UI Meme of the Day, a Daily Series …

There was a particular scene from the movie I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, a Wayans Brothers production, in which Clarence Williams III played a “soul brother” named Kalinga from the 1960s radical reconstruction civil rights era, black-gloved fist pumping in the air and screaming “Power to the People!” and the whole revolutionary Nine.

By the time the young man and subject of this movie, Jack Spade, catches up with the former leader of the People’s Revolutionary Army (Williams III), he is older, settled, and married with two children. His wife, of course, is “Cindy Lou Who” white, (yes that wife was little Jan Brady, formerly of the television show, The Brady Bunch – played by actress Eve Plumb) and so white are both of his children, the son of which happens to be named “Whitey.”

He comes with the accoutrements of a time long dead and gone about 20-something years later, but still dressed in traditional African nationalized garb (a dashiki) and sporting an afro underneath the traditional black leather beret of the times to signify a militarial stance. His home/office are covered over in black lights, revolution posters, maps of Africa, newspapers clippings covering the walls, incense flowing, national diaspora music playing in the background, the whole complete Black Nationalist package. Kalinga, his non-slave name, is a walking metaphorical cliché of something that failed both in initiative and spirit in the Black community at-large.

Kalinga is still holding fast to the past, and steady to his earlier convictions, but it’s the 1980s and it no longer fits into the current Black agenda or lifestyles. He explains why, in his own soulful “Black Power” manner:

“We went down to take it over (the post office), but they were hiring that day…” or words to that effect. “The “Brothas” got jobs”, he says … good-paying government slave jobs… End of Movement, but not quite for Kalinga, with the exception of his Ofay Wench and her offspring.

As we embark upon this current “Black Conscience” movement under duration of stress and hard times, and with the hard knowledge under foot that America will never surpass racism because it is incapable of it, we wonder -when President Barack Obama is out of office- if anyone is going to remember this day, this time, this hour, and carry on with the Movment, or will it all come to a screeching halt?

Reason being that these hard times in America’s government revealed those who have been the bane of Black existence. They came forward and revealed themselves openly and with a nasty arrogance and vengeance that they are never going to let go of, and they are training their little birthright race-mongering babes in arms to take their places when they are gone. Our “sustainable living” never seems to get out of survival mode no matter what we do to build this country.

The good old news is that since these white capitalist swine (see above-mentioned movie scene) retained a majority in the House and Senate due to the sabotage of the Voting Rights Act (and in order to maintain the same White Supremacy that many Black people are now choosing to be under), they are now finally rest-assured that they can conquer and defeat the “nigger President” until he is out of office in 2016.

But what happens to Black or “afrocentric” America in 2016? To this Black “Conscious” Movement? The same one that seems to keep resurfacing when all hell breaks loose in America and then disappears into oblivion and a hailstorm of inconsequential nods and yawns as soon as the perceived “national crisis” is over?

Are we back to the same-o same-o of presidencies prior to Obama’s election [and for some, happily so…], or will Black America, African-Americans and all those others affected and impacted by this willful outright onslaught and outrageous display of occupying manifest destiny racism remember that this nation’s ‘True Colors’ came shining through during very hard times?

Are we supposed to forgive and forget this? Ever?

Iron Sharpens Iron … and He who does not remember the past is doomed to repeat it, or the definition of insanity: Keep doing whatcha doing, you’ll keep getting whatcha got.