Watching it All Burn …

Yes .. yes, the haze obstructing the view of a nation is smoke from the fire. A white supremacy arsonist’s dream .. we have achieved dominance nirvana. The truth is now the snowflakes of ash as they land, sculpted shapes of snowmen adorn lawns - “The South will rise again! … it has RISEN ..” It is thick, the haze, a taste in it that is as deadly addictive, as it is suffocating. They fiend for more.

“The enslavement and subjugation of Indigenous peoples within the Western Hemisphere and from continental Africa have always been important in the development of race. For example, in the early 1500s, Spanish enslaver turned priest Bartolomé de las Casas advocated for human rights protections for Indigenous Caribbean people by racializing Indigenous Africans as better suited for enslavement and exploitation…historically, race is based on hierarchy and exploitation.” - Lisa Betty (2022), The Evolution Of Whiteness In The United States ByJanice Gassam Asare, Ph.D., Forbes 2022

526 years since the appeal via “racial classification” guised as human rights, in the relay race of oppression here in America, they have never dropped the baton. Nor has it failed to ever be without eager runners willing to run the next leg. “.. this country allowed me and my family to succeed. We came here and built a life we can be proud of.” The paradox often breaks brains when engaging, in trying to - put the fire out. Racism doesn’t exist - you all are always playing the victim, I didn’t own slaves … nigger. Yes, the haze is heavy, as usual.

The marching for restoration of rights is a must - a public show of where the people stand. At the core of that though, must be an unambiguous clarity as to the environment in which we are operating. Situational awareness. The people have always only asked, “be true to your word.” An apparently impossibly simple task to complete. On purpose. The awareness of the situation and operational environment, also requires it to be paired with competence in strategy implementation. This operational environment is one of, the last gasps of the cult - they will not go quietly.

Sudden discoveries of the depths of racism and anti-Blackness and how it has now permeated the bubble of intentional cognitive dissonance, sometimes invokes the occasional, “Da fuk?! (Heavy ancestral negro sigh)” “You hated and hate us so much, that you re-elected him. Because you believed it was only going to be .. us.” No lies detected. Disappointment in that, you fell for the propaganda -
”… they are approaching to 10m platform, a double pike into a half gainer .. PERFECTION! 10s across the board!”

The ongoing intra-cultural debate of, “Were/are we too welcoming and accepting of a people?”

Most analysis of now, rarely do so in totality. The anchoring of how/what root causes are at the issues facing the country. Political views in an agreed upon duopoly, skip over that part .. the vote - a question of, “is my ballot worth my life..?” In this country, that question is never asked outside of one community. And with that, the operational environment has never changed. However, the tools and technologies have. Party politics in shaping districts wrapping themselves in, “They are trying to dilute and disenfranchise the ‘Black Vote!’” Multiple things can be true at the same time.

Supremacy and its practitioners, lean into the shiny bobbles and perks. The inflection point here is, the proof of alligence - the ballot.

“… the Voting Rights Act, suspended literacy tests, provided for federal approval of proposed changes to voting laws or procedures (“preclearance”) in jurisdictions that had previously used tests to determine voter eligibility (these areas were covered under Sections 4 and 5 of the legislation), and directed the attorney general of the United States to challenge the use of poll taxes for state and local elections. An expansion of the law in the 1970s also protected voting rights for non-English-speaking U.S. citizens. Sections 4 and 5 were extended for 5 years in 1970, 7 years in 1975, and 25 years in both 1982 and 2006.” - Britannica

The haze is thick. Analysis of the operating environment here in America, is so annoyingly predictably bad..intentionally bad. Building a coalition without situational awareness, is doomed to fail. A refusal to a least acknowledge and accept that, those things which you want saved and protected .. they demand an unequivocal ending of anti-Blackness via your community’s patterns and practices. Also, an acknowledgment that the American racial caste system depends on your willingness to uphold it. Lastly, as you have read that, quiet the urge to blurt out, “Everything isn’t about race! And they discriminate against us too!” .. shhhh.

“Recent studies (Massey and Eggers 1990, Massey, Gross, and Eggers 1991) confirm that as a result of residential segregation, increases in poverty are confined to a small number of spatially distinct neighborhoods. Racial and ethnic differences in the extent of poverty and residence in segregated areas produce markedly different outcomes for blacks, Latinos, and Anglos, however. For example, in the case of blacks living in racially segregated environments, rising poverty rates resulted in greater exposure to higher levels of neighborhood poverty and income deprivation, regardless of individual social and economic characteristics.

Furthermore, Massey, Gross, and Eggers (1991: 23) contend that the “recent growth of central city poverty areas would not have occurred in the absence of segregation because the impact of social and economic deprivation is distributed unequally across neighborhoods.” The variation between ethnic and racial groups is reflected by the deterioration of Latino economic well-being, particularly among Puerto Ricans, which has occurred during the past two decades (Cuciti and James 1990, Tienda and Jensen 1987, 1988). This trend stands in stark contrast to the relatively stable or declining poverty rates among blacks and Anglos during the same time period. Since 1970, the poverty rate among Latino families has hovered around 25 percent—a rate nearly 2.5 times higher than the rate for non-Latinos (U.S. Bureau of the Census 1991). There is also evidence of a growing concentration of blacks and Puerto Ricans within poor neighborhoods in the declining industrial areas of the Northeast and Midwest (Massey and Eggers 1990). However, little empirical research has been conducted to date which identifies the factors associated with increasing Latino poverty in metropolitan America.” - Santiago, A. M., & Wilder, M. G. (1991). Residential Segregation and Links to Minority Poverty: The Case of Latinos in the United States. Social Problems, 38(4), 492–515. https://doi.org/10.2307/800567

Nuances are fancy ways of saying “details” or “specifics”. There are no nuances to this moment. There is no way to avoid to the haze, you reek of it. The fire from where the haze imitates, is not unknown to everyone saying, “it’s on fire!! Is anyone going to do something?!” A plea into the streaming setup, edited and uploaded.

“In The Social Systems of American Ethnic Groups, written by W. Lloyd Warner and Leo Srole and published in 1945, the expression ‘ethnic group’ was used to designate eight cultural minorities of white ‘race’, resident in Massachusetts, who were on their way to becoming ‘one hundred percent Americans’.1 The authors made no mention of ‘ethnicity’; the first recorded use of that word is dated from 1953, when the sociologist David Riesman referred to ‘the groups who, by reason of rural or small-town location, ethnicity, or other parochialism, feel threatened by the better educated upper-middle-class people’.2” - Banton, Michael. “Ethnic Origin and Ethnicity.” In What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity, 1st ed. Berghahn Books, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt130h8qv.10.

In the event of a fire, please take a moment to locate where your nearest exits are ..