The Making of the New World Order

1 expect Ihat many people have endured the nagging
queslion (and have probably lried 1o diive il from Ihe
minds) - “What if the Amerikan govermnment knew about
and permilled the events of Seplember 11,20012" Any
reluctance fo ask this question for fear of reprisal or ridicule
makes very clear who indeed has Ihe everyday “free”
Amerikan cilizen ferrorized - afraid o question Ihe very
government that fhey're supposed fo democratically
conrol. Well, as a man who endures repression daily. | have
much incentive lo dispassionalely ask the question and
pursue an answer.

Al the oulsel it demands menlion thal Amerika has won
its every advantage through violence, bloodshed and fear
used against ifs polifical, social and economic opponents
(official and civilian.) as well as against ifs own teritorial
inhabilanis and cifizens. All who have slood in the path of
Amerika's imperialist and economic ambitions have been
relentlessly attacked infellectually and/or physically.

However, the success of revolulionary work in China,
Korea, Vietnam and the growth and prevalence of
revolution in the third world. has kept the overall balance of
forces on the side of revolulionaries since World War i
Amerika has, however, remained the predominant force in
the imperialist / capitalist dominated world regions, primarily
because of ifs industiial role and consequent economic
growth in World War Il. While that war was devaslaling to
the terilories of all the other major world powers, ils
deslructiveness never fouched fhe U.S. mainland.

Recognizing Ihe value of war, (no pun infended) he U.S.
has since remained at the economic and political forefront
because of ifs agilations, industrial involvement, invesiments
and expendilures in perpetualing foreign wars largetted
principally at progressive groups who dare oppose colonia |
1 neocolonial oppression and exploilation. This was done 1o
asserl its politico - economic domination in the colonies
located in Afiica. Asia, Latin America and the Middile East

One of Amerika's mos! valuable polifico - economic
lessons came with ifs use of the war industry (a war-based
economy) and ils involvement during World War |l o survive
the greal economic oppression (the failure of capitalism.)
This kep! Ihe system infacl. They also appealed to patriotic
loyalty 1o divert mass domestic discontent with capitalism
during the 1930's. The U.S. has since preserved a perpetual
war agenda lo maintain economic / industrial domination
and social diversion from discontent.

With the increasing danger presented by massive
nuclear arms proliferation (e.g. “extremists” gaining nuclear
arms access and capabilities, the inability fo safely store or
dispose of vast amounts of nuclear arms and defunct
surpluses, nuclear wasle occidents, efc.))
coupled with the collapse of Amerika's primary nuclear
arms compelitor - the former Soviet Union (coincidence?)
and with the consequent end of the Cold War, Amerika has
fos!its basis upon which to validate confinued massive
military spending on nuclear armament, which is the:
pimary focus of milifary spending.

subsequently, with the standard of living falling steadily
wilh economic recession, the electorate began lobbying
for massive cuts in miitary spending and personnel. Even
with constant agitations and exporting ifs military supplies
and materials 1o third-world diclalorships and puppet
regimes, and exlreme cuts in domestic social aid programs
and a boomimg prison industry, Amerika’s economy
steadily recessed throughout the 1990's. Mass social
discontent also began 1o build against both the capilalist
institutions and govemment comuption and neglect (e.g.
WTO profests, growing poverly. killer cops, perpetuation of
crime for prison industrial profiteering, failed criminal justice
system, poiifical prisoner compaigns, racial profiing, official
deceptions, a slolen presidential election, revoked civil and
social benelits, elc., elc.)

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Also, wilh the dealh of the Soviet Union - a severe blow
1o Socialism - the third world had lost a major ally against
capitalist infilfration and dominatrion.

Amerika was greally in need of a new massive foreign
war agenda in order 1o revilalize ifs war economy and
domestic indusiry, fo expand ils markets and dominion, and
to distract social discontent. However, the Vietnam War
and the mass progressive movements which il fueled inside
the U.S. also taught U.S. rulers that without the sustained
support of the cilizens and without a sufficienlly demonized
enemy, a large-scale war venlure could backfire.

Along comes George W.. who was installed as President
in a depariure from the plain mandates of the constitutional
elecloral process. He has inlimate ties 1o the oil and
eeconomic infrastructure and has proven bloodithirsty
propensities - having execuled record numbers of
Amerikans while govemor of Texas, despite powerful
evidence of the actual innocence of mahy amidst
international prolests. Let's not forget the binding treaty
against capital punishment which The U.S. ignores.

After decades of spending Hillions of lax doliars on
militarism, intelligence and “state of the art" domesfic
defense, along comes September the 11th and 19 men

somehow siip past the most surveillance and milfary -
minded govermnment in world history lo inflict an attack on
Amerika's own fronl yard, causing unbelievable civilian
casuallies. Coincidence? Wha follows could easily have
been foreseen by any person infeliigent enough 1o
faclically coordinale such a devastaling strike.

