The above is a semi-precarious statement to make, considering the racial climate in these United States nowadays; a racial climate that has been tipping the edge, teetering to the brink, and unfolding layers of memories of the dynamics of yesteryear (1965 and prior) that many of us thought were long past and well behind us.

The past, allegedly, is the past; but the racial climate of having a duly-elected Black President who tries to keep his nose clean and stay ‘above it all’, does not make good grounds for us to bypass the race talk and begin anew.

Long gone are the “kumbaya” days of the 1960s. As the children and descendants of the parents and grandparents of THAT OTHER civil rights movement are saying, “This ain’t your mama’s (or your grandma’s) Civil Rights Movement.”

Burn.

Hats off to those who “took it in the unowhat” back in the 1960s and even prior, because they did what was necessary and needful at a time such as that one.

They laid the foundation and did the groundwork by heart, soul, hand, legs, feet, and letters, and the problem now is not so much that they made bad choices … they did the best they could with what they had available to them at the time… The problem now is that the “Follow-through” Generation of the 1970s and 1980s did not follow through.

Forty and more years passed us by.

More than forty years of respectable ‘wilderness wanderings’ that can only be described as some very faithless and careless recently-released “Hebrews” who simplistically enough decided that Pharoah’s “garlic and leeks and savory meats” was more important than the Dessert Manna (yes, ‘dessert’ – the cake of gods and angels) that they would have to get along with for some period of time until they could come into their own in the place that they were truly called to be.

To make it plain: The children of the Moses Generation skipped their petty little cheaply-bought Black asses right back over to the place where they had been trained that life was easier under white rule than on their own making their own decisions and having their own kingdom under God; and this, the “The Joshua Generation,” has had to pay for that mistake, and pay dearly.

The children of the Martin Luther King Jr. “Moses Generation” partied, got high, sexed it up, spit it out and went back for more, and also took a helluva lot for granted. Now the repercussions of that time and those choices has fallen into the laps of our own children and grandchildren.

To again take up the ‘gauntlet’ that was laid down and kicked aside, however, is not an easy thing to do. Lives are still being lost “for the cause,” the one that should have been SETTLED a long time ago.

There were many resolutions and changes that had to take place, and … well … the foundational “ball” was dropped on it. Since then, we have heard the folks of that generation apologize PROFUSELY to the youth of today for “dropping the ball” on the Civil Rights Movement that was the responsibility of the “Moses Generation”.

Moreso than an apology, however, is the need for some decisive action.

As we watch the attempts of the “magicians of Pharoah’s court” attempt to take a new Civil Rights Movement and turn it into a magic hat trick, a smoke’n’mirrors type of movement that they want to usurp in favor of #alllivesmatter and #policelivesmatter, and anything else that they can think of to bust up, scatter, smother, cover, and fry the Black Lives Matter movement, they even go so far as to call it the #Black LIES Matter movement.

Call it what they want, the truth eventually starts to tell on itself.

Where have we seen this before, besides reading about an allegorical story involving Pharaoh and Moses and a big snake that swallowed all of Pharoah’s magician’s snakes alive … oh, that’s right. Snap.

The enemy, the devil, can take on pleasing shapes and pretend to be “human just like you,” when their actions saying anything and everything BUT.

Herein is the end of the matter for us Black people of THIS Civil Rights Movement: Those who do not remember the past, and learn from it, and use it as leverage to move forward and upward and onward, ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT.

This is not another “kumbaya” footsies game we are playing here. It is a MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH in the Black community, especially amongst those of us whose lives are a mere nothing in the justice systems when they are taken by ANYONE … Black, white, and whatever else. Justice has not redeemed us in this America or its courts, we must redeem ourselves.

Why?

The lay of the land now is just as it was back in the mid-1800s when Chief Justice Roger B. Taney said of a Black man by the name of Dred Scott, who was fighting for his freedom, “A Black man has no rights a white man is bound to respect.”

Well, it’s 2015, baby. The converse of that is “A white man makes no laws that a Black man is bound to respect.” Just because it is “law” doesn’t make it right, particularly in THIS America in THIS day and age. Don’t be surprised, but there was, and likely still is, a defunct law on the books in the State of Georgia that says a white man can only get a MAXIMUM of four years for taking the life of a Negro. Four years. Because your Black skin has something to do with the value of your life; and because the law was never really revoked, or taken off the books, passage of time be damned.

