalition with us?

Did you know that in 1963, some Hispanic Civil Rights organizations at first wanted to publicly denounce the Civil Rights march?  But after seeing the mass of Black people move in on the Lincoln Memorial; they learned a valuable lesson about political force.

Politically, most Hispanics are Republican.  Second; culturally, we have a lot of differences. We don’t have the same issues and concerns.  Our agendas are very different.  Blacks have worked very hard to establish equal rights in this country.  We took it to a head during the Civil Rights movement.  Where were they?  However, immigrants enjoy the benefits of our struggle but didn’t pay the price.

There is also a perception problem.  Many Black people perceive that Hispanics have lost favor with whites and this new interest in forming a coalition with us logically is related to them seeing us somehow becoming their buffer in their immigration struggle.  They are no longer the “chosen minority” and are afraid.

Do they think we’re naive enough to believe that we don’t see through this?

Whatever the case, I’m not easily conned.

I’m giving this the side-eye because frankly, a snake will always shed it’s skin, but its nature will never change.

What becomes of this is a BIG QUESTION.

We’ll see….