Gavin Long (1987-2016), also known as Cosmo Setepenra, was a Black American nutritionist, spiritual adviser and former US Marine sergeant. On July 17th 2016, according to Baton Rouge police, he shot six of their officers, killing three. A ton of police arrived and shot him dead.
Timeline:
- July 4th: Fourth of July
- July 5th: Baton Rouge police kill Alton Sterling
- July 6th: Minnesota police kill Philando Castile
- July 7th: Micah Xavier Johnson allegedly kills five Dallas police officers.
- July 17th: Cosmo Setepenra allegedly kills three Baton Rouge police officers.
Johnson and Setepenra were both Black soldiers, both killed by police.
US Marines: Setepenra, of Kansas City, Missouri, served in the Marines from 2005 to 2010 and made sergeant before being honourably discharged for a physical injury. For two years he was stationed in Japan. From June 2008 to January 2009, he served in Iraq.
Africa: After the military, he was briefly married (no children). He says he studied at Central Texas College and Clark Atlanta University. While at Clark Atlanta he had a spiritual revelation, dropped out of university, gave up his material possessions and journeyed to Africa to seek wisdom. From 2014 to 2016 he travelled Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt, Ghana and Burkina Faso.
Books: He wrote three books based on what he learned about health and spirituality. They were on sale on Amazon, but have been taken down since the shooting. As has his YouTube channel and Facebook page (but not yet his website or Twitter account).
Police record: none.
What he said on the Internet in his last days:
July 8th on Twitter he said of Johnson:
“The Shooter was NOT WHITE, He was one of us! # My religion is Justice @tariqnasheed @ZoWilliams @thecoreyholcomb”
and:
“Power doesnt respect weakness. Power only respects Power. # Alton # Castile”
On YouTube:
“If anything happens with me … I’m affiliated with the spirit of Justice, nothing else. I thought my own stuff; I made my own decisions; I’m the one who got to listen to the judgement.”
Court records show he belonged to the Washitaw Nation, a Black Indian nation the US says is fake.
July 10th on YouTube he said devils run this world. They do not understand words or protest (a la Black Lives Matter), only money and violence. The minds of Black people have become diseased:
“You think it’s wrong when you fight back, but celebrate it when someone else fights back.”
His models were George Washington, Nat Turner and Malcolm X. He was a fan of Dr Boyce Watkins.
July 13th:
“Violence is not THE answer (its a answer), but at what point do you stand up so that your people dont become the Native Americans…EXTINCT?”
July 14th:
“Be The Man You Needed as a Boy”
July 16th:
“Don’t let someone get comfortable with disrespecting you.”
July 17th, his last tweet:
“Just bc you wake up every morning doesn’t mean that you’re living. And just bc you shed your physical body doesn’t mean that you’re dead.”
– Abagond, 2016.
See also:
- Cosmo Setepenra: website, Twitter.
- Fourth of July
- Alton Sterling
- Philando Castile
- Micah Xavier Johnson
- Ethiopia
- Iraq
- George Washington
- Nat Turner
- Trailer: The Birth of a Nation (2016) – a film about him that is coming out in three months
- Malcolm X
- Boyce Watkins
- Black Lives Matter
- Martin Luther King’s Riverside Speech
- Robert Dear – a White man who shot at police and was taken alive. US police are mostly killed by White men.
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All I can really say about this is well…
F**k
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I have several posts from people in the area that have reported that the shoot out began before the arrival of police. When the police arrived was when they engaged in the shoot out. A poster also mentioned that a video was made showing the other shooter as white, but the video keeps getting deleted.
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I fear that the media subtly encouraging armed retaliation of LEOs among black people is setting the stage for a backlash of epic proportions.
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This sounds like a setup by the powers that be. This sounds like something out of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’. How can someone go from point a to z, seemingly overnight?
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Rest in Peace brother Cosmo!
Questions for white Amerika: How does it feel to live your life on an unstable powder keg, not knowing when it will explode?
What is it like to live in fear because the timing of revenge of a random Black man acting in response to another extrajudicial killing is certainly unknown?
How do you feel or explain to your so-called black friends, the act of another white police officer of your ilk, murdering another unarmed descendant of American slaves?
How does it feel to have someone knock on your door late at night, not knowing whether it’s an indiscriminate solicitor or the knock of death?
How does it feel to spend 400 years of slow attrition to completely wipe a people out of existence through intermittent assaults, but after the smoke has cleared the air, guess what, … those same people are still standing?