First, the Seplember 111h strike served 1o ally the masses
with the politico - economic institutions of global oppression
wilh which they were only moments before growing
increasingly dissalisfied wilh. Because so many civiiians lost
their lives in those strikes, any and all challenges to such
institutions could henceforth be easily played up as an
attack on the Amerikan people themselves and as a threal
o their safely and lives.
Second, it gives he USS. rulers the much needed
incentive for a large scale war focused on the
underdeveloped third world, amidst fotal civilian support.
The Amerikan people were and continue to be whipped
into a palriotic frenzy with incessanily repeated sensational
showings of “ground zero," casualty and missing person
counts and bereaved loved ones. Before reason could
recover, a convenient enemy (and ertswhile Amerikan ally)
was conslantly pointed out as the culprit - Osama bin
Laden and his Afghan network. Next came the charge
agains! all “terrorists,” a ferm which could include anyone.
Nearly everyone can now be accused of terrorist complicity
who has a Middle Eastem, or African or Eastern European or
Asian nationality, depending on interpretation.

Third, the western imperialists now have the incentive to
wage an indefinite large-scale war that can openly target
or demonize any group of people (third world or domestic)
with whom the Amerikan regime is dissatisfied with, by
merely labelling them "terrorist,” “suspected femorist" or
“temorist sympathizers.”

To avoid these labels, the world is now playing Amerika's
lickspittle, recognizing that with these arbitrary labels,
Amerika can go in mifitarily, raze any lond and
communifies, bring in Amerikan industries and
“redevelopment” and mining and o secure control of their
resources, industries and cheap labor (as is occuming in
Afghanisian - an ostensibly barren but resource-rich land
over control of which many wars have raged.) Al of these
aggressions and conquests can now come with the
patriofic support of the Amerikan people. Freedom Fighters
the world over will now remain indifferent fo the treatment
of such peoples for fear of retribution.

Fourth, Amerikan citizens and those of the world's
“democracies” are increasingly volunteering to permit
more open government regulation of, involvement in, and
surveillance of their domestic affairs and activifies. The
popular ferm being “sacrificing civil liberties for security.”
An Answer to Today's Black Entertainment Media
Kevin “Rashid" Johnson

1 write this as a brother confined In prison, isolated a hundred
miles from the nearest urban center, sitting atop a remote
mountain In a rural, white-populated region of the south. Here, the
overwhelmingly black prisoner population has little to no contact
with the ever-flourishing black urban culture.

By happenstance, I found myself in possession of and reading
cover-to-cover the October 2004 issue of Sister 2 Sister, a
magazine whose professed motto is that of *Givin' It to ya straight,
no chaser.” Well, to put this motto to the test, I've asked them to
print this essay--which likely they won't. I'm writing this essay
because my reading of that and similar magazines leaves my heart
heavy; some of the reasons are what follows:

From the editor’s interview with actor/comedian Jamie Foxx
(pages 62-73), one could see the still-pervasive tendency in black
folks here--continuing since slavery--to try and measure up to the
white supremacist, capitalistic elite status quo, to prove that "we"
are just as good as “them" by winning acclaim and recognition in
fields that they've told us are important, to acquire material tokens
and status symbols they've manufactured and that they've trained
us to think are measures of human worth, to seek advancement
and acceptance always with heads bowed and feet shuffling.
Meanwhile, we're dying--both as a race and as a culture.

The only remnants of a culture we have left are steeped in our
aping the dominant material-worshipping one, a deformed sub-
culture imitating Mr. Charlie." Our only use-value here in Amerika
still remains that of being clowns (entertainers) and servants, while
our brain trusts (black intellectuals) are distanced from the needy
black masses, co-opted into white suburbia, and then sapped of
their talents and skills to refine and keep Mr. Charlie's system
steadly expanding and running smoothly and to keep him saddied
at the cost of human suffering the world over and within our own
poor communities.

From rap diva Lil' Kim's interview (pages 40-51), I see a
confused young sister being drained, tossed, and used by a greed-
motivated industry she doesn't understand, a sister who's been
used to, among other things, perpetuate the idea in black minds
that for us to amount to anything in this world we must become
white. Supporting such racist notions by undergoing surgeries and
cosmetic changes that dilute and disguise racial and ethnic identity,
projecting the image for our young sisters to emulate and imitate
that the extent of their worth is determined by their physical assets
(breasts and asses) and their willingness to flaunt them in skimpy
garb.

Do we care that the images promoted by celebrities, who are 2
in fact seen as role models, create cultural norms that our children
imitate, that they come to percelve as the essence of their human
worth? Our people are being pimped and misled by an Industry that
cares nothing about the destructive effects the images it portrays
have on us 2s a people. The CEO's and CFO's of Wamer Bros., BMG,
Sony, EMI, and Universal don't live in the hood and don't visit the
hood. Theirs Is an industry that cares about nothing but market
shares and maximizing profits. To them the hood represents a vast
market of consumers, and black entertainers are their means of
routing black dollars Into their own coffers. They are motivated by
the same Incensitive, greed-based self-interests that motivated
white male plantation efites to subject our forefathers and mothers
to two hundred and fifty years of the most savage, brutal, and
inhuman form of enslavement ever suffered by any people In
history.

