Wendell Allen, 20, is killed by a trigger-happy cop with a single bullet to his chest for getting out of bed shirtless to see what the racket was in his Gentilly home in New Orleans. Amadou Diallo, an African immigrant, is killed by NYPD officers with 41 bullets for daring to reach for his wallet while standing in the vestibule of a NYC apartment. Georgia Southern University student Levon Jones is choked to death by four white bouncers outside Club Razzoo in the French Quarter as New Orleans cops stand by watching.
Trayvon Martin, a Black 17-year-old, is gunned down by an overzealous Neighborhood Watch captain who thinks he is white for daring to walk to a store to buy Skittles while wearing a hoodie. Jordan Davis, also 17, is gunned down by a white customer who takes it upon himself to tell Davis and his friends to turn down the music in the car they are sitting in outside a gas station. Michael Brown, an 18-year-old headed to college, is gunned down for the crime of walking in the street. John Crawford, 22, is gunned down in a Walmart store for holding a toy gun. Ezell Ford, is gunned down by LAPD members for making what they called “suspicious movements.”
Apparently, “suspicious” and “Black” go together like grits and eggs.
Last week, a federal judge in New Orleans tossed out a wrongful-death lawsuit filed the family of a 20-year-old slain by New Orleans police as he headed to his job at Burger King at 5:30 a.m. While the cops clearly saw him as a threat, he certainly didn’t sound at all like Al Capone, Lucky Luciano or Frank Lucas. That didn’t stop them from taking his life.
Also last week, a grand jury in Houma, La., decided not to file criminal charges against a Terrebonne Parish sheriff’s deputy who gunned down an unarmed 14-year-old Cameron Tillman on September 23, 2014.
In case you didn’t get the memo, there’s a war being waged on us.
It’s a war that dates back several centuries.
The thing is, you don’t have to declare war on somebody to engage in war. You simply have to take calculated, aggressive steps to eliminate someone who you perceive as a threat or formidable opponent.
Black men qualify as threats because in the eyes of white supremacists Black men and boys represent genetic and physical annihilation. Mainstream media images of Black men as hyper masculine, physically dominant specimens have generated a great deal of fear among white Americans, along with the sobering reality that Europeans are a global minority in danger of genetic annihilation.
Black women are viewed as less of a threat because they are less likely th physically assault white men and cannot impregnate white women.
There are many media creations that underscore the threats associated with Black men. The early American film Birth of a Nation, in which a Black man accused of raping a white woman is dealt with by the Ku Klux Klan, is but one example of the many books and films that vilify and criminalize Black men. The Richard Wright novel Native Son also drives home America’s fear of Black masculinity. In the eyes of the powers that be, Black men are a constant threat to White America, one that must be neutralized and monitored at any cost.
Schools are designed to miseducate, undereducate, misdiagnose, marginalize, vilify and criminalize Black boys, often sending them to lives of crime, toil in the ever-expanding prison industrial complex or an early grave.
We should remind ourselves that while the media portrays Black men as dangerous and violent, violence can take many forms and be manifested in many ways. For example, the powers that be display their disdain for communities of color and the poor when they underfund public education, cut school lunch programs, slash food-assistance programs, ship jobs overseas, engage in drug- and gun-trafficking, criminalize and deport immigrants of color, allow companies to contaminate the nation’s land, air and water and block the expansion of programs like Medicaid.
If anything drove home the point that war has been declared on us, it was the use of tear gas, rubber bullets and tanks by police in Ferguson, Mo., last fall. The St. Louis suburb looked more like the Gaza Strip, Afghanistan or China’s Tiananmen Square than it did a small town in the American midwest.
Last fall’s show of military force was also a reminder of the 1985 bombing of MOVE’s headquarters by the City of Philadelphia, Pa.
As has been said often, knowing is half the battle.
We know what we are up against, so we have no excuse for not coming up with a workable plan to ensure not only our survival but our growth and progression as a people.
We cannot depend on mayors, governors, legislators, federal agencies, police chiefs or even the president to save us — we have to do that for ourselves.
We can do that by treating each other with respect and dignity and insisting that others treat us with respect and dignity.
One of the most effective military strategies over the curse of history has been to divide and conquer one’s enemies. We cannot allow ourselves to be divided and conquered by our foes any longer. In unity there is strength and power.
There is additional power in harnessing our political and financial resources. Voting alone will not help us unless we use our economic power to move our agenda forward.
It’s been said that the most revolutionary thing Black people can do is love one another. That love will empower, inspire and embolden us to meet whatever challenges come our way. That love will also give us the will and the courage to keep on keeping on when we feel like giving up.
When we grow weary or discouraged, we must remind ourselves that “I am because we are.”
