This Second Degree ruling is the pacifier.
This is what white people have been doing to us since the beginning.
Oppress. Oppress. Oppress. They push until we start to wake up. And when the sense uprising stirring, they pacify us. They give us their two-bit reparations, or a second degree murder ruling for a man who without a doubt committed first degree on an innocent boy for his suspicious blackness.
And you’ll take the bait. And calm down. And move on.
Relevant passage i read on community/vigilante justice
“As Stokley Carmicheal noted “nothing more quickly repels someone bent on destroying you than the unequivocal message: O.K., fool, make your move, and run the same risk i run of—dying.” Unlike the mean-spirited, aggressive violence of white bigots, black-led retaliatory acts were viewed as being supportive of broad human rights. They were linked to time-honored societal mores which held that individual were justified in fighting back in order to preserve their person,property, or honor. They also were attached to the notion that a nation which fails to protect its citizens cannot condemn those who take up the task themselves.”
Passage from: New Day In Babylon by William L. Van Deburg pg 19-20
“a nation which fails to protect its citizens cannot condemn those who take up the task themselves.” that statement made almost too much since to me. Things like that are the reason there was a black panther party for self defense
Socialism is a key step in the war against the oppression of minorities
“Wherever we went, we were immensely impressed by the results of the fierce struggle that had been waged against racism after the triumph of the revolution. The first executive decrees of the new government had been to abolish segregation in the cities, brought to Cuba by corrupt capitalists from the United States. Now it was simply a crime to discriminate against Black people in any way, including the use of racist language. What was more important, of course, was the destruction of the material base of racism — weeding it out of the economy. During our trip, we saw Black people in leadership in factories, schools, hospitals and wherever else we went. It was clear to us — and Kendra, Carlos and I, the three Black members, incessantly discussed it — that only under socialism could this fight against racism have been so successfully executed.”
passage from Angela Davis an Autobiography pg 210 on her trip to Cuba in 1969
The strange thing that is in 1969 Cuba was beyond the point America is with minorities in 2012. Mostly everything we hear in America about non capitalist countries are lies and propaganda. Knowledge is power.
“You’re either part of the solution or part of the problem.”
-Eldridge Cleaver
I go to a fellow “conscious” black male’s page only to find tons of pictures of nothing but mixed,light skinned, or non black women.
