Truth Transcends the Left/Right Ideological Divide

Truth Transcends the Left/Right Ideological Divide

As poet Amiri Baraka said some time ago, the intellectual lives a privileged life: after all, the common person cannot afford to think and/or write 24/7. The common man/woman hardly has time to think, let alone write that book they eternally claim to want to write. When I tell them to start with a page a day, most don't have the time or will, i.e. discipline, to fulfill such a seemingly simple task.

But as per clarity of perception, too often intellectuals might be better off not thinking or writing as well, or perhaps should be sent to the country side to endure forced labor as Mao made  them perform during his Cultural Revolution. Intellectuals are many times so ideologically divided they cannot examine reality for themselves and certainly not for  the common people. As Harold Cruse said, they are in a perpetual crisis, to the degree the people are leading the leaders, yes, no matter they are are unread and unpublished, still they are endowed with common sense so lacking in intellectuals.

Social Darwinist Planned Parenthood

For sure, neither the Left or Right, Black or White, has the moral high ground. Yes, they all fall short of God's glory. The most horrific example is how the Left supports the social Darwinist Planned Parenthood that originated in Eugenics, that pseudo-science that reached its perfection  during the Nazi era, but was borrowed from America. But the Left supports birth control--we say the woman's body belong to her and the man lost any say after he deposited his sperm--yet the Right is just as hypocritical since its Right-to-life ideology seeks to preserve the child's life until it is old enough to die in imperialist wars or become a life-long cog in the wheel of capitalism and wage slavery. As per the Left and Right, therefore, it is only a difference of time in the life of a child.

White Supremacy in the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street

For sure, the Left and the Right both suffer the addiction to white supremacy, whether Tea Party or Occupy Wall Streeters, neither is serious about detoxing and recovering since both groups enjoy white privilege. During Occupy Oakland the whites could park in bus zones to unload where blacks would be ticketed $350.00.

The White Woman Can Jog All Night Long in the Hood

Socalled white liberals have no qualms about enjoying the fruits of gentrification or Neo-Negro Removal coast to coast, i.e., the total destruction of the economic and cultural vitality of the Black community from Harlem to Fillmore. In the high crime area of West Oakland, white women can jog all night without fear of attack, after all, the "criminal" blacks know to touch her is a possible hate crime punishable by death. Meanwhile black on black crime is pervasive in the same neighborhood. The Black Left and for that matter the entire community is hypocritical about black on black homicide but march throughout the land when a white murders a Trayvon Martin or Oscar Grant, but they practice Silent Night while Chicago enjoys 45 dead or wounded young black men during a single weekend.

And how much furor has the Left made over the 700,000 mostly young black and Latino men stopped and frisked on the streets of New York, but after all, most of the stops occurred in black and Latino hoods. Would the Left or Right be silent if 700,000 white boys were stopped and frisked? But after all, white crime is done in suites, not streets!

Recolonization of Africa

While Left liberals, Yuppies and Buppies, gentrify the hoods of America, their Right wing brothers and sisters are recolonizing Africa, the continent blessed with an abundance of human and natural resources, allowing the world to enjoy cell phones and Ipads and a plethora of electronic devices, while most Africans subsist on less than a dollar per day, lack clean drinking water and wallow in ignorance and disease.

Let us be fair and balanced: the Chinese Communists are in protracted struggle over Africa's resources. They are just as vicious as the Whites to secure all they can of the Black man's land.

The Arab Spring

We can only moan for the Arab Spring because we know there shall be little substantial change, especially as per the rights of women so long as the Muslims remain steeped in patriarchal tribal and  Islamic mythology. We predict the Arab Spring shall die a natural death if the Muslim fundamentalists have their way, even though the Islamic path is a legitimate response to white supremacy colonialism and neo-colonialism. Under the old dictatorial regimes, the mosque was the only refuge of the masses, thus we cannot dismiss the Muslim ideologues, even with their reactionary views and practices to suppress the rights of women. Revolution is a long process, not an overnight product. And yes, often, the more things change, the more they stay the same. My dear friend, Syrian poet Mohja Kahf's poem My Little Mosque is a classic statement on the second class status of women in Islam globally. It is a disgusting narrative of Jim Crow Islam as per women!

Left/Right Violence Against Women

On the Left and Right, violence against women is pervasive. And when it is not outright partner violence, certainly verbal and emotional abuse is the order of the day. Even I confess that although I long ago stopped my physical violence of females, I am still guilty of verbal and emotional abuse. We thank the French for recently passing a law against the verbal abuse of women or partners.

A Sense of Humor

We must applaud the Right for at least having a sense of humor, so abysmally lacking on the Left. The Right's expression of its ideological stance is an outlandish revelation of moral myopia. They don't have a clue how sick they are and this is what is most laughable. The Left needs a good laugh because often their reporting of reality and truth is so Miller Lite, yet they imagine to be utterly profound. We urge the reader to get beyond Amy Goodwoman and company to digest Coast to Coast AM, a radio show that deals with the metaphysical or the deep structure of socalled reality.

In Defense of the Rich

The Right's defense of the rich is obscene, in spite of the Biblical admonition that it is harder for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for  rich man to enter heaven. Clearly, the Right in general and the Christian Right in  particular, suffer amnesia on this point, along with several other points mentioned in the Sermon on the Mount.

2012 Election

The 2010 election is a farce: Obama has out Bushed Bush. Obama's Right wing policies, whether foreign or domestic are an embarrassment to Black people and many Whites as well. The assassination of American citizens without charges and/or trial is an abomination of the US constitution, as well, the arrest and detention of US citizens without charges and/or trial. And Obama is supposedly a constitutional lawyer?

For a Leftist, he is shameful with his employment of the Right's trickle-down or Voodoo economics, including the bailout of the Wall Street bankers and US corporations, not to mention to trillions given
international finance. Meanwhile, there has been no program of substance for the millions of jobless and persons suffering home foreclosures due to the sub-prime loan scam. While Obama's health program was a noble exercise, it was essentially a sellout to the insurance lobby. And furthermore, without jobs how in the hell is one to pay for health insurance? It's like putting the chicken before the egg.

Obama said, "If I cannot turn this economy around, I don't deserve a second term." We agree. And yet the Right cannot denounce Obama for his meager support of the poor and middle class, i.e., the Food Stamp President!

After all, the Right perennially supports corporate welfare in the form of subsidies and bailouts while adamantly denouncing social economic support for the poor.

In conclusion, I said long ago in Jet Magazine (the Negro  Bible), "I don't want the black truth, white truth, Christian truth, Muslim truth, Communist truth, Gay/Lesbian truth, I want the whole truth, so help me God."
--Marvin X
4/26/12