and you know, i’m not hung up on this about liberating myself from the Black man, i’m not going to try that thing. i got a Black husband, six feet three, two hundred and forty pounds, with a 14 shoe, that i don’t want to be liberated from. but we are here to work side by side with this Black man in trying to bring liberation to all people.
Fannie Lou Hamer x 1971
it’s been a tough week for me. the amount of insincere sympathetic words has taken a toll. the amount of virtue signaling and “i care because i said i care,” when behavior and mentality shows otherwise has gotten me to reconsider my relationships with people. it’s like when you remind a kid every day that having sex is wrong and they’ll die and you’ll be disappointed in them if they ever have sex… then say “but come to me if you’re thinking about it.” once that person does have sex, it becomes a survival tactic to then lie and posture in certain ways to make the adult around never suspicious. it’s why Lebron always made sure cameras were around when he “started” a new book. where am i going? people don’t care about Black men. and that creates a perpetual state of paranoia and tiredness in a social and cultural world, political and financial world, and dating world. innocent or guilty, dead or alive, rich or poor. people generally don’t trust you, care about your plight, or consider you human. you’re just… there. a problem that is a project that needs to be fixed. consider how you talk and view everyone… then how you talk and view Black men.
a little dark history.
on June 17, 1971, the president of amerikkka, nixon, announced, “amerikkka’s public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse. in order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive.” do you see the problem with that? probably not, so let’s back up.
when you think of the revolutionary organization, the Black Panther Party, what do you think? who do you see? what type of person comes to mind? take a look at these screenshots. i searched Black Panther Party on google, yandex (russian site) and duckduckgo and this was the result, without scrolling.
the BPP were majority women, so why do these images pop up most? what is the purpose of this media portrayal? i think i might know. the FBI director, j edgar hoover said in the FBI’s 1969 annual report that “the Black Panther Party, without question, represents the greatest threat to internal security of the country.” recognizing amerikkka as an imperialist power, that sounds kinda safe when you think how i think. the single greatest threat to the internal security of the big strong amerikkka is the organization the Black Panther Party. but people don’t think how i think.
nixon’s domestic policy chief, john ehrlichman, admitted in 1994, “the nixon campaign in 1968, and the nixon white house after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. you understand i’m saying? we knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. we could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. did we know we were lying about the drugs? of course we did.”
the leader of the “free world” and his advisors alike knew they had to create a narrative to get supporters. people in high places and the average citizen. mass propaganda is needed for support. in order to preserve the country that’s founded and funded on racism, in order to remain in control, in order to get backing for this grand plan to kill and dismantle the biggest enemy, you must create the biggest enemy. and the process of carefully curating this narrative started centuries ago, but the recipe has been the same: biggest enemy must be dangerous, ill tempered, incapable of reason due to maturity, sexually deviant, and untrustworthy to us and even within their own community. and it worked. do you now understand why in 1971, nixon saying the public enemy number one was “drug abuse” and how an all out offensive was necessary was problematic? nixon was waging war on Black men in broad daylight.
it’s like when people talk about Black people in a loving way, it’s really just Black women and kids. Black men are… oppressors. you can’t love that.
we have to de-colonize our mind. we have to de-colonize our mind. we have to de-colonize our mind.
the perfect victim.
Marcellus Williams was falsely accused of murdering a woman in 1998 and was sentenced to death. he was killed by the state on tuesday, september 24th, 2024. what keeps reappearing is “innocent Black man,” “they went through with the execution despite DNA evidence proving he wasn’t there.” we say that as if it ever mattered. we see and hear the same for all the hundreds of UNARMED Black men killed by the state.
Mike Brown, unarmed, still killed.
Trayvon, unarmed, still killed.
Tamir Rice, unarmed, still killed.
Terence Crutcher, unarmed, still killed.
Eric Garner, unarmed, still killed.
Elijah McClain, unarmed, still killed.
Sean Bell, unarmed, hours before his wedding, still killed
Oscar Grant, unarmed and handcuffed, still killed.
George Floyd, unarmed and detained, still killed.
Walter Scott, unarmed and running away, still killed.
unarmed and innocent are worthless words when talking about Black males. we were born and will die guilty. unless we control our narrative and de-colonize our minds.
