The Gospel of white fascism (Part 40)...Donald Trump, gov't shutdown(s), falling incarceration rates, the criminality of Black economics, and the acculturation of drawing order outta' chaos...

“It’s been a long time, I shouldn’t have left you without a strong rhyme to step to, think about all the weak shows you slept through—time’s up, I’m sorry I kept you.”

—Rakim, from the song, “You know you got soul”

“The rift between Black men and women is irreparable, and the campaign to save the Black family is officially dead.”

—a comment made on my Blog, by a “Pro-Black” sista, named Monique, in 2014

“…THERE IS NO RECONCILIATION WITHOUT ATONEMENT; until they (Black women) can confess to and suffer the consequences of screwing us (Black men) over, there’s no use in talking about ‘Black Love/Black Unity’.”

—a comment made on my Blog, by a (brilliant) young brotha, who’s a “Black Men’s Rights Activist”, named “Kev” in 2017.

To the readers of this Blog: Beyond apologizing for letting life “thangs” get in the way of my obligation(s) to post weekly editorials here, I must confess, that sometimes, I feel like a fool for betting on (as corny as it sounds) “Black Love”. And mind you, the above comments (with the exception of the song lyric), are only the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to the glacier-sized insidiousness of our people’s self-hatred. But trust me when I say, that even though I consider these comments to be completely erroneous, I definitely see where this brotha and sista are coming from.

And with that said, here’s why I can’t subscribe to their points of view…

Now, this is the part when you’re probably thinkin’, okay, he’s about ta’ wax philosophic on looking at Black dysfunction(s) in the context of the white fascism that created them—or, he’s gonna’ preach a sermon ‘bout the importance of home-schooling our children…

Actually…no.

At least, not right now. *smiles*

But I will admit, that the reason I’m ultimately bettin’ on US is, I’m a bit biased. And let me expound on what I’m talkin’ about, ‘cause I’d be doing the family a disservice If I didn’t say this about myself. I grew up with Black parents who stayed married for 40 years. Mind you, their marriage wasn’t a blissful love affair throughout—actually, it was quite rocky at times, nevertheless, the “Black Love” (again, for lack of a better term) paradigm, is one I saw modeled in front of me, for the greater part of my life. So, when it comes to the prospects of Black men and women being together, I know it’s possible—mind you, not entirely probable, but possible. I do understand that the majority of modern-day Black men and women, want nothing to do (romantically) with other Black men and women. So, if you’re an indigenous Black person reading this, who genuinely wants to be in a relationship with one of your own kind (mind you, not in the context of being with the same sex) then you must understand, it truly will be a needle-in-the-haystack search. 

I also understand that the overwhelming majority of people who read and/or comment on this blog, are coming from a household that looked nothing like the one I grew up in. Mind you, I’m not saying that to gloat or boast about my homelife, but I will say, because of my upbringing, that my thinking (especially about US) is different.

Meaning, because I saw a Black man and woman together for most of my life, it doesn’t seem like such an idealistic pipedream for me. Conversely, I still do understand that there’s an element of idealism I’ve gotta’ maintain, if I endeavor to date and possibly marry a woman who looks like me.

Now, I also wanna’ comment on one fundamental part of the whole Black self-hating experience/experiment—and it’s the one I find the most distressing—it’s when any brotha or sista has the audacity to say…

I don’t know what it is about Black people, that makes us unable to work together like everyone else.

And let me just say, if you subscribe to this point of view, then you are wHITEY’S “PERFECT VICTIM”.

Why, you ask?

Here’s the answer...

If you as a Black person, don’t realize, on some level, that we have been worked on more than any other kind of person to hate ourselves and everyone who looks like us, cause we have the most genetic power(s) to breed whitey out of existence, than you (as a Black man or woman) have been SLEEP-WALKING YOUR WHOLE DAMN LIFE!

Meaning, when a Black man or woman utters this sentiment, and doesn’t understand why we’re seemingly more dysfunctional than other folks, I just shake my head—cause I’m thinkin’, which country have you been livin’ in for the past few decades?

To me, these people are like abused children, who don’t realize they’ve been abused. Or better yet, they’re like MK-ULTRA (mind-control) victims who’ve been programmed with psychic “alters” around their trauma, so they can consciously forget what’s been done to them.