What are you going to do white Amerika, when Black Americans truly cease slumbering and become conscious that America exists merely in theory, but not in practice?
What are you going to do white Amerika, when your mass incarceration, your racism ass judicial system, your racist ass lawmakers/politicians, a half millennia of abusive oppression and your racist ass law enforcement officers inadvertently spawn 13 million more brother Cosmo and brother Micah?
Tell me white Amerika, … how do you really feel??
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@Mack Lyons
“I fear that the media subtly encouraging armed retaliation of LEOs [law enforcement officers] among black people is setting the stage for a backlash of epic proportions.”
Who stands to make money from the backlash?
Who gains political capital from the backlash?
Whose crimes go unnoticed during a backlash?
Who will be targeted during a backlash/pogrom/massacre?
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I have a feeling there will be more Cosmos and Micahs coming, because there are black folks that have reached the breaking point. They’ve had enough, and someone’s going to pay. They no longer see marches and protests as the answer. They see this as a full-fledged war. And I personally am afraid of that possibility, because of the backlash Afrofem described.
Then again, it’s better to die on one’s feet than live on one’s knees. At least in death, one is truly free.
I apologize if the last comment sounded dark.
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I think the NWO elite is setting us ALL up for an orchestrated race war, gender war, resource war… any war amongst the people so that they can organize the world in the precise ways they deem fit.
As such, there will be *stage productions* with sleight of hand tricks, smoke and mirrors.
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Fan: That’s exactly what I think the Dallas shooting was. And here’s this, I never pay attention to conspiracy theories. I’m not into that, believing most of them to be ludicrous. But we never saw a body in Dallas, the man had no online footprint before that night, how do we even know that photo that was sent out is even the person who did it, it was initially reported that there was more than one shooter. That whole damn thing is hinky as f***, and the same with the shooting in Baton Rouge.
I feel like people are being slowly pushed into a “race war”. Who stands to benefit from that the most? It sure as Hell won’t be black people.
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If retaliation against violence is so wrong then why do we arm officers or have a military?
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@ The Pragmatist
The basis of our society is that the state has the monopoly on violence.
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Rest in Peace.
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British newspapers are confused as to why his Facebook page was taken down and an amateur video of the shooting has been removed. The removal of his existence from social media is not common practice as far as I am aware.
@Ikeke35 I’m with you on conspiracy theories but it cannot be denied that governments do create events to get the populous on side. There is a vast number of people here who believe, for example, that 9/11 was orchestrated by the Bush administration and there is a hell of a lot of evidence to back this, far too much to be ignored. This opinion doesn’t seem to be very much supported by our American cousins for some reason.
Sleep with angels Cosmo.
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The Pragmatist asked: “If retaliation against violence is so wrong then why do we arm officers or have a military?”
@Pragmatist, the military and law enforcement’s primary purpose is to protect the status quo. Their duties extend no further than this.
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Cosmo Setepenra
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@ blakksage
I certainly don’t speak for All Whites, but since you asked (I assume sincerely), I’ll respond for myself alone:
1. How does it feel to live your life on an unstable powder keg, not knowing when it will explode?
We’ve had various “lone wolves” and random nutjobs targeting us as long as I can remember. Going to see Batman could be your final act. Now is no different.
2. What is it like to live in fear because the timing of revenge of a random Black man acting in response to another extrajudicial killing is certainly unknown?
Same answer.
3. How do you feel or explain to your so-called black friends, the act of another white police officer of your ilk, murdering another unarmed descendant of American slaves?
I feel terrible and I don’t explain it. In fact, I get in extremely heated arguments with my White friends and family (many of whom are in law enforcement) about it. I have been desperately trying to alter perceptions and chip away at the blind loyalty of the uniform.
4. How does it feel to spend 400 years of slow attrition to completely wipe a people out of existence through intermittent assaults, but after the smoke has cleared the air, guess what, … those same people are still standing?
It FEELS like it’s not too late. It FEELS like I personally can never personally do enough to right the wrongs that have occurred. I FEEL grateful that you are still standing, because without that, there would be no opportunity to create a better world. Of course, I feel guilty and sad and whatever too.. but there’s whole posts on White Tears so I’m not going there.
5. What are you going to do white Amerika, when Black Americans truly cease slumbering and become conscious that America exists merely in theory, but not in practice?
I’m still waiting for White Americans to realize that same thing.
6. What are you going to do white Amerika, when your mass incarceration, your racism ass judicial system, your racist ass lawmakers/politicians, a half millennia of abusive oppression and your racist ass law enforcement officers inadvertently spawn 13 million more brother Cosmo and brother Micah?
