If you go to the farm market or the supermarket to buy tomatoes and some of the tomatoes are rotten, would you choose that rotten basket of tomatoes? I believe the answer to that question is obvious.
Why do white people expect Black people who have borne the brunt of racist, murderous police abuse in the United States, to accept the rotten basket of corruption called policing?
It matters not that not all police officers are bad; the issue is the perception is that they are all bad, so as far as 41.7 million African-Americans in the US are concerned (minus the sell-out house slaves), policing doesn’t work for us; perception is reality…
I bracketed house slaves and included the caveat sell-out because not all house slaves were sellouts; some were actual intelligence gatherers for the cause.
Policing was never designed for the use and benefit of Blacks; from the cotton fields and canefields emerged the concept of a force to separate the races and to keep Blacks subservient and contained.
If the powers that be had the power to abra ka dabra and make extinct the black population after the so-called emancipation declaration, they would have done it. They did not have the power to shazam and make black folks disappear, but they damn sure tried to exterminate the Black population since emancipation.
No place in modern history other than Hitler’s persecution of his own people who claim the Jewish faith and what happened to Muslims in Serbia in the 90s, (both events on a much smaller scale), has there been this genocidal action to wipe out one race by another, as the genocide against Blacks.
For those reasons, we say ‘f*ck you’ to those who have the chutzpah to tell us how to define what we have gone through as a people. It is bad when the white perpetrators of genocide against us tell us to move on or forget what they have done. But imagine the dam nerve when fake ass wannabe whites like Nicky Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy have the audacity to chime in against wokeness.
Who the hell do those coolies think they are?
Listen, Black folk has no problem with you Indian, whites in waiting, eschewing your heritage to assimilate into the American construct of whiteness. Given time, Indians and the Cubans in Florida will eventually be assimilated into American whiteness as the Irish and dark-skinned Italians were. The white population is shrinking, and it does not seem like stopping immigrants of color from entering the country and forcing white women to bring to term their rapist babies will change that.
We don’t have a problem with you being proselytized into whiteness if that’s your goal, and it does seem that’s your goal, but please leave us out of your shit. Do not attack us like your white masters have done to get to where you want to be.
Run for office but leave us Black folks alone because if you attack us, we will not sit idly by. We are not our parents and grandparents.
You do not get to tell us our history when you obviously do not know or care about your own. If Vivek Ramaswamy, Nicky Haley, et al. knew their history, they would not be waging this fruitless campaign for the American presidency by trying to climb on the backs of Black people.
It is perfectly fine that the two Indians running on the Republican ticket for the American presidency are suffering from Stockholm syndrome, but please don’t assume that it’s our fault. Kiss all the white asses you want but do not come for us because we do not care about you.
It is pointless to explain to coolies the likes of the two presidential candidates that they can run for the presidency of the United States because of the blood, sweat, and tears of Black people.
Without the struggles waged and the victories won by Blacks, Nicky Haley would be a housemaid and Vivek Ramaswamy, a field hand.
I understand this problem is not only with fake ass Vivek Ramaswamy and Nicky Haley, who grew up dirt poor in South Carolina.
On a trip to Panama last year, I had a conversation with an Indian guy who works as a prosecutor in New Jersey; his view of American society seemed bereft of any understanding of American history. It took tremendous restraint for me not to sock the pompous fool in his mouth.
It seems like a thing with these Indian people, educated in one discipline but totally lacking in intelligence or the ability to think critically. Cognitive dissonance, maybe!!!!
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.