Afrikan Centered Education is the Key To Ending Black on Black Violence

[TShango]

December 18, 2005

Black on Black Violence

By

T’Shango Mbilishaka

Bobby Wright, author of the Psychopathic Racial Personality stated, “Black people kill black people because they have never been taught to kill white people” What Bobby Wright was expressing was everyday black children are taught through television, movies, news, video games, and music it is good to kill “Niggers”. Our children have been conditioned to not only except horrendous living conditions, extreme violence, and dangerous sexual habits but they have been taught to glorify it and think that is part of our culture.

Black on Black violence can be explained by Black people who lack identity and strive for power by emulating the violent behaviors of their white oppressors. Dr. Amos Wilson explains, “His identity of lack thereof, is a reactionary creation, whether it be a caricature of the European middle- and ruling-classes, an imitation of life of ‘ordinary, law-abiding,’ ‘Church-going,’ God-fearing.’ ‘hard-working’ white folks, or pseudo-independent copycatting of Al Capone, ‘Scarface,’ or a thousand other White criminals, gangsters, and reprobates.”

Black people that kill other black people suffer from severe self-hatred taught to them through life experiences, school and media. A black male who hates themselves, who hates their father, who the first time they get a gun point it at the mirror at a reflection of themselves, have no problem killing people that look like them.

The Criminalization of the Black Community
(Excerpted from Black on Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-annihilation in Service of White Domination by Dr. Amos Wilson.)

A PARABLE: A man named John once owned a show dog who had won for his master many prizes, helped him to become wealthy, win the envy of his friends, and even helped to save his master’s life on a number of occasions. As the vicissitudes of capitalism would have it, there came a time when there was no longer any money in the show dog business. This situation changed Master John’s feelings toward his once prized possession. He could be heard often saying – “He is lazy, a good-for-nothing cur. All he wants to do is just lie around and eat-up my food. I wish he’d just go away.” Filled with hatred and resentment, Master John, by various cruel and ingenious means, drove his dog rabidly mad.

One day as fate would deign it, the mad dog attempted to attack its master. Master John felled him with a single shot from his elephant gun. Because there was a law against shooting dogs Master John was tried before a jury of his peers. Master John as represented by his lawyer pleaded self-defense – “It is cut and dried,” his lawyer exhorted! “The dog was mad and in his madness he sought to attack his master, who in self-defense shot him. His driving the dog mad and thus having precipitated the dog’s attack as argued by the prosecutor is irrelevant and immaterial! Has not a man the right of self-defense? Besides, he was only a dog prone by dog nature to go mad. Had he not been a dog he would not have been driven mad in the first place! For, if his master had not shot him the dog would have lived to attack one of us, our wives, our elders, our fair-haired little children. What does it matter how he became mad? What does it matter if one mad dog is no longer disturbing the peace and posing a threat to law and order? Master John did the world a favor. For we should honor him, not persecute him.” The jury of his peers found him not guilty.
Thus began the strange career of Master John whose single—minded purpose in life became that of breeding mad dogs and executing them in self-defense. He thereby gained great reputation and honored status among his neighbors who he protected from mad dogs running loose in the streets. He became an expert at breeding, apprehending, and executing mad dogs. To increase yield and therewith his remuneration - for this was by now a very lucrative business – he penned his trained mad dogs in with the not-so-mad dogs, many of whom themselves became mad and in escaping their confines, threatened the peace. Mad dogs were everywhere. The neighbors in their fear and terror became incapable of distinguishing the mad dogs from the not-so-mad dogs. All dogs, even the ones who everyone thought were near-human – aroused their suspicion. Thus as a preventative measure the village was lamentably forced to liquidate all dogs, regardless of their social status or mental state. After all, a dog is a dog, is a dog. They even formed a society for the eradication of all dogs everywhere. That is why on a quiet night of the week you can no longer hear a single dog baying at the full moon in Canineville today. (Wilson 44)

Solutions to Black on Black violence require the masses of black people to understand the true causes of Black on Black crime as part and parcel of a plan of White supremacy. Once the black community does this they will stop seeking the people who are putting this plan into action for a solution. The police will never solve crime in Black neighborhoods. Most individual police officers will tell you they do not prevent crime. The National Crime and Victimization Survey, put out by the FBI, explains in detail that there is no correlation between the amount of Police officers and a decrease in crime. It also states there is no correlation between stiffer criminal penalties and a decrease in crime. It does show that black people receive harsher treatment in every part of the criminal justice system in comparison to their white counterparts.

We must have black solutions to black problems. Black people must police themselves. In the sixties it was made clear the police are in black neighborhoods to protect and serve the property which does not belong to black people. Essentially, a police presence is only necessary when the haves want to protect the wealth they have exploited from the have-nots.

Black people must patrol their own neighborhoods and solve their own problems and therefore create their own justice.

We must also create numerous programs that educate our children out of the ignorance of mis-education of self-hatred that is being taught to them daily in white-controlled schools that continue to teach white supremacist curricula. This curricula that describes all white people as perfect from Honest Abe to Woodrow Wilson and at the same time makes black peoples history begin in slavery and teaches a few other miscellaneous pieces of information about the same four black leaders. As Kwame Ture states, “Not only does American education make you stupid it makes you arrogant in your stupidity”

We need to teach our children how to combat racism and not to embrace the oppressor’s beliefs that we are only good at dancing, rapping and playing sports. We must teach our children what is necessary to create our own nation because if we do not we are not serious about liberation.

