Within the last few weeks, the representatives of Black Lives Matter engaged in a dialogue with Hillary Clinton; this encounter was relayed through social media, and the outcome was pretty predictable.
I will first discuss how I interpret Hillary Clinton's response to this dialogue. First and foremost, I believe Mrs. Clinton is a very intelligent and a shrewd individual. After all, she is/was a lawyer. In reference to her response, I was not surprised in the least bit because she does represent the global elite i.e. white supremacy; she masterfully co-opted the meeting and deftly reflected Black Lives Matters complaint then strategically began to school them in the art of bate and switch politics. I don't place any blame, nor am I angry at her approach. I've said in my previous blog "If you don't understand white supremacy(racism)-what it is, and how it works-everything that you understand will only confuse you."(Neely Fuller Jr) Mrs. Clinton is performing her duty to the global elite by effectually silencing any retort from Black Lives Matter; she turned their ineptitude as leaders into a display of the master teaching the students.
I do not support nor agree with Black Lives Matter political ideology; this ideology seeks to duplicate the current state of the black misleadership class. Essentially, the Black Lives Matter representatives went to Mrs. Clinton with hat in hand asking what she would do to solve the problems of African-Americans being killed by the military squadron of white supremacy. Unfortunately, the Black Lives Matter movement does not understand they are the political descendants of the black misleadership class who have turned their backs on what the civil rights movement was supposed to accomplish. The Black Lives Matter movement does not have a coherent political ideology which seeks to improve the lives of African-Americans in this nation. Too many times, movements like these seek to justified their existence through the two party system in place-the Democrats and Republicans are an extended arm of white supremacy-because of this, we cannot construct a valid platform inside a system which seeks to maintain and continue the oppression of African-Americans.
Our political ideology must not run parallel to white supremacy; this simply means we cannot continue to wholesale support institution which exist to dominate African-Americans-our political strategy should run opposite of white supremacy-we must become self-reliant; in other words, self-determination is what we must strive for. We must develop a African/African-American consciousness which seeks to develop our own structure in economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war. These nine areas of African-American lives should be the specific target of improvement to enhance our lives; we should not seek to ask the power structure to solve our problems, but we should take ownership and implement strategies which will revolutionize our current existence in this society.
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Dr. Dre's apology
With the release of Straight Outta Compton, there has been a furor of criticism regarding the absence of Dr. Dre's abuse on women, specifically African-American women. I have yet to see the movie, but I will see it at some point to make my own judgments about the movie. I want to get into a more nuanced discussion of Dr. Dre's apology.
I've read a response from F Gary Gray who is the director of Straight Outta Compton. He states, "It didn't serve the narrative." I happen to agree with him because this is something that cannot be dealt with in a shortened form. Movies can never do justice to such a serious crime; every movie I have seen about an entertainer, falls short of it's goal to deal intricately with the flaws of the person. It is simply not possible to satisfy the public's expectation of such a feat--this was most apparent with "What's Love Go to Do With It"--everyone has their issue about this movies factual content. Dr Dre's abuse of women has to be dealt with separately and independent of the entertainment composition.
