2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm Black. Old Blacks have failed us. It's time for Young Blacks to make our stand on Super Tuesday [View all]johnlucas
(1,250 posts)Oh so you have a problem with me calling this situation out in front of White folks.
I don't care if White folks if hear it or not.
This needs to be said & this needs to be addressed.
I'm not the one to start lowering my volume when I notice White folks around.
That's that plantation bullshit & I don't play that mess.
That "Speak your mind loud & proud! But be careful if them White folks hear you." kind of thing.
We do TOO MUCH of that shit.
I live in Georgia. I see it all the time.
Scared of losing their job or losing their status because they're scared what White folks will say.
I link that phenomenon to the reason why Black gangs are so quick to shoot themselves up but totally terrified to point them same guns at the cops who brutalize us.
Black people's heritage is this country is to speak TRUTH TO POWER.
We're the CONSCIENCE of this country.
WE are the ones who tell on this country not living up to the brochure it advertises.
We do it better than anybody else.
It's what we're known for.
And Ashley Williams exposing Hillary Clinton right in her very FACE is just one more of endless examples of us doing just that.
Bree Newsome with that disgrace of a flag in South Carolina, same thing.
Even Beyoncé at the Super Bowl.
Nobody else had the guts to say "Fuck Tha Police" other than Black folks like N.W.A.
That's what we DO, 1StrongBlackMan.
But you're not the ONLY Strong Black Man out here.
I'm one TOO.
And I'm not gonna wait for the "proper time" or "proper place" to address this problem.
I have to call out my heroes, 1StrongBlackMan.
If I didn't care I wouldn't do it.
And you think this is the first time this has happened between generations of us in our Equality Movements?
You think this is the first time this has happened even within the same generation???
Malcolm called out Martin! And he did it in front of White folks!
It's the same thing that goes on in hip-hop all the time.
When you're falling off, when you're screwing up, you get called on it.
And you get called on it in front of EVERYBODY. That's the whole point.
Louis Farrakhan called out Michael during the Thriller days & later supported him in his trial days.
Yep, enemies within.
Unwitting enemies perhaps but enemies nevertheless.
They're backing the wrong horse. Hillary won't do a doggone thing for us.
All she will do is "perform" & do a couple of stunts.
Wherever her donors go, she will go.
And we ain't got enough money to get her attention.
After she's done playing Black Church & busting the Nae-Nae with the kids, it's back to the "REAL" issues.
And our community will be left holding the bag yet again.
Nah, not this time.
We're not going out like that this time.
And if the majority of older Blacks continue backing the wrong horse, we'll just have to knock that horse down.
If they prevent us from doing it, then they will go down WITH that horse.
Our social, economic, & physical survival rests on this election.
This is not a game & this is not time to be paying back political favors.
John Lewis may have let the Clintons use him but they will not use ME.
See you on Super Tuesday.
John Lucas