Like I’ve said in the past, NONE OF OUR DYSFUNCTIONS ARE NATURAL TO US!! NONE OF ‘EM!! THEY’VE ALL BEEN CONDITIONED INTO US BY THE wHITE FASCIST SOCIAL ORDER(S) WE LIVE IN!

MEANING: NO OTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE ARE TAUGHT THAT THEY’RE THE DUMBEST, UGLIEST, AND POOREST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, BUT US!

AND IF YOU DON’T KNOW THIS, YOU’RE DOOMED TO HATE YOURSELF AND EVERYONE WHO LOOKS LIKE YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!

Now, is this an excuse for us to stay in our dysfunctions?

HELL NO!

But the first step in resolving any problem, is knowing that you indeed have one—and KNOWING ITS CAUSE!

Mind you, I was speaking to a brotha on this very same topic, and he told me that he knows what whitey did to us—before telling me, straight out: “I don’t care about the cause!”

So, what he (and other Black folks like him) are doing, is giving whitey a pass for all the dastardly things he’s done to our people. Needless to say, I’m not around that guy anymore.

And it’s with this (sentiment) in mind, that I’m writing about what really inspired Don Trump (and his white fascist handlers) to shut the american government down. Also, I recently came across an interesting factoid that I must share with the family: american census bureau data from the years of 1994 til’ 2006, shows that incomes of Black americans, surpassed those of white americans in Jamaica, Queens, NYC.

And this is the community I grew up in.

Additionally, being from Jamaica, Queens, I remember going to school with Damon John who created the “FUBU” fashion line. And I recall actually seeing LL Cool J, Run, from “RUN-DMC”, and being old enough to realize that Ja Rule lived 20 minutes from my house—and so did Irv Gotti, the music executive behind “Murder Inc.” records. And mind you, I’ll leave a link for the New York Times article(s) that’ll corroborate my community’s economic status.

Moreover, I remember attending high school in Jamaica, Queens, and how I was taught by a white teacher, that asains (especially fair-skinned asians) were harder working (and smarter) than my people would ever be. Mind you, I recently came across another article proving that asians are the poorest ethnic group in NYC (and I’ll leave a link for that too). And these kinds of economics are the central issues I’ll be tackling in this post. And might I add, looking back on this info. infuriates me, ‘cause if facts like these were readily available to me and my friends (like crime was on the local news), so many lives in Jamaica, Queens could’ve been saved behind us feeling empowered by our community’s financial state(s) of grace.

With that said, I’m askin’ (one mo’ time), for your kind indulgences, behind this post running a bit longer than usual and behind this topic being a bit dated. And as always, I’m writing wit’ y’all in mind, so I’ll do everything I can to make this a comfortably fluid read. And once again, I encourage your feedback, as this space was created to not only give a voice to our problems, but to offer solutions to them.

And lastly, for the intrepid amongst you who made it a point to visit my Blog while I was away, I say (again), thank you, thank you, and THANK YOU!

—MontUHURU Mimia

Gordon Parks, the quintessential portrait of an indigenous Black renaissance man (meaning, he was a writer, photographer, musician, and film director) wrote and directed his film, “The Learning Tree”, in 1969. Now, this movie was based on Gordon’s novel of the same name, and it’s basically a retelling of the travails Gordon himself suffered, growing up as a young Black man in a small Kansas town in the pre-Depression era of the 1920’s. Mind you, having seen this movie, a couple of times, I can say that it’s a quaint dramatization of living under the tyrannies of white fascism, but Gordon was smart enough to realize that something was amiss with this flick.

And he came to this conclusion after the Melvin Van Peebles movie, “Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song” hit theaters in 1971. Gordon saw that Sweetback (played by Melvin himself), was a brotha who dared to beat up corrupt white cops and think he could get away with it—and did at the movie’s end. Gordon also saw how Sweetback got mad love from brothas and sistas on the street, ‘cause he was a man who refused to shuffle and buck-dance for whitey. Gordon also dug how Sweetback’s movie persona gave us some pride. And as Melvin himself said, “I wanted my people to leave that movie with their heads up.”

