Self Respect, Self Defense, Self Determination

Martin Luther King, Jr. understood these concepts as well

There are now attacks on Black Liberation Theology. This is to go along with attacks on Critical Race Theory and the vicious assaults on the 1619 Project.

Anti-racism is under siege as well. Intersectionality. Woke or Wokeism has been co-opted and turned into whites attacking whites for being progressive on a lot of things.

Everything that speaks to African Americans differently is under siege. Ideas and important concepts for African Americans are being used daily by “some” white people with the typical bad intentions to score points, tweet lies, advance bogus, morally bankrupt ideas, and mostly, to keep things racially hostile and oppressive.

Everything that says, African Americans have a right to self-determination in these United States is under attack day by day.

We are Americans and every American has this same right but African Americans somehow are undeserving of freedom and self-determination and to think for themselves. A significant number of states have tried to ban these righteous ideas.

Here is what the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. (video link here and below) had to say about self-determination and self-respect:

Amen, right.

This is the Dr. King many white and Black Americans don’t like to talk about. This is Dr. King who had lost faith in America to do things via integration and by passing civil rights laws.

He knew racism, as an institutional system, like poverty, in America, was entrenched deep in the roots of America.

There had to be fundamental changes. There had to be new approaches in America to fix things. This is why we now have Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, Black Liberation Theology, the 1619 Project, Anti-racism programs, and other forward thinking ideas rooted in the quest for total freedom and self-determination in these United States.

African Americans get it, completely. It is on them to make the changes in thought and action to change their future. Haven’t we always done this?

And those who were happy with a system rooted in white male supremacy get it as well. They want no changes to the way things work. They were and are fine with the status quo. They have been happy and are happy with the legacy of 400 years of plunder. They are the most vocal people in keeping things as they are.

But our decisions in this struggle are ours and always have been. We will work with any Americans who understand the problem is bigger and more complex than many have been willing to admit.

We are a people who continue to become a people. We are human beings. Americans in fact and by law and also Africans, African Americans, and Black.

The struggle continues. We Get it. #AlutaContinua