Black survival- What would it take?

Over the course of...  well..., forever, we've seen

• Black deaths by the hands of police

• Black deaths by the hands of citizens crying wolf from Rosewood to Emmitt Till, to Escambia County, Florida

• Black deaths at the hands of vigilantes (Michael Dunn and George Zimmerman)

• Acts of terrorism inflicted upon Black people due to the forceful removal of the Confederate Flag in South Carolina (see Dylan Roof, and the case where a Black family was threatened while celebrating their child's birthday party)

• The commodification of Black culture

• Cultural appropriation

• Manipulation of the masses via photoshop and fake articles

•  Land grabs initiated by mob justice.

• Extortion.

And since I've blogged about a lot of what's mentioned for over one hundred entries, the questions everybody would ask are, "You got any solutions? What are we going to do about it?"

Here's my answer.

Sometimes I think Black people need our own gated communities.* 

Communities with businesses as well as:

• private police

• hospitals

•  infrastructure (solar panel electricity, heating and cooling, control over our own sewer systems, collecting rain water if necessary. However collecting rainwater is illegal in some states, so a person might want to check with their state to see what they can find.

• private judges, lawyers, prosecutors, etc (an entire judicial system)

• post office

• media outlets (TV, radio, newspaper)

• grocery stores

• farmers

• psychiatrists

• grief counselors 

• credit unions (since banks charge a lot of fees)

• Private tax funds for infrastructure maintenance (roads, etc)

• a national legal team

ALLL located inside the gate, and operating without outside influence. That way the entire economy is controlled by Black people and for Black people. And there's only one way in and out and that's the locked gate.

It sounds extra crazy, but I think that's the only way we'll be able to be protected against White supremacy. We must also make our own laws and everybody must live in the community as well.  An armed private police officer must be present at the entrance at all times, and each and every member of the community has to live in that community. This means if somebody is embezzling money from somewhere, we will know where they live. If votes get rigged, we will know and actual justice will be served.

Where will we go you ask? Well, there are places to start. Any place where there is a high concentration of Black people would work, however, many of those areas are under very crooked local governments that don't have the people in mind, let alone private officers available to make sure justice is handled appropriately. Detroit looks like a great proving ground for such an endeavor. They already have their own private police force so why not start there? Check out this video. Aside from the "Cop Block" advertisement, this video is about starting a private police force, and how to do it successfully. People pay into the service. Those who can't afford it get free service. They can do this because affluent people pay a premium for their service since they're doing such a great job, which means there is a surplus in funds.

I recommend we start in the areas with the highest crime or the most blighted. The reason why I say that is because those are the areas the public police won't go during certain hours. Not only that, but a person could find a lot of vacant lots that could be used for farming and as long as the lot isn't squatted on by an absentee landlord, it could be bought for cheap. A person could put a tiny house on it, equip it with solar panels, and voila! a house with a farm on it that grows vegetables to sell to the local grocery store.

I know what you're thinking. That sounds like a reservation of sorts. Yeah. You're right. It does. But what the Native Americans don't have is complete control over their own economy. Black businesses exist, and we collectively have the buying power of  one trillion dollars. What would happen if we took that out of the current economy?

I hope you don't think I'm crazy for mentioning this. But I am desperate for solutions. I didn't want to wait on someone else to come up with one, so I came up with one the best I could. In a world where we keep getting killed and our lives are in the hands of people who really don't care for our existence anyway, what did I have to lose by trying to find a solution?

Long story short. We've got to survive. People say the whole thing is about class and not race. Well it appears otherwise. And before I protest about something like climate change, and animals getting killed by police or illegal poachers pressed to prove their manhood, I will say the following to those who feel otherwise. :

GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE, SIT YOUR CALLOUS, IGNORANT ASS DOWN, AND GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME WITH THAT FUCKERY. For real. I have to secure my life before I can do any of that.

I'm not interested in becoming the next hashtag, or mural to be defaced with "All Lives Matter."

We are literally trying to stay alive. And when I use the term "literally" I'm not speaking figuratively.

That is all for now.

We'll see. 

We'll see.

*Updated: 9/28/15 okay, maybe not a literal gated community per se, but we would need our community to be as tight as one without all of the ridiculousness of HOA restrictions.  We can police the areas we already have. We have already created several villages of sorts. We have online presence, and we've linked up with Black owned businesses. All we need is distribution companies, the things mentioned above, and a way to keep funds in Black hands longer (because we know we're subject to city and state tax, water, and utility bills.  As a result, there would be no way of stopping them from raising taxes and or utility costs in order to drive us out like they did in Baltimore, St. Louis, and Detroit).).