On Racist Double Standards And Spontaneous Political Violence

Joe Biden’s Mischaracterization of American Political Protest

“The American colonials proclaimed “no taxation without representation” starting with the Stamp Act Congress in 1765. They had no representatives in the British Parliament and so rejected Parliament’s authority to tax them. Protests steadily escalated to the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the burning of the Gaspee in Rhode Island in 1772, followed by the Boston Tea Party in December 1773. The British responded by closing Boston Harbor and enacting a series of punitive laws which effectively rescinded Massachusetts Bay Colony‘s rights of self-government. The other colonies rallied behind Massachusetts, and a group of American Patriot leaders set up their own government in late 1774 at the Continental Congress to coordinate their resistance of Britain; other colonists retained their allegiance to the Crown and were known as Loyalists or Tories.”

Recently Former Vice President Joe Biden, once Barak Obama’s neo-conservative White Ghost sitting by the Oval Office Door, had the testicular fortitude to demean the Rage of Black people long damn by White Male Dominated White Supremacy by conveniently camouflaging the tradition of White America’s own propensity for violent political protests. Biden’s Lectured the descendants of kidnapped African slaves on what constitute legitimate “protest” and what does not!

In his best philosophical but stern “Massa Boss” tone Biden said; “ Rioting is not protesting, looting is not protesting, setting fires is not protesting, none of this is protesting it’s lawlessness plain and simple”. Is that so?

What was it when White America’s founding fathers, British  Crown Colonial Settler’s declared “no taxation without representation”, and dumped King George’s Tea Shipments into the then unpolluted Boston Harbor protesting the injustice of England’s (their mother country) imposition of the Stamp Act in 1765?  Destroying Britan’s Tea must have looked particularly vandalistic to the Tea Totaling British aristocracy I’m sure.

What was the response of white American “Patriots” to Public protests that led to the legendary “Tea Party” vandalism?  Colonial State violence.  British gun fire and hot lead  were meted out to ramble rousers protesting British exploitation, romanticized in the history books to this day as the “Boston Massacre”?. Ironically, The first to die in this purportedly noble protest of economic inequity, was a Black Man, Crispus Attucks. Niggah’s to the front as usual.

But violent anti-British “protests” weren’t restricted to dumping Tea into the water. The Burning of State Property, followed with the “Gaspee Affair in 1772, The Gaspee Affair was a significant act of violence aimed specifically at British Authority in the run-up to the so called “American Revolution”. The HMS Gaspee^[1] was a British ship that had ran aground while enforcing Britains “Navigation Act” in and around Newport, Rhode Island in 1772. It ran aground in shallow water on June 9 near Gaspee Point in Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown bum-rushed the ship, and set it ablaze. The equivalent today maybe  pro-immigrant protesters burning a Coast Guard Cutter interdicting illegal immigrants into America. Now that’s what white folks call “protesting”.  But burning down Chain-stores is looting and vandalism when Black people do it

After the “revolutionary” destruction of British Empire Tea Britain began it’s clamp down on its unruly colonial subjects that culminated in the nullification of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and end to colonial settler’s self government. In other words King George took away his subjects right of self-government. Community Control. That would be Much like the federal government today ripping away Black People’s Community Control of Public Safety (if Black Communities did have such power as to control their own communities-which they don’t) and run everything from Washington, DC. And how did the “Patriots” in Britain’s 13 colony’s react? They raised a revolutionary army and killed British troops, looted British granaries, and assassinated British colonial administrators until Britain was forced to relinquish territorial control and political authority over their future.

America was built with bloodshed, violent protests, looting of Native Lands, burning of property. Once free, former “colonial subjects” of the British Crown, White America’s iconic “founding-fathers”  created  a system of primitive wealth accumulation propositioned on the brutal enslavement of African people brought to the Western Hemisphere butt naked in chains and  led like cattle to the auction block in ropes, lashed like mules.  This dehumanizing system human bondage was institutionalized, legalized, and socialized and enforced with unmitigated violence, selective torture, rape, and criminalization of melanin rich bodies. Given such a history, what should Black people think? That violence is as “American as Cherry Pie” or that “peaceful” protests always fall on the deaf ears of tyrants who hide behind “law and order”.

