KILL ALL DRUG DEALERS


I recently had a conversation with a brother who argued that drug dealers are killing our community and therefore should be killed. He argued that not only drug dealers but also pimps, hoes, and lazy blacks should be killed because they are an embarrassment to “the rest of us”. I pointed out that I am neither embarrassed nor ashamed of any African no matter the condition I find them in, because I understand that Amos Wilson was right when he said “Prejudice actions, injustice, unfair housing, drug abuse, murder, disease in Africa, illiteracy and various others are symptoms of white imperialism. All these symptoms come from one reality, and that is the white mans ability to impose it on people of color.” I went on to try to explain to the brother that (paraphrasing Nelly Fuller) if he didn’t come to understand the system of racism/white supremacy everything else he believes he understands will only confuse him. But as this conversation was held in a public forum the chant of “excuses excuse” began to ring out. I was told (by other Africans) “black folk always want to make excuses,” “You can’t blame the white man for everything,” and “when are we going to take responsibility for ourselves?”
Here is an example of the flaw in such rationalities… if a doctor tells you that you have high blood pressure, it does not then become an “excuse” to stay away from salty fried foods it becomes an imperative for you to do so. If you do you eat salty foods and they make you sick its not “blaming” the food when you say “I shouldn’t have ate that salty food” its actually taking into account what position you find your self in and what you actually did to help get yourself into said position. It is taking responsibility at its very best because it isn’t just looking what is before you and going from there but its bringing in all information from your past and deciding where to go from an informed position. Such is the same when we unmask yurugu (look it up) for what it is. We are looking at the foundation that causes the symptoms we notice in our community in order that we may “wisely” take responsibility for changing those symptoms. As Amos Wilson says “The most practical thing you can have is a good working theory to guide your behavior that helps you organize and approach your world. Human consciousness is what gives life to the world. We create the world we live in so if we change our value system we INEFFECT change our world. A new social system is birth.” There is nothing practical or wise about an African American plan that doesn’t take racism/white supremacy into account.

Muhammad Ali once said “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” Our fight as Africans is lost if and when we do not recognize white supremacy as an underlining cause to African suffering across the diasporas and train our people/ourselves to be ready to deal with white supremacy in the “ring” of life. But Ali also said “champions aren’t made in the gym they are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire a dream a vision.” White supremacy is designed to destroy the champion in Africans by robbing us of our vision, conditioning our desires and directing our dreams to benefit their wants and desires. Knowing this we shouldn’t kill our future warriors because they come to us untrained, visionless, and desiring falsified dreams of macho manhood, or some hoe-afied versions of femininity. We should accept any brother or sister “as is” and then train them “to be” African centered in their vision, to desire that which is truly beneficial to themselves and Africans world wide, and to never stop dreaming of better days instead of seeing life as a continuous nightmare.

I could be wrong but you would have to prove it.
Mpaji ni Mungu - God is the Sustainer.