With all that’s going on in the world, the rise of populism and the far right, I got to thinking what will become of the people of my race.
Thinking of Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and the whole far right machine, the lyrics of Kendrick Lamar’s “The Blacker The Berry” are bouncing around:
You hate me don’t you?
You hate my people, your plan is to terminate my culture
You’re fuckin’ evil I want you to recognize that I’m a proud monkey
You vandalize my perception but can’t take style from me.
And also knocking around in my head, strangely for a few months now, are the words of Raoul Silva, a character in James Bond’s Skyfall.
Hello, James. Welcome. Do you like the island? My grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of. You could walk around it in an hour, but still it was, it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with rats. They’d come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island? Hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait and the rats would come for the coconut and… they would fall into the drum. And after a month, you have trapped all the rats, but what do you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it and they begin to get hungry. And one by one…
[mimics rat munching sound]
Raoul Silva: they start eating each other until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees, but now they don’t eat coconut anymore. Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors. This is what she made us.
To be blunt, black on black crime is the equivalent of the rats eating each other. And in a more subtle sense when our environment is being controlled we have to be careful not to fall into the harmful practices that are open to us. Not just black on black crime, but crime in general, drugs, abuse, low self-esteem, lack of ambition. Make no mistake, there is a plan at work, and the powers that be in society are controlling black people in many ways (housing, finance, education, justice, work, etc) and similar practices are being waged against any non-white minority, and even some minority white cultures in ny predominant white society.
What’s the aim of this control? In my view it is to create a manipulative underclass that can be blamed, used and discarded. The justification being, such people with low worth are of no moral value to anyone. Does this sound familiar? Doesn’t it sound like slavery? Let’s not really take the bait that slavery is behind us. In the USA in particular the judiciary is the net and the prison system the ships hold, which is in many cases punishing the innocent, those who can’t afford representation and those guilty of minor crimes with forced labour contracted out to big companies who profit even more through the use of a workforce that costs them nothing or next to nothing to exploit.
It’s not just about unfair treatment and inequality, it’s much deeper – it’s about changing the nature of our race, just like turning the rats from attacking anything other than themselves because of their limitations, so it is with black people, we are limited and hampered and undermined in all kinds of ways, generation after generation this affects our DNA, we are born into a system which we expect to treat us this way, and our natural responses to it become tailored to fit it, conform to it, and even to perpetuate it.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 says:
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
The far right definitely hates black people, Donald Trump calls the Confederate statues beautiful symbols of America’s past and history. Every form of pseudo-slavery, and even the real thing, if it were to occur again, which I believe it could if people do not wake up to the cancer in our midst, stems right back to the fact that even though the Confederacy was ruled as having lost the war in the USA and in the vast majority of the world slavery is outlawed, there is a living, evolving subtext to that fight that keeps digging in its viper-like fangs into society to ever remind us, it isn’t dead yet!