It's Violent American Culture, Not Just Political Violence

The Gnadenhutten Massacre, 1782. (Credit: Archive Photos/Getty Images)

 

"The dominant media narrative is pushing the tired, hollow chorus, 'there's no place for political violence in America' as if centuries of racism, lynchings, assassinations, coups, and insurrections aren’t already the bedrock of American politics." -Dr. Stacey Patton

     In response to the recent Georgia and Colorado school shootings, the Charlotte subway stabbing, and the Utah Valley University shooting I wrote on Facebook:

"America was founded with violent warfare. America’s foundational economy was built and maintained through a system of inherent violence and tyranny. America’s identity and historical timeline is written and marked by warfare and centers violence: The American Revolution, the Civil War, WWI, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam War, etc. The patriotism many Americans embrace originates in the violence of "Patriots.” The American Flag is rooted in warfare and is a unifying military symbol beginning with the Revolutionary War. July 4th is a celebration of violent military conquest and fireworks symbolize cannons and gunfire. America is 249 years old and all 249 years it has either been in conflict with a foreign nation or in conflict with its own citizens. America has never experienced a year of peace. America has even been in constant conflict with the land, water, air and other life forms with pollution and ecocide. America prides itself on warfare and military might; its Defense Budget is nearly $1 trillion dollars. No nation owns more guns than America. No nation has more people incarcerated than America. No nation has experienced more school shootings than America. America has always been violent and millions of people have died on this land, many for simply existing and desiring peace.

What you have been watching is a society born and baptized in violence. America’s psychopathic culture of violence needs to change. How America writes its historical timeline in blood, and marks its most significant events with blood, has to change. If this does not change, children are going to continue being born immunized against peace."

     Whether you agree or not, violence is a core part of America's DNA. It is impossible to separate violence and imperialism from what it means to be an American and simultaneously embrace American history and culture. In fact, there is no nation that is considered more historically violent than America and U.S. History is proudly taught from the point of view of 'centering' violence and warfare. This means that there is a primary focus on violence and warfare as the main subjects of American history while excluding other factors as less important. Children in school are not primarily learning that America's most significant events are moments centered in love, peace, and happiness. They are learning about struggle, conflict and turmoil from Colonial Era warfare to the War in Afghanistan. 

U.S. History Classroom Poster of highlighting major American events

Some would argue that all nations were born through violent conflict, which is untrue. People seem to confuse a nation with a country or a state. A nation is a group of people who have a shared identity, history and culture which is often indigenous to a specific territory, regardless of so-called country or state-imposed borders. A country or state is a geopolitical entity with defined borders and a government that was oftentimes established through some form of conflict and ecocide. In other words, a country or state only exists by engaging a nation of people and superimposing defined borders and a government on the lands that this nation inhabits. That engagement, as in some African/Indigenous nations, could have happened through peaceful unification of shared values among groups. Imperialistic engagement has always been marked by violent warfare and ecocide against nations. There are nations of people who were founded in peace, who lived in peace, until that peace was disrupted by White American ancestors welding a Doctrine of Discovery; the legal and religious "right" that justified Christian explorers and colonists to take the land and murder Indigenous peoples. While you can find some nations, countries, and states founded in peace and living in peace, America is not that country, nor has it ever been. And because America is not, and some Americans have accepted its violent history as normal, that does not make it normal for the rest of the world. America's violent history that it celebrates and pridefully teaches to American children is not normal. 

     2026 will mark the 250th Anniversary of America's violent founding. People around the country will be bombarded with patriotism and reminded of its violent wars and struggles of genocidal enslavers to be independent. Children in elementary school will read books about colonizers who murdered indigenous people, and complete coloring sheets honoring men who enslaved African people. The Social Studies curriculum that middle schoolers and high schoolers will learn will be U.S. History, Geography, Civics, Government, Economics, and even World History centered in violence. There is no way that these students can accurately learn about capitalism without conflict, government without turmoil, and America's timeline without war. As adults, we will be pressured into being patriotic; proud American citizens who are grateful for the bloodshed of millions for us to enjoy the privilege to not even think about, talk about, or care about it. 

The KKK marches down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. in 1926

     Some may read this and accuse me of being Anti-American. No, there are many things that I enjoy about this country, yet I am also anti-devilishment, which means I am against evil and wrongdoing, regardless who is doing. With the recent deaths that we have seen, people appear to cherry pick which lives are worthy of celebrating and which lives are not. Many of us have normalized American violence to the point where we are selective about whose death saddens us. We selectively care, using a sliding scale of empathy regarding others humanity. Violence to them is rationalized by race, religion, politics, gender, age, and/or socioeconomic status. This is how KKK members were rationalized as a protected class of American Patriots and a film about their imagined heroism was screened at the White House, while they domestically terrorized Black people. For some people, the talking point “there is no place for political violence” does not mean that they categorically condemn political violence. What they really mean is “there are 'other places' for political violence, for other people.” People will express being sad and heartbroken about the death of a conservative influencer yet be silent about children dying in a school shooting, Black people being murdered in a grocery store or church, or women dying from sexual violence. They will tweet and post about no political violence when it comes to certain people... and places... in America... but completely ignore the political violence against other Americans and America's political violence on foreign lands. Some people have normalized American violence to the point where they cannot even imagine a world of peace and consider nothing more than an unattainable, unrealistic, utopian dream. The violence that we see is homegrown and as American as apple pie. They are not senseless or without reason. The reason is America has created a psychopathic culture of violence where these acts have occurred within the context of American history, upon an American sociopolitical landscape, and within an American framework of violence and warfare. It's where we live, what we celebrate, and what we do, as Americans. If we want to see different, we have to teach and show children that love, peace and happiness is of the highest value. We have to redefine what it means to be American and rewrite/retell its history to reflect that identity without negating the conflicts, turmoil, and struggles. Its conflicts, turmoil and struggles need to be decentered and not the highlight reel of who we are. That is, if that is not who we are or what we desire to be as a country. The problem is that is the source of pride for many Americans and exactly who they want to be. It's in their blood, like the red on their flags that they mount to their vehicles and fly in front of their homes. 

