PAST. Wednesday night I read Black Elks Vision: A Lakota Story of a young Native that grew to be a powerful healer and warrior against Euro-colonist greed. Then, I walked into a screening of The Trial of Mohammad Ali at Nyumburu Cultural Center. It was about the intellectual/spiritual development of a brilliant African American fighter who objected to fighting in any war killing melanated people in the name of a white supremacist power structure. Black Elks community was destroyed and confined to unnatural reservations; Mohammad Ali was made to be some sort of an enemy of the state. What got me was the Black people that felt Ali was wrong. That he wasnt serving his country. Thats like telling Black Elk hes wrong for fighting off the colonists that were serving their country. Im amazed at the power of mind control. PRESENT. Later in the discussion following the film, when the Professors asked us why athletes arent as justice-driven as Ali was, some students began echoing because oppression is more covert now than it was then. Another brother born and raised in the hood, explaining its because these wages and politicians dont care about us, so we gotta get it how we live, no matter whats at risk. WHAT i think WE MISSED. I felt my blood boil, remembering when I left Oakland in 2007, we had reached over 148 homicides in one year. Thinking of the stories of young people dying everyday in DC. Thinking of Alan Chamberlain Sr., Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, Marissa Alexander, and the myriad lynchings and stories of persecuted Black people that dont even make the papers. And not one politician outside of some Green Party members that are stepping up for anything but the American tax-paying middle class. Its not covert, I said, trying to stay calm. Its very overt. The fact that some of us can say that, and some us say we gotta get it how we live no matter whats at risk. Thats divide and rule. Integration into middle class lets some of us forget whats going on in Americas underclass and our own survival blinds us to the rest of the world. We become the next generation of patsies and pawns. And the media has just got sharper in the art of war--that the best way to deal with us is to give us no media attention at all, but that which casts us as heroes if we assimilate, and enemies if we fall into their traps or speak against their system. And when we begin to understand this game being played on us, we can step outside of our mind control. And free each other. #sorryforthelongstatus #lotonmymind #onelove
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:16:09 +0000
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