We've ended in adopting the very same opportunistic, anti-
human, insensitive, and greed-driven values that we've long been
victims of. On one hand, we passionately criticize what was done to
our ancestors during chattel slavery as one of history's worst evils,
Yet on the other, we're oblivious to the fact that all of the vast
wealth that Amerika maintains today (centered in its elite white
male monopolized multinational corporate powers and miltary
industry)-spoils we aspire to share in—come from the enslavement
of people today—people of color in the third world.

The third world |5 underdeveloped today solely because
Amerika and ather western nations force their peopie under violent
compulsion by propped-up puppet govemments and militaries
(armed, trained, supplied, and advised by the US) to mine and farm
and then export their own natural resources and agricutture to
these westem countries, while preventing them from accessing the
technologies and developing the skills needed to industrially
develop and thus compete economically with the westem powers,
meantime being forced to grow Crops to be exported to these.
dominant countries and forbidden to grow foods needed to feed
their own people.

Those people live in stavery, in many instances as brutal as
what our forebears suffered. And when those people rise up to take
control of their own lands and lives, to try and feed their families,
the Amerikan-backed militaries massacre them (men, women,
children, the elderly--indiscriminately). We need not even travel
outside this hemisphere for ciear examples of such. Take the
hundreds of thousands of common pessants siaughtered with
official US backing and arms in Central America during the 1960's,
70, and '80's. Guatemala, Nicaragua, E Salvador. The same
policies are playing out today and are behind US financial and
military 2id to Columbia. The US s also ready to back an attack on
Venezuela's popularly supported Chavez government because it
rejects the FTAA and US domination of its economy and resources.?
But like the house niggers of old, we choose ot to know or g
see this, because we want to be accepted by Massa Charle, to
‘share in the spolls he's gained at the misery of our brothers and
sisters, In fact, we're In Iraq now, massacring people of color,
primarily civillans~women and children—so to ald Amerika's white
male ruling elite (all Rockefeller connected) to take control of the
‘world's second-largest oll reserves (located In Iraq), so they can
monopallze the world oll market, and thereby regain dominant
control over the transnational capitalist economy, a position the
Amerikan wealthy elite lost [n the 1970's, and who've been steadily
losing ground on account of competition from the expanding euro-
based capitalist bioc in Europe. We remain ensiaved to a political
and economic system that we don't understand. We're being wooed
and confused by Massa Charile's lackeys who look like us and talk
with olled tongues, while pretending to represent us.

Then we cannat forget that the US exists on the land that it
does today because It offically massacred and forcefully relocated
‘millions of natives to clear them off the land, much as Amerika has
militarily and financially backed Israel in doing to the Palestinians
since 1948, though outright racist genocide and destruction of their
communities with aicohol and casinas (for us It's narcotics and the
club.) The Indians have been reduced to less than one percent of
their own native land and population. Amerika Is a land of settiers
iving on territory, much of which was never legally ceded by the
First Nations. And, like the Palestinians today, those Indians who
fought back, resisting genocide and forced removal from their land,
which the whites sought to settie and claim as thelr own, were
demonized as being uncivillzed aggressors and terorists.

‘Were It not for us (African people), there would be no
Amerika, We taught the early European settiers how to til the land
and tend livestock, how to openly graze cattie--skils which we
‘brought with us from Africa, which were allen to the Europeans,
skills they sorely needed when they were on the verge of starvation
here, following the back-stabbing of the Indians who first welcomed
and aided them. It was we who left the souther plantations in
droves (causing them econamic chaos) and fought with the Union
Army, leading to the confederate defeat. Yet the US promise to us
of land In exchange for our milltary service was broken. The Union
Army, in complicity with the Ku Kiux Kian, drove us off the
promised land we began occupying and developing, from whose
violence and terror w fled north to the cities (and west) as
refugees and were there herded Into the ghettos where we remain

But for us, Amerika would never have become an advanced
industrial nation. It was our free stave labor In cotton production
that allowed the US to undergo the Industriai revolution, which grew
out of the cotton-based textile Industry that flourished n the Union
states, the very Industry around which the Union was built, and
which provided factory work for the vast numbers of poor European
Immigrants. In fact, It was the competition for dominance between

the northem industrial elites and the southern plantation elites. in 4/
their westward expansion that prompted the Amerikan civil war. But
today, after ail the years of stavery and service, death, and misery,
we have nathing to show for our ordeals and contributions, except a
subculture of materialism and individualism which apes the
dominant culture of our historical oppressor.

In fact, we still contribute the eaming of our hard labor to
‘maintaining a social order (through compulsory taxation) that
refuses to use those contributions to Improve our overall quality of
life and living standard, cutting our access to social benefits,
denying our access to heaithcare and job security, etc. Indeed, Bil
Clinton, the pretended champion of Biack Amerika, knocked ten
‘million peaple off welfare (out of fifteen million total recipients),
driving more poor people to compete In a steadily shrinking job
market, and then put some 150,000 more police on the streets to
lock up those driven to “crime" by force of economic and emotional
desperation and frustration. Meantime you had and have the steady
expansion of the largest prison system in the world to warehouse
those people.

