Finance Capitalism in the World Drug Economy

Overlap: Drug Gangs and Geo-Politics

Mara Salvatruchas Trece (MS-13) is a violent drug network that has filtrated from Centroamerica up thru Mexico and into the United States. MS-13 comprises blowback from the CIA-counterinsurgency terror network -- organized during the Eighties to repress the revolutionary movements -- operating in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. They have been blamed for countless acts of horrific violence, including indiscriminate attacks against other colonized peoples, particularly Africans.

In order to understand their linkages to international narco-terrorism, you have to pose MS-13 against the backdrop of the CIA Guns-for-Drugs operations, sanctioned and financed by the National Security Administration. Also known as CIA Iran-Contra during the Reagan Administration, Guns-for-Drugs was overseen by Oliver North, and run out of the White House.

The Israelis managed a big cut in the action, traced to the vast numbers of Uzis and foreign manufacture weapons on the streets here and elsewhere. Associated with the volatile cocaine traffic that flooded the US starting in the 80s, the bullet-riddled body of an Israeli Mossad officer turned up in car trunk when US armed forces invaded Panama in 1989.

Under the Carter Administration, the CIA was assigned to arm and train Al Qaida in Afghanistan to face down the Soviet occupation. CIA/Al Qaida encouraged opium cultivation to finance the pre-Taliban mujahiddeen, which formed the bulk of the anti-Soviet fighters. As then-NSA advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski directed this strategy, subsequently taken over by North, during Ronald Reagan’s presidency.

Reagan aimed to halt the rising leftist trend in “America’s backyard” thru the most violent counterinsurgency methods in recent history. Centroamerica’s main operatives behind US policy included Nicaragua’s Contras, Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega (whom the US later deposed and imprisoned), the Guatemalan government. Right-wing death squads operated with impunity in El Salvador during that era, massacring 100,000 students, workers, peasants and even nuns. These vicious activities had political backing from Congress, which led a toothless investigation of CIA Iran-Contra, for the illegal mining of Nicaragua’s harbor. Columbia, Bolivia and Peru became enmeshed in violent struggles between communist rebels versus reactionary governments. Imperialist drug kingpins press ganged peasants into intense coca production, which eventually hit our streets as cocaine.

A sidebar, Nicaragua and El Salvador at that time sustained the world’s second highest amputation rates, following closely behind Angola and Mozambique. In all four cases, militarized gangs -- funded and trained by Imperialist forces -- used machetes and other edged implements to terrorize, dismember, maim and murder people by the thousands.

Undeniably connected with this time, drug money laundered thru Cayman Islands or US savings and loans institutions accounted for billions of dollars in illegal proceeds, which ultimately contributed to the collapse of 747 S&Ls like Whitewater, BCCI, and others. This is only one of many leading edges of the reactionary right-wing agenda in American politics.

MS-13 arose as the heir apparent of the Centroamericano pro-imperialist death squads and drug gangs. Parasitic excrescences backing this web of intrigue include reactionary financiers, presently looting the worldwide working class, and imposing a regime of terror across the globe.

We can connect the dots to make comparisons with CIA-trained Al Qaida, spreading its bloodsucking influence thru out Asia. Alongside Al Qaida, include the US-backed military regimes of Paul Kagame and Yoweri Musaveni presently aiming to annex DRC, the interhamwe in DRC, the Saudi-funded janjaweed in Darfur, and other similar pro-imperialist and sub-imperialist terror formations. The common thread running thru these factions involves profit-making via militarized violence, counterinsurgency, and neo-colonialism. Illuminating MS-13 makes one more case for the revolutionary transformation of Imperialism’s genocidal class system.

MS-13, like all drug gangs, poses a serious threat to the stability of working class communities. Their indiscriminate targeting of black people must meet stiff resistance. Yet it makes little sense to stampede peoples minds with scattershot information that provides primitive context, liberal-reactionary content, and race nationalist underpinnings. Our community must become organized not just for simple self-defense. That cannot survive as a successful strategy within any scenario. We have to organize by building scientific socialism, that is, revolutionary communities of resistance, a maroon society.

Build Communities of Resistance!

The State and Imperialism in 2009

by I. Langalibalele

Please take a look at the powerful observation from writer Matt Taibbi that I’ve posted below. Especially take note of the sentence within the *stars*. I've added the "stars" to show emphasis and to highlight that section.

