Just Don't Give A Damn
Seriously!
Everyday its right there,
in our faces.
Blatant.
Raw.
Cut throat.
It hurts...like hell
to know that
beautiful colors of skin
are hated.
I look at the world and ask "What did our people fight for?" I listen to people say flat out they're not racist but want a genocide. A man can say straight out his mouth to a reporter that she is the N-word. A group of "nationalist" can push a line of cops and not one bullet flies because no cops apparently felt threatened. This constant dichotomy of life is no longer a matter of "if" its happening because, it is.
The people who follow such rhetoric are coming out their shells and its really no way of stopping it.
They are angry; Upset that they have lost out on the promise of the "American Dream". The promise of a home and a good job for a family of 4 or more and as Jamali Maddix put it, "They are looking for someone to blame" because "the dream" did not pan out as it should have. Its a stunning wake-up call to realize that the most racist place in the world is a melting pot of immigrants who ran from the oppression of the king, only to cause others oppression at the expense of their lives.
The issues that "nationalist" have now, are the same that they had back in Barbados: They were losing labor to minorities. In the 17th Century, British rule found a way to institute and normalize the business of human trafficking by way of slave trade and indentured servitude for criminals of England. Both Indentured servants and slaves shared the same work and the same grievances, so much so that there had been uprisings on sugar plantations against the masters by the two.
It seems that the ideology of "separate by skin" could have been done away with if it wasn't for "The Barbados Slave Code of 1661". "The Code" was written as a series of laws that protected the white "Christian" populace and made all people of African decent property of said "Christians"; providing a way to keep workers on hand for what was the start of the booming sugar cane business. The clauses written in them elevated the change in treatment to indentured servants, placing Africans as nothing more than "beast of burden" and a means to capitalize on the exports of sugar.
Many of the clauses in "The Code" were written to keep the African slaves "in place". Some of these things include taking away all basic rights of a person, keeping them from having free thought and will, restricting them from defending themselves and only allowing self defense if the cause of the fight is in defense of the master. If a slave was to break a law, there were three levels to the consequences: First offense, they will get a severe whipping; second offense, severe whipping with slit nose and face brand; third offense, is death by any means they choose.
The creation of this "Code" set the foundation for what we know in our Black History as slavery, or as I like to call it "The Great Black Buildification". "The Coders" took this ideology to the new world and brought with them the radical thoughts and feelings of a people who felt they were being removed form society due to the use of Africans to build their world. Two-hundred forty-one years later, we are no further than we were before. We fight, we fight, we fight, we fight and that just don't give a damn.
They don't give a damn about humanity.
They don't give a damn about equals.
They don't give a damn that we all are really the same.
All they really give a damn about is looking out for self.
Taking for self.
Doing foe self.
Self.
I give a damn enough to say,
"Hey, you can't win here. You can't run me away from a place I never asked to be in. You can't make everything that was set in place disappear.
You can't gussy up racism by calling yourself a "national socialist".
You can't be a person who advocates political independence for a country that was never your country in the first place.
You can't be a socialist when you don't practice the political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should they be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
You do not represent the words you choose. You are only out for you and you do it by spreading hate."
Stop that shit. We're all the same.
