The Black Re-Activist Revolutionary will say that Black people that aren’t trying to bring down the white supremacy system are suffering from the illusion of inclusion, or something akin to the Stockholm Syndrome.
The illusion of inclusion is said to be believing that we are a part of American society, and that we are Americans. That we believe that we’ve been included therefore why fight against the system!
And we all pretty much know what Stockholm Syndrome is, If not it’s basically said to be when a person is put in a dire situation for so long they start to see the very people that have put them in the dire situation as their saviors simply because they haven’t killed them yet or because they stop treating them bad.
These things are true to an extent and some Black people do suffer from them, like Black RepubliCon’s and conservatives. Most of them believe that white conservatism isn’t in the least bit racially motivated, and that because they’ve been included in the system, everything is good for all Black people. This is 100% wrong. Most Black people just want to live there lives as best they can without someone trying to impeded on that process!
What the BRAR does though is project that group of people’s attributes on to any Black person that doesn’t agree with there ideology fully. They simply dismiss your understanding as akin to the person that’s suffering from Stockholm Syndrome or the Illusion of Inclusion, thus never fully understanding the knowledge you’re trying to impart on them.
But once you take a deep dive into the BRAR ideology, it’s not hard to see that they suffer from the same ailments that they claim the Black RepubliCon suffers from, but in reverse. They suffer from the “Illusion of Exclusion”, and Stockholm Syndrome too, it just manifests itself differently!
They willfully take themselves out of the “race”, their logic is that the race is fixed, therefore why run it! Sounds right, why run in a rigged “race”? But the “race” isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon, and there are many positions that you can come in, plus there are new races everyday! Part of Stockholm syndrome is getting to a place where you no longer want to fight against the power that’s over you, and thats where they think everyone else is, but fail to realize that they put themselves in the same position when they willfully refuse to run the “race”!
Is this not the same thing? Your “captors” have successfully conditioned you to not play the game before you even understand the full game, they have you believing that you’re running a sprint not a marathon. And guess what, in a marathon you can eventually catch up no matter how slow you started. And even if you never come in first place, there are a myriad of positions between 1st place and last place! And here’s the thing, you will always come in worse than last place if you never join the race! There is no possible way of winning if you’re not in the race and this is where the BRAR understanding resides. They have no possible chance of winning the race because they aren’t in it, and not because white supremacy won’t allow them in the race, but because they have taken themselves out of it because it’s rigged to begin with!
They’ve essentially given up, but there conditioning has convinced them that they’re doing the the thing that can save us all by trying to destroy the race from the outside! But that’s not possible!
We’ve seen this for centuries now, when we destroy one barrier in the race, they place new barriers in our way, then when we finally win one of the races, they change the rules for the next one. But the only people that know that the rules have changed are the people that are running the race. By the time those on the outside realize that there are different rules the race has already been going for some time. They end up fighting to destroy something that doesn’t exist the same way as it did when they started the fight.
Let’s take mass incarceration for example: The War on Drugs started in the 80’s, devastated the 90’s and we started fighting against it once we realized what was going on but it took until the 2010’s to start getting any real traction on ending it, and now in 2018, we’re still fighting to end it! But guess what, the damage has already been done, they got what they wanted out of it, a destabilized Black family, now we’ve become our own worst enemies!
So now that we’re seeing progress in stopping mass incarceration mostly due to low level drug offenses, they decided to legalize the very thing that they were putting us in jail for, but then say that you can’t participate in it because you’re a felon.
So the question is, what have they changed to keep the race rigged? Or better yet, what is the race?
So now they have a valid argument for being excluded, you see, they don’t want us to make money, which is true, but there are ways around the law, you can invest in a company that’s majority owned by someone that’s not a felon, or you can buy shares in one of the already established companies. Plus you can always start to advocate and petition state authorities and legislators to write new laws. It took almost 3 decades to get marijuana laws to where hey are today, and that’s with white people advocating with other white people. They knew the race for legalization was a marathon not a sprint so they ran the race with all the barriers, had they not ran the race there would be no legalization at all!
