This weekend Eric Garner, an unarmed Black man was
killed by police officers using an illegal choke hold. And the response from
the Black community was the same since, Oscar Grant, Sean Bell, Patrick
Dorismond and Amadou Diallio and countless other brothers who were killed by the
police: Call up Reverend Al Sharpton the pimp pastors of their communities and
go march and protest.
And while the activists and
Pimp pastors make the evening news and all the political TV shows making their
glib speeches and soundbites, the Black masses go back home to continue being
oppressed by the same racist and White Supremacist political polices.
Unfortunately, in the
aftermath of all the protesting, rallying by Black people, we get the usual
result: Officers get indicted, but a jury always acquits the police officers.
And after the verdict, Black people get outraged for a moment and then go back
to doing the usual amount of nothing they did before.
Albert Einstein said the
definition of insanity is doing the exact same thing and expecting a different
result. And protesting, marching and rallying hasn’t worked in over 40 years to
stop police brutality in the Black communities across this country.
It’s insane to continue doing
the same things and expecting change. But this is how Black folks have been
conditioned to think since the Civil Rights movement.
I believe it’s time for Black
people to move on from that era. The 21st Century requires a different
strategy to ensure further social change in the Black community.
Black folks need to
understand when something doesn’t work, then it’s time to try something else. Black
folks been marching and protesting police brutality for over 40 years. And for
all the marching, protesting and rallying, all Black folks got were sore
throats and tired feet. Not a single cop has ever been convicted using this
approach.
Black folks need to understand
America is a business. It’s a consumer based economy. And two-thirds of the
money in the United States is spent on consumer goods and services. The only
way to get the attention of White and nonblack businesspeople in those
businesses is to show them the power of Black dollars. It’s time to show big
business in America where $3.3 tillion dollars of their profits come from and
who 14 million of their consumers are.
White and nonblack People
treat Black people badly because Black people don’t value themselves. They take
Black people for granted because they know how easily distracted and how
noncommittal Black folks are when it comes to matters of politics. Black folks
will get outraged for a day, but won’t dedicate themselves to taking serious
ACTION to rectify a problem tomorrow.
Unlike the Civil Rights
generation, today’s Black people don’t have the discipline or resolve to
boycott American businesses across this country to make a political statement
about police brutality. To say to businesses across the country “I don’t feel
safe due to police brutality and racial profiling. And if it’s not safe for me
to go out, then it’s not safe for me to shop. And if it’s not safe for me to go
out, then I don’t feel safe enough to participate in the American Economy. And
until policies regarding Police brutality are changed, and these officers are
terminated, we will not go shopping, or participate in the nonblack parts of
the American economy.”
That kind of statement would
put people all over the world on notice. Especially if Black folks backed it up
with serious action. It would lead to CEOs putting pressure on the Police
departments all across this country. When they saw where their money was coming
from, heads would roll because their flow of $3.3. Trillion dollars in cash and
credit would be threatened.
Most Black people don’t
understand the economic paradigm in America’s consumer based economy.
Businesses sell goods and services that get taxed. Tax dollars pay for police
officer salaries. Businesses need police officers to protect their business and
pay their taxes. And if businesses can’t get money from customers for profits
and to pay the municipalities taxes, the entire paradigm fails.
Unfortunately, most Black
folk don’t think this deeply or critically. When the new Air Jordans come out
for Back-to-school, Most of the Black folks will forget about this latest Black
man killed by the police and go back to camping outside sneaker stores at 2AM
to get them. Some will even say forget that n*gger.
Because social currency is
more valuable to Black people than their own human rights.
Economic power is what gets a
people political power. Businesses follow the money. And when they see where
their money comes from, Businesses put pressure on politicians. And that’s how
policy is changed and how laws are enforced. Back during the Montgomery Bus
Boycott, White businesspeople who were hurting from the economic upheaval from
Black folks NOT riding the bus that they forced the politicians they paid to concede
and change their racist policies regarding where Black folks rode on the bus.
Back then a message was sent
that was heard loud and clear by White businesspeople. You can hate the Negro,
but you can’t force him or her to spend their money. For all their court orders
back then, it no one could force anyone to ride a bus in a country where people
had freedom to do whatever they wanted with their money.
And Black folks also need to
research what happened during the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s. When Americans
saw the total disruption of their economy due to them not being able to get gas
for their cars, America didn’t try to bully OPEC again.
Moreover, Black folks need to
take a look at the kid gloves America handles China with. China controls
two-thirds of all the factories where American goods are produced. The Chinese
hold most of the debt in the United States. There’s a reason why China has
“most favored nation trade status” with America No businessman in America wants
to screw up the flow of money.
American business follows the
money. And I believe it’s a time Black people sent another message to American businesses
regarding the Black dollar. If Black people can’t have something as valuable as
human rights then nonblack businesses in America shouldn’t have the right to a Black
dollar.
But Black folks are too
SCARED to send that message. Many of the pastors and activists depend on racism
and White Supremacy for their mealticket. So they play the obsolete march n’
protest’ shuck n’ jive blame n’ shame game in the hopes of getting some crumbs
from the table instead of fighting for a seat there. And by their actions
theyMake a pitiful statement about how codependent and dysfunctional Blacks and
Whites are on each other in America.
It’s sad to see yet another
Black man killed by the hands of police. But the only way to get serious change
is for Black people to change their approach to social justice. Economic power
is the only way to get the political power that leads to social change. And
until Black folks come to understand the concept of Group Economics, no one on
earth will value Black life in America.
I agree with this blog 100%. I believe that if the black community does not wake up from its distorted hope that the NYPD really want to protect them, then we are in for a rude awakening..
ReplyDeleteThis is what Dr. Claude Anderson emphasized in his book "Powernomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America" and in "Hidden Colors 2: The Triumph of Melanin".
ReplyDeleteWhen I look on the issues that plague the Black community, I realize that the action itself is not hard to do. What is hard is getting people to get on the same who are NOT crippled with fear and laziness and who DO NOT hate themselves and who HAVE done thorough studying and ACTUALLY HAVE an agenda PLUS a code of conduct...(*whew*)
I'm going to put it this way. Raising your hand is not hard. What is hard is organizing 50,000 Black people to raise their hand at the same time. Now that's hard.
It's like chess. The move itself is easy. What's hard is the planning.
I totally agree. That is why there are some places I will not support. This message needs to be published more.
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