"As complex as all the finances are, the politics aren't hard to follow. By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future. *There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.* In the age of the CDS and CDO, most of us are financial illiterates. By making an already too-complex economy even more complex, Wall Street has used the crisis to effect a historic, revolutionary change in our political system — transforming a democracy into a two-tiered state, one with plugged-in financial bureaucrats above and clueless customers below."

~ Matt Taibbi

The Big Takeover
Mar 19, 2009

Courtesy, Jawanza Diame

What is going on with President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan? If we can take the word of economists like Paul Krugman and others, the government needs to wait out this period of “financial crisis” because it will stabilize over the next nine months or so. However, Obama continues to push for the so-called bank bail outs, which are nothing more than massive giveaways to the already filthy rich financial sector.

The US government want absolute authority. It seeks absolute authority under the cover of democracy to carry out the most inhuman agenda in history. It wants the ability to implement its agenda under the cover of law, based upon the assumption that elected lawmakers can pass legislation that supports the most extreme goals of international finance.

This is apparent from watching trends over the last thirty years. Over this period, leaders from Reagan on thru Obama have raped public assets to fill the pockets of international bankers and other corporate financiers.

In the effort to strip down the State to its basic, fundamental soulless shell, US presidents have auctioned off, sold, or outright given the banks trillions of dollars. They are depleting the public coffers to enrich the already wealthy. Meantime, the educational system suffers, no plan for children’s health care exists, and the State wants more prisons. Because prisoners can be put to work for three hots and a cot, and fascism functions on that principle.

They have used the excuse that there is a banking crisis. Simultaneously, the banks line their pockets, the pockets of their investors, and buy up other financial assets. The banks also line their pockets with the money looted from homeowners. No consumer protection laws have shielded the working class -- the middle class has enuf education to understand fine print, or to hire a lawyer to do it for them -- from the bloodsucking banks. No laws have protected the workers stock-based retirement plans. And with the State giving money to the banks, there will be nothing left for workers who reach retirement age in this country. After all, who will be foolish enuf to invest in the financial schemes that have ripped off workers across this country?

If the bankers were operating honestly, the banks would never have sunk. It is because of their rapine greed and thirst for power that the banks have collapsed. It is not because credit has dried up, but because so much money has become concentrated in so few hands that this situation exists. Without the banks and the culture of bloodsucking greed, society might have a chance to discover its humanity. Yet the State anticipates everything necessary to prevent that.

Anytime real wages have not kept pace with inflation, anytime the US worker labors for more hours than his counterpart in other industrial workers, anytime that worker recedes into debt to maintain a house, automobile and the regular things in life, that is because cash has dried up on the street. It has dried up because the financiers have concentrated 80% of it in their own hands. Seven or eight percent of all people control 80% of all the money. Which means that the remaining 83% of the population must fight over the few dollars left.

So while Obama has joked about bailing out the auto industry, he continues to push the argument that society cannot survive without the banks. He may as well deride joblessness, which hits double digits in the African community. But the auto industry produces a product. The banks do not. Paper money is not a product with any intrinsic value whatsoever.

Why is the State giving even more money to the banks, when the government owes the banks over $10 trillion? The State can seize the banks and liquidate the debt. That makes more sense.

That is what the State did with the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. It wanted to control the oil and the opium, so it invaded those countries. Seventy-five percent of Iraqi oil ends up on the black market; opium production has skyrocketed since the US occupation of Afghanistan. The dope ends up here. Profits from the blackmarket oil ends up in the hands of the CIA and the international financiers. These monies are used to destabilize governments and societies, including US society.

So the State ought to invade Wall Street and take it over completely. However, the State seeks to strip away all the benefits US workers have provided for this society. The State aims to strip down Social Security, pensions, health care and transform this country into a backwater of reaction. It can only achieve this by supporting the banks. In doing so, the strategy has been to give away public sector assets from cash grants to public lands.

The international financiers control the most reactionary sector of capitalism. They fuel wars all over the globe. They finance wars; they finance coups d’etat; they finance assassinations of men like Salvador Allende and Maurice Bishop. They want to transform revolutionary Cuba into a whorehouse and a den of vice. They want the world for their playground while creating misery and instability for billions of people in every single country.

