The Reactionary Negro
By Marvin X
"I'm about action, not reaction, construction, not destruction! I do not fear the devil: I fear no one and nothing except Allah!"--Marvin X
Why does the
so-called Negro react to everything in the world? Why
cannot he/she learn how to be proactive, to originate an
agenda and stay on focus no matter what else goes on
around him? Remember that old civil rites song, "I Shall
Not Be Moved." And the other tune, "Ain't Gonna Let
Nobody Turn Me Round." These are songs of the warrior,
not the supplicant, and until we don the persona of the
warrior we shall continue chasing fires, from coast to
coast, like chickens with our heads cut off. What about
a general action plan for the next one hundred years—our
enemy has one for us, to keep us oppressed for eternity,
but what is our plan, for then it doesn't matter what is
his plan.
But if we have no
plan, then we shall surely follow his, whether it is
expending our energy on a white woman for president or a
white Negro—this has nothing to do with the ultimate
national aspirations of forty million people. It is
about submission to the national agenda of white
supremacists and their collaborators. The Democrats and
Republicans are both white supremacists who will
ultimately attempt to maintain white privilege and power
around the world, utilizing the power of North American
Africans when it suits the agenda of white
supremacy—forget about the dream of democracy for it
only has relevance when it can be used as a subterfuge
for maintaining and extending white supremacy at home
and around the world. One need only take a photo of the
US Congress and Supreme Court to understand this is a
white man’s land, no matter what the demographics say or
suggest for the future.
We are caught in a
class war where color makes no difference. There shall
be blacks as dangerous to our national health as whites,
yet they shall be presented as our saviors and we shall
go for the sham liberators just as we would go for fried
ice cream or be duped into purchasing the Brooklyn
Bridge.
Wake up, North
American Africans and get a healing. Your slothful
thinking has you going backward into neo-slavery. You
are being attacked by white supremacy from Jena, LA to
West Virginia to Yuba City, CA, mainly because you have
been lulled to sleep with nursery rhymes of rappers and
pseudo prosperity sermons from preachers with more
dramatic techniques than Shakespeare.
You claim to be
mature adults and elders with wisdom, yet you appear to
suffer arrested development, for your pants sag on your
behinds just like your children, adult women have
tattoos above the crack of their behinds just as their
daughters. Adult men drive cars and SUVs with wheels
spinning backwards as do their children and the cars of
adults play rap songs unfit for adults with mature minds
we would expect to be listening to Miles, Coltrane and
Charlie Parker. Thus, you are part of the problem rather
than the solution.
So we wonder from
who might a solution derive since naturally and
traditionally adults are expected to rule their
communities. But adults and elders in the North American
African communities are terrified of their children,
refuse to speak with them or intervene while they
practice mayhem and behavior fit for animals. We refuse
to hug a thug even when the thug is our own sons and
daughters, nephews, nieces and neighbors.
Even when they go
to jail, the sons of most men are left to the tender
love of their mothers, for the men abandon their sons to
the criminal justice system or are themselves victims as
well.
And again, reaction
is the order of the day, for thinking is confined to the
box of Americana, thus the adults in the hood rarely
consider taking total and absolute authority over their
community, excluding the police, politicians and
religious leaders who are mainly agents of pharaoh,
Masonic neophytes duty bound to let the blind stay
blind.
But no matter how
long it takes, no matter how long the adults linger in
passivity and Hamletic indecision, the ultimate solution
is for elders to step to the front of the line and
represent, take total control over the social life of
their community. They must form elder councils of
radical men and women who are proactive with ideas fit
for the new millennium, integrated with the new
technology and wisdom from progressive elements of the
global community.
Ideas such as
entrepreneurship and micro credit must be presented to
our youth so they can envision solutions to their
economic woes other than drugs, pimping, prostitution
and murder.
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Response
Ours is a sad household. My
cousin arrested summer 2006 for the death of his stepson
received 35 years this week, no parole. They used his whole life
against him. His white wife along with her girls testified
against him and she got off rather scot-free. For evidence
against him, there were only
photos of the dead boy’s body that were of any consequence. No
direct evidence of his guilt, that is, there was no real
evidence as far as the boy’s death that could be levied against
my cousin. In jail without bail for over a year, he was
railroaded.
His family hired a $10,000
black lawyer, who we know now did less than the court-appointed
lawyer. Worse, the black lawyer talked my cousin into a "plea
bargain" that was not a plea (8 years rather than 50 years), but
the "plea" was just a court pressured admission of guilt,
2nd-degree murder, without jury trial, urged on by the $10,000
black lawyer. . . . One wonders how often the poor are
railroaded into such plea-verdict trials and end up spending the
rest of their lives in jail for crimes never committed.
Here indeed was a
"reactionary Negro" in the guise of a hustling black lawyer
taking advantage of the ignorance of a defendant and his Christ
miracle-believing family. There’s a predatory spirit afoot in
this country and you can't tell'em by the color of the skin.
I am afraid, Marvin, we are
already a defeated generation. We are hemmed in from all sides.
We can scream. But few will respond. Injustice in the land is so
deeply manifold. One knows not which way to turn. As far as I
know there are no "radical elders" ready to speak to or do
anything about the insidious criminalization of our children,
which has been going on for decades and may indeed be the main
issue before us. As far as I know, there are no "radical"
leaders willing to go beyond the status quo, whether in urban,
suburban, or rural centers.
As far as I can see the
present agenda is getting a Democrat in the White House,
whatever stripe, with no demands on them for relief.
According to Bill Fletcher
(recent
Black Commentator issue) the Congress, including
Hillary (Obama didn't vote on the issue) has declared the
Iranian government (Revolutionary Guards) a terrorist
organization. So though we have an American people who want a
withdrawal from Iraq, leading Congressmen/women have signed up
for a territorial extension of the war. Security (police) forces
are now being used to stymie all protest. With a state of
perpetual war, we all became captives of war-making sentiment in
Washington and military like forces across the globe.
But none of the facts
before us will cause the 10,000 black elected officials in the
USA to do anything more than urge the black voting masses to go
to the polls and pull the lever for a Hillary, an Obama, or an
Edwards. We have been out-maneuvered; beat down by a post-civil
rights generation of corporate bought elected leaders.
The only radical action I
can see now available is a boycott of the polls, a no-confidence
vote. But "radical elders" will find that thought unthinkable.
So as far as I can see nothing will stop the great boulder of
repression from continuing to roll down hill.
Calling the 10,000 elected
reactionaries at this stage may let off some steam but it will
not get us much beyond crying into the more horrid whirlwind yet
to come—Rudy, www.nathanielturner.com
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Perhaps the children will
step to the front of the line and lead us to freedom. Although
presently in a wretched state, we know they are the answer since
we are on the way out, but if we can break into their brains
with truth then there is hope for the race of the Race.
At my outdoor classroom an
older youth cornered younger youth and brought them to my table.
He made them ask me questions. A few weeks ago a 16 year old
came to my table, saw the book
Beyond Religion Toward Spirituality and said he
knew everything about the topic
—and
he did. He had been mentored and was very well read on
Afro-centric topics. Yes, he was one in a million, but there are
others like him and like the young man did, we must corner them
and hold their attention for their heads are like sponges, dry
ones at that, ready to absorb the water of truth. peace and
love,
Marvin
Pierre Scott as Pappy, Stanley Hunt III as Son
Cat Brooks as Mama 
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