Novocaine
We have been pacified by our own leaders! Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Minister Louis Farrakhan, and all others have deployed methods that don't work. That make us feel like we're doing something but really we're doing nothing. In 1960 they wouldn't let our people fill out the paperwork to vote but now they let us fill it out but don't recognize it. Just ask the citizens of Miami-Dade county and surrounding counties in Florida. Also ask all of the political prisoners where petition after petition is passed around signed and nothing comes of it. These seem to all be just ploys, placebo's, that make us feel like were doing something when in all actuality were not doing anything....... exept making people aware of the injustices. Which is a good thing, but when is that awareness going to turn into some action? Most people just let it go in one ear and out the other. We have to find new and better ways of getting what we have a right to have, freedom. Once we realize that it's not a privaledge but a right that we have our freedom. I don't think there is anything we wouldn't do to obtain it. Since we've never been free it's pretty hard to compose that thought.
Malcolm is the man. He was too intelligent, I believe that if he were taught in schools as much as MLK is currently that our people would have a totally different mindset and things wouldn't be the same as they are today.
"Just as the slave master in that day [slavery] used [Uncle] Tom the house negro, to keep the field negros in check. The same old slave master today has negros who are nothing but modern Uncle Toms 20th century Uncle Toms. To keep you and me in check, keep us under control, keep us passive and peaceful and non-violent. That's Tom making you non-violent. It's like when you go to the dentist and the man is gonna take your tooth you're gonna fight him when he starts pulling. So they squirt some stuff in your jaw called novocaine to make you think they're not doing anything to you. So you sit there and because you got all that novocaine in your jaw you suffer peacefully. Blood running all down your jaw and you dont know whats happening because someone has taught you to suffer peacefully. The white man do the same thing to you in the street. When he wants to put knots on your head and take advantage of you and don't have to be afraid of you fighting back. To keep you from fighting back he gets these old religious Uncle Toms to teach you me, theyre just like novocaine, suffer peacefully, don't stop suffering just suffer peacefully." - Malcolm X speech; House Negro vs. Field NegroWe need to adobt new methods. While our leaders believe that they're helping us they could actually be hindering us, pacifying us, sedating us. I'm not advocating any overt action but I am a strong proponent for another way of obtaining our freedom. We can't keep protesting and marching against the same shit that we have been marching and protesting against since the civil rights movement. It seems that we like to suffer, we like to be punished. The Jena Six should be an eye opener. Those kids did what was right, they didn't stand there and let those white kids continually abuse them they didn't overcome the white kid's hate with their capacity to love. They spoke the language that those white kids understood. We should only be peaceful with people who are peaceful with us, and if we follow all the rules, uphold, all their laws and six young black men still can't get equal justice then maybe we shouldn't be allowing this system to govern us.
We don't get equal treatment so why do we continue to try and employ a system that wasn't meant for us? It continually shows us that by the unequal representation of blacks in the justice system. They couldn't even omit the 3/5th's compromise from the constitution because of respect for the founding fathers. Founding fathers who were all racists and slave owners. You ever heard of original intent? Well employ that thinking whenever you think about blacks in the justice system and you'll know why we can't and won't ever get equal justice in this system.
Our leaders are using this system to try and change it. This system was never meant to include us, so trying to change it is like trying to change the channel on a TV with a Sony remote when your TV is a Panasonic.
We have to start fighting for ourselves and thinking for ourselves. We have to have a grassroots movement, start locally, and grow exponentially toward global African unity. Until we've united all the Africans in these United States, the Carribean, Brazil, all over Central and South America, and the motherland Africa.
Divided we've fallen, but there's nothing to stop us from rising like the great kingdoms of our glorious past except ourselves. We're the only ones to blame. We can have whatever we want, we just have to take it.
“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.” - James Baldwin
Those leaders aren't doing anything. They are there just to keep us quiet. (Barack included) They are there so that we feel at peace when something goes wrong we can just call up uncle Al to speak for us. It's a tactic. The same way they allowed Jay-Z, Oprah and Diddy to have some money to give niggas false hope. White supremacists want this system to last forever!
ReplyDeleteI want my kids to be free TYREE!
And we DON'T listen to each other. Everytime I want to talk to niggas about some change they call me crazy and laugh. Niggas don't have the time or energy to be free. Niggas is worrying to much about street credit and how hood they are and trying to prove themselves to each other. We are hella concerned with ourselves. Thats all we do is look at each other all damn day. Lookin at each others shoes, comparing cars, comparing grades, penis size, all that shit. We need to direct that focus to these white people who are taking all our money and laughing at us.
White people are so happy. Have you ever looked at how happy they are? They are not worried about shit. But they should be. Once we get out team together.
I love you bruh.
Tyree, I just came across your blog and I totally agree with you. In my opinion, racism is a business! Yes, sadly to say, it is a business and that’s how Sharpton, Jackson, etc gets paid. As black people we need to stick together, but we all know that will never happen……Why……black people don’t like to see other black people doing better than them. I grew up poor, but I never compared myself to others that had more. I just knew I had to work harder to achieve the dreams and the goals I had in life. Also, there was no justice in the whole Jena 6 ordeal; however, the major problem with black people is communication among parents and their children….bottom line. When those nooses were hung, the students should have went home and told their parents….the parents shouldn’t have found out about a few days later. I graduated for a university about an hour away from Jena, La and yes I have plenty of racist stories that I can share.
ReplyDeleteOne of my biggest problems is black people really don’t know the meaning of racist. Yeah, all they know is “he/she is white and we are black”; I am so tired of that. Yeah racism is raced-based and includes such things as prejudice, violence, oppression, stereotyping, or discrimination; however, what do we call as this black on black foolishness, because all those things listed above happens 24/7 among the black race. We are so quick to defend something when it is white against black but we don’t do shit when it black against black (6 black teens badly beaten one black teen @ Six Flags in Ga.
Lastly, think about this, for the Jena 6 ordeal; if it was 6 white students that had beaten up on one black student, we would have still been protesting to put those white students behind bars (when in reality we are trying to get those 6 students off); therefore, do black people contradict themselves?
Tyree, there are many young wonderful and intelligent people like you around the U.S. that wants change for the black community—we just all need to find a way to all connect and take a stand---I think its time the younger generation to take control (LOL) and see how it turns out.
Yeah I sort of get your point and all I have to say is that until we as black people end this black-on-black, we are facing a losing battle.
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