My Resolution - Part Two

I know many of you will disagree. You will say that we should turn to the church, to the servant, to God for our salvation. Poppycock!! How many churches can you count along a two-mile stretch in any black community? Now, how many intellectual meeting places can you count in that same two-mile stretch? Exactly, none!

There are no, I repeat, no intellectual meeting places in our communities! There are thousands of churches, not to mention the liquor stores, crack houses, "ho"tels, shoe stores, suit vendors, used car lots, pawn shops, payday cash loaners, second hand/resale shops, abandoned houses and buildings, and on and on and on… - but no intellectual meeting places.

The intellectual has tried to surface from time to time, and like the white man who repeatedly smashes the upsurges of the black man, we consistently squash the rising black intellectual with the weights of religiosity and disingenuous piety.

It was the intellectual that said escape to freedom, kill the slave master before he kills us, revolt since we outnumbered them and take our freedom, exercise self-defense, speak out and denounce the white man for his deeds. But it was the religious, niggerized sect that said be patient, God won't put on us more than we can bear, negotiate with the whites, trust Jesus, be a good slave and God will reward us, massa ain't so bad, God brought us here for a reason, let's integrate into the white system (that only acknowledges our existence based on it's own convenience).

The majority of us would follow the religious path out of default because we have never seriously considered any other option. Our conditioning won't allow us to think in those terms because we've been conditioned to believe, not to think. And again, like in the '50's and '60's, due to a fatal lack of hindsight and forethought, any other idea logically presented to us would cause us to lose our minds and sell our souls.

Only a few would follow the intellectual down the path to securing our true liberation and freedom. Why? Because it's easier to stay a slave letting massa handle everything than to make the treacherous journey north on the underground path where liberty awaits.

It is reported that Mother Harriet Tubman, a profound intellectual, never lost a charge. Some would argue that it was her faith in God, but I say no. It was her intellect that guided her to establishing and engineering the safe escape from slavery hundreds of African Americans who wanted freedom in the imperfect promised land of the North.

And like Mother Tubman it will be the intellectual that finally leads us out of this wilderness wasteland and into our perfect promised land that until now has only existed in our subconscious. The Underground Railroad was not an exercise in religious faith, but was a brilliantly conceived, carefully planned covert operation and the white slave masters never knew what hit them. So, too, must this new thing be just as brilliant, carefully planned, and specifically not religion-based but intellectual in scope and operation.

In "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership" by Harold Cruse (what I consider my bible), he asserts that we must appeal to every aspect of our community - economic, political, social, religious, and cultural - and that all must be part of the great Black push toward sovereignty in order for that push to be successful, and so that no one is left behind.

He clearly points out that it is the intellectual and only the intellectual who can organize all factions into a battering ram of black power to break open the barricaded door that blocks our access to real power. In his analysis, he identifies what I call the virus of the black masses, which has killed all efforts by the black intelligencia to free us as a people - the Messiah Complex.

The Messiah Complex is based on a blinding assumption that we can only achieve total freedom through a single figure (he is usually Christian oriented) that must encompass all necessary attributes. Here's a quote from the "Ideology in Black" Chapter of his book (pp 442-443):

"There are serious contradictions in all of this, because although Malcolm X made revolutionary statements, his OAAU (Organization of Afro-American Unity) program was definitely a reformist document. So, also, in tone, was the draft platform of the Freedom Now Party-but merely because any political platform in America must be reformist in premise before it can be revolutionary.

Otherwise, such a party will never get off the ground even with strong and perceptive leadership (which the FNP did not have). On the other hand, even when a reformist organization such as the OAAU is established by a strongman leader like Malcolm X, it collapses if the leader is removed."

This reveals an almost incurable Messiah complex, characteristic of Negro emotionalism. There must always be the great Individual Leader - the Messiah, the Grand Deliverer, and the cult of the Irreproachable Personality who, even if he does not really have all the answers to the problem, can never be wrong.

Negroes, including the nationalists, are led by their emotions rather than by reason or guideposts of social analysis. This political immaturity is sustained by two factors: Negroes are not really sure what they want out of life; and, they do not understand that American society is much too complex today for the human limitations of one individual leader to encompass.

What the Afro-American Nationalists need is a collective leadership, a guiding committee of political, economic, and cultural experts to tackle an agreed-upon set of goals. But who, out of the morass of nationalist confusion, can establish any goals?

