Marcus J's 50 Year Theory

What's good everybody? As stated in my most recent post, I'm back on my game. Studying history, science, religion, the universe and all it entails, and once again making my opinion and thoughts known to the world.

So I know you see the title and you're probably like, "Oh, so now this nigga makin' theories??" Well, indeed I am. And as always, if you have anything to respectfully say to it, please leave a comment and we can discuss. I respect all open thought as long as it is respectful and well thought out, as all of my posts are.

So some back ground on this new theory that I've been coming up with for the past couple of months. It began as I took a trip to my hometown of Dayton. I'm riding through my neighborhood and it seems that all I see is beat down houses, closed businesses, and men and women who look defeated. Yes, defeated is the only explanation that I could use to describe the looks in their eyes. So I begin thinking, as I usually do, why is life like this for us? (It's my hometown, a neighborhood I've lived in since I was 3 so yes I will be saying us, even though I was blessed to make it out) Haven't any of the people here just stopped and thought about the power that lies in numbers? (I'll have anothe post about the power in numbers so I won't go ham right now)

So through all this thinking I think of all of the research I've done on the Black Inferiority Complex and African-American propoganda and how we are taught to hate ourselves from birth, basically, through the American system. (This is a point where I don't really care about your opinions, this is damn near factual) But the thing is, it's not just blacks. It's whites, hispanics, any type of immigrant who is living in poverty. Well shit, any person living in poverty basically. Whatever.

So this led me to thinking about organizing our communities, right? I thought, "Why do we not just organize as a people and demand changes? Nobody enjoys living like this..." This led me to researching "Social Reforms" and revolutionaries, right? And this was the basis of my theory.

Let's take it back to slavery. There were major slave rebellions like every 30-40 years around the world, but that's because the oppressor was physical and apparent so I will start with the American Civil War. The 1860's, full of steps forward for the USA right? Emmancipation Proclomation in 1863 (not sure about that date, but pretty sure) aboloshing slavery from the Union. Abe Lincoln fuckin' shit up "fighting for blacks" (Even though I believe he was just as racist as the next man, he just might've realized it was morally wrong to OWN another soul... or maybe he started the whole thing trying to get votes from the North and purposefully created a rift in the nation, look up the different theories they're actually crazy.. lol digress though) Point being, the 1860's had many things from American black's to be proud about....... Until the nation began to restructure itself with institutional slavery....

So just like that my theory begins, right? I know I haven't said my theory explicitly but hang in there, you'll figure it out. SOOOO, institutionalized slavery. Make niggas free, but poor as shit and dependent on their rich white slave masters to survive and do the work for what may have been cheaper then the slave trades anyways, right? But TELLING these black people they were free was good enough for them, because they had the HOPE of becoming more than slaves someday.... And this is just speaking for America, all types of bullshit was happening in Africa too and the colonization of the kingdoms and blah blah, but I'll focus on America because I'm not too knowledgeable about the African history...

Well about 50 years passes right? And it seems that a whole generation of people begin to realize.... Hold up... We're still just as dependent on the white men as we were when we were slaves... Now remember, some blacks had already been rich through a lot of things, there was a Upper Black Class, if that's what you want to call it, but the majority of blacks were still dirt poor and dependent on white men's crops and corporations. So, the leader emerges, right?

Man by the name of Marcus Garvey starts an organizaion called the UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) and rallies this generation. Does everything for black people, but actually nothing at the same time right? He was just the ultimate visionary. Travels across America and gives speeches to black crowds. Telling them that they are a powerful people and when united they can conquer all. I'm not gonna do a whole history lesson but Marcus Garvey was that nigga man, held it tf down. Unites blacks across the world, starts a newspaper that was published throughout Africa and Europe and plans to unite Negroes across the globe. And WOULD HAVE done it, but this fuck boy named J. Edgar Hoover, "American Hero", starts this project called CointelPro. Remember this for later. Hoover basically implanted agents in the UNIA to disrupt everything and cause the organization to fall to shit, causing it to go bankrupt, all plans to fail, and Marcus Garvey to go to jail and catch a sickness which led to his death. Score 1-0, THE MAN.