Thus, taking a cue from Melvin, Gordon came out with the film “Shaft” in 1971. Now, the movie Shaft took a 180 degree turn from “The Learning Tree’s” (TLT) narrative, insomuch as John Shaft was not only a one-man army who took on white mobsters, but he defeated them at the end of the flick. And again, this was in stark contrast to the Black townspeople of TLT, who seemed altogether deflated and defeated. Now, Melvin’s “Sweetback” and Gordon’s “Shaft”, are the 2 movies that kicked-off what was known as the “Blaxploitation film” era of the 1970’s. And some of those flicks had names like “Hitman” (1972), “Black Caesar” (1973), “The Spook Who Sat by the Door” (1973), “Three the Hard Way” (1974), ”BuckTown” (1975), etc. And the common theme running through all these films were Black men beating the hell outta’ white cops, or any other kind of white male authority figure. Additionally, these films saved the failing american movie studios in the early 70’s.

Now, these films weren’t only a source of entertainment, but they gave a lot of Black people, and Black men especially, boatloads of inspiration to stop being abused by white bosses and get better jobs, or to start creating their own independent businesses, period. Now, even though whitey was caking off behind our patronage of these kinds of movies, he was thinking, wait a sec’—if these people see too much of these flicks, they might stop fantasizing about retaliating against white cops, and start taking up arms against us. That’s when white fascist freemasons like Jesse Jackson, coined the phrase “Blaxploitation”, and gave it to these movies for the expressed purpose of getting rid of them. Which they eventually did.

Mind you, those films were but one factor that contributed to the median household income of Black americans nearly doubling in the 1970’s. The fact that more of us were obtaining college degrees also gave our collective salaries a boost. And there’s tangible research to back this up by organizations like the “Economic Policy Institute”, who crunched the data and showed that during the years of 1968 until 1979, the “inflation-adjusted” annual income of Black americans increased by 42.8%, and mind you, that slightly outpaced typical income growth for white households during that same period, since their increases only totaled 36.7%. To top all this off, the song “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now”, by the singing duo, McFadden and Whitehead, encapsulated the aspirational zeitgeist and upward mobility of Black americans of that era.

And, as a matter of course, this scarred whitey’s fascist sensibilities. Thus, in the Reagan 80’s, we got the lethal troika of “Reaganomics”, Crack and AIDS, to eradicate any progress our communities had made.

Fast forward to 2018—Now, instead of Reagan, we got good ol’ Don Trump shutting down the american gov’t behind Dixiecrats, I mean Democrats, and Republicans being unable to resolve an ongoing standoff regarding Trump wanting $5 billion dollars to build a border wall to keep undocumented latinos out. Hey, serves Julio and ‘em right for thinking they’re “whiter” than us.  

Now, no diss to the twenty-somethings out there, but it’s times like this when I think, man, I’m glad I’m older. Reason being, is wisdom affords middle-aged folks like myself, an even-temperedness and conflict-resolving temperament that only comes with age. Meaning, I recognized this “border wall” dispute for the white fascist maneuvering against Black folks that it really was. So, I instinctively knew that if whitey’s engaging in these kinds of destabilizing methods, 3 things must be happening—and those are:

#1. Crime rates must be down.

#2. The collective income of Black americans must be up.

#3. And lastly, more Black americans must be going to college.

But ultimately, this was just a collective hunch, until I could back it up wit’ some research—so, here’s 3 mo’ facts I found when I did just that…

#1. In the case of overall crime rates in america, according to FBI stats, violent crimes have fallen 49% between 1993 and 2017—and according to the “Bureau of Justice Statistics” (BJS), violent crimes fell 67% during these years. Additionally, FBI stats say “property crimes” have fallen by 50%, and BJS stats say these crimes have fallen by as much as 69% during the same time. Mind you, property crimes include burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft—and they’re far more common than violent crimes.

Now, scores of statisticians have waxed philosophic about what brought this dip in crime about. And some common, working-class folk are reluctant to believe these stats saying, “Crime ain’t down in my neighborhood.” But regardless of what anyone believes, the bottom line is this: less crimes, means less arrests, which might mean less incarcerated Black men—and that’s surely a problem for white folks and fascists everywhere. However, I’ve come up with my own theory, and it goes a little something like this: 2 things are contributing to (Black) crime rates falling so precipitously, and those are…

A. More than anything else, the explosion of white drug use in america (a.k.a. the “opioid epidemic”) has swelled america’s prisons with more white inmates at alarming levels. Understand, the same drug laws that put Black men behind bars for multiple years, are now being used to sentence their own kind—so whitey’s being forced to concentrate more on whitebois in a system set up for Black men—but instead of pointing this out, they’d rather cover it up by saying crimes, where we usually find them (in Black neighborhoods), are down. And truth be told, the majority of drug use in Black neighborhoods involve us selling narcotics to the whitebois coming to our ‘hood to get ‘em—even though stats bear out, whitey’s the ones doing the majority of the drug selling too.

