Sunday, February 7, 2010 10:48:07 AM

I’m not trying to organize America. I think America is organized on the blood, sweat, tears of its citizens and ancestry. Also, I am generally satisfied with the outcome and spirit of the original "Boston" Tea Party, and have no interest in the "Mad Hatter" Tea Parties in vogue today. Rather, my aim is to let America organize itself around the sound principles of its founding documents, or should I say principle, "freedom through equality".

This simplification is the nutshell of the boiled down meaning, promise, and duty of constituent America. Francis Scott Key plainly stated that the flag should "wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave", and I can say with full faith, based on perceptive observation, that Americans have struggled to create that land, the brave few, for all, the cowardly masses, for themselves. As a result, the struggle has been harder than it has needed to be, more lethal than nature is expected to be for too many, more comfortable than just desserts for too few.

There is little debate that this divide exists, and huge and innumerous debates about how it exists, and what its course may be. Some theory, or rhetoric, asserts that this divide is a reflection of any number of fill-in-the-blank divides that are present by force of nature, will, or both–divine, human, or both, each and every combination thereof yielding a multitude of subsets and combinations. Most of these dovetail into inescapable conclusions, of prejudice and self-fulfilling prophecy, the "big-game" players simply manipulating and gambling on the outcomes. Yet, the American flesh carries the American spirit, both corrupted by the banishment of the American mind and the exile of the American act, as accomplices to the doom against tyranny.

"America" the capital society borne of European competition won by the English over a contesting Spain, and a fading France, was formed on tyranny, sponsored by tyranny, and instituted tyranny as its first order of national business. Francis Scott Key recognized that the freedom so hailed at America’s founding, could only be bravely won, and his poem was adopted in song as our national anthem. It was written at the sight of our flag under bombardment at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, by the invading British in the War of 1812. Its singing and adoption in the 1930’s spoke not only of our bravery against the British attempts at tyranny, but against our own tyrannies as well. General Stonewall Jackson turned the tide at the Battle of New Orleans in 1814, by raising a local militia, largely consisting of enslaved Africans promised their freedom with victory, who were then stripped of their heroism by legitimate cowards who shackled them again to their masters.

Animalized slavery was generally assigned to the lot of African persons, nearly eighty years into America’s founding, a huge divide over the issue bringing us to war among ourselves, and persisting today to a point of silent saturation that suggest a national drowning. This is no new condition for Black Americans, but is indeed our constant condition, and to swim in this muck is sane only in the attempt to escape it, and our expertise can, once again, expect to be consulted. But not nearly as sincerely, for more popularized is the condition that keeps the slave enslaved and that snares the unsuspecting in a similarly, not so much animalized as mechanized, role.

That popular condition is marketed in many guises, but it too boils down to a basic form, and that is "every man for himself". In this role, each of us abandons whatever natural position we have in a sustaining culture, to move into a social position of cosmetic import. This blocks the instinct and attempt of the mind to communicate, which is not only to engage in an exchange of point of view, but to convey all manner of humanity through all manner of sense and sensation in employment of the earthen resources. The mind, deprived of this vital exercise, cowers into selfish islands of imagined inequality, rather than forging understanding of differences into an equation of equality. So it is to establish this natural process in our society, that I struggle, for this is the American creed.

To do so, I oppose harmful tyrannies that pose as right, but are totally wrong, and are patently un-American, those that intend to extend and never relinquish the inequalities that they imagine and impose. I hope you can see where I’m coming from, because I’m coming from where we, as a country, have been. I hope you say, when you see the ugliness of inequality, that it is indeed ugly. I hope you can see the self-evident truth, and endow our creator with your humble and virile allegiance. I hope we can see America as a vibrant nation among a world of vibrant nations enduring in freedom’s harmony on equality’s string. Let us pluck that string. Fairly, we will strike a chord. The symphony is written, the chairs are in place, the instruments ready. Everybody breath. Now, the baton. Can we give it voice?

Teasing For Violence? Thursday, October 8, 2009 6:29:00 AM

     Holder’s visit to Chicago, and Detroit offices being mobbed by a crowd of assistance seekers, illustrate the profound and damaging failure to recognize that Black America continues a non-stop bearing-the-brunt of American social trauma. The attorney general in the midst of Our Black president’s hometown, recognized not that the extraordinary problems in astounding and horrendous proportion, are deserving of the nation’s fullest and finest attention, effort, and expenditure, to solve. Obviously, the funds intended for three-thousand-five-hundred people were ninety-percent short of the thirty-five-thousand people who responded in Detroit.

     Most of all, the Chicago students need cultural development and confirmation of their heritage. A comment by "vilynblackthome" on the Chicago Sun-Times website

http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1813612,CST-EDT-edit08.article

shows the problem. Though the Sun-Times complains that the money proposed to address the violence in and around Chicago Public Schools, is just a drop in the bucket, no degree of money and professionalism alone will actually deliver the letter. In both cases, the financial promises made are simply a tease, to provoke exploitable despair among Blacks, and to sustain comforting ignorance among whites.

     I don't capitalize white for "white" is simply a color, and not an ethnicity. "White" is termed to distinguish the collection of those who have approvable identities, from those who have been denied them. Under the umbrella of "white" gather the French, English, Spanish, and all of European heritage, down to the plots of land from which their families have inherited and conquered over the centuries. "Black" covers only a multitude of greater and equal insults: colored, negro, mulatto, negress, and all the variations of the famous slur.

     In America, "black" people have no other cultural title that is not color based, and this one, chosen by the people stripped completely of their territorial and traditional heritage, by their fellow citizens, for enslavement that enriched every corner of the nation with wealth and opportunity, is even today not given the status of a proper noun by the bulk of the mainstream press and educational systems. "African-American" refers to an entire continent and no ethnicity is considered to be distinctly defined by merely continental boundaries. "Blackland" is America entire, for we are the brave who have no other home.

     Even accepted, "Black" is not sufficient, for Black youth must compete against the remaining, non-black multitudes who course along with generations of recognized and respected territorial and cultural traditions intact, in use, and at easy access. Even Obama is a Luo-Kenyan-American, a much more traditionally defined ethnicity. African-Americans in truth are immigrants and descendents with tribal ties within a national origin besides America. "Black Americans" are we, alone in the world, who must be granted our sole and soul affinity for our country by our fellow citizens and visitors to our home.

     It is a sabotage that Black American youth, with a four-hundred year communal familiarity with American custom, by way of a four-hundred year sacrifice for America's progress, are bypassed for work in favor of unfamiliar immigrants, who have less proficiency with the language and expectations of our laws and customs. It was drilled into me that education was the key to personal advancement. High school diplomas, testifying to a proficiency in English, were routinely required for consideration for entry level employment. It is this "odd-man-out" status, a burning residue of the African holocaust, that abuses the American prospect.

     Not realizing and facing up to this lingering trauma, in order to heal its wounds and profit its lessons, America has given favor to the immigrant influx. As sales, to those who are frustrated in communicating in English, fall, more immigrant speakers of other languages are welcomed to make up the difference, and the "Black" element becomes more and more replaceable. The "personal responsibility" of a raindrop in a hurricane is negligible. This is a massive storm requiring the calm coalescence of the entire citizenry.