What’s the black strategy if Trump wins?

Columnist Al Calloway of the South Florida Times posed this question:

What’s the black strategy if Trump wins?

The largely Republican-right white nationalist Trump crowds roar approval when the Donald cites years of African American loyalty to the Democratic Party for which, he alleges, they have nothing to show for it. Trump indicts Hillary’s boast of 30 years in public service and exhorts African Americans to vote for him, stating, “you have nothing to lose.”

Here’s Calloway’s article: http://www.sfltimes.com/opinion/whats-the-black-strategy-if-trump-wins

Before even reading the article, I responded: RUN!!!

Then, S.E. Anderson responded to me with:

If Trump becomes president, there’s nowhere on Planet Earth to Run to!

The US already has a massive military presence on and around every continent. Its capitalist enterprises are entangled decisively in every nation on the planet- except for Cuba and North Korea… and they are working on both of them to submit. Trump would abandon the normalization process with Cuba and possibly demand the bombing of N Korea.

Inside the US, the deeply normalized white supremacy policies and practices will be “enhanced”. Emboldened alienated white working-class folk, the police and various white nationalist have been deputized by Trump to “Make America Great [WHITE] Again.”

The Black Strategy should be to continue the work of our Ancestors’ fight for TRUE Liberation and build a movement that is hellbent on destroys Capitalism and its racist appendages– no matter the odds. We need to, no, MUST, continue to be like Ancestor FreedomFighter William Monroe Trotter: “Let Your Motto Be Resistence!”

To Run is to submit. We never ran from enslavement: Our Ancestors Resisted in all kinds of ways. That’s why we’re here today to continue Fight for Black Liberation.

In Struggle,

Sam Anderson

To which I retorted:

Dear Sam,

Obviously, fright and flight is no joke. But running toward freedom is a viable strategy.

The Northern flight through the Underground RR was most definitely ‘running’.

Tubman’s quote still stands, “If they knew they were slaves, I could have saved thousands.”

We need a flight plan because, if Trump wins, even a railroad ticket won’t help us.

At ASALH this week, we chartered the South Florida Branch.

I had a nice, long talk with Patricia Hilliard, Asa’s daughter.  I became a lifetime member of the Association of Black Women Historians.  I struck up a conversation with George McDonald about:

1. The number of people lynched in National Parks
2. Homeless people living in National Parks

to determine if his $5 million budget could be used to get an ‘act of Congress’ to set up lodgings in National Parks for homeless citizens, many of whom are women with children and veterans.

Photo: http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/editorials-for-students/nycs-homeless-crisis

It’s ridiculous that there are 84.4 million acres in the National Parks system, while more than 500,000 people – a quarter of them children – have nowhere to live. It is ludicrous. It is criminal because there are still human beings that do not fit into the pattern of ‘civilization’ because they are, in fact, nomadic, which is how most tribes started out on this planet.

But the bureaucracy that set up the National Parks System that was lily-white, until The Petermans took the initiative to confront the NPS regime and published their first book Legacy on the Land to encourage African Americans to visit some of the 58 national parks in the U.S.A. despite their ingrained fear of forests where their forefathers, grandfathers, uncles, and brothers hung from trees.

What is it that we cannot get???

Running from the truth or running to the light?

Either way, either of the two candidates running will undoubtedly cause one or more groups in the country to RUN!!!

So, running will be the norm, whether it’s for Black people running from “Emboldened alienated white working-class folk, the police, and various white nationalists that will be deputized by Trump to ‘Make America Great [WHITE] Again,’ or those folks running from us.  Somebody gonna be runnin’!!!

And ‘Black Liberation’ cannot nor will ever be attained without WHITE LIBERATION from the idiotic ideology of white supremacy, a paradigm that is shifting in ever-deepening quicksand.  Their time is up. GAME OVER. WAKE UP melanated people, and push back!

Run, people, run toward the light, toward TRUTH, toward the land o’ make believe.

Run, until you reach the edge of the abyss that is human beings believing that to be civilized is to put a gate at the entrance of land that once was and should be put to good use by people living on sidewalks of the so-called ‘greatest show on Earth’ – Amerikkka!

Thanks,

Joan Cartwright

Warning to Black Men and Women

Did no one think to COMMUNICATE with John Crawford III before shooting him to death?
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YOUR LIFE IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY

The system was not designed to be fair. It was designed to keep people like him rich at the expense of people like her. It is now time to WAKE UP and re-imagine another scenario for yourself and others that do not appear to be progressing. You were created for a purpose and it has nothing to do with the purpose of people like HIM, unless you allow it to be about his purpose instead of YOURS. Entrepreneurship is the only solution being underpaid by a corporation that doesn’t value you enough to provide you with benefits for your family. YOU are responsible for your life. Not HIM or THEM or Me. No, YOU must take life by the reins and steer your carriage in the direction of purpose, position, progress, and persistence.

We Speak Words

WORDS.

What do they mean?

People speak all kinds of things into existence, every minute, hour, day. We create the world with the words we speak, hardly understanding that instead of creating turmoil, angst and chaos, we can create peace, harmony and prosperity, simply by changing the WORDS WE SPEAK.

My newsletter is a commentary on numerous subjects from spirituality to homelessness, racial profiling and the President of the United States.

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Thank you,

JC