Central Park 5
part of the Black Lives Matter org’s methodology was sure to highlight “unarmed” Black men. the leaders had much more sinister goals, but for the sake of today, they believed pushing the innocence of these Black males would change deep seated brainwashing. of course it did not. they wanted to come up with a perfect victim. there is no perfect victim when talking about Black males. Black men are guilty and ultimately remain guilty even when dead. there is no reset and new image despite proof from politicians and videos and authors of a conspiracy against Black men. and no one is safe.
jonathan majors was incriminated despite literal centuries of trumped up charges and character assassination of Black men from media and white women. no waiting for an inkling of proof. hell, people of the Black community sentenced him (part of the plan, remember). he was guilty because we wanted him to be guilty. Emmett Till’s murder and being lied on by a white woman didn’t teach us anything. he was guilty because of his Black maleness. even AFTER video shows majors sprinting away from that white woman, his image was cemented before that. Terence Crutcher’s own car stalled out on the highway. the pigs were called and the ones in the helicopter above stated that he looked “like a bad dude right there.” have you ever heard that before? a bad dude from a birdseye view? again, i want to make it clear. no Black man is above the reality of Black maleness=danger, guilty, or sex crazed. even those who dedicate their lives to YOU.
Dr Martin Luther King was the most targeted Black person in amerikkka. despite the government admitting that the plan was to “neutralize” him and others, we still hold on to the belief that he cheated on his wife, Coretta. and where did we hear that from? the government! we’ve been conditioned to hate Black males so much that we’ll believe the people behind making our life hell.
there is no perfect victim.
all you hear from the average semi bourgeois Black feminist (feminism is an ideology. same as many -ism. one can be a woman or man) is the construction of him. the militant Black male image will always be destroyed. it HAS to. MLK or Huey or Malcolm.
The BPP advocated for gay people and women while every other revolutionary organization and leader deliberately separated from both. the Christian organizations, NAACP, SNCC, CORE, none of them were as forward thinking and sympathetic to all oppressed people as the BPP was. yet, the image of BPP is what it is. that’s not accidental.
and we’re made to believe Black males have privileges simply based on their maleness. studying, maturing and challenging your thought and how you’ve been conditioned makes you come to realize racism is gendered. you start to see very few things are biological. but very few people study, just absorb everything by the institutions that chain you. and when people DO study Black males, they get called sexist and ignored because it goes against the social law. do we even know what anti Black misandry is? do we know how Black males from pre-puberty to manhood are perceived to be sexual threats and aren’t just fetishized over, but hunted and are considered to not be able to be raped? rape doesn’t happen to Black males, no matter the age.
when we talk about war, it’s “women and kids…” but never men. being Black PEOPLE are at war with empire, Black men not being considered as subjects and prisoners of war is erasure of an entire population and revisionist. when we talk about survivors of rape, survivors of domestic abuse, genocide, men aren’t included. we know how survivors behave after, we know the effects of domestic violence, verbal and emotional abuse… for everyone but Black men. being Black people are the most oppressed group of people, it’s beyond asinine that Black males aren’t thought of within these ideas. nobody THINKS to consider, much less study Black males as victims, just perpetrators. and i’m talking about the “progressive” people. not the “alt right,” but the WE CARE ABOUT FEELINGS AND PEOPLE and loving group of folk. i’m talking about and to yall.
when race was created, race “scientists” pushed narratives that Black people are born with smaller brains and are inherently violent, lazy, and prone to criminality. this idea became popular in 1735. it’s still popular. look at how people are talking about Haitians.
but what’s eerily similar is how gender theorists talk about maleness. males are inherently a way. though gender is a social construct, it’s still talked about and believed by people with degrees as if we aren’t all conditioned to behave a certain way. there was a time men used to wear makeup, wigs, and high heels. that represented status. that was a societal decision. now? total opposite. there came a point in the 1970s that it became bad business to lump races because the powers that be saw unity. they knew saying “Black people” wouldnt work as Black people were unified. so what did they do? push feminism and divide and further conquer oppressed groups with saying it’s “men vs you.” the collectivity of Black radicalism that once was was soon subdued and neutralized. exactly what the government wanted.
it’s white supremacy vs you. it’s racists against you. it’s capitalism against you. it’s patriarchy against you. i know we use patriarchy, sexism, and misogyny interchangeably, but they have different meanings and links to power. similar to feminism, capitalism, you don’t have to be a specific gender to participate in them. but people without power cannot participate in power structures, only used by the power structure.
