2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)I'm Black. Old Blacks have failed us. It's time for Young Blacks to make our stand on Super Tuesday [View all]
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South Carolina is a disappointment.
Now I fully realize why our community is depressed & demoralized.
Why nothing changes with the internal self-destruction where we're killing ourselves & the external destruction at the hands of "law enforcement".
I never really put it together this way until now.
Our elders are tired. They don't have the vigor to fight anymore.
They're too scared to make a revolution anymore.
All they wanna do is make a celebratory march referencing the past or wait for Jesus to save them while they tithe in church.
The enemy within is not just the street gangs.
It's our older generation.
It's not because of malice. It's just because of habit.
But the result is the same.
We go NOWHERE & STILL get the worst end of the stick in this society.
Hillary does the Nae-Nae & plays Church Lady & they fall for it.
All that image & fluff is good enough nowadays it seems.
Hillary has sold & will continue to sell us down the river after she does that little song & dance for our vote.
After she does her little performance, Blacks might as well get lost.
John Lewis will always be a hero to me.
You can NEVER take away what he did in the Movement.
That is FOREVER.
But no longer will I be starstruck by even those who took the blows to get us a better life in this country.
No longer will I bow down out of respect for the past.
John Lewis sold Bernie Sanders down the river to pay back some favors for the Clintons.
John Lewis KNOWS Bernie Sanders & he KNEW Bernie Sanders in 1963.
How did he? Well damn Bernie Sanders was a member of John Lewis' Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, that's how.
I don't know how he could miss him.
They're both towards the front & on both sides of Martin & Coretta.
I bet you didn't see Hillary marching. You damn sure didn't see Bubba from Arkansas!
You didn't meet those Clintons until the 1990s but all of a sudden you're out here lying as if the Clintons were fighting for the rights & Bernie was not.
And because of you & James Clyburns' bullshit, South Carolina Blacks followed your lead based on that respect I mentioned.
You're a Civil Rights star & they got struck.
You got the reputation so when you speak people listen.
If only you spoke the truth at that press conference.
You live long enough, you'll see your heroes become villains. Yeah, that's how the saying goes.
So be it.
The old generation is DONE.
It's time for the ones who are labeled Generation X & the Millennials to Right the old Blacks' Wrongs.
While they're getting their knowledge from the controlled TV media & newspaper media, we'll be getting our knowledge from the open Internet.
We're gonna see information in live time raw & unprocessed.
We're gonna spread the message in faster ways than the old generation EVER could.
THANK YOU Ashley Williams for EXPOSING Hillary Clinton at that Plantation.
Black Lives Matter Activist Interrupts Hillary Clinton [2/24/16] "I Am NOT A Superpredator"
Miss Ann showed her true colors when she wasn't prepped for her performance.
I didn't hear no phony Southern accents there.
I didn't see her bust the Nae-Nae.
I didn't see no church hands to the Lord here.
I know most of us don't vote anymore because we don't think it works.
But now we know one of the reasons why it doesn't work.
The old folks won't let it. Most of them anyway. Some are cool.
But most are just set in their ways. They're so used to scraps that they don't have the heart to get the big meal.
It's gonna work this time & we have to get out of our shellshocked apathy to MAKE it work.
We get apathetic to keep from going crazy with all this injustice.
That's why we tune out all that bad news.
But we gotta stop waiting on Jesus or Allah or whoever.
The Creator gave us the power to set our own paths.
No more time for being passive. It's time to be active.
We still got the vigor.
We still got the drive.
We're not tired yet.
All that energy I saw when Bree Newsome took down that goddamn Confederate flag in South Carolina!
All that energy I saw when Black Lives Matter bumrushed the show at a Bernie Sanders event.
But notice the difference.
When Black Lives Matter bumrushed Bernie, he gave 'em The MIC.
When Black Lives Matter bumrushed Hillary, she gave 'em The BOOT.
THAT'S your proof!
That's how you know he's on our side.
I see voting like playing the lottery.
Most times you ain't gonna win jack.
But every now & then you might just hit that big Powerball.
Bernie Sanders is the Powerball.
It's time to play your ticket.
If you REALLY want a chance, we are all gonna have to get behind Bernie Sanders.
He's not God, he's just a man. But he's a man who will live up to his advertising.
We'll get a better chance to get more done on our own right with him in office.
He will put that WD-40 on the machine & loosen it up enough for us to get out of the grind.
Once we're out of the grind, then we can make bigger & better moves on our own.
We're gonna have to outvote our elders.
Most of them are stuck. They can't see no other way.
They don't have the fight left in them anymore.
We cannot let another South Carolina happen or we are SCREWED!
Hillary can't beat Trump but Bernie can.
On Super Tuesday, we got to get out there & shift this race.
I'm gonna do my part in Southeast Georgia.
Hopefully Atlanta ain't as gullible as South Carolina.
Bernie Sanders MUST be the 45th President of the United States just for us to have a CHANCE.
So let's make that happen.
See you on Tuesday.
John Lucas