White Supremacy and the System of Racism Are Rebooting Themselves

Hotep!!!

Take notes!!!!!!!!!!

Black social media, as usual, is caught up in America’s drama. Ok, the Kobe Bryant / Gayle King / Snoop Dog beef, unfortunately happened in Black America. This is another example of White supremacy and the system of racism turning Blackmen and Blackwomen against one another in the Black community. The Who Killed Malcolm X documentary has Black people upset with the Black Islamic organization called Nation of Islam, but not with the White oppressive forces behind the plot to kill Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam, and Black liberation. This is a very interesting time to live in folks. Consequently, because of the lack of a major Black liberation movement amongst Black people, we are not focused on the need to wrestle Black power from White supremacy and the system of racism. Without a Black liberation movement, White supremacy, and the system of racism, are rebooting themselves to continue their domination of Black people.

This is why I think a deeper Afrikan centered analysis must to be discussed on this Malcolm X assassination documentary.

The Who Killed Malcolm X is a updated visual documentary version for people who have not really read, researched, and studied on the forces working to assassinate Malcolm X (Omawele El Hajj Malcolm El Shabazz).

Malcolm X was the former National Spokesman for the Nation of Islam and a world-wide respected Black Nationalist freedom fighter in the 1950s and 60s. The great Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York. Brother Malcolm X's Afrikan centered critiques of White supremacy, and the system of racism, made him some enemies in the Nation of Islam, many enemies in US Government, many enemies in the F.B.I., many enemies in local police departments across the United States, and many enemies in European governments in the world. The organization that created Malcolm X was called the Nation of Islam. However, Malcolm X’s 12 year membership help to make the Nation of Islam a respected national organization for Islam and Black Nationalism.

In America, from the 1930s to the 1970s, Al-Islam primarily under the leadership of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, bursted on the scene to offer Black people a path to free ourselves from racial oppression in America. Masses of Black people embraced Al-Islam as taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The Nation of Islam grew to a mass movement for Islamic and Black Nationalist struggle in America. It's members included famous Black Muslim leaders such as, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Clara Muhammad, Clarence 13x (the Founder of the 5% Nation of Islam), Imam Suraj Wahhaj, Dr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad, and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Unfortunately, the racist power structure became threatened by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. Racist Whites in America, and in the world, worked night and day, to destroy the Nation of Islam and it's Afrikan centric Black consciousness. After the departure of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad in 1975, his son Wallance Muhammad, who would later change his name to Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, took over the reign of leadership. The son of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad moved the Nation of Islam into Sunni Al-Islam. In 1978, disagreeing with the direction of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan left Sunni Al-Islam to rebuild the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam.

Now most of us, who have done this research, and have read on the assassination of Malcolm X, know that his assassination was a conspiracy orchestrated by the White power structure using a myriad of rogue members of the Nation of Islam, the F.B.I, New York City’s local police department, and the US Government. Unfortunately, the documentary still does not go deep into brother Malcolm X’s real enemies in America, and in the world; which were White supremacy and the system of racism.

To protect White domination from Black radical leaders and Afrikan centric movements, like Malcolm X, and the Nation of Islam, White oppressive forces committed themselves to killing Malcolm X, and discrediting the Nation of Islam and Black Nationalism in the eyes of Black people. This was all done at all costs by White supremacy, and the system of racism, to destroy Black liberation leaders and Black Nationalist movements amongst Black people in America and in the world Afrikan community.

From the 17th to the 20th centuries, White intellectuals created the ideology of White supremacy, and the ideology of racism, to justify the inferiority of Black people, the enslavement of Black people, the segregation of Black people, and the colonialism of the entire continent of Afrika. White supremacists and racists scholars, and intellectuals, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, David Hume, George Curvier, Abraham Lincoln, Arnold Toynbee, George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Richard Burton, Samuel Baker, George F. Will, and P. T. Bauer presented to the world that Black people were subhuman beings without a history and a culture. Malcolm X, and the Nation of Islam, were some of the few people, and movements on earth, that understood the science behind the calculated efforts of the White domination of Black people. The Nation of Islam worked to help free Black lives from White domination.

However, let’s also remember that throughout the 1950s, the 1960s, and the early 1970s, White supremacy, and the system of racism, were being directly challenged by Black people such as, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, the Civil Rights Movement, the Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC), anti-colonialist movements on the continent of Afrika, the Original Black Panther Party, Dr. Maulana Karenga, the US organization, Imamu Amiri Baraka, the Black Arts Movement, the Republic of New Afrika Movement, and the Black Power Movement for the first time in American and World History on a massive scale.

