Academic journal article The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online)
For Black Americans, 9-11 Is 24-7
Article excerpt
a labyrinth of terror buried beneath shallow
words on revised pages of America's iniquities
dating back four hundred years,
when blacks were snatched and kidnapped,
ship jacked and hijacked to America's labor and
concentration camps to be bought and sold
into unspeakable servitude on land we would
come to lose ground to some
lesser place and foreign cause.
For black Americans,
9-11 is 24-7,
... an endless cycle of America's weapons of black
destruction crashing and imploding, 24-7, into
towering black hopes and aspirations...
... a viciousness finding continuous
momentum in prescribed brutality,
administered 24-7, to infuse in us
enough terror to keep us in a lesser
place for economic gain.
For black Americans,
9-11 is 24-7,
Four hundred years and more of
democratic sleight of hands,
jiving and conniving, slipping and sliding across
smoke and mirrors...
... Jeffersonian poker face democracy
bluffing its hand of freedom,
always with the ace of tyranny
concealed up its white sleeve
to place race-based road blocks
strategically on unpaved roads to
nowhere to ensure that blacks get there...
... discriminating mercenary legislative, judicial
homicide beheading black men from the souls
of black homes and families; cutting short the
lives of one out of twenty black men
imprisoned ten times the rate of white men's
crimes as a means of genteel 1 genocide to keep
us from finding from among us a deliverer to
lead us from this lesser place...
... a good old boy network of
murder, rape and intimidation,
torture, beatings and mutilation,
social isolation and economic decimation to
keep us enslaved children of slave children
ripped from the breasts of slave mothers sold
into tortuous misery by those first families
hooded in democracy. …