The controversy surrounding "bounties" by the leadership of the New Orleans Saints football team is neither new or nerve-shattering: it is an extension of the same "here's-some-money-now-go-git-'em" mentality that this nation's Anglo leadership has always had. In a nutshell, those who should know better told Saints defensive players that if they "knocked out" or "hurt" a player on the other team, they would receive some extra pay. The news media found out what we already knew: as black people and black men, especially, we've ALWAYS had bounties out on our heads. Let me give you a few examples.
Police, in general, hate black people, in general. They gun us down in the streets, from New York to Florida to California to Washington state. So we know it can't be an accident. And the ones that don't directly fire the shot or apply the choke hold don't say anything, so that makes them accomplices to the crime. If this is taking place, there is a bounty someplace. It might not be a direct financial payment (although the cops that do the killing usually get "paid leave," which is the same thing as a paid vacation, and they also get promoted in some cases), but the "backing" they get, the kudos they receive when they walk into the nearest bar -- these are acknowledgements of the act that are just as powerful as monetary inducements. This society's "look the other way" approach to a black getting shot by a cop is a form of bounty: it says that "this is what you will get if you take that person out of the box, for me." Suburbanites fear us and most whites don't understand us; that makes us fodder for cops that want a reputation. Like the linebacker going for the knee or the head, they ride around in their cars, two deep, and they're over-represented in black communities. What ELSE could be their motivation?
In DC there's this group called AIPAC - the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. Its really a political action committee and its run by Jews. One of their officers is none other than the "journalist" Wolf Blitzer of CNN. At any rate, do you know what this group does? It puts out BOUNTIES on the heads of politicians that they don't like, that don't cater to their needs, that don't bend to their will. They have the money to get people "de-hired" and, at the same time, elect their own lackeys, black or white. That's why most of your political leadership is too gutless to do anything. At any rate, it's a bounty.
The Medical profession. Ever go into your doctor's office and he offers you a "sample" of some new drug? He got paid a bounty for it. The drug industry has these hospitals and doctors totally under their control. If they have something and they need a "population" to use it on, the doctors will comply - for a price. Its a bounty on our heads. Oh, and by the way: we ain't "the same under the skin." About 5 years ago I wrote an essay about BiDal, this heart drug that was for "black men only." What's that about? Are they admitting that our blood and aortas and heart valves are different? Or do they just want us taking it so they can stand back and see what happens?
These are just a few of the ideas that whizzed through my mind as I watched sports commentators pretend to be shocked that there were bounties being offered in the NFL. Imagine the bounties when black people were few and the whites had an overwhelming majority! Recall what Jackie Robinson and Johnson went through in terms of having to deal with this society's racism and ask: were there bounties involved? How many crackers offered money to watch someone "knock that niggas head off"? We know they did it, but since evidence is in the hands of revisionist historians, the proof is probably buried someplace.
One last dig for you "negroes" out there. Malcolm X has a speech where he exposes "The Big Six," these six negro leaders who Rockefeller paid $800,000 (to split among themselves) and offer them all the media coverage they wanted if they would downplay the black power movement, the Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers and more militant groups. Among those taking the money: Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Floyd McKissick, Ralph Abernathy and I believe that Joseph Lowery was among them. But regardless, your leadership took a bribe and the history books don't mention it. But it happened. A bounty is tantamount to a bribe.
So, as I prepare to write "Bounties II: The Search For More Evidence," let me leave you by stating that bounties are more likely to be the norm in football and real life - there's no mutiny involved. Everybody's doing just what they are expected to do - bounties are not the exception. America just don't wanna play fair if its getting its ass kicked. And whether you're talking about the football field or the military battlefield, if you look around, that's exactly what's happening. And bounties, brothers and sisters, are the LEAST of it ......
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