By Risen Pharaoh
Horror films of the seventies and eighties often had the same premise where the protagonist checked beneath their beds for a psychopath, their hearts pounding dreadfully with every ring of the phone.
When the character answered the phone on the final ring, it was discovered to be the authorities, calling to inform them the monster had been in the house all along.
Predictably, a menacing shadow loomed in the hallway, scaring the protagonist.
This scenario is synonymous with the state of our people: the problems we’ve encountered in the diaspora have largely been the monster in the house. We’re on the outside looking to solve internal issues.
Yes, while wars are waged abroad, there are domestic wars daily in our communities with black on black violence as a constant. Whereas, this social pandemic can be viewed on a moral level, it reaches deeper into our spirituality.
In America we don’t live, we exist. Our presence isn’t celebrated, it’s tolerated. In the last post I iterated the three types of Europeans.Well, “black” leadership in America falls into three categories and there are three types of African-Americans that are produced by this type of leadership.
The Aristocracy
These are your top earning, talented tenth philosophers that feel called to dictate to the race on policy and happenings. They manage activity in the community and have great relationships with the political structures in the community. They control the way you receive the information and shape every debate about your hardships on television with pundits. They get but a piece of the pie themselves delude you into believing crumbs are progress.
The Average
This is the least influential, most influenced type. They copy the modes, moods and axioms of the aristocracy, from dress code to variants of behavior. They are looked upon as primitive by the aristocracy yet beseech the aristocracy’s approval. These are your blacks that recite rap lyrics, but can’t read. Our “sistas” purchase technicolor wigs to emulate Nicki Minaj yet don’t know about the legacies of Sojourner Truth, Marie Brown or Queen Hatshepsut. Gucci Mane is their god but Dr. Amos Wilson’s words are foreign to them.
They regurgitate, through their actions, the worst of Eurocentric behavior and values. I’ve said it before and it bears repeating: Black people are the white people. When the European emerged from the Dark Ages, he distorted the original system of the world and inflicted his period of suffering to every other group.The average black typifies the Black Dark Ages.
The Artificial
This black purposely impedes the progress of building of a black nation. These are your folks that protest, riot and rally hundreds of us under their titles of Rev., Dr., Imam or Master Teacher. If the revolution won’t be televised, why are all these revolutionaries getting airtime interviews? Revolutionaries don’t get airtime, they get assailed. They don’t have followers, they have people that understand their cause.
Many large companies market inferiority to us because we don’t have an apparatus in place as competition to combat it. Boycotting is worthless, as evidenced by the Walmart strike, if we return to the same business the next day.
A rhythmic and purposed people, we were the crafters of instruments,industry and invention. It’s as if our presence here was ordained by those greater than us and our millenniums of progress and innovation was a pleasure for they and their colleagues to watch. With this knowledge( know-the-ledge) in mind, we’ve got to build a nation, for as Garvey remarked, “ Germany did it, England did it. Africa with four hundred million can do it!”.
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