Blacks Need To Wake Up

The number one problem facing the black community is the lack of community as a whole.  Our community is not self sustainable.  If you want to do something like eat at a nice restaurant, take your kids to an arcade, etc., you most likely would have to leave the community.  Most major corporations have left the black community, meaning that most have to leave the community to get a good wage.  Positive recreation is a hop skip and a jump away – or in my case in St Louis, a one or two bus trek, or a ride on the highway.  I’m not counting the countless taverns and clubs as positive recreation, its wool over our eyes.  Keep the people drunk and they will accept the meager existence the system means for them to have.  The lack of many goods and services in a certain neighborhood eventually means that more money leaves the community than comes in, contributing to its decline as a whole.  This also makes the community dependent on others for sustainability.  Also, most who provide goods and services in our communities take those revenues back to their communities – the Chinese, Arabs, whites.  They are not paying taxes on a home in our community, nor are they shopping in our community, but due to a lack of goods and services provided by our own people, we spend our money with them.  And where do our hard earned tax dollars go?  We spend money to build jails that keep our people, who disproportionately populate them from reproducing and being productive members of our community.  We have no contact with our motherland.  We have been cut off for too long, and even I do not know what part of Africa my ancestors come from, but my skin color and history tells me that I am a descendant of that continent.  That’s why we need to establish and maintain ties to Africa.  We need to use our American education and freedom to develop and forge economic ties with our African relatives.  The world has exploited that continent for far too long.  Answer this; will French people and industry control the resources and people of Spain?  I seriously doubt that any people other than Spanish people will run that country, the same being said for China, Japan, Israel, etc…  Our problem is, we are here being distracted with our own issues.  We have fell out of slavery to fall into a mediocre existence with a value system drawn up to keep us in the gutter – a slavery of the mind. 

Another problem in the black community worth addressing is the drug problem.  We do not as a people have the means to bring drugs into this country, but in the end, we bear the brunt as the target consumer for these imported drugs, as well as collateral consequences such as the targeted possessor of these drugs.  They get all the way from cultivation, to transcontinental voyage, eventually ending up being possessed by a black person, who now goes to jail and has a felony conviction on his/her record – the war on drugs in full force.  Or is it a war on Blacks?  We populate this nation’s prisons, probation and parole and death lists due to drugs.  Don’t get me wrong, most importantly we need to wake up as a people, but also the bull’s-eye on our backs is unjust.  Condemned are those who seek to unite the Black community, and condoned are what will lead it and us to our destruction.  Just as America has its class system, you have dealers and users of drugs.  A person can be an upstanding citizen with a sickness, but they are criminalized for merely possessing drugs or what is deemed as drug paraphernalia.  We as a people need to wake up.  Just as oil is drilled in the Middle East, we extract bricks, copper, brass, iron, etc… from our community, adding to the degradation of its structural integrity and eventually its decline.  With the decline of the internal economy of the black community comes drugs, crime and prostitution – industries that when threaten the fabric of the other than black community, there is zero tolerance.  Crack and heroin epidemics did not enter the discussion of the government and news agencies until whites see their own falling into the clutches of addiction of these illegal drugs.  Let me also point out that these drugs were also legal until associated with minorities.  During the drafting of the Harrison act, which put restrictions on derivatives of coca leaves and opium, whites’ fears of uncontrollable, drug-crazed, sex-mad Negroes with superhuman powers while on drugs rebelling against white authority were played upon.  They also made references to Negroes under the influence of drugs murdering whites, degenerate Mexicans smoking marijuana, and “Chinamen” seducing white women with drugs.  In their minds at the time, Blacks, though free still had to be controlled, i.e. Jim Crow.  So when meth use swept through rural America, it was instantly brought to the forefront as an epidemic.  It did not have to reach the communities of minorities.  Why is this – it is because meth is predominately used by whites and threatens to undermine Anglo-control of this country.

With war in the Middle East due to the founding of the Jewish State, many Arab families immigrated to the United States.  They found work, and spoke little to no English.  Eventually, they learned English and worked their way to owning businesses.  Their children are now reaping the fruits of their labor with the ability and means to further their education.  Some move back and serve their home countries as doctors, lawyers, translators, engineers, etc…, and others expand the family business in America.  With each generation, there is a noted progression of status as well as a maintained economic tie to their home country.

We as a Black people need to wake up and do what needs to be done to contribute to our advancement as a community, not our demise and let go the lackadaisical mind state and contribute to the advancement of our people of the world – as are all other ethnic groups have been and are currently doing.  We have to start this generation.  Our children deserve this instead of what is going on now across inner-cities in America.