How long does a “Raisin fester in the sun” before realization that it was only a grape to begin with? Only Buffoons and bogus Black leaders will decry “get over racist dehumanizing enslavement”. Did Jews get over Nazis’s shoveling them into ovens and melting down their gold dentures into gold bullion? Did indigenous Native populations in Europe’s “New World”  “get over” the genocidal destruction visited on them by Spanish Conquistadores or is racism in South America a figment of indigenous people’s (and former African slaves) imaginations?  

Even after an America civil war, Lincoln’s  “Emancipation Proclamation” merely abolished  the “Chattel” and modified “the Political definition of the  Black “Slave.” Black Bodies were no longer the property of a once powerful White Plantation Ownership class (Though these aristocrats would quickly rise to Political elite across the once Confederate South as “Reconstruction” devolved into collusion with Northern Industrialist and Eastern Robber Baron’s eager to expand West and Steal a Continent).

Yes, the unavoidable truth is that  Black Bodies, Black Labor were subject to legal name change only.  Unowned Black bodies, unbossed Black Minds, Unafraid Black Resistance, were criminal, fiendish, hateful expressions of Extremism.  But as Chain Gangs and Prison Farms flourished across the former confederate south, While Capitalist wage-slavery displaced unpaid slave labor, except for punishment of a crime.  Eastern Industrialization supplanted the agricultural based Plantation system as the engine driving White America’s wealth. There was an entire Continent for the Taking! An Entire Race of non-Europeans to Wipe out. The Huddled masses of Europe, yearning to free, flocked to the land of “opportunity” to become equal opportunity White Supremacist beneficiaries of Rape, genocide, and Slavery.

Therefore Joe Biden’s mealy mouth denigration of Black reactionary unrest and destruction of property that doesn’t kiss his sanctimonious flat white ass definition of anti-racist protest is merely a hat’s off to all the Al Sharpton’s out there still “redeeming the dream” that has rocked Millions of Black folks to sleep since Booket T. Washington learn to read.

White American theft of African Labor, followed by institutionalization of poverty almost seamlessly arose from a semi-feudal system of agricultural medieval peasant “sharecropping.” A system of permanent debt, Generational poverty.  Almost 75 years of feudal “sharecropping” gave way to another half-century of Jim Crow degradation and second class citizenship.  

Even more, whenever White Supremacy and racist economic inequality were challenged as was the case in Tulsa Oklahoma, white “protests” burned Black community’s to the ground.

If Biden want’s to pretend nothing good comes from violence and destruction, then White America, his ancestors are the personification his proposition.  If Biden is correct when he says nothing good comes out of violence, then the foremost shining example of this is the United States of America.  America’s violent White supremacist creation is a classic example of the negative results of reactionary racist violence.  Racist America, a nation that has been at war for the majority of its years as a nation, has been bane on the world’s people of color since its inception.

AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER BY DHORUBA BIN WAHAD

Justice is for the living

“Many, Many, Many Men wish death on me”.. most of em, are dearly departed now. We were the Last of the Loud – but no more Shoutin’ now Cause God ain’t Deaf. It’s the Powerful among us who are deaf, so no more Crying on TV, Moaning and Groanin’ bout how White Folks don’t value our Lives and mobilizing a Movement led by Victimhood that claims the Dead need Justice. Justice is for the Living ’cause Nobody gets out this Life alive. That’s why most of the families of Black victims of racist law enforcement only get money settlements and Justice eludes the Black Community. Justice is for the masses of the living. So ultimately a people, any people. must decide for themselves whether it’s Freedom for Everybody – or Grief for Everybody. True Democracy and Self-determination can peacefully blossom, but seldom in history has that been the case. Seldom in history has there been a peaceful revolution of values and fortune without first a democratic distribution of the pain. So if this Generation truly believe their lives matter what’s the hold up? So just like back in the day, if you looked for me in the Whirlwind – you’d wouldn’t find a victim….cause nobody get’s out of this Life alive and it’s in the Whirlwind of Struggle we are truly “Citizens” – Not Victims.

