Has there ever been a chapter in American History where the African American hasn't caught hell from white America?
The FBI released a report on August 7, 2017, that came to light in a Congressional hearing in late November with Attorney General Sessions. The report is titled “Black Identity Extremists Likely Motivated to Target Law Enforcement Officers.”
“The report, which was issued in August and leaked to ForeignPolicy.com, argues that the increased scrutiny of police shootings of African-Americans in recent years may result in acts of violence directed at law enforcement. It cites a 2014 incident, in which a man attacked four N.Y.P.D. officers with a hatchet and a 2016 attack on police in Baton Rouge that left three officers dead. But the primary example is the shooting during an anti-police-brutality rally in Dallas last year, when Micah Xavier Johnson, a twenty-five-year-old Army veteran who harbored resentment toward whites, in general, and toward white law-enforcement officials killed five policemen and wounded seven more before he was killed.
Black nationalism, pertaining to black oppression, if strategically used can be used to help liberate blacks from oppression. Black Nationalism as it pertains to slavery led Blacks to stand united as a nation of people wherever their lives were threatened by the oppressor. Racism is dangerous because it is built around misconceived racial stereotypes and ignorance. Whites don’t know anything about who we are. Most white knowledge of blacks come from racial stereotypes projected in the media. "Racist doesn't see us as human beings they see us as niggahs."
Black solidarity and unity was the primary reason behind Black support for Obama, more than his views or actions.
Malcolm X said the United States did not represent Black people. While still a leader of the Nation of Islam, he said:
“Sir, how can and Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery and worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!
“The Negro was taught to speak the white man’s tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.
“This is a white man’s country. And the Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master’s house.
“And the slave master doesn’t want you! You fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won’t give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won’t give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won’t give you equality.” (1963)
Racial Solidarity enabled African Americans to survive the evil climate of racism in America. "Divided we stand united we fall" this is the reality of what happens when our enemy divides us, they conquer us.
Billionaire rap activist Jay-Z made shook up Black lives and the entertainment industry when he doubled back from his previous stance against the NFL social justice band with the announcement of a landmark deal with the NFL that would not only grant the rapper and mogul the title of “live music entertainment strategist” but also an ownership stake in one of the NFL’s 32 teams. Black people are of course bewildered and rightly so with Jay-Z partnering with the NFL.
The NFL halftime show has the potential to reach well over 100 million people. When Rihanna one of the first major Black entertainers declined to perform at the 2019 NFL halftime show sent a powerful protest against police brutality.
In 2016, Colin Kaepernick was a backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. After speaking with a former NFL player he decided that he would no longer stand during the singing of the national anthem before games. Instead, in a silent act of protest against police shootings of unarmed black Americans, he would kneel. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” he said. Powerful words that ignited other NFL players to join the protest.
President Trump added fuel to the flame, with ill-timed comment that detonated a racial time bomb “You know what’s hurting the game: when people like yourselves turn on television,” he said at a rally with mostly white attendees in September 2017, “and you see those people” — meaning the mostly black athletes of the NFL — “taking the knee when they are playing our great national anthem.” That October, Vice President Mike Pence walked out of a game when players knelt during the anthem.
“Kaepernick risked his career to take a knee for equality, and the NFL punished him for it,” wrote petition starter Vic Oyedeji. “Until the league changes their policy and supports players’ constitutional right to protest, no artists should agree to work with the NFL.
NFL desperate for a Black artist to perform went down a list of elite black entertainers including Cardi B, André 3000 of Outkast, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lauryn Hill, and Nicki Minaj their racial solidarity withstood the fame and money from performing at 2017 NFL Superbowl.
Illustrated in Robert Towsend "Hollywood Shuffle" unapologetically there will always be Black actors who will play a stereotypical racial type-caste role (pimp, criminal, prostitute, thug). Imagine if black actors united together in solidarity and refused to play into Hollywood racial stereotypes we would have more Black Superheros.
Eric Reid NFL Player said: “Jay-Z claimed to be a supporter of Colin, wore his jersey, told people not to perform at the Super Bowl because of [what] the NFL did to Colin,” “Now he’s going to be a part-owner, that’s kind of despicable.”
Jay Z, for his part, responded to critics by positing that his NFL deal was also a way of working to address racial inequality. SMH!
“We forget that Colin’s whole thing was to bring attention to social injustice,” he said during a press conference about the partnership on Wednesday. “In that case, this is a success.”
Later, when asked whether he would kneel or stand during the anthem, Jay Z said: “I think we’ve moved past kneeling. I think it’s time to go into actionable items.”
The principle of Racial Solidarity is that you Don't break ranks. Racism tries and divides our people that's what the NFL is doing. 70% of NFL players are African American that's power if you're not intimidated to use it.
Without further debate, Jay-Z just Hollywood Shuffled African Americans.