Where the BRAR goes wrong at is that they’ll see the obstacles say there’s racism then choose not to run the race, even though they can, they choose not to based off the fact that they believe that they’ve been excluded, and that white people will only include a few of us!
This pathology is disseminated through out the Black community as fact, therefore we all should remove ourselves from the race, and if you advocate to stay in the race, you’re a coon, a sellout, etc, because they believe the real fight is on the outside.
But when confronted with the question, what has there BRAR ideology gotten done over the past 5 decades, they have no answer. At the end of the day all the progress that Black people have made in the past 5 decades came from those that decided to include themselves in the race and eventually won the the position they were looking for. Major League Baseball was segregated, we had our own league but the prize was to be able to play in the Majors, that’s where the real money was, and even though they were playing professional baseball and getting paid in the Negro League, they knew that the only way to make real progress was to get to the MLB and prove that they were just as good or better than they’re white counterparts. Had Jackie Robinson, who wasnt even the best Negro League player opted to stay in the NL because he felt like he was just a token, we may have never gotten to see the great Black players that graced the field since then. He knew the race was rigged but he chose to run it anyway because he knew that his choice would lead to more Black men being included in MLB down the line.
The BRAR’s of today would say, don’t participate, its rigged against you, and willfully take themselves out of the equation because they suffer from the illusion that they have been excluded, even though they know the history of Jackie Robinson, or Kenny Washington, or Earl Lloyd or Nat Clifton. All excluded at some point, then once included paved a way for a 75% Black NFL, or a 80% Black NBA. The MLB might not be predominantly Black at this point, but that’s because we have steered our kids toward the NFL and NBA instead of baseball, if we did the same there would undoubtedly be way more American born Blacks playing it nowadays, so that has nothing to do with not being included. The real sad part about suffering from the illusion of exclusion is that they use their logic in every part of their life.
Banks discriminate against Black people therefore don’t try to get a loan for a business or house, fully missing the fact that if you feel like you’ve been discriminated against because of your race when applying for a loan, you can contact specific agencies and report it, which will then launch an investigation into it. If they find that your credit score and job history is on par with other people who got a better interest rate, or that got the loan and you didn’t, you can sue and get your money back!
The same goes for trying to get an apartment, a job, in college, etc. if you feel like you’ve been discriminated against then there are agencies put in place to help you get restitution. The non racist white people understand that there will always be racist white people so they passed laws to protect our freedoms and liberties and rights so the racists can’t just trample on them. But the BRAR seems to dismiss this because they believe that things should be equal, don’t get me wrong, they should be, but since they aren’t, utilize what is necessary to equalize what you can.
Stating that things aren’t equal so I’m not even going to try, is defeatism at it’s best! And because they have this flawed understanding to begin with, that says removing yourself from the race is the answer to winning the race, they see they’re defeatist attitude as the correct attitude, they believe that they’re somehow the guardians of Blackness thus resulting in them categorizing any one that participates in the race as a race traitor, and then that diminishes any idea that the race runner presents.
They’ll say that you’re capitulating to white supremacy, you’re trying to integrate us into a burning house, you’re propping up white supremacy, etc! All the while they’re doing the opposite but ending with worse results than those that they claim are helping white supremacy thrive.
So even though they wear white owned brands, shop at white owned stores, buy white owned products, eat at white owned restaurants, use white owned wirelesses phones, use white owned social media networks and work for white owned corporations, all of which they say is upholding the white supremacy capitalist system, they see no hypocrisy in their own actions. The cognitive dissonance is unbelievable!
They say that you’re the real problem for doing it, because you don’t complain about the system being racist, as if complaining helps! And the reality about this is that they believe that what they post to social media is activism and revolutionary, although it actually amounts to nothing more than complaining, because they never do anything real about it!