“The Interview with singer Monica (pages 90-97) painfully
brought home the fact that whatever the apparent financial
achievements of a few celebrity black Individuals, life for us as a
people here in Amerika is a never-ending tragedy, plagued with
insecurity, violent death, and potice oppression. This theme was
consistent In all three of the Interviews with Jamie Foxx, LI Kim,
and Monica, the lives of black “celebrities” being no exception, that
espite our claims to material accomplishment in the US, we own
nothing, control nothing, and remain adrift In a society that we
neither know nor understand. A condition that will remain
unchanged as long as we continue to acoept rule by outside forces,
forces allen to us, that misiead and misrepresent us, explait and
neglect us, profit off us, that use us to conquer others, to hate and
destroy lts foes (Incuding ourselves), distorts and conceals our
history and struggles, jails and kils our true leaders, leaves us
confused and insecure peopie who vent our pain, frustration, and
desperation against each other, gives token positions of political
power to self-intarested opportunistic blacks who pretend to
represent us, and warehouses us in prisons.

During the 1950's through the ‘70's, the peoples of Asia and
Africa waged determined military and political struggles to win
national Independence and to overthrow European rule over them.
The various polttically Independent countries In Africa today are the
result of those struggles. As aiready noted, the ongoing political,
military, and economic turmoll in thyse coomtries today stems from
continued western Interferences, intervemuons, and manipulations
in their political and economic affairs, 5o to keep their vast stores of
natural weaith flowing out of their countries and to the west. Much

as US corporate power keeps the wealth, labor, and brainpower of
the black communities flowing out of those communities and into its
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and chaos. 5
Yet we blacks here in Amerika never even crossed that first

hurdle of winning poiitical Independence. The US government'
brutally repressed our national Independence struggles In the
1960's and '70's, kiling and falling our leaders, sowing division
within the movement, and replacing them with Integrationist civil
rights reforms (to appease us because we were tearing shit up in
major cities il across Amerika), reforms which today are being
systematicaly rolled back.

All we've gained is the abillty to ape Massa Charlle, to wear
his clothes, to buy his cars, to whiten our appearances with surgery
and cosmetics, to die In his wars and on street comers, to fll his
prisons, to persist In proving to ourselves and anyone who might
take notice that we ain't as stupld and backward &s his racism has
always projected us to be, because we can imitate him and thus be
recognized as “the first black to...” We perceive such
“accomplishments* to be an honor--historically significant moments.
In black achievement. But uniike Mr. Charlie, we have no political
power, no sovereign territory, no one to enforce our demands, no
milltary, no dominant culture, and o economy; we only have the
privilege of trying to fit into Mr. Charlie's world. And somehow we
fail to notice that none of those blacks who've gained positions of
political power have changed conditions in favor of the masses of
poor and economically Insecure American blacks.

No wonder Mr. Charlie Is 50 arrogant and has such an over-
Infiated ego. By dividing and individualizing us, he now has an
entire race of people, whom he once had to fight tooth-and-nail to
control, willingly under his thumb, accepting and promoting his
politics, competing against and killing themselves, entertaining him,
‘acting as his political running dogs, serving as his mercenaries,
slave breakers, and cannon fodder to repress their own brothers
and sisters in the third word, and all just to win his acceptance and
approval, again, to eat at his table, to wear his clothes (or a comical
imitation of them), to be like him. And his reward to us has been
perpetual economic insecurity, premature death, substandard
healthcare (even for those of us who can *afford" It), media

and misrepresentation, police brutality, radial profiling,

for us, when we are thrown off the ballot as occurred In the last two
presidential elections, and when we have no part in counting the
ballots-:"I¥'s not those who cast votes that determine the outcome
of an election but those who count them.”)

When one partner In a relationship suffers continuous
humitiation, abuse, neglect, degradation, and disadvantage,
common sense and human right drive that partner to demand
separation. It must be remembered that In our case we were not
willing and voluntary partners to this relationship to begin with--
indeed, this forced coupling was something akin to rape, and
‘somehow we've come to embrace our attacker and his ethic. But as
with any divorce, that partner who demands separation has a right
to a share of the weaith that s/he helped to produce. If that share is
not relinquished voluntarily, then s/he has a right to take it by
force.

In that October 2004 Issue of Sister 2 Sister, in the “letter to
the editor” section (pages 104-111), I found particularly disturbing
the grievances of some sisters, specifically concerning the “trend® of
brothers passing them up for women of other races—the white race
in particular. I first found a fundamental contradiction n that there
was o criticism of black women's own roles in promoting this trend
by their projecting images which imply that white and white-like

hatred, insecurity, Inferiority complexes, and negative sel-images
instilled In us during the processes of chatte) siavery, Jim Crow, etc.

But let me not seem to deny the fact that al/sisters are sisters
‘whatever thair complexion. To accept therwise would be to pander
to the same dangerous racisms that fueled the genocidal wer in
1994 between Rwanda's Hutu and Tutsi people, leaving hundreds of
thousands dead, while the west sat by as spectators. .

