Thousands mourn Michael Brown: [Singing & Putting Your Hands Up in the Air will Not Stop White Supremacy]

The Black Fear of Confronting White Supremacy From [HERE] Hundreds of people gathered Monday to pay their final respects to Michael Brown, the black 18-year-old who was shot and killed by a white Ferguson, Missouri, race soldier earlier this month. The ceremony was accompanied by calm on the streets of Ferguson — contrasting with the turmoil in the aftermath his death. [MORE]

"The total Black collective in the U.S. has yet to confront consciously the "mind-blowing" logic and thought-distorting shock and fear that set in following the assassinations of practically all courageous Black male leaders: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, Medgar Evers and Fred Hampton. Since all of these deliberate deaths have occurred, there has been aprofound disinclination by surviving Blacks to confront the awesome and murderous reality of white supremacy directly. The struggle for justice and true Black power now is perceived "through a glass darkly" and not face-to-face because there is overwhelming fear. In spite of their super­ficial differences, the various analyses of the Black problem by the afforementioned men, if carried through to their ultimate implications, all lead ultimately to an eventual neutralization of white power control. 

Since the demise of these Black men, who all were aware of the necessity to resist and destroy white supremacy, the remaining rhetoric coming from our Black collective is consistent withsubmission to and/or cooperation withthe racist oppressive dynamic - albeit with an historical and continuing chorus of complaints. This behavior of submission to and cooperation with white supremacy is consistent with the illusion that there can be a complete integration of non-whites into the white supremacy system. In contrast to these modes of thought and action, the Black men cited above are examples of resistance to and destruction of white supremacy as an absolute form of injustice. These latter forms of behavior require high levels of self- and group-respect and can be sustained onlywhen there is the willingness to give one's life for the achievement of justice, as each of these men demonstrated." [MORE]