I will flee in an effort to protect my family. Failing that, I will die defending them from all sides.
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@blakksage..et al,
Do you really want THIS GUY answering those questions?
Perhaps, it might be more useful to think about mass migration of the entire African American population of the USA to a single state (Georgia, Mississippi?) and overwhelm the ballot box, secure the political (National Guard and Police) power, and establish a Pan African state within the USA. I prefer a reverse migration and the “legal” seizure of the levers of power to an Urban Civil War. I think it could be done within 2 generations.
The establishment of such a Pan African State, with established airports, highways and sea ports, would give us a great opportunity to enlarge commerce with the majority of the world..especially the other diaspora countries in South America, the Caribbean and West Africa with whom we could form a trade (block) relationship and lift us “all” up from our current dependence and subjugation.
Currently, West African countries along with members of the elite (rich) African American entertainment class are already making investments in black banks within our communities in the USA. Let’s join them to lead rather than follow.
The good news is that it AIN’T illegal for African Americans to move, en mass, to a state and vote, en mass, to seize the levers of power. Who knows, under those circumstances we might even come to embrace “states rights”.
Seems to me that “keeping your brains in your head” is a much better option than giving the militant racists an unfettered license to “blow your brains out” without ANY legal consequences. BTW, hows that (street revolution) working out..?
“Proactive” is much better than “Reactive”…!!!
Jus Sayin’
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@ Black Sci-Fi
I like that idea, Blacks having at least one state where they are in charge. It can even take advantage of White flight without being screwed by it at the state level (which is what screws Detroit, Flint and Baltimore).
The Blackest states in 2010:
37% Mississippi
32% Louisiana
31% Georgia
30% Maryland
28% South Carolina
26% Alabama
22% North Carolina
In absolute terms, Georgia has the most Black people.
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Thanks or the demographic stats. I can’t emphasize enough the fact that Georgia is a MAJOR transportation hub with easy access to the Atlantic Ocean and therein the Caribbean, South America and West Africa.
Among the noteworthy infrastructure is the National Center for Disease Control. That might come in handy considering the amount of international business and tourism I envision. Georgia also boasts among it’s 40+ airports an international airport and 4 military airports.
Also consider that the name of the state, counties, cities, etc can be changed through state level legislative amendments ratified through majority popular vote. And, I also see a lot of Confederate flags and monuments disappearing with a quickness and being replaced with noteworthy AA persons.
Oh, and did I mention a statewide mandate for a Pan African primary and secondary educational curriculum? Now we’re talking about PROGRESS.
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@ Black sci-fi
You have to do away with mass incarceration. Louisiana for example has the highest rate of incarceration per 100,000 of any state in the union with Mississippi and Georgia coming in second and third. Those states incarcerate more people per 100,000 then any other place or nation on the planet. More people then the hight of the Russian Gulag system. Let that sink in a minute. America has sold you a lie about the land of the free.
I don’t think it’s a quisstance that those states with high black populations also have the highest incarecerstion rates. Racists will say it because Blacks are criminals. Nope. It’s because that’s where the highest concentration of targeted racism occurs. That’s what oppression looks like.
To free one of those states would create a space free from tyranny. It would be like liberating a country that was under enemy occupation.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/louisiana_is_the_worlds_prison.html
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@Black Sci-Fi
Interesting idea. I’ve said it before, but I think the U.S. is going to Balkanize within 100 years.
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*I don’t think it’s a coincidence
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Nobody (black folk I mean) is going to limit themselves to just one black state and stay there. I sure as heck wouldn’t. It’ll end up like Soul City and that place had financial support from Nixon. [Nice topic to consider: hint hint]. It’d be more realistic to block out the east coast and let everyone else stay west of Illinois – that’s about how it is anyway except for Cali. and Texas. They can have Missouri. Of course, either way it’s just fantastical thinking. Never happen.
In any case, both these brothers should have channeled their anger into being OUR protectors/police rather than deciding to martyr themselves. I’d be surprised if there weren’t some group of ex- (and hopefully current) black military organizing themselves to do just that.
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Et al….
I like the feedback. It’s good to see the obstacles in a realistic way. But, the obstacles shouldn’t dissuade us from keeping our eyes on the prize of the founding of a Pan African majority state within the USA.
First things first, IT’S LEGAL..!!
Of course there will be subversive opposition from both external and internal sources. But, there is rich history of such opposition (Garvey?) that should allow us to get out in front of the problems and cut them off before they fester.
