I recently had a discussion with an ‘Influencer’ in his 40’s. I am in my late 60’s. It was a friendly and respectful discussion. Back in the 60’s and 70’s the civil rights era was fully engaged. Don’t get me wrong, there had been creditable movements dating back to before the ‘Emancipation Proclamation’. when Reconstruction took root following the Civil War. There were always efforts across the country to combat slavery, lynching, racism, and other forms of terrorism by Whites against both Black and Indigenous peoples in the US. Likewise, while many Blacks in the US were unaware of it, there were also struggles and efforts in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean against colonization, oppression and genocide.
When I had the good fortune as a young man to sit and discuss the civil rights movement with men like Benjamin Mays and Asa Yancy, I was not a strong believer in the philosophy of MLK and frankly of voting.. I believed el-Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) and the Black Panthers had a more effective understanding of things. The realty is that the Malcolm’s words n the right context, the philosophies of the Black Panthers and even Marcus Garvey are the ideas that won the day.
Tragically,, it was allowing integration and the willingness to fully assimilate into the ‘European Mythology’ of Christianity that has brought us back to the brink of suffering the indignities of another failed reconstruction for human rights, civil rights, and equality. It’s listening to Black entertainers who have spent most of their careers being politically disengaged to suddenly wake up and join the team of racial oppression that signifies that the wrong questions are being asked and the wrong answers are being received. To have Ice Cube, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne, and Kanye West come out in support of the White Racist Christian Nationalist loving Trump tells me you’re being duped.
West goes on Fox-nonsense and trashes the concept of ‘Kwanzaa’ but speaks supportively of Christianity, the largest of the Abrahamic religions, all of which have been used to conquer, colonize, and oppress indigenous cultures all over the world using genocide, rape, and capitalism. You might as well use a sledgehammer to announce your indifference to true freedom by politically supporting the fallacy of white superiority.
The question asked of me by this male Black influencer in Georgia was. “Why should I vote for Stacy Abrams instead of Brian Kemp?” I wasn’t shocked, my initial response was Stacy wants you to have full access to your rights, especially your right to vote. The other wants to kill you, which was reflected in his response as Governor to the COVID-19 Pandemic. As long as COVID-19 was adversely affecting more people in minority communities, he defied measure to curb the spread of the virus. According to the Mayo Clinic, Brain Kemp would not allow Georgia state agencies to report the actual numbers of COVID cases and deaths, decreed cites could not enact mask mandates, .and at one point Kemp asked the largely rural controlled state legislature to pass one of the most repressive voter suppression bills and he signed it into law while in a room of White legislators sitting under a picture of a slave plantation.. Then they passed a bill allowing more guns on the streets without having to obtain permits, then they complain about fictitious rising crime rates..
The reality is that many Black men have issues with women in political or religious leadership. This influencer went on to talk about how Black women emasculate Black men with their success as if men are not also successful. Then he went on to disparage the LGBTQ community.. I asked him if he had ever heard of ‘Buck breaking’ where White Christian slave owners had Black males restrained and raped in front of their communities as a method of intimidation. I asked if he was aware of how pedophile slave owners would have young Black children sleep with them under the guise of using them as ‘footwarmers’.. All these things and worse were done under the professed ‘Christian right’ of Whites over inferior races.
Every dehumanizing act religious Whites, ‘Evangelicals’ stand silently by in quiet acceptance, is a return to the days when nonwhites, regardless of whether they became Christians were inferior.. How else do you explain how they rationalize their embrace of a clearly dishonest Herschel Walker over an Ordained Minister in Raphael Warnock? They demonize Warnock, a man of their own faith and religious doctrine to accept the handpicked nominee of a lying Trump in the person of a deeply flawed, inarticulate, psychologically and ethically challenged ex football player.
Why Kemp over Abrams, indeed, why any MAGA Republican over a Democrat or moderate Republican? Why support or vote anyone willing to accept stripping you of your rights as a person or citizen? Clearly you are confused and misinformed. Why don’t you understand the Christian ‘Evangelicals’ are willing to support armed White terrorism to racially control the country.
A Reasonable Point of View 