The King Unveiling: Should I Go or Should I Stay?

I was sitting at the house thinking what should I do next weekend-should I go to D.C. for the unveiling or should I stay here in the "A" and go to the OneFest.

Well, after giving it much thought, I realized something—it is time to end the quest for integration and servitude and begin the quest for self determination with in the confines of this system.

Put another way—let's stop asking and begging, and start just doing for self.

Understand this. For over four hundred a group of people and a government system treated another group of people like animals, property, and lower forms of life.

Consider that this group of people collected black people from the shores of their homeland and knowing that a high percentage would not survive the journey, they planned for that and packed more in.

They whipped, lynched and burned people for sport! Made a family gathering out of watching a man burn on a tree, cut his testicles off and took a picture and sent it to friends across the country as a postcard. And this went on for years with the central government doing nothing to stop it.

Then war breaks out and this same group and government asks our ancestors to fight to save the country and WE DO. Thinking its going to bring pride and dignity. But we know of one family where it brought death on a bridge in South Georgia.

So with all of that, this same government anoints this oppressed group its leader and implicitly endorses his message. And then proceeds to teach this message and gives black people their leader to worship and idolize. Their schools teach his life and they are taught for three generations to worship at his feet.

Now do not get me wrong, Dr. King was and is a great man. I respect, love and thank him from the bottom of my heart for what he sacrificed and did for us as a people and us as a nation.

However, don't you think it a little too convenient that the same government who kills, maims, tortures, destroys, locks up, spits on and overall treats black people badly for 400 years then gives you your leadership, your hero and most importantly, gives you the message that you are supposed to adher to? A message that fundamentally states " Love your enemy" and "Turn the other cheek?" And a message that states "Integrate yourselves into our system and use our businesses."

Is not that just perfect for the oppressor? So we fought for and marched for the right to spend our cash with the very same group of people who burned us and killed us. And now we celebrate the man who they gave us as our leader with a message of love and pacifism because they have allowed him to have a statue. WOOHOOO.

So I will decide to go to D.C. but not because I am happy or not. Or proud or not. But because I want to see that we have the message of integration, love and pacifism represented in Dr. King end with this statue and this monument.

And I want to see us now pursue like the rest of the world a new paradigm of economic self determination—one that calls for us to segregate our money. We tried integration and it got us in a worse condition relative to other groups. So now that we know which program works (segregation within the system) we pursue it vigorously. It seems that, all along, the Black Muslims had it right.

So join me in D.C. And le'ts find a black owned bar or restaurant to have a toast as we memorialize King and start down a new road of self-determination and freedom from the government.