It is remarkable what people will do for money these days. Judas Iscariot saw Jesus heal the sick, raise the dead, and fed a multitude with five loaves and two fish, and yet, he still sold him away to be crucified.
Some argue that Judas thought that Jesus would have saved himself from his captors. The tragedy inherent in that presumption is that even if Jesus had saved himself from being crucified, Judas would still have committed one of the most monumental acts of treachery ever.
So, where am I going with this? Well, to tell the truth, I am not writing a religious piece; it is sad to say that some of my readers are turned off by religious writings, and I get that, but I would rather please God than man, but with that said I would still like to bring my unsaved brothers and sisters along with me. What do you have to lose?
Anyway, as I said, this is not about religion; I merely broached the Judas situation to register my disgust with what I see happening today in America. Some say it is because of social media, but I’m afraid I have to disagree. There were no social media when some black people sold out our Marcus Garvey. There were no social media when they spied on Dr. King for J Edgar Hoover. There were no social media when they assassinated Malcolm X on behalf of his white enemies. And there were no social media when they spied on set-up and lied on the host of other black intellectuals and activists on behalf of the enemies of Blackness.
Some black people have a certain level of coonery that goes way back, long before the black man was brought here. Let us be real about it; from as early as the first European from Portugal set foot on the African continent, it was irreversible that the continent would be conquered by force, dominated, pillaged, raped, and exploited before they were done with it.
But it would have been a hell of a lot harder if African people were united against what they clearly must have known was a common enemy of the African continent.
If Africans were organized and united, those ships bearing men with muskets would have been stopped, and not a single white man would have set foot on African soil. So it was the disunity of the African people and the incomprehensible naïveté of our ancestors that allowed the ravages and the genocide that was visited on our people not only to begin but thrive.
In addition to that, African disunity and tribalism allowed for over five hundred years of the most brutal and barbaric genocidal actions ever to be imposed on one race of people by another in recorded history.
Fast forward to 2021, and maybe you have missed it, but some black people in America would lay on their backs and allow white people to defecate in their mouths if they were guaranteed a pat on the back.
No, I will not name names; doing so elevates them; naming them does exactly what they seek. I will not dignify their existence by naming them, sufficing to say that I fundamentally believe in the power of the universe tonexact justice; maybe what I want for those sellouts is vengeance, but the Lord said that we should leave all vengeance to him.
Do they make a few bucks when they disrespect and degrade black people? Sure they do; most clout-chasers on social media who do and say outrageous things to make money do make a few coins. However it seems to me that what they are really after is clout. To be lauded by a bunch of white people, to get on FOX noise, and by saying the most outrageous things about the black community while living in black skin seems to be a thing that is on the rise.
I will not lie, when I see black men say that America is not a racist country, that cops are not racist, that black people commit a large percentage of crimes without understanding the dynamics behind the data, I do wish that they have a violent and fatal encounter with police. Judge me all you want, I feel it, and I said it, I am not a hypocrite.
But we live in an age of soundbites, not facts. We are now in an age when melanated skin-folk can get their face on social media and even on television by saying outrageously ignorant things, and that is all the haters and propagators of lies want, they grab those sound bites and says, look, here is what real black people are saying.
Oh, I read somewhere that Harriet Tubman carried a pistol for these kinds of coons who were always ready to run back to tell Massa where she was hiding, trying to get a pat on the back, or maybe to have massa defecate in their mouths.
Nope, it has nothing to do with money, it may be called clout-chasing, but it is deeper than that. It goes way , way back. I mean, how else could the last race that became civilized be given such leverage to do as it pleases to the point that they misappropriated everything from us then called us niggers?
Yup, they must have experienced the same unintelligent coonery from back then, which allowed them to go all-in in trying to exterminate us.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.