Is this what it has come to? Have we racialized everything to the point where even revolution has become a divisive palette? When you start talking about the fact that black people are usually the ones caught on camera looting while white people in board rooms who loot while there are no cameras on are largely ignored by the media who shapes our viewpoints there are many factors to that argument which go far beyond race.

You're talking about economics, legal umbrellas, cultural identities and, ultimately, you are talking about individual morality and the choices we make.

See, I had a brilliant professor in college who did his PhD thesis on revolution versus rebellion and the thesis statement basically ran like this: A rebellion is a violent backlash against the dominant paradigm and culture that spring from it while a revolution is a complete overthrow of that paradigm followed by a replacement of it with a new paradigm.

So, the LA riots and the '68 country-wide riots following the assasination of Dr. King were rebellions and what happened on the middle East Coast of the North American continent in 1776, France in 1789, and Moscow in 1917 were revolutions.

It's no accident that the rebellions described above began and were largely carried out by people of color and that the revolutions began, middled, and ended with the alabaster bastards as they are referred to in most college universities (except of course the Bolsheviks--they were right according to many college professors despite the fact that well over 100 million have died through war, torture, and starvation from communism).

Let's put on our BDP hats, dark gangster shades, and make our best KRS-One face as we say, "Why is that?"

According to the popular history of today, it's because white people created the dominant culture, seized control of the world's natural resources, and therefore had the access to change the paradigm that governed the system of theft and brutality called private property; while people of color, except the Muslim civilization before the crusades destroyed their culture of "peace and enlightenment," were lords of savage kingdoms. This means they didn't live according to Western Aristotelian standards (A is not Not A) and didn't necessarily see the earth divided into plot squares on a map.

According to this version of history, following the invention of agriculture, white people were the first to claim land under individual ownership and this one act set a history in motion that ultimately led to the subjugation of peoples of color under the thumb of European white males whose lower classes migrated to the New World and eventually overthrew the shackles of their white masters (through revolution) and continued a social structure that maintained the subjugation of people of color without whom it would not have been possible to maintain.

But two words and one bold Republican changed all that. The words were All Men (meaning humans) and the bold Republican was Abraham Lincoln who sent troops into battle to preserve the Federal union just as it was, slavery and all, but who eventually realized that the war could not be won until it became based on the complete human freedom those two little words promised.

Hence Republicans became liberators of one particular group of people of color. But honky Democrats revolted against the loss of their culture and their former subjugated property by instituting laws that kept them sub-human even though they were now free to own property and choose their own last names. It took a hundred years and more honky Democrats turning fire hoses and sicking German Shepherds on people of color before a Republican President sent the National Guard in to secure equal access to the opportunity of people of color to pursue their own happiness because they were human beings and not chattel.

But one ignorant Republican didn't respond to one person of color's letter from a Birmingham jail while his young and handsome Democratic opponent did and suddenly the tables were turned on who did what for whom.

But tragically, equal access wasn't enough. There had to be reparations or shit was gonna burn. And so it did...

And this brings us to the crux of the matter--people of color being indoctrinated to think of their race before they think of their individuality; to define themselves in terms of the historical crimes committed against their ancestors before they consider what makes them happy as individuals and how their talents, skills, and desires could make the human beings around them happier and raise the living standard of the rest of the world. Through half-witted revisionist history and feel-good political correctness backed up with finger-pointing blame, they are taught the politics of hate before they are shown the spirit of brotherly love.

They are taught to hate any Republican who needs sunblock that even dares to enter the oval office despite the fact that it was Republicans who opened the doors of access to people of color every historical step of the way from slaves to soldiers to protestors to looters to full and proud citizens of this United States that would never have made it for two hundred and twenty-nine years without their direct help in building and steering away from the most jagged of rocks.

This is the world we have created together and some of our ancestors were the Queen of Diamonds and some were the two of spades but every card was played to get us to the hand we've each been dealt today.

But the game of racial Euchre must ultimately end and it won't until every human being realizes that they are but one suit in the full deck of cards and that there are no real trump cards before the eyes of the judge of men's souls. And that no amount of suffering dignifies one human being over another because at the finale of it all, when the heart is weighed in the balance against the feather, if the scale tips toward the heart--the crocodile's jaws will snap and eat your everloving soul (read up on your Egyptian mythology if this sounds a bit queer).

In conclusion, history has proven that people who spent many evolutionary cycles in the sunshine of sun-soaked continents and developed the melanocytes to survive have historically been in a cultural position only to smash shit and destroy when they react against tyranny but have always fallen right back into the old paradigm waiting for the next chance to pick up bigger bricks.

While people who spent too much time in the snowy caves of the northern hemisphere and who staked their claims by divine right and who invaded the lands of and enslaved the melanocyte hoarders, traditionally have had the access, the knowledge, and the ability to completely overthrow the paradigms of tyrannies to replace them with better working tyrannies.

And while the cameras are there more often to catch the people of color looting and not there to catch the ones who catch skin cancer easier, the fact is that each of these individuals who picked up a brick or short-funded a pension plan did so as a personal choice and should be held accountable on that basis and on that basis alone.

We are each responsible for the feelings we feel, the thoughts we think, the conclusions we make, and the actions we take. And the looters who stayed behind to rob and pillage, only to find their lungs filling with filthy hurricane water, deserved to drown and we're better off in their absence, whatever color they were. Too many good and innocent people died trying to save their families and neighbors to waste any more time talking about the dredge of society who have thankfully been removed from the gene pool as a result of their greed and ignorance.

Weep for those who made choices from the heart to save others, not for those who were wronged my mislabeling.

We will never move to the next phase of social evolution until both sides are willing to finally lay down their cultural identities to embrace the identity of the future--which is humanity exploring the mysteries of space, both inner and outer, together in relative harmony.

Of course...don't try to take my piece of pie or you might catch a steel jacket thank you for your trouble.

Update: The AFP writer who started the whole Racism in Looting debacle defends his white people "finding food" caption. Hat tip to Fark.

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