Two generations is enough time to bring this type of strategic reverse migration into fruition. Keep in mind that there was also a “very real” racist/labor opposition to “The Great Migration” post-Reconstruction. But the numbers would suggest that it was very successful. I’m simply calling for cashing in the blank check of equal opportunity, freedom of movement, open housing, etc, etc, etc. that are well within the rights of any American citizen.
Regardless of race, we have constitutional rights and poly-racial allies within this country that can and must be used to our advantage for a goal as lofty, but attainable, as “self governance via state constitutions”. But, we need to be the MAJORITY voters within a state for such a plan to have a realistic chance of success.
This is called a SOFT REVOLUTION vs any other type of “integration” scheme from the past road to liberation that has served us well but has been overcome by successful (financial/legal) counter schemes (reverse racism/ Bakke Case), to maintain the status quo.
I’m talking about true AFFIRMATIVE ACTION initiated by African-Americans to control our destiny by seizing the levers of power by establishing a reverse migration by targeting a single southern state for political and economic power, within the legal framework of the USA.
When you really think about it, how did America become a majority white country? Now, after the dust has settled from the genocide that was perpetrated on African and Native Americans, how did the white majority gerrymander voting districts to maintain power?
OK..??
Let’s use that same LEGAL game plan to EMPOWER ourselves, a SOFT REVOLUTION, without a fruitless “armed struggle” that would only further erode our voting power and diminish our worldwide ethical appeal and alliances.
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I just hope these shooting open up a conversation within the community concerning different forms of protest and the obligation to be a non-violent protester that goes hand in hand with getting rid of Black people are violent.
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I don’t think there is necessarily an *obligation* to be non-violent. Violence, at times, may be strategically unwise, but I wouldn’t hastily concede that it is never an appropriate tool. This country was founded on slavery, genocide and revolution and segments of its population have been violently repressed for centuries. While the US had violently separated from the British, they had a problem when the Hatians did the same with the French. It seems white people have a monopoly on using violence to achieve their aims.
Whether non-violent protesters know it or not, people who are willing to be violent for the same cause can strengthen their position. Without Malcom X’s rhetoric as an alternative, MLK might have had even less success. Even then, he was accused of being extreme just as BLM is today. In fact, he had said:
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“… initiated by African-Americans to control our destiny by seizing the levers of power by establishing a reverse migration by targeting a single southern state for political and economic power, within the legal framework of the USA.”
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This is an excellent point. We know culturally, and historically that whites prefer not to live in any community where a great many (majority) of us reside. They love all or mostly all white enclaves.. and will act against their own interests to live in mostly/all white communities.
Strategy is simple. Target 1 – 2 – 3 states and move in. With enough high numbers of us occupying these places they’ll flee elsewhere — they always have.
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I like the BankBlack initiative too. There is an online bank called One United Bank that I learned about through social media. I’m planning to open an account. Even though there aren’t many branches yet (only California, Massachusetts and Florida so far IIRC) they can issue an ATM card that is compatible with machines in my area.
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@ Fan…,
You Said:
“Strategy is simple. Target 1 – 2 – 3 states and move in. With enough high numbers of us occupying these places they’ll flee elsewhere — they always have.
I offer you a slight correction:
I would ask that the language of the “SOFT REVOLUTION” be as legally precise as possible to avoid any “Constitutional” misunderstandings that can lead to an OVERT (white racial) backlash.
The terms “occupying” and “move-in” should be replaced with the less ambiguous LEGAL term: “establish legal residence” which empowers all citizens to vote, establish a business and lobby (bring forth petitions) their government for changes.
To wit: unambiguous legal empowerment by using the states and federal Constitutions as bullet-proof vests.
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Partial quote of MLK left by Origin.
“And in part of a few middle-class Negroes who, because of a degree of academic and economic security and because in some ways they profit by segregation, have become insensitive to the problems of the masses.”
Don’t you think this is still partly true today ?
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@ Black Sci-Fi
I’ll politely suggest that your lesser ambiguous legal language may not matter as much as it might because they possess the power (and money) to change/make/shape terms, interpretations, laws and legislation to receive whatever advantage they wish.
Precise legal syntax isn’t going to stop these people from obtaining their agenda. If correct and accurate legal phrases or wording (or empathy/feelings/ morality/etc) could stop them, racism would have ceased to exist hundreds of years ago.
