WHITE PRIVILEGE, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND CHRISTMAS

EVERY white citizen of this nation, consciously or unconsciously, enjoys white privilege, for white supremacy is the bedrock ideology of so-called Western civilization, and certainly of this nation. Understandably, then, white people are not all that enthusiastic about degrading and destroying white supremacy.

But, today is Christmas, the season of peace, joy, and goodwill. So let’s all have a Merry Christmas.

OBAMA’S AWAKENING

Here is a direct quote from page 152 of THE GUNNING DOWN OF MICHAEL BROWN: AN AFROCENTRIC RESPONSE

However, Obama’s anxiety to appease the monster has not served him well. He will never be anything but that Black man in the White House as far as white supremacy is concerned.

          Once Obama is convinced of the futility of his attempts to appease the monster, he will be more likely to free himself from his mental slavery and really begin to be in touch with the ancestral wisdom, the secular wisdom of Black folks. He will take seriously the sacred mandate incumbent upon the pharaohs of old: to promote Maat—right order and justice—and to drive away jzft—the opposite of Maat—from the land. This will be good for Black folks and for all human beings.

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THE POLICE GANG BANGING OF ERIC GARNER

THE STATEN ISLAND GRAND JURY DECISION IN THE CASE OF THE POLICE GANG BANGING OF ERIC GARNER

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHITE SUPREMACIST “JUSTICE”

HERE IS SOME OF WHAT I HAVE TO SAY IN MY FORTHCOMING BOOK:

          On July 17, three weeks and two days prior to the gunning down of Michael Brown, a gang of white policemen jumped Eric Garner, a Black man, in broad daylight in Staten Island—not generally deemed to be part of the Gallant South—and murdered him. By the grace of God, the entire incident was caught on camera; so the entire world can experience that thrill of horror experienced by Frederick Douglass and his fellow enslaved African Americans on that day of infamy nearly two hundred years ago in Maryland. Those savage, murderous terrorists from Staten Island will supposedly try to claim before the courts that they, too, were acting in the interest of preserving rule and order upon the plantation. Eric Garner was forty-three years old; old enough to have been Big Mike’s father. He, too, was a big Black man: six foot three inches tall and weighed 350 pounds. These big bucks are too menacing! You either shoot them down or you form a pack to jump on them and choke them to death in plain sight in the public street.(Page 12)

A CONFLICT OF INTEREST?

The Howard University upper administration has imposed rather stringent budgetary restraints, as a consequence of which departments are not permitted to pay for the traditional Christmas office parties. This is understandable. However, the upper administration prohibits us from using the appropriate facility for our traditional Christmas gathering, if we “do for self” by organizing a “pot luck” celebration.

Whose interests does the upper administration serve, those of the outside corporation contracted to run the University center or those of the students and faculty?

WHITE SUPREMACY

Photo from demonstration in New York City--Courtesy of David Boothman

"This killer dressed in police uniform did, indeed, pull the trigger—perhaps as many as a dozen times—but, ultimately, it was white supremacy that gunned down Michael Brown. It is because of white supremacy that a young Black man in the United States is twenty-one times more likely to be shot dead by the police than a young white man." (Cited from the Preface of THE GUNNING DOWN OF MICHAEL BROWN: AN AFROCENTRIC RESPONSE)

PUBLICATION DATE:  DECEMBER 16

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THE GUNNING DOWN OF MICHAEL BROWN: AN AFROCENTRIC RESPONSE

COMING IN TWO WEEKS

Ian Isidore Smart argues compellingly that white supremacy bears the main burden of guilt in The Gunning Down of Michael Brown. It is because of white supremacy that a young Black man in the United States is twenty-one times more likely to be shot dead by the police than a young white man. White supremacy is the ideology on which our nation, and, indeed, Western civilization itself is founded. Smart cuts to the chase, confronting the dreadful scourge but avoiding the “paralysis of analysis.” The Afrocentric response he presents is the rising up the Black people of the planet to take control of our situation, harkening to Marcus Mosiah Garvey’s counsel, “do for self.”

This book is the perfect sequel to Smart’s Occupying Western Civilization: Debunking the White Supremacist Narrative (first published 2012).