Beginning in 1916, when the Belglans (Europesns) brutally
Colonized that reglon.of Africa, they Instigated a division between
the then-united Hutus and Tutsis, by telling the Tutsis (who had
lighter skin, taller statures, and thinner features than the Hutus)
that they were more Eurcpean-looking and thus should see
themselves as the Hutu's superiors, much the same scheme that
was done during and since siavery to divide mulatioes ageinst dark
blacks, and In North and South America to divide mestizos against
pure Indians. The Belgians rewrote those African peaples’ own
histories to falsely project the Tutsis as a noble cless and the Hutus
as an underclass. Only Tutsis were permitted to attend Belgian
schools, being educated into the values of their oppressors,
resulting In an antagonistic divide being created between the two
groups that exists il today.

When the wave of national independence struggles swept
Africa beginning in the 1950's, the more educated and organized
Tutsls agitated for independence from Beiglan rule. The Beiglans
then backed and organized the Hutus to repress the Tutsis. Rwanda
stil gained political Independence in 1962, but the newly organized
Hutus took government power and stripped the Tutsis of land. The
fratricidal war in 1994 was a struggle by the Tutsis to retake power
in Rwanda, all of this resulting from the Belglans® creating division
‘within a common raclal group S0 to secure their own power. A
similar device exists between blacks here in Amerika. Indeed, Jamie
Foxx in his Interview described an Incident where he and his sister
were beaten up by some light-complexioned black cops working in
an uppity casino who were notorious for abusing darker blacks.
These same tendencies are played up by black entertainment media

who tend to project only light-complexioned and surgically and/or
cosmetically whitewashed blacks as attractive, leading us to forget
that we are a common peopie with a common heritage and history

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‘Just as many (but definitely not all) of today's mestizo
descendants from the native peoples of South, Central, and North
America no longer recognize their Indian ancestry, and Instead
Identify themseives as Latino/a. They forget that the Latin people
‘were/are the Europeans (Spanish and Portuguese) who invaded,
conquered, and colonized their lands, destroyed thelr dlvilizations,
enslaved and massacred their people, and even completely
exterminated some of the native ethnic groups--as was dane by the
celebrated Spaniard Christopher Columbus to the peaceful Arawaks
of Hispaniola (modem-day Haiti and Dominican Republic, both of
which are today majority black because of African slaves having
been brought in to replace the decimated Arawaks). Now, many of
the native descendents today have taken on the identity of their
historic Latin oppressors.

Our knowledge of worid - and our - history is shallow, our
attention spans short. All we've been conditioned to care about Is.
losing ourseives and our minds in entertainment and gratification.
On the same hand, we're selling our youth a dream that the.
entertainment industry (becoming clowns) will provide us a foot-up
In the worid. We saturate them with images of obscene wealth that
they cannot obtain except by treading on others and through
llegitimate capitalist channels, channels that have us dropping like
flies in the streets, overflowing these prisons where we cease to be

behavior.

Neither will Mr. Charlle's schools provide us upward mobility.
They only train us to think like him, to support and accept his
claimed right to rule and dominate us (as the Belgians did with the
Tutsis), to forget our community-based culture as a people, to care
nothing about anyone but our individual selves. Straight A's and
college degrees may provide a few middle-class options for a few of
us, but these few wil st be living only a paycheck or two away
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time with their children, and they will stll be perceived and treated
as second-class citizens. Even those who find weaith are still
targeted with attacks rom police, trumpea-up lawsuits, derogatory
‘media stereotyping, and general humiliation. In his interview, Jamie
Foxx made this quite clear. In order for black celebrities to find
recognition and respect, they've had to create a black-only celebrity
circle and counterculture that imitates Mr. Charlie's. Why? Because
they are not accepted as peers and equals by and within
“mainstream" circles. Yet we're still skinning and grinning, begging
to be accepted, proving our moral superiority by taking shit in the
face with a smile, as Mr. Charlie trained us to do long ago in order
to make us passively accept our enslavement. g

Indeed, I shook my head sadly at Jamie Foxx's
unembarrassed description of himself sitting by passively, trying to
reason philosophically with pigs as they beat him and his ltti sister
in a radially motivated attack. This while she stood alone
exchanging biows with them In defense of them both. For us,
cowardice has become honorable, despite the fact that passive
resistance proved a falled tactic for us long ago. Even Martin Luther
King Jr. admitted as much after years of promating this tactic. He
stated on November 11, 1967, to his longtime friend and Southem
Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) board member Reverend D.
E. King, *I have found out that all I have been doing in trying to
correct this system in America has been (n vain. I am trying to get
at the roots of it to see just what ought to be done. The whole thing
will have to be done away with.*

‘Then, for those of us who do find work, job security is
nonexistent, particularly In this contracting economy where there
are not enough jobs to employ even the white workers who have
unlon backing. And when Invoked by whites, this union power
basically efiminated the possiblllty of biacks competing with them
for *respectable* work and “good" wages, leaving us to do exactly

us freely with the very necessities that It denies us out in soclety;
the denial of which drove most of us to *crime” (food, clothing,
shelter, medical care).’

