A few years ago, a so-called "Don't snitch" campaign gained traction within certain tissues of the black body politic . I had heard it advocated by young rappers, who had also seemingly promoted certain illicit behaviors by t-shirts and verse. Self-serving? Yes!
Meanwhile, utilizing the "Don't snitch" cover, drive-by shootings, armed robberies, break-ins, drop-outs and gang-bangers were being drafted and engrafted into urban phalanxes of black "terrorists."
These miscreants preyed upon their own, pursuing power, profit, privileges, and glory, "by any means necessary," heedless of, indeed contemptuous of, its self-morbidity, its disabling tendency to disembody black unity/progress in their homes and in themselves !
I hereby suggest whoever brought us "Don't snitch " also brought its cultural accouterments, its criminal crew; to better exploit the whole.
I have no specific nor concrete evidence of this connection, this concupiscence, between vaunted "Don't snitch campaigns," and morbid "community" encroachment, to the extent that the former, physically-black "communities" still viably exist, as they once did, beyond postulates in the memories of folks over 55 like me!
Rather, I merely suggest this nexus based on my historical knowledge of the "divide and conquer" strategies involving guns, trinkets, cloth, mirrors, and inexpensive manufactured gewgaws, that were so successfully used in sub-Sahara Africa by Muslims and Christians to engender tribal war, an internecine, centuries-long, continent-wide, deportation and depopulation of that primordial birthplace of man.
These thoughts were prompted by my readings in WOODSON 'S APPEAL (1921, 2008), Dr. Carter G. Woodson's posthumously published manuscript. It was fortuitously and fortunately found among Dr. Rayford Logan's files by Dr. Darryl Scott in 2005. Logan was "the late Howard University professor and Association executive director after the death of Carter G. Woodson," writes Scott, in "Editor 's Preface" . Dr. Scott is presently Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History that Woodson founded in 1915. Scott is also a Howard University professor.
Get a copy of this "lost-now-found manuscript by the Father of Black History " for Christmas or sooner! (P. Xii)
Saturday, November 28, 2015
"DON'T SNITCH" IS STUPID
"DON'T SNITCH" IS STUPID!
A few years ago, a so-called "Don't snitch" campaign gained traction within certain tissues of the black body politic . I had heard it advocated by young rappers, who had also seemingly promoted certain illicit behaviors by t-shirts and verse. Self-serving? Yes!
Meanwhile, utilizing the "Don't snitch" cover, drive-by shootings, armed robberies, break-ins, drop-outs and gang-bangers were being drafted and engrafted into urban phalanxes of black "terrorists."
These miscreants preyed upon their own, pursuing power, profit, privileges, and glory, "by any means necessary," heedless of, indeed contemptuous of, its self-morbidity, its disabling tendency to disembody black unity/progress in their homes and in themselves !
I hereby suggest whoever brought us "Don't snitch " also brought its cultural accouterments, its criminal crew; to better exploit the whole.
I have no specific nor concrete evidence of this connection, this concupiscence, between vaunted "Don't snitch campaigns," and morbid "community" encroachment, to the extent that the former, physically-black "communities" still viably exist, as they once did, beyond postulates in the memories of folks over 55 like me!
Rather, I merely suggest this nexus based on my historical knowledge of the "divide and conquer" strategies involving guns, trinkets, cloth, mirrors, and inexpensive manufactured gewgaws, that were so successfully used in sub-Sahara Africa by Muslims and Christians to engender tribal war, an internecine, centuries-long, continent-wide, deportation and depopulation of that primordial birthplace of man.
These thoughts were prompted by my readings in WOODSON 'S APPEAL (1921, 2008), Dr. Carter G. Woodson's posthumously published manuscript. It was fortuitously and fortunately found among Dr. Rayford Logan's files by Dr. Darryl Scott in 2005. Logan was "the late Howard University professor and Association executive director after the death of Carter G. Woodson," writes Scott, in "Editor 's Preface" . Dr. Scott is presently Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History that Woodson founded in 1915. Scott is also a Howard University professor.
Get a copy of this "lost-now-found manuscript by the Father of Black History " for Christmas or sooner! (P. Xii)
A few years ago, a so-called "Don't snitch" campaign gained traction within certain tissues of the black body politic . I had heard it advocated by young rappers, who had also seemingly promoted certain illicit behaviors by t-shirts and verse. Self-serving? Yes!
Meanwhile, utilizing the "Don't snitch" cover, drive-by shootings, armed robberies, break-ins, drop-outs and gang-bangers were being drafted and engrafted into urban phalanxes of black "terrorists."
These miscreants preyed upon their own, pursuing power, profit, privileges, and glory, "by any means necessary," heedless of, indeed contemptuous of, its self-morbidity, its disabling tendency to disembody black unity/progress in their homes and in themselves !
I hereby suggest whoever brought us "Don't snitch " also brought its cultural accouterments, its criminal crew; to better exploit the whole.
I have no specific nor concrete evidence of this connection, this concupiscence, between vaunted "Don't snitch campaigns," and morbid "community" encroachment, to the extent that the former, physically-black "communities" still viably exist, as they once did, beyond postulates in the memories of folks over 55 like me!
Rather, I merely suggest this nexus based on my historical knowledge of the "divide and conquer" strategies involving guns, trinkets, cloth, mirrors, and inexpensive manufactured gewgaws, that were so successfully used in sub-Sahara Africa by Muslims and Christians to engender tribal war, an internecine, centuries-long, continent-wide, deportation and depopulation of that primordial birthplace of man.
These thoughts were prompted by my readings in WOODSON 'S APPEAL (1921, 2008), Dr. Carter G. Woodson's posthumously published manuscript. It was fortuitously and fortunately found among Dr. Rayford Logan's files by Dr. Darryl Scott in 2005. Logan was "the late Howard University professor and Association executive director after the death of Carter G. Woodson," writes Scott, in "Editor 's Preface" . Dr. Scott is presently Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History that Woodson founded in 1915. Scott is also a Howard University professor.
Get a copy of this "lost-now-found manuscript by the Father of Black History " for Christmas or sooner! (P. Xii)