Response to Sweet Release

Written by Angelo

First I want to say, great piece great post! No I will begin. The “Dr.” who authored this book is doing the Black community and injustice and needs to be addressed thoroughly.
1. Black People should consider themselves part of the larger global community.
This “gentleman” obviously has never taken the time to understand the unique history of the “Black” race. If he had he would realize a few things. First, the “Black” race has genealogically proven to be the original man/woman/and child on the face of this planet. “Lucy’ who in the context of the African continent is referred to in a African name represent the preeminent archeological find of the primordial Eve. The women from which all humanity is directly connected. This fact illustrates that not only are we a part of the human community but the individuals who birthed the human community. The cradle of humanity can be found in the center of the African Continent.
The next point which is of optimal significance is that not only have we provided the literal bodies for humanity but we have provided the intellectual bodies if you will, ideologies and civilization, that all of humanity follows today either in true express or in distorted perversion. Ivan Van Sertima has explained how we (Black people) were in America before Columbus and had in fact to large degree became the Native Americas history speaks of today. Countless giant Olmec heads have been found in South America depicting our connection to South and Central America, as well hieroglyphics that have been found in present day Arizona which some said had Greek origins. However, scholars soon realized it was not until 1492 that any European touched the Continent of North or South America, and the Greek culture is directly mirroring Egyptian culture (Kemetic culture). Just flip through the page of Black Athena and you will quickly understand how much of European culture is a replication of the Egyptian dynasties various stamps on humanity. Or stroll through the various countries in Europe and see the praise of the Black Madonna. Read Shakespeare’s Othello and experience a glimpse of the Moorish influence of the European world. Study the Buddhist faith and recognize that many of the original Buddha’s have been identified as Black men, not to mention various yogis throughout India. I could go on. The reality is that we have and always will be part of the human race. Not to mention that prior to European domination of the world we lived in harmony as members of the human race bringing enlightenment to the various world cultures. We are the true neighbor/ brother/sister of humanity for hundreds of thousands of years. 400 years is but a second in the course of humanity and we should not use that to determine who we are, from where we have come, where we are going, and how we will again lead the world to high ground.

The question or discussion should be why has white supremacy deliberately tried to right the Black race out of the human race by designating us as genetically inferior. Additionally, why has the white race through white supremacy deliberately re-written “Black” people out of the history of the world? This is the question. We have and will always be members of the human community despite the various attempts to literally destroy us and obliterate any connection we may have to the various cultures found throughout the world. As a great teacher once told me, “I went to Isreal and I found the “Black” man speaking Hebrew; I went to the Vatican and I saw the “Black” man practicing Catholicism, I went to Asia and saw the “Black” man practicing Buddhism; I went to England and saw the “Black” man speaking the King’s English better then the King; I went to South American and saw the “Black” man speaking Spanish; I went to Ethiopia and I saw the “Black” man worshiping in some of the oldest churches on the planet. The “Black” race has and will forever be members of the universal community. Mass media, along white supremacist education has written us out and continues to try to do so, and we have and will continue to fight them tooth and nail to expose their lies.


2. Black People should move out of the hood.
As was stated in the response we have developed communities in America as in Africa. What has happened in Africa, America, and the Caribbean is that our communities have been systematically destroyed. Take a walk in any “hood” and you will see many of the same things hood to hood. Take a walk in any upper crust white neighborhood and you will find many of the same things. These things while drastically different are results of systematic mechanisms working or not working in a community. I could go on to this point but I will not. I will say however that no “Black” person would opt to live in the “hood” over in an economically/systematically privileged neighborhood. That is what integration was all about. White people raised hell in the 1980’s when communities like Boston tried to bus a few Black Students into schools let alone as permanent residents in their communities. Their attempt was to get students out of the “hood” education system and afford them access that elevated their white counterpart’s opportunity ratio through the ceiling.

My grandparents as well left the rural south to come to New York for opportunity which they found in some capacity. My grandparents initially lived in what today is called “40 Projects” in South Jamaica Queens. However that “hood” was once a community where Black folks could pool resources and build a home which they did. Today those are communities that are over policed and underserved with poor education systems and eroding family values, which are not connected to black values but whites systems and the adoption of white values. Let’s be clear. The housing projects were are great success in America as long as it supported low income white folks, when Blacks began to utilize them the government took issues with these social support programs and systematically placed drugs in these communities to destabilize them. My grandparents live in Queens today which is the only county in America where Black folks earn more then their white counterparts. We have created successful Black Community however there is still over policing and the perception that these neighborhoods are “hoods” not communities which they in fact are. PG County Maryland (The only Black County in America with a Black Majority and income power only rivaled by the Black community in Queens County) is another shinning example, not without its problems, but clearly and example of what we can accomplish. I will wrap up by saying as we have moved into white communities “white flight” was used to get far away from us. Mortgage practices have prevented us from accessing loans to buy homes to build communities. Home owners have strategically created community codes to keep Black families out of their homes along with unspoken practices of discrimination. Yet we fight on and as we have built our own communities in Tulsa Oklahoma or Harlem New York, we saw communities literally burned to the ground (Google “Black Wall street Tulsa Oklahoma”). Or as in the case of Harlem we saw projects erected and brownstones torn down to restructure this flourishing Black community, and as we see today gentrification in Harlem today pushing Black families and businesses out of the community.
I say these things to say we must accurately access where we are and what we have accomplished and how white systems of white supremacy have systematically opposed us at every turn. If you dismantle the white racist system you will watch their house of cards fall, pushing Black people as individuals and not as a community system (communalism) to access their problem will create further fragmentation and undirected efforts.