What is Winning
By Tracy Charles Gibson
Winning. Wall Street, the business establishment, the
conservative politicians and Madison Avenue tell us winning is when they get
all our money, along with the major banks, and the other and established institutions.
To them this is winning. This, in my estimation, is not winning because
thousands of people, especially Black people – except the very wealthy among
us--, are left with very little. Native Americans, Latin people and white poor
people as well as other ethnic groups are still left with not quite enough when
Wall Street and the established order wins and gets what they want. (This needs
to change for the better and is changing for the better, but not fast enough
for people who are still in great need). So their winning, the established
order’s winning, is not winning for the
majority of people on our precious earth.
** Winning is when there is a world system in a state of
success and is permanently established that allows everybody on the planet to
have a fair chance and actually achieve having a good and stable living
condition and serious money in the bank for themselves. But People have to be
serious about this and not spend such money on illegal drugs, fancy cars and
other such ``dream state’’ items. We must invest in positive and good futures,
pay our bills and establish businesses that will and can effectively give back
to the Black community. We must have
enough clothes to wear; enough food to eat – healthy good food; enough money in
the bank to more than survive, but also money to invest properly; and enough
money to care for children properly and get families properly educated. We also
need money to buy property and land to be developed for the best of our
interests.
** We must also take time to be silly and have fun when we
want, but not go overboard. This is winning.
** Another thing that exemplifies winning for Black people
is when we respect each other, trust each other and know we are looking out for
each other’s best interests. We have to stop acting like ``crabs in a basket’’
and support each other’s successes, while consoling each other and helping each
other in times of need or loss. None of
us should be starving or having to do without when we live in a country that
has so much. I saw a line to get some new video or video game the other day. It
was a long line of Black people. There are not such long lines to get into our
churches, even churches such as Mother Bethal, Unity Fellowship Christ Church
of Philadelphia, Zion Baptist Church and White Rock Baptist Church or Bright
Hope Baptist church. These churches are developing and implementing plans to
make things correct and better for a mostly Black community or=f worshipers (I
should point ot that worshipers of all color are welcomed at these churches).
But we have to make sure we have respect for these churches and other Black
churches by asking them and their Pastors to do the best for their parishioners
and congregations. We must help our other institutions such as museums, Black
colleges and Black universities, ande Black Banks and so forth do the right and
correct things by remaining vigilant and putting adequate pressure on them to
do their best to represent Black people in a fair, upstanding and positive Way.
Don’t accept their letting us down consistently and selling us out to Black or
White politicians or giving our land away or not being responsive when we as
Black people need them. This is
winning. Respecting ourselves and our children. Respecting our Black
institutions and expecting and advocating for them to be responsive to Black
community needs. And loving each other in respected, appropriate, constructive
and good and kind ways. Not being distrustful or being repugnant or, God
forbid, being violent towards each other. This is winning for us as Black
People. This is a large part of our
winning as Black people and I think part of achieving this is to go to Back
stores and buy from them and stop supporting everybody else so much. We need to
help our Black stores and our Black activists like myself and the other many
good and positive black activists who are out here to make a difference for our
Black community. This is winning.
** But it has to be more than that. It has to allow the
people to actually own at least a part, and by that I mean at least 75 % of the
means of production so they will never be end run into poverty and suffer great
losses again as many poor and people of color have in the recent past and even
back in the 1930’s after the great depression. Now that, in my humble
estimation, is winning.
** Such a system cannot be and must not be subject to any
formation of corruption, undue influences, money influences, and influences of
people with great wealth and power such as the Rockefellers, the Gates family, the
Kennedy’s, the Mellons and or any other family with great power or
wealth. And that includes even people like Tyler Perry or Oprah, who might mean
well, but when all is said and done, are really taking care f their investors
and their own interests, who are often white and not concerned about the
constructive survival of Black people, nor want to see, necessarily, that Black
people flourish.
** I am not sure how such a system is put into place
internationally, but this is what needs to happen. I say this so such wealthy
and rich people cannot manipulate outcomes of elections and have other
bellicose and undue influences over our lives and pull all the puppet strings,
as it were, and control poor people and the so-called little people with
reckless impunity and reckless disregard for human life and human decency.
** Ultimately, we must also have peace and a deep
understanding between countries on this planet big and small. The large
countries like the security council in the United Nations – Russia, The United
States & China – they have too much veto power and need to be taken out of
these roles and a vote one nation one vote needs to ensue to help bring on this
fairness doctrine and international fairness process I’m talking about.
** When we can all get educated; all get good stable homes;
all get access to good health care; all have a clean and stable environment –
clean water and clean air—and not have such used as a political weapon; all
begin to respect, understand and accept cultures other than the one we were
born into – this is when I will feel happy and feel such world decency, world
humanity, world peace and world equality is in place.
** There are rich people who want to see such a system of
decency arise. Most rich people feel it is their job, such as the Bunker Hunt
Brothers, and many others I could name – most rich people feel it is their job
to keep the means of production in their hands, the hands of the wealthy few, and keep running rough shod
over the people. This is inherently unfair and is part of the reason people
like me work so hard every day to bring about fairness, justice and equality.