B. Under the Barack Obama presidency, unemployment rates dropped by 4.8% overall, and the economy gained 11.6 million jobs—and this is the same low unemployment rate that good ol’ Don Trump is saying he’s responsible for.

So, bottom line is, Black americans are using less drugs (especially compared to whites), and more of us are working—which means, at least half of us are NOT out committing crimes.

#2. In the case of median incomes for Black americans, the “Brookings Institute” conducted a study showing that the household incomes of 125 communities in “majority-Black” cities actually “outpaced” the national average for ALL american ETHNIC GROUPS. Mind you, the national average for american household incomes (annually) is $53, 889—and this data comes by way of the “American Community Survey” of 2015. And according to the survey, the Black communities that are doing exceptionally well seem to be concentrated in the state of Maryland—meaning, the largest of these thriving neighborhoods is in Waldorf, MD. (earning a median income of $81,592) with a population of 71,399 residents, and Highland Beach, MD. with a smaller population of 110 residents, earning the highest median income for Black americans overall, at $158,750 annually.

Now, once again, I must confess, THIS IS WHY I LOVE BEING A BLACK NATIONALIST! Cause if I was just an anglophilic kiss-ass of a Black man, I’d be conditioned into thinking that our people are the poorest, dumbest, and ugliest people in the world—and that’s wHITEY’S PLAN FOR US Y’ALL!!

So, if you encounter a brainwashed brotha or sista who’s calling us folk in the “Black Conscious Community”, a bunch of stupefied “pro-Black” “Hotep-pers”, just give ‘em a facepalm and keep it pushin’. Let ‘em stay stuck in the morass of deifying white folk—'cause truth be told, they’re happier feeling inferior to those pale-skinned dead-enders.

Moving on…

#3. The American Council on Education crunched numbers to show that there’s not only more Black men in college than in prison, but it shows how this has been a fact since the year 2000 (at least). And I’ll leave a link for their website too. Moreover, since 2008, incarceration rates for Black men have been DECREASING. And that means what? It means, more Black men are not only out of jail, but (according to these stats) more of us are educated and gainfully employed than in previous years—and whitey don’t like that.

Now, I’m gonna’ sound like a broken record here, but the reason good ole Don shut this gov’t down is not only for the 3 reasons above—it’s because WE HAVE THE MOST GENETIC POWER TO BREED THESE INBREDS OUTTA’ EXISTENCE! AND AS WE SPEAK WHITEY’S COMMITTING SUICIDE LIKE CRAZY, OVERDOSING ON DRUGS IN DROVES, AND THEIR BIRTHRATES HAVE FALLEN BELOW REPLACEMENT LEVELS OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FEW DECADES!

And to put it in more layman’s terms: THEY FINISHED Y’ALL!! IT’S A WRAP FO’ ‘EM!!

Now, does this mean whitey’s got no more power?

HELL NO!

But it does mean that they see the end is near—AND THEY CAN’T STOP IT! NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO!

So, the indigenous Black people of the world should feel empowered and emboldened to “UNIFY” NOW, MORE THAN EVER! Cause whitey also sees that their fall means OUR RISE! And they also realize that whatever they do to us, WILL ALSO AFFECT THEM!

MEANING, THE DEVIL’S TIME IS UP Y’ALL!!

AND IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME!

WELCOME TO 2019 FAMILY!!

Later…

MontUHURU Mimia

P.S.

You can check out stats that show the incarceration rates of Black men are down HERE.

P.P.S.

You can check out stats showing that a large number of Black america’s communities have median incomes outpacing other ethnic groups HERE.

P.P.P.S.

You can read up on the exalted economic status of Black communities in Jamaica, Queens HERE.

Also, if you wanna’ see the news article showing that asians are the poorest ethnic group in NYC, you can check it out HERE.

Lastly, here’s the song, “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now”, by McFadden and Whitehead. Now, this vid clip is one of an episode of “Soul Train”, where the singing duo performed this song. I just ask that you don't laugh too hard at the flamboyantly gay men dancin’ to this tune—ENJOY!