[unorthodox]

"Liberation Strategy" sounded so interesting that I couldn't pass up putting in my $0.02. What I say may not be strategy so much as interesting advice.

How shall we deal with our oppressor? In any battle between two opposing forces, the victor will definately be the more organized force. Think about a game of chess -- if you're black and he's white and he's got a plan of attack and you arer randomly bumbling around your pawns, guess who's going to win (ever notice how white starts first in chess)?

I better mention now that I will probably draw from quite a few examples from white history... since they have destroyed ours in the motherland.

So the first thing we have to do is get organized, and the best way to do that is through education. Education is truly the salvation of the nation. Education helps the development of the mind and provides an overall bump in intelligence to the race. Once you get educated, it's kinda hard to get uneducated. We can educate each other at home, at the library, using the internet, in a park -- where ever, however. I'm an avid fan of reading books at Barnes and Noble (and not buying them). I know Blacks and education is something like George Bush and honesty, but to survive, or win, that is going to have to change.

I said something about absentee fatherism in my introduction, and I'm still totally against it. If you took the time to make the child, take the time to raise the child. It's a very simple concept. I don't know when it became en vogue to not raise your children (probably around the time it became en vogue to be a Black homosexual), but that must end. If you have a young male/little boy and he has no father or male role model to look towards, guess who will fill that space in his life? Either mama or the street. Once this young man grows up some and finds himself a legal adult with absolutely nothing, he becomes the embodiment of "the most dangerous man in the world". At that point, you can see the police coming...

Another thing we have to do is study what our enemy does far more intently. Karl Rove is taking pages right out the Joseph Goebbels playbook and it's working. Crackers are salivating at anything George Bush and the Republicans say. They could say "we're putting all the niggers back in slavery" tomorrow morning and these crackers would be right behind them. So it's time to figure out what techniques they are using and use them to bring all our people in line. I haven't quite figured it out yet, but it has something to do with the size of the lie you tell and them immediately tarring anyone that dares to disagree with you (think Cynthia McKinney).

On the economic front, Blacks MUST become PRODUCERS and stop being such CONSUMERS. Whether or not you like capitalism, you are a capitalist because you participate in the capitalist system. I buy my internet access, I buy food, I buy clothes. However, I don't sell anying, so I'm not enriching myself financially. We MUST become sellers. Although they aren't the best examples, rappers and drug dealers are producers and for the large part, fairly financially secure. Is there such a thing as dirty money? Not in my opinion. Not only do we have to become sellers and producers, we have to learn what to do with our money. How many times have you seen a Black business owner that thinks the cash register is his wallet? That's a business that is certainly going to chapter 13. Money you make from your business, part of it you pay yourself with, part you reinvest in the business. That's what Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Sean Combs, Master P and others did. Jermaine DuPree did too, but he forgot to pay his taxes (whitey is always watching you). Let's not forget investing because the returns from invested money are the LEAST taxed while returns from earned money are the MOST. Look at your pay stub if you think I'm lying.

Socially, we have to get back to a unified front. What happened to the days when more people than naught were down with Black power. Some Blacks think of that as so passé now. What's passé about loving your own kind and wanting to uplift them from where they are?

Medically, the gig is up. The sedentary lifestyle, our diet, the KKKool cigarettes, our fear of doctors, all this must end. We have to be a group of svelt people because this unhealthiness is costing us money and time and wise old people that probably have useful information for us. Less television, more exercise.

I just think -- to sum up -- if we could put the same amount of energy and enthusiasm into things that count, like education, financial literacy, business development, and racial uplifting, that we do in bullshit, like church (preacher's rich, everyone else is poor) dancing, entertainment and basketball, we wouldn't be where we are now. We have to use the tools available at our disposal, namely books and the internet, to advance ourselves.

(I'm basically advocating a "quiet gathering" of our people rather than a cacophonous one.)

Just my $0.02. Throw your rocks at me.

-U-