At Least I.C.E Is Organizing.

A semi-detailed essay on the current civil war in America.

Known to many as Kwame Ture, a Howard University alum, he assisted in the development in the Black Power Movement and the Black Panther Party.

““If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you’re anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.” – Stokley Carmicheal

Freedom cannot be gained peacefully. Capitalism in simple terms is a socioeconomic and political system controlled by private/personal businesses and people. There are more economic systems, but capitalism controls the world and causes the world’s problems. For some odd reason, “We The People” have been trying to live within capitalism instead of dismantling it, which would rid the world of most of our problems.

First and foremost, Ture’s second sentence quotes states, “Racism gets its power from capitalism”. How can an economic system get its power from a personal problem? Most will argue that racism is systematic, but these systems were not present first, the racist thought processes were. In 1931, George Schyuler wrote Black No More a novel that solves America’s race problem by turning every Black person wight. “My sociology teacher has once said that there were but three ways for the Negro to solve his problem in America,” he gestured with his long slender fingers, “To either get out, get white, or get along’ (Schyuler 11). Leave the country, pass for wight, which only lighter-skinned people of the African diaspora could do, or to follow the rules set up by European Americans and capitalism. Schyuler’s fictional character Max, becomes transracial by working with Dr. Cookman, another African American and going into a machine to become a wight man. The story follows Max as he begins to uncover and realize truth(s) as his life as a European American ensues. The first truth that Schyuler uncovers is that nobody, but immigrants in America are “pure” anything. If one traces their ancestry generations back, any African American will find European DNA traces and vice versa.

“Naturally the first step in their going was to join his society by paying five dollars a year for membership, ten dollars for a gold, green and purple robe and silver-colored helmet that together cost two dollars and a half, contributing five dollars to the Santop Licorice Defense Fund” (Schyuler 75).

Scyhuler uses his writing to satirically to reveal another truth. With all the African Americans solving the race problem by becoming wight, who would continue to pay the salaries of African American race leaders? And their organizations that “help” African Americans? Racism is a profitable business, it creates jobs and supports the many memberships of different organizations. With America being divided by race, capitalism continues to economically thrive. As a wight man Max finds himself broke, but he then stumbles upon the Ku Klux Klan and he decides to use this platform to continue to push division, and get paid. The problem with racism is it’s not real, the effects are, but race is simply a social construct. We are all mixed. With the race problem being solved, and not a negro in sight, another problem proffered itself.

“,even foresaw the laboring people soon forsaking both of the old parties and going Socialist. Politicians and business men shuddered at the thought of such a tragedy and saw horrible visions of old-age pensions, eight-hour laws, unemployment insurance, workingmen’s compensation, minimum-wage legislation, abolition of child labor, dissemination of birth-control information, monthly vacations for female workers, two-month vacations for prospective mothers, both with pay, and the probable killing of individual initiative and incentive by taking the ownership of national capital out of the hands of two million people and putting it into the hands of one hundred and twenty million” (Schyuler 104).

There was no longer a need for a Democratic or Republican party because everyone was wight. Without racism, there were no Negroes experiencing discrimination in the workforce, which meant that everyone was being paid the same, so taxes increased as did the cost of living which meant the effects of capitalism began to dwindle as did the pockets of politicians and business men. There were no people to mistreat, so everyone received the same quality of life, and capitalism started to become unsustainable. By this time, Max, the former Negro has become a grand wizard in the Klu Klux Klan, and he is now speaking to his growing audience of real wights with no Negro ancestry.

“In his long address he discusses the foundations of the Republic, anthropology, psychology, miscegenation, cooperation with Christ, getting right with God, curbing Bolshevism, the bane of birth control, the menace of the Modernists, science versus religion, and many other subjects of which he was totally ignorant” (Schuyler 116).

He becomes richer through war, ignorance, and gab. He rarely says anything that makes sense, but his klan members are so supportive, they continue to blindly follow him. For those who no longer support him, it does not matter, the damage is already done, your vote has helped give him a platform.

“But Givens was greatly depressed, much more so than the oth-ers. He had really believed all that he had preached about white supremacy, race purity and the menace of the alien, the Catholic, the Modernist and the Jew. He had always been sincere in his prejudices” (Schyuler 156).

