America's Second Civil War

America's Second Civil War

America is at war with the universe, a situation vastly more complex than any thinkers can imagine. With our myopic American exceptionalism, we are deaf, dumb and blind to the coming reality that we have out used our time in the universe.

And what we have done to the universe must now be called into account, and we know everything that goes around comes around. Thus, simply look at our condition, somewhat far beneath any animal or jungle savage in our destruction of each other and nature.

Our children are beasts who murder at will. And yet we are dumbfounded why they commit such acts. It never dawns upon us that our defense budget is a trillion dollars annually to cause mass murder around the world. Baldwin told us the murder of my child will not make your child safe.

American corporations have polluted the earth, rivers, oceans beyond repair. Only Mother Nature herself will be able to heal from the destruction by the hands of man, especially the so called leader of "civilization," America.

It is possible that none of us will survive the second Civil War, a war to address the lingering issues of this society: Race, Culture, Justice, economic parity and self determination for minorities. Denial and white privilege have forestalled any detoxification and recovery of those who control and benefit from a white supremest neo-slave system.

A second Civil War is inevitable once dissatisfaction forces people to demand radical changes in the social and economic order. The ultimate solution will be similar to the break up of the old Soviet Union, a Balkinization of territories and states into ethnic enclaves, white, black, brown and yellow peoples who shall claim sovereignty over their areas. Pakistan is another example of a breakaway nation once a part of India.

And yet, America may not be successful in such a break up because it may simply self-destruct due to environmental contamination. It may simply become uninhabitable. Where the population will go is any ones guess. Sun Ra said, "America, the Devil don't even want you, you ain't suitable for hell."

We may try to dismiss his words as poetry, although we know he was prophetic if there ever was a prophet in our midst. He said we were less than human, less than beasts, less than devils. And it's true if we examine our history and present behavior. We are worse than jungle savages who never went around the world committing mass murder, rape, torture, and genocide.

No wonder Mother Nature is stepping up to say enough of you who are beneath the vipers and cobras. Your sting is more venomous, more lethal. But we claim all is well, we shall overcome, we shall recover. And yet sincere thinkers and seers can see clearly we are on the way out. The Second Civil War is in motion as we speak. The war of drugs is war against the poor, for who fills the jails and prisons for drug offenses except the poor. Very few rich white men who bring in the dope go to jail, or if they do they buy the jail or prison and continue business as usual from their cells.

The destruction of public schools is but another war against the poor. The only reason Johnny can't read is because this society is afraid of men who can read. Literate and thinking men and women are a threat to this society. As a result the schools are merely holding cells for the department of corrections, as Dr. Julia Hare told us. What kind of society spends more for prisons than universities? What kind of society would spend $200,000 per year per inmate to incarcerate its children in juvenile halls? It would be cheaper to send all juvenile criminals to Harvard and Yale! Yes, give them ankle monitors and let them serve time at Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Harvard is now ready to receive all poor students and give them a free education!

War against the workers is in high gear with declining wages, declining benefits, declining jobs. What shall be the result of no jobs except war, first internal with violence in the hood, then it shall reach into the greater society with mass demonstrations and protests that shall be put down violently as we see happening in Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria, nations that have suffered from colonialism and neo-colonialism, just as we have suffered from domestic colonialism in America.

And so the war is in progress as we speak. Many of us are simply too cowardly to inform our children we live in a war zone, even after we attend last rites of fallen youth on a regular basis.
We don't tell them to "be prepared," as they go about their daily round, to be aware of their surroundings.

Some parents are indeed allowing their children to attend school armed to level the playing field as in the Wild Wild West. Even colleges and universities are permitting guns on campus so that students can protect themselves from deranged fellow students.

We may find ourselves exiting these shores as Elijah predicted in his lesson called The Exodus. The right wing whites may enhance their propaganda to the poor whites that the blacks are too uppity and must be contained, along with other minorities. The white ruling class may whip the poor whites into a nazi, fascist frenzy as the Tea Party is demonstrating at this hour. And the sad irony is that the ruling class care less for the poor whites than they do the blacks and other minorities. After all, poor whites ain't picking fruits and vegetables. So all this immigration BS is just that, BS! If you deport the Latinos who is going to do farm labor, construction work and other jobs whites and blacks refuse to do?

Isn't it clear if Blacks and Chicanos call a general strike this country will fall in a short matter of time? Two or three Days of Absence will bring America to her knees. At that time we may indeed call/demand a redistribution of the wealth, what's left of it and we know this Beast is not broke. She can be made to bring her wealth back from her global finance hideouts.

The blood suckers of the poor can be brought to trial in People's Courts throughout the land. There shall be no hiding place. The Second Civil War is not coming, it is now.

For sure, Nature is on our side. The birds and bees are with us. The bees are already withholding their honey because of man's treatment of them. The water is drying up for the same reason. The plants know how evil and wicked man is to them, polluting them with pesticides, insecticides and fertilizers, genetic engineering and cloning for the avaricious free market economy.

The capitalists cannot imagine a fair and just market economy. Such a concept is beyond the capacity of their souls. Amiri Baraka tells us in his play A Black Mass, "Where the soul's print should be there is only a cellulose pouch of disgusting habits!"

Fear is all one need to overcome. Do not be paralyzed by the fear of death and prison. You are in the big yard of the great America jail, you are on death row yet pretend you are living but you are a dead man walking. You can only come alive be rising and standing tall as you see the people doing in North Africa and the Middle East. They are the example sent to you. There was a time when you were their example during the American march for Civil Rights. Now you must stand up for human rights by any means necessary, although we can be more scientific and utilize the best means necessary to insure success. Fearless unity is the best weapon we have. Don't neglect sobriety and spirituality. Drunk and high, you can't see the enemy coming because you are the worse enemy to yourself!

--Marvin X

5/22/11

Happy Birthday Sun Ra!