The United States is rapidly moving towards fascism. It is repeating all the steps and turns that Germany and Italia made in the years preceding World War II. The marginalized right-wing has become more shrill and obstructionist, and the Obama Administration appears like the Weimar Republic, granting concessions to the enemies of the people, international finance. If this trend continues, in four more years there will be a firestorm in this country. People need to take the war to the financiers. We do not have time to wait.

A World Wide Palenque

Race, Class and White Supremacy

"We are the leaders we've been waiting for." Pragmatic

The difficult aspect of figuring out this economic breakdown is breaking it down for the masses, yet maintaining a grip on what is happening so that can be simplified. Because I am not by training an economist nor an intellectual by any means. I am a working class brother, myself, and it is my commitment to translate the news and misinformation of the capitalist system into a form upon which people can ACT! I will do this until my dying breath, in the hope that you will SEIZE THE TIME, and put an end to Imperialism once and for all.

• I wasn’t even going to comment on the most recent parasitic “financial meltdown” garbage, AIG taking federal “bailout” money and paying huge bonuses to executive officers and upper managers. And yet folks still don’t seem to be moving rapidly enuf to build, since we have so little time left. Workers, and African ones in particular, do not have the luxury of allowing the bourgeoisie to sort matters out for society.

Because this is a system built upon the concentrated class system (the white Left has called the oppression of colonized nationalities "superexploitation"), we sometimes call it White Supremacy. Because of White Supremacy, it is important for Africans to understand these concepts in the coming struggle. Because we will have to fight and organize and fight some more so that scores can be settled by our side, and not on behalf of racist, neo-colonial Imperialism.

What I mean to state clearly and without any mistake in meaning is that White Supremacy is RACISM. White Supremacy concentrates the class question, resulting in what colonized people as we kno as RACISM, which the white Left and its black auxilliaries call "superexploitation". Yet many Black Internationalists have soundly stated and demonstrated that super exploitation is normal exploitation in the colonial apparatus that sustains Imperialism.

White Supremacy permits white people to believe they can dilute all questions pertaining to racist (not "racial") oppression by promoting NEO-COLONIALISM. And that does dilute most questions by giving the appearance of having solved the concentrated class question, racism. The dilution arises in the delay, or lag, it creates between the contradictions which arise at the point of production. Which is merely a fancy way of saying that the struggle between the (colonized) workers and the capitalists, which is the sharpest form of struggle, becomes derailed or delayed in a neo-colonialist regime.

• When we discuss the lag in the relations of production, we are talking the period between the capitalist class having its way until the workers themselves attain clear revolutionary consciousness. The colonized worker sees the contradictions more sharply; his/her relationship to production is more critical because the colonized worker is closer to being in a life and death struggle than the Imperialist worker.
  

• MATERIAL PRODUCTION means the production of whatever has a real economic value; production is the process that we engage in thru our work in the factories, mines, fields and other places where workers are required. If you sell your labor, that is, if your labor is what you use to make a living, then you belong to the working class. Even our ancestors, capitalist slaves, were workers. In fact, they set the standards for material production and labor organization upon which all capitalist production is modeled.

Yet this period is characterized by intensified, rapine CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH in as few hands as possible. There is no “financial meltdown” or economic crisis except as manipulated by the robber barons of the financial system. It is crass manipulation which will IMMOLATE us all if not for a mass uprising against the ruling class.

The critical thing to understand is that only working class people can change this situation. Working class people make up a strategic sector of the population. Only two strategic sectors exist, that is, only two classes can determine the objective course of history. The ruling class, a small group that wields power out of proportion to its numbers, has this ability. Workers, because of several factors, form the other class.

• We must discuss classes in terms of relationships. Their relationship to one another and, objectively --- therefore primarily -- their relationship to material production.

ONLY THE WORKER IS INVOLVED IN MATERIAL PRODUCTION.

• For this reason, the worker (by extension, meaning "the producing classes") remains the only element, the only person, the only link in the class system without which society cannot survive! Other classes are hangers-on, or parasites.

Material production puts bread on the table, clothes on your back, a roof over the fam! YOU DO NOT NEED PAPER MONEY TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN!

• But we are getting ahead of ourselves. More explaining of class relationships is in order, first.

Other classes, particularly the petty bourgeoisie, or middle class, lack the ability to objectively alter the course of history. They lack power, wealth and numbers. For them to gain power, they must manipulate society’s actual producers, the workers, in order to displace the present rulers and wield power in their stead.

