Kill Zone | POOR Magazine

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2000-01-01 12:00 AM

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by Joseph Bolden, staff writer,

I am deadly serious on:
'Traditional Death In America' mainly about Black Americans
but other people's in the United States who're also seen the raw,
mean underside of America. Our people have done everything proving
we are a loyal, dedicated, and sacrificed as Americans can be, Lord
knows our blood and bodies are all over this land, we’ve bled
and died in every war, on foreign soil yet we are always told "It
ain't enough, Never Enough."

Traditional Death:
America is a Kill Zone Pt. 1)

Think about it, let it
sink in... America is in the title but it could be Japan/China/Philippine,
Great Britain/Scotland/Ireland/India, or Jewish/Catholic/Protestant/German
to Russian/Slav /Polish/ Armenian/Syria/Palestinian/Arab/Africa/South
Africa.

They all have a common
thread at one time each has had near genocidal destruction rained
down on them either because of their race, religion, country, and
perceived inferiority. Everyone of them have physical and psychological
scars handed down from generation to generation all have persevered
in spite of terror, death, tricks, and threats set apon them plus
all if people dig beyond the surface have fantastic, glorious his/herstories
of literature, music, poetry, dance, architecture, past of noble
deeds, daring, great lives of survival, lived, lost, and struggled
to surpass the darkness; all in their unique humanity becoming a
shining people on the world's stage.

If I have forgotten nations
(besides African Nations) forgive me, though ignorance is no excuse
there are simply too many great nations and people's for me to remember
but they too are included in humakinds tapestry. African's may know
more of their own genealogy, his/herstory than we hybrid African
Americans (yes, hybrid A-American's ) we're so diluted by
American slavery I cannot say I'm pure anything. We like other mixed
races are unique, we are the new people of the new world and we
breed true, sterility is not our propblem living and staying alive
is.

But as African's do we
too multiply that has been American's waking nightmare seeing these
multicolor faces all over America! Except concentrating on killing
us they sometimes forgot about Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, and
the rest of the rainbow crowd. Because we do so intimately know
America so well she/he the Bitch or Bastard does its best ignoring
our cries, warnings to others coming to shore "America can one hell
of an opportunity or simply Hell."

America's Tradition besides
using black women as breeding stock, black men to stud, sex/love/lust
was mixed, feelings of slaves didn't matter-it was all about creating
a commodity to raise, sell or one day do both. We in untold billions
died, committed suicide killing our children rather have them live-in-hell
chained forever in this New World called America.

We read of White masters
cohabiting with slave woman black sometimes white but mainly black.
white women were deemed to dainty, pure, genteel, to be handled
so roughly and because of the patriarchal power black women are
blamed for being lascivious, I wonder how many white woman revenged
themselves by taking black males as secret lover's never revealing
him and as for children, they could be sold with no one the wiser.

Scientific Racism: [Pseudo
or false-fake Science justifying racist policies, laws and/or beliefs.]

In 1851 Dr. Samuel A.
Cartwright, a respected physician created a mental illness peculiar
to Black people. "The effort of the slave to gain his freedom
by running away from the plantation, he said was a symptom of
a serious mental disease called "DRAPETOMAIA." Dr. Cartwright
maintained that this hideous condition could be cured by
recapturing the 'patient', rubbing him down with oil and
beating him into submission.

Scientific racist scholarship
has emerged to justify police against Blacks. These studies, such
as Bell Curve, argue that behavior, such as intelligence and criminality,
are genetically determined.

Blacks, they insist,
are genetically coded to commit violent crimes and are beyond the
bounds of society and civil rights. Sounds like Scientific Racism
again. African American men are 45% of those on death row, although
they are but 6% of the population.[excerpt from Antonio Monteiro,
07/28/00,We Charge Genocide!!]

Umm, young black ladies,
men stay out of the Prison Industrial Complex because guess who's
having problems now its those two family well adjusted middle class
white kids in the suburbs. No one worried when in the 1970's and
mid 80's as Blacks were shot in drive-bys, gangs, suicides, homicides,
drug overdoes, or jailed and executed, sudden infant death plagued
us. We had a turning point not all of us died in the street, infants
survived aids, crack, and drug abuse which seem to disturb white
america. In the past this would've wipe us out but we as many people
before us are resilient.

In 1869, Francis Galton,
The English psychologist, cousin of Charles Darwin, published 'Hereditary
Genius. His racist view of Blacks was clear when he wrote, 'The
average intellectual standard of the Negro is some two grades below
our own. 1883 He (Galton) introduced the term Eugenics to describe
ideas and proposed practices of racist superiority and sterilization.

[Excerpt from: Gone
but effects linger Saturday, March 18, 2000, Bill Baskerville, Associated
Press Writer]

Blacks are seen as inferior
in mental abilities but the next step was slow or stop our reproduction
through sterilization. Seven years later and into the 20th century
"Strange Fruit" male, female, young boys, girls, are seen hanging
from trees, pregnant Black women raped or worse, strung up, gutted
from belly to womb, infant(s) taken from the dead mother's womb
and stomped to death. Its mob rule and mass killing on any pretext.
Imagine. Being a black youngster, old woman, man, family man or
up and coming businessman, suddenly a crowd gathers around you of
various ages, faces - you are either shot if your lucky die quick
if not you're slowly tortured to death. As you're being chased your
clothes are torn, ripped away until you are running in fear and
panic completely naked!

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