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Thursday, June 21, 2007
ARC Blogs
 Racism is Alive in America
By Yasir
Khalid
I would like
to welcome you to our site, Alkebulan Reference Center (ARC). I hope that the
information provided in this article will be of value to those who read it. Truth and honesty is what I
intend to express in my BLOGs. This is the first of many ARC BLOGS to come. I hope this specific article will
excite, inspire, and ultimately motivate you to take a stand and become a thorn in the side of racism/white supremacy in
this country and world wide.
I personally
feel compelled to fight racism on all levels, as well as expose and confront those who practice racism. Racism
has many shades of colors like “Red Neck” and it tends to hide itself in obscure places like
Corporate America and educational institutions. The affects of racism can determine whether you live or
die.
I feel that I have a social, moral, and ethical
obligation to do all that is in my power to dismantle racism. It’s my duty to confront an evil or
an injustice whenever and wherever I see it. If I can’t change it with my hands, at least I can speak
out against racism. I would like the readers to join me in this endeavor. I feel I owe
a debt to my African brothers and sisters who came before me and stood up for justice against seemingly impossible odds.
Those sisters and brothers who took a stand died for us. They stood in the face of the slave master, the KKK,
Jim and Jane Crowism. Many of our people were imprisoned and died for a just cause. What
are we doing today? Are we under an illusion that racism does not exist? Are we under
an illusion that we are free?
Many African-Americans
today who are living in their comfort zones will tell you that we live in a colorless society. These confused
African-Americans will tell you it’s not about race it’s about class. These are the Negroes
that think they have arrived. These are the newly arrived bourgeois of the world. Many
of these confused African-Americans have an agenda synonymous to the gatekeepers of Neo-Colonialism or in a word or two
they have become the hand picked overseers for their slave masters. They suffer from “Plantation
Psychosis” or 21st Century Slavery. They love to be next to the slave master. H.
Rap Brown said “Slavery systematically verifies itself anytime a slave imitates his master to prove that he’s
free”.
We must understand that
racism is the illegitimate child of slavery. The two pathologies are interconnected. The
psychological effects of slavery are still prevalent today. I must inform you that the effect of an act
does not necessarily come immediately after the act itself. After nearly 400 years of slavery, it would
be unreasonable to conclude that the Blackman and woman in America are totally free.
Slavery was and is the most inhumane act that can be meted out against a people.
We as Africans here in America were not only kidnapped and brought here forcibly, but we were robbed of our Culture,
Language, and Religion. Our traditionally strong family structure was also broken up and was significantly weakened.
This was just our introduction to “Civilization”. It is estimated that over a 150 million Africans
died on their way through the “Middle Passage” on the journey across the Atlantic Ocean to shores of North America.
A few days after arriving here and being introduced
to “Civilization” we were auctioned off to different slave masters at various plantations. We were forced
to work on the plantation without any pay for over 350 years. Racism was the culprit then
and still is used to justify the barbaric acts that we as Africans in America continue to be victims of today.
We have been lynched, castrated, hung, burned at the stake, and all of this was done by "good" Christian
white folks.
Today we are being lynched legally. We are victims of
Mental Slavery and Psychological Racism. What then is racism? Racism is a polymorphous
agent of death, premature births, shortened lives, starving children, debilitating theft, abusive larceny, and degrading insults.
The following statistics are a result of the negative impacts of racism/white supremacy on the African-American
community:
- 67% increase of Black infant mortality rates
between 1950 and 2000
- The Infant mortality rate of Black Americans
is 2.5 times higher than White Americans
- Life expectancy for African-American
men is 66.1 years, compared to the national average of 73.6 years
- 44%
of all prisoners in the US are Black and we only represent approximately 13% of the population
- Black men of all ages are incarcerated more than seven times the rate of white men according to the Department
of Justice (Injustice)
- Prison population of African-Americans increased
from 98,000 in 1954 to 910,000 in 2007
- African-Americans suffer
from chronic health problems at an alarming rate
- 63% of African-Americans
who are at the poverty level reported that they had one of four chronic diseases: Hypertension, Heart disease, Diabetes and
Asthma
- Out of 1 million HIV suffers 47% are African-Americans
- According to the Center for Disease Control 56% of newly diagnosed HIV cases in 2005 were African-Americans
When we examine these disparities we can readily
see that some people are more privileged than others, and some have more assess to capital than others. We
can see an infrastructure designed by Euro-Americans for the maintenance of other Euro-Americans. I
am a strong lobbyist in terms of doing for self. However, after over 350 years of slavery, blood shed,
sweat, and tears, we must hold this country and the Whites who live here accountable. I maintained that
America, lead by Whites, is a striving sturdy racist and hypocritical society. As an African people, we
should not let injustice prevail and bury our heads in the sand like a white Ostrich. The powers that be
will never willingly relinquish their reign of domestic and global control. We as an African people must
fight racism on all fronts. We must fight institutional racism, psychological racism, and cultural
racism.
The final point
of this article, I recently read where there is a movement afoot with the plan to bury the “N” word.
In case your mind is in a state of “cognitive unconsciousness” the “N” word means Nigger, something
I’ve heard all my life, and that’s another article. I want someone to give me that date for
the funeral of racism and white supremacy. Maybe we can have one big grave side gathering and bury racism
and the “N” word in the same hole. Just a reminder, get conscious or continue to raise your consciousness by purchasing the latest
Black Conscious lectures and music from our web site @www.Ancient-Knowledge-Breakthrough.net.
Death to Racism/White Supremacy!
Yasir ARC
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