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| -Land of the Free |
| A New Constitution or the bullet |
| 2015-10-08 |
| I never thought I would be in the place I am in right now. About two months ago, I was in Oakland at a “Say Her Name” protest and was being detained by about 25 cops in riot gear. I had a text message ready to send to my lawyer that I was about to be arrested. Luckily, myself and other protesters were let go. The next day as I was in my kitchen doing dishes and I began singing the freedom song passed down to our generation by elder community activists, “Which side are you on?”. After organizing and participating in numerous protests, cries for freedom rang through my mind. However, I began to feel hopeless. After what has felt like endless hours of Black protest and uprising throughout the United States, I felt like our progress was moving in circles. Instead of police killings decreasing in the Bay Area, I witnessed an increase in killings of Black men in Oakland. Five Black men have been executed by in OPD this summer alone. I am tired of waking up and checking Twitter to see another Black body as a hashtag. Our Black Lives Matter protests have stormed the country, yet cops continue to kill us daily, and the judicial system continues to justify our deaths with acquittals, non-indictments, and light sentences-all in the name of upholding the Constitution. I have come to realize that the Constitution is the root of virtually all our problems in America. In order to understand the injustices against Black folks in United States, we must look back to its foundation. The U.S. is a country that was founded on slavery, genocide, rape, and white male patriarchy. The colonizers that we condemn for enslaving Afikans and murdering indigenous peoples are the same people that produced and upheld the document we use to govern our nation to this day. Our bloodshed is rooted in this nation’s founding document, The Constitution. A body cannot be separated from its head and remain living. The Constitution and all the evil that it allows to be perpetuated are the head of White America, or more so corrupt America. Racist America. If you separate the head then racism will die. This is why it must be a new constitution or the bullet. A new Constitution or the Bullet. You chose a new Constitution. You will have the bullet. The problem is that the author wants more government to be on his side and he wants freedom. You can't have both. It's either freedom or enslavement by government. There is no middle ground here. This constitution was written for “all men to be equal”, yet these same white men who cried out for equality and freedom from persecution owned Black people as slaves and participated in calculated genocidal tactics against the Black race. In addition, only white men wrote the Constitution. A Constitution written by only white men will never serve the interests of Black people. The Constitution was written for the ruling class of white men which constructed whiteness to be more valuable than any other race. When we discuss institutional racism, it is essential that we realize that the Constitution created it. The Constitution as written provides limits on government, not on people. A government that limits people is a government that should be replaced with one that observes its own limits on its power. The Founders wrote the document that way, but subsequent governments and courts have decided to use their power to wreck any meaning the Constitution has, and destroy any benefit that may derive from limited government. That is not the fault of the Founders, but of the current society, which is Godless and without direction. The Constitution has created a system of governance that has been executing Black people everyday. From slavery, to sharecropping, to debt peonage, to chain gangs, to gentrification, to the for-profit prison industry that is upheld through the 13th amendment. From Emmett Till, to the four little girls, to Mike Brown, to Rekia Boyd, to Maya Hall, to the Charleston nine, and to Sandra Bland. America has not protected us. On the contrary, it seeks to destroy our very own humanity. We live in a society that is not safe for us. And as the Declaration of Independence says: The courts and the law as constituted is responsible for the civil rights mess this great nation finds itself it. The specific enjoining as to the loss of life or liberty are part and parcel of the Constitution. Ignore the role of government in taking life and property, and you can the blame at how laws are interpreted. In order for this to be an honest discussion on the limits of government, you must first admit black folks have a problem with each other far more than white folks have with black folks. I have yet to see that discussion. whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness Do we not have the right to abolish the laws that oppress us? It is time to claim the Declaration of Independence and apply it to our struggle as colonized Black people in America. The United States has failed us; it is time we demand a new constitution or tell America that she will get the bullet. White supremacy’s bullets are killing Black people every day. If America does not protect us, then it is our human right to defend ourselves by any means necessary. It is our human right to overthrow a government that has been destructive to our people. This is why we must rise up and let all people come together and write new constitution to serve ALL people. The tag 'white supremacy' is so twisted by today's press it has little real meaning. There's a saying in the south right now: If five Ku Klux Klansmen are meeting on a given day, at least three members will be federal snitches. Your problem is with a bloated government coming for more blood and treasure for itself at the expense of everyone who pays taxes, not with white people. The idea for a new constitution is not a new idea, rather an old one that was developed by the Black Panther Party. In 1970, the Black Panther Party organized a Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention, however, after infiltration by the illegal COINTELPRO the idea never came into fruition. We must pick up where the Black Panthers left off and declare a new constitution or it will be the bullet. You sound like you want a Marxist state. We currently are as far along that road as we have ever been, and yet you want more. You want a Marxist state with whites as slaves to satisfy your lust for revenge and power. 100 million gun owners have other ideas about your goals, and if you keep pressing, about your very future. If America truly wants to be a nation that values the lives of all people, it has one option, and the option is a National Constitution Convention. This is the last hope America has to become whole. If America fails to allow all people of this nation to write a new constitution, then it will be the bullet. Revolution is inevitable in a society that does not value the lives of all people. The mask slips. Let the bells of freedom ring… In struggle, -Blake |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #5 "... or the bullet" Is she offering to commit suicide? |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2015-10-08 16:58 |
| #4 People like her used to emigrate to Soviet Union. Alas... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-10-08 15:55 |
| #3 Wonder what she does for a living and what she buys with her EBT card? Where is that going to come from if white America is gone? Be careful what you wish for dummy! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2015-10-08 12:38 |
| #2 I'll see your bullet and raise you a well regulated militia that is heavily armed. Your move, bitch. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-10-08 11:09 |
| #1 We don't need a new Constitution. We need to obey the one we have. Of course, I would like to see the U.S. live within our means and set forth limits on how long the political class (Congresscritters) can serve (or help themselves at the trough). The present Constitution, if followed, would prevent SCOTUS from making up the law as it goes along. The 10th Amendment sets out the duties of the States. However, the Feds have usurped much of that. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-10-08 08:15 |