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@ Fan…
I appreciate your point but I disagree with your conclusion. My hope is to harness the great creative energy of our people toward a goal worthy of our efforts, and initial sacrifices. Words matter and English, if used in a precise manner, can remove obstacles and deflect critique.
I harbor no illusions of paradise without a fight. I would simply suggest that our strategy be dressed in the proper legal language, unambiguous to all.
As Malcolm said: “Make it Plain”.
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@Black Sci-Fi
If words really mattered, FBI head agent, Comey wouldn’t have been able to *overlook* Hillary Clinton’s CRIMINAL mishandling of the Fed’s classified e-mails and refuse to suggest her indictment or prosecution, according to what is written in Federal laws & statues.
When the government does what it does, and wants what it wants, no amount of laws, treaties, language or whatever can keep it in check. Just ask Native Amerikans about WORDS language, laws, lies and LAND.
WHITENESS will simply make new laws, or fail to use the laws already on the books, or just ignore certain laws, because *the fix* is in, i.e. too big to fail, such and such is too powerful, etc and so forth in plain view!
If words mattered why would our brothers like Oscar Grant, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin be murdered day after day for hundreds of years ?? Did Philando Castile’s last words keep him from being murdered in cold blood?
Words don’t mean squat. What matters is the perception the mainstream has of us.
Did the specific wording of property deeds owned by the Black legal owners to keep their land or permit some legal remedy when their towns became SUNDOWN TOWNS when they had to leave it or die? Words didn’t save them. Neither did precise and honest words save those who fell under the new slavery history calls the Black Codes.
I’m not saying Black people can’t use your approach to specific words. I am saying in the long (or short) term, it doesn’t matter.
If precise wording were as valuable as you might think wouldn’t they then compel WHITENESS to behave with a consistent righteousness?
I have never seen such a righteousness in my entire lifetime, or my Black ancestors’ lifetime (40 acres & a mule?).
We can agree to see life differently, and to disagree.
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@Fan @Black Sci Fi
While words matter, actions and consequences matter so much more.
European Americans and their allies will fight like banshees to prevent African Americans from establishing political and economic power in any US state or states. They love the established order and they don’t want Black folk to rock that profitable boat.
They don’t even want Black folk to move away en masse and do well because it would reveal the essential falsehood of White Supremacy. The treatment of Haiti over the past two hundred years is a case study in the lengths Euro-descent people will travel to stifle Black autonomy.
Black degradation and dependence are vital to the deranged psyches of too many White Supremacists. In a perverse way, many Whites and others are dependent on Black people to play specific negative roles in American society. In this way, Whites and their allies can project the parts of themselves (thieves, murderers and moochers) they don’t want to accept. It is an attempt to keep themselves clean by throwing their psychic garbage on Black folk.
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You are both intelligent Black men. Think about how these scenarios would play out:
Interstate Travel and Commerce. Would it be free and unhindered or would Black travelers and truck drivers face constant harrassment outside of the Black states?
Political Representation. There would be an increase of Black elected officials in the Senate and House, but would that translate into increased benefits for the residents of the Black states? After all, we currently have lots of Black elected officials from the local level to the federal level and the life prospects for Black constituents are not materially better than fifty years ago.
Economic Development. How would state and local governments in the Black states use available resources to create jobs? The current model is to court corporations with public giveaways so that they will build locally and create jobs. That model has blown up in the faces of numerous White officials throughout the country. Would it work better for Black officials in Black states?
Health Care. Would the Black states institute universal healthcare? How would those states fund such a program? How would they prevent the Federal government from overriding their programs with Federal statutes that only allow private insurance?
I could go on. This approach could work, but only with careful planning & execution, the education of everyone involved and a long time frame. Maybe.
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@ Fan…,
You said:
“WHITENESS will simply make new laws, or fail to use the laws already on the books, or just ignore certain laws, because *the fix* is in…”
My counter-argument is:
Your examples only serve to make my point that the law (majority rule) can be used for good as well as evil. The human rights laws of the 50’s and 60’s would be a prime example of the laws being used for good. I certainly recognize and agree with your points regarding the long list of “counter-productive” misuse of the law to serve the ends of white identity tyrants to enlarge their financial grip on the levers of power.
The “Citizens United” legislation has served as the prime example of a legal coup by oligarchs to amend the power of individual citizens to petition our government for redress of past wrongs. In affect, money is now equivalent to votes. “Same as it ever was?”
I would simply ask that you acknowledge the opposite is clearly true as well and the means to seek “legal change” are not impossible. The people can still void “Citizens United” by seeking redress in the Supreme Court. The problem is the money it would take to do so.
