Speaking about events unfolding at the University of Missouri in an expansive and vividly articulate Article written for the Huffington Post on instances of racism, Matt Ferner said the following.
(Matt Ferner
“The first response from many has been to question and reject the veracity of each episode, as if the idea of a black person facing oppression or aggression because of their race is so unbelievable in today’s America that it must be made-up. Apparently it’s easier for some people to accuse the black community of concocting an elaborate racial conspiracy than it is to confront the difficult reality of racism in America”
In as much as I applaud the strength and integrity of mister Ferner to speak extensively and concisely on the issue of race in Missouri and the wider America, I respectfully disagree in part with his assertion.
Quote ;“Apparently it’s easier for some people to accuse the black community of concocting an elaborate racial conspiracy than it is to confront the difficult reality of racism in America”.
I take great pains not to reduce the entirety of mister Ferner’s brilliant Article into a single sentence so he will forgive me if I simply speak to the assertion that America believes the black community is concocting racial conspiracies because they do not want to face the realities of racism in America.
Quote ;“Apparently it’s easier for some people to accuse the black community of concocting an elaborate racial conspiracy than it is to confront the difficult reality of racism in America”.
I take great pains not to reduce the entirety of mister Ferner’s brilliant Article into a single sentence so he will forgive me if I simply speak to the assertion that America believes the black community is concocting racial conspiracies because they do not want to face the realities of racism in America.
As I have personally written for years having seen the lack of support, desire or concern in whites in the face of the most egregious aggression against their black countrymen, the problem is deeper than denial.
When they sit in the confines of their ivory towers and television studios and disrespect black people demonstrating in 2015 because police thugs are killing their children and fathers and mothers it is not that they are in denial it is exactly because of hatred. It is impractical to expect those who benefit from special privileges which others are denied to empathize with the fact that his neighbor is denied those very privileges.
When they berate and demonize black protesters demanding that “they give it up and move on” it’s not about denial.
What they want is a return to the social order which places them in positions of power and control. They do not care a rat’s ass about the injustice blacks are facing, what they want is the status quo of the social order.
Their social order!!!
On that basis blacks have to decide whether they are content with white social order meaning the boots of the police on their necks. The first order of business for black America despite not being of white numerical strength is to take ownership of their country. The self described nativists are no more native than Christopher Columbus factually discovered these lands. When they talk about their country with a straight face, where is the push-back from blacks that this is their country?
Where is the steadfast in their face do not step to me assertion “this land was built on the blood and tears of my ancestors”?
White Supremacists have stridently taken possession of this country , not just physically but mentally they claim it as theirs. They decide who live where.
Native Indians relegated to Reservations.
Native Blacks relegated to housing projects(reservations of a different name) . Never mind that both races of people were here thousands and hundreds of years before the first white man accidentally happened upon these shores by accident intending to find a route to India.
When they sit in the confines of their ivory towers and television studios and disrespect black people demonstrating in 2015 because police thugs are killing their children and fathers and mothers it is not that they are in denial it is exactly because of hatred. It is impractical to expect those who benefit from special privileges which others are denied to empathize with the fact that his neighbor is denied those very privileges.
When they berate and demonize black protesters demanding that “they give it up and move on” it’s not about denial.
What they want is a return to the social order which places them in positions of power and control. They do not care a rat’s ass about the injustice blacks are facing, what they want is the status quo of the social order.
Their social order!!!
On that basis blacks have to decide whether they are content with white social order meaning the boots of the police on their necks. The first order of business for black America despite not being of white numerical strength is to take ownership of their country. The self described nativists are no more native than Christopher Columbus factually discovered these lands. When they talk about their country with a straight face, where is the push-back from blacks that this is their country?
Where is the steadfast in their face do not step to me assertion “this land was built on the blood and tears of my ancestors”?
White Supremacists have stridently taken possession of this country , not just physically but mentally they claim it as theirs. They decide who live where.
Native Indians relegated to Reservations.
