Thursday, November 01, 2007

Will the Black Struggle be Televised?

Blacks are living during a period of remote control and we are clueless. We can be turned on and we can be turned off. Remember Shopping for Justice? Remember Jena, LA on September 20? Remember Genarlow Wilson? How about the five boys in the Douglasville 6 who are still behind bars? The hits keep on coming while we are sliding into oblivion.
Despite all of these peaks and valleys, the struggle in Tawana Brawley still continues. A group of people showed that all Blacks have not lost their minds. The media want to report, on the twentieth anniversary of the kidnapping and rape of Tawana Brawley, that all Blacks are sound asleep and are suffering from amnesia.
When the media reports the next victim of white supremacy, it would be wise that all Blacks remain in their foxholes instead of selecting a day of protest and making it a media event. The last great media day was September 20 and, today, the Jena 6 is fending for itself. The next court date is November 7. Mychal Bell is doing eighteen months on a bogus charge and he must face a second trial despite the prohibition against double jeopardy.
If this had been the Vietnamese, they would still be engaged in a protracted struggle. Anyone who says that any Revolution in the Black community will not be televised is lying. If there are no cameras, there will be no staged resistance.
The media is currently engaged in a manhunt to see if anyone remembers Tawana Brawley. The Establishment has doled out enough money to have applied white-out to it. The lesson to be learned though is that all Blacks are not prostitutes. Some people mean what they say and say what they mean. They will never start a fight that they will not finish.
United African Movement will celebrate all of those persons who were or have been involved in the most infamous case in U.S. history. There will be a journal and we hope that you will make a statement by purchasing an ad to commemorate a person, in transition or alive, who has contributed to the Brawley struggle. This case has separated the men from the boys and the women from the girls.
All ads must be submitted with payment by November 21. This will be a commemorative journal. It should be available to display to future generations. We must teach lessons of struggle to Black children. On November 28, there will de a documentary in addition to artistic performances, among other things, to honor a protracted struggle. For further information, call UAM at 718-834-9034.

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