Don’t Be Fearful Of Witches, Werewolves, Warlocks, Serpents,
Goons, Gargoyles, Goblins & Devils…..
Brash
hatred of White people can be used by them to ensure that they & White
Supremacy are never defeated and fully overcome. In his hay day, Malcolm X said,
among many other things, that White People were Devils. Like most of you, I have many White friends.
They don’t seem like Devils to me. Some,
if not almost ALL the people of European descent I know are involved in the
progressive movement for human rights on some level. They have NOT let fear of
Goblins keep them frozen in inactivity. (We as Black people need to get
unfrozen also!!)We can let hatred of Whites get to us to a degree that we
become immobile, inactive, frustrated and eaten up by our own hatred of them.
White people are great for instilling and benefiting from such hatred in us. I
made a conscious decision to interact with & seek out the Whites who are at
least trying to assist Blacks and working against the oppression of Black people.
There are a few of them. I have also sought out people of every hue who have
similar ideas as I do and who do similar work as I do--through my own
involvement in promoting & advancing the progressive agenda. This is part
of my purpose in life itself. What is that progressive agenda? Working on
issues such as: an end to homelessness; full employment; good, affordable
health care for All Americans; no more wars—ever!! (and promoting peace through
the concept of criminalizing war and the Pentagon war machine!!); cleaner
streets; no crime; a vibrant living standard in our cities; Support programs
for our youth; much improved educational systems; an end to nepotism and
corruption; better housing for all; a cleaner environment; more political and
religious tolerance; and more real freedom, openness, fairness and justice in
the media, the corporate world and in government. I have worked on these issues and more than
30 years. My White friends are either
involved in Progressive Politics & supported Senator Obama for President,
or work hard for & even financially support the anti-war movement & or
the human rights movement in the U.S. and or South Africa and other parts of
the world. My White friends are Jewish,
Canadian, Irish, and, of course, have roots in other parts of Europe. I think a lot of Black people go through
unnecessary mental flips & rolls about how they feel about Whites. Either we hate them & never want to be
around them, or we love them and would go to the ends of the earth for
them—meanwhile hating or denying some deep part of our own identity as
Africans. Then there is the middle
ground where most of us live in the way we deal with White people. I fall in the Middle somewhere, but I have
drastically improved on the way I treat Whites and my mental well-being has
improved significantly also as I have learned how to co-exist with them and
even consider them as friends and political allies in some regards.
First,
let me say it is ok, any way you feel about Whites. I understand the hatred because the majority
of Whites in America have not & continue to NOT treat African Americans
with respect, grace & dignity. They
claim ignorance about what our Nation has done and continues to do on the
National and international scene & then they vote in people like Ronald
Reagan & George Bush Sr. & Jr.
These so-called Presidents have continually & consistently carried
the banner of White hegemony, White racism, White Supremacy and war. Many
Europeans always have a sorry-assed excuse for their racist, anti-people,
pro-profit, anti-worker views & policies.
They have carried the banner of the Status Quo, the Big Oil companies
(aren’t you tired of paying almost $3.oo a gallon for gas, I am), the
Pharmaceutical companies (I won’t even go into the cost of medicine), the
military ($250 Million Dollars a day for two wars), the Pentagon, Wall Street
profiteers, the gun lobby, the gaming industry & other profiteers in
America. I know full well that America
is a Capitalist Nation (that’s why slave holders were given reparations after
slavery and the slaves were NOT given their 40 archers and a mule), but there
are Whites who you as a Black person, can connect with, who are about other and
better things. I find it healthier to
have a diverse group of people as friends than just Black, Brown and Latin
people. Not just people of your own
racial make-up, sexual preference, or even political and or religious
background. I even have good friends who
are atheists, but I don’t think GOD is going to condemn me, look down upon me or
strike me with a lightening bolt because of this. I also have Muslim and
Buddhist friends. There is a seed of
good in ALL people. Whether that seed
takes root or not is often left up to us as individuals. Have you helped
another person see and grow his or her positive seed today? Or did you water
your own positive seeds of change today?
If you did, then GOD Bless YOU!!
I
attended the World Conference Against Racism in 2001. One of the main reasons I went was to deal
with my own personal concept of how I felt about Whites. (I also went to learn
more about racism and how to fight it.) I know, at the time, I harbored much
resentment & a great deal of anger about White people and how they vote,
profiteer, exploit, expand and protect ``their’’ borders, and act out in general. The fact that they voted in people like
George Bush Sr. who gave us the infamous Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court
Justice, and how they, in general, have a smug & uncaring attitude about
the poor & about issues that face Black people such as high crime, high
unemployment, & drug dependency is what fuels my resentment—some of which I
still have. As long as these problems
don’t hit home for Whites, they continue to vote Republican in large numbers,
go to work & raise their children to be racists, profit-seeking, self
motivated, lazy exploiters who take full advantage of their White skin for
every advantage they can get. Meanwhile
they deny us, as Black people, every thing they can at every opportunity they
have. No REPARATIONS, NO JOBS, NO DECENCY, NO HEALTH CARE, NO DAY CARE, NO
MONEY, NO HOUSING, NO OPPORTUNITY, NO BANK LOANS, NO JUSTICE AND NO PEACE—EVER,
CASE CLOSED!! Then, they want us to fight their wars. [Did you know that Black
WWII soldiers were not allowed to march victoriously into Paris, France after
WWII because they had Black skin? It’s
true!!] Not ALL white people, again, I’m talking about our Republican, Status
Quo, conservative, hateful, reactionary, racist ``friends.’’ I’m also talking
about the institutions they support and defend like the big banks and the
Pentagon, Wall Street and Madison Avenue (advertisers) and the producers of
many American films & TV programs and the decisions makers in Hollywood who
reject our images and put criminals and fools like Wendy Williams on TV instead
of intellectuals like Danny Glover and our beloved economist Claud Anderson.
