The Re-Cooptation of Us: The Power of Supremacy

The Re-Cooptation of Us: 

The Power of Supremacy

Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Song and Words from Music, Rights Folk Legend Peter Seeger's

As an Black American I feel rooted and grounded in my black culture.   My journey to other people lands and places, know matter how compellingly attractive, thanks to my upbringing by a strong black mother and father and yes, a segregated black community, I could never, and will never separate my self for not being able to state that "I Black and am Proud". Thank God for Jesus as well.  He taught me what it means when He stated "I will never leave or forsake you". This is my message today that I will continue to freely give, "I will never leave or forsake you".

...the point is that if you ever lived on my side of the track, I find it hard to accept other black people forsaking other black people especially after years of being (and continue to be) forsaken by a white ruling class...

I could easily argue that this power of commitment, to a large degree, is based on my sharing the suffering, indignation and cruelty suffered by black people for as young as I can remember. Our very souls and our identity was systemically and institutionally under attack 24/7.  One poignant case in point was that most of the blacks that I went to school with either consciously or subconsciously emulated white people, white culture.  Everyone was so indoctrinated and overcome by this powerful force that it really was not much one could do except to succumbed, or to be fair, I should say to not succumb to white superiority as much as possible, to always try to maintain some degree of blackness, even if it meant rushing home from school to be uplifted by the Mahalia Jackson who sang a gospel song before the afternoon movies, or waking up in the morning to see "Amos N' Andy" which, to me, satirized the disgust of white imperial materialist racist.

Making a long story short, the point is that if you ever lived on my side of the track, I find it hard to accept other black people forsaking other black people especially after years of being (and continue to be) forsaken by a white ruling class that seemed to do everything to destroy the soul, identity, dignity, and humanity of black people.  Of course the feeble acceptance (by white people) of their century-old white superiority act did come partially to a screeching halt in the processes of the 70s and 80s, but the damage had been done.

Because of the fact that white people would never be able to rectify or totally reconcile (or find the will) went their history and present day follies of racism -even if they've given half-hearted through facade like affirmative action who now they say is no more needed or arrogantly point to token blacks who have taken advantage of capitalistic system [and might add, their own people, too], it's time for blacks to stop expecting that other people can truly understand our historical pain and uprooting.  While one would argue that young black people don't even know what the fuss is all about, this really reaffirms the truth that they don't because consciously and subconsciously they've been robbed.  I would argue that that robbery  has been instigated by both, a dominant white culture and whitewashed black people.  This is hard to see when you have star (or celebrities) people who are harshly used to gloss over the state of race relations in America.  Recently the capitalistic oligarchy just anointed a black man a billionaire, or you have Jay-Z wallowing in this rich man image, or black athletes literally -by the tons- living and dying by the dollar never to discover how they even got their in the first place before losing it all.  Yet, I propose that the cruelest facade that masks the pervasiveness of systemic racism is that of 'black and White Perception'.  If you see black a man and a white woman together, especially the likes of that great basketball player Michael Jordan, or music icons Lionel Richie or Diana Ross, the silent but most likely intentional glorification of their racial mix really rewrites, destroys, and abandon history.

It's surely not the purpose to sound like a reverse Racist, after all, I've been a pioneer in cross-cultural communication for many years, and even founded a nonprofit organization known as Cross-Cultural Organization. And believe me, I've lived, played, worked, and loved many people from different racial backgrounds.  But this article is just a short little reminder to my black people.

"I'll never leave or forsake you.  Your beauty is deep, even after years of scarring and abuse.

But I plan to stand with you until I can't stand no more."