The ruling class does not need numerical strength to determine the course of history. They have power and wealth which allows them to call all the shots. Imagine how much wealth and power they have at their fingertips, power they use to control the entire planet, and they do not make up more than 1% of the entire world population. Perhaps their numbers are far less than that.

But all this wealth at their disposal allows them to control the economies of entire nations, INCLUDING THE GOOD OLE USA! That chess position reveals too much of an immense control ability for a handful of people in a vast interconnected world of five billion living souls.

• So as this power and wealth derives from concentrating resources into as few hands as possible, our current situation exists because society blindly accepts that ownership of PRIVATE PROPERTY is a right.

People must understand that rights are abstractions; rights exist based upon what society recognizes as moral or just or merely the way it is because the law says so. In a democracy, this abstraction cannot have any force if people strike against it. When society turns democracy upside down, people will begin to see that as the only way democracy can operate in their favor.

Once WE turn away from the notion of PRIVATE PROPERTY as a right, that will begin to erode the power which a tiny, bloodsucking minority wields over the vast coffers of collectively produced wealth.

As unemployment expands and people’s comfort zone shrinks, the outrage which remains bottled up must not stay contained as it had during the years when wages shrunk and living expenses grew. Because INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CAPITALISM must end. It is the system which has produced every problem known to the modern world. The vast interwoven social fabric which stretches across the globe cannot allow its fate to rely upon the decisions of a handful of jaded movers and shakers.

The working classes produce everything society needs for its maintenance. It produces medicine, food, housing, weapons, factories, mines, wealth and power that it has the ability to wield in its own interests by its own hands.

• However, it surrenders everything it produces for the pleasure of the ruling class. EVERYTHING!! The workers and other producers give up every iota of wealth and power to the capitalists, who turn it all against the workers who created this fabulous society themselves. EVERYTHING!

The bourgeoisie produce wars over resources to turn one group of workers against another, to enslave a nation so that the bourgeoisie may themselves enjoy the power they exercise thru the spectacle of bloodshed and horrendous destruction. The bourgeoisie produce nothing except exploitation and oppression. It is impossible for them to produce a single thing of material significance.

In fact, the bourgeoisie substitute paper value for real value.

They substitute worthless paper for the things that workers produce in the factories, mines, fields and anywhere else workers replenish and subdue the earth for the life of society.

SUBSTITUTING PAPER MONEY FOR COMMODITIES AND NECESSITIES OF REAL VALUE CONSTITUTES THE BIGGEST SWINDLE IN HISTORY!

Paper for the gold you dig and for the diamonds that get forked over; the farmer gives up his crops for a debt owed to the bank.

• ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY!! Has society gone mad?

Yes, this is the beginning of the madness which brought us to this point in history. We are in a new period, where society will have to decide which way to turn. Your very existence is on the line.

We who consider ourselves "Black" do so because of our relationship to White Supremacy. Our relationship to a racist society demanded we produce a SEPARATIST identity. As Steve Bantu Biko once stated, "Black Consciousness is a STATE of Mind." It is not a skin color.

IT IS POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS.

It is revolutionary theory and action within the international African community. So on this basis, we have to decide if we seek to be the workers or the bosses, revolutionaries or reactionaries; can society do away with international finance?

Do we really want to get rid of the banks, the financiers and -- most of all -- the political system which tells us that the world's highest standard of living exists right here in the good ole USA. Not many people want to challenge that, for any number of reasons.

YET the behemoth is really a bloodsucking excrescence, with its tentacles wrapped around the MINDS of five billion people! And that many folks cannot and will not ever taste one tenth of that lifestyle, since we would require FOUR EARTHS to sustain that much material production.

