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Murder Inc: The White Settler Republic as Homicidal Maniac Series Part 2
Violence is Their Religion!
How Murder Gives the White Settler Purpose
But you cannot undo in half a decade a white settler crime spree that has terrorized Black people the world over for half a millenium, as I discovered the hard way while jogging through my suburban Johannesburg neighborhood one spring afternoon.
Suddenly, as I ran past a row of gated, walled-off rambler-styled homes, I heard barking ; I turned sharply to my right and saw a dog–maybe a labrador retriever– clearly with bad intentions, running towards me.
I froze, remembering that someone had once told me that dogs return our energy. But this dog apparently had not gotten the memo, crossing the busy four- lane thoroughfare into traffic, and continuing to bear down on me.
Finally, in desperation, I turned to my left, spied a six-foot- tall- security wall, and leapt. The dog continued barking at me for what seemed an eternity before the electric gate across the street opened, and he ambled home. When the path was clear, I rappelled down the wall, and continued on my way.
A few days later I went jogging again, but as I approached Cujo’s home, I spotted a white couple jogging towards me. When I asked if they had encountered a dog in the vicinity of my canine tormentor, they responded “no,” and I sped off, relieved.
Not two blocks later, the same dog was nipping at my heels. I hadn’t heard him bark, and by the time I spotted him he was in a full trot. There was no time to do anything but run. I took off, zig-zagging through the neighborhood for another two blocks. Finally, as he closed in for the attack, I leapt again onto a security wall, slicing a gash in my calf so deep that the scar remains visible to this day.
I recounted the incident months later to some South African friends, both Black and white, and they explained to me that this reflected one of the more perverse legacies of apartheid, which was created in 1948 to address white South Africans concerns that they being replaced by the African majority.
Whites often trained dogs to protect homes and businesses by attacking Blacks, and only blacks. In other words, that dog who twice chased me up a wall had a Pavlovian response to my dark skin and reflexively chose violence to eliminate the threat; yet the same dog had spotted the white couple in the same spot and engaged in the same activity only a few minutes earlier, and he didn’t even budge.
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In our second episode of Black Owned Conversations, we celebrate African American Music Appreciation Month by exploring the white settler Republic’s complicated relationship to Black music, and Black folks’ relationship to Tina Turner, who died in May at the age of 83.
Turner was no doubt an American icon but did she represent the best of the Black musical tradition, or a backlash to it?
We answer that question and ask another? What did Turner share in common with Saturday Night Fever, and January 6th?
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In his 1991 best-seller, The Disuniting of America, the famed historian Arthur Schlesinger wrote:
"Those intrepid Europeans who had torn up their roots to brave the wild Atlantic wanted to forget a horrid past and to embrace a hopeful future. They yearned to become Americans. Their goals were escape, deliverance, assimilation. They saw America as a transforming nation..."
This is precisely what the Czech novelist Milan Kundera meant when he wrote:
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. "
Schlesinger was the historian to the rich and powerful, and as such, his job was to forget. The Europeans who came to the so-called New World came here to enrich themselves through slavery, and murder, of indigenous and African peoples. Nothing has fundamentally changed since the first European landed ashore in Noth America 400 years ago.
As the bodies continue to pile up across America, and with no end in sight, Black Republic Media seizes the moment to ponder the white settler project's obsession with murder, especially of the sons and daughters of Africa, in Part 2 of the Series, Murder Inc.: Violence is their Religion!
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Descendant of John Brown, Viola Liuzzo, Schwerner and Goodman, and David Gilbert, Rachel Corrie, martyred on this day in 2003, represented the best of white America. To celebrate her life and legacy, Black Republic Media borrows from the hip-hop vernacular to ask:
"Who You Wit?
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We at Black Republic Media want to extend holiday greetings to the sons and daughters of Africa and everyone who loves us.
The holidays are typically a time of reflection and renewal and in that vein, we at Black Republic Media want to lift our community's spirits and restore our battered souls after what has been an especially tough year for Africans around the world. So, as much of the world celebrates the birth of Christianity's Sun King, we would remind everyone of Fanon's benediction:
"I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.”
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