Forgot to mention the UNIA was founded in 1914, about 50 years after the end of the American Civil War. So although the UNIA was disrupted in the major plans, it showed the government that minorities could rally together for a cause. They gained small things, you know, a small say in things here and there and it was enough to satisfy that generation because, again, it was more than what they started with. Were they still equal? The WHITE ONLY signs on the doors could dispell that immediatly. That's extra fucked up btw, but I digress.

So what's 1914+50? 1964, right? except it happened a little bit early this time. But although I will talk about the Civil Rights Movement, I don't plan to dwell to much on Dr. King. Mind you he was a fearless leader, who CointelPro also had hands in his assassination, but he was just one man. And he was an older, wiser man. Who I will talk about who came to power to rally the black nation is the Black Panther Party. We all know who the Black Panther Party was, and what they did, but little do people know their ages. They were college students for the most part. Shit, Fred Hampton went to jail when he was like 18/19 and was assassinated when he was only 21. Another operation by the government, but I digress. The Black Panther Party were a group of people, led by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, who were conscious of the opressor against their people, their neighborhoods, their families, right? They were people who saw the nation for what it was and demanded a change. But, like I said this isn't a history lesson.

So, let's jump 50 years from the 1960's, since most progressive black activists groups lost power before the 1970's, thanks again to CointelPro, I'm tellin you man look up the operation it's crazy! Some say it even had Tupac murdered just for the simple fact that he was unifying gangs across the nation with his Thug Life brand, but they got to him before he changed his rap career to revolutionary.. digress again.

So my theory is, that our generation must take our stand against the evils that are taking place in our country. Every 50 years, it has been placed on the generation that was far enough removed to be conscious of the systematic trials that they are placed in. If you are one of the people that think it's not that bad anymore, then you're clearly not who I'm talking to at this point in my life, because you're living in ignorance and I'm sure it's blissful. For those of you who have been stopped and frisked, who have had cops pull guns on you and your friends, who have been recepients of systematic racism in any realm, YES I am talking to you.

And all the signs have been there, man. Trayvon Martin and the disgusting shit white people did after the trial (Reference the black face paint they did for Halloween and thought it was funny) to the uncharted unemployment for black males in this country, or at that matter the unemployment in inner cities in general, or just how America still continues to fight wars over seas looking for more dirty money instead of investing in our communities which are struggling. Man, if you don't see the need for change get out the fuckin way cuz clearly you're blind. I digress.

I know this post is getting long and y'all might be getting tired of it so I'll wrap it up here soon, but just know it is upon our generation to begin making requests. We are living in a generation where kids don't know who Fred Hampton is but they know Chief Keef, they don't know Huey Newton but they damn sure know some fuck nigga off of one of those reality shows. It is our obligation to educate ourselves on the past in order to oragnize the people and begin making changes, because I fear that if something does not happen within the next decade, it might be too late and there is no coming back.

We cannot just let our culture and society slip into a dark ages where niggas are stuck at the bottom of the totem pole, with no ambition and no liberation. We need to realize how dependent we are on the rich white corporation owners and rally against them. So explicitly, I believe, my theory is, that every 50 years there is a shift in the universe as we know it. The oppressed people of the world are able to focus their anger and agression to people other than their own people, and turn it into a progressive movement. We saw it with the Arab Spring, we saw it across the globe, but yet as African-Americans we are still complacent. As lower class Americans we continue to slave to the richest people in America who run the corporations and spend money that could rebuild cities on mansions and speedboats.

It's up to our generation to become aware, and make a change.

Feel free to comment if you would like to discuss anything or have a different, respectful point of view.

As always, these are just my thoughts...

Marcus J.