I don't normally blog much about current events mainly because I do all of my posts about events on my facebook page with like-minded people to prevent hurt feelings and bickering which oftentimes takes away from the purpose of the initial conversation piece. Nevertheless I am an African American woman who is fed up. Fed up with this white supremacist system we are operating under and fed up with people who seem to be blinded to that fact in spite of numerous black deaths at the hands of the police (race soldiers). In the last few days three men have been executed by the police either for absolutely no reason or for victimless crimes like selling cd's on the street. The main mantra after each death is "just cooperate with the police and everything will be fine". Of course, in all three of these instances, the three men were cooperating with the police and they were still murdered in cold blood.
This country has always had its issues with race relations. When you really dive in deep you find that this country was built on bloodshed, colonization and classism where if you aren't white you are not really given rights. My community has been raked over the coals the most. When you go back to Africa we were removed from our land and brought over to the American land through the transatlantic slave trade. We were mistreated for hundreds of years, forced to live on plantations where we worked day in and day out picking cotton. I wish it was as simple as picking cotton but we were also whipped with chains, raped, murdered and split from our family units, among other heinous things. People like to think that we were freed from being slaves because white people had a change of heart but this is not true. At the time there was a secession of the southern states in America from the northern states of America. The south was doing extremely well at the time, financially, on their own and they wanted to maintain being able to make their own choices which included expanding the slave trade amongst other things. Abraham Lincoln didn't like the idea of the south moving away on its own as this would null the Constitution and America would cease to exist so there was a war fought known as the Civil War. The south fought to keep themselves sovereign and the north fought to bring them back into the union for economic and constitutional reasons. Slaves were merely chess pieces, property to be owned, in the grand scheme of things as neither side really cared for the welfare of them.
Nevertheless we were freed as slaves a year or so later and was promised forty acres and a mule, each, to make up for the gross injustices that was carried out against my community. This was never delivered on completely and to this day we have never received reparations. We eventually moved into the Civil Rights Era where prominent leaders attempted to get us rights, and in some ways they succeeded, in a lot of ways they failed and we are reaping the consequences today of those failures. As of today we are still fearing for our lives. It seems as though this country truly hates my community and a valid reason has never been put forth. There has been racism in this country since its founding and the beginning of racism was, indeed, white Europeans. They have treated everyone of color bad but they seem to have a special hatred for my community. President after president has been appointed and black people, once we got the right to vote, has dutifully voted for who they thought was going to do the best job for us however no president has ever really stood up for us. Everyone else demands and issues get addressed and the black community is wading in the water just hoping to get even a small lifeline.
Everyone thought that Barack Obama was going to be a good fit and good look for our community but even though he's the first black president he has done nothing for the black community. The racism in this country runs deep. He is not even able to mention African American without white America getting upset and saying he's being divisive. So, what does he do? What everyone else does; he sold out to white supremacy. Suddenly whenever he truly addresses this community he refers to us as thugs and points out black on black crime which is a white supremacist talking point. Sure there's crime within the black community but name a community of people who don't have the same issues, and on a much larger level.
Well, it's election time and we are down to two candidates: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton is married to former president Bill Clinton. When Bill Clinton was in office he signed a lot of different policies into law that was a large detriment to my community, one being the three strikes law. Why is that a detriment? Let me give you the cliff notes. In this country black people are seven times or more likely to be stopped and profiled by the police. Due to the economic drought in a lot of our predominately black neighborhoods a lot of black people are selling drugs. Drug possession is punishable by jail sentences. One charge may not jam you up but it's enough to get a conviction on record which makes it impossible to get gainful employment. Once you are released from prison you have to live, right? So to live you need money. Where does one who needs money go to make money if they have a conviction? Back to the street to sell drugs. Once you get arrested two more times you are pretty much put away for an undisclosed amount of time (varies state to state but it's not a small sentence). Due to the fact that the police targets predominantly black areas they pick up and arrest more black people even though white people sell drugs at the same rate as black people. Therefore black people are being funneled into the private prisons to make money for the government which is a form of modern-day slavery. While Hilary's husband was busy ruining black lives she was not complacent. She coined the term "superpredator" during this time. This label was specifically placed on black men which defined them as being highly probable to commit violent crimes. Due to this term society became more and more afraid of our community thus racism increased ten-fold but the truth is black men are not being pushed into prison for being "violent", they are being placed in prison over victimless crimes which includes heavy incarceration over selling drugs.
Now, as you can imagine I have my concerns about Hillary Clinton becoming president which would put Bill back in office. They did a lot of damage in their eight year reign, I shudder to think what's up next for us. Now we get to Donald Trump. He has been very vocal in his hate for all groups that are not white. He's been brazen, disrespectful and has really cultivated the extreme racism we see going on to this day. Once he started speaking out about his hate all of the racists that was undercover started becoming more vocal and taking off the sheets, so to speak. Trump also has a history of racism regarding his apartment complexes where he was denying applications of black people who was qualified to lease out. He has successfully been sued over this.
That brings me to the point of my post. You are probably thinking "why on earth would you want to consider voting for Trump if he's been outwardly racist towards all people of color?" Simple. He's a white supremacist and he's an honest white supremacist. What I don't respect about Hillary is the fact that she will go to the "hood" and dance and use slang, trying to convince us that she's for us when she's assisted in demonizing us and won't admit to it. She was given a chance to apologize for coining our men superpredators when she had no justifiable reason to do so and she never did and her husband Bill backed her up. These people are liars, fakes and possibly the worst choice for president. With Trump we know what we're getting. We know he hates us and we don't have to sit back blinded, dazed and confused. This allows us to form together as a community and figure out a way to overthrow the white supremacist system to replace it with a system of justice. If a large part of our community is being lulled to sleep by the Clinton's because they think these people care about them when they don't that makes it infinitely harder to form together to push change. We are long overdue for a revolution. We have been beat down, murdered, discriminated against, as well as other crimes committed against us since we were brought to this country and not much has changed although the laws have changed to give the illusion that this society has progressed. I like to view Donald Trump as the reset button we need to force a war and get some of these matters out on the table so we can push for change. Things can't keep going like they are, we are literally being executed on the streets. I think that Trump would be a horrible president but he would give us the boost we need to finally get things going. He wouldn't be president for long because, no doubt, he's going to offend everyone and he might be impeached but before he gets impeached we would have started the process of overthrowing the system of white supremacy.
Don't get me wrong. I am not against white people. Most of white society have been lulled to sleep with the same lies and they need to wake up as well. White people are not the enemy. Our issue is white supremacy which is perpetuated by the government while white people merely benefit from this system but aren't much better off in the grand scheme of things when you really think about the possible goal with white supremacy. While it would be nice if white America would wake up, turn off their cognitive dissonance for a moment and really hear black people, in the end I think it's up to black people to get this ball rolling and I think Donald Trump is the proverbial bomb we need to get things started. This is the only reason why I would ever vote for him.
Resources:
Transatlantic Slave Trade
True Reasons for the Civil War
Forty Acres and a Mule
Civil Rights Movement
Three Strikes Law
Information on the Superpredator Myth
Former President Bill Clinton Taking Up For The Superpredator Myth
Regarding Trump Not Renting To African American's
Various Racist Comments From Donald Trump
The Unprovoked Deaths of Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile
Alva Braziel Execution (He Was Shot 10 Times!)
President Obama Refers To Black People As Thugs
The Murder Of Freddie Gray (led to the Baltimore Riots and President Obama calling black people thugs)
What is Classism
What is Colonization
