Twitter Warz
Broadcasting division [written Oct. 2022]
Everyday we see the same thing. Everyday we hear the same sad song. Everyday, we see and hear what other people think as it pertains to social and political views, mainly because of their viral ability rather than personal or intimate conversation.
Do you think that it is possible that we’re weaponizing these thoughts and educating the enemy, so that once we reach prominence or influence our past stances will be our downfall? Possibly. Do you think that it is possible that we’re only speaking in terms of condescension rather than education and love solely because of distance and false sense of community? The evidence is clear but one will disagree based on their own viewpoint.
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Throughout “Black studies” or what some individual platforms have become, there is an abundant amount of division among our likeness yet praises for the philosophical ideals of those who actually walk the walk rather than talk the talk. Whether you are ADOS, FBA, or Pan-African–how does blatant disrespect even division aid and assist followers and/or benefactors? It doesn’t. It shows that the cause or ‘movement’ is no longer a dire necessity and cannot bring the country to its knees; because if the movement(s) are necessary? All are to be utilizing the similar principles and objectives that the ‘Party used in the 1960s and 1970s . This is said because if social media can make or break traction by simply stating “word of mouth,” what happens behind closed doors to those who are willfully blind and ignorant and taking the word of social site information at face value instead of actual research?
Every entity mentioned among Black folks is imperative for us understand. However, just as we understand we must also realize that all of us look alike–regardless if you have enriched blood, sweat and tears that stretches beyond three generations on this soil; though born here in the U.S. and have an unwavering love for all of the African Diaspora your foreparents may be immigrants; or you were born on the continent. The only thing that separates us: cultural systems and our [bloodlines] ethnic background. But to the outside world? We’re all the same. We are Black people.
There once was a time where it didn’t matter whether or not you were American, African, West Indian, or one of the “Black Brits.” What mattered most was if you hated oppression and struggle? Were you down with the people? And to some degree, social media conversations reflect what we see in the street but at a slim margin. Too many threads to post links to. Even the one that I just ran across which sparked this article, however, must we continue to divide ourselves all while claiming to dismantle a system though participating in its learned behavioral acts? Must we subscribe to being fixated on our revolutionary leaders though discounting all of what they stood for? How can one study and quote Garvey yet consistently speak in bad faith with disparaging words towards Jamaicans? How can one study, quote, and even idolize Patrice Lumuba or call themselves “Sankofa” but heavily rely on the present disrespect of all Africans to get their point across?
To take it a step further with my final point–everyone on socials loves to quote Brother Malcolm before and after his split with the N.O.I. What did he say about Africa? No one seems to remember those quotes but with his mother being Grenadian rather than American somehow serves its intended purpose–taking our eyes off of what’s truly at stake, [still] being lost in the wilderness of North America. Every truth seeking revolutionary or “Black radical” has set foot somewhere across the pond. Just as they have removed themselves from senseless conversations which only lower rather than raise an individuals respect for his identity.
Though I am a [Black] American, born and raised here, to separate me from Africa in any form is to separate man from his knowledge of God–which is written in his essence. All else is propaganda.