We want to see equality, decency and fairness all over the world in an
unstoppable mode and through an unstoppable process that brings on this very
same world fairness, world decency, world peace and an end to poverty, an end
to racism, an end to sexism, an end to inequality and an end to discrimination
towards people of color and people who have a different life style or sexual
orientation. It may well take years for
such a process to happen and be completed.
And there is always pushback from the other political side as soon as
something good, progressive and constructive is achieved. It is important to
not only push back the push back, but have your evidence in hand, do your
research and have dramatic examples of your suffering in hand to utilize for
the enactment of even more dramatic legislation to help your side as a liberals,
progressive, or even as a liberation-minded Black or other such person. This is
why it is good to understand the other side, other people sometimes decide our
own fate, but not if we are ever vigilant and watchful. We can utilize culture,
& the arts to help heal minds and change attitudes. It will happen, I think,
because GOD has such a world in mind and bends all of us towards that end.
** Such a world has no place for people who hate on the
basis of color, race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation. I don’t care how
many Bibles you throw up against people, you do not have a right to
discriminate against people and maintain White economic domination, White
hegemony, and White supremacy over the world because doing so doesn’t allow
everyone to breath properly and flex their own economic muscles and become
whole people and live decent lives with the freedom and justice we have all so
envisioned.
** Some people think they can manipulate such a good and
wonderful world from coming into being with their money, or just a key stroke
or a bill in Congress or through business practices and business policies. It is GOD who has a final say. And it is the
people, especially the less fortunate, the poor and the disenfranchised through
which the GOD I know and understand speaks and acts. But GOD has other powers I
know not of and He or She uses them at His or Her will as well. She o r He will
have the final say and I always Pray our beautiful earth doesn’t have to be
destroyed for this new world to come about and be brought into being and
existence. I PRAY about this every day, consistently.
** There are several organizations such as ISIS to the
Central Intelligence Agency that are bent on stopping the people from really
ruling and having true freedom and decency and justice. Black people,
especially many of us living in the United States, but elsewhere as well, these
are my people and many of them are bent on creating this new world and think
voting will create it. It will not and most probably cannot be created by
voting alone. And certainly not by voting a straight democratic ticket for a
prefabricated, established machine politician such as Hilery Clinton. White
people think Donald Trump is the solution. (I think he is the solution for more
white supremacy and whites tuning business and our institutions into racist
institutions and businesses. Everyone says they don’t want this, but then some
people vote for people like Mr. Trump. He is a racist and a klan member and must be
exposed as such and as such is disqualified as a possible voting choice by all
decent, caring, kind and thinking people). If I vote, and I probably won’t, I would vote
for Bernie Sanders who offers a big hunk of this new world I have envisioned
here and written about here. (His stand on income fairness alone is more than
plausible and doable. If we don’t do these things, we may be in store for a
serious revolution that may be very bloody. I want peace and I know you do
to.). But we must do far more than vote to win such a world as I have talked
and written about here. We must write, cajole, donate to progressive causes,
get informed, educate ourselves, donate to people who have the proper vision,
expose wrong-doing, expose indecency, but do so not in a judgmental way but
through a strong belief, I feel in GOD and with the best thoughts of our
country and our people – Black people—and the best thought of our world in our
mind & in our hearts. I want more of
us to be social activists like Jesus, Martin, Coretta, Rosa, Malcolm, Nelson
& Winnie Mandela, Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, writer activist
Lynn Washington, myself – Brother Tracy Gibson--and Medgar Evers were. That is
not everyone’s cup of tea, but I can tell you unless you have a certain level
of consciousness, you are setting yourself up and your people up for more years
of the same ole system of wealthy run exploitation, white domination and white
supremacy – a system that must be made illegal and replaced with one that is
fair, open, kind, loving, filled with equality and filled with justice & decency.
** I’m sure you have your own views. These are mine and I
know for a fact that many people, especially many Black progressive-thinking
people agree with much of what I’m talking about and writing about.
** That is how we all win. We must all lift our neighbor’s
boats and our own boats and keep the warm acceptance of GOD in our hearts and
in our minds. We must become more awake-
minded, aware and conscious and stop allowing ourselves to be run over economically
and stand up and take pride in ourselves and create a more loving and decent
world society. Otherwise we are all doomed because GOD can destroy our earth if He or She so
pleases. I don’t want to see that because I look at the children and I think
they deserve time on this planet just as we have had. They deserve time to have
their own input to make this world a better place just as we had time and are
having time to make this happen. So
peace be with you and don’t forget our children and send messages of Peace on May
Day instead of support the showing of war toys and prevent increases in war
budgets by supporting a letter I wrote or doing something else peaceful and
LOVing on May 1, 2016. Write me and I’ll tell you how.
**Brother Tracy Gibson,
President, Founder, Chief Executive Officer of
Brother Tracy Gibson & Associates, Incorporated
Post Office Box 42878
Philadelphia, Pa 19101 – 2878
1 (215) 823 9985
