20. Political Unity

Soulful Musings on the Unity of North American Africans

Political Unity


In the election of Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency of the United States, we saw the awesome unity of North American Africans, in symbiotic harmony with Wall Street financiers.
Two years later, that initial elation and euphoria has turned to disappointment and depression, mental and financial. Of course we were idealistic and romantic about the possibility of the first black president in our lifetime. It was something that we simply never imagined seriously, forget about Shirley Chissem and Jesse Jackson, they were merely harbingers of that great day that finally came to pass.


photo by Gene Hazzard



Now that the fog has lifted and we have been forced to take off our rose colored glasses, we should understand that deception is the nature of politics and President Obama has proven himself squarely in the tradition.

But it is also a truism that politicians respond to pressure, yet we have not pressed him to pay attention to our agenda, while he has placated Wall Street, the US military and others in the military, corporate, university complex. The bankers who financed his election or selection have been reimbursed to the tune of trillions, yes, rewarded rather than punished for the global financial meltdown. The corporations are again awash with money, the banks as well, and again hubris is their hallmark card, for they outright refuse to share the wealth with those they robbed and left half dead on the roadside. For sure, Obama is not the Good Samaritan, but has sided, aided and abetted the robbers. The tax cut for the rich was his latest capitulation, although in his mind it was compromise, yet in the long term it shall do nothing to address the structural problems in the American economy, the jobless crisis and/or the housing foreclosure tragedy resulting from the sub prime loan scam.

In short, the masses have gotten nothing for their vote except a sexual orgy without Vasoline. Certainly, there is no change we can believe in, a belief is worth nothing, anyway. What do you know? We know what Frederick Douglass told us that no struggle, no progress, so only through protracted struggle and eternal vigilance shall we arrive at our political goals.

There are insurmountable obstacles in our path, if we allow them to be insurmountable, for we shall overcome with active struggle, not resting until we achieve our goals. It would be helpful if our elected politicians kept the pressure on Obama, also if we had radical lobbyists to advocate our cause. Perhaps we should be prepared to pay them their requested fees, especially if they deliver.

But most importantly, there must be mass mobilization to let it be known to all concerned that we are serious, yes, it is a matter of liberty or death! There must be mass protests, rallies, marches until politicians realize they must submit to the consent of the governed. We must be so forceful that we cut the umbilical cord of the finance, military, corporate complex that has politicians by the testicles.

The obstacles include the muzzle mouthed media who have largely joined in the attempt to crucify Wikileaks for revealing the hidden truth about the American empire. The Chinese say a thief is great until he's caught, so we thank Wikileaks for catching the thief who hid truth from the global village, in the manner of Ishmael Reed's Jim Crow Media and the Nigger Breakers and Gore Vidal's description of the New York Times: the purpose of the NY Times is to enter the battlefield after the battle and shoot the wounded!

So we must transcend the sycophant media magicians who protect and perpetuate the white supremacy world of make believe, for the media is definitely part of the problem, not part of the solution to our woes unto heaven. Thank God Wikileaks has pulled the clothes off the emperor and his filthy empire of predators who have the grand delusion human and natural resources are infinitely for their pleasure, no matter what price in blood, bones and the destruction of Mother Nature, although we know it is man that is in crisis, not Mother Nature who shall reveal to man that he has no infinite and/or divine right to the air, water and land she has bequeathed. If you have a good woman and treat her right, she stays, but when you treat her wrong long enough, she will be long gone. We think Mother has had enough of man and is preparing to shake him off the planet. You blew it, buddy!

Through mass mobilization, including the general strike, we must sound the alarm bell to those who imagined we were in a deep sleep and cannot hear them burglarizing our hearts, souls and minds.

Without structural change in the economic system, the millions of jobs the blood sucking corporations have outsourced shall never return. And without fundamental change in the banking and financial system, how shall the people recover their basic wealth which is home ownership. We see how the selling of toxic assents has helped bring about the global economic meltdown. Yet we passively sit talking on cell phones, listening to ipads and watching happy shows on giant screen televisions, while the burglars remove everything we own, including our very lives and the lives of our children as well.

The capitalist predators are skilled at bait and switch, for they try to convince us socialism is bad while they practice socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. They have their health insurance at our expense, yet we do not demand the same because they convince us health insurance should not be a human right, that it is not vital to the national security of the American people, but should be subject to free market forces. Have they convinced us everything is for a price? You know you shall be charged for the sun's energy, right? You want solar energy, pay for it and be glad about it!

Since the resources of the planet are finite, we are at the end of growth, although the American predators continued to consume 80% of the world's resources, though they are 20% of the population. This invites permanent war, and so it is. We were warned not to have a standing army, but such is required of an empire. When shall the people decide that the military budget is unsustainable and shall not provide us with national security but rather national suicide.

Except to plunder, why do we have 700 military bases in 130 countries. What is this but gunboat democracy, and we are reaping the blow back, for people are deciding they don't want white supremacy oppression, or any oppression for that matter. And we must join them, our brothers and sisters throughout the Americas who have said no more Yankee imperialism, Yankee go home. Masses around the world are saying this. Millions marched against the war in Iraq, yet America proceeded as if she were deaf, dumb and blind to cries from the global village.

The Democratic party is just as guilty as the Republicans, make no distinction, otherwise Bush, Chaney, Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld would be under indictment for war crimes or serving time. But no, African proverb says one white dog will not bite another white dog!

Our political responsibility requires us to get organized, unified and stand up to pharaoh and his magicians. But even if we do nothing, Nature shall take her course because resources are finite thus growth cannot continue, there shall be change that we should be part of, otherwise we are indeed part of the problem. We see America is bankrupt and ultimately revolution may be the only solution, so we must be prepared. And like the Jew, we must be prepared to stay and also prepared to depart.
--Marvin X
12/19/10