***read They We’re Her Property by Stephanie Jones-Rogers, about white women slave owners.
and The Man-Not by Tommy Curry.
ol trusty perpetrator.
on oct 23rd, 1989, a white dude named chuck stuart and his wife, carol stuart, were shot in boston, mission hill neighborhood. they were carjacked by some random dude. she was killed, he was shot in the stomach. when the pigs showed up, the husband said three words: a Black male.
BPD had a manhunt for a Black male. they started stopping random Black men without any particularity. they just wanted something to stick. i mean, Black men are always guilty, anyway. they figured they’ll come across SOMEONE for an unrelated act and link him to the murder. the district attorney even called for a reinstatement of the death penalty. after some time, the BPD detained and then arrested Albie Swanson and his girlfriend. unrelated to the murder, but again, they figured they can find something to make it stick. it didn’t. so later, Willie Bennett, a Black male was arrested. he fit the extremely detailed description.
the husband left the hospital on december 28 and identified Willie as the attacker.
that’s all folks. end of story.
oh wait. on january 3rd, the white dude’s brother came forth and admitted that his brother had a plan to kill his wife and unborn baby for insurance fraud. the carjacking was a hoax. the story was a lie. it was all fabricated. once the actual killer found out about his brother coming forward, he committed suicide by jumping off a bridge. the case was dropped. Willie was released. the mayor apologized. we all go back to our regular lives.
truly, the only questions that matter that you can answer for yourself and others is 1) does a manhunt happen if the woman involved was a Black pregnant woman? 2) does a manhunt happen if that white dude said a white dude was the shooter?
wrongly convicted.
vincent simmons was released exonerated from prison in 2022 after doing 44 years for raping twin sisters.
ronnie long was was released exonerated from prison in 2024 after doing 44 years for the rape of a prominent white woman.
ronald gregory johnson was was released exonerated from prison in 2024 after doing 34 years for a murder he didn’t commit.
Black people in amerikkka make up only 13% of the US population, but make up 40% of the prison population and almost 60% of all DNA exonerations in the country. and are more likely to spend more time behind bars before being exonerated. when we see people in concentration camps, we think they’re the problem. we don’t consider them prisoners of war. we just think they threw their life away. we assume guilt. even when we know how corrupt this system is, we still hold zero space for the possibility of innocence. because Black=guilt. when we hear stuff on social media, there is no love or patience. and even when knowing everything we know, one nigga (that we might know) represents all niggas we don’t know. that is how the Black man guilt will forever remain.
and here we are. the nerves of accepting a false notion that Black males benefit from patriarchy. patriarchy is a system that is based on exerting power, not the illusion of power. which means Black males must have a power within the very system created to destroy the Black family. how can an oppressed group… show me two measurable metrics that make sense to you that Black males are patriarchs. dying younger than every other demographic? more health complications? hunted by the state? 1 out of 3 thrown in concentration camps? higher intimate partner violence than any other male demographic? the literal reason the state of california has strict gun laws today is because they wanted to disarm the Black Panther Party in 1967, which is the reason the media used the images we mentioned earlier.
take time to understand the paranoia and tiredness i possess daily that was mentioned earlier. i was told plenty of times there’s entitlement of my maleness for being seen in death. the visibility of my death matters, not my actual life. we have seen in the last decade entire movements and millionaires made by the death of Black men. that’s how lucrative my death can be.
we have to see the danger and irresponsibleness of the trusty perpetrator AND the perfect victim. centuries of conditioning leads to you immediately thinking jonathan majors was guilty of hitting a random white woman. conditioning leads to Huey P and the narrative of the BPP being what it is and not how progressive and revolutionary they were. conditioning leads to us believing the feds words of MLK cheating on his wife. conditioning leads us to the young men dubbed the Central Park 5. Willie Bennett. Trayvon Martin. Oscar Grant.
it runs deep. if we don’t have our own back, who will?
Marcellus Williams, William Bennet, Oscar Grant, Tamir Rice, men dubbed Central Park 5…
unamerican idol 