U. S. AFRICAN AND MIDEAST POLICIES: WAR AS FOREIGN AID AND REGIME CHANGE AS DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION

The following Essay was written by Dhoruba al-Mujahid Bin-Wahad in 2012

Africans in the Diaspora are in a crisis of conscience searching for what it means to be “African centered” or Pan-African, and citizens of Racist Nation-states with histories of Imperial domination. We are confronted today with “New Age Imperialism” where national elites collaborate to oppress the poor and hungry of the planet rather than wage war with each other over the control of strategic resources. This global convergence of interests has found its natural opposition in the international character of the Muslim Ummah and its historical dichotomy with Western Europe (and by Euro phenotypical extension the U.S.).

The US and Race based Democracy – “Democratic Fascism”

In the U.S. where over 2.5 million American citizens are locked away in prison and another 15 plus million are ostracized owners of major “felony” convictions, the African-American population and other national “minorities” of non-European background are subjected to a contrived system of fascism masquerading as “democracy” – a political and social system of police and corporate control, a police state with unprecedented power (after 9/11 terrorist attacks) that employs a “National Security” rationale to conceal its crimes of “rendition”, torture (enhanced interrogation), indefinite detention, and targeted assassinations . Like most modern “national-security” states, U.S. policies are most closely associated with its perceived “national interests” primarily involving access to strategic resources and “trade”. The West’s bogus advocacy of supporting individual freedom by covertly encouraging “Democratic regime change” in Europe’s former colonial territories mask not only their own internal inequalities based on race, religion and gender, but conceal the often violent cooptation of legitimate revolutionary people’s movements that oppose entrenched oligarchies, Autocrats, while marginalizing and demonizing Islamic based anti-imperialist forces across Africa and Mid-East. Islam has replaced the specter of “communist global domination” as the foremost threat to global Finance Capitalism and Western global domination. That the West’s perceives opposition to neo-imperialist diplomacy in secular dimensions, characterizing this opposition as the “clash of civilizations) is not without historical basis.

Up until the overthrow of the western stooge Shah Reza Palhavi of Iran, a strictly Islamic based mass movement had never overthrown a modern non-secular Nation State backed by the Western Imperial powers. Needless to say the Iranian “revolutions” sent shock waves throughout the region and shook regional Sunni comprador classes (Oil Sheikdoms) across the region to their reactionary roots. But to the masses of Muslims on the streets of Arab capitals the Iranian revolution was a ray of hope – but its Shia dimension served the US and Europe’s historical fallback tactic of divide and conquer . We now see how effective the West’s early divide and conquer strategy of containment has been and how it has the region tittering on the brink of war. Many Arab Sunni rulers, with US blessings, covertly intensified their alignment with the European settler-state of Israel to contain Iranian geopolitical influence even as Israel gears up for military strikes against the Islamic Republic. US and NATO troops are stationed in Muslim lands, military bases across the Mid-East are designed to project Western full spectrum military power into the region. All this a consequence of US divide and conquer fear tactics liberally employed against Developing poor nations, particularly those in Africa and the Arab world.

With the support for US militarism abroad (war on terror) a fundamental principle of both the Right wing and “moderates” in the US congress , it is little surprise that white American politicians are also major supporters and instigators of anti-Islamic fervor both inside and outside the US. Because the ramifications of “the war on terror” has disproportionately affected the immigrant Muslim population in the US (African-American Muslims have lived under religious, racial, and political repression for decades) U.S. military and diplomatic actions in Arab countries of North Africa, Iraq, Syria, as well as in Pakistan and India has been characterized as unique, untypical popular resistance or an “Arab Spring”. This definition of uprisings across Muslim North Africa by the western media and westernized Arab intellectuals is contrived to achieve one thing: Dividing the Muslim Ummah along racial and historical sectarian lines, while setting apart Sub-Saharan Africans’ (and its oppressed Muslim Communities) from the North African, predominantly Arab popular uprisings against Corrupt, Authoritarian Regimes, and Military Rulers, therein neatly balkanizing any process of Pan-African unified political resistance along racial, religious, and cultural fault lines (that could threaten or curtail Western redivision of Africa’s resources) while simultaneously corralling the continents youth movements, democratic and humanitarian movements behind the Barb-wire parameters of State sponsored perpetual “war on terror.”

