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Not all Trayvon Martins are dead nor all of Mandela was freed

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Alred C. Frett. Photo: VINO/File
By Alred C. Frett

Teaching us to hate ourselves:

Recent news has been dominated by the Trayvon Martin murder case and Nelson Mandela’s hospitalization with every news medium and talking head contributing their personal spin and opinion… While each may range from absurdity to validity, the underlying theme has been the ‘Effects and Social Linkage between Injustice and Racism on the Descendants of Slaves’.

While it is good that Mandela lived a long and productive life, the injustice that landed him in prison wasted the greater part of his life and was designed to shackle and break his body and mind – He survived prison bars and became ruler of those who once ruled him but the lasting effects of TB caught in prison never set him free and still appears intent on taking him to the grave.

His ordeal began long before many of you were born and while there have been many like him before, at present and still to come, what we now see is a danger to the fulfillment of his dreams and legacies as well as those of others like Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael… Indeed, nothing will change until and unless we prepare this and generations to come for better tomorrows.

The tragedy of Trayvon Martin and others like him is clear evidence of a growing inability to differentiate right from wrong… Consequently, our youth are becoming stuck in a world of decadence, misled and corrupted by menopausal women and viagral men who preach love but practice hate so that old rulers can start wars but avoid fighting real battles.

We are called on to pay for whatever leaders chose to call freedom or in the national interest and misleaders & deceivers have been so good at fooling us that we are easily influenced into realigning our values… As a result, even the young who simply want to make love become caught up in fighting someone else’s battles and paying the ultimate price with their loss of lives.

As descendants of slaves, we have been so conditioned by the laws and religions of  slave masters that we are now the most negatively profiled, disenfranchised and stigmatized of all peoples and the least likely to be rewarded and respected… While it is natural for birds of a feather to flock together, we have become well conditioned not to support or trust our own.

Why Trayvon – Why?:

We remain far too quick to accept our lot as victims… No wonder we watch the weeping, wailing and rallies for Trayvon Martin without realizing that not all Trayvons die from the white man’s bullets… Many are gunned down by their own brothers and sisters and many more, who are alive, still suffer badly from the wounds of racism, injustice, corruption and greed.

By chasing after faith, we allow justice to elude us and by placing everything in the hands of Gods we cannot even reason how an all-woman jury could have so little compassion for Trayvon…

Maybe we should seriously consider the following points:… #1 – Is it reasonable to regard six women as being the peers of a gun-toting white man and a dead black teenager?.

#2 – You may recall from the story of King Solomon that while no mother wishes to see her own child harmed some mothers won’t hesitate to sacrifice the child of another. And, #3- Jurors are not required to be trained in law which makes it inherently accepted that their court decisions would be closely linked to their emotional state of mind as generated by the trial.

#4- If we consider that these women were over 90% white and another socio-historical reality is that, not so long ago a Black man could be shot dead or lunched just for watching a white woman then we must realize that this persisting manufactured fear could make many white women see black males as threats – consequently, why defend a perceived enemy?

Our race continues to suffer from an intellectual and physical shortage of male role models simply because social monkeys have relegated our children to the occupancy of prisons and graveyards… If you do a little research, you may be surprised to learn the gender of black judges and magistrates who have sent the vast majority of young black brothers to prison.

Is your Son another Trayvon Martin?

As a Caribbean/West Indian people of predominant African slave heritage, our history has been so molded by religion and self-hate that our colonial past is never really past and will never pass as long as we have public prosecutors but no public defenders and our governors, deputy governors, civil servants, police force, courts and prisons remain under foreign control.

This recipe for modern colonialism exposes our youth to social racism such that even our celebration of Emancipation is a mere mockery with more pretence than substance… Just like days of old, their systems ensure governors and deputy governors will sell us, civil servants will spy on and betray us, police will arrest us, courts will sentence us and prisons will lock us up.

Just like Trayvon’s parents, many have become trapped in no-win situations where children are intelligent enough to recognize right from wrong but they are ‘damned if they do and dammed if they don’t’… Their testosterone influenced knee-jerk reaction is then dubbed as criminal or insane thus giving the system’s predators greater excuse for the destruction of our youth.

Being silent in the face of injustice is never a solution and the recent release of Sistah Joyce may have many excuses but those of you who spoke out should realize you made a good difference… We all welcome justice but it is never easy when a son, daughter, sister, brother, father or mother is forced to suffer from verdicts of magistrates and judges with slave masters agendas.

PS:… I will continue addressing some of your Questions & Comments on Live BVP Radio Programmes   

6 Responses to “Not all Trayvon Martins are dead nor all of Mandela was freed”

  • vvv (31/07/2013, 17:32) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    talk about our own trayvon martin with this racist man
  • yellow (01/08/2013, 15:04) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    another good piece brother
  • xxxxxxxx (01/08/2013, 19:34) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    hope the Federalis aint playin on martins' verdick
  • next (03/08/2013, 13:37) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
    AC Frett always complaining of something
  • @ next (03/08/2013, 20:27) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    It is usual for people to be penitent in the twilight years after much damage is previously done. Sometimes it comes a little too late as the damage is irreparable!
  • Billfargo (04/08/2013, 01:17) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Too much Truth!


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