Build a New World by tearing down the old, or sort thru the ashes of a destroyed planet. The choice is yours.

true knowledge

ETERNAL

Suicide. With hands outstretchd and toes
gripping a window ledge four stories high
reached and graspd a chosen fruit and I
askd, plummeting by, why they made
the choice they had:
Africa is the Future! and You
carry her seeds within your womb.
and I am Death, your King. I am
in all things old and new; in
Life you find me close by
and in the desert paths I reign
supreme. I walk amidst joy and
vibrant Spring, when galaxies were born
and breathed the dawn upon the gods:
Osiris, Zeus, Yahweh. Them all I ate
and now they make my dung. My
arctic footsteps leave a chill that no
cold can match. I am Death, your
King. When all is safe and moments
grow sweet, I steal.
Eternal Time marks only one
companion and my heart will
never fill. Africa is the Future!
and you carry her seeds within
your soul. Black woman, Nubian
queen, sweetest fruit of the darkest
branch, bearer of the Life within,
bring forth my Myrmidons. I slay
the darkness and then the light.
One must die so another may live, and
for that shall they obey my signs! The
grey lips of a cold heart pursed
against the breast
of an unloved land, nourished
by the milk of dreams. I
am Death, your King and no
flight may escape my realm nor
satisfy my tax. No justice,
no reason or timing prevents the
hands outstretchd and toes
gripping an avalanche of sorrow.
Perish all, Death lives forever.

Some Must Read Literature

A Short Revolutionary Reading List

Sista Nefertiti, my good friend and comrade, posted on Assata Shakur Forums that she is reading Sun Tzu on the Art of War! Sun's teaching resembles Tai Chi: attack when the enemy is weak; fall back when he is strong; kno the lay of the land and never give the enemy the defensive advantage. Not only is Sun Tzu a great tactician, he gives us rules for living, working and playing. That's an awesome read!

As I went over some of those posts, there are so many authors that I need to revisit! George GM James, the inestimable Diop. I don't kno if these authors were posted, but they produce some great writing: JA Rogers, Drusilla Dunjee Houston, Bobby Seale, Na'im Akbar. A personal acquaintance and friend, Abdul Alkalimat has an excellent Primer on African American History. Some more great authors from the US include classics like E Franklin Frazier's The Black Bourgeoisie, Harold Cruse's The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Huey P Newton's Revolutionary Suicide, George Jackson's Blood in My Eye, and my introduction to revolutionary organizations, Gene Marine's The Black Panthers.

About the same time, I got into a conversation with Gen. Peter Castro Okema-Otika on Facebook about African literature. He told me, "Okot P'Bitek is a Luo/Acholi poet and writer who wrote intriguing books like Song of Lawino, [and] Song of Ocol, etc. He was friend with Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Chinnua Achebe who wrote Things Fall Apart. Okot comes from my village/town of Gulu in Northern Uganda (RIP)."

Since Peter also suggested listening to the music of Geoffrey Oryema and mentioned Ngugi wa Thiong'o, plus Chinua Achebe, you can google them as I surely will. Being a great enthusiast of Ngugi, I had read his Decolonising the Mind and Barrel of a Pen years ago in Dennis Brutus's class on African literature when Brutus was professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. Ngugi is a giant of African letters. He, Chinweizu, and Chidi Amuta are the very best critics of anti-imperialist literary art that I have ever read. And don't forget to go over the poetry of that anti-apartheid, anti-imperialist stalwart, my friend and mentor, Dennis Makhana Brutus.

Jean-Paul Sartre ("Sart"), a Frenchman, philosopher and everlasting anti-imperialist, wrote the "Foreword" to Fanon's major work, Wretched of the Earth. Sartre opposed the French-Algerian War and exposed its atrocities, and played a similar protagonistic role when both the French and then the US were in Vietnam. His anti-imperialist stance on all major questions of the Twentieth Century earned him the hatred of the US foreign policy ideologues; Sartre was honored by liberation movements everywhere. No matter how "black" you are, this is one European who deserves a ton of props.

Vo Nguyen Giap, Ho Chi Minh's general and architect of the Vietnamese wars against the French and US, wrote a number of bad ass books on Vietnam military history. Giap or Vo, don't kno which is his family name, must be one of the greatest military strategists of the last 100 years.

Mao Zedong (formerly spelt "Tse Tung") wrote down his Selected Military Writings, which have more emphasis on the political discipline of the Red Army. Like Mao, Amilcar Cabral wrote a number of books during Guinea-Bissau's guerrilla conflict with Portugal but, again, Cabral deals very little with battlefield tactics and stratagems. Same approach applies to writings by Fidel and Che Guevara. Why? Because these revolutionaries focused upon transforming society and the military solution was regarded as only a transitional and limited tool for that task.

Hence, for an understanding of the battlefield tactics and political structure of guerrilla movements in 20th Century Latin America, Regis DeBray catalogued a number of instances in interviews with Che, and DeBray also followed Che's command.

