Obama's speech reminded me of the March on Washington, and how watered-down and silly that was. Yes, you heard me right. The March on Washington was bullshit. Stop believing what you have been told in government schools. After all it's these same tectbooks that donate on average maybe 4-5 pages on the achievements on Blacks and even less on those of Hispanic contributions. So you already should know those textbooks are on that bullshit. But anyways, the March on Washington started of as a completely grassroots movement that had no centralization whatsoever. Around May of 1963, after Blacks stood up to the brutality happening in Birmingham, Alabama, and then in kind were being hit with fire hoses and threatened by National Guard troops, spontaneous demonstrations began cropping up all around the country.
I don't mean to get off on a side note here, but uhhh.....fuck the National Guard. All they are really good for is getting active-duty people killed because of their lack of training, and inside the United States, is threatening non-whites to kill them if they cross the government. You need examples??? DO you really need fucking examples??? Well, how about the New Orleans Superdome during Hurricane Katrina...yeah, you think a nigga forgot? Nah, not me. Or how about on the border, shooting people who are chasing freedom. It's like, fuck the inscription on the base of the Statue of Liberty, we didn't really mean that shit. Well we do, if you are white. LOL.
But yeah, these grassroots Blacks threatened to bring the government to a halt. Congress, Senate, the airport, all that, complete halt. This scared the shit out of the American power structure. President Kennedy called in all the Black civil rights leaders and told them to bring this "march" to a halt. They couldn't do it though, because they didn't have anything to do with it. So when JFK saw that he couldn't stop it, he joined it, he embraced it, and he became a part of it. He was the one who put the Big Six (the top six Negro leaders) in charge of it.
When JFK saw that he couldn't stop the march, he joined it and encouraged all his political bedfellows to join it as well. This is the way that Democrats took over the March on Washington.
They severely weakened it's impact and ultimately changed it's course. We could have gotten so many drastic and better changes out of the March on Washington, but instead, all we got was a damn speech. Not to knock the "I Have a Dream" speech, but if it's a choice between more freedom and a speech, sorry, but the speech fuckin loses every time. Look, by them changing the participants, the speakers, and the contents, they changed the very nature of the march itself.
I feel like Malcolm X said it best when he said in one of his speeches, "Example: If I have a cup of coffee that is too strong for me because it is too black, I weaken it by pouring cream into it, I integrate it with cream. If I keep pouring enough cream in the coffee, pretty soon the entire flavor of he coffee is changed; the very nature of the coffee is changed. If enough cream is poured in, eventually you don't even know that I had coffee in this cup. This is what Happened with the March on Washington. The whites didn't integrate it; they infiltrated it. Whites joined it; they engulfed it; they became so much a part of it, it lost its original flavor. It ceased to be a black march; it ceased to be militant; it ceased to be angry; it ceased to be impatient. In fact, it ceased to be a march. It became a picnic, an outing with a festive, circus-like atmosphere...CLOWNS AND ALL.
The government had learned that in cases where the demonstrators are predominantly black, they are extremely militant, and ofttimes very violent. But to the same degree that whites participate, violence most times is decreased. The government knew that in cases wherein blacks were demonstrating all by themselves, those blacks are so dissatisfied, disenchanted, and angry at the white man that they will ofttimes strike back violently regardless of the odds or the consequences. The white government had learned that the only way to hold these black people in check is by joining them, by infiltrating their ranks disguised as integrationist; by integrating their marches and all their demonstrations, and weakening them: in this way only could they be held in check.
The government told the marchers what time to arrive in Washington, where to arrive, and how to arrive. The government then channeled them from the arrival point to the feet of a dead President, George Washington, and then let them march from there to the feet of another dead President, Abraham Lincoln.
The original black militants had planned to march on the White House, the Senate, and the Congress and to bring all political traffic on Capitol Hill to a halt, but the shrewd politicians in Washington, realizing that those original black militants could not be stopped, joined them. By joining the marchers, the white liberals were able to lead the marchers away from the White House, the Senate, the Congress, Capitol Hill, and away from victory. By keeping them marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Monument, marching between the feet of two dead Presidents, they never reached the White House to see the then living President.
The entire march was controlled by the late president. The government in Washington had told the marchers what signs to carry, what songs to sing, what speeches to make, and what speeches not to make, and then told the marchers to be sure to get out o f town by sundown.
One of the Big Six leaders, John Lewis, chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, was prevented from making a very militant speech. He wanted to attack the Kennedy administration for its hypocrisy o civil rights. The speech was censored by the Rt. Rev. Patrick O'Boyle, the Catholic Archbishop of Washington, D.C.. This was a case in which the Catholic Church itself, for whom Rev. O'Boyle speaks, put itself in the position of censoring the legitimate opinion of one of the Big Six Negro civil rights leaders.
The late President's shrewd strategy was: If you can't beat them, join them. The Catholic President placed his Catholic bishop in a strategic position to exercise censorship over any one of the Big Six Negro leaders who tried to deviate from the script in this great "extravaganza" called the March on Washington, which the government had controlled right from the very beginning.
So, in the final analysis of the march: It would have to be classified as the best performance of the year; in fact it was the greatest performance of this century. It topped anything that Hollywood could have produced. If we were going to give out Academy Awards in 1963, we would have to give the late President an Oscar for the "Best Producer of the Year"; and to the four white liberals who participated should get an Oscar as the "Best Actors of the Year," because they really acted like sincere liberals and fooled many Negroes. And to the six Negro civil rights leaders should go and Oscar for the "Best Supporting Cast," because they supported the late President in his entire act, and in his entire program," Malcolm X, Dec. 4th, 1963.
And at the end of the day, this is all Obama is. After all, we couldn't even get a full black person. They have watered down the coffee, the change so much, that they even did it down to the heritage. Remember, the more things change, the more they same the same. Now the masses may not be prejudice or racist, but the power structure and this government still is. That's how 5 white cops can get away with killing a black man in cold blood the day before his wedding. Get away with the atrocities in New Orleans. Get away with wrongfully convicting and railroading blacks into jail to keep them from going to college and making a better life for themselves. Or how during Katrina, they portrayed blacks looking for food as "looting", but whites as "fighting to survive". Yeah, they were saying that bullshit on CNN. I watched the coverage damn near 3 days straight, and I think i slept maybe for 4 or 5 hours. It was part of my job as an intelligence analyst to stay current on the news, hence that's why today I am a news junkie.
Obama is right, this country needs change, but the change that is necessary is not going to come from him, or from this government. He even said it himself. He said, "You have shown what history teaches us -- that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington." Sorry bruh, but when you picked up a political party, particpated in their elecions and ran by their rules and shared in their politics, you became a part of Washington, and now you are from Washington. Point blank period. Baby steps aren't gonna cut it anymore. We should not have to wait 20 or 30 years for changes than can happen in 2 or 3. But what do I know, I'm just your average American that's been burned by our government a few times over. How do I know about the changes that need to come forth, right?
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." -Thomas Jefferson
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