Of course, the downfall of the Messiah philosophy, as our tragic history has proved and Brother Cruse clearly points out, is that once the Messiah figure is deleted, either by physical or character assassination, the body is rendered impotent.

Even more tragic, in all of our scriptural studying we have failed to realize one simple fact: the Messiah always dies! Therefore, it is absolute insanity to continue on the Messiah path. Rather, as Brother Cruse advocates, we should establish a collective, community panel and governing body, headed by intellectuals that can serve us as we move out of our current insolvent state and into one of perpetual solvency, liquidity, and potency.

The end of Niggerosity will be the end of white dominance in black affairs; the end of black apathy; the end of black captivity; the end of the mindset that we are incapable of self-government and determination. It will be the beginning of black cohesion, black creativity, and black solidarity.

This new mindset will confirm our suspicions that we possess the power to establish a black homeland where we make the rules to facilitate our independence. But in case you missed the point of my message, Niggerosity must end in the mind first since that is where it begins.

We must stop thinking of ourselves and seeing ourselves as niggers. No one can do that for us. Others can call us niggers all day long, but when we begin to call ourselves niggers we have, in essence stopped sliding down the slippery slope of nothingness and actually hit bottom. Now we must start our slow, painful climb from the bottom back up to the summit. It will be difficult, hard, but it can and must be done. We can do it! We must do it! If we don't we as a people are dead.

As I said in the beginning, all niggers will die and go to hell. Why? Because the nigger was conceived in the bottomless pit of the white man's sin, shaped in his ignorance, and brought forth in hate-filled iniquity. It was doomed from the start, and that doom is still forth coming as foretold in the book of Revelations.

That creation, the nigger, has the same fate as its creator, the white man. As Jesus said of the devil, I too say that had white people known the consequences of their actions they never would have enslaved us nor created the demonic nigger.

Do you know the difference between a "thou" and an "it"? The "thou" is real, valuable, and prized while the "it" is unreal, valueless, and not prized. Whites, "Massa", has always been a "thou", whereas Blacks, "niggers", have always been an "it". Now do you get the picture? Do you see our position?

The reason they bought, sold, raped, molested, hunted, tortured, lynched, discriminated and imprison us with impunity is because we were and still are "it". In the war in Iraq, for example, the Iraqis are "it" while the White man and his soldiers are "thou". Looking back in history, the pattern is the same; "thou" vs. "it", and the "thous" have "it". It is the same pattern of dehumanization, converting "thous" into "its" and then the dehumanizer is free to kill "it", with as much concern as one would have stepping on an ant. "Its" don't think, don't speak, and don't have the power of displacement, only "thous" do. Now that you see that we are no more niggers, no longer "it", we must begin to think, then speak, and displace ourselves out of our present place into the place where we desire to be.

I am launching a T-shirt campaign to help do this very thing. My goals are these:

1) To promote the ideas and goals stated here along with others that will further the sovereignty of Black America.

2) To recruit, train and support speakers and teachers who will promote this message of black power, unity and independence.

3) To send these people to black schools, black churches, and black organizations, and hold meetings to spread this word.

4) To fund radio programming aimed at promoting these ideas in black communities nation-wide.

5) To reform the minds of black people by reaching them at their level through spoken and print media, and opening channels for direct feedback/input.

6) To encourage current black organizations to sit down for honest, open, on-going debate on the state of Black America.

7) To stimulate the Black Intelligencia toward forming an intellectual African American governing body empowered to develop, implement and enforce viable solutions to the problems we face.

Together we can buy airtime on local radio stations and build professional websites to give black people the voice and vision to be heard and seen across the nation and around the world. Together we can make the dream of black power, unity and independence a reality.

This is not about what you or I believe, it's about what we as a people know to be true. We have bought into the lie that we are niggers deserving of nothing. Look around you. You know what I say is true, and it was true before I said it or your reading it here. This has been the state of black people for centuries since coming to America.

The aim of the T-shirt campaign is to raise funds to get intellectuals on the air in every hamlet, town and city to speak to our people about us. Purchase your T-shirt here at Afromerica or at my site, www.edincorporate.com. We must be heard but the only way to be heard is to open our mouths and speak out.

Now is our time. Please write to me and express your thoughts on what you have read, what you think are the most pressing issues that should be addressed, how to address them, and what if anything you will do to help.

In truth, we have never been, we are not now, and we never will be niggers. We are ready to experience life on our own terms so we can realize our own power to make the changes we need and want.

Thank you Black Man and Woman.
See you next time.

© 2005 By Dan Hardman

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