It seems lkely that in a few generations we wil cease to exist
2s a people here in Amerika, as would very likely be the case today
for the small numbers of remaining Native Americans, had they
elected s a people to accept integration Into Amerikan values and
Culture. Our brothers are abandoning our sisters, and In tum our
sisters are doing the same, especially in the cases of us locked
behind prison walls. Today's trend with our youth Is tnat of pimping
our sisters, regarding them as property, objects to be bought and
sold on the market, which is the very way that we were regarded
during slavery--viz, as property.

Martin Luther King Jr. foresaw things coming to pass for us
Just as they have, which is why during the final three years of his
life he came to reject our integration into Amerika absent
fundamental change. His views of Amerika at the time of his death
in 1968 were vastly different from those he held in 1963 when he
gave his *I Have a Dream" speech during the Washington March.
But the US corporate media will anly give us the 1963 version of
King. In November 1967, he announced to a new SCLC program
advisory board: *Something is wrong with capitalsm as it stands
here in the US. We are not interested In being Integrated into this
value structure.” That same month he expressed at his Frogmore
retreat: "The decade of 1955 to 1965...misled us...we must
formulate a new program, and we must fashion new tactics which
do not count on government good will, but instead serve to compel
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In February 1968 he told a Seima, Alabama, rally: “We're
dealing in & sense with class issues..with the probiem of the guif
between the haves and the have-nots.™ He therefore organized a
*Poor People's Campaign* set to march on Washington, but this
time to shut the capital down. In the “Statement of Purpose”
document Issued by the SCL explaining the march's objective, it
was stated “we are now more sophisticated,” because “we can now
see ourselves as the powerless poor trapped within the
‘economically orlented power structure.” “The right to vote or eat in
any restaurant, while important...does not actually affect conditions
of iving,” and that the campaign hoped to force economic
empowerment of all poor people "enabling them to control their
own lives.” King expressed, "our economy must become more
person-centered than property-centered and profit-centered.. It
must therefore not thintk of our movement as one that seeks to
integrate the Negro into...the axisting values of American society.”
Only months before the march was set to occur, and after being
relentiessly threatened, stalked, and hounded by the FBI, King was
assassinated.

Today we are divided sharply against ourselves, confused and
diverted, while the US rulers systematically Invalidate and revoke
the civl rights reforms passed to pacify us over forty years ago.
Self-hate is a principal tool used to drive us to kill, exploit, and
‘oppress ourselves, much as was done during our chattel
enslavement, except then It was the poor whites who were used to
violently contain and repress us and to kill those who rebelled. This
‘was done by the ruling wealthy white class (who needed African
slave labor to keep them enriched and their economy running
‘smoothly) conditioning the poor whites to fear and hate us.
Originally both the Africans and poor European immigrants shared a
common status of indentured servitude. However, the weaithy
whites had to create a division between the two, because frequent
united rebellions of these servants threatened to destroy their rule.
In fact, the united armed Bacon's Rebellion (1676) temporarily
overthrew the colonial government n Virginla and captured the
capital at Jamestown. Thereafter, a permanent hereditary slavery of
Africans was codified (1682) and white bond-slavery phased out.
The resultant poor whites were given a sense of superior social
status over the African chattel siaves and thereupon used as
colonial police to viclently repress, break, and control the Africans.
It was In this process that raciaiized white supremacy was born
here in North America, and prevails til today. The plantation elite
used the same divisive scheme hera as did the Belgians in Rwanda,
the Spanish and Portuguese in Central, South, and portions of North
America, and European Imperiatism throughout the third world.
Divide, agitate, and rule.

‘The poor whites were given to see in any African stave revolt
a threat to white civilization, and a desire by blacks to stop at

nothing until they'd kiled il whites--rich and poor. Our national
independence struggles in the 1960's and '70's were painted to the
public in the same light by the US government and corporate
media, In order to alienate whites and many biacks against our
struggle. During stavery it was inconceivable to the plantation-
‘owning Mr. Chartie for us to break away from him and his rule, just
2s It Is Inconceivable to the big business Mr. Charlie for us to do this.
today. Then, as now, his created racism dlaimed us to be too stupid
and backward by nature to do such a thing, and that without his
tutelage, guidance, rule, and economic domination, we'd self-
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dependent upon him and thus to willingly remain his servants,
which is why he wil not expase the fact that only since we, and the
peoples of Africa, Asla, Australia, and the Americas, fell under just
such rule and domination, have our people and societies become
self-destructive, and ail to the exclusive profit and expansion of
western capitalist power.

Those we see today as our heroes, who fought and died
against chattel slavery, were then classified by Mr. Charlie as
terrorists. They were violently staiked, hunted, mutlated, killed,
and put down by poor whites and the US government, but this did
not discourage them. Yet today we are used to brutally repress the
third world people In order to keep them in conditions of siavery,
enriching western powers and impoverishing themseives by
extracting their natural weaith for and seiling their hard labor dirt-
cheap to the west. Those who resist these conditions (thase who
strike back at Mr. Charle, his mercenaries, and his collaborators)
are labeled terrorist threats to westem clvilization. It's the same old
wine in new bottles. N

We've gone from a race of rebellious field niggers to one of
collaborating house niggers. We're 5o proud of being able to rub
shoulders with Massa Charlie and his elite underlings, to receive his.
ot on the heed for being loyeland abedient o im. So desperstly
do we desire his acceptance and approval and provoking his
displeasure and criticism that we go to any lengths to please him,
including destroying our children, and kiling ourselves and others In
the process.