(For example, look at who, in the Pennsylvania legislature, is stopping the gun
control legislation in Philadelphia—almost ALL White conservatives from outside
of Philadelphia.) They don’t even know what is going on in Philly nor do they
care. Not even when it is White cops who are being killed by well-armed
criminals!! The gun- toting,
Second-Amendment-Blasting conservatives just want to make sure guns can be sold
and distributed freely on the open market throughout America.( And guess who
sends these Conservative politicians
political campaign funds—the status quo, the gun distributors and the
gun makers among others!!) This speaks to the anger & so-called anti-Patriotism
that resounded in the strong voice of Pastor Jeremiah Wright of Chicago last
year and the voice of Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and many
others... It is raw, real and mean anger
but it is re-active and based on responding to REAL OPPRESSION. An oppression that is reflected in all the
statistics about hopelessness, homelessness, joblessness, crime & drug use
that we hear about on TV & read about in the newspapers every day...
I
learned when I was about 36 that I didn’t need to allow institutionalized
religion to scare me into giving them money so I could avoid Hell and damnation
when my time comes to meet our maker. I
am no longer scared of the Devil, Racists or Gargoyles. Europeans & institutions such as religion
drum up such scary images to manipulate the public into responding by loosening
their wallets & pouring funds into the church. (We need to question what
our churches are doing with all that money.
Are they building new buildings through White contractors or are they
providing needed programs& jobs for the community as economic times get
tougher?) Don’t let fear of Europeans
guide how you feel about them.
Basically, Black people the world over, love Europeans more than they
(Europeans) love themselves. Europeans, like
ALL people, must be judged by their own history &present actions. Don’t let
them redefine what they do and have done by reinterpreting and lying about
present facts and history. If Whites
blow the National election in November of next year (2010) by allowing
themselves to be manipulated by the Big Business media & their own
racism—we still have work to do as Black people. Lots of work!! Serpents and Goblins serve a purpose. They can make President Obama or Pastor
Wright or Farrakhan out to be a Serpent or a Goblin. The Republicans do it all
the time. (They did a superb job of it in 1988 when George Bush Sr. beat the
Democratic candidate (Michael Dukakis) over the head with Willie Horton (A
Black convicted killer who was released in Massachusetts , again, again and
again.) Don’t let that happen again!! It
is up to us to reach for the truth by doing the necessary research & not
being herded into an opinion because of racist media manipulation that faces us
each day as we change the dials. Hilary
Clinton was good at whipping up images & thoughts of evil and
ignorance. She will be ready on ``Day
One’’. Well, so is President
Obama!! He is Harvard educated, trained
on the streets through years of valuable community work, he served in the
Illinois legislature & as a U.S. Senator.
He can pick up the damned RED PHONE too!! We have to be ready for the attacks that the
Big White Goliath media continually puts across on us and never give up. We
have to question why our progressive, Black perspective is always in the
background, or never even put on stage. (They will talk with and about the
integrated NAACP but the real grass roots organizations such as N’COBRA and THE
Black Radical Congress rarely get Network media play). Why is that? There are thousands of grass
roots people who have worked hard for change, dedicated themselves to the
cause, worked through the system and who have real professional standards, good
ethics and wonderful community values. I don’t see them on TV!! I have seen
countless shows where ALL WHITE males (On CNN and other networks) sit around
and analyze the Democratic campaign. A campaign between a White woman and a
Black man. (During the Primary season.) Now, turn that on its head and tell me
if you would ever see a Black and female only news team talk about two White
Male candidates who oppose each other? I
don’t think that will ever happen!! We
have to have the courage to stand up and rise above being racist ourselves and
not let hatred get the best of us. Few
of us have any power to really discriminate against Whites on any level as they
do all the time. Our humanity is on our
genes. Don’t run away from being Black
& being yourself. And don’t get
eaten up by racial hatred, intolerance & indifference. Please read other articles on this web page.
(www.btganda.com) And don’t let the Devil pull your coat tail—he might not even
really exist. I don’t know about you,
but I can see clear through most Republicans. Goons, Goblins, Devils and all!!
Solution: Harsh words such as devil do more to divide people
than to build bridges of understanding and unity within or outside of races and
classes of people. Yes, I get angry also, but guess what? There are and always have been people of
other races who have helped us as Black people. I’m not saying we don’t call
out the ones like Rush and Anne Coulter when they continually act out as the
true racist they are and distort the picture, but let’s celebrate the legacy of
people like Ramsey Clark, John Brown and Noam Chomsky who dedicated their lives
to working towards true freedom and justice for ALL people…..
