NATURAL RESISTANCE IS VARIABLE
Anyone or anything constrained to act contrary to 'nature' must resist. Not just contrary to its particular nature, but contrary to all of nature.
Such resistance is involuntary, is reflexive, automatic, like sneezing.
If your jeans or shirt are too tight? The Torso resists ! Shoes too tight, feet resist! Food too hot or too cold, the mouth resists. All of life of any sort, fights mightily to protect its bodily integrity, from alien trespass, from intrusion, from constraints upon its natural liberty, before its life is lost.
This natural tendency, involuntary reaction, propensity to resist, makes all the more remarkable, the staid, storied restraint of our people. Their disciplined demurrals to demonic evils are not merely illustrative of the "Sermon on the Mount" but of a divine power to persist and resist what we blacks have been subjected to in America, historically, unceasingly through slavery, Reconstruction, beyond.
There were surely slave revolts in 1739 (Stono, SC), 1741 (NYC), 1800 (Richmond VA), 1811 (New Orleans, LA), 1822 (Charleston, SC), 1831 Northampton , Va). But none of these violent revolts (or near-revolts) were successful, due largely to logistics.
Too-long repressed natural urges of the welled-up emotions of African Americans to strike back, to fight, to physically confront, resist or to avenge wrongs, were naturally not pursued for equally logistical reasons: like no arms, training, nor military leadership, no financial means to pay soldiers or to procure armaments, supplies, vehicles, and the requisite accoutrements to win an armed conflict. Fortunately we were able to hitchhike a ride on back of Civil War, as soldiers and sailors, dispensing with logistics issues that the sovereign supplied. Our symbiotic parasitism freed us from chattel slaves' chains as it saved the country from dissolution.
In the Civil Rights Movement of the 1930s--1960s, civil rights litigation for equality in various sectors was fought in the courts, on our behalf, representatively, by the NAACP and the Legal Defense Fund, primarily.
This was nonviolent resistance also.
Later came the widespread sit-ins, freedom rides, marches, boycotts, rallies, speeches, wade-ins, media savvy means were used to shame, expose, vilify as hypocrites, white politicians, and others, who fought against us and who fought against their own laws, constitution, doctrines !
All of this was nonviolent , but were constructive releases for our ennui.
So as we have shown remedial retribution, restorative exactions, need not necessarily be violent to be natural. Nature occupies all niches.
Pictured is Dr. John Boyd of Virginia. This brave man, on behalf of himself and fellow black farmers (later female farmers, Hispanic farmers, too) has successfully obtained tens of billions of dollars in restitution , reparations, recompense from the federal government through the Black Farmers organization that he founded. He and they used litigation , Congressional lobbying, tractor-cade protests, newspaper, magazine, television across the South to be paid for past discrimination lending practices by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. All of Dr. John Boyd's acts were nonviolent also, but were effectively fruitful for the tens of thousands that it helped.
Natural resistance need not be violent.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
NATURAL RESISTANCE
NATURAL RESISTANCE IS VARIABLE
Anyone or anything constrained to act contrary to 'nature' must resist. Not just contrary to its particular nature, but contrary to all of nature.
Such resistance is involuntary, is reflexive, automatic, like sneezing.
If your jeans or shirt are too tight? The Torso resists ! Shoes too tight, feet resist! Food too hot or too cold, the mouth resists. All of life of any sort, fights mightily to protect its bodily integrity, from alien trespass, from intrusion, from constraints upon its natural liberty, before its life is lost.
This natural tendency, involuntary reaction, propensity to resist, makes all the more remarkable, the staid, storied restraint of our people. Their disciplined demurrals to demonic evils are not merely illustrative of the "Sermon on the Mount" but of a divine power to persist and resist what we blacks have been subjected to in America, historically, unceasingly through slavery, Reconstruction, beyond.
There were surely slave revolts in 1739 (Stono, SC), 1741 (NYC), 1800 (Richmond VA), 1811 (New Orleans, LA), 1822 (Charleston, SC), 1831 Northampton , Va). But none of these violent revolts (or near-revolts) were successful, due largely to logistics.
Too-long repressed natural urges of the welled-up emotions of African Americans to strike back, to fight, to physically confront, resist or to avenge wrongs, were naturally not pursued for equally logistical reasons: like no arms, training, nor military leadership, no financial means to pay soldiers or to procure armaments, supplies, vehicles, and the requisite accoutrements to win an armed conflict. Fortunately we were able to hitchhike a ride on back of Civil War, as soldiers and sailors, dispensing with logistics issues that the sovereign supplied. Our symbiotic parasitism freed us from chattel slaves' chains as it saved the country from dissolution.
In the Civil Rights Movement of the 1930s--1960s, civil rights litigation for equality in various sectors was fought in the courts, on our behalf, representatively, by the NAACP and the Legal Defense Fund, primarily.
This was nonviolent resistance also.
Later came the widespread sit-ins, freedom rides, marches, boycotts, rallies, speeches, wade-ins, media savvy means were used to shame, expose, vilify as hypocrites, white politicians, and others, who fought against us and who fought against their own laws, constitution, doctrines !
All of this was nonviolent , but were constructive releases for our ennui.
So as we have shown remedial retribution, restorative exactions, need not necessarily be violent to be natural. Nature occupies all niches.
Pictured is Dr. John Boyd of Virginia. This brave man, on behalf of himself and fellow black farmers (later female farmers, Hispanic farmers, too) has successfully obtained tens of billions of dollars in restitution , reparations, recompense from the federal government through the Black Farmers organization that he founded. He and they used litigation , Congressional lobbying, tractor-cade protests, newspaper, magazine, television across the South to be paid for past discrimination lending practices by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. All of Dr. John Boyd's acts were nonviolent also, but were effectively fruitful for the tens of thousands that it helped.
Natural resistance need not be violent.