There is a book by a guy at the local library. Don't remember his name or the book title. But it essentially discusses military battles which changed history. At first I was like, what, no Hannibal crossing the Alps?! Then I caught on to what he was getting at: military battles that changed history (that might be the title, sumpin like that) are those in which the balance of power shifts, or a power vacuum is created. In any event, a new period of history begins (or ends) because of the turning point based a particular battle. So instead of the brilliant Hannibal crossing the Alps, the author featured the Battle of Zama, which determined who would rule the Mediterranean, the Carthaginians or Rome. Plus he discusses other battles of the ancient world and thru medieval times, colonial times and right up to Dien Bien Phu. A great read for military enthusiasts.

Eduardo Galeano wrote The Open Veins of Latin America. Galeano is a must read; his writing is poetic and a polemic tour de force; he exposes Bush family forerunner Herbert Walker and his role in the United Fruit Company. Galeano covers everything from Nicaragua on thru Peru and Argentina. His writing style makes reading history extremely interesting. Anybody who wants to become a good writer should read his work. But the way he puts it down will make you weep. And then it will make you outraged.

In this class, which elaborates upon Karl Marx's theory of primitive accumulation, you will find Walter Rodney's How Capitalism Underdeveloped Africa, Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery, and Manning Marable's How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America. Then, CLR James wrote The Black Jacobins, which details the only successful slave revolt in history; speaking of Haiti, check up on Randall Robinson's recent book, An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President, which details the sordid US policy in that island country. For the history of resistance, Herbert Aptheker does a fine job in American Negro Slave Revolts.

Have you read Credo Mutwa? His play Nosilimela taught me rudimentary Zulu. There is a website on UFOs and mutis dedicated to him. Almost comical, but his writing gets you involved.

Also, for work on anti-imperialist struggle by some giants try getting ahold of Fanon, Cabral, Cesaire (who collaborated with Pablo Picasso on one of his books), Nkrumah, Nyerere, Brutus, Biko, Lessing, Fugard (not really). Wadada Nabudere is a must read. Haven't read Facing Mt. Kilimanjaro. On my list, too.

The Prophecy of Mbantunyankompong

Mau Mau Propers for the Pope



On Friday, April first, the triple sixes,
The devil’s number, on April Fools Day
One day before the pope’s eternal slumber*
Say a sign: Mehmet Ali Agca.
The die rolled from Shaytaan’s tumbler.
Pope passed away the next day Saturday.

Set it off, niggers, for a superficial deity
Steeped in crimes enriched by thievery
Supported by dictators and presidents,
Adored by maquiladoras and sweatshop
Tyrants y’all, holding us by our balls.

Black slave truly worshipping the master
Instead of hating and defying bondage, rather
Were the master the same race or nationality
As the slave, should that mitigate the apostasy?

What’s your Nine-Eleven, niggers!

Go insane. Forget thinking, open your minds:
Fill the clip, slide close the bolt. Shut your lip.

Perhaps the slaps USA serves upside our naps
Shall someday soon earn a president coon
Or the Catholic Church a nonwhite pope.

To hope in that worse than shooting dope.

In that case put the barrel up to your face
Blast your goddamn brains all over the place.

One ecumenical joke compounded upon another.
One in particular deems the pope infallible
One pope turned to fertilizer, recycle.

Donald DeFreeze time, niggers. Shit. Cinque.

For the all powerful to depict the enslaved
In a position of power is an illusion engraved
Upon suckers paying to win a billionaire lottery
Waged on triple sixes, on April Fools Day. Hay
For you, the flip side of the illusion serves
Just a smell, deluding bombers with shaky nerves
On hopes of a cross-burning pope stuffed into Hell.

Pray to that pimp while you sweat in jail.

Triple sixes onna popes death bed, niggers!

And yet you step aside for simple shit, a dead
Antichrist, the mark upside a dragon’s head
Not upon it, leprous stains the soul within
The Mark of Oppression, niggers, not of Sin
Black skin for sinners, Oppressors wear white.
Sinners swap threads with Oppressors overnite.

Same sinners swap spit with Oppressors for cash
Asses fatuous to be freed from the Crackers lash.

What’s your Nine-Eleven, motherfucker.

