What they make it look like ain’t always what it is!
BY BABA OMOWALE
The idea of two very differ ent voices, from two distinct ly different political camps, pushing the same basic mes sage, should be an obvious questionable coincidence. Is it really a coincidence or is it a Con-Incidence? Please pay attention. Just think about that for a moment. The entire world is now acknowledging that America was birthed in the quintessential: “Original Sin.” In my mind the “original sin” of America was/is the enslavement of African people. Period. That was its first wrong, its first evil and happened in America in a way that did not happen anywhere else on the planet.
Nowhere else on earth were people stripped of their humanity and made into “Chattel” in the way that it was done in America. We do know that the meaning of chattel is that the people or in our case what white people thought of us as objects, that were no longer human. That is the meaning of chattel. Please let’s be clear on that. The way that was done was, and is, with years of negative propaganda and false narratives about Black people. In movies, in commercials, in schools, on billboards, and even in churches and Mosques.
My people, in the daily narrative communicated and spread throughout the world, is the false idea of Black inferiority and White superiority, was and still is common. In the branding of goods and ser vices the negative images of Black people portrayed in the most demeaning and even animalistic ways, was and still the images that we see every day. Remember the film: “Birth of a Nation” and all the other non-sensical and even crazy portrayals of Black people, like Amos and Andy are still ram pant in American culture. And we know that American culture is spread throughout the world.
Another example, just look at Professor Asa Hilliard’s video: “The Defamation of Black People”. In that video you will see the extremes that white people went to in order to denigrate and demonize Black people in the minds of everyone in the world. Also, remember that the defamation of Black people was codi fied into law by the Supreme Court of the United States in the infamous Dred Scott deci sion where the Chief Judge of The Supreme Court said that the Blacks had no rights that White folks were bound to respect. That was one case, then in Plessey vs. Ferguson and on and on throughout the years of Jim Crow the Courts in the United States of Ameri ca have said that Black people had no rights that while people are obligated to respect.
This stuff is real, Black people. It ain’t fiction, nobody could write this kind of craziness. Now, in 2025, to have another President of the Unit ed States, in an address to The Nation and the whole world, say that “America is not a racist country.” Then right after that falsehood was pushed at the whole world, they send out one of the Top Negros in the Country, Beloved by Donald Trump and the rest of ultra conservative Republicans: Tim Scott, who says on National television, as a “Black man, I know America is not a racist country.”
Yes, My People, and he said that lie with a straight face while prostituting his own mother on international tele vision. He said that his “dear Mother taught him that, which we know are lies. To me it was like a one/two punch to the gut of every truth telling, truth seeking and truth upholding Black and White Person I know.
My People, I cannot stress how serious this stuff is. Tim Scott even went so far as to actually say, despite all the obvious evidence to the contrary, that the recent laws restricting the right to vote in Georgia, was actually helpful to Black folks. Yes, he really said that.
Now when you think about it, knowing as we do, that the only thing that put a muzzle on the racist inclinations of former President Joe Biden, was our former Vice President Kamala Harris. We do remember that it was Senator Joe Biden who was at the forefront of the mass incarceration of Black and Brown men characterizing us as predators.
So, when you factor all of that into this equation, it is not farfetched to think that maybe former President Joe Biden slipped away from the over sight of former Vice President Harris and made a deal with the Republicans in the form of Tim Scott to choreograph the falsehood that America is not a racist country. I mean, despite the evidence of America’s history of race riots, lynchings, and current events like January 6th and the fact that over 70 Million people in this country of Ours, voted for a man who spouted a racist diatribe from the White House for four years, are realities that we must never forget. Then this same racist white male, who stole the election a second time, continues to say to the world that America is not a racist country, while all of his cronies publicly display actual Nazi , many of whom are avowed racist, front of mil lions of people, as he pardoned all of the criminal insurrectionist that invaded the Capital of this Country and assaulted and even murdered Capital Police officers.
It is like what con men do when they send in one person to open you up to the rip off, and then they send in second con man and act like they don’t know one another and are not together and yet together they proceed to pull the proverbial wool over your eyes, as they strip you of all of your valuables.
In this case those valuables are Our Right to choose who we put in public office to rep resent us by our vote. Just think about that and how it played out on the same night, actually on the same channel and know for a fact that the valuables at stake right now are the high est they have ever been, which is the actual future of Black People in America and the world. There is a global cartel of white racist reactionaries who are intent on controlling the world.
My people, now is the time when we have to come together and really be on the same page with our words and our actions. Words do count and actions really do matter, so listen carefully to everything that everyone says, including me, and talk about it in groups of real friends that you know. Have those discussions that ain’t nobody else talking about. All of this matters and every one matters. All of our voices and all of our analysis’ belong on the table and in your heart of hearts, My people believe that we can work it out.
We really do have some among us who are capable of understanding our history and our present condition in ways that will help us strategize and work together to serve our col lective interest as Black peo ple. When we join that group in solidarity with what the rest of the world’s humanity is thinking and doing, then that makes for a future where all of us can really breathe. And yes we can say it loud and clear that all of us matter, Equally and with Equity and We don’t leave none of US behind! Family, we really are each other’s medicine.
Your Brother/Servant, BABA OMOWALE