How The Tranquil Drug Of Gradualism Has Lulled African-Americans To Sleep

In the strug­gle to make America a bet­ter place for all of its cit­i­zens, there will have to be a reck­on­ing among Black peo­ple along cer­tain dis­tinct lines.
(1) They can­not count on any­one else’s efforts in this exis­ten­tial fight.
(2) White women are equal­ly as com­plic­it in white suprema­cy as their male coun­ter­parts.
(3) Expecting a change of heart from the descen­dants of those who enslaved, mur­dered, raped and sodom­ized their fore-par­ents is fool’s gold.
The expec­ta­tion that white women will fight for civ­il and gen­der rights because they too were vic­tims of oppres­sion ignores the fact that they have long done the math and have decid­ed the ben­e­fits of white priv­i­lege far out­weighs any ben­e­fits they would derive from gen­der equal­i­ty. 
In fact, in 2018 white women have solid­i­fied them­selves as the num­ber one anti-black antag­o­nists in the age of Trump.

In 1923 Fanny Taylor’s lies caused the mas­sacre of hun­dreds, if not thou­sands of black res­i­dents of Rosewood Florida.
 The mas­sacre was insti­gat­ed by the rumor that a white woman, Fanny Taylor, had been sex­u­al­ly assault­ed by a black man in her home in a near­by com­mu­ni­ty. 

In 1955 Emmet Till a 14-year old black child from Chicago was vis­it­ing rel­a­tives in Mississippi when he was mur­dered for alleged­ly [flirt­ing] with a [white woman].
His killers, —the white woman’s hus­band and her broth­er — made Emmett car­ry a 75-pound cot­ton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him near­ly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head and then threw his body, tied to the cot­ton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the riv­er.

Emmet Till’s moth­er, Mamie Till Mobley’s, though rav­aged by the trau­ma and grief of the inhu­man sav­agery which went into the slaugh­ter of her son decid­ed to hold an open cas­ket funer­al on September 3, 1955.
She urged the world to look at her son’s beat­en, swollen body. The body, was so dis­fig­ured that he was only iden­ti­fi­able by the ini­tials on a ring on his fin­ger, was viewed by thou­sands of peo­ple and pho­tographed and pub­lished in news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines.
Emmett Till’s old cas­ket may be viewed at the Civil Rights exhi­bi­tion at the African American History Museum, in Washington DC.

In July of 1995 South Carolina native, Susan Smith decid­ed to kill her two chil­dren. She drove her car into a lake and drowned the two chil­dren then told police they were kid­napped by a black man.
September 2018, after only three months on the job, Sherry Hall a recent­ly hired Jackson Georgia cop shoots her­self and told her boss­es she was shot by .….. you guessed it, a black man.
With blood in their eyes, they embarked on a two-week chase for the imag­i­nary black man until her sto­ry fell apart and she was arrest­ed.

The unde­ni­able truth in the innu­mer­able instances in which white women have used black men as foils to (a) cov­er up lies or (b) elic­it rage from their male con­tem­po­raries, has demon­strat­ed the devi­ous cal­cu­la­tion in the way they have opt­ed to cash in on white­ness in America. 

Once there is a fun­da­men­tal under­stand­ing that the three con­cepts out­lined in para­graph one above are insti­tu­tion­al­ized imped­i­ments to change, the ardu­ous task of self-deter­mi­na­tion, self-auton­o­my, and self-gov­er­nance begins in a coun­try with­in a coun­try.
The idea of a grad­ual change has long been rub­bished, even though many, even with­in the Black com­mu­ni­ty will argue that there has been marked change in their life­time.
The idea that a Black man was twice elect­ed and Blacks occu­py­ing high places of pow­er remain indeli­ble mark­ers of the progress of which they speak.

The unde­ni­able truth, how­ev­er, is that despite those gains the sys­tem­at­ic stain of racism is still deeply etched in the body politic, that if Blacks con­tin­ue to accept what Dr. King once called “the tran­quil drug of grad­u­al­ism”, black Americans will be no fur­ther along three hun­dred years from today.
There is a sense of moral degen­er­a­tion which per­me­ates cer­tain quar­ters which hold pow­er in America.
This makes it almost impos­si­ble to dis­lodge the cor­ro­sive and can­cer­ous con­se­quences of racism which is lit­er­al­ly destroy­ing the coun­try from within. 

