paulo puts it beautifully, “violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognize others as persons — not by those who are oppressed, exploited, and unrecognized.” the inciting incident that has brought out the unfettered wrath and anger in some against white people is 400+ years, 7 continents and millions of lives destroyed. it is a wrath that has been earned over centuries.
paulo also sums up the reaction to this as well “for the oppressors, however, it is always the oppressed who are disaffected, who are “violent,” “barbaric,” “wicked,” or “ferocious” when they react to the violence of the oppressors.” perfectly put. oppressors and those who have joined the oppressors class never see the violence of white supremacy, never see the unabashed, multi-layered, multi-faceted violence of white supremacy. they’ve turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to it but a black person’s reaction to it, if it contains any aggression is the problem. malcolm preached self-defense, not violence for violence sake, but self-defense which may indeed from time to time require violence since you're defending yourself against violence since you are defending yourself against people who would want to lynch you or police who would simply want to murder you with their state equipped state-sanctioned guns. but those who would label him as violent without this context do so in support of those who have been violent against black people for centuries. because their analysis is never pointed towards the murderous white supremacy and white racial hatred that initiated all of this. they are silent about that but those who would defend themselves are labeled barbarians. it’s akin to getting upset when a rape victim pulls out a gun and shoot her (or his) rapist but yet that same upset person never saw and never had a word to say when said rapist was doing all that raping right in front of your eyes. smfh. and why do they do this? because they support the violence of white supremacy in all its forms because they know as white people they are benefiting from it.
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