Culture of Freedom pt.3

Today I want to talk about one of the most important inflictions affecting Blacks today. The Freedom of Speech. Ideally what this means in our Constitution, and yes it is our Constitution, is that any man or woman has the right to say what they feel with out fear of prosecution or persecution. But before we can utilize this fundamental right we first must attain a command of the English Language. There is nothing worse than turning on the Television and seeing a black person speaking who makes no sense at all. a la Jesse Jackson, sorry just had to do that. But seriously we must learn to use the language to it's fullest. One of the ploys that I believe is used repeatedly by the media is to find the one black person in the crowd who can not intelligently communicate their feelings or what they have seen. What this does is send the message that this is how the majority of us as blacks communicate. This also goes on to give a false impression of the levels of education that we have achieved. I believe that part of the reason that the rest of the world thinks so lowly of us as a people is because of the negative images that our media continues to project of us.

We must enforce the importance of education into our children. We must make it our business to see to it that they get the best education available to them. We have to speak up and stop the schools and educators from placing our children in special needs classes and labeling them. We need to be the voice for our young people. Also we as adults need to reinforce our command of the language and use the only tool that many of us have, our voices. Until we start to do this we will always be represented by the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharptons of the world.

In order for any change to occur we must start to speak up for ourselves. Right now we as blacks act as if we are infants, the only time we want to speak up is when we are upset. Our voice needs to be heard. We also need to show the rest of the world that we are not child neglecting raging egomaniacs. But in fact we are a loving caring and giving people. We need to stop acting like the animals that the slave master has created and start being the Gods we were destined to be.

Culture of Freedom pt.2

One of the most disturbing things that I have witnessed about blacks today is the practice of poverty. I understand that in our society there is a class structure in place whereas some people are going to be poor while others are not. But the issue that I am going to attempt to discuss today is that far too many blacks have em brassed poverty and have made it a part of who they are. Let me give an example.

When I lived in Memphis, TN I lived in what is referred to as east Memphis. For the most part at the time this was the outskirts of the city. Just after me moving there the city acquired the area from the county. I lived in a hotel property that was very well maintained and manicured. It was a quiet community where in the morning everyone got up and made a mad dash for work. Well about a year after the city ha taken over the area, the complex announced that they were going to start accepting section 8 applicants from the city. This action bothered a lot of the tenants and you started to see a mass exodus. no more than a few months after the blacks from the inner city started to move into the complex you saw the climate shift. The once serene and beautiful area in which I called home had drastically changed. There was writing on the walls trash dumped in the parking lots and in the common areas. And Ironically enough the night before I moved my car was broken into and some personal items had been stolen.

The point that I would like to try and make here is why is it that "you can take the person out of the ghetto but you can not take the ghetto out of the person." Now when these people came from some of the more impoverished areas of Memphis they brought all of their belongings with them including their impoverished mentality.

What I am forced to conclude is that poverty is a state of mind and not a state of being. Where I had always thought it was a state of being not a state of mind. I guess it depends on how you are conditioned. Why did they come to a nice area and instead of working to help keep their new surroundings clean and respectable they merely made it feel and look more like what they are used to. The slave mind is a concept that will plague blacks for many more decades to come unless we start to treat it and work on correcting the problems now. We continue to raise our children instilling in them the madness that the slave master instilled in our grand and great grand parents. How long will we allow this cycle to continue?

Some how we have to learn that we can achieve more if first we realize that we are more than what we have been told we are.

Culture of Freedom

There seems to be a lot of confusion in the Black Community as to what a racist and racism is. In the educated circles, and those aspiring to attain grand heights of social achievement and awareness, believe that you cannot be a racist unless you are white or of the powerful elite. This idea is based off of the notion that Racism and White Supremacy are synonymous. Dr. Francis Cress Welsing defines functional racism as follows.

"Racism (White Supremacy) is the local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined, which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war), for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet Earth - a planet upon which the vast majority of people are classified as nonwhite (black, brown, red and yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people".

It is on this one simple point that I must disagree with the good doctor. I do not believe that Racism is White Supremacy. However I do believe that White Supremacy is a form of racism. In the literal sense the definition of Racism is as follows.

“The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.”

It is in this definition that I believe racism is a tool used to propel people to astonishing heights. I do call myself a racist based on this definition. Through the level of knowledge that I have attained I have seen without question signs which tell me that I am a member of the superior race. The original man is first and that man by all accounts of history and science is the Black Man. Now please do not confuse racism with bigotry.

Bigotry as defined by the unabridged dictionary is stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.

I am in no means closed minded to the ideas nor the God given rights of others to seek out life and happiness on the face of this planet. Nor do I want to see any people imprisoned or beaten down for merely being different.
What I do want is to see is my people embracing the ideals of racism and starting to believe that they are of a superior race. It is my belief that through this radical mindset that if Blacks start to believe that they are superior to all other races maybe then they will stop accepting the idea that they are inferior.

What I envision is a culture of freedom derived from the teachings of Malcolm, Martin and Marcus. Black people need to destroy the philosophy of the slave mind which has plagued us for far too long. Whites have empowered themselves through the belief that they are superior to all other races why is it that we cannot follow suit and attain the same status for ourselves. No I am not suggesting enslaving whites in order to make us feel better about ourselves simply stop looking in the mirror and seeing an inferior person.

This is only the first part of what I hope to be an ongoing discussion. What I have done here today is to put the idea out. There is a plan and system to follow in order to bring this to fruition.

To be continued.