Max finds out that his child is of Negro blood, which is no surprise because he is biologically African, and his family, which now includes the grand wizard believes it to be his wight wife. Schyuler insults and calls out supposedly Anglo-Saxon people who pride themselves on preserving the wight race, and perpetuating European superiority. However, in America there is no “pure” person, most Americans are mixed with more than one race, and multiple ethnicities. We are all mixed. The novel ends with people separating themselves by dark-white and pale white, this was to decide who was born white and made white. Schyuler seems to say that no matter what and when, humans will find something to divide themelves on.

Secondly, non-profits, sexism, and the healthcare system also continue to fuel capitalism. Capitalism has made death, water, and dirt profitable businesses as well. Non-profits nationwide fight for government and billionaire funding to solve problems created and continuously reinforced by capitalism. Homelessness, Domestic Violence, Rape, Malnutrition, and Cancer. Diseases and foods are created to kill people, so that millions of dollars can be spent on the funeral industry. With the billions of dollars spent on cancer research shouldn’t more people be cured? Somebody has to fill the hospitals, right?

As I continue this essay, I want to make one thing clear. I do not hate Kamala Harris, I believe she achieved a lot in capitalism, however, she would not have saved us, but made us blissfully unaware to all of the problems that we have in America.

“A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you” – Marian Wright Edelman

I chose the title, At least I.C.E is organizing because not only are they doing something, they are doing EXACTLY what they said they were going to do. During history class we were sad about the concentration camps in Nazi Germany wondering why nobody did anything to save the jews, but we could care less about the Latina/os in concentration camps. Americans want to avoid a civil war, but the civil war has been here , the only reason this fact hasn’t registered to you, yes you reading this, is because you haven’t been shot yet.

Do we not have guns? Are there not more people than there are billionaires, millionaires, politicians, police officers, and I.C.E agents? We as Americans become aggressive when unnecessary, and passive when necessary. Instead of ending this civil war we hide behind our phone screens, support capitalism by buying water, toilet tissue, and matches, we prepare instead of pushing back.

Ya'll Don't Want To Hear Me, Ya'll Just Want To Dance

We are the problem. We don’t want capitalism, the problem to end. What we want is to have our cake and eat it too. Capitalism isn’t an equitable system that will allow us to have cake and eat it, we may make cake, but someone else will eat and profit off of that cake and we won’t even get the crumbs. It is not too late and we still have time.

While America is supporting and contributing to many genocides, we need one more. A genocide of the evil mind must commence, we must get rid of all of the evil that plagues America and then this earth. Arm yourselves, and stand for something.

This is not a revolutionary paper suggesting to just kill, but that is necessary. We must organize to kill, and then maintain the peace that death of the evil ones bring. Too many conversations are being had about people; “revolutionaries” are creating book clubs and suggesting that we move in love, while those we love lose their loved ones to hate.

“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

So the big question that many ask when people mention killing the evil ones, is what happens next? What after that? It’s not something that can be done on the individual level which is why many have failed at their attempts. Once we organize as one, to get rid of the evil ones and we succeed, we need to maintain unity in helping our nation, that’s what. As I said before we need a genocide to get rid of evil; if you are going to continue to be low-brained and promote racism, sexism, and capitalism then you too must be considered evil and go as the evil ones will. I am not saying this to say that everyone who remains alive will think the same because that is far from true, I am saying it to say that the people alive won’t believe that having a darker skin tone makes you bad, or you’re not human because of your “immigration status”, or women need to be these docile, submissive people, that won’t be a thing.

As an organized unit we will devote our time to healing and preserving the land and each other. Getting rid of trash and plastic, destroying some high rise apartments and allowing nature to take over, getting rid of the food that keeps us ill, the medicine that keeps us ill, and the water that poisons us. Destroying the AI data centers, and allowing those with special relationships to agriculture to build sustainable relationships with the land. Those with healing hands will help the sick, and everyone else with special interests will support the new America in different ways. After a few years of doing that it will be time to liberate the world, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, etc... Once that occurs America WILL go back to its native people, everyone else must go.!

This is not an unachievable goal, we must all work together to rid ourselves and the world of evil.