On paper ONLY that may have changed, slightly; but the reality of it is this: NOTHING HAS CHANGED. The more things change, the more they stay EXACTLY the same; and in some cases, things get even worse.

That said, there was a recent Urban Intellectuals article stating how proud we are that the #blacklivesmatter movement refused to have the sanctity of its determination to get justice in the color of OUR skin usurped by the Democratic Party, the Jesse Jacksons, the Al Sharptons, (both and all white implants sent to Black America to “keep us calm and subservient”) even as our very lives and futures are seeping away through our Black hands like sand and water running through timelessly desperate fingers.

Two things about that pride in the new Civil Rights Movement: First of all, THE WORLD IS WATCHING … even the indigenous Blacks over in Israel, those who have been relegated to third and fourth class citizens in their own homeland, the Homeland of their mothers and fathers in Jerusalem, for far too long; and Second of all, it doesn’t take much to turn that kind of selfless “pride” into a useless thing, even as quickly as some “moaning” white person comes along shedding crocodile tears that they would NEVER cry for you or yours.

The hell with the “crying jag,” how about they PROVE #alllivesmatter by demanding justice for all of the Black lives lost at the hands of racists practicing racism in the justice system since the late 17 and 1800s, and the top that off with justice for the most recent … unarmed Black men and women … Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Eric Garner (whose own family sold his Black ass out for a racially-instituted financial handout), Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, John Crawford, Aiyana Jones, Eleanor Bumpus, Kenneth Walker … and too many others to name here (You can call them out in the comments if you dare).

Tell them to do that FIRST, and THEN we will know that #ALL LIVES MATTER.

This isn’t about who killed who any more, Black folks been killing each other since Cain & Abel; but it’s about who gets JUSTICE IN THE LEGAL SYSTEMS in America, and who DOES NOT.

This nation has just recently eked out any kind of bare bones sentencing structures for those who take the lives of innocent and/or unarmed Black citizens, the children of former slaves and members of the old Civil Rights Movement; and this, simply enough said, WILL NOT DO. Nuff said. See below.

The Plan:

(1) A clean house (‘come to Jesus’ moment) on all police and sheriff’s departments IN THE NATION, thus filtering out all sheriffs, police officers, judges, court officials, and anyone else with any contacts and connections WHATSOEVER to KNOWN white supremacist (or ‘black supremacist’) organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, Stormfront, and any of the others.

(2) Psychological evaluations, made public  on the local and state levels, on ALL police officers and sheriffs in all cities, counties, and townships across the United States of America, TO BE MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE to any and all citizens in their jurisdictions and published in the LOCAL LEGAL NEWS ORGAN designated to handle such news.

(3) Background investigations on all public officials and officers and officers of the court known to have had their oath to “protect and serve” in violation of that oath, who are still working, and/or who are receiving funds off of mandatory retirements or firings, “just because.”

(4) Longer training periods for “rookie” cops who may be trigger happy just because they’ve spent a few days being trained that Black people are their enemies when the vast majority of them are not.

(5) Statewide and federal constitutional amendments, NON-REVOCABLE, that all matters of judicial feasibility for killings of ALL UNARMED CITIZENS MUST BE EQUALLY MEASURED AND EQUALLY METED, regardless of race, skin color, national origin, religion, beliefs, gender, or any other type of person in a federally protected class of citizens. This can no longer be “assumed,” as it has been proven that it has not been SPELLED OUT.

(6) Citizens Review Boards in ALL counties, chosen by vote OF THE PEOPLE ON BEHALF OF THE STATE, to review ALL police and court official killings of unarmed citizens and a demand by that Board for just compensation and recompense in the cases where these murders and killings were unwarranted and unjustified at a MINIMUM of $100k for every year of life lost through incarceration, and a MINIMUM of $5 million for every LIFE lost, without any compensation -retirement or otherwise- to the responsible person who took such unarmed citizen’s life.

(7) A clean and immediate sweep and RELEASE of all NON-VIOLENT persons/accused persons in jails and prisons across the nation who have been detained, Presidential pardon or no presidential pardon, for longer than 90 days without a trial or case review.

(8) The de-privitazation of ALL prison and jail systems across the nation, particularly those who are required to have “head counts” over actual criminals or accused persons, in order to be financially profitable. The de-privatization MUST apply to all services, sundry and otherwise, of prison operations, up to and including telephone, wiring, fax, and transmittal services, with the exception of vending and banking services, whose fees, prices and charges must be limited to $1.00 or less per incident per incarcerated persons and/or their families.

