Saturday, July 10, 2010
Parableof Oakland's Day of Absence
Parable ofOakland's Day of Absence
Brother Gregory Fieldstold Plato Negro about Oakland's Day of Absence, the day when theverdict in the Oscar Grant murder trial was to be announced. Gregorysaid he was in a meeting with Mayor Ron Dellums when the Mayor received atelephone call about 3pm, informing him the verdict had been reachedand would be announced at 4:30pm. The Mayor excused himself from themeeting. Gregory departed to 14th and Broadway. He said it was about3:05 when he arrived.
What he observed reminded him of the movieIndependence Day. Maybe the spirit of Oscar Grant was about to ascend tonew heights as the people gathered to protest the expected Miller Liteverdict. The rally was scheduled for 6pm, meanwhile the mostly whiteworkers and a few pet ti bourgeoisie black co-workers were scramblingout of their offices to avoid the coming black horde.
Gregorysaid the entire downtown area was in evacuation mode. People werefleeing for their lives before the black plague consumed them. City Hallwas evacuated, the Ron Dellums Federal Building, the Elihu Harris StateBuilding, Clorox, Zerox and the rest.
Persons terrified of themasses coming to protest the cold blooded killing of 22 year old OscarGrant fled down into the BART train station, yes, to board the verytrain upon which Oscar was murdered on New Year's Day, 2009. Oscar couldnot flee for his life, but lay on his stomach, then had a bullet pumpedin his back by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle.
Baldwintold us, "The murder of my child will not make your child safe." So theworkers fled in fear and terror, strangely, the same fear and terrortheir police subject black people to every day of their lives, walkingwhile black, driving while black, loving while black, singing whileblack, sleeping while black, eating while black.
No, the whitesand "the other white people", those pet ti bourgeoisie blacks who areone paycheck away from the street people, one house payment away, didnot want to get caught in the chaos that might upset their world of makebelieve, their lifestyle of conspicuous consumption, pseudo peace andtranquility, a state of utter denial and delusion.
They fled toBART, the bus, their cars. Gregory said every street in the downtownarea was jam packed with cars heading out of town. On Broadway, a lineof cars headed to the freeway, joining the traffic jam from SanFrancisco where workers were also told to leave work early. They toofeared Black Power!
Before the verdict was announced, BART trainswere more crowded than a New York subway on a hot summer day. Vehicletraffic to the Alameda tunnel was bumper to bumper from 20th and Websterto the entrance at 7th and Webster.
Fear of Black Power wasreal. Just the thought of black people rioting was causing theevacuation of downtown Oakland and San Francisco as well. Just thethought. See how much power we have without throwing a brick, shooting agun, burning a building and looting. Just the thought!We have power,just use it and we will be free overnight.
The devils will beterrified of God's people when they stand without fear, then suddenlywe see they are the fearful ones, in spite of all their police, army,navy, CIA, FBI, they shall run like roaches in the light--and we arethe light if we only stop walking in darkness.
Don't the black hordes know the white man'sjustice is for the white man? The BART police who killed Oscar Grant wasone of our own. He must be protected. Give him two years and let himgo. Hell, we gave that nigger football player Michael Vick two years forkilling his dogs. Two years is enough for killing a nigger. It was anaccident anyway. He confused his taser with his gun. He wrote a letterfrom jail apologizing. What do you niggers want? Give us a break! We'retrying to get home safely. All we want is peace and tranquility. Why doyou think the Supreme Court approved our right to own guns? It's toprotect us from you niggers.
Let us hurry. We don't want to get trapped downtown and not gethome to our precious wives, husbands and children. Let us go, hurry.Hail a taxi. Hey, taxi, taxi, taxi!
It was 4pm when theverdict was announced. Guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Hurry, get on the freeway, BART, bus, taxi,car, bike, shoes, run for your life. The black horde is coming.
By4:45 they were gone. Downtown was a ghost, except for the beasts inblue uniforms gathering on the back streets, and the horde coming one byone, two by two, not frantic like the whites and the other whitepeople, but angry, hurt, full of pain and trauma, trauma from long ago,way back in time of strange fruit lynchings, of the police in Richmondkilling Denzil Dowell, springing the Black Panthers into motion. One ofthe horde was so sick after hearing the verdict he wanted to throw up,throw up the pain, shame, disbelief and disgust.
--Marvin X
7/10/10
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