But when reaiity sets in a littie too painfully for our liking,
insteed of taking courage in hand and confronting the problem at
the root, we limit ourselves-—as our ensiaved ancestors were
‘expected to do—to looking to the sky for deliverance, while
accepting the lash with the complacent and mindless dignity of
trained mutes. Thus the religion taught to us by the old slave
master Charlie (which we still practice today) conditioned us never
0 resist or question anyone whom the old siaver appointed as a
claimed authority over us. It became and still is for us a tranquilizer
that robbed us of the will to fight back, a narcotic to keep us ina
mindless stupor, a pressure release that had us singing, shouting,
screaming, and crying out our pain and desperation n the ail-biack
churches, and a source of hope for 8 more fulfilling existence In
another world. The modern alternative pressure release for the less
religious amongst us Is the weekly all-night booty-shaking sessions
at the club. In place of the dignifying big flashy hats and special //
talored suits and dresses that distinguished us in churches, In the
club scene we've substituted equally flashy but more revealing hip-
hop or casual ensembles. Littie has changed for us, except that
today, llke happy lemmings, we are marching toward a mass grave
bling-blinging and booty-shaking to the rhythm of our own death-
drum, while the mainstream black media adds gloss and glitter to
this mindless death parade. .

Kevin "Rashid"” Johnson
November 2004

Notes:

1 When I make reference to Mr./Massa Charlie, this is not a term
that generalizes and embraces all whites, but refers to the capitalist
corporate elfte (who happen to be a minority white male ciass) who
own and monopolize the US economy, government, and Influential
social Institutions, through which they manufacture a white-
‘supremacist, material-worshipping, individualist, fingolst,
chauvinist, and competitive dominant culture within US society.

2 Venezuela has the worid's sixth largest oll reserves and Is one of
Amerika's top suppliers, yet over seventy percent of its population
lives in miserable poverty.

3 In the column entities "The Name Game" by Russ Parr (pages 80-
81), black parents are encouraged to cater to racism in US
corporate hiring, by not naming thelr children In ways which allow
them to be identifiable as black on job résumés. This is because
résumés submitted by job applicants having black-sounding names
are routinely passed over for hiring consideration. For us, there is
10 option for fair access employment, and ntegration, and
integration for s Into a soclety that demonstratably does not
accept us as equal means, for s, ceasing to be and wanting to be
identifiable as black people.

“ King came to totally reject capitalism yet realized that he could
not openly expose this to the masses of people who looked to him
for guidance, because the US and Its corporate elites were waging
brutal wars directiy—as in Vietnam—and indirectly to violently crush
all who resisted capitalist domination and who fought for national
independence from westem political, economic, military, and
cultural domination. He knew that to openly promate this would
‘mean imminent death. Speaking in 1968 to staff members of Jesse
Jackson's black capitalist Breadbasket program, a staff member
recalled, King “asked us to turn off the tape recorder.” He talked
about what he called demaocratic sacialism, and he said, *1 can't say
this publicly, and if you say I said It, I'm not going to admit it,..”
Then he talked about the fact that he didn't believe that capitalism,
“as it was constructed, could meet the needs of poor people,* and
that "what we might need to look at was a kind of sociallsm, but a
demacratic form of socialism.* Another example of King's position
was recalled In a conversation between him and William A.
Rutherford, a Chicago native and Europe-based businessman who
volunteered his skills to the SCLC. Rutherford criticized black
capltalism and its basic objective being “to replace white bastards
with black bastards. If the whole thrust of assuring oneself profit is
to exploit whoever's there, what the hell are we doing with black
people, trying to put them in the same position where you have to
exploit someone else to tumn your profit?* King replied, *Bill, there's
50 much to be done that people are not ready to do right now.
Obviously, we've got to have some form of socialism, but America's
not ready to hear it yet."

This essay s being written inside prison, where only a limited
amount of reference materials are permitted. My quotes from King
and others are drawn from notes taken from his biography, entitied
Bearing the Cross, a copy of which I do not have on hand, 5o I
cannot provide specific page numbers from which the quotes were
taken, nor do I have the author's name; however, these sources

should not be difficuit to locate by any curious researcher on the
outside.

Kevin (Rashid) Joh 15492
Rt v ekacpeon 185492 SOUTH CHICAGO ABC

P.0. Box 1900 ZINE DISTRO
Pound, Virginia 24279 POB 721 HOMEWOOD L. 60430
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Fifth, nations previously opposed to the machinations,
mass murders, invasions, agitations, inslalling puppet rulers,
third world exploitations, and the training and arming of
oppressive governments by the Amerikan regime, must now
show empathy with the U.S. rulers, accept their imperialist
agenda and global crimes, and submit o increased global
subjugation and the enslavement of all fo monopoly and
militarism in order fo avoid being smeared as “ferorisls" and
openly attacked. George W. Bush's oft-repeated ulimatum
says it alll..." Either you're with us or you're with the lerrorists.”
Indeed. | could go on and on.

