We Can Do For Self or Suffer Other New Orleans'

I wonder what it will take to get it through our heads.

White folks don’t like our black behinds and they are not going to.

Everyone is saying how horrible it is that it took so long to get help to all the poor, Black people in New Orleans. They say if it was white people the relief would have been there much sooner. Duh - yeah it would have.

It seems like no one is making this connection. You say if it were white people help would have been there sooner. But you know it was Black people and the help took a long while. You’re saying this was no accident! Then you say it’s a shame and must change.

It is not a shame, it is the way they wanted it to be!

What’s the big deal with accepting the facts? They don’t like your black ass!. What’s so hard about accepting that?

Others say how horrible it is that one third of the city’s population lived below the poverty level but this is repeated throughout this rich country. They declare, “how unfair this is.”

Well unfair or not, it is. This is America. Black people and other people of color are the poor and downtrodden. That’s America’s will.

This isn’t hidden; except in plain sight. The news commentators say the rest of the world is seeing a side of America they hadn’t seen before. Nonsense. They’ve always seen this, the only side of America. That’s why when it comes to taking hostages they always let the Black ones go. They know America does not care what happens to Black people.

The truly tragic aspect of the New Orleans deadly flood is that Black people still expect goodness and kindness and equality from a white supremacist and racist America.

What is it going to take to make us see differently? To make us see the truth.

Their intent has always been there for anyone to see.

First there was the rape and robbery of the “new world.” Millions of peoples of color were murdered. All their lands were taken. Then came slavery and world wide imperialism. It wasn’t just happening in America but throughout the colored world. Then came Jim Crow and spurious independence worldwide. Next we got the civil right era and neo-colonialism. But we never got freedom and equality.

The only reason why is because the very people who held us in all these inhuman, demeaning positions for 500 years are the same people we looked to for our freedom and dignity.

It’s time we started looking towards ourselves.

New Orleans shows just how powerless we really are. With all the money and resources we have paid to the American government, when it came time to use it on our own we couldn’t touch one penny of it. We had to wait for those who don’t care for us. You know how sickening that is. You’ve always known it but now you are beginning to realize it. Or at least you should.

So what do we do about it. We can start by supporting what is ours. Make a pledge to yourself that you will first and only give support to those endeavors that we control.

It’s clear from New Orleans the serious risk of not having a Black city communication grid. I am not talking about a drum.

I read where the NAACP president in Trenton criticized the New Black Panther Party for keeping their meetings closed to white people. HELLO ZACK - we’re free to share or not to share as we please. Support the NBPP, they’re there to help Black people. They may not do it the way you might like it to be done - but they are there in the hood, helping, just the same. Can the NAACP say the same? Yes they can. In its way. We should also support it.

I’m still amazed by how many Black people talk about how degraded they feel by stories which have run in the Trentonian - while holding a copy of it in their hand. The Nubian News has struggled to stay alive for 16 years and these same insulted people wouldn’t spend a lousy dollar to support it. The Nubian News is the only media daring to call a spade a spade.

You see this is our sickness. We’ll go out of our way to support something that not only does not support us but actually does harm. But Black businesses and organizations, there to serve us, we belittle and denounce.

We must make a determined effort to support that which is ours. Stand up in your church and testify that you will make our betterment a part of your everyday life. Go out of your way to support Black and other people of color businesses (Korean, Indian etc. are in the same boat we are). Either we support those who are there to serve and build with us or we will continue to get what we’ve already gotten.

One definition of insanity is - doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.

We have to change our ways if we want a better life.

Let’s learn from the tragedy of New Orleans.

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