Native Blacks relegated to housing projects(reservations of a different name) . Never mind that both races of people were here thousands and hundreds of years before the first white man accidentally happened upon these shores by accident intending to find a route to India.
Where is the Black pride in country ? Where is the ownership? Why are blacks still walking around unable to look his white oppressor full in the eyes?
I recently saw a video of a white cop telling a black motorist that he pulled him over because when he drove past him he made eye contact with him.
Will someone please tell me what the hell that is ?
Made eye contact?
Who the hell is this dirt bag that another human being should not make eye contact with him?
That however is the residual belief system which came out of Jim Crow, never look a white person in the face, step aside so that the white man can pass. On what Planet?
Try as I might I cannot figure out a situation in which that could apply to me so I will simply leave that right there.
I recently saw a video of a white cop telling a black motorist that he pulled him over because when he drove past him he made eye contact with him.
Will someone please tell me what the hell that is ?
Made eye contact?
Who the hell is this dirt bag that another human being should not make eye contact with him?
That however is the residual belief system which came out of Jim Crow, never look a white person in the face, step aside so that the white man can pass. On what Planet?
Try as I might I cannot figure out a situation in which that could apply to me so I will simply leave that right there.
Then again that may be the Jamaican spirit of my warrior Ancestors who were the Ibos the Coromantees and the Ashanti people who never bowed to slavery or any other form of subjugation.
Because no man was created superior to us and none was created inferior either.
Owing to their militaristic background and common Akan language, Coromantins(Coromantee) organized dozens of slave rebellions in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Their fierce, rebellious nature became so notorious among white plantation owners in the 18th century that an Act was proposed to ban the importation of people from the Gold Coast despite their reputation as strong workers.wikipedia.
The Ashanti had the single largest African cultural influence on Jamaica, including Jamaican Maroons whose culture and language was seen as a derivation of Asante.wikipedia.
Because no man was created superior to us and none was created inferior either.
Owing to their militaristic background and common Akan language, Coromantins(Coromantee) organized dozens of slave rebellions in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Their fierce, rebellious nature became so notorious among white plantation owners in the 18th century that an Act was proposed to ban the importation of people from the Gold Coast despite their reputation as strong workers.wikipedia.
The Ashanti had the single largest African cultural influence on Jamaica, including Jamaican Maroons whose culture and language was seen as a derivation of Asante.wikipedia.
Racial oppression continue to thrive because blacks fail to organize, fail to support each other, fail to coalesce around a common cause, in fact even fail to identify a common cause.
Conversely blacks who believe they made it largely decide they will adopt the ways of their oppressors. Many demean those who haven’t made it . Others demean and berate the very process which was instrumental to their upward mobility .
“Everything is great just look at me, those college students are just troublemakers, their protests are infantile”. These are they whom are of the order of the house slave. The more things change the more they remain the same.
Conversely blacks who believe they made it largely decide they will adopt the ways of their oppressors. Many demean those who haven’t made it . Others demean and berate the very process which was instrumental to their upward mobility .
“Everything is great just look at me, those college students are just troublemakers, their protests are infantile”. These are they whom are of the order of the house slave. The more things change the more they remain the same.
Those who set up and execute the principles of white supremacy need these Uncle Toms, they use them to make the case against other blacks while they stay in the background and say “good boy”, only problem is that these sell outs doesn’t even understand that at best they are being patted and massaged pejoratively.
Those racial sell outs are probably more destructive for the black race than the right wing racist whites who we know hate us and want to see us dead.
They sit on the highest court in the country they run for president and in are all over public life. Give them a seat at the table with Massa and they will press the destroy button for their own race gladly.
Those racial sell outs are probably more destructive for the black race than the right wing racist whites who we know hate us and want to see us dead.
They sit on the highest court in the country they run for president and in are all over public life. Give them a seat at the table with Massa and they will press the destroy button for their own race gladly.
