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“For many African Americans the police are “the law.” Police and the laws they are supposed to enforce are synonymous. When the police arbitrarily and along racist lines, enforce or ignore the laws, when they personalize law enforcement or violate the letter and spirit of the laws they are supposed to uphold, the populace loses respect for the police and the law. Viewing the police and “the law” as one and the same means that loss of respect for the police is synonymous to loss of respect for “the law.” If the police are held in contempt, so are the laws they ostensibly represent or with which they are associated. The laws will not be respected merely because they have been approved by the appropriate societal institutions and according to constitutional procedures. To be effectively respected they must be perceived as morally correct, honestly motivated, as not designed to protect and rationalize racial and/or class privilege and power, and enforced without bias. This has not been the case in regard to the laws and law enforcement relative to African Americans. African Americans have seen the laws and the law enforcement establishment be used to deny them their constitu¬tional, civil and human rights. They have seen “the law” and its enforcers take sides with reactionary White American communi¬ties and join with those communities in hypocritically and blatantly violating their own legal and moral codes to maintain racial advantages. Not only has the African American community suffered emotionally from the violations by Whites of their own moral and legal codes; they have witnessed the writing and enforcement of laws which are specifically designed and passed to facilitate their domination and exploitation, their humiliation and degradation, their subordination and dehumanization, by the White American community. This historical and contemporary situation has bred contempt for laws and authorities, for social mores and etiquette, and motivated open, rebellious subversion of these entities by certain relatively small but influential elements of the African American community. It has reinforced criminal contempt and activity in many youth and young adults because of the pleasure derived from outwitting the laws and their enforcers, laws promulgated and enforced by outsiders and enemies and therefore only to be obeyed by “squares” and “chumps.” Prestige is thereby gained in the eyes of unsophisticated Black youth by Black-on-Black criminals who in their perverted ways dare to challenge racist White supremacy as represented by the laws and authorities, even if such unthinking subversion, resistance and rebellion may ultimately prove to be self-defeating, self-destructive, wrongheaded and pointless.”

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Dr Amos Wilson

Remember, most Black gangs in their infancy were created to protect Black communities from the Police.

#PoliceBrutality #BlackOnBlackCrime #BlackPsychology (via alwaysbewoke)

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The mission of the neocolonial assimilationist/comprador class of negro leaders, which has an umbilical relationship to the neoliberal element of the white supremacist oligarchic psychopathocracy, is to keep the Afrikan masses in a delusional state of dreams and desires for inclusion in a system constructed on a foundation of genocide and theft. The paramount features of this mission are pimping the Afrikan American body politic to support the campaigns of corrupt neoliberal politicians based on false hopes and fear of the so-called greater evil, when what’s required is a complete mental rupture from the corrupt-two-party system and the decaying society it represents, while promoting celebrities and entertainers who are opiates that keep the Afrikan masses unconscious. – Makheru

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Ho Chi Minh: ‘on lynching & the ku klux klan’

It is well-known that the Black race is the most oppressed and the most exploited of the human family. It is well-known that the spread of capitalism and the discovery of the New World had as an immediate result the rebirth of slavery. What everyone does not perhaps know is that after sixty-five years of so-called emancipation, American Negroes still endure atrocious moral and material sufferings, of which the most cruel and horrible is the custom of lynching.

[Charles] Lynch was the name of a planter in Virginia, a landlord and judge. Availing himself of the troubles of the War of Independence, he took the control of the whole district into his hands. He inflicted the most savage punishment, without trial or process of law, on Loyalists and Tories. Thanks to the slave traders, the Ku Klux Klan and other secret societies, the illegal and barbarous practice of lynching is spreading and continuing widely in the states of the American Union. It has become more inhuman since the emancipation of the Blacks, and is especially directed at the latter.

From 1899 to 1919, 2,600 Blacks were lynched, including 51 women and girls and ten former Great War soldiers.

Among 78 Blacks lynched in 1919, 11 were burned alive, three burned after having been killed, 31 shot, three tortured to death, one cut into pieces, one drowned and 11 put to death by various means.

Georgia heads the list with 22 victims. Mississippi follows with 12. Both have also three lynched soldiers to their credit.

Among the charges brought against the victims of 1919: one of having been a member of the League of Non-Partisans (independent farmers); one of having distributed revolutionary publications; one of expressing his opinion on lynchings too freely; one of having criticized the clashes between whites and Blacks in Chicago; one of having been known as a leader of the cause of the Blacks; and one for not getting out of the way and thus frightening a white child who was in a motorcar. In 1920, there were fifty lynchings, and in 1922 there were twenty-eight.

These crimes were all motivated by economic jealousy. Either the Negroes in the area were more prosperous than the whites, or the Black workers would not let themselves be exploited thoroughly. In all cases, the principal culprits were never troubled, for the simple reason that they were always incited, encouraged, spurred on and then protected by politicians, financiers and authorities, and above all, by the reactionary press.

The place of origin of the Ku Klux Klan is the southern United States. In May, 1866, after the Civil War, young people gathered together in a small locality of the state of Tennessee to set up a circle.

The victory of the federal government had just freed the Negroes and made them citizens. The agriculture of the South — deprived of its Black labor — was short of hands. Former landlords were exposed to ruin. The Klansmen proclaimed the principle of the supremacy of the white race. The agrarian and slaveholding bourgeoisie saw in the Klan a useful agent, almost a savior. They gave it all the help in their power. The Klan’s methods ranged from intimidation to murder.

The Negroes, having learned during the war that they are a force if united, are no longer allowing their kinsmen to be beaten or murdered with impunity. In July 1919, in Washington, they stood up to the Klan and a wild mob. The battle raged in the capital for four days. In August, they fought for five days against the Klan and the mob in Chicago. Seven regiments were mobilized to restore order. In September, the government was obliged to send federal troops to Omaha to put down similar strife. In various other states the Negroes defend themselves no less energetically.

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The Ballad of the Free

By Margaret Walker

Bold Nat Turner by the blood of God

Rose up Preaching on Virginia’s sod;

Smote the land with his passionate plea

Time’s done come to set my people free.