Any Means Necessary Is Asking Too Much These Days

“Your blog is much more important than black unity. Whites don’t have white unity. Religious people don’t have religious unity. And yet they somehow have their voice heard. Why? Two things…Sheer numbers and a common background. Black people have a common background but we don’t have the numbers to effect change in the way we did in the sixties when the time for change was ripest. I’d much rather have your blog and Flavor Flav and the Muslims and the zionists all doing their own thing to effect slow change upon individual members of the majority race they encounter one on one. Why? Because I care about black people as a whole. The best thing we can do for that brother a lot of people refer to as a ‘ghetto rat’ is not to give him some ‘cause’ that he may not feel good without once it wanes, but to open up to him that he is personally responsible for where he is and how black people are perceived. Becoming a Muslim with a common cause is what saved Malcolm X from his circular, destructive ghetto mentality. But he didn’t really make the best changes for the race until he stepped outside of his fold. Conservatives are a large group. They can smack down almost any force that comes up against them directly. But they can’t do anything about my quiet education of ‘Ned’ at work, befriending the white youth my children bring home to do a school project with, or all the other infiltrations I make on the various boards, daily interactions, or influences I have because I am a sucessful citizen. ‘Each one teach one’ is powerful stuff.” – Carlton

Thanks for the feedback Carlton,

Of course white people don’t have unity. All those signs back in the day that said white only were only a figment of somebody’s imagination. It’s just a figment of our imagination that black people suffer the worst by every social measure. I really don’t know if you’re just trying to play devil’s advocate or you truly believe some of the less than sensible things you write. And people who share a religious doctrine don’t have a common agenda? Do you even think before you write? And this next statement really shows some fictional thinking:

”Black people have a common background but we don’t have the numbers to effect change in the way we did in the sixties when the time for change was ripest.”

So what you’re saying is that the black community has dwindled in numbers since the sixties? With more education now then we had then, and with a larger population despite the nonsense you’re trying to spew, the black community is powerless because black people simply cannot effect change. Your summation of the black community is truly sad. The problem is that many black people, such as yourself, are unwilling to work with other black people out of some irrational fear that you have to be a black drone in order to work with other black people. You are quick to say black people cannot make change without ever doing anything to try and encourage black people to make change. It’s just too hard for us to do anything like work together because we don’t have any numbers to do anything meaningful.

The care you claim to have for the black community is superficial at best. You’re the type of black person who insist that it is in black people’s best interest to have black people who are willing to participate in the subjugation of other black people. You claim to be the type of person that would find a spy working for the enemy an asset to your group, but you only say that when the subject at large is the black community. Would you hail Benedict Arnold a hero of the American community? But black people should turn the other cheek for black people who would undermine the black community.

You look at one example and you think it applies to everyone in every instance. Your cursory reference to Malcolm X being saved by joining a group but becoming good for the race until he stepped away from the fold is a truly simplistic explanation of a great man who had a series of experiences that made him the man few of us truly have an opportunity to know.

But even if what you said had some modicum of accuracy, one thing Malcolm X never did was stop working for the liberation of the black community or accepts the fact that any and all black people are necessary for the liberation of the black community. Malcolm X wasn’t afraid to say that a black man working for the white man’s agenda was a black man who was working against the black community.

Malcolm X talked in plain terms about the black man standing in his master’s shadow parroting everything the slave master said. When the slave master said, I have a nice house, it was the house Negro saying, we have a good house boss. And when the enslaved Africans were trying to organize and come together to revolt, it was the house Negro that was saying something like, we can’t do that because we too small and weak and we don’t have enough numbers. A house Negro will think of every reason in the world why black people shouldn’t be working together. Instead of bringing problems to the table so they can be discussed, considered, and countered, a house Negro is happy to simply say we can’t.

Malcolm X knew that the house Negro is the type of person who is more than happy to keep the status quo. Malcolm X knew that the house Negro worked for status in the eyes of the members of the dominant community. Malcolm X knew that the house Negro would be happy to say that he or she got his or hers while the vast majority of the black people struggled. Malcolm X knew the house Negro very well.

A lot of black people want to pretend that they are doing something good for the black community by implementing stealth on the down low guerrilla tactics as they prostrate themselves in front of white people in their community. A lot of black people think they are educating their neighborhood children and coworkers in the workplace.

But these same black people who advocate the abandonment of the black community by black people because black people working together is too hard are the same black people absorbing the values of the larger dominant community. A single black person in the midst of a hundred white people will be more likely to assimilate into the thinking of the larger group. A black person won’t hesitate to work with a large group of white people. But that same black person will cringe at the thought of working with a hundred black people.

Peace