What You Gonna Do When They Come for You?

(Part 2)

By BaBa Omowale Eng

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.

These White suburban and trailer park mothers, are calling themselves “Moms for America” out of Florida and “Mothers of Liberty”, out of Tennessee, Virginia or North Carolina, I think. I know they remind me of the true history of the fake “Statue of Liberty” that sits in New York’s harbor. The real history, here in America, was that the United States Government sent the original symbol of Liberty, back to France, because it was a statue of a Black Woman with Broken chains. That statue of a Black Woman, with chains broken, was first sent to America from France, in congratulations for America having issued the so called Emancipation Proclamation. When America got that statue they refused to accept it and sent it back to France with the request that the French, produce a statue of a White woman with blinders on her eyes holding a torch and a scale.

We don’t know that part of American history because they don’t teach it. Many of us don’t want to know it for fear of being stigmatized as “Woke”. Cause “wokeness” means that you have been awakened to the truths of an America that was built on the enslavement of and continued degradation of Black people; a treatment that included rape and murder of Black and Brown people throughout our stay in America and the theft of our ancestors labor. Or that White people actually stole the land here in Africa. Now, these so-called “Mother’s of Liberty”, have chapters in at least 33 states in the United States right now. They have vowed to stop teachers from teaching the real history of America to all children. These “Mothers of Liberty” don’t want our future generations to have the full information about our collective history that they need to make the righteous decisions to make up for a past that we all should be ashamed of. They are even offering to pay teachers $500.00 to watch other teachers and inform on those who teach truth.

Yes, my fellow human beings, these are the truths of “wokeness” and “critical race theory” that some white people don’t want taught in our schools and don’t want you to think about. The “critical race theory” that tells the truth about the African Origin of Civilization; about the true fact that the Greeks came to Africa, the place that they called Egypt and Ethiopia, “land of burnt faces, land of the Gods” where they went to study under the Black priests who were the most renown scholars of those times.

That is part of the “wokeness” they don’t want you “woke” to. That “wokeness” also includes everything you can imagine about early White people in America and their history of rape, murder and mayhem as laid out clearly in a history book by a White man, Howard Zinn, appropriately named “The People’s History”, A book that details all the lies about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who were actually rapists, slave owners and thieves. It even talks about Christopher Columbus, who was a known rapist and murderer. And that it was Columbus who actually started the onslaught of European expansionism, which stole the land and wealth from the so-called “indians” who lived on and cared for this land that we call America. This happened years before Columbus, who actually only got to sail around the coast of America and ended up in the Caribbean. True fact, Columbus never set foot in America.

So, when Washington, Jefferson and other White men talked about liberty and independence, freedom and justice, know for a fact that they were not including Black or Brown people. They were not even talking about their own women, because White women were also considered the property of White men at that time. Yet, we should not forget that those same White women slept with those rapists, murdering, thieving white men every night.

(To be Continued)