It is too late for us to shield Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Oscar Grant and other victims of racially motivated gun violence from these hate crimes, but we can build a circle of love and protection for those yet to come.
@Siebra The saying “the answer is blowing in the wind” comes to mind. If you perceive danger you immediately make an effort to shield yourself before confrontations. Thinking out loud, we let the fresh air into our lives to drive away the stench of confinement. Do you think that when people develop their five senses, the sixth sense begins to activate itself?.....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_wits
This is a powerful article and have left me saying WOW this morning!! The truth is the power in this article and what does a grown trained Police Officer has to fear from a fourteen year old unarmed Black Boy? Black people here in The United States must use both our economic power along with the power of our vote will make that difference.
Economic power and voting power will not point the needle in the direction we must go since where we need to go is beyond and above our present economic status and our collect voting power!
God has communicated to me that our only permanent solution is to desire sovereignty; a country of our own. This country of ours will be from the northern borders of N.C. into the Gulf of Mexico and from the middle of the Mississippi River into the Atlantic Ocean.
There is no other solution and our permanent must be by an act of God. What I am saying would support the fact that I am Black America’s first genuine prophet since our solution must come by way of an act of God and I am proclaiming I am our prophet; God and prophets go hand in hand!
Harry, a desert island WITH BORDERS, the sooner the better.
Saturday, April 4th 2015 at 4:42PM
Steve Williams
HARRY,
look around you, look at Ferguson Missouri when they did not exercise there right to vote. Brothers and Sisters are 67% of the population there in Ferguson but because our people won't vote, they might have two or three Black police on the force. Look at our neighborhoods, look who is doing business there. As a practice we as a people go out of our neighborhood to do business.
HARRY, here you go again with this prophet BS on another's blog. Making a comment on the content of the blog is one thing but promoting it mess on someone else's blog it another.
If I was Sister Muhammad I would join Deacon Gray and BLOCK you from my site and delete your deceptive practice.
You are no prophet from God HARRY. I have busted you in LIES after LIES over and over again. Just look at you,, you have devoted just two lines in your comments and six lines in promoting yourself. Disgraceful!!!!
I am going to say to you and this will be my last statement to you since you don’t understand anything that I say! What I said about Black Americans voting is useless to Black America’s self-rule so I’ll say it a different way so your STUPID-ASS might understand. Whether Black Americans vote or not will not change Black America’s status and conditions in White America. Black Americans started out as plantation slaves and out status have not change. The only good thing that can happen to an enslaved people is to some day become solemnly free in a country of our own. Voting is an illusion just like believing in the Jewish Jesus and the White man’s Christian religion will make us equal to White people is an illusion. The only thing that will change our status is that God do for us Black Americans the same thing that God did for the Children of Israel by removing Black Americans out of the country of White American and into a country of our own just as God remove the Children of Israel out of Egypt and into their own Promise Land!
It is going to happen and I Know that it is going to happen because I am our first genuine prophet and when there is a prophet there is God since God and the prophet are ONE! God and I, Prophet Harry are ONE just the same as when God and the Jewish Jesus was ONE. Or I am Christ Harry!
All that you are doing Mr. Deacon is promoting more of the same that Black Americans have endured for the past 500 years and the is Christianity and voting on your own Black American people. There is nothing better for us than to have our own prophet, religion and our own country and you know it you damn fool!
So Harry, you are saying if Ted Cruz is the Republican nominee you aren't going to vote against him?
Saturday, April 4th 2015 at 7:44PM
Steve Williams
Steve, you are STUPID big-time!
Saturday, April 4th 2015 at 7:56PM
Harry Watley
HARRY,
If you are one with The Most High YAH I could not tell it. YAH worked with Moses and that mission did't take seven years to perform. YAH gave Moses the tools and the words to say to convince his Hebrew people and you have not convinced not a soul to join your BS yet.
You don't sound like anything at YAH would encourage his people with. You don't have to come back HARRY because you can see that you are wrong, that is the reason why the people on the right don't want The Black American to VOTE because you will be using your right, your power that many of our Mothers and Fathers bled for, fought for, and YES died for. This empowerment, this act of YAH thy GOD happen to The Black American in your life time HARRY, for you to be that witness to the power of YAH thy GOD.
That act took the power of the white bigot people of the south away from them, That KKK member, That Jim Crow follower, the person that want to go back to the good old days. Now here you come with this no vote BS, looking like you are working for that same right winged, white bigot. Hey BOY, can't you see me n*gga? Your reply, better b Yeser Boss, I see you.
Now if you got anything to say about the content of this blog I encourage that but if you still want to promote your madness then, make this your last comment and honor your own words. YOUR WORDS: I am going to say to you and this will be my last statement to you since you don’t understand anything that I say!
HARRY I just will not stand up for this BS of yours.
