YeKengalé

I repost the following article from 2020, From Desegregation to Disintegration. Justice is 

poetic.

Posted on June 1, 2020 by yekengale

From the vantage point of the establishment, the nationwide protests engulfing America can be the beginning of the end. The cry on Fox news is stop the hooligans now!

From the standpoint of the uprising, this can be the beginning of change. A dispassionate view of history reveals that almost every major government and religion on earth was established on the loot of plunder. Whether the Christian crusades or the invading Muslim hordes, whether King Oswald’s England or Jamaica’s Henry Morgan; the road to the throne is paved in plunder. Except for in the dictionary, sword always precedes scepter. (Post scepter sword is called Law and imbued with the responsibility of protecting the status quo.) The difference between terrorist and freedom fighter, as recent example Mandela demonstrates, is often time and tenacity, not tactic.

(We could take the analogy to the market place and wryly observe that the ‘white’ market has its roots in the ‘black market’. Measure how much American wealth comes from legitimate productive enterprise as opposed to investments in a global death machine directly responsible for destabilizing entire regions in the national interest….and then determine which industry seeds the other.)

Hearing Fox news alarmists, avid defenders of the system that has victimized black lives from the very birth of America, and the concerned voices from centrist media (although Fox has characterized CNN and MSNBC as far left, they represent Middle America, as much invested in the establishment as is Fox, but less extremist in posture, idealist and optimistic in disposition, and believers in conciliation as the cure to America’s ailments…..the far left uses ground communication networks, their agenda too embryonic to go airborne…divergent groups like KKK mistakenly placed on the right of the political spectrum, but as anti-establishment as any of the ghost groups labelled Antifa by the A.G. ); from both sides the stage is being prepared for crackdown i.e. acceleration of violence and test of the mettle of groups contesting power. A very familiar historical scene in America which should give leadership the false confidence to assume that this time is like every other preceding it and can be played by the book.

But, agitated by the strongest dose of American arrogance and impunity in present leadership, enemies from within and without have been watching and waiting for the ripest time to strike. Perhaps now is the time.