What You Gonna Do When They Come for You?

(Part 1)

By BaBa Omowale Eng

By BaBa Omowale Eng

Just think what it means that Karl Rittenhouse was not only found not guilty, of going to Wisconsin, armed with a military grade assault rifle that he illegally carried across state lines, because he heard that the Black Lives Matter protesters would get out of control and begin looting the white businesses that were owned by white business owners that he did not know, he is now being glamorized by the white supremacist media outlets like Fox News, given thousands of dollars in legal fees and aid and has actually been made into a weird superhero for right wing white militia groups.

All of this, despite the reality that he killed two people and mortally wounded another, with an assault rifle and was then escorted out of the area by a white police force who cheered him on for satisfying his blood lust and gave him water to quench his biological thirst. Yes, my people, this young vigilante killed two people without any cause other than that they had the audacity to challenge his presence in a town that was not his, armed with an assault rifle that he should not have had and displayed murderous behavior that threatened everyone in view.

We didn’t pay attention while this whole drama of white men’s insecurities played itself out in the promotion of a “manifest destiny”. A false notion that brings white racism and militarism together as two sides of the same “Make America Great Again” coin. An illegal and corrupt coin that will kill even its own in promotion of its agenda, like we saw in Charlotteville N.C., where a white woman was mowed down by a car driven by another white nationalist.

My People, the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, gave white men the right to form militias; gave them the right to take land from our indigenous brothers and sisters, (the so-called Indians), rape their women, enslave their young people; and of course have guns. That is the same way that the Thirteenth Amendment gave white men the legal right to enslave Afrikans in mass imprisonment in the form of the prison industrial complex.

But, we still ain’t payin’ attention and we ain’t looking at the true history of an America that is connected to a reality that threatens us all. Now, more than ever we just have to pay more attention, awaken our consciousness and keep it woke.

We have to analyze all of the words and actions that come from people we put in public office in our government, in our classrooms and in our media rooms. If we listen hard enough, they can’t help themselves but tell us who they are and what they are doing. Telling us exactly what they what they are doing, as they try to code their language and hide wrongful behavior behind symbols.

All of this would be obvious for us to see stop believing the lie of White Supremacy and the false notion that we are less than others. Or “we don’t deserve better”, those are are ideas they embedded in us in schools, in churches, in masjids that causes us not to see racism, or lies, or corruption, even when it is right in our face.

My People, white racism and violence go hand in hand, they are both manifestations of Eurocentric Patriarchy, white men’s insecurity and the Black men who follow their script. those Black lackeys who show this sickness in their words and actions. And yes, when Black men or women adopt those same behaviors corrupt white people as they are acting off of the same script as their white idols.

We are not paying attention, for example, when Black men align themselves with conservative politics for personal gain like Tim Scott, the same way they see white men do it. We just have to look.

Watch how a Black man treats Black women, or people in general and that will tell you alot about what that Black man’s politics are really about. Check out his track record in working with others, especially Black women and see what he has or has not done, or conversely watch how a Black woman treats people and especially Black men.

If we watch and pay attention we will see where someone’s head and heart are at by listening deeply and watching thoroughly what they say and do in their treatment of others.

Recently, we have seen the rise of a group of white women, claiming that their sons and daughters are being threatened; threatened by having to learn the truth about what white people have done in the world historically; and especially what white people have done in America. The term they are using is that teaching the truth to white children in public schools is “Wokeness” and “Critical Race Theory” and it will those teach little white boys and White girls to hate themselves.

(To Be Continued)