- Nov 2, 2009
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What I am saying is similar to what brother Kwame Ture said..."We should try to educate them and bring them home if they dont want to come home we gonna off em and thats it"
And how far did Kwame Toure (aka Stokely Carmichael) get with that line hyperbolic rabble-rousing? What great and successful movement did he succeed with? No disrespect to Mr. Toure, but that is a question we have to ask of every person we would follow or advocate following.
To say, that "offing/killing/murdering" black folks is the answer to our problems as a people, is to miss, almost entirely the point.. and is a perfect example of misdirecting disdain at black folks.. disdain that rightfully belongs in its entirety to racist white folks and the system of Racism that they have enacted and operate to maintain European domination of non-white people.. (and for the record, that domination exists purely through ruthlessness and brutality, not through intelligence or any particular love for humanity).
Black folks have been deeply affected by this system of racism.. now, to go around killing them for being affected and not realize that your own actions (the killing) are actually evidence of the those same effects taken ahold of you, is to be unconscious of the reality of our predicament as a people.. If I were to do the math and add your anti-christian leanings to this, I could leap to the conclusion that you would advocate the killing of black christians that refused to see the light of your revolution. even the ones in your own family huh? ..mine too huh?.. cousins.. uncle pete.. auntie christine.. all of em huh? And after you off 90% of the African American population, I guess the 10% would all storm the whitehouse and take control of the world.. right? wrong.. of course not.
walk with me for a minute..
1. on the one hand you and Kwame Toure say, "We should try to educate them and bring them home if they dont want to come home we gonna off em and thats it".. and also, "it honestly would be best if people like the man in that video did not exist as he is an anathema to the struggle.."
2. Now on the other hand, you say, "Randomly offing people who dont agree with the struggle is useless...[ because we wont even go to bat let alone get ready for a real fight against white supremacy]."
Those two statements appear to be contradictory.. so, which is it? or.. is the last part of that last quote the key? "..because we wont even go to bat let alone get ready for a real fight against white supremacy." so, your pessimism about the will of black folk to fight white supremacy is the only reason they shouldn't be "offed"... meaning.. our alleged apathy/cowardice is our saving grace?
You say, "..the fact that we even have to have a discourse about this proves that black people are not ready and have never been ready for freedom." "Ready" is the word you use, but it has the feeling of the word "deserve". Taken with the rest of your, pessimism and disdain, it appears that you are saying, Black people don't deserve to be free.. and the ones that won't take on your beliefs should be killed..
well, I could go into a 500 hundred word dissertation on why I disagree with absolutely all of that.. but, the truth is, I don't really buy your militancy.. I don't believe it.. I think the contradictions in your writing prove that its all just hyperbole.. just figures of speech.. I think you have a deep and abiding love for black people and that this talk of "offing" is just an indication of how deeply you care for black people and how frustrating it can be attempting to figure out a solution to this truly complex and sophisticated set of challenges that we face as African people in a world dominated and controlled by folks that do not respect the humanity of Africans. And, again, I would submit that there.. with them.. is where your disdain belongs.. all of it..
and that's not to say that we do not have our own internal conflicts to work through, it just means that the method we use to approach our issues with black people need to be soaked in a kind of familial respect and tolerance and love for one another.. we can't let the hate that white racism has built-up in us, spill over onto our own families.. our own people.. We have to channel that hatred into a neutral energy that we can use to fuel our efforts to struggle against the mental, physical and social chains that hold us collectively down and away and beyond.
-peace..