The 2008 Democratic race for the White House has energized a debate within the Black community about our debt to the Clinton Administration, a glass ceiling for African-American political possibilities, and low-expectations of Black people by Black people. This election has also exposed the effects of Willie Lynch programming that still orders the binary code of our mental operating system, we lack knowledge of self and others and as a results we view the world through a warped perception of reality. Peep how Senator Obama gained the majority support of the Black community only after white folds showed their approval by voting for him in large numbers. In other words, there are still a great many Black people in America that are so mentally destroyed and filled with self-hate that they cannot even in their wildest imaginations see a Black man as POTUS.
Scholars the world over have studied and compiled reams of data linking religious/racial symbolism and iconography to individual self-perception and worldview.
Acclaimed author and psychologist, Dr Frances Cress Welsing, unveiled a 10 year study on the subject in the 1980�s in her groundbreaking work, �The Isis Papers: Keys to the colors�, where she decoded the iconography and political symbolism of white supremacy. Actor/comedian Eddie Murphy spoofed the study in a scene in the movie, �Boomerang�, when he and co-star Martin Lawrence discussed the color scheme of billiard balls during a game of pool. Lawrence�s character explained to Murphy�s how the design of the rules state; you can only win the game when the dominate white cue ball sinks the black eight-ball.
University Professor and Psychologist Dr Na�im Akbar tackled the issue if African-American self-hate with his book �Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery�. The point is that there is a vast body of works from psychologists and doctors around the world that support the theory that we still suffer mentally from our historical and contemporary relations with our former slave-masters and their children. Now, what does all this talk of iconography and symbolism have to do with the question at hand? I am glad you asked.
It is a well known fact that African-Americans are highly spiritual people. Most of us hold God (creator) in the highest regard imaginable. (Supreme Ruler, Sovereign Lord, etc.) Of course this would be all good and fine if mad-men had not made graven images of humans with biological connections to heaven. What happens to the mind of the Black child who is taught that lighter skin is better, or straight hair is �good hair� and my personal favorite: the picture of the white boy hanging on the wooden cross as a representation of the biological (physical) son of God? When those of us who love equality encounter these teachings and visual images, we regret them and the message they intend. However, when we accept and believe these falsehoods we lower our own self-perception in relation to those who share the physical characteristics of that image of God�s biological son. After all, we naturally expect to look something like our fathers, and if Jesus was/is white then it should reasonably follow that God must defacto be white also. This is the mis-education of the Negro that Carter G Woodson warned us about. (Remember it is all about lack of knowledge of self and others.) Self-hate is about lack of knowledge, just as self-love has a lot to do with knowing our history and heritage and caring about ourselves, in the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad: Where there is no knowledge of self there can be no love of self. That said, what do we know about Barack Obama?
� He is the son of a white American mother and a black African father.
� He was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, blending in and soaking up culturally diversity like mother�s milk.
� He was elected the first Black President of the Harvard Law Review.
� He supports shifting resources from destroying Iraq to rebuilding communities here in America.
� He has pledged to deal more justly with ex-offenders, providing funding for transitional jobs and social services for successful re-integration into society.
� He has work as a community organizer in �the hood� on Chicago�s Southside and most importantly he married a Black woman.
Now that we have knowledge of self, let us get knowledge of others.
� In 1994, the Clinton Crime Bill was passed earmarking $40 billon to arm, train and supply paramilitary police units to wage war on Black youth in inner cities across America.
� It was in 1996 that our �First Black President� passed the anti-terrorism and effective Death Penalty Act which bars a state prisoner�s access to Federal Habeas Corpus review of convictions and allowing more ease in committing state sanctioned murders (executions).
� By 1997 the Clinton�s were able to pass the �Truth in Sentencing Act�, which insures that an inmate serves at least 85% of a sentence.
� Between 1992 ad 2000 the Clinton�s were able to double the U.S. incarceration numbers from 1 million incarcerated when they took office to 2.1 million by the time they left.
� America has the highest incarceration rate on the planet and the Black community was disproportionately affected by the Clinton incarceration binge.
There has been a lot of talk about universal healthcare from both Democratic candidates and it is an indisputable fact that the United States of America is a very sick nation. Senator Clinton likes to refer to herself as the candidate with Solutions, Smarts and Experience gained from the previous Clinton two-term Administration. However, the Black community must be reminded that we were greatly harmed by the policy initiatives created between 1992 and 2000.
African-Americans and Black people around the world can answer the questions by looking into our souls and the souls of our fathers. As the iconography changes, our perceptions of ourselves change. The hellish, demonic bridges are replaced by infinite possibilities, respect for cultural differences and African-Americans displays of human excellence. The world can only become better by replacing the icons and symbols that has cause hundreds of years of human suffering with the universal homogeneous icon of Blackness.
Americans need universal healthcare but she also needs moral healing, a refined image and universal justice. America desperately needs a facelift; the images of white supremacy must be replaced with the image of a Black First Family. When the people of America and the world look at the physical manifestation of Barack Obama they see the color of long suffering. Picture the African nose and full lips and see how strong are the victims of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. When people across the world see his genetic makeup they know it offers a unifying element that fosters universal inclusion.
The ascendancy of Barack Obama to the seat that symbolizes the throne of world political power shatters the mental domination of our former slave masters and signals the coming of the kingdom of peace on earth. The Bible says it this way: �Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.� Matthew 25:34
We can never have change if we continue to do what we always did and expect a different result, that is insanity (a psychological disease). I agree with Minister Farakahn, Barack Obama is more than a presidential candidate, his accomplishments and demonstrations inspire the best from our people. A President Barack Obama world mean 180 degree symbolic change, the world is looking better already.