The Cookout

I've been thinking a lot about how things were for me growing up without a Black media that actually informed us. Its wild to think how I got myself into so much trouble just because I didn't know the code of white supremacy. Is there any event or time period that you can think of growing up that would've gone down differently had you been aware of the Code? I read Malcolm X when I was 19, so by the time I was old enough to vote I knew better than to trust the democrats, but I think my biggest hindrance to my social and professional growth was in thinking it was "whites vs everyone else" instead of "blacks vs everyone else." I went to a liberal arts school and had a lot of international friends and just because they had melanin or looked like me, or weren't European that we saw the racist white man as our mutual irritant. Boy was I wrong, and it took me til 2016 to truly understand we had no allies. The energy I saw from liberal coworkers and (now) acquaintances for migrants and illegals when Trump put ICE on their asses had me feeling a certain type of way, because not once did I see that kind of energy for when cops were killing Black people. That was probably my first real "A HA!" moment. Back then I had just started listening to Tariq and wasn't even hip to TBA or PBT yet.

Jay said:

I always replay this moment back in my head of maybe 7/8 years ago. I was talking to a Mexican dude at a party and I said “Black and Brown need to work together” and he looked like:

I didn‘t realize at the time that they don‘t see White America as their enemy, they want to be White America. They as a culture see White people as Grand Zaddy so getting them to cooperate is like working with a divester bed wench.

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hahaha for real man. I can think of so many instances where I was surprised that foreign Blacks or non whites would go against us or side with whites and I couldn't understand why because they were "minorities like me"

I do remember in middle school being in class with an Indian cat who was cool, but the older we got the more racist he became. He told me even back then his parents told him not to hang out or walk home with any Black guys. Then later in high school he told me he was raised to be a white boy. I didn't get it then but I sure do now. WHen a latina woman would say she was white, I always acted like she was the one confused.

that is my biggest grievance man. We were taught to be submissive and hope to be equal to these folks when history shows that we are a special and unique people. EQUAL? to whom? Instead of my folks telling me "you're just as good as any white boy out there," they should've been saying "you come from a long line of special people who overcame a collective horrific tragedy and you will be great at anything you put your mind to, however; you're gonna have to fight white supremacy on your way to getting there."