The reason why we are not to vote is because Black Americans are going a sovereign people in a country of our own. Our aspiration to be sovereign free is not inherent in voting; if it was YAH would have directed Moses to encourage the Children of Israel to vote in Pharaoh’s election. But, that did not happen because voting would not set them free idiot. Read the book of Exodus ass-hole wannabe Christian preacher!
The reason the Children of Israel did not vote in the elections of Pharaoh is because they would be taken out of the hands of Pharaoh and become a sovereign people in the Promise Land!
You are a stupid-ass man Mr. Deacon. Our youths want out of White America’s system!
From your answer Harry, I see that you do vote. Good for you.
Saturday, April 4th 2015 at 10:49PM
Steve Williams
HARRY,
You are so full of BS that it is not funny anymore. Pharaoh never had an election and there was no democracy in Egypt, do your point is mute. If you will Harry, show me where I can find that in The Book of Exodus? show me your proof of this bold statement of yours, I may reconsider my thoughts of you, show me that proof in The Book of Exodus .
YOUR WORDS: The reason the Children of Israel did not vote in the elections of Pharaoh is because they would be taken out of the hands of Pharaoh and become a sovereign people in the Promise Land!
where is your proof of that HARRY?
Saturday, April 4th 2015 at 11:30PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Mr. Deacon,
This is a teaching moment. I’ve said that you are stupid because you don’t think analytical and reason rationally. This is my moment to show you!
You said that Pharaoh never had an election and there was no democracy in Egypt. I was hoping that you would analytically think and reason to up-grade Egypt to America and you would see that the situation is the same. The Israelites are a different race of people from the Egyptians and Black Americans are a different race of people from White America. Secondly, the Children of Israel are a suppress people by the Egyptians as Black Americans are suppressed by White America. God came and remove the Children of Israel from Egypt as I am prophesizing will happen to us Black Americans into our own sovereign country as I have described many times.
But, what you are promoting for Black Americans is to integrate into White America’s system by voting when God did the opposite with the Children of Israel.
Then I said that the reason God did not have the Children of Israel to integrate into Egypt is because God had already decided that the right thing to do is to remove the Children of Israel from Egypt and into the Promise Land and you asked such a stupid question where is my proof. FU*KING IDOIT, did not the Children of Israel leave Egypt after the 10th plague? That is my proof!! The Passover ritual Moses instituted is my proof that the people in the State of Israel today still celebrate is my proof. How FU*CK ING stupid do you think and reason you ass-hole?
YOUR WORDS: The Israelites are a different race of people from the Egyptians and Black Americans are a different race of people from White America.
First off the people that you call Israelite are Hebrews since you call this a teaching moment. So, HARRY you are wrong on this point.
Second, the Hebrews and the Egyptians are the same race of people “Black or dark skin people but different cultures. Since you want to think analytical and reason rationally. If Moses was a different race “WHITE” like you love to say and the Egyptians are BLACK from the evidence found on the walls of Egyptian tombs. Pharaoh ordered all Hebrew boy child killed.
My question to you is, Pharaoh own daughter fished a Hebrew baby out of the river, knowing that this baby was Hebrew, The Pharaoh looked in this baby’s eyes, all throughout his pre-teen years, all through his teenage years, all through his twenties, thirties, up to his early forties, loved him like he was his own, IF MOSES WAS WHITE IN A BLACK LAND would the pharaoh himself permit a Hebrew child to be raised right under his nose if that child was WHITE and not BLACK like the Egyptians? Answer that question for me O wise as.
YOUR WORDS: Secondly, the Children of Israel are a suppress people by the Egyptians as Black Americans are suppressed by White America.
There is no comparison!!! Who are suppressing you HARRY but you? You have to admit since the civil rights bill passed into law, more of our children can get the education that black people here in America could not get. More doors have open up for us to walk through and more black people are teacher’s, lawyers, doctor’s, millionaires, business owners then ever before in this country. I no for a FACT that we have some work to be done but HARRY, we can’t give up the fight, not now.
HARRY this is our country as well, ALL throughout America’s history Black people have paid the price to be here. The only way that is not true, if you was to mentally challenge to participate in the struggle for FREEDOM on some level. The vote is our one right that we have and now you want to do the biding of that white bigot and throw that away by not using that power you have. YOU GOT TO BE KIDDY ME!
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT FuFu and don't bring this weak as mess back to me again, as I drop the mic to walk off stage.
This is what I mean about you being a stupid-ass. Whether the Children of Israel are Hebrews the ****ing point is that they are racially different from the Egyptian just as we are racially different from White America you ****ing ass-hole un-analytically thinker.
Then you say that the Egyptians are the same race of people as the Hebrew are, but God took the Children of Israel out of Egyptian because the Children of Israel was crying out for God’s help.
