Matthew C. Stelly, Director
Uhuru Sasa Research Institute
Shock?
Dismay? Surprise? For what? The recent decision that ground George
Zimmerman “not guilty” in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin is
not new or nerve-shattering; it is an extension of the same sick shit
that this country has been laying at the door of black people since
the 1700s. As the song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” asks,
“when will we ever learn?”
Let
me break this collective idiocy down for you so you won’t waste
valuable paper, energy and conversation exposing your abysmal
ignorance in the future.
When
you act “surprised” at the verdict, such surprise implies that
this system is capable of accepting any decision that has to do with
black people. When jive-ass O.J. Simpson got acquitted, American
whites weren’t satisfied. They kept hounding him and exploiting his
love for them (the same love you obviously have) until they got
monetary damages and painted a picture of him as “the nigga that
got away with it.” In the long run, this system was able to
overturn that decision and end up with a, “see, we told you he
wasn’t any good” verdict that ultimately drove Simpson crazy and
even had black people hating him
When
you act “dismayed” at the verdict, it implies that this system
has the capacity to act “fairly.” Where’s your proof? The
Innocence Project, which has set free scores of black men who were
“wrongly arrested” for tens of years in many cases, shows that if
they say that a black man did it, then that’s all they need.
Eyewitness studies clearly show that it’s not reliable and yet this
system has accepted it and locked men up. Over 70% of all inmates are
either black or Latino, and that includes states like Idaho, Wyoming,
Vermont and Utah. Doesn’t that send you a message about the
criminal justice system? Doesn’t that send you a message about the
penal system?
When
you act “shocked” at the verdict, it shows an abysmal ignorance
of the duality of what “right and wrong” means in this country.
I’m not arguing any case for Trayvon by any means. I’m arguing a
case for the fact that we expected those outside of our race to
understand that what happened to Trayvon is happening to black kids
all over this nation. They are gunned down by cops, imprisoned by the
penal system, mentally abused by their teachers, seduced by their
ministers, and taught that they are “Americans” by their parents.
These facts then, pave the reason why the Trayvon’s are so weak and
gullible. They think they are just like any other teenager; they
think that they can don hoodies and walk the streets with impunity
like white boys do. Whose fault is that. YOURS.
The
facts of the case don’t reflect a single instance that involves
Zimmerman and Trayvon. They are a reflection and reinforcement of
what has been happening to black males since the beginning of this
country. This case is a reflection of that famous Dred Scott case,
remember? Chief Justice Taney made it clear: “A black man has no
rights a white man is bound to respect.” Now if this case doesn’t
prove that verdict to be alive and well, then what does?
When
our kids see you waving the flag and believing in a system that has
you segregated or believing that progress means looking for a white
man to adopt you (find a job), then they accept it. And when it
doesn’t work and then you label them as “lazy,” disobedient”
or “criminal,” then what do they have left to believe in other
than each other. And since, as a group, they’re totally clueless,
that means that you have created your own Trayvon. And you can see
the product in their actions: sagging pants, hoodies in the summer,
cutoffs that come down to their ankles. A short while ago it was
visors worn backward, sucking on teething rings, and wearing their
pants backwards, remember? “Whom the gods would destroy, they first
make mad.”
And
here’ something you might want to think about: the world is
watching. When these people start whining about “why do they (they
meaning people of color the world over) hate us so much?” you can
look squarely at decisions like this and the long history of murders
and lynchings of Latinos, Native Americans and Black people. Our kids
may not learn it in school any more (with the demise of black
studies), but those kids in other countries sure know about it. And
when those atrocities are added to what this country has done to
OTHER nations in the name of “democracy” and “freedom,” then
is it any wonder that this nation is losing ground faster than George
Jefferson in a race with Usain Bolt?
Why
do we whine and sometimes even riot when we are being done a favor?
Trayvon was a victim of racism, and when decisions are made that
uphold racism, that’s a direct sign of what those people think of
us. When Simi Valley made the decision about Rodney King, they were
telling us how they felt about black people. When your Congress wants
to cut pre-school programs and raise student loan interest rates,
that’s a way of them telling us how they feel about young people in
general. But the fact has been, and still remains, that when white
folks have a cold, black folks have pneumonia. Whatever happens to
them (inflicted by their own), happens more negatively to us.
We
know all this is true. And we just can’t seem to see that in every
possible way, we are being shown that we are hated. But we turn our
energies and angers on everybody else because we’re afraid to
confront our former slavemaster. We blame the Latinos for “taking
our jobs.” Our jobs? Nigga, those weren’t “your” jobs; they
were the white man’s jobs – he was just frontin’ your black ass
off and making you more dependent on him with a new house payment, a
car note and bunch of other debts that tightens the noose around your
neck. We blame the Asians for coming into “our community” when
it’s not our community. All the Asian is doing is the same thing
that Jews did decades ago: take our obsession with conspicuous
consumption and sell it back to us: urban gear, pedicures, fake
fingernails and eyelashes, Indian hair that I would say 8 out of 10
sistahs either wear or crave, and so on. Can you blame them if they
can sell us something and then laugh at us all the way to the bank?
America
is sinking fast, and that’s why you see all these “mergers” and
all that “outsourcing.” There’s a movie called “Elysium”
coming out that shows what I’ve long been saying: they’re about
to leave this planet to “the nigrahs” while they go out in space
and build a paradise out there. They’re going to repeat what they
did to Africa and the Native American and if there is life out there,
it will soon be murdered off, captured and studies, placed in a zoo
or made into a pet. You just mark my words.
Bruthas
and sistahs, there are still too many “firsts” for us. We’ve
been here over 400 years and y’all are still having orgasms about
the “first president” of this, or the “first athlete to do
that.” Movies like “42” and “Great White Hope” has us
looking backwards and glorifying bruthas and sistahs who were “first
in THEIR system.” And the more we canonize those so-called
“accomplishments,” the more we tend to organize the potential for
having our OWN system. And without our own system, we rely on the
non-existent morals of people in other systems; hence, the Trayvon
Martin decision and all those that preceded it.
Trayvon
will be missed, but there are millions of Trayvon’s out there. What
they need to do is get up off their knees and stop doing war dances
on dance floors and take it to the field where it belongs. It is
true, as the Last Poets once said, that “The revolution will not be
televised.” But guess what? Your collective stupidity and
cowardice, belief in goblins and goons in space, talk about “going
to hell” when hell is right here, and expecting mercy from the
merciless sure will be. And it will be playing on every single
network. And you can take that to the bank.
The
blood bank.
Check
out my blog, mcstellyspeaks.blogspot and read my other “ahead of my
time” essays. And for those of you who still feel hopeless, do what
you do best: pray.
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