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Brothers and sisters we are gathered here to pay our last respects to a "brother" who is known to one and all and loved by none--UNCLE TOM.......... He was born on a plantation in the deep south over 400 years ago. His father was a white SLAVE MASTER and His mother an unnamed SLAVE GIRL. He worked in the 'big house' in His formative years and could often be heard talking against the field negroes--to massa--with utter disdain. He was rewarded with the title of "straw boss" for this..... He later parlayed this into an attitude of self-righteous SUPERIORITY amongst His own people..... UNCLE TOM found religion at an early age. He mastered the fine art of manipulating EMOTIONS as a form of crowd control and division. This was later used to greater effect when He could often be found in the pulpit blustering LOUD and saying NOTHING, numbing the minds of our people...... UNCLE TOM was joined in unholy matrimony to AUNT JEMIMA and to this union was born two children, CHAOS and CONFUSION, who served their parents well....... UNCLE TOM served His country with distinction......He specialized in cleaning LATRINES with a smile and being a "FLUNKY". When other brothers fought against the latent racism that existed in the armed forces, HE would refuse to join in any discussion of the subject and informed the commanding officer of their motives as he spit shined the officer's boots. For this, He was moved UP in rank..... You see, UNCLE TOM was a pioneer in the relationship between the races. There was no a$$ He wouldn't kiss....no boot He wouldn't lick...no cause He wouldn't sell-out... Whenever there arose a fortuitous chance to "bow and scrape"--He took it!! When asked about His behavior, He'd just scratch His head, grin, and shuffle away..... Whenever blak folks got tired of the inhumane treatment that was thrust upon them by this country, UNCLE TOM was right there....reassuring the "OTHER FOLKS" that nothing would ever change and that "freedom" was just a figment of a schizophrenic mind-set, laboring in the brain cells of MORONS.... When the mighty trumpet of REVOLUTION was sounded and echoed through the most perverse urban areas of the overcrowded major cities...there, UNCLE TOM could be found: Buck dancing for nickels on the ghetto streets--like the TROUPER He was....and trying His best to diffuse the powers of COMPLETE, radical, change......... When blak folks got tired of riding on the backseat of PROGRESS....UNCLE TOM didn't stand still, NO---He went to the nearest phone to SNITCH to the authorities about imagined or planned uprisings. They later elected Him to congress for this..... When influential men sat at the table of UPWARD MOBILITY for ALL people, UNCLE TOM was there also.....With His hand UNDER the table, selling us down the river of STYX for crumbs and pennies....All the while lining His own pockets with profits--legal or otherwise... UNCLE TOM used His trailblazing spirit to join the movements of Marcus Garvey and the N.O.I. There was NO cause--too big or too small---that HE wouldn't INFILTRATE. Whenever blak folks gathered together in the spirit of abject togetherness and UNITY,.....UNCLE TOM was right there creating DIVISION within our midst....His presence, alone, GUARANTEED that nothing POSITIVE would come out of our meetings......all the while informing to His so-called superiors...... UNCLE TOM was known as a GENEROUS man.....He gave HELL to anyone whose views didn't correspond with this Government that He loved so much. He was always there to heap words of DISCOURAGEMENT upon any blak brother or sister standing up for their rights.....Why, I can still remember the first time He called me a blak M.F. to my face!!!!! Yes, UNCLE TOM has left legacy for our people......because of Him we are miles behind what we should be in this country...... Because of Him blak babies go hungry and ghetto mothers cry because they can do nothing to still the hunger pangs....... Because of HIM blak fathers have to put up with almost stifling racism and stress just to maintain their manhood and self-respect.... Because of HIM progressive blak organizations that had the key to our success in this country were torn apart from the inside and cast adrift and drugs moved in to devastate OUR communities...... And because of HIM, we STILL are not self-sustaining...... SO, I would like the congregation to join me in laying this brother to rest for once and for all..... And when UNCLE TOM reaches the "boiling ground"--below--let's hope that the gates close in on Him, locking him inside, and that GOD puts the key up in a safe place to be seen no more........ And make SURE that you thrust a dagger through His heart--if He has one--so that this trifling N****R will rise no mo'........ "Can I get an AMEN???" THE WATCHER |
