Thursday, December 9, 2010
Toward the Unity of North American Africans: 6. Internal and External Sources of Disunity
Toward the Unity of North American Africans 6. Internal and External Sources of Disunity
BayArea writers and journalists came together to honor the memory ofassassinated Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey, a victim of Oaklandpolitics, although Muslims were blamed. Chauncey was investigatingpolice corruption and corruption in Mayor Jerry Brown's office. JerryBrown is reported to have said, "I'm gonna get that nigguh from snoopingaround City Hall and the police department." Brown is nowgovernor-elect of California.
The broad day light assassinationof Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey was but another project in theongoing attempt to prolong the disunity of our community. The majorbenefactor
was not the Black Muslim Bakery brothers, the fall guyscharged with his murder, but the political establishment, the policedepartment and white supremacy America. Just as the USA benefited fromthe murder of Malcolm X, the political establishment in the Bay Area hasdriven a wedge between Muslims and the North American Africancommunity.
As per the bakery brothers, it is indeed ironic thatDr. Yusef Bey, founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery, and Chauncey Baileywere longtime associates and friends, especially at Soulbeat television
wherethey both contributed to the station's success. Dr. Bey had a show,True Solutions, and Chauncey was the news director, so they had a longworking relationship. But after Dr. Bey's transition, we are to believethat Bey's heirs considered Chauncey their mortal enemy because he waswritings articles on their bankruptcy proceedings that were publicinformation. This was a ruse instigated by the Oakland Police Departmentwhose officer became the mentor and chief adviser of the bakery boys.Thisofficer was not only in charge of the crime scene, who refused toquestion an eye witness, brother Tony, but the officer led a raid on thebakery less than 24 hours of the assassination at 7:30 i the morning.The OPD raided the bakery and found the murder weapon and got aconfession from a handy man. No murder in the history of Oakland hasbeen solved so quickly, if we are dumb enough to believe the hype!
Butare main concern is the divisiveness the police orchestrated murdercaused in our community, especially in light of America's war againstIslam. Christian blacks wanted nothing to do with Muslims, and blacks ingeneral looked at Muslims with a jaundiced eye. Orthodox Muslimsdisassociated themselves from the Black Muslim Bakery brothers sincethey were not considered real Muslims in the first place. They wereessentially followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad whose brand ofIslam is not considered true Islam, just as Sunni Muslims do notconsider Shia Muslims as real Muslims, or Ahmediahs as true.
Ofcourse some of this bitter division is residue from the assassination ofMalcolm X. Many North American Africans are suffering post-traumaticstress syndrome from the 1965 Cointelpro murder of Malcolm.Intellectuals are still traumatized and grieving over the tragic hit onMalcolm and blame the Nation of Islam, even though police agents werehis bodyguards and some of the hit men were allowed to escape capture bythe New York police.
The degree of hurt and unresolved grief isso severe that intellectuals and scholars cannot write narratives on ourmodern history without revisionism, skipping from Marcus Garvey toMalcolm X in their narrative, deleting Elijah Muhammad's contributionand his mentoring of Malcolm, along with Muhammad Ali, Farrakhan, WarithDin Muhammad, and thousands of others who came into blackconsciousness, including myself, due to Elijah's Message to the BlackMan.
We know the FBI's mission was to stop the rise of a blackmessiah who could unify North American Africans, thus all black leaderswere objects for elimination by the US government: Martin Luther King,Jr., Malcolm X, Kwame Toure (Stokeley), H. Rap Brown (Imam JamilAlamin), Huey, Eldridge and Bobby of the Black Panthers. Who murderedFred Hampton, Jr.? Who tracked Mumia Abu Jamal from the age of 14?
Thelast thing America wants is a unified community of North AmericanAfricans. Have no doubt, our unified vote is the primary reason thatso-called Negro is in the White House. Our unity can and ultimately willchange the history of the world. This is how powerful we are. One needonly recall the powerful effect of the Million Man March. Imagine ifthose million men had pooled their resources and were able to develop anorganization. We would have been a frightening force similar to thatmillion man army in North Korea! We would then be able to call all shotsin our community. Nothing would move until the million men gave theirapproval. No drugs, no prostitution, no wife beating, no rape, nodisrespect of elders, no children dropping out of school because theywere bright enough not to be duped by a white supremacy curriculum,since the million men would ban such from being taught, in colleges anduniversities as well.
We talked with a brother in Philly not longago who has several Stake and Take restaurants. We asked the brotherwhy is it so difficult for us to unite? He said if we united, all theguns of the white man would turn on us. My friend, elder, comrade andassociate, Amiri Baraka puts it thusly, "In the end the Negro will bethe terrorist!" Look who's being arrested for terrorism these days,who's being entrapped and conspired upon by the US government?
Inspite of all the above dirty tricks, we are confident there shall beunity, even if as Elijah said, we must force black unity! Yes, just assometimes we must force a husband and wife to stop fighting and cometogether, we must be proactive about unity in the community, although Ihave suggested there must be a program of detoxification and recoveryfrom our trauma and unresolved grief. Otherwise we ain't going aroundthe corner with each other. I don't trust you, Negro! You don't know melike that! I don't even trust myself! Elijah told you don't trust noone.
This is war, the enemy is pervasive with snitches everywhere, agent provocateurs, undercover agents.
Somehow,we must process our paranoia, our fears, lack of trust, lack of desireof forgiveness, especially when we have all done wrong and been wronged.He who is without sin cast the first stone, Jesus told you. So ain't noHoly Joe's up in here. We all got some funk on us--yeah, it's funky upin here. Ain't it funky now, JB said.
Malcolm told you totranscend your petty differences. The hatred we have for each other is ajoke since no black person has done to us what the white man has, yetwe love the white man and hate the black man. This is sick, insane, andwe need to go somewhere to get a healing. Go to Africa, if it will helpyou, go to Jamaica, anywhere to heal, go to Mecca, Jerusalem, then comehome ready to rock and roll like we did last summer!
--Marvin X
12/9/10
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