A sit­ting Congressman [Steve King] of Iowa who open­ly sup­ports white suprema­cist caus­es across the Globe was re-elect­ed in his dis­trict.
An appoint­ed Mississippi US Senator, Cindy Hyde-Smith, R‑Miss so enthused with a sup­port­er, remarked to a group of sup­port­ers,” 
“If he invit­ed me to a pub­lic hang­ing, I’d be on the front row“
On the 27^th Of November 2018, Cindy Hyde-Smith the Republican will square off in Mississippi against Democrat Mike Espy who just hap­pen to be black.

If you are read­ing this and you do not know or under­stand the loaded back-sto­ry to Hyde-Smith’s state­ment, this arti­cle will be insuf­fi­cient to edu­cate you on lynch­ings, and the part the state of Mississippi played in that sor­did part of America’s inglo­ri­ous racial his­to­ry.
But Hyde-Smith was not done, she pub­licly opined about how great it would be to pre­vent young peo­ple at lib­er­al col­leges from vot­ing.
It’s nee­dles to won­der or guess what the stu­dents of those lib­er­al col­leges look like.

It is as sys­temic as Florida’s new Governor-Elect at the start of his cam­paign telling vot­ers not to “mon­key up” the Gubernatorial race by vot­ing for Andrew Gillum his Democratic oppo­nent who just hap­pened to be Black.
The peo­ple of the state of Florida did not find any of these inci­dents dis­qual­i­fy­ing. 
Come November 27^th, Cindy Hyde-Smith will almost cer­tain­ly beat Mike Espy for the Senate seat in Mississippi.
Like Ron Desantis, like Steve King, Cindy Hyde-Smith will take her place in the Government of the United States.
They will vote on issues which affect the dai­ly lives of tens of mil­lions of peo­ple who do not look like them and for whom they have scant, if any regard.

But if you thought that these are the only ones you are deeply mis­tak­en, In Western New York 27^th Congressional District, Republican Chris Collins was re-elect­ed despite being under Federal indict­ment for felony charges around insid­er trad­ing.
In California’s 50^th District, Republican Duncan Hunter was re-elect­ed despite fac­ing a fed­er­al indict­ment for alleged­ly mis­us­ing cam­paign funds.
You may argue that in the case of Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins noth­ing about their sto­ry is racial.
If you do that, you are miss­ing the greater point about the deep­er rot which per­me­ates the pol­i­tics. So much so that even these egre­gious acts which are anti­thet­i­cal to good gov­er­nance are ignored.
What chance then does deep-root­ed white racism have of being uproot­ed by these mis­cre­ants?

 

Imagine break­ing into a man’s house, rap­ing his wife, steal­ing every­thing he owns, beat­ing and humil­i­at­ing him, sell­ing his chil­dren that you haven’t killed, then forc­ing him to work for free.
Are you able to make that men­tal jour­ney?
If so, then pic­ture this, after he has done every­thing you have demand­ed of him, you are angry at him for fight­ing for his free­dom.
Even if you were to give him every­thing you own it would not begin to com­pen­sate for the hun­dreds of years of dehu­man­iz­ing and degrad­ing rape, sodomy, mur­der, and the untold cru­el­ty and bar­barism you have sub­ject­ed him to.
Now you are mad that he dares stand up to demand his right to human dig­ni­ty.
You are mad because he dares to revis­it his past in order to under­stand his present and to chart a course for his future.
How dare you?

If I said it once I’ll say it a thou­sand times.
The fight for Black auton­o­my and black respect will not be won by using oth­er peo­ple’s sol­diers.
Iowa’s Congressman Steve King said, “You can­not rebuild your civ­i­liza­tion with some­body else’s babies. You’ve got to keep your birth rate up, and that you need to teach your chil­dren your val­ues.“
King was mak­ing the case for white suprema­cy and white Anglo Saxon dom­i­nance.
“I’m a cham­pi­on for Western civ­i­liza­tion,” said Steve King, 
“If you go down the road a few gen­er­a­tions, or maybe cen­turies, with the inter-mar­riage, I’d like to see an America that is just so homoge­nous that we look a lot the same.” 

If African-Americans are going to sur­vive against these imbe­ciles they bet­ter wise up to the fact that they will have to fight like hell on every front, in a fight which will require a full arse­nal of wit and cun­ning.
This is an exis­ten­tial fight against anni­hi­la­tion and they have no com­punc­tion against remov­ing us from the equa­tion as if we nev­er existed.