@lookingnwords I heard your call yesterday to TTHP & really agree that we on the left need to have a serious discussion about 2A. It seems a few of us take far more seriously the current state/empowerment of domestic enemies than others. Personally I think owning any assault-like weapon should be outlawed, but we're NOT a nation of patriots & those who join the various armed forces tend to mostly be the very people many of us would need to be protected from. Add to that, the fascist seeking to regain power or simply look to the banana republic of Florida & see the demented abuse of power by DeSantis. I have posted a few times he should have Killer Mike on the show just to listen to why some have legitimate reasons to fear they may in fact NEED to defend themselves. I'm 60 yrs old and never in this life of mine have I been so scared for ALL who aren't a part of the good ole boy network. It is genuinely the most terrifying time of my life, which says A LOT. Anyway, hoping you'll call in about 2A, as I'm very interested to hear your take on this. Stay Safe as possible!🙏
Thank you for the acknowledgement. Thank you for being a thinking person (I have the smartest readers at Substack and they remind me of it constantly).
And, most of all, thank you for such an outstanding comment. My column on the second amendment will be in final draft this weekend for publication early next week for there is an ominous, and Anti-Blackist, angle to the Second Amendment that no one discusses.
I wrote a reply to your abortion article that probably fits better here. So see that comment, at least the last paragraph. I just want to add that you are absolutely right. Right in the entire article, and especially prescient in your last paragraph.
And of course right in your implied reference that American "crime" is mostly white upon black, and a lot of that not "neccessarily" physical. Even the welfare system is a crime of suppression forcing blacks into idle slavery to prevent economic advancement (irregardless of the fact that white people are also on welfare) welfare is synonymous with black women just the same as although the other subterfuges you listed.
Affirmative action is suppression, not that it grants a few blacks to excel, but that it prevents only a few selected to do so , hoping by allowing them to do so will turn them into submissive servants to maintain the suppression.CRT, basically was an evidentiary-based statistical analysis of white-on-black crime and is objected to because it is evidentiary which must be because some can be educated to be boys and not men and those boys can be tamed to say they are proof CRT is false.
Blacks are allowed to live anywhere but if they move away from the ghetto they pay higher rents or higher interest to do so. Is that not white on black crime?
Blacks can get grants to start a business but have to pay higher wholesale for supplies because they are "small" businesses. Blacks can buy a McDonald's franchise but go bankrupt more frequently because, they have to pay higher interest on their franchise, is that not white-on-black a crime.
Colleges still allow Amy Wax to publicly educate the superiority of white people. Is that not white-on-black crime?
It goes way beyond policing or physical suppression, and way beyond putting black men in jail. It is as you say an entire system built on a vocabulary of suppression.
And so the question becomes is this a war against black Americans, should they have the right to resist that system, as Malcolm claimed (others as well and I;m not positive if he was the first--maybe Marcus Garvey) by any means necessary? Look I'm against all suppression, and I think whites are oppressed but deluded into thinking they aren't and no bones are made to delude blacks (except for the tamed "pets").
So what responsibilities should American blacks have to themselves to do more than march in BLM parades of protest? As you note, a pretty day seems less and less and the potentiality for more whites taking more black lives is also likely.
I can't make the decision as I stated in my reply to the abortion issue, but the Americans who have been separated because of the color of their skin must decide if it is time to cross the rubicon (really bad example, but perhaps an apt expression) and decide whether more or willing to die to overthrow the regime (not conquer it) of oppression and the meaningless that their lives have always had in one big co-ordinated resistance where many could die at once or to allow their lives to continue to be devalued and taken from them at a lesser, but steadily increasing rate.
Strong, and articulate as ever. Awareness is powerful, and you do offer the truth in a way that no one can challenge, and only a fool could err. Thank you my brother.
@lookingnwords I heard your call yesterday to TTHP & really agree that we on the left need to have a serious discussion about 2A. It seems a few of us take far more seriously the current state/empowerment of domestic enemies than others. Personally I think owning any assault-like weapon should be outlawed, but we're NOT a nation of patriots & those who join the various armed forces tend to mostly be the very people many of us would need to be protected from. Add to that, the fascist seeking to regain power or simply look to the banana republic of Florida & see the demented abuse of power by DeSantis. I have posted a few times he should have Killer Mike on the show just to listen to why some have legitimate reasons to fear they may in fact NEED to defend themselves. I'm 60 yrs old and never in this life of mine have I been so scared for ALL who aren't a part of the good ole boy network. It is genuinely the most terrifying time of my life, which says A LOT. Anyway, hoping you'll call in about 2A, as I'm very interested to hear your take on this. Stay Safe as possible!🙏
Thank you for the acknowledgement. Thank you for being a thinking person (I have the smartest readers at Substack and they remind me of it constantly).
And, most of all, thank you for such an outstanding comment. My column on the second amendment will be in final draft this weekend for publication early next week for there is an ominous, and Anti-Blackist, angle to the Second Amendment that no one discusses.
I wrote a reply to your abortion article that probably fits better here. So see that comment, at least the last paragraph. I just want to add that you are absolutely right. Right in the entire article, and especially prescient in your last paragraph.
And of course right in your implied reference that American "crime" is mostly white upon black, and a lot of that not "neccessarily" physical. Even the welfare system is a crime of suppression forcing blacks into idle slavery to prevent economic advancement (irregardless of the fact that white people are also on welfare) welfare is synonymous with black women just the same as although the other subterfuges you listed.
Affirmative action is suppression, not that it grants a few blacks to excel, but that it prevents only a few selected to do so , hoping by allowing them to do so will turn them into submissive servants to maintain the suppression.CRT, basically was an evidentiary-based statistical analysis of white-on-black crime and is objected to because it is evidentiary which must be because some can be educated to be boys and not men and those boys can be tamed to say they are proof CRT is false.
Blacks are allowed to live anywhere but if they move away from the ghetto they pay higher rents or higher interest to do so. Is that not white on black crime?
Blacks can get grants to start a business but have to pay higher wholesale for supplies because they are "small" businesses. Blacks can buy a McDonald's franchise but go bankrupt more frequently because, they have to pay higher interest on their franchise, is that not white-on-black a crime.
Colleges still allow Amy Wax to publicly educate the superiority of white people. Is that not white-on-black crime?
It goes way beyond policing or physical suppression, and way beyond putting black men in jail. It is as you say an entire system built on a vocabulary of suppression.
And so the question becomes is this a war against black Americans, should they have the right to resist that system, as Malcolm claimed (others as well and I;m not positive if he was the first--maybe Marcus Garvey) by any means necessary? Look I'm against all suppression, and I think whites are oppressed but deluded into thinking they aren't and no bones are made to delude blacks (except for the tamed "pets").
So what responsibilities should American blacks have to themselves to do more than march in BLM parades of protest? As you note, a pretty day seems less and less and the potentiality for more whites taking more black lives is also likely.
I can't make the decision as I stated in my reply to the abortion issue, but the Americans who have been separated because of the color of their skin must decide if it is time to cross the rubicon (really bad example, but perhaps an apt expression) and decide whether more or willing to die to overthrow the regime (not conquer it) of oppression and the meaningless that their lives have always had in one big co-ordinated resistance where many could die at once or to allow their lives to continue to be devalued and taken from them at a lesser, but steadily increasing rate.
Strong, and articulate as ever. Awareness is powerful, and you do offer the truth in a way that no one can challenge, and only a fool could err. Thank you my brother.
Takes one, to know one.