None you are saying makes any sense because it doesn’t match up with the Book of Exodus. I hate a stupid and irrational dialogue.
I don’t want carry on this dialogue with you any more. Get your wife, son, daughter or church friend to read the things I say and interpret them for you because you are one stupid-ass!
I don’t want to talk to you. I need to cool off because you are stupid!
Just look YOU!!! All of this theatrics to hide that FACT that you have not answer my question My question to you is, Pharaoh own daughter fished a Hebrew baby out of the river, knowing that this baby was Hebrew, The Pharaoh looked in this baby’s eyes, all throughout his pre-teen years, all through his teenage years, all through his twenties, thirties, up to his early forties, loved him like he was his own, IF MOSES WAS WHITE IN A BLACK LAND would the pharaoh himself permit a Hebrew child to be raised right under his nose if that child was WHITE and not BLACK like the Egyptians? Answer that question for me O wise as.
After all the prove that I have provided for you in series of 21 blogs that the biblical Hebrews of The Holy Bible was Black or of dark skin and you still have the mind set that your masters have washed your to, YES, YES, and YES I am saying the White Jew! The Jewish race was always Caucasian. The Jewish Jesus was a Caucasian man. This is no such people as Black Hebrew Israelites. The word Black and Hebrew don’t go together because Hebrew people are Caucasian people and Black people are Negroid people. Hebrew and Israelite go together because both names are Caucasian. Black is all together something else. Black is Negroid.
This ideology will not stand and will be challenged be me every time you bring this misconception to the flood. The reason why you are getting so frustrated is you can not prove none of that crap you are putting out of your backside. HARRY, if you could, you would bring those FACTS with you, when you came back to reply but yet you brought this crap YOUR WORDS: I don’t want carry on this dialogue with you any more. Get your wife, son, daughter or church friend to read the things I say and interpret them for you because you are one stupid-ass!
Poor HARRY, I can't make this up on your HARRY. You keep coming to the strongest people, with the weakest of BS. HARRY, don't hurt yourself, as I drop the mic again BOOOM!!! as I walk towards the steps of the stage.
Don't bring your as back if you are not going to answer that simple question I first asked you, do you hear me?
If we want to know what would happen if the masses of our people began to listen to and follow Harry, then we can just look at the history of the people that have followed Harry up to this point.
Harry, as I told you once before, Elijah Muhammad and Minister Farrakhan doesn't just come talking to us. Both men also worked and showed us through their works that they are trying to help us in the greatest capacity possible, and because as the saying goes: "A man is known by his works."
So when people like Harry sit up and try to throw out their little flimsy insults, all you have to do is ask him:
What are YOU doing, Harry? Show us how you are effecting a positive change within our community. Show us all the work that you are doing so that we can support you. Show us the schools you have built. Show us the children you have educated. Show us the beautifying of the community that you have done. Show us the jobs you have created.
You've been preaching the same gobbly goo goo for 6 years and counting, yet have accomplished nothing. You would try to tear down Elijah Muhammad and Minister Farrakhan, and try to get me to denounce the NOI and join your organization, when Elijah Muhammad and Minister Farrakhan has shown that they have more manhood in their pinky fingers than you have in your entire being.
What are you doing Harry, besides running your mouth with insults and calling us everything but a child of God, and you expect me to follow you? What are you doing Harry, when we've all seen that when you get mad at us, you want to sell us all these wolf tickets and direct all types of obscene names towards us?
You're not a prophet. You're just an ignorant jackass with diarrhea of the mouth. Yes, I called you a jackass, and I ain't apologizing.
I have PLENTY of ground for calling you a jackass, becuase every time you open your mouth, you prove that's exactly what you are. And until you can show us what you're doing besides being an ignorant jackass; I'm going to stay where I am.
I remember watching an episode of Montel Williams's show where Sylvia Brown was the featured guest. On that same show, one of the audience members asked her a question as to how one's sixth sense develop. Sylvia explained that the more spiritual we are, the more our sixth sense begins to activate itself, I believe that there is some truth in this.
Take telekinesis for instance, Telekinesis is an ability that a lot of black people have, but they fail to manifest their talent because of the belief that psychic powers are pagan (if psychic powers are related to magic or any kind of witchcraft than yes it is indeed pagan to practice this ability). Then there are others who may actually possess such talent, but it still will require practice and cultivation in order to make their talent much stronger and to see definitive result.
In a way, the same can be said of numerology. A lot of our brothers and sisters think of numerology as being a spooky thing, but all numbers are part of a mathematical pattern. Studying patterns, in calendar dates especially, can be fruitful and significant in all aspects: birthdays, deaths, weddings, graduations, and even arrest dates.
Sunday, April 5th 2015 at 4:51PM
Siebra Muhammad
