Jamalism (My longest one ever. Sorry): Tom Burrell’s book “Brainwashed”, which I have been quoting from extensively, hits on many of the points of why I do what I do. In fact, it is giving me further motivation to continue. Some people misconstrue what I do as an attack on white people, whom they think that I think are all racist. That’s not my intent, nor would I care if they were all racist (which I do not think). I have no interest in spreading hate. There is already plenty of that to go around. Honestly, I could care less about the input of other groups of people in regards to black issues. I am actually baffled about why so many non-black people inject themselves into the conversations regarding black issues. Often times their agenda is not beneficial to the black agenda. They are just trying to inject their viewpoint and control (or unwarranted authority) on matters in which they have no knowledge or clue about, only unchecked biases and stereotypes (Bill O’reilly and his followers are a perfect example of this). Although we (black people) did not originally create and maintain many of our issues, we perpetuate them today. Our issues would not exist if we did not allow them to. Unfortunately we were conditioned very well, but it is up to us to stop it and be the extraordinary people who we really are and always have been, not for other’s approval, but for ourselves. My fight is not against any group of people or not even against racist people. That’s what sell-out groups like the NAACP focus on while their people suffer from harmful conditioning which has lead to self-destruction (consciously and subconsciously). To me that is a complete waste of time, energy and resources when we need to be focusing on solutions and self-preservation (i.e. buying land and learning agriculture, building schools with afro centric based curriculums, rebuilding our neighborhoods, healing our relationships, building and maintaining a strong and stable economic structure, and controlling our own story). I don’t expect all Black people to agree with this. Some of us are comfortable in and prefer the system that is already established for us. These people will just get in the way of true progress so it’s better that they sit this one out anyways. My fight is against the system of institutionalized racism. The mistake that many people make when discussing racism is that they individualize it. They take single acts and make them the issue instead of focusing on the true issue which caused the act in the first place. For example, in the Trayvon Martin case the act was that a White/Hispanic man killed a Black teenager; however that was not the main issue. Whites kill Blacks, Blacks kill whites, whites kill whites, and Blacks kill Blacks all of the time. The true issues in this case are society’s viewpoint of young black males and lawmakers that make laws which justify these viewpoints (stop and frisk racial profiling is another example). So many people (black and white) justified this blatant and unjust murder of Trayvon Martin because he was a young black male wearing a hoodie, which, to my knowledge, is not officially a crime on the law books. The automatic perception is that he had to be up to no good; therefore Zimmerman had the right to confront and harass him in order to protect his hood (even though the police told him not too). Furthermore, they take the ridiculous positions that we should disregard the fact that Zimmerman was the aggressor and pursuant and that Trayvon got what he deserved because he probably attacked Zimmerman first. Since we don’t know for sure, we will just take the word of the innocent murderer (oxymoron). On top of that (to add insult to injury) people celebrate Zimmerman at gun shows as though he is a hero. That mindset is the true problem and is a component of institutionalized racism; it’s ingrained in our psyche. People like to trivialize these matters, but they are way more complex and deep-rooted than that. So I will continue to discuss our (black people’s) true history so that we can see where we came from (way beyond capture and slavery). I will continue to show the true facts and statistics regarding black people, not the media-created facts. I will continue to show positive black images in order to counter the over-saturation of negative black images that we see and hear about in media (often glorified and sensationalized by our own entertainers and public figures). Most importantly, I will continue to encourage black people to collectively take authority over and control of our own destinies and stop worrying about pleasing others or living by the code that others created for us.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:57:56 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015