The reality is POC in the USA don’t have a voting MAJORITY (singular legal/financial power) to enact legislation, at any level (local, state or federal) of government to fully safeguard our human rights.
My suggestion, reverse migration, is one solution to that problem that can change our circumstances. Our history as African people proves that mass migration can be a solution. It should also be fully recognized that corruption and despotism are traits shared among ALL the people of the earth. But, if the means (legislation) to an end (self determination) are available, it would be foolish to not use those means (consolidating our voting power via mass migration on the state level) our to empower ourselves.
Again, my suggestion isn’t original or a panacea for all of our problems.
The good news is that the road map to self determination was laid out a long time ago by Garvey and others and the benefits of such a plan are obvious.
At this point it’s time to get busy and relieve doubts by putting forth a solid plan of action using the tools, we as citizens of the USA, have at our disposal.
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@ Black Sci-Fi
“I would simply ask that you acknowledge the opposite is clearly true as well and the means to seek “legal change” are not impossible.”
Sci-Fi, I never said it was impossible. I merely stated that if legal change was based strictly/simply on the precise use of words
(i.e. occupy/move-in versus whatever legally precise alternative WORDS YOU FAVOR),
your “legal change” would have occurred prior to the birth of those who are alive today. I wish words had that type of restorative power. The power to grow empathy in the oppressor’s heart. History says otherwise.
There comes a time when every person must choose how to follow their own dream/goal/ambition.
Good luck using the tools/words you’ve been given. I shall use my own.
Perhaps we’ll meet again in the struggle for freedom.
(Remember the case of Dred Scott!)
I wish you well.
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@Afrofem,
With all due respect, I’ll skip over your initial list of truths and grievances and move on to the 4 issues you’ve most thoughtfully denoted.
To that end, I would strongly suggest that there are experts among our people that are immensely qualified to fully and thoughtfully answer your 4 questions. And, with all humility,I am not among those so qualified.
However, I have noted in my lifetime a insurgence of pinpointed black capitalization, Pan African scholarship and educational experts along with a dearth of black legal graduates, well established legal practitioners and experienced political representatives who could lend their expertise to this embryonic plan.
Alas, and with all due respect, the plan “mass migration” for black empowerment and self determination is too serious (dangerous?) an issue to be fleshed out on the pages of Abagond.
I would suggest that we start by introducing this embryonic plan (mass migration to a single state for political empowerment and self governance) at the family level and find out the level of interest from those who are nearest to us and broaden our inquiry from there to larger and larger gatherings.
But, prior to bringing the issue to our families we should consult with our local education experts on (HBC?) college campuses and craft a reasonable embryonic plan based on their understanding of the historical (international) legal efforts (pro and con) to achieve our goals.
Let’s be clear, as you have offered, even a SOFT REVOLUTION will be met with determined resistance from both internal and external antagonists. Let’s also be perfectly clear that I am not advocating a 100% black state. That would violate, in principal, the Constitution of the USA. I’m advocating a consolidation of our (POC) political power, through mass migration, to effect a change for the better, within the legal means (establishing legal residency) available to all citizens of this country.
That “change” I am seeking is not “extra-legal” as it relates to the law of the land. It is, instead, a change to wrest the levers of power (political/financial) from those who oppose our RIGHT to control our destiny through the application of current (future?) law.
Our job is to anticipate such resistance and form poly-racial alliances prior to seeking the implementation of such a plan.
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@Black Sci-Fi
Thanks for the detailed clarification.
If Black people can the ugliness of today and the coming decade, your ideas could become a worthy goal.
Now is the time to plan.
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Correction: If Black people can survive the ugliness of today…
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Supposedly Gavin Long left a “manifesto” that he emailed to a friend. However it seems it’s a plagerised version of the Dorner manifesto that praises the police so I suspect it’s a fake.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/21/us/gavin-long-writings-baton-rouge/
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“Apparently, he was upset about the police killing Blacks but not about the military killing Middle Easterners.”
Wow, Kiwi, your mastery of the obvious just takes my breath away. I’m in awe of you sir!
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It takes one to know one. What’s the matter, you don’t want the competition?
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Thank you, I needed a post to remind me and us.
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interesting, he was probably in his proper person, maybe not, idk, don’t have time for that right now. it’s even more interesting in that my wife’s brother really identifies with his nationality to be exclusively ‘american’ by his blood line (adopted moorish philosophy), i think brother pete’s a little off track, but this would be definitely the logical extension of this mentality
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