[news] Revolution is Bloody

Tue Jun 29 19:23:13 PDT 2004

http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/27481.php

Revolution is Bloody

    It is true we shouldn't be afraid of martyrdom, however, we should
    not be selecting and setting each other up for that position nor
    should we be afraid to hold up the the images of our martyrs and
    shout out their names and certainly continue the fight and struggle.
    What is the trap of the west? to think, as Gil Scott Heron observed,
    that the Calvary always comes to save the day and the that hero
    lives to see the glory of that day. We have forgotten that it is
    about the future/the Culture/Sankofa not "the crazy house called
    ameriKKKAnada" and profits. 

Revolution is Bloody
by
LY Braithwaite

It is true we shouldn't be afraid of martyrdom, however, we should not 
be selecting and setting each other up for that position nor should we 
be afraid to hold up the the images of our martyrs and shout out their 
names and certainly continue the fight and struggle. What is the trap of 
the west? to think, as Gil Scott Heron observed, that the Calvary always 
comes to save the day and the that hero lives to see the glory of that 
day. We have forgotten that it is about the future/the Culture/Sankofa 
not "the crazy house called ameriKKKAnada" and profits. So we are going 
to get martyrs. We have been willing to hide behind martyrs for 
political, financial and even artistic gain, B.U.T. we are going to have 
live with the overstanding that we have to be willing to be become 
martyrs and to realize that martyrs are special not because they are 
perfect nor that they are higher powers B.U.T. that they are flawed 
bruhs and sis (breathing clay) like us all on this earth -- who despite 
all that was against them stood up and perished for a principle = their 
peoples/culture.

It does seem that everybody around the world are taking up mental and 
physical arms to fight for their freedome and culture as the once great 
fighters and griots of North Amerikkka akt like steppinfetchits in 
sagged drope gear and butterfly mcqueens inna thog and bare middrifts or 
those in afrikana jacked vines and centric headdress beg for a cut of 
the swag come the takeover of afrika (and the every growing middle-east 
-- which seems to be extending into afrika for the sake of corperate 
takeovers) or even the alterna crowd aktin like "anarchy" is the latest 
trend for the middle-classes and profits in this post hip hop wasteland. 
This was/is not a revoltuon; this is surrender with a spin doctored 
effect and north amerikkkan twisted logic and bravado -- where cowards 
are brave and brave people are punkass, where whores are worhipped and 
money is god and greed is good, where warriors/freedome 
fighters/revultionarys who are defending are terrorist and terrorist 
where suits and ties and are called liberators, deomocratic and 
civilized, where might makes right -- fuck quality it's about knocking 
out the suckers by any means necceSCAREY -- welcome to the terrordome of 
theivery -- come bite me.

I have seen too many people murdered and demoralized in this land which 
is suppose to be so civilized. I have seen my fathers mind destroyed and 
my body and my friends raped and used, as has been our minds, and then 
discarded as worthless tools for the amusement and advancement of 
robberbarons and the fools they court.  I have heaerd and seen people 
use our skin and class to advance their position witht he opppressors 
and danced onthe graves of our martyrs.  I have seen too much cruelity 
(yet still not even enough -- to start)  to make me reconsider the value 
of this wasteland as anything but currupt from the inside out and 
therefore in need of dismantling and not salvaging-- a place where 
incompetence, mediocrity, dirty tricks, distraction, hypocrisy, invasion 
and perversion rule and are keys to success and all must convert or die 
a slow and amusing spiritual and mental death and surrender is taken up 
as a battle cry.  A place where passion is laughed at and mocked. Where 
children rhyme cruelity. I have seen my soul slip slowly into despair 
simply by the sight of this horror alone and what is more tragic I have 
seen the despair blanket the peoples around me as their spiritual 
physical corpses as piled up like so many rhowandan, african, 
Palestinian, Native holocaust images as the fatted ministries workers, 
corperate lackies and greed mongerers sit, laugh and plot for more 
bullying tactics against those who are percieved as weaker and 
defenseless in this their police state calling itself a free 
CIVI(LIE)zation = better than the rest-- B.U.T. are my bruthas 
defenseless against the shocktroops of this so called democracy or have 
they been convinced of this lie...

...and I wonder is this the beginning of a revolution or is it too late. 
I feel that there is no escape and after all these years I still don't 
know what's the price of a ticket. Will we have a dream of Malik or Poor 
Marcus, Peltier, Spies or Ashura realized

They say that it's a hard and bad time for our Nation...

It is a time for martyrs and it's time to fight for freedomes B.U.T. all 
we seem to get is a copping a plea and surrender.

B.U.T. "...can't you show me nothing but surrender"?
patti smith

"Revolution is bloody,revolution is hostile,revolution knows no 
compromise,revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its 
way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying:'I 'm 
going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.'No,you need a 
revolution." --Malik Shabaaz;Message to the Grass Roots

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