The use of the contextual term “Arab Spring” to characterize the mass uprising of NORTH AFRICANS against the rule of their despotic Arab elites is purposely and artfully spun to discourage restless sub-Saharan Black Africa and its Muslim populations, also subjected to corrupt military and authoritarian regimes, from emulating their North African counterparts. The media created notion of an “Arab Spring” disingenuously appeals to the “Anti-Arab” sentiments among many Pan-Africans especially in the Black Diaspora. ECOWAS and the African Union’s recent support of French military intervention in Mali and as US surrogate in Somalia, and else where on the African continent are testimony to how eagerly Africa’s political elite are utilizing the “West’s war terror” to secure their positions and prop up their power while ignoring persecuted and marginalized Muslim minority populations. In Nigeria the US is on the ground supporting the Christian dominated government’s “anti-terrorist actions” in the North of the country against an Islamic Boko Haram insurgency. In Somalia, the US drone war against Al Shabab has spilled over into neighboring countries, like Eritrea, Al-Yemen and has led to tribal unrest in Northern Kenya. While the US and its European Allies seemed appalled by the Muslim insurgencies in the North of Mali (consistently failing to mentioned that this crisis was long in the making and connected to the Western European’s deposing of Libya’s Ghadaffi and the silent collusion of Black Africa’s leaders with his overthrow) both the US and Europe are feign no horror or outrage by events in the Congo.

Africa, A War Zone Without End

Nearly 3 million people have died in Congo in a four-year war over Coltan, a heat-resistant mineral ore widely used in cellphones, laptops and playstations and other strategic minerals. Eighty percent of the world’s coltan reserves are in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Often dismissed as an ethnic war, or political contest for control of the central Government (hence management of billion dollar contracts with multi-national Mining Conglomerates, Corporate Consortiums, and the like) the real conflict in the Congo is for its natural resources sought by foreign corporations — diamonds, tin, copper, gold, but mostly coltan”

In an article titled “Why the U.S. Won’t Help”, a Nairobi newspaper explained, ‘Right from the days of the Cold War, Western governments have been comfortable with a situation in which African regimes squandered meager resources on the instruments of war, borrowing from the West to finance domestic consumption. The war in the Congo and the countries involved in it are a case in point’… In 1998, the State Department licensed commercial weapons sales by U.S. manufacturers to sub-Saharan Africa worth up to $64 million, on top of the $12 million in government-to-government deliveries that year. These figures have quadrupled since 1998 and the region is no closer to stability than it was when Patrice Lumumba was assassinated by the US, French and Belgians in 1960s.

The hypocrisy of the US and Europe asking Africa’s political elite to develop and democratize while cutting levels of non-military international aid and increasing weapons and military training to the continent’s Armies does not seem to have registered with African-Americans, neither those (Pan-Africans) who claim solidarity with the current crop of African leaders, or African-American’s elected to public office. This lack of outspoken opposition to US militarization of Africa, especially under the Obama administration is inexcusable and attributable to the uncritical and unprincipled support of the Obama regime by African-Americans. Moreover, Obama’s policy of destabilization and “democratic regime change” of governments suggest that there is little real commitment to developing Africa’s human resources and creating a new “partnership” with Africa. The U.S. needs to redirect the focus away from strengthening military capacity of African States, coopting ethnic regional differences to achieve U.S. objectives and supporting corrupt national elites and more toward promoting human development in Africa.

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Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st Century Revolutions

In 1969, 21 members of the New York branch of the Black Panther Party were rounded up and indicted on multiple charges of violent acts and conspiracies. The membership of the NY 21, which includes Dhoruba bin Wahad, is largely forgotten and unknown. Their legacy, however—reflected upon here in this special edition—provides essential truths which have remained largely hidden.

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