Somebody Tell Me

The forever asymmetrical warfare against

Poor and People-of-Color

Well, before you attempt to go on the defense consider this as not a personal attack against all their people who are genuinely trying to love their neighbor – no matter what the racial orientation may be.  If you are not consciously allowing hatred to go forward, you too can take a pass. 

Unfortunately, the majority of people of privilege do not genuinely [emphasis] love their neighbors, and they are consciously aware of the asymmetrical warfare that has been taking place against people-of-color for centuries.  Just like the riches of the land (or other people’ land) have been passed down through generations, the weapons used to assault others have also.

Let’s take a closer look phrase asymmetrical warfare.  Today’s acceptable definition of warfare depicts people physically fighting each other on the battlefield using both hand-to-hand combat and physical weapons.  Yet add asymmetrical   and the war campaign on the battlefield is appended to with nontraditional weaponry that can include a host of attack plans utilizing more than your traditional weapons.  

On the latter what immediately comes to mind are terms like:  cyber war; artificial intelligence; propaganda; psychology; sinister alliances;  politics, etc.  But the most ferocious and destructive weapon in this asymmetric is known as systemic - systemic warfare.

While some use the systemic and systematic interchangeably, and they do have some semblance, the major difference is systematic is constrained in time.  Let’s say it can be temporary, even lasts for a long period of time.

But when something is considered systemic the temporary status of systematic becomes permanent (emphasis].  So it can be argued that systematic is the harbinger of systemic (permanent) conditions.   Yet when there’s a systemic situation you are really looking at how the human constitution of a human being has been totally changed – permanently.  This process is historically constant in our American society where one of several things happen to the reconstituted soul:

-They longer have any significant attachment to their primordial existence/culture except for superfluous inventions that mimic some elements of a lost soul. As re-constituting is a asymmetric found in systemic impact, people standards and ideals becomes subservient (not merge) with the dominant culture.

-Now, the second part of this fact is thinking that being re-constituted to become ‘more like’ elevates the one being re-constitutionalized to a new status of privilege or acceptance?  Yet the opposite is true even if the re-constitution process yields different levels of change at different points before becoming completely re-constituted.  No matter how much you become like that other dominant culture, your status remains the same.

This is how the system has deceitfully fooled a lot of people-of-color including doctors, lawyers, scientist, etc.  They have swallowed a system whole (for no fault of their own) and the end result is a delusional existence.  

Not too many re-constituted people will admit that.  This in light of the prominent system continues to render a asymmetric assault that is cloaked in deceit and craftiness (This has been done for centuries), and normal the assault is so stealth that the epiphany comes much too late – and epiphany that makes one realizes that everything they thought was an act of love was actually asymmetrical warfare against to make it easier to codify ones acceptance of being controlled. 

Now, the good news is that not everyone (I would like to think the majority) has been conquered by the asymmetric assault.  Hallelujah!  Yet those who still remain standing are candidates for asymmetric attacks from every possible source – law enforcement, taxes, bill collections, new laws that infringe on privacy and family sovereignty, faulty legislation, huddles to health care, student loans and general debt, predators in the banking system, predators in the job market, predators in the drug industry, etc.  You see, the tools of asymmetric warfare are infinite.

 It’s time for people to understand that the battlefield is not necessarily in some foreign land as the existential threat is right in our front yards.  The option is resist or submit.

Submitted by:  Jerel Shaw