(9) The Death Penalty must be re-defined to make certain that ONLY persons who have been proven guilty BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT can be put to death, no matter what the circumstances. If there is so much as an iota of reason left for doubt, such as the retraction of witness statements, or any reason whatsoever to believe there has been “duress” under police formal and informal harassment, no death penalty shall apply AT ALL. THIS MUST BE RESTATED AND REDEFINED AND REFINED because too many innocent persons, particularly Black persons who are without proper legal defense, have been put to death in the manner of Troy Davis of Savannah, Georgia; and this MUST NOT continue to happen under ANY COLOR OF LAW.

(10) No juvenile person under the age of 18 may be ‘tried as an adult’ even under circumstances of capital murder; notwithstanding the possibility of life without possibility of parole ONLY in circumstances of capital murder.

(11) ALL PERSONS accused and convicted of NON-VIOLENT crimes and misdemeanors of ALL kinds, MUST BE PAID, MANDATORY, IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE MINIMUM WAGE LAWS. They may choose to apply their funds to their EQUALLY-VALUATED circumstantial fines and/or to serve their time and receive, instead, a lump-sum check for the work that they did put in during their time in prison. Any jailing entity that says “they are receiving job skills” must prove that the noted jobs will be available for them when and after they leave the prison and jail system. This does NOT apply to those who are accused of and/or have been convicted of VIOLENT crimes that have caused physical, or psychological incapacity, or death of any adult or child.

(12) NO POLICE OFFICERS AND SHERIFFS NOR ANY OTHER PERSON SWORN TO UPHOLD JUSTICE IN AMERICA SHALL BE IMMUNE TO JAIL, PRISON, OR PROSECUTION IF THEY ARE KNOWN TO HAVE TAKEN THE LIFE OF ANY UNARMED AMERICAN CITIZEN, PARTICULARLY ANY UNARMED CITIZEN WITH THEIR ARMS AND HANDS METICULOUSLY AND IN FULL VIEW, RAISED UP IN THE AIR.

All such movements by unarmed persons or persons who are not holding or possessing such lethal weapons shall be, WITHOUT REGARD to “thought, prejudice, or belief” deemed to have surrendered themselves to the law.

ALL OFFICERS OF THE COURT or Officer of the Law, WHETHER ON DUTY OR NOT, will be subject to investigation, indictment, and criminal prosecution if they fire a lethal weapon or use any weapon that causes death or harm to a US Citizen of ANY RACE OR GENDER OR NATIONALITY, if that person is found NOT TO HAVE USED OR BEEN IN POSSESSION OF a LETHAL WEAPON in FULL AND CONSPICUOUS VIEW. “I THOUGHT I saw a gun (or any other weapon),” and/or “I did not understand what their arms being raised intended to mean,” is NOT a defense UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

ALL SUCH OFFICERS OF THE LAW SHALL BE INVESTIGATED, INDICTED AND PROSECUTED AS IF THEY WERE NOT OFFICERS OF THE LAW AND WILL NOT BE GRANTED LEGAL IMMUNITY IN SUCH CASES OF THE CONSPICUOUS MURDER and killing of such UNARMED PERSONS or even of ARMED PERSONS WITH THEIR ARMS AND HANDS RAISED CONSPICUOUSLY IN THE AIR.

We know that Item 12 would be more than obvious in the case of a non-colored person, which is why it MUST BE ARTICULATED AND STRESSED THAT THEY WILL NOT ESCAPE INVESTIGATION AND/OR PROSECUTION, NOR BE GRANTED IMMUNITY, WHEN THAT IS THE CASE.

We are BOUND TO ASSUME THAT ONE INNOCENT (or SEEMINGLY INNOCENT) LIFE DOES NOT TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ANOTHER SIMPLY BECAUSE OF RACE, or even because of “uniform.”

Until then, and ONLY until then, it is more than obvious that #alllivesmatterEXCEPTBlacklives and in most cases, #ONLYwhitelivesmatter.

Until all lives ACTUALLY DO matter, IN DEED, in COURT, in the JUSTICE SYSTEMS, as well as on the STREETS, and until it is not just a self-righteous overly-pretentious wite-privileged platitude on the lips of a person that is meant to detract from the REAL situation at hand of police brutality and blatant wanton breaking of the laws BY police officers and officers of the court — #blacklivesmatter THE NATIONAL PROTEST shall continue “until justice rolls down like a MIGHTY STREAM.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.