Greetings, my beloved brothers and sisters. Once again it is a new month and time for me to speak, briefly, on another subject that is near and dear to my heart........Okay, let's cut the crap and get down to OUR business that is at hand.

The problem with blak people today is the lack of a proper socio-economic system that would constantly empower them. Without a  mechanism in place to pull a person out of the mired clay of poverty...this person would just cower along the bottom reaches of society never becoming more than an abject  lesson in failure and mediocrity---and that is what a lot of us blak folk  have become.

Whose fault is it? Who can take the blame? Well, there are many antecedents that we can blame--but the real culprit is US.

Oh, I know that the government plays a part in delaying our progress, but it  is the inner turmoil we face as a once physically enslaved people that is bringing us down. And some of it can be attributed to a failed experiment called: INTEGRATION.

Integration (n.)= incorporation of a group of people into a society as equals.......HOGWASH!

Our forebears, coming from a slave culture that abolished all knowledge of SELF,.... had no standards of excellence to adhere to but the eurocentric ones that existed in this country. So, being that this is a materialistic society that we live in, having fine articles like clothes, cars, nice homes, jewelry became the badges of success. "Being like Mr. Charlie" was and  is a lot of our peoples goals.

"Historically Blak Colleges?...Naw, my son is going to Harvard!"  It is this type of educated fool that sold us out to "phony" integration long ago and we are still suffering from the after-effects of this idiocy.

Let me break it down to you....integration was the dream of a bunch of blak  "caucasian wanna-bees" who were ashamed of our people because of the negative images and impoverished lifestyles that were imposed upon us by this government in order to keep us down and in our place. These "so-called" blak educators and leaders did anything they could to shed themselves of the problem of being "blak" in a eurocentric culture. And educated idiots like Clarence Thomas still kowtow to white opinion and seek validation for their very existence.

The government used INTEGRATION as a means to strip the ghetto of it's  economic backbone. This was planned. The best thing about enforced segregation was, that because we were not allowed in white establishments,  it forced us to create businesses and offer services to our own people that allowed our neighborhoods and bank accounts to flourish. The ghetto was like a small village.

We had blak baseball teams, blak newspapers, blak hospitals, blak lawyer's offices, blak-owned movie theaters, etc. I'm not saying I want to go back to white and colored facilities or anything like enforced segregation, no,......I'm only saying that in pre-integration there was more socio-economic unity, especially in the large urban areas.

The government, seeing the future coming into being, stepped in and said, "Now, Jackson...why do you need all those "blak-only" businesses like you have. Why don't you get rid of all of them and come downtown with us. We're brothers. We can share". And the educated self-hating blak fool ran like a  bat out of hell to rub elbows with the "bossman", forsaking all and everything. Now, we have nothing. It was all washed away. Now, other people  control the economics of the ghetto and we have become "consumers"--producing nothing. Then, in came the drugs and guns. As I stated earlier, this was PLANNED.

Integration does not mean "FREEDOM OF OPPORTUNITY"! A lot of our people are confused about this. Freedom of opportunity means an inroad to all levels of success in this country and the liberty to choose which avenue will bring about the greatest achievement. Just because I marry into another racial grouping does NOT guarantee me this freedom.  Just because I brown-nose, "skin & grin" and buck-dance does not guarantee me this freedom. People just don't understand this.

Black people must first integrate among THEMSELVES and cut out all color or class distinction and stop the "petty" in-fighting that divides us. And  re-establish the traditional values that we once had.

This is the governments greatest fear: a self-governing black insurgency. A  blak people who are self-sufficient and KNOWS that they don't need the government's help. Who will work together and move as ONE. Who can establish order and run their own enclaves and doesn't give a damn what the penalties may be.

Integration, as taught by this government, will never do that. It keeps you under the heel of this political system, begging for crumbs from the "massa's" table. It is a farce and deception. You're like some slave down on "Catfish Row" looking up the hill wishing you could be in the big-house with "Cap'n John".  It is a blak culture destroyer.

The solution is simple: work to gain control of the economics where you are  in the vast majority, establish "positive" businesses that will employ our  people, give back to the community, redesign the school system so it will teach knowledge of self and higher learning, abolish the negative type of thinking that you can't succeed because you're blak, build affordable housing, seek and establish true blak culture, elect your own leaders, buy land, outlaw drugs and other forms of self-destruction, etc. These are but a few of the answers. I could go on and on....

Let's start today to vow to work together for the good of US all. It  starts in the mind. May GOD bless you and yours.
 

P.S.. Much love to my friend, Bro. Larry, whose debate with me inspired this article. Also, to my good friend, Sis. Amala, whose faith in my ideas have never wavered.