“BLACK LIVES MATTER”

“BLACK LIVES MATTER”

This is one of the messages frequently appearing on the placards at the demonstrations. Well, if Black lives really do matter, why is the upper administration at the nation’s premiere HBCU (Historically BLACK College / University) uneasy with Afrocentrism and Pan-Africanism?

AND

My forthcoming book, THE GUNNING DOWN OF MICHAEL BROWN: AN AFROCENTRIC RESPONSE, will be released on DECEMBER 16. This is the opening paragraph of the Preface:

     By the time the book is published, the 2014 midterm elections will have been decided and POTUS may well find himself down 1 to 3 against the combined SCOTUS-House-Senate team; and the  prosecutor in The Gunning Down of Michael Brown will most likely still be holding off the announcement of his decision not to indict the killer cop. This killer dressed in police uniform did, indeed, pull the trigger—perhaps as many as a dozen times—but, ultimately, it was white supremacy that gunned down Michael Brown. It is because of white supremacy that a young Black man in the United States is twenty-one times more likely to be shot dead by the police than a young white man.

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!

You Know It’s a Plantation When . . .

It has a “Code of Ethics” that was created by the upper administration, is not generally accessible to the faculty and staff, and is interpreted and invoked exclusively by the upper administration AND IN THEIR SOLE INTEREST.

MIGHT VS RIGHT [LA FORCE ET LA JUSTICE]

One of the many fundamental absurdities of our human condition exposed by the 17^th century French thinker, Blaise Pascal, is the relationship between might [la force] and right [la justice]. In ideal social systems there is a harmonious relationship between might and right. Might without right is tyranny; but there can be no system without might. And a tyrannical, unfair system is a lesser evil than no system at all.

White supremacy is an unfair, tyrannical system for all non-Whites. The big question, then, is: is it a lesser evil than no system at all? Or, does this very question really beg the question?

THE 1.5/1.5 DEMOCRAT vs. REPUBLICAN TIE-UP

There are supposed to be three branches of government. However, the three are now evenly divided—1.5 to 1.5—between the two major parties. The Democrats control the White House and the Senate, that is, one branch plus half of the second. The Republicans control the Supreme Court and the House, that is, the third branch plus the other half of the second.

Talk about gridlock!   

TWO HORRIFIC ERRORS: IR655 (7/3/88), MH17 (7/17/14)

On July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy by horrific mistake murdered 290 innocent civilians aboard an unarmed Iran passenger aircraft—Iran Air Flight 655 [IR655] . It was one of those truly tragic errors that occur in the heat of battle. The USS Vincennes was legally positioned in international waters just off the coast of Iran and was part of the task force sent to defend the God given rights of the down-trodden international oil corporations to make a few bucks.

Yesterday, July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 [MH17], with 298 innocent civilians on board was blasted out of the sky. It was one of those truly tragic errors that occur in the heat of battle. The shooters of the missile were legally positioned in their homeland in eastern Ukraine and belonged to a popular army engaged in protecting their native territory from annexation by a central government, which they deem to be illegitimate. 

U.S. MILITARY ONCE SHOT DOWN A PASSENGER JUMBO JET

Yes, we have done it as well. We did it on July 3, 1988 when the crack shots on the ultramodern USS Vincennes shot down an unarmed commercial aircraft sending 290 people to their doom. Yesterday’s horrendous tragedy is, indeed, an unspeakable outrage. But, please spare us all the holier-than-thou stuff.

CHRISTIANITY Is To CHRISTENDOM As POPE FRANCIS is to The U.S. SUPREME COURT

Pope Francis is, of course, Catholic, as are five of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Pope Francis is a powerful public figure, as are the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. When it comes to public policy, Pope Francis takes positions that are clearly consistent with the spirit of Christianity. Fascinatingly, they are consistent with a set of public policy directives issued by Middle Kingdom Egyptian pharaoh to his successor:

“Take care of the people, the flock of the god. It is for their heart that he has made the sky and the earth . . . They are his likenesses, that came from his body . . . When they weep, he is listening. It is for them that he has made rulers … to lift up the back of the needy…For the god knows every name.” (James P. Allen, MIDDLE EGYPTIAN, p. 57)

Pope Francis as a public figure practices a Catholicism that is consistent with Christianity. The majority of the Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court as public figures practice a Catholicism that is consistent with Christendom. What does this say about the separation of church and state?