However, Malcolm X, and the Nation of Islam, were the earliest Black voices of Black Nationalist movements successfully challenging the world-wide conspiracy of White supremacy, and the system of racism. The White power structure was working, overtly and covertly, to dominate and oppress Black people in America and in the world in Malcolm’s day. However, In the present day, the power structure is still controlled by White supremacy and the system of racism. Unfortunately, White supremacy, and the system of racism, is cloaked by Black and Brown faces in high places. But what ever the the case may be, the White domination of Black people is still being justified by White supremacy, and the system of racism, with an illusion of Black progress in America. Dr. Asa Hilliard, the great Afrikan centered scholar, writes in his book, The Maroon Within Us: Selected Essays on African American Community, says “few Americans have any idea just how intentional systematic, intensive, prolonged and widespread was the defamation process directed toward Afrcan people and the descendants of African people all over the world during the slavery, colonial, and racism periods. They are generally unaware of the role that (White) scholarship played.” This is why White supremacy, and the system of racism, had to completely destroy Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam, and Black nationalism. This was not intensely pointed out in the documentary. Anything standing on Black nationalism, Pan-Afrikan nationalism, and Afrikan centricity, that challenges White supremacy, and the system of racism, will be neutralized. All of this holds true in today’s commentary times. This is why Black History books will not be in the libraries of the Illinois prison system. This is why Black History classes will not be taught in school districts in North Carolina. This is why Black Lives Matter is labeled anti-white and anti-police. This is why the Maafa (Kiswahili phrase for the force scattering of Black people from Afrika to the world), or the European Slave-Trade, will not be taught in the Texas Public Schools. This is why the word Hotep (ancient Kemetic / Egyptian for peace) and Afrikan centricity is under attack in America. This is why the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam are under attacked.

However, the documentary does point out that our divisions in Black unity can lead to our enemies destroying our Black leaders, our Black organizations, and our Black movements for Black liberation.

Whiteness has driven our people out of our Afrikan minds in America, and in the Afrikan world community, keeping us focused on nonsense instead of the real oppressive conditions (i.e. poverty, joblessness, police brutality, community violence, racism, White supremacy, miseducation, Black self-hatred, drugs abuse, reparations, etc) affecting the Black community in America.

This is why Afrikan centered Black consciousness is the remedy to help our people become re-centered to our Black selves and to Afrikan centric culture. But we need Black nationalism to help Black people unify to rebuild Black communities and the Afrikan world. But in 2020, it is hard to do these things, because we as Black people are not focused on a Black agenda. We fall victim to White folk’s entertainment conglomerates, like Hollywood and social media. The White power structure uses television, movies, cable, and social media to continue to concoct dramas in America as distractions!!!!

As we stare into our tv screens and cell phones, racist leaders like President Donald Trump march on to the beat of world domination. The President, during the State of Union address, rewarded Conservative radio talk show host, and White supremacist, Rush Limbaugh, a US congressional Medal of Honor. Rush Limbaugh was one of the Birther Movement’s leading voices. The Birther Movement believes that former President Barack Obama was not legitimately born in the United States. There were no massive protests against President Trump for rewarding Rush Limbaugh’s racial divisiveness in America. The recipients of the US Congressional Medal of Honor includes the following: Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali. There were no massive protests against President Donald Trump’s racist new travel ban policy. The President banned 5 nations from allowing immigrants to come to the US. Four of those nations were Afrikan nations, such as Eritrea, Sudan, Tanzania, and Nigeria. There was no push back from anyone Black.

Now, with no real Black liberation movements in place to challenge the White power structure in America in 2020, President Trump, the Democrats, and Republicans, will continue to ignore Black suffering in America.

With no real Black Nationalist movements in the streets, the White power structure will continue to straight up ignore a real Black agenda to alleviate hundreds of years of inequality in the Black community. And keep in mind, the entrenched levels of inequality plaguing the Black community were created legally by White supremacy and the system of racism to keep Black people oppressed in America forever.

White supremacy, and the system of racism, got us Black folks looking at the small picture and not the big picture. We are not seeing the true enemies in the Black community. Hell, many us believe that our own people are the real enemies of Black people. This is why many of us fight one other over the few resources and support White folks give us. We as Black folk don’t see how White supremacy, and the system of racism, effectively protects themselves from any challenges from Black people. White supremacy, and the system of racism, will even allow some of us Black folks into White America to create an illusion of Black progress. When in reality, Black faces in high places have not been able to parlay Black integration in America into a real movement Black power and Black liberation in the Black community!!!

In summation, we are not paying attention to how White supremacy, and the system of racism, are reorganizing themselves to continue the White domination of Black people!!!!!! We are not reorganizing ourselves to create movements and organizations to challenge White supremacy and the system of racism. But most importantly, we are not creating movements and organizations to help our people find the pathway back to Black power and Black liberation.

Hotep!!! (Peace)!!!

-Bashir Muhammad Akinyele is a History Teacher, Black Studies Teacher, Community Activist, Chairperson of Weequahic High School's Black History Month Committee in Newark, NJ, commentary writer, and Co-Producer and Co-Host of the All Politics Are Local, the number #1 political Hip Hip radio show in America. I can be reached at (bashir.akinyele@gmail.com).

Note: Spelling Afrika with a k is not a typo. Using the k in Afrika is the Kiswahili way of writing Africa. Kiswahili is a Pan -Afrikan language. It is spoken in many countries in Afrika. Kiswahili is the language used in Kwanzaa. The holiday of Kwanzaa is celebrated from December 26 to January
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