Like Dee Barnes, who is one of the women Dr. Dre abused, I believe violence against women is a larger issue than the context used to deal with the subject; many people use social media to express their opinion regarding this issue, but most fail to pen an accurate analysis of the subject--usually the subject is attached to African-American men as the poster child of domestic abuse against women--this caricature was made many months ago on the eve of the Mayweather vs Pacquiao event where Mayweather was vilified for his behavior towards women and rightly so; however, the criticism did not contain much more than simple airing of grievances towards him. This was a great opportunity to delve into the deeper issue regarding the abuse against women, yet it ran it's usual course of framing another African-American man as the picture of domestic violence. I believe in order to understand how to eradicate the symptom of domestic violence against women, one must understand it's root cause; you cannot fight an effective battle without knowing what you are fighting for and who you are fighting. We must take a roller coaster ride through history and find the starting point of the current phenomenon; the first form of violence projected against African women was through the global system of white supremacy(racism) inaugurated by the three major western religions i.e. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. One must separate their religious and emotional attachment from these specific faiths to recognize and acknowledge these three religions used religious dogma to justify their enslavement of African people. Most African-American people don't readily associated white-supremacy(racism) as the root cause of violence against African-American women. "If you don't understand white supremacy(racism)-what it is-everything you think you understand will only confuse you." This is a phrase created by Neely Fuller Jr which opened my understanding of what we go through here in America as it relates to our present condition as wards of the state sort of speak. We must understand the factors connected to our oppression and begin to take ownership of our individual lives to free ourselves from victimization and live as free men, women, and children. Our oppression isn't so much physical as it is a mental battle for the mind; freeing ourselves of the mental projections placed upon on us by our faulty thinking is a prerequisite to overcoming the obstacles in this culture.
Finally, getting back to his apology, whether it was done out of sincerity or a PR move, the apology is in the universe, air , etc. At least Dee Barnes as accepted the apology for what it is. Michel'le has not accepted his apology and that's fine too; she has made her own criteria for an apology to be given. Whether or not, he privately apologizes, is a matter between him and Michel'le.
I've read a response from F Gary Gray who is the director of Straight Outta Compton. He states, "It didn't serve the narrative." I happen to agree with him because this is something that cannot be dealt with in a shortened form. Movies can never do justice to such a serious crime; every movie I have seen about an entertainer, falls short of it's goal to deal intricately with the flaws of the person. It is simply not possible to satisfy the public's expectation of such a feat--this was most apparent with "What's Love Go to Do With It"--everyone has their issue about this movies factual content. Dr Dre's abuse of women has to be dealt with separately and independent of the entertainment composition.
Like Dee Barnes, who is one of the women Dr. Dre abused, I believe violence against women is a larger issue than the context used to deal with the subject; many people use social media to express their opinion regarding this issue, but most fail to pen an accurate analysis of the subject--usually the subject is attached to African-American men as the poster child of domestic abuse against women--this caricature was made many months ago on the eve of the Mayweather vs Pacquiao event where Mayweather was vilified for his behavior towards women and rightly so; however, the criticism did not contain much more than simple airing of grievances towards him. This was a great opportunity to delve into the deeper issue regarding the abuse against women, yet it ran it's usual course of framing another African-American man as the picture of domestic violence. I believe in order to understand how to eradicate the symptom of domestic violence against women, one must understand it's root cause; you cannot fight an effective battle without knowing what you are fighting for and who you are fighting. We must take a roller coaster ride through history and find the starting point of the current phenomenon; the first form of violence projected against African women was through the global system of white supremacy(racism) inaugurated by the three major western religions i.e. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. One must separate their religious and emotional attachment from these specific faiths to recognize and acknowledge these three religions used religious dogma to justify their enslavement of African people. Most African-American people don't readily associated white-supremacy(racism) as the root cause of violence against African-American women. "If you don't understand white supremacy(racism)-what it is-everything you think you understand will only confuse you." This is a phrase created by Neely Fuller Jr which opened my understanding of what we go through here in America as it relates to our present condition as wards of the state sort of speak. We must understand the factors connected to our oppression and begin to take ownership of our individual lives to free ourselves from victimization and live as free men, women, and children. Our oppression isn't so much physical as it is a mental battle for the mind; freeing ourselves of the mental projections placed upon on us by our faulty thinking is a prerequisite to overcoming the obstacles in this culture.
Finally, getting back to his apology, whether it was done out of sincerity or a PR move, the apology is in the universe, air , etc. At least Dee Barnes as accepted the apology for what it is. Michel'le has not accepted his apology and that's fine too; she has made her own criteria for an apology to be given. Whether or not, he privately apologizes, is a matter between him and Michel'le.
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