Never Forget: Buck Breaking

This is no popularity contest and I do not exist to appease Snowflakes. This publication is about truth. This publication is about enlightenment. Those unable to manage either are patently unwelcome.

When one controls the narrative, they can get away with almost anything. This is an important aspect of why the Alkebulanian (aka “African”) was stripped of their native tongues. Those unfamiliar with linguistics are unaware that, in certain languages, there exist terms for which there is no equivalent in another language. This results in what I call, a “linguistic prison” when an individual is forced to involuntarily relinquish his/her native language and forced to adopt another. It is an extremely powerful stratagem, and tactic.

The aforementioned reality of language is called untranslatability. Untranslatability is the property of text or speech that can not be found when translated into another language. A text that is considered to be untranslatable is considered a lacuna, or lexical gap. The term arises when describing the difficulty of achieving the so-called perfect translation.

Ergo when, for example, in the United States there are the incessant “conversations” on “racism” untranslatability has a great deal to do with why it is a circular and fruitless discussion. “Racism” is a European construct. Untranslatability has been weaponized by certain entities; particularly the colonialist entity and this leads to something known as “plausible deniability” which I will address in a future article.

In the Amerikan South during the 18th and 19th centuries, there was something called Buck breaking. This act of “Buck breaking” aka “bot bursting” involved white slave owners and merchants raping (sodomizing) a male slave in front of the public or entire plantation to embarrass him; thereby causing him to feel less of a man. The sodomization not only involved the insertion of the European’s genitals, but foreign objects as well. The horrendous, vicious, sadistic, perverted and heinous act became popular when there were increased cases of slave rebellion. The message: don’t dare try to be a man and fight back, nigger.

The thirty-fourth U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, while speaking to Chief Justice Warren about white southerners, stated he understood why they wanted to make sure that “their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big, black buck”. Old D-wight tapped into some heavy stuff on that one. Seriously heavy.

The way to control any species is to castrate or “cull” the males; something most hunters, especially the Great White Hunter, understand. This castration can be physical, economical, psychological, educational or societal. No society, and no people, can prosper and advance without fathers and strong men anymore than it can without mothers and strong women. Fact.

Resultant of the foregoing, the Black Man in the United States is portrayed as a societal eunuch; quite by design. Nearly 70% of all Black Babies in the United States today are born to unmarried mothers, and 64% of all Black Children in the United States grow up in a single-parent home. Tragically, fatherlessness strongly correlates with negative outcomes in nearly every aspect of a child’s life.

There is a reason that Black Men in the United States are incarcerated for greater lengths of time and in greater numbers than the aggregate U.S. population. It is no accident because even what appear to be “accidents” are not accidents. Getting back to untranslatability, in Arabic (one of the main languages, of many, that my Alkebulanian ancestors spoke) there is no real equivalent for the word accident, The closest there is “nakba” which means catastrophe, disaster, fatality and disgrace. A linguistic fact that I find intriguing.

Don’t shoot the messenger.

Along with disproportionately higher per capita numbers of incarceration, for longer periods of time, the Black Man in the United States is eliminated by the deployment of chemical weapons (drugs, alcohol, and processed food) that assist in his societal-castration, culling and genocide. If one were to examine penology statistics they would find that Black Men in the United States are incarcerated not only at higher rates for longer periods of time...but at earlier ages. What does this mean?

It means this: if I convict a 19 or 20 year old for 20, 30, 40 or 50 years I have not only eliminated him, I have eliminated his offspring as that is the period in which he would likely have children. If he, at 20 years old has his first child and two more in subsequent years he has a total of three. By the time he becomes 50 he may have a couple of grandchildren. But, if I eliminate him before he has children I have eliminated, in effect, a half a dozen of him at the very, very least. This is no accident, it is a nakba.

It is genocide.

Therefore, when you, whoever you are and whatever your stripe, shake your head at how “black fathers are absentee,” “black fathers are irresponsible,” “black fathers abandon their children” or “the problem with the black household is there are no fathers” stifle your arrogant, ignorant assumptions. When you, as am I, are sickened when you see young Black Men in the United States with pants “saggin” turn the word “saggin” around and know that they are as ignorant as you are. But, at least they have a somewhat valid excuse because they do not know their history, nor yours, that has been erased.

We shall never forget; and I am going to remind all.

For the record, I have raised my baby girl alone since the day she took her first breath. She is grown now and just completed her undergraduate work at a prestigious private university. She is in a Masters program currently. I had/have no siblings to palm her off on and no extended family.

I changed every diaper (other than her nanny during business hours). I potty-trained her and anybody that says (and I have heard this sexist statement a lot from women) that “girls are easier to potty-train than boys” did not have my daughter. I was an icon in her schools from kindergarten to high school graduation.

I read aloud at her elementary school to the class when they had “pajama day”. I have dozens of letters written to me by students, parents and staff thanking me for my involvement in not just her education, but that of other students. I was a judge on her award winning speech and debate team. I was on the PTSA. I never missed a “back to school night” (unless in hospital).

She has received awards for outstanding academic achievement from President George W. Bush, Laura Bush (multiple times), President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama (multiple times). I have transcripts from judges and psychologists applauding me as a father. She was on honor role every year of her academic life and the Dean’s List in college. Though she is not her father in terms of intellectual horsepower and some other aspects, she is damned formidable.

There is nothing unique about me, I was raised by my father. Black Men in the United States like me exist and that is what this society is afraid of. That society did not break this buck.

And I look like a million of ‘em.