Reparations, in the Land of the Giants?

[Langalibalele]

Obama Policy: Imperialism thru Democracy

Black workers, we who sell our labor to make a living, travail under special
circumstances in capitalist America. We have the highest rates of
unemployment, imprisonment, chronic health issues. On the other hand, we
have the lowest rates for home ownership, capital formation, retirement
security, and higher education opportunities.

The current economic crisis is marked by marked by increasing
unemployment, to the tune of 50,000 jobs lost per month. The government
giveaway to the financial giants amounts to plus $1.5 trillion over the last
three years. This includes “massive liquidity injections” to Wall Street
bankers and the European Central Bank since 2006.

Now with all this money floating around, no mention of reparations can be
made. No mention of helping the African community get back on its feet.
The goliath of Imperialism has stomped the heart out of niggers thru out
this country.

Just one point of clarity; before there were African slaves in the Americas,
before colonialism and Imperialism, niggers never existed. A nigger is a slave
who hopes for a peaceful coexistence within the Imperialist, racist system.

If you go the extra mile to justify the racist cause like, maybe, Stanley

Crouch or Tarik Nelson, then you qualify as a bootlicking nigger.

Niggers ought to kno, there is no peaceful coexistence with Imperialism.
The Soviet Union was white, and thought Socialism could coexist peacefully
in the world alongside Imperialism. That proved to be untrue. And Africans
cannot buy into the myth that this racist country will allow them to
prosper, to get a piece of the dream, and live in peace with racists next
door, down the street, around the corner and on your job. Africans must
begin to understand how the system of collaboration diverts our unity with
the Caribbean and Africa for a myth no more real than Santa Claus, the
Easter Bunny or a white deity which arose to remove your sins.

So, the last few weeks have presented a somewhat quiescent period despite
the growing economic crisis. People seem to yearn for that crummy stimulus
check in the mail. It has literally caused most critics to shut their yapping
traps. Makes one wonder what kind of check niggers would settle for if we
can elevate the whole Reparations issue?

George W Bush gave out stimulus checks as well, in his first term, as a
reason to celebrate his presidency. That is like King David giving every man
in his kingdom a bottle of wine and a loaf of bread. Then again, David was a
giant killer. While the jazz artists call Pittsburgh (my home town) “Land of
the Giant Killers,” Bush 43, being from Texas, came from the land of the
giants. Which is why he could bogart his way into office and behave as if all
us little people need to enjoy our roles as sold out grist for the mill of
Imperialism.

So far, we haven’t seen much separation between Barack Obama and Bush
43. Obama isn’t going to address the Reparations question, and so-called
black leaders do not want to rock his presidential boat.

Now the white media, with its ugly, twisted rhetoric, attacks Obama on all
fronts. The media did not oppose the Bush war at any juncture in its
development. It did not counter the blood thirsty lies spread by Colin
Powell, in his role at the United Nations as US Secretary of State. This is
not just a matter of interpreting or misinterpreting satellite data, as Powell
would have us believe. It involved a campaign of slander and lies aimed at
the IAEA, Hans Blix, and other internationally certified authorities on Iraq’s
capacity to wage war.

Obama, having made promises he obviously never intended to keep,
extended the deadline for withdrawing troops from Iraq. Some will be there
indefinitely, locked in step with the Rumsfeld Doctrine, “that we will be
there a hundred years, if we have to.”

From the land of the giant killers, the slings are being primed.

One media goliath has have slandered the anti-war establishment as
“Democratic voters who ached to see America defeated in ‘Bush’s War’”.
The giant killers are not Democratic Party voters.

Besides, the US cannot be defeated in Iraq because of several factors.
Superior military force always prevails over any highly disorganized and
subjective anti-occupation movement. Religion worked fastidiously against
Iraqi nationalism. The Brits instigated sectarian violence between Sunni and
Shi’a Muslims by surreptitiously bombing the Golden Mosque. This deflected
all efforts away from the occupation, the internecine conflict exacerbated
by the CIA/Al Qaida anarchist Abu Musab Al Zarqawi.

Now the weak, neo-colonial micro-state struggles to survive in the face of
an eventual pull out. The lessons we take from Iraq apply to this period in
history.

In Iraq, the Arab world’s only industrialized nation-state, Imperialism
completely shattered that country’s economic infrastructure thru twelve
years of genocidal economic sanctions prior to the second US invasion, aka
the Third Gulf War. The bloodsucking media has the nerve to imply that
those who voted for the Obama policy of Imperialism thru Democracy
actually wanted to see the US be militarily defeated in Iraq!

Today, the US economic crisis threatens to shatter the lives, jobs and
communities of tens of millions of people. With over one trillion dollars
already being doled out to investment banks, the giants are killing us. The
black community is suffering its own war, a war where far too few of us
have ever fought back, a war where those having sanctions and prisons
imposed upon them are all too happy to believe the enemy is the friend.

To say, Iraq survived twelve years of sanctions then suffered another
devastating military attack by the US and its allies. Now the US working
class must likewise take a hit by the same giant interests, international
finance capitalism. The most marginalized players, the black workers will
bear the brunt of this “crisis” around the world. So black workers must
begin to see themselves as giant killers.

We cannot afford to wait for a US military defeat in Iraq or Afghanistan,
while the spineless white left says that plant takeovers and uprisings are
“ultra-left”. However, workers cannot remain content with bearing the
burden of capitalist economic crises. Black workers, who suffer chronic
unemployment, chronic debt and health issues, and all the other baggage
that anyone assumes goes with being avowed insurgents, are not
maroons, rebels or even passive enemies of Imperialism.

In order to become free, black workers must make the decision to be the
conscious enemies of capitalism. Black workers, the little guys, must
become giant killers. You want Reparations, my People, STAND UP!! Stand
up, People. To hell with Obama, he is no black savior. Only the People
united will never be defeated.