Our children need outlets in the community such as art programs, computer graphic programs, boxing, martial arts, and weight rooms that are ran by black people from the community for the community. Not over priced tracks and weight rooms that exclude based on age and cost of membership, who employ people who are scared of the costumers and the environment.

We must have a drastic change now or things will spiral further out of control. As Malcolm X said, “extreme situations require extreme solutions.”

Ready for Revolution,

T’Shango Mbilishaka

Reawakening the African Genius Mind

Presents

Solutions to Black on Black Violence:

Ending Black Self-annihilation in Service of White Domination

Inspired by Dr. Amos Wilson

Compiled by T’Shango Mbilishaka ©all rights reserved

Short Term Solutions
oPublic disapproval- Speaking out
oBlock watching
oPolice Deployment (there is no correlation between increase in police and a decrease in crime see the FBI’s NCVS, National Crime and Victimization Survey)
oTalking to the young men on the street
oViolence prevention programs
oStop the violence campaigns and marches
oCurfews
oGun Exchanges
oRoad Blocks
oPeer Appeals – Young people of the same age speak to the perpetrators

These are good but not final. Ultimately crime and violence represents a certain mentality composed of values and attitudes of a people who have been through a history of violence. We have learned this behavior from our violent oppressors for over 400 years. As Assatta Shakur stated, “We did not come here as gangsters we were brought here by gangsters.” We are imitation American gangsters. We are copying our violent oppressors, who have robbed, stolen, raped, murdered, and pillaged to obtain the land we are on and land around the world. As Malcolm X stated, “You and I are the living proof of these crimes.”

Violence represents a cultural orientation. For African people who have had much of their language, morals, religion, values, traditions, family responsibilities and culture taken away or distorted through white domination, the void of culture has been replaced by violent Americanisms taught by American media and schools. (ie: Materialism, rugged individualism, dog-eat-dog aggressive competition, exploitation, entitlement, etc)

(Notice the Black criminal must say N*%%@ to oppress and kill. This demonstrates his brainwashed condition as he imitates his European oppressor)

Violence represents what a European system desires to continue to make money and dominate.
It also represents an economic situation a people are placed in.

2^nd Term Solutions
nChange our values- Place importance not on material values (sneakers and cars) but on life
nConflict management training
nMentoring- Big brother/ Big Sister programs
nAfrican Rites of Passage programs that teach true womanhood and manhood.
nChange in social skills.
nIncrease employment for ourselves and our youth.
nIncrease academic skills- There is a relationship between reading and prison/ violence
nCommunity Policing – As done by the Deacons for Defense and the Black Panther Party
nChange the nature of the policing – Police undergo serious anti-racism training and screening by community members
nChange rap lyrics, video games, television shows and movie content
nCreate more after-school programs
nBusinesses adopt schools

Long Term Solutions- Fundamental/Most Important Solutions to Ending Black on Black violence

nWe must change the relationship of power between African people and other people ie: Europeans, Asians, Arabs, etc. As of now we do not own and control any means of production that would allow us to negotiate from a position of power we are economically dominated by others. We must remove power from those who continue to exploit us.
nWe must change the economic organization of America and the world- This economy is based on drug trafficking, imprisonment and the policing of those drugs. We do not own the gun factories, nor do we have the fields to grow the drugs, nor the airplanes to fly the drugs in yet drugs and guns flood our neighborhoods.
nWe must create our own Pan-African economic system where we trade with Africa, South America, and the Caribbean islands with Black people. Putting race first as other groups have done. This way we will create economic opportunities and provide ourselves and our youth with good careers.
nWe must act as a nation within a nation and be involved in international trade both exports and imports, international and domestic.
nAs a nation we must acknowledge that we are under attack. By the American government locking up Black men it is realistically destroying the Black family which is the foundation of the nation. Our families must be strengthened for our survival.
nWe must engage in and support African-centered education and educate our own children to solve our problems.
nWe must practice our own culture because history shows the Chinese were able to win the Opium Wars waged on them, by the Europeans, by using their culture to force drugs out of their communities
nWe must change American drug laws and the prison system, which is now a training camp for more violent behavior. (hundreds of thousands of Black men are released from prison who were either raped, raped someone or witnessed a rape)
nWe must build our own institutions to employ our own people and divert our youth from violent behaviors.
nLastly, we must understand the true systemic problem of White Supremacy/ racism and come to the realization that white supremacy affects us all, on all areas of people activity education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, sex, religion, war, ideals of beauty, jobs, housing, etc. This is a system designed to oppress us at all costs we must break away from this system and have our own system. Not just our own program nor institution but our own system.
Recommended Reading
Black on Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Self-Annihilation In Service of White Domination by Amos Wilson
The Real War on Crime by Steven Donziger
Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Young Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
Sankofa Movement: ReAfrikanization and the Reality of War by Akoto
The Maroon Within Us by Asa G. Hilliard