The decision to stand up and speak out against disrespect in their Universities and in their very communities speaks volumes about the students of Mizzou, so much more that detractors like Ben Carson the latest uncle tom to grace the national stage. It speaks volumes about their characters than the heights that Clarence Thomas and others have attained .
Their demand for change though not the first for students remind all of us of the bravery of students across the Globe for decades. From Tienanmen square where students braved tanks and guns to UCLA young people have demonstrated that they were not going to be relegated to servitude.
So on this Saturday afternoon I salute the students of Mizzou who dared to stand up on their college Campus, in their state, in their country and push back against racist aggression, whether Ben Carson or his master Donald Trump approves or not.
Their demand for change though not the first for students remind all of us of the bravery of students across the Globe for decades. From Tienanmen square where students braved tanks and guns to UCLA young people have demonstrated that they were not going to be relegated to servitude.
So on this Saturday afternoon I salute the students of Mizzou who dared to stand up on their college Campus, in their state, in their country and push back against racist aggression, whether Ben Carson or his master Donald Trump approves or not.
Well written! It was the same thing I was talking about today!Some will quickly dismiss it. The attack in France speak volumes about the mindset of black people in this country. It is Interesting how that one picture says the blacks will put up a flag of a country that black people have to pay reparation for their freedom. When these black people didn’t asked to be taken from their homes in Africa and brought to the Carbbean to a country lack name Haiti. People are so lost and when you try to enlighten them they think you are crazy.
I’m not surprised that Ben Carson, the “Boasie slave” on the block always ready to put down their own race. Being a black man I’d experience this first hand in the United States Navy, when I was called a “Monkey twice ” by a white sailor and I had him cornered, with his own words against his own words. I reported him to the top brass of the military and in front of a black officer, the white supervisor told me “that nothing is wrong for a white sailor to call me a monkey!” Then the black officer interjected and start to educate the white subordinate that he was wrong. They apologizesbut I told them that I didn’t accept their apologies because I know that they hated me.
Later that month, a 3 star Admiral came to our base at 32nd Street, San Diego, California. The Admiral spoke at length and when was through he asked if we have any questions or problems at the command. I raised my right hand and he gave me permission to speak. When I started to talk about what happened to me, if you drop a pin inside the auditorium, you would hear it.
Cut a long story short. I made a report against them. The investigator came at me with the Calvary: it was a black man against the white establishment and they are going to do everything in their powers to destroy me and every witnesses to the white sailors behavior.
The white investigator threatened two of the witness, one of them white and calledhim a traitor for having a little decency in him.
Anyways, one of the witness a black guy was charged with “Fraud” by the Navy and at the time they tried to coerced, intimidate, and bullied me to lie on the man who was good enough to stand up for the truth. In the end they tried to bribe me by promising to restore my benefits retroactivelywhich was about $60,000.00.
The investigation was concluded and the Captain, was a black man who was going to do justice. The “boasie slave” was there trying to convince me how the white supervisor and the white sailor would take a bullet for me. I told the “boasie slave ” that they would put a bullet in my head. In the end, nothing happens to them and the wheels of justice fell off because a black man was willing to do what he was told to do by his white supervisors at Washington DC .
To date, I am trying to get justice from the system and hopefully before I die.
Whether want to believe it, this country and its system is built off lies, propaganda, demagoguery, disdain, and hatred towards black people.
As you have eloquently states, they have always find one of our people as their mouth piece to beat the drum against their own people. Remember, Bill Cosby was one of their best counter to black people’s cries for justice. Now, that the whites have abandoned him, he’s on his own.
I know that everything that the black children are speaking out against are true and only a fool would disbelieve them. Throughout ourlives write have seen these people at their best and they love a “boasie slave ” who’s willing to play their role as the buffer against white domination, wickedness, and hatred towards black people…
As for me they can kill me because they have been trying for centuries to extinct all black people off the earth and we keep surviving their onslaught of attacking us in every way.
My first encounter of racism was with my late white English grandmother!