Dear Media Outlets,
As a Black Nationalist , I am outraged over the co-opting of the murder of Breonna Taylor by white vandals and anarchists. Both the mayors of Raleigh and Durham NC have said that the people responsible for the destruction in the respective cities were white. This is very disturbing because many white Americans, especially conservatives are quick to point out the black violence in places like Chicago and even Durham, but refuse to criticize the faux black rage in whiteface in the Triangle parading under the banner of racial justice. They are quick to condemn black violence but what about the white violence? There is a double standard at play and the the white anarchists are benefiting from the same white privilege that allows white officers to murder Black men and women under the system of white supremacy.
There is a history of white people and corporations exploiting black pain and suffering going back to the Scottsboro Case of the 1930’s , to the Civil Rights Movement and even the Hip Hop era where white fans and corporations defunded socially conscious rap and replaced it with gangsta rap turning black homicide into a multi=billion dollar business.
To be very clear, this is not an argument over tactics .as I believe as Malcolm X said, justice should be obtained ‘by any means necessary, however, as someone who fights Black political and economic power, I cannot quietly sit back and watch the work of my ancestors be disrespected by white opportunists.
If the white community wants to do something productive, they should go into the white community and advocate that reparations are paid to Africans Americans for the 400 plus years of slavery and oppression.
Other than that, it is up to black people to solve black problems and not wait for a white savior to come save us.
As, Frederick Douglas once said “ “the man who suffered the wrong is the man to demand redress.”
Minister Paul Scott, founder
Black Messiah Movement
Durham NC
(919) 972-8305
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