With all due respect,
...there is an issue that is very rarely ever discussed and that is the derelict of responsibility Black leaders have demonstrated in the past few decades; those who deem themselves spokespeople for the rights of a “right-less” people. Those "progress-less" progressives.
- It is not unreasonable to become angered by the blatant disregard that our leaders and organizations have really had when it comes to the worthy and progressive ideal for the Black community on whose shoulders they stand to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the Black community, and subsequently the whole of the collective society.
- There are no more Martin Luther King Jr’s speaking of progressivism and the worthy and progressive ideal. There are no more Malcolm X’s attempting to question the hegemonic order and increase the quality of life for the Black community.
The current crop care nothing about the mortality rate of pregnant Black women or the rates of incarceration for Black men. They have no concern for how these specific issues have manifested out of the poor treatment and conditions of the Black American demographic. They have ingratiated themselves into the system of oppression as Uncle Tom, gatekeepers begging for scraps while the collective Black population suffer in silence. Still without those rights they say they are fighting for.
- There is no more push for the equal rights of Black folk in them, and therefore they assume that there should be no more push for equal rights. The Black being is still in a state of disrepair. It is still unstable and relegated to the bottom of a social caste system that the gatekeepers help perpetuate.
Gatekeepers, please take your bow and have a seat. We are done with sitting through your performance as a distraction from working toward the worthy and progressive ideal you have denied us with your nonsense.
“No more dispossessing of the dispossessed. No more dispossessing of the dispossessed.”(Ellison, 2001)
We should begin to ask ourselves, “How would MLK Jr or Malcolm X view the older people within the Black community? Would they be proud of what they have achieved on the back of the suffering of Black souls?
-Yogabrofessor
Ellison, R. (2001). Invisible Man. Penguin Modern Classics.
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