“Boys In Blue, The Men In Black, The
Inventors & The Era of Necessity”
Where we keep messing up, is that
we keep getting it twisted! They never cared about us, not that they don’t!
The most important
preservation is that thing called self-preservation;
it kicks in first, as well it should – you’d be a fool not to. But, when it becomes assault, murder or the
genocide of a people is when you know that the person is not trying to harm
you; and your behavior or deportment towards them doesn't mirror that knowledge.
There has never been an “Us vs. Them”, that would apply that it was
a fair fight, we all know that it wasn't, no need to squabble about that. It has always and only been about them.
The U.S. likes to act as if we don’t have our own regimen.
The cauldron boils down to this
question that white folks can only answer, that spurs all of this debate and incenses
such a heated argument from both sides. “What if there weren’t any police?” To many blacks, we've already known or heard
of or been acutely aware that there was some form of presence in place meant to keep us “in line”; they’re known by other synonyms as “Overseers, straw-bosses or aptly known now as the police.” We have been policed and corralled in
ghettos since our arrival onto this continent; from the cotton fields, to the
prisons, to the streets we help pave, to the ones our sons and daughters are
losing their lives upon.
Now, if a white person answered
the same question, posed with the idea that we prosecute corrupt police and
department-heads, that the backlash would come back to them as hot grits on Al
Green, excruciatingly painful, therefore, at all costs, that must not happen;
some bad apples are tolerable compared to the possibility of a world without
them – it would be Gotham City.
Therein lays the crux to the
problem that must be solved for both parties to come to an agreeable
compromise. How to incentivize good
behavior from officers and weed out the rotten apples without causing a dissent
amongst the officers and experiencing anarchy
in our streets? Before that happens, white people will continue
to turn a wide-open eye and see blacks being slaughtered because the
consequences to them speaking out against these injustices just might come home
to roost. The same as with slavery and
the abolitionist; fear of losing their lives or their property, outweighed the
lives of the slaves whose lives didn't matter anymore than a dead dog.
#BlackLivesMatter #AllLivesMatter
Black folks… White people aren't
going to be able to solve our problem(s) for us; they never have, because they
can never understand our plight and what it is, and what it was, to be a black
person in the world, not just America.
The wheel was invented out of
necessity. Whenever a great achievement
is made, it has been out of necessity.
That is where we are – The Era of
Necessity.
Garrett Morgan, the inventor of
the traffic sign. Fred Jones, developer
of refrigeration for trucks, Daniel Hale Williams, pioneer of Open Heart
Surgery and the list goes on and on.
If we are going to survive this
system, then we are going to have to find another “invention” that will save
the lives of our people. We are going to
have to come together to find another alternative to us being “policed”, while
others are being “serviced or aided” – there is a difference. Body Cameras on the Boys in Blue are either being shut off when the crime is being
committed or the live feed plays, showing a murder in progress by an officer;
and nothing still hasn't been done to curb the tension, we’re experience; in
all actuality, it’s heightened. To them,
it’s one less of them that we have to
worry about policing. The entire country is nothing more than an
expanse of Master’s plantation and
anywhere we step is out of bounds, if we find ourselves being questioned or
apprehended – We are guilty until
found innocent.
The Men in Black are sitting ducks.
Hunting isn't a sport; it’s survival of the fittest from the animal’s
perspective. We are being hunted down as
escapees from the plantation, for stepping across the gun-line and for being
born the color that we are. The form of freedom papers that will give us any
kind of a chance of pseudo freedom is - Money. If you get too uppity, you could still lose your life, but it tends to buy freedom
to roam about under the guise that you are free. Freedom and Emancipation are two sides of a coin – Whites are free, Blacks are emancipated; we were liberated, therefore not entitled to the same
rights of the Constitution because it wasn't written with our rights in mind. The same as Donald Trump wanting to close the
borders because this is their country and they allow who they want in and when
you get in – act accordingly or else.
Our deliverance came at a cost
once before of blood, sweat, tears and PRAYER!
God is the same, yesterday, today and forevermore. Prayer will be the catalyst to have the
answer of invention needed to come to a resolution to save our race as a
people. God has already brought us a
mighty long way; we just have to continue to trust in him to bring us all the
way.
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