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Street Violence and Spirituality
By
Marvin X
"When you kill your
brother you kill yourself."—Abdul James
Black on black violence is a hate
crime and should qualify for the death penalty. If a
black man kills a white man, it will more than likely be
a hate crime, but the killing of a black by a black is
nothing—two or three years the killer is back on the
street to continue his savagery.
Violence in the hood is causing the
complete destabilization of our community, yet it is not
totally a criminal or even economic matter but at its
root is a spiritual disease in the hearts of mostly
young black men and lately women.
Some of the killing is ritual murder
for gang membership, including homosexual acts upon the
victim followed by murder. Such activity has roots in
decadent and demonic spirituality.
Sadly, the gangs are often the only
family youth have known. Often there is no mother, no
father, no hug a thug from the preacher, teacher,
artists or politicians—thus many youth have become cold
blooded killers, not by choice but by societal design.
Of course economics plays a role
since the dope man is the number one employer of youth
in the black community coast to coast. And the drug
economy feeds directly into the prison industry where
the youth are housed at thirty to fifty thousand dollars
per inmate per year, and there are two million currently
imprisoned, mostly for drug related crimes, including
violence.
The societal costs are staggering in
terms of education, family stability, and community
progress. But how can we expect young black men to
resolve their problems non violently when the American
government spends half a trillion dollars annually to
spread violence around the world. The youth watch TV now
and then; they know what's going on in Iraq and
Afghanistan. They know America has troops around the
world in its sham terrorism war. They know America is a
gang of thieves, liars, and murderers in suits and ties.
The same guns used abroad are used at
home in the hoods of black America, and of course black
people have gun factories and drug factories, don't we?
But no one can make us kill if we
have the mind-set not to kill, if we put on the armor of
God and express God consciousness rather than animal
consciousness, devil consciousness that makes us desire
to take a brother out at the glance of an eye.
We are now doing the job of the KKK.
Youth have told me when they get bored they get their
guns, get in their cars and ride through the hood
killing nigguhs.
We fulfill the Willie Lynch letter or
as I say, we are Yacub's children playing with steel:
guns and cars. Spiritual consciousness is the only way
out of our morass—fa salli lirabbika: so pray to your
Lord.
Why are you not angry at the white
man, surely he has wronged you worse than your black
brother. But you dare not touch the white man in your
cowardice and punkism.
You are ready to kill your brother if
he looks at your woman, but why you got her out with the
crack of her behind showing? We know you angry because
daddy was never there, and maybe mama wasn't either. Get
over it, accept the pain—it's called growing up. What
did Langston Hughes say, "Life ain't been no crystal
stair." Ain't been paradise for none of us, not in 400
years.
Embrace your brother with love. There
is no other way. This is a thinking man's game. See the
film Animal. You must think your way out of this
madness.
posted 3 July 2006 *
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update 30 July 2008 |
