Time for Serious Self-Serving

“Trayvon Benjamin Martin, a seventeen year old African American child walking in the street just a short distance from his father’s home was gunned down by a white man one rainy February night in Florida. The killer was briefly detained by the white cops and then released without charge. Trayvon’s lifeless body was tested for drugs and alcohol and carted off to the morgue, where it lay unclaimed for two days. The white authorities made no attempt to contact Tracy’s next of kin. For them, he was just black man gunned down in the street, nothing unusual, nothing to make a fuss over.” (OCCUPYING WESTERN CIVILIZATION, p. 1)

That was February 2012; and the president of the most powerful nation on the planet was a black man. Michael Brown was gunned down last Saturday in Ferguson, Missouri; and the black man is still president of the most powerful nation on the planet.

Isn’t it time for black people—even intellectuals—to be serious about serving our interests, to be seriously self-serving?

Is This How You “Do for Self”?

They keep gunning down our young black men on the streets of the nation. Yet the interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of the nation’s premiere HBCU (Historically Black College/University) in cahoots with the new president—neither man, incidentally, was born and raised in the United States—has effectively banned the book, Occupying Western Civilization: Debunking the White Supremacist Narrative. This book—dedicated to the memory of Trayvon Martin and Emmett Louis Till—is authored by a black conscious Howard University professor and published by small black press.

Marcus Garvey must be turning in his grave.

The Indian and “The “Gay”

The government of Canada—from the 1870s to the 1990s—committed an unspeakable outrage against seven generations of First Nations Peoples: the abomination that was the residential schools program. It was nothing short of a policy of systematic cold-blooded state terrorism perpetrated by the Canadian government in order “To take the Indian out of the First Nations Peoples.”

The residential schools program was supposedly driven by a spirit of “Christian” proselytizing, as is the current “reparative therapy” program. The latter seeks to “pray the gay away,” just as the former sought “to take the Indian out of them.”

God help us!