Nobody from Heaven returns inflight to overthrow
This Devilz Paradise and set things right. So
Such stinking thinking strips you down
Rips you down, clowns you, frowns on you
Your hesitation forces black fighters to dissolve
Back from the streets, staked out, delayed. Resolved.

Sidelined niggers venting anger. Vent, niggers!

Dedan Kimathi. Musab Al Zarqawi. Vent that.

Crazy niggers, wild niggers, killing crackers dead
Niggers with million dollar bounties on they head.
Pick the fuck up on that, Africans, pick up the gun
Where’s the pope mobile see it catch it run
Like the Putin grenade at Bush flung so untoward
And fuck the pope and his goddamn peace award.

Damn him and sainthood, no good malingerer
To him and his successor, Ratslinger, the finger
Yeh with that Sunday voodoo shit on they altar.

Yeh stiff-assed hymns to a stiff-assed god of stone
Nailed to a plus, fed to dogs, Isa’s doctrine blown
Contaminated by an apostate Paul, a devil at large.

Conflagrations set by heretic popes on their charge
Suffer no apologists for slavery and genocide
To targets, hoes, who shed blood in fratricide
As rifle bolts slide forward silently, stealthily
Processions of machete-toting zombies infallibly
Committed on papal authority glide to they death,
From Kinshasa to Bujumbura, a blood soaked path
Bodies in heaps, graves en masse, now chant a mass:

Who blessed the bombs and blessed the armies
And bullets which saturated flesh, sliced arteries
For the glory of the church so that Carol Wojtyla,
Pope John Paul II, gained spoils of Vatican imperialism?

We cling to the excesses and culture to the very end.

Samora Machel, motherfuckers. George Habash.

The pope aint your friend, don’t like pussy
Don’t like niggers, but will spend your money
Swaggering with balls bigger than you can bear
Them damn popes aint no closer to God, the knaves
Than Washington came to freeing the slaves.

Should any lord of the Age of Expansion fear,
Or repudiate the power which brought them here?

From this very day, television commercials parade
Niggers in every conceivable position displayed
Projecting illusions of success, delusions nonetheless
Wealth fame fortune love beauty happiness conquest
Perceptions of what is but which also facilitates
Mainstreaming niggers thru these United Snakes.

Is everybody buying it is everybody trying it
Jumping off the boat for the pope’s lying shit?

Because the pope started all this with Da Gama
In 1492, along with that other flat world ‘bama
Colon. Now five hundred years far too long
Just different music playing to the same old song.

What’s your goddamn Nine-One-One, niggers?

Before we were niggers, before the Conquistadors
Before Da Gama bombed Mombasa, before
You remember what we really were, we had
Diamonds in the fields, made love in gardens by
Sweet fountains of the Niger in an African eden
Kings black as midnight, palaces draped in gold
And African queens dressed in riches untold
Warriors big as boats, seven foot tall, their
Spears tipped with iron, sharpened for war
Physicians philosophers sages of Sankore
Artisans aristocrats and shepherds of Ile-Ife
Catching the sun, children played care-free
Until the popes gangs came to ravage Society.

Soon after, other Europeans arrived in their wake
Yet the chimera first sprang from the popes own cape
Villages destroyed, soldiers deployed from dungeons
Force marching captive Africans into floating coffins.

From black maidens in bondage, black farmers in chains
The shackle the lash the mace bashing brains
Burnt branded tattooed like cattle and chattel
To New Millennium babies gulping cold oatmeal
Fast, as women sell their bodies for a cocaine blast…

Youth spinning Vogues, stalking with Glocks
Track down one another over handfuls of rocks.

Vibe on the corner, promoting ghetto fab glamour
To hustlers one slip away from a trip to the slammer.

Our once free world now turned right-side wrong
A dance set in motion to the popes droning gong.
Negro sell outs cop out for a chance to get paid
Like a trick in a trance by a whore, getting played…

Uprising on the horizon, streets furiously a swirl
The burnt flesh of necklaces in the air, that smell
So what’s your Nine-Eleven, niggers? Do tell.

Nat Turner, bitches. Mau Mau time.




*(On Friday, April first, 2005, one day before Pope John Paul II passed away, the Pennsylvania Lottery turned out 6-6-6 on the evening numbers draw. That provided part of the inspiration for this poem, which I had written a few months later. This is a repost from URC Discuss; hope it sets some hearts on fire.)



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