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How we stop the Black Panthers?
Ronald Reagan cooked up the
answer.
Crack Music -Kanye West
Rollin' through my 'hood, yesterday I
stumbled on a NPR radio program discussing Bill Bennett's comments about
how the abortion of Black babies would lower the crime rate. As my heart
began to race, I grabbed my cell phone to alert the Brothers that our
worst fears had been realized and that "the man" was really planning to
kill us all. Just as I was trying to tell the comrade on the other end to
grab every Black man that he sees and have them meet us at 8PM at our
secret headquarters in the back of Soul City Seafood Restaurant and Juice
Bar , my voice was drowned out by the Brotha with the snowman T-shirt in
the car next to me bumpin' Young Jeezy's Thug Motivation 101......
Bennett's comments just help to confirm rumors of
genocidal plots to destroy Black people that have been discussed in barber
shops and book stores for years. I remember building with a Brotha on the
subject one day for hours until old man Johnson interrupted the
conversation and started babblin' about how his Cousin Leroy died from a
heart attack back in '72 when the government sent infrared rays through
his TV set during the Big Money Grip episode of Sanford and Son.
The historical reality of genocide cannot be ignored.
After all, the west wasn't won by diplomacy but by the genocide of the
indigenous people of this country. For Afrikan people, the threat of
genocide has been present since the end of slavery. With the so called
Emancipation Proclamation, the problem of what to do with the thousands of
suddenly unemployed "slaves" caused many plantation owners and politicians
many a sleepless night. There are also tales of medical experiments being
performed on Black men in the 1900's that still send shock waves through
the bones of Brotha's, even today. Try asking the average Black man over
60 about going for his annual physical and watch him mumble something
about the Tuskegee Experiment and march out of the room cussin' like a
sailor.
Towards the end of the initial Black Power Movement,
the introduction of large quantities of heroin into the Black community is
credited with transforming Bro. Raheem Mustafa, Black Revolutionary into
Jimmy the Junkie from down the block.
With Reaganomics came crack. For some it was the road
to the riches but to others it was a path to destruction. As times got
tight, once close nit Black communities began to turn on each other. You
were either the predator or the prey. However, tired of the death and
destruction in the hood, Hip hop artists got together and did a massive
anti-crack marketing campaign. Almost spontaneously, "Crack Kills" and
other subliminal messages started showing up in music videos on Rap City
and Yo' MTV Raps. It was not uncommon for an MC to end his set with an
impromptu redemption of "Leave them Drugs Alone." Hip Hop's biggest and
brightest got together and established a code that if they couldn't keep
crack out of the Black community, at least they could keep it out of Hip
Hop.
But in 2005 with the success of Young Jeezy and Boys
in the Hood: Crack is Back! While it was not unusual for a rapper to spin
tales of rap sells from his distant past, Young Jeezy, the Snowman (Get
it? Get it ? Jeezy the Snowman.) talks about it in real time. Not only is
his 18 track CD solely about sellin' rock or " trappin'", he has a nation
of black boys walking around with snow man T-shirts yellin' "Trap or Die."
The question should be, with the recent trend for Hip
Hop to again become political and the threat that the recent happenings in
New Orleans will make even the most stuff shirt conservative, Barry Manilow listening Brotha go out and get an Afro pick, what is behind the
recent influx of crack music back in the game.
This question makes the recent comments coming from
right wing politicians talking about how the drowning of hundreds of Black
folks was the wrath of God and Bill Bennett saying that abortion of Black
babies will prevent someone from breaking into your crib while you're on
that Disney World vacation even more disturbing.
For years we have heard Brotha's slangin' crack on
the block parrot the familiar phrase "we don't own the planes, trains and
ships that bring drugs into the Black community' and Brotha's in Hip Hop
saying they are just reflecting what's goin' on in the streets.
Unfortunately, these statements often remain eternal rhetoric and are
never viewed within context of the global condition of Afrikan people.
While most people would automatically assume that politics of Right Wing
Conservatives and Trap Rappers are in opposition could the two entities
actually be in cahoots?
While we are quick to check the politics of another
Brother or Sister, we never question the political ideologies of the Jimmy
Iovines, Lyle Cohen's, Steve Gotlieb' s and others who are really
responsible for the state of Hip Hop. We never question their ultimate
vision for the future of Black people. While it is easy to pretend that
all of the problems facing the Black community; the gun sales, liquor
stores on every corner, unemployment, the prison industrial complex, etc
are accidental, what if there really is an effort to remove Afrikan people
from the face of the planet? Could it be that Bill Bennett's words reflect
a larger master plan of both prebirth and post birth "abortions." Within
this context, is the conspiracy theory that levees could be blown up to
drown undesirable Black folks in New Orleans , really that far fetched?
I wonder if the Boys in tha Hood who sell crack in
the hood and on wax have ever thought about their role in the genocide of
Afrikan people. Have we ever taken the time to slip them a book or CD by
one of our scholars or expert researchers on the subject? ? Maybe they're
unaware.
Maybe, the reason that we are still headed down the
role of destruction over 15 years after the Stop the Violence Movement
recorded "Self Destruction" is because the destruction is not originating
from ourselves.
To borrow from a Young Jeezy ad lib, "That's real
talk, right there."
Minister Paul Scott represents
The Messianic Afrikan
Nation in Durham NC.
E-mail:
minpaulscott
Web Site:
http://members.blackplanet.com/THE-MYD
Last Update:
10/02/2005
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