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n Webster's Dictionary
an oxymoron is defined as a combination of incon- gruous or contradictory words such as cruel kind- ness, awfully good and terri- bly tasty. Another term that we've been hearing a lot of lately, that could provide a textbook example of oxy- moronic speech, is white su- premacy.
This is mainly due to the fact that on the color chart there's nothing particularly amazing about the square that's void of a vibrant hue. It can easily be displaced by any other darker shade and can only exist in the com- plete absence of more promi- nent colors.
On the human scale, Eu- ropean DNA, which is con- sidered the progenitor of what is commonly identified as "whiteness," is equally as recessive. Regardless of what ethnicity a person of Euro- pean ancestry mixes his or her blood line with, the child from that union will take a majority of his or her physi- cal characteristics from the non-European (white) par- ent.
To those who consider themselves white suprema- cist, like the 28-year-old Australian man who mur- dered 50 people inside of a New Zealand mosque last week, this is the paradox that threatens their white iden-
tity. They feel the need to kill and destroy everything un- like them, not because they believe that they're superior but, because science has proven to them that the truth is completely opposite.
With that being the case, the irony is that white inferi- ority (when it comes to in- herited traits) is the foundation on which the ideal of white supremacy is built. The fear of being genet- ically annihilated through miscegenation on a planet where 90% of the population has some level of pigmenta- tion, as Dr. Francis Cress- Welsing stated in her book, “The Isis Papers,” is the ultimate motivation for all who subscribe to the white- supremacist agenda.
To them, controlling the strongest forms of currency, natural resources, technol- ogy and entire continents is not enough. As long as they're outnumbered by melanin enriched people throughout the Earth, in their paranoid delusions, they will never be safe.
While some like to give credit to Donald Trump for revitalizing the white su- premacy movement, the fact of the matter is, it never died off from its earliest begin- nings. Though grunt organi- zations like Neo-Nazis, The Aryan Brotherhood and The Ku Klux Klan
have become more embold- ened recently under Trump's Administration, the push for the continuation of a dominant white society has never waned during the last 800 years of European conquest.
The Christian crusades, world-wide colonization, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the concept of Manifest Des- tiny, the genocidal extermi- nation of Natives in the western hemisphere, Jim Crow laws, the integrated school system, legalized abortion, the apartheid in South Africa, mass incarcer- ation, the AIDS epidemic, the crack epidemic, the con- stant destabilizing of third- world countries like Haiti, the embargos maintained on nations like Iran, North Korea and Cuba, the Bill and Melinda Gates Initiative in conjunction with Planned Parenthood in Africa, tailor- made travel bans, the emas- culation of Black male heterosexual identity in Hol- lywood and the insistence on building a border wall are all strategies and policies that have been implemented over the years in an attempt to maintain white's advantage on the global chess board.
Compared to these ab-
stract vestiges of white su-
premacy, a lunatic with a
fully loaded AR-15 comes off
as little more than a very
small image inside of a much
larger and scarier picture.... a
picture that seems to only
become darker and more
foreboding even though the
perceived threat that created
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A Plea For Common Sense
believe I can fly . . . I believe I can touch the sky” . . . Caught up in the moment at a Black South “Carolina church, current New York City mayor and possible future Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio raised his arms in tempo with the church’s gospel choir, took a whimsical dance step to R. Kelly’s spiritually compelling song Sunday morn- ing, and instantly found himself (de Blasio) with his political wings singed by almost every Democrat and
Republican with access to Facebook or Twitter. What had de Blasio done? Say the quasi-political and social media pundits? The answer was obvious: Because of R. Kelly’s as of yet unproven accusation of sexual offenses against teenage girls, Kelly was /is currently considered by millions of Americans as “persona-non-grata,” a political “Typhoid Kelly!” to mention his name in public was to court disaster. de
Blasio danced to his music.
But the question comes down to this: Is it the man
or his music which should be crucified? While voices fumble for an answer on R. Kelly’s behalf, another pot threatens to boil over on the late Michael Jackson whose living supposed-victims scream at him as a child molester. Numerous record stores and radios have stopped carrying his music. But how does one stop doing business with a person who owns, among other things, the entire Beatles musical estate? You go first.
But there are others. Where does it end? Should we turn our backs on the works of James Brown be- cause he was a self-acknowledged wife-beater; or stop listening to singer Jerry Lee Lewis because he married his 14-year-old cousin? Should we stop watching the movies of Woody Allen, who fell in love with his stepdaughter or stop driving Ford vehicles due to Henry Ford’s support of Nazi Adolf Hitler; or stop listening to the music of past drug addict Ray Charles? Should we condemn America because George Washington owned slaves? Networks still show Bill Cosby’s comedy series.
Should Bill de Blasio be censured because he danced to “I believe I can fly?”
What about the church choir, or should we Amer- icans take the final step to our social evolution and grow up? Either that or we need to start our common sense and our Constitution all over again. Who’ll throw the first stone?
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