A Different Take For The Winter Holidays

Once again as we approach the Winter Holidays, a reminder that this is the time to get help when needed and

there’s no shame in it. Be well and be safe. And as a mantra when I see family and friends for a meal, I remember all of

the despicable things I’ve done to keep my finger from wagging:

How I stayed quiet during the AIDS crisis thinking, ‘Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time’ and all the damage

done by that collective reasoning. When the b word flowed from my mouth and I thought myself superior because I

NEVER said the c word. How rapes are rampant because I didn’t stand up when someone said, ‘Well what was she

wearing and what was she doing there?’ How the conditioning is so ingrained that any dispute with money

and my first thought is, ‘Well, he’s Jewish, so...’ and then I’m reminded of what folk think of me. Not ME me but Black

me. Scripture teaches that in order to be my best self, I have to expose and repent of my worse. So when you see

your friends and family, remind them of your worse self and level the ground between you. Every year during this time,

folk do the ‘white people thing’ and talk about how they’re gonna set their friends and family straight. It’s a running

Winter holiday meme that needs to die the death. Like believing that if they somehow get rid of 45, things will go

back to the way they were - racism’s previously intolerable levels. And that would be ok with them. How long are we

gonna keep fooling ourselves? ‘America is corrupt and corrupted and conditioned to be so, but because of my

superior intellect and upbringing, I stand immune’. We’ve got to stop falling for the same shtick season after season

and year after year. It’s like there’s some sort of spell preventing folk from seeing the obvious. Either we break

the spell or the spell breaks us. Can’t wait ‘til we have our own media. Everything changes.

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WE DEAL WITH RACISM ON ALL FRONTS

WE DEAL WITH RACISM ON ALL FRONTS We deal with systemic racism on all fronts. We mentor; we start programs to protect our kids; we fire ALL of the white cops from elsewheres patrolling and brutalizing Black spaces who funnel in the drugs and the guns with impunity then lock up our kids for having (or using) them. And where do kids get guns for drive-bys? (Rhetorical) And do an inordinate amount of crimes occur in Black spaces in Baltimore and Detroit and L.A. as opposed to NY because Black folk in our city have more character and higher morals? (Also rhetorical) It’s because cops are not allowed to pump these things in here! We do have CHILD rape rings here which rival Florida, Texas and possibly even California (California is a dense, big state). We need to fire ALL of the white cops from elsewheres patrolling and brutalizing Black spaces! And regarding the white people and the Black folk who worship them who aid systemic racism through complicity, ignorance and arrog...

REPENTING OF RACISM

REPENTING OF RACISM Racism means that firing ALL of the white cops from elsewheres patrolling Black spaces who hashtag, frame, brutalize, flood our streets with drugs and guns and whisk our kids away in CHILD rape rings to them and to others is considered ‘radical’ and ‘racist’, needing more ‘moderate’ measures like bodycams, civilian oversight and liability insurance instead, because the underlying racist premise that we’re programmed to think but NEVER (or rarely) say is that we are incapable of policing ourselves and that white cops from elsewheres are the last bastion of defense against utter chaos in our streets. But let just one cop do to them a fraction of what’s been done to us and the whole world 🌍 upends where they’ll fire, suspend or ban an entire precinct - including its chief - for the ill action of just one or two. To maintain this delusion, they have back to back cop and lawyer shows running 24/7 on tv along with a media and legal system that obfusca...

WE CANNOT COMPETE WITH THEIR NARRATIVES

We cannot compete with their national narratives. If they say that Black men are being wooed by 45 in record numbers and we say ‘not true’, we’re in denial. If we point out his overwhelming white supporters, we’re blame shifting. And once the story’s out there, the sheep will immediately bleat a response without giving the premise much thought. It’s because he chose a Black woman VP and we Black men hate that. It’s because 45’s brand of bucking the system appeals to us. It’s because we’re disenchanted with Obama. In short, they can say whatever they want and we’ll keep falling for the same shtick again and again. It’s how Chappelle can go on a crack binge in Africa because he balked at their not paying him according to his contract. How Marissa Alexander, a victim of spousal abuse which put her in the hospital in the past is deemed ‘no Angel’. Or how a kid, just trying to get home is murdered by a stalker, while the media blames his watching MMA on TV and the hoodie that he wore. ...

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