As we continue through Black History Month, Day 9: Coretta Scott King’s Daughter, with yet another gift!
After last night:
Reposted from MLKs daughter, Bernice King:
1. Don’t use his name; EVER (#45 will do). [We refer to him only as “Donald”. He is #0 to us, as in “drop that zero and get yourself a hero.” #-45 will come after he is gone. Donald is a SKIPOVER president, SMALL “p”.]
2. Remember this is a regime and he’s not acting alone.
3. Do not argue with those who support him–it doesn’t work.
4. Focus on his policies, not his orange-ness and mental state.
5. Keep your message positive. They want the country to be angry and fearful because this is the soil from which their darkest policies will grow (and flourish, if we let them).
6. No more helpless/hopeless talk.
7. Support artists and the arts. [And I add, your scribes and journalists).
8. Be careful not to spread fake news. Check it [and vet it. If it is not true, don’t spread it unless you make a disclaimer that it is false news and tell why it is in error and why it is important that we know why it is erroneous].
9. Take care of yourselves; and
10. Resist!
Keep demonstrations peaceful.
In the words of John Lennon, “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight! Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.”
[And we think Donald is insanely funny, don’t we?]
When you post or talk about him, don’t assign his actions to him, assign them to “The Republican Administration,” or “The Republicans.”
This will have several effects: the Republican legislators will either have to take responsibility for their association with him or stand up for what some of them don’t like. He will not get the focus of attention he craves and Republican representatives will become very concerned about their re-elections.
–with credit to Sistar Edie Anderson for sharing–
Edit. Note: They must understand that just because they have lead roles does not mean they are the boss of us. Keep a watchful and careful eye on everything they do, because if you allow them to think they are in control, you will get whatever they hand you.
STAND YOUR GROUND and do not let harmful policies come off as if you have no choice but to bow to their whims.
You HAVE a choice. Passive or active resistance, either way, if it’s wrong, JUST SAY NO to it and then act on that choice by RESISTING. Do not allow it become LAW. You can stop anything they do from becoming law, but you have to stay awake and pay attention!
You do NOT have to do anything you do not want to do, and you do not have to allow policies to set if they are harmful and damaging to your families and communities.
Here’s a little blast from the past. Use it as LEVERAGE, and #neverforget!
The Revolution will NOT be televised — Gil Scott Heron
White Man’s Got A God Complex — The Last Poets
This was last year , and so far we have no where worked on any measure of increasing national Black unity! We are still caught up in reminiscing about history, rather then using the solutions of Black history left to us and agendas to make history now! Be honest Black rappers been praising Trump as the arch baller for over 25 years, so that now negroes are ambivalent to any kind of movement to protect the community from the cuts that he and Kavanaugh are planning to HUD the small business administration, affirmative action, union jobs, civil service jobs, public schools, city colleges , HBCu funding, all at a time when we have been brainwashed to be unable to focus on providing any of that for ourselves as Black folks were working on from the 60s to the early 80s s Malcolm said we should!
Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. You don’t get ahead by ignoring the history, you get ahead by using it as leverage.
That’s why Trump is nothing more than a “Jim Crow n-word,” he fits right in there with his kind – the rapist, robbing, rappy kind of “ballers,” who have no education. As to Kavanaugh, those “ballers” had every opportunity to stop the Tea Party racists from taking over Congress in 2010 and 2014. Once they let the ball slip and the Tea took over, they gave them Donald Trump and along with him, every rapist racist criminal in the nation. They asked for it, they got what they bargained for. Sometimes, it’s not about what you do, it’s about what you do NOT. Everything that has ever been said about a “coon,” Trump is that … and they obviously like it. [ https://ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/coon/homepage.htm ]
Me? I’m watching Barack Obama and Joe Biden, also two private American citizens. They don’t seem to give a flying freak what Trump does. To them, he’s a joke. So whatever THEY say goes.
So then you say just let the Black community suffer?? For the next 2 years?? They are cutting not just Civil Service Legislature, at a time as you say look at the past, we had Black unity and organizations and leaders to get that Civil Rights legislature, now we dont have it ! We dont even have collective Economics or National Black unity to focus on Black Nationalism to fall back on when they cut public housing, Civil Service Jobs, Public Schools and City Colleges, funding to HBCUs, City hosptals, minority business, administration and grants, HUD, EPA protection for Black communites near factories and toxic dump sites! Wiat for Obama ?? the Brother gave us 8 years, to organize economic and poltical collective action plans to protect the National Black community , just in case another racist Nut Job Millionaire got into office, as occurred 4 times before with Nixon Reagan Bush and Bush lite! For 8 years , he sid dont wait for anyone to change , be the change you want to see, and now we didnt even do that when his term was up we cried that we anted him to have a third term??
No sir!!!
The Black community is letting itself suffer. It has been since the 1970s and it’s just getting worse because it’s allowed. Black people are selling out their own, destroying their own histories and legacies and communities in which they seem to have NO pride whatsoever.
They are allowing their own history to be sold off to the highest bidder like they did their ancestors, they let it be rewritten, and get “overcome” because all they care about is a ‘quick fix’ today and the hell with tomorrow. Why do you think white people call Black people “liquid money.” They take no pride in their own people, in their own history, they don’t even respect their own elders. We KNOW this is what we face, but we keep turning it over for a singular payoff, even in the face of OUTRIGHT RACISM, we keep letting them have it all.
Our efforts to save HBCUs and Black historical schools have gone unheeded, and Obama gave us eight years just to have his presidency seen as “party time” instead of “let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work time.”
We sit back on our behinds and LET this stuff happen to us, and then come out trying to wage a single battle per-person after it’s wayyyy too late. We throw our rights in the trash can and then discover we don’t have any more. We vote and then don’t FOLLOW THROUGH on that vote by working for what we said we wanted.
We had the right leaders in place and wasted our time and energy on parties, photo opps, and a few hundred dollars instead of long-term goals and aspirations. Black people became slaves because of other Black people, and we can’t even trust one another to this day.
“They” wouldn’t matter if “we” had out sh*+ together, but we never do. We will have nutcase racists because we FULLY SUPPORT nutcase racists.
I recall the Black Panther Party did not end until the 80s , fact all the Black Power and Black Nationalist organizations did not end or stop being active in the community , until destroyed by COINTELRO, in the 80s! I dont think people realize that the recession national recession of the 70s was like a very real depression for all Black communties across the nation so it was our sense of community and community love, that allowed us to survive though all of that! Black folks votd just as strong, still went to PTA and open school week, still attended community board meetings nd still voted in community school board elections , however not until we were infected by the Cultural Ebola of Hip Hop which soon turned to Gangsta Thug Balling culture that brought back the gangs and violence to Chicago NYC and LA after all the peace of the 70s , as well as a mindset in the community of self centeredness that turned the Black Neighbor-Hood, into just “Hood” cause all of our neighborliness had left, …that is the reason we are in the condition we are in today cause no one has tried to work on a cure for the Cultural Ebola, that has us bound and ambivilent to Black collective Economics and Black collective Politics ! Now that we need t more then ever ! Ho do I know all of this ?? Cause I was born in the 50s and my teen years were in the 70s !
The Black Panther Party never ended, they are just taking a different approach to the fact that other Black people helped destroy them before and would still do it now. They are being careful these days about even dealing with their own – skinfolk ain’t all kinfolk, you should know that by now. I was born in the late 1950s and was raised in the 1960s and 1970s. Seen it all, heard it all. None of this is new, it’s a result of Black people slacking on their own initiatives and allowing white supremacists to infiltrate us with drugs and “thug rap.” I agree with you, but the approach is a trip.