COLORED PEOPLE:
The STRIPES of Healing
Founding Statement:
This biweekly newsletter will seek to explain the pain and suffering mainly people of color endure through no fault of their own. The dehumanizing excuses our people always seem to elicit from people in power that make our Christian Brothers and Sisters accept their reasoning as if it was uttered by the Almighty. Lastly what I see with my own eyes begs the question from my conscience. “Are we loving or can we really love our neighbor as ourselves”.
Issue 37: Here, Take the Shoes and the Whip Also
Out In Black: 15
Written by: Victor E. Moseley
Email: [email protected]
Blue Sky: vemoseley17.bsky.social
First, I am not knocking my Brothers and Sisters of Spaniard Ancestry for wanting to cash in on their newly minted status as the ‘largest’ minority group in America. You’ve surpassed Black people. Good. Let me tell you something before you get too comfortable throwing your support behind Republicans. White Supremacy and White Privilege on steroids still exists in America. Well, that’s something you’re ‘finding out’ right now anyway. That was supposed to elicit a chuckle from you? Well anyway, Donald J. Trump has ordered the round up of people that look like you’re illegal in America. His policies are not supported by me.
Mr. Garcia should have your support my Brothers and Sisters of Spaniard Ancestry. Why? I don’t need to bring up all the examples of my people turning on each other. There is much recorded history for you to review when you have doubts it happened. The sense that Black people turned on each other knowing the ‘oppressors’ thought even less of them for doing it still vexes my mind.
Anyway, moving on. All the rights you enjoy I will say humbly this my Brothers and Sisters of Spaniard Ancestry; try to thank the Black and light skinned Brothers and Sisters of African Ancestry that took one for the team for you to have the rights all of you enjoy. Now, if you want to ‘earn’ them the way my people earned them I do have shoes on that I will gladly unlace for you to slip on.
I suggest you wear them. Why? Oh my God, you just don’t know what you have unleashed upon yourselves. Oh, by the way, here’s a whip I bought to keep me grounded in the facts of who it was and still do suffer unspeakable acts of cruelty for me to have my rights today. I still don’t have them fully mind you, but you would know that if you didn’t believe Black Folks were guilty as soon as you saw them accused of something right? Sound familiar?
Mr. Garcia is accused of being a wife beater. Mr. Garcia is accused of being a gang member. Mr. Garcia is labeled a criminal even though he does not have a criminal record. Where have you heard claims like these made in America? Oh, I remember. They are the go to mainstays of Legacy Media when they want to assist in the destruction of Black People. The Legacy Media of course being ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX NEWS, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORK TIMES and so on.
My Brothers and Sisters of Spaniard Ancestry do you really believe you will ever be White enough to be accepted by White Supremacy and White Privilege on steroids? True, as I’ve been instructed on that not every White person is racist, but too many White people stand idly by while injustice and vile cruelty is happening to everyone else. I’m going to tell you something that has helped me stay firmly on the side of what’s right.
Metaphorically, practice this or imagine being in a dark room at night with your eyes closed. That’s three things against you finding an exit out of there right? Now, imagine yourselves in the same room with all the lights on. Street lights shining through the cracks in your curtains and the exit sign is lit up like Christmas red. When evil presents itself to you it often comes after you in the ‘dark’. I don’t mean it being dark literally? I mean you have darkness covering your heart which unfortunately means that you will never have empathy or want justice for anybody. Proverbs 4:19.
I don’t want my Brothers and Sisters of Spaniard Ancestry to look down upon your distant kin that speak the same language you do. It may be a variant, but it is still your language. Don’t have an attitude of ‘I got it made and they (migrants) need to do it the same way I did through applying for entry into America’. Well, believe it not, the process might not be the best way for them to stay alive.
Let me tell you something that happened to me when I lived in Mobile, Alabama with my first wife. We had decided to move back to my home town of Birmingham. Well, I needed help loading the moving van. My Brothers and Sisters of Spaniard Ancestry lived above me in the apartment complex and I asked them for help. You know what happened? Without a millisecond wasted they said yes.
I told them I didn’t have much as I offered $10 dollars. They of course refused payment which of course again astonished me. I gave them the $10 spot anyway and thanked them profusely. I have many friends of Spaniard Ancestry and never considered them with anything but the utmost integrity.
My Brothers and Sisters of Spaniard Ancestry. Don’t take on the ways of the oppressors. White Supremacists don’t care if you voted Republican. Republicans right now aren’t saying anything about helping Mr. Garcia, who was adjudicated to stay in America legally by the way. Not a single word of empathy for Mr. Garcia or his wife or his children. Hatred is still hatred no matter what form it takes.
My Brothers and Sisters of Spaniard Ancestry, I implore you to be careful with whom you align your compass seeking direction, approval and peace from the threat of tyranny.
Black People from experience know that option is delusional.