What The Polight Vs Seti Debate Acutally revealed about us

December 9th could be best described as a revisit of the Ali/Fraser fight billed as the Thrilla in Manilla.  A lot of pomp, hype and showmanship all disguised as a debate.  For months leading up to this spectacular, much hype was spilled all over youtube (marketing the event) with opposing versions, pros and cons on the subject at hand.  Is The White Man the Devil or Have We Become Our Own Worst Enemy?  During the "debate" Sara Suten Seti displayed pictures of homosexual males doing what it is they do sexually.  This caused a hell of an uproar, since there was no pre-warning of such a display and children were in the audience as the event was billed a family affair.  "General" Seti was attempting to discredit Brotha Polight's teacher, the now imprisoned Malachi Z. York.  To this day I am not sure how this could have derailed Polight's argument that we have become our own worst enemy.  Seti's assault on Mr. York, based on the information he presented, in fact made Polight's point even more valid.  Sara Suten Seti is a vulgar display of the trend of so called "street philosophers"  emerging that shun proper speech and decorum for vile speech and emotional rhetoric.  But, what I learned most, or what  became more clear to me is that people of black people, especially in the Americas, are attached to our emotional mythological past.

Sara Suten Seti, much like other psuedo magicians works his magic best on those that feel their ax to grind is solely against the white man.  This lends to some form of comfort for those of the "get whitey" mentality, rather than the clean up our own act state of mind.  I'd recently experienced this sense of comfort by black people going back and forth cementing on Deb's blog Lets Be Clear.  Here facts were presented to her showing her the great possibility that the slave trade fable was not the story that we have come to love.  It has become a story that is really a played out tool.  A tool used for years to pummel white folk over the head for "bringing us over here, taking away our religion, family and our society" during slavery times.  Our people  of this mind set, are in essence telling their enemy how powerful he is and how weak they were and are.  Are, because our people that continue to chant this mantra are internalizing and living out their own demise. Rather than joining an Afro centric society.  Our people of this mind set will not utterly throw away Christianity in the form it is practised in the Americas and Europe and join an indigenous way to serve.  They will not embrace Lucumi, Candomble, Voudou, or any other original African or American way to serve the Spirit to reclaim their religion that was stolen from them.  But, would rather hang onto some form of European centered Christianity or just say they are not sure what they believe.  Others cling to Islam or become Black Hebrew Isralites.

After the Polight/Seti debate there was so much commentary concerning the debate, who won, who stayed on topic, and why was there such an uproar when Seti showed the homosexual photos.  There was even a woman in her fifties I heard on radio contending that there should not have been as much uproar during the showing of the homosexual photos.  This revealed the wedge that exists among us.  It is quite telling when anyone, anyone can question the audience's reaction to such a display when children were present.  It's quite telling when a man displays such material when children are present and even to have the audacity to never warn parents to give them the choice whether to take your children out of the room before these items were shown.  The quality of people that will be disseminating information and the images they present must be questioned in the coming era.

Dr. Phil Valentine expressed his concern about the coming era and who would be presenting information and what images will be displayed.  Here in the Atlanta Metro Area a parent objected to the performance of a play depicting slavery in the U.S.  The characters were of a white slave master and a black slave being beaten by his white master.  The parent was correct in asserting the school stop this, as this places a concrete image of whites dominating blacks.  "General" Sara Suten Seti, alone is not the problem as he by himself can do nothing.  But, backed by others that believe as he does, never minding his inability to present himself as a upstanding living soul, will bolster his point and case.  Those that support such vile and disgusting personages will continue to play as much of a destructive force as the white man they all so claim are the be progenetors of our problem.  Surely, Seti's vulgar display and vulgar speech propped up by those others that purport to be teachers and healers in our midst leave us no choice but to divorce ourselves from this mind set of people.  In them I have no common unity to tend to towards to community.  Deb, appears to be an upstanding person and I could not conceive of her aligning herself with such vile actiing people and vile activity, but her sentiments fall along their base line.  Beware all those the believe that white supremacy is the major problem we face.  They will not conceive of looking inward now to correct our wrongs.

Mental Meanderings

I remember the first time that the idea there is no longer a Black community, the idea I grew up with, was now a defunct idea, I thought, ludicrous! We are a functioning (at times) community! Then the sexual violence by some beings of Dunbar Village on a woman and her young son brought me around to knowing the Black community is truly only a Black collective, nothing in common with that. This is not the same as saying that ‘we are not a monolith’ in some inverted way. It’s a realization that there are some Black people that live in such a way as I could never imagine nor relate. Nothing in common to form a unity. I would never unite with the type of people that commit such violence on other Black people or any other human being. I have nothing in common with people that would produce such offspring. There are among us, a set of people that are no longer interested in life the way those that I have a common unity with. I accepted the idea of a Black collective rather than a Black community about three years ago. It appears the concept of a Black collective is spreading.

Over the last year, while riding on my daily commute, I’ve noticed there are less people reading. I used to see people reading something. Most women would have books by E. Lynn Harris, Bebe Moore Campbell or some other author of that genre. Men, would of course, have the sports section of the newspaper folded in some coded angle that only avid news paper readers know how to fold and gleaning every word as if it were the gospel. No doubt women read the sports section too but, mostly during NFL season.  Oddly enough I don’t see people reading the bible as I once did, living here in the ‘bible belt’ southeast. No sir, no reading going on here. Everyone is into some mental escape, listening to Mary Mary, Waka Flacka, or Warrior King or watching tel-lie-vision on their mobile divice.

Our government (public) school system is functioning to full capacity. We have been schooled into thinking that we cannot understand economics or the stock market. Yet, at the same time we are all out here working for Federal Reserve Notes to pay our bills, save, travel and generally enjoy life. I fell for the, ‘boy you can’t understand the stock market’ school of wisdom for far too many years. As I re-entered working in the finance world I felt I needed to learn as much about “money” as I can. Gold, silver, and other precious metals would be money. Paper, greenbacks, dollars are currency, not money. This basic bit of info about whats in our pockets/bank accounts is not difficult to understand and easily found on the web or in books. Because we’ve been taught to think economics is something we cannot understand, we are unwitting pawns in an economic scheme that involves everything you do. Far too many of us believe its easier to deal with what we think we can understand like racism and racists and their actions without ever considering the economics of racism and racists.

I’m just wondering has anyone noticed how its okay to be British on TV? I mean for white folk. I have long made note that its ok to have a heavy British accent on tel-lie-vision here in the U.S. White Amerikkkins are not bothered by the British accent. Black people are excluded from this, however. Marianne Jean-Baptiste is a British actress of Bajan descent and you would never know it watching her character on Without A Trace. Sure, you can point to Hugh Laurie and say he doesn’t use his British accent. All in all there are far more accented white Brits on U.S. tel-lie-vision than any other accented people, save the British. That’s followed up by the white Latino and Australians. Aussies seem to be accepted since they sound close to the British in speech. I suppose the Spanish sounding accent is tolerated since the us government is saying “Hispanics” are the new number one minority in the U.S. Most Anglophone Caribbean (or African) people, you would never recognize verbally on tel-lie-vison unless you happen to be from the same country. I have yet to hear or read a conservative/Black conservative (bless they heart) speak about immigration policies and complain that “theys too many redcoats heyah.” Never, have I heard, read or seen people complain of immigration and talk about the British or the Australians taking job.