First off, I want to thank Marlanda "Sapient Soul" Dekine for putting me on to this:
Killer Mike #ABNC All Black National Conference
Second, I came across this as well:
Killer Mike #ABNC All Black National Conference/ Black Banks, Gentrification, etc.
Third, in light of the election results last night, I had to preempt a current blog post that I am working on to say a few things here on this particular topic.
America failed last night.
I am not saying this in reaction to those who voted for Donald Trump and those who may not have voted at all. I've long been wary of the electoral process and I was not too enamored with either candidate. But as a country, America failed last night because of the system that is set in place and the direction the citizens of this country has vocally, and now electorally, said that it wants to go.
Fuck every "American" that doesn't look like us (the white majority) or worship like us or live heterosexually like us or has money like us.
So we now know what the American "public" wants. Not that we didn't know already. In 2008 when Barack Obama was elected, we knew then. We knew in the crying faces of white co-workers who we may have watched the election results with, who we may have thought we were cool with. We knew it from the rhetoric that took off that moment and has continued through to this day. We knew when white people began to feel like America had failed then. We knew as our lives began to be marginalized, with killing after killing of unarmed Black men, women and children by police officers and others. We knew when Donald Trump actually became a viable candidate and we knew when all this shit that came out of his mouth was not disputed by those who supported him. We knew as some of us went to the polls yesterday and voted. We knew as we watched the results, a lot of us in disbelief. We knew as we drove home, wondering what tomorrow would bring, what it would be like at work or at school or just at the gas station or grocery store. We knew when we woke up this morning and turned on the news. We know now.
We need to also know that as a people, what Killer Mike said in the above videos is absolutely right. We aren't ready. We aren't ready for what is about to come. And we need to get ready, right now! As a people, we are on our own. This country has elected a corporate honcho with no political experience whatsoever. Remember when people said the same thing about Obama? That was supposed to be important then. People said the same thing about Hillary Clinton. It was supposed to be important then. Now, it's meaningless. Donald Trump is a money man and he has just been charged with leading our country. Some may feel that it isn't the office of president that is important, that it doesn't matter who holds the seat. Those would be the same people who thought it mattered when Obama was elected, twice. This country has put a person in office who doesn't even fake to have some sort of moral code or compass. And we all knew that already!!! That is what some have said makes him the perfect person to lead this country. Fuck diplomacy, fuck class, fuck manners, fuck morals, fuck values, fuck everything but money and fuck everyone who feels like there should be an even playing filed when it comes to race, economics, justice, education, etc. Fuck you if you aren't elite. Be poor, die, whatever. But fuck you and fuck off.
Here is something I feel we all have to be honest about. Putting all political opinions that I and the rest of us may have aside, Hillary lost to Obama and to Donald Trump because she is a woman. There are people in this country, male and female, white and otherwise who only voted for Obama because they weren't ready to see a woman of any race, political background, etc. as president of these United States. Think about this for a moment. There were actual racist white males and females who voted for a nigger because they actually felt better about a Black man being president than a white woman. This time around, across the board, people of all genders, races, sexual orientation, etc. voted for a misogynistic, racist, bigoted white male who didn't even have to have these facts outed. He touted them, reveled in the controversy and even mocked Republican voters that he knew would vote for him "just because". And now we here, a day after the worst possible scenario that anyone could think became a reality. Donald Trump is going to be the 45th president of the United States.
I saw this on a good friend of mine's facebook page a while back. I didn't watch it the first time I saw it but after watching what Killer Mike had to say about Black people not being ready, I revisited it. I'm glad I did. As a community, we really need to be on this. Take a moment to view it please.
Single Mom Grows Her Own Food and Provides for the Community
After watching that video and having seen the Killer Mike videos, I understand how unprepared I am. I am fully convinced that no good can come from what we are going to experience as a country and as a Black community over the next few years. I could be wrong but I don't think I am. I am not wealthy, nor am I anywhere close to being wealthy. I don't have the skills nor the credetials or education that can plug me into a corporate environment or any non self employed environment that can net me over $30,000 a year. I have come to the realization that economically, I am going to have to find a way to survive and without wealth, considering what we are witnessing right now, that will probably very difficult. And if this is the case for many of us, then we need to realize it as well. It is going to be up to each and every one of us, very soon, to find ways to take care of ourselves and our families without looking to the machine around us. They will not be there, they won't want to be there and they won't even feel like they have to be there. It won't be easy to figure these ways out. As Mike was saying, we have to tap into Black resources, buy land, learn to hunt and grow our own food. But most importantly, we need unity as a community. We need to start with us, as Black people. We want our youth to excel and push through the glass ceilings that society has placed above us, but our youth also need to understand that we are going to need more than an institutionalized education to survive. We are going to need each other and we are going to have to be self sustained as people and as individuals. We are going to need our own financial institutions and our own streams of income. We are going to have to continue to create and support Black owned businesses significantly and, at some point, exclusively. I say this because last night's election was more than the wrong person being elected to lead this country. We were going in this direction regardless of who won last night. With Donald Trump being elected, that was a out and out declaration of "American Greatness" and exclusion. It was a statement against our Black lives and a condoning of police brutality against minorities. It was a thumb in the eye to those athletes who sit or kneel during the playing of this country's national anthem. It was a chin check to all of us who thought this country actually wanted change when we elected Barack Obama. This was a showing of who is "really in charge, in case you niggers didn't already know". This was a reaffirmation, a reality check and a notice to all that times are definitely changing back to when dissenting voices were handled with actions approved up to and including the deaths of those who dared speak against the system. Last night, America showed us all what it is and what it thinks of us as citizens and as minorities.
The question that stands now is this: Are we ready to get ready for what is coming? Now?
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