The next logical question would be - would rulers of a
“democracy” harm their own citizens? The answer: of
course they would. Amerikan rulers have a sustained history
ofinjuring and killing their own citizens for political and
economic reasons. e.g. Ruby Ridge, Waco, the Tuskegee
Syphilis Project, Native Americans and ALM. (Wounded
Knee,) proven CIA involvement in importing narcofics for
distiibution in Amerika, the prison industrial complex. the
MOVE family, the Vietnam War, proven FBl orchestrated
assasinations of Amerikan opposition group leaders (Comfil
and Coinlelpro) elc., elc.

Indeed, wars have always been primarily economic
affairs. This holds especially true in copilalist countries. As
USMC Smedley Butler - who among very few Amerikans was
awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor twice - said
“The frouble with Ameri(k)a is thal when the dollar only
eams six percent over here, Ihen it gets restless and goes
overseas fo get one hundred percent. Then the flag follows
the doliar and the soldiers follow the flag... | spent 33 years
and four months in active military service as a memeber of
this country's most agile miitary force, the Marine Corps...
and during that period, | spent most of my time being a
high class muscle-man for big business, for Wall Shreet and
for the bankers. In short, | was a racketeer, a gangster for
capitalism... Like all members of the mililary profession. |
never had a thought of my own until | left the service."
3

As Hiller said, “What greal forlune for those in power that
people do no fhink.”

The nalure of any violen! act is 1o win control through
fear (lemor.) Thus all violent wars are acts of “terrorism,"
especially such acts as genocide, rape, napaiming of
women and children and the mass murdering of civilians as
habilually commilled by Amerika in Japan, Vielnam, Korea,
Iraq, Afiica and even on Amerikan soil. In fact Amerikan
cilizens are kepl in check physically and mentally by fear of
official reprisal... terror.

So, essentially, anyone who employs violence loward
any end is lechnically a “lemrorist." If one would like to
specifically limit the definifion of “errorism" as conlfined lo
the mass murdering of civilians, then Amerika's bombing in
Japan in 1945, the many photos which exist depicling .
women and even naked children napaimed by Amerika in
Vielnam would most definilely qualify. Even the bombing
of raq's water systems and the subsequent sanctions
prevenling their rebuilding caused by Amerika 1o this day,
which has cost hundreds of thousands of Iraqi childrens"
lives, make exceplionally clear that even the likes of
Genghis Khan cannol hold a candle 1o Amerika the
Terroristl

It must be remembered thal Amerikan rulers (CIA)
Irained and/or equipped both Saddam Hussein and
Osama bin Laden. They now juslify the genocide imposed
against Iraqi civilians on the grounds that Hussein is a
diclalor. He was a diclalor when he was a US. ally. What
aboul the rulers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia? They fif the bil
of dictatorships, as well. Obviously it matters litfle what our
polifical methods are. What does malter is the level of your
delerence 10 U.S. imperialism. Amerika has never had any
qualms about working with unsavory foreign agenls and
assassins 1o carry out ifs polilical and economic ambifions.
Until suppressed, much controversy was waged over such
praclices in the 1970's and 1980's.

Events such as the Seplember 111h strikes, clearly
advance and in no way work againsi economic and
military imperialist proliferation. A polifical faction who uses
mass murder as a logistical stralegy against a larger
opponent would never deny ils accountabiity. To do so
defeats the goal of teror. The purpose of such acfion is to
generate fear of the faction and to demoralize the more
powerful enemy from opposing it. A faclion cannot be
feared that doesn't show ifself accountable. bin Laden has
denied responsibilily for the September 11th strikes. The
Amerikan regime has rammed bin Laden down the world's
throats so persistently that it has been obvious from the
outset that it does nol wish anyone 1o suspect any possibility
of any other culprit. One dare nof question what the U.S.
media and Amerika's govermnment fells the world!

The underpinnings and very nalure of capilalism is war.
These include massive global suffering, death,
indoctrination, exploitation, slave labor, wage slavery, the
insane destruction of natural resources and the ecosystems
needed for human and natural survival. Indeed, capitalism
thrives upon the very destruction of our ability o socially
cooperate and live communally. It compels class
alienafions and pervasive cynical competifion for status
and the amassing of social wealth for meaningless
recreational purposes.

Capiltalism exploils and mulliplies human vice - negafive
relationships between people and between people and
nalure, for economic gain. Itis only because of these things
that capilalism survives. Ifs systems are orienfed upon
opportunism, not honesty. This is why they suppress truth.
Clearly, people who fear lo pursue or stand on iruth are
either hypociites or victims of ferror.

But even if only in secret, dishones! people and lerified
people suffer the innate revelations of fruth. So ask yourself
- both honest and dishonest folks out there - while the strikes
of Seplember 11th could have been the work of religious
exiremists... why couldn'f they also have been an
orchestrated imperialist gambit calculated to achieve the

global police state and global expansion of monopoly
capital?

Sounds like a New World Order 1o me!