By Abdul Jabbar
Caliph
Historically, the African working
class movement has always had to struggle against the destructive effects of
colonialism. From the very first moment that we were kidnapped and forced into
slavery we have struggled to liberated ourselves and now once again we in the
Pan-African International Coordinating Committee (PICC) are calling on the
Pan-African Liberation Movement (PALM) to step forward and take charge in
ridding ourselves of this horrible legacy that has left our communities on the
brink of destruction.
All across the nation the
colonized African working class community is forced to seek cover in their own
houses because of the harsh legacy of domestic colonization and being trapped
in cities that are under the indirect control of Neo-colonialist. It is
important that we understand that the issue of horizontal violence
(Black-on-Black violence) is counter-revolutionary, that it is a part of the
counterinsurgency tactics that United States government uses to wage
low-intensity-warfare inside of our community.
Here in Baltimore, Maryland we
realize that the majority of murders committed in this city, a city that is
predominately African and working class, are the direct result of the lack of
leadership displayed by the current administration, and the administrations
before it. It is this mis-leadership that refuses to represent the majority of
its’ citizens: the African working class. They have proven to be
counterrevolutionary and aligned themselves with white capitalist who keep us
divided, that rob and murder us daily.
It is this counterrevolutionary
attitude that has hindered the advancement of any serious revolutionary
formation being established in this city. Many of the residents in this city have
remained somewhat loyal to the very same corrupt administration that takes advantage
of them daily. They think that the only way that they can make any serious
advancement is by adopting the policy of the capitalist: political oppression
and economical exploitation (murder and mayhem) followed by selling drugs. It
is this policy that had led to the vast increase of murders inside of our
communities, not just here in the state of Maryland but also throughout all out
our domestically colonized communities.
Here recently we have experienced
a sharp increase in the number of murders inside of our communities, incidents
that would usually shock us, but that we have begun to accept as normal. They
have become business as usual. No outrage, no shock, only limited responses.
This is how you know that you are a colonized people when you no longer value
human life especially your own. Our children are murdered and many of us sit by
saying and doing nothing.
Just this past week we witnessed
three murders and all people did was hold candlelight vigils. The first one was
the murder of a five year old little girl by her alleged father. She was found
dead in the bath tub beaten to death and sexually assaulted. The second one was
the a young man, alleged to be involved in the drug game, found shot to death
in Lincoln Park, a notorious dumping grounds for dead bodies. Now we discover
the death of a young thirteen year old. It is this girl’s death that one would think
would thing that the residents of this city would be outraged over.
On Saturday, March 3, 2012 we learned
the death of thirteen year old Monae Turnage. Killed I believe accidental by
two African working class children ages twelve and thirteen firing a
.22-caliber rifle in the city limits. After the death of this little girl they
attempted to cover up the fact that they had killed her by moving her dead body
to another location and covering her up with trash. The body was later
discovered by someone in her family. Both children were locked up as juveniles
and placed in a juvenile detention center on charges of juvenile involuntary
manslaughter.
The kicker to this whole incident
is that one of the children’s mother’s boyfriends, a Baltimore City Police
Officer named John A. Ward, thirty-two year old, four-year veteran of the PIGS;
a par-military colonial standing occupying army has had charges brought up
against him for the allegations of trying to cover up the murder. The weapon
that was used in this murder was discovered in the trunk of his personal
vehicle.
This isn’t something new. The
PIGS here are always involved in criminal activity. Last year the PIGS were
involved in two major incidents. The
first one was in conducting drug sells in the parking lot of Northwestern
Police stations parking lot. The second one was in taking kickbacks from a tow
truck company. The Mayor of Baltimore City, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has called
the behavior in this case “disgusting”.
The real disgusting thing is that
his involvement in the case only got him a suspension and that the Mayor
refused to fire him or lock him up. The real disgusting thing is in the way the
case was handled, the African working class community deserves better and needs
to organize itself politically in order to achieve the democratic space that
they need in order to fight back. Only through this path will we be able to
break free of Capitalism a rotten, oppressive and exploitive, inhuman system
that drains the lives out of its victims.
Our children deserve more than
candlelight vigils they deserve justice and in order to combat this colonialist
legacy of horizontal violence we must begin to institute a cultural revolution
which stress the need for a new moral vision inside of our domestically
colonized community. This vision must encompass the revolutionary theory and
practices of liberation for the African working class and the establishment of
true power under the leadership of the African working class.
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