     I typically greet people and depart with the word "PEACE." It is a fundamental part of my language and culture to begin things in peace and to end them in peace. Whatever happens in-between exists within that fundamental framework of "PEACE." Yes, I get upset, yes things may not go right, and yes, I experience conflict and turmoil at times yet at the end of the day my orientation is peace. America's orientation is and has always been violence and war, since its 1776 inception to modern day. Whatever good history that has happened in-between exists within that fundamental framework of violence and war. If this does not change, we will continue to see the same violence.

Peace,

Saladin

The Nation is All Wise

and

Does Everything Right & Exact

Part 2

During the creation process, we borrow tissue from our mother’s body. This means that our matter, or material, is maternal.  This is why in Latin [when they learned it from our civilization] “mother” means “matter” and “father” means “pattern” [or blueprint]: He sparked the pattern. So every time you touch your skin, you’re not only touching your mother, and your grandmother, you are touching the first mother!  This is the reason why we are literally our ancestors; life recycles. This is also the understanding in our science of why we look at God; not because he represents ALL of God, or Allah -but because the potential [infinite potential] of Allah is manifested through the Blackman within the gender of the human kingdom, and the potentiality of our society is realized through that pattern of male leadership to initiate changes within our society. This is the same way the sperm determines the sex of the baby,  or the Subjective Realm coming into the Objective Realm; in reference to the undifferentiated energy/matter being initiated by the will to form the objective or physical realm by a cognizant willing, wanting or desiring.  When it comes down to the undifferentiated energy/matter aspect of the Subjective Realm of Allah forming the physical realm or Objective Realm, when it comes into gender we consider it [having feminine qualities analogous to the] Earth, Substance or Wisdom. That’s why you hear those terms.  Like we say, “God is a group reality seen through individual eyes.” The eyes of the individual that can spark the pattern for more divine aspects will be the “father of civilization” manifested from the potential state into a real live civilization; germinating into children and creation (and those who are woken from the strange sleep) from the Blackman. The Blackwoman represents the vessel to receive the seed and bring it into existence.

This is the creation story told from a Kabbalistic or Eastern perspective. All Asian, Central Asian [African] societies fall under this category. The Five Percent fall under this category in via Triple Stage Darkness. Alright, let’s put this into more practical Eastern scientific terms: The undifferentiated energy/matter that subsists in the subjective realm forms the material realm, the objective realm or the physical realm. From a portion of itself, it takes on a quality that we know in gender as feminine; because the essential qualities of what is done in creation to born or bring things into existence is what is channels down, when we become man and woman, as feminine.

Everything in life within the objective realm (or realm of objects) is either feminine/feminine [XX] or masculine/feminine [YX] because sex cell reproduction or mitosis takes place in the ovaries not the sperm. This is because the material realm itself is feminine.  The pattern part [father] is the “word,” the “want,” the “will,”  the “spark” the “desire to.” This is the infinite potential to make patterns in the subjective real. When it comes down to the material or physical realm—where gender is created, that “pattern” displays more like masculine or potential; the “spark” plug like a seed, the thing that has the blueprint, ingredient list or table of contents for the germination process. Yet, the whole germination process and the finished product takes place or goes on in the feminine part of reality. In other words, knowledge is the foundation and the spark that spurs all creation. The rest, from wisdom to cipher, are derivatives of wisdom.  The man may be the “spark plug” but the engine, the cockpit, the chairs, the wheels, the chassis and the road itself is feminine. Everything created came through the “womb of space.” What we have between knowledge and wisdom is harmony.  That relationship is as simple as the Sun and the Moon; Yang and Ying. The small dots within the Yang and Ying indicates that they understand each other; they love one another—they care, respect and act responsible for one another. The Blackman may represent the knowledge, the will to become true and living and the infinite potential to do so, but wisdom is the way. The Blackwoman is the way that the will and seed or sperm is made manifest. Cee-I-Power Her because Her-Power-I-Cee.

Now interestingly enough, when you talk to a hard core feminist about anything that has to do with the act of making babies, they will relegate these powers to minor significance. When you talk about lesbianism from a biological perspective some will tell you that, “God made them that way.” Some even show much disdain for men, yet dress and posture like men. Is that biological too? Most of that rap revolves around neutering the gender roles in society; indicating certain things can be done by both parties and wedging differences known to split up families. Because spit don’t make babies, the above magnanimous conversation concerning Triple Stage Darkness, the magnanimous power of the Earth, the equality that God Allah gives to the feminine factor of life, is relegated to minor significance by the feminist!  Her conversation is more about money, power and the respect that’s gained by BS independence! Non-cooperation will get us loneliness, isolation and lying on the couch trying to be consoled by another woman, and who knows were that goes. . .

Yes, “All” came from one; as the word “Allah” indicates. In Genesis, man is called into a deep rest so that man could be separated from woman in spiroth (breath/soul) and flesh; as the “rib removed from Adam” indicates. Our science has different terms, God and Earth, because although Allah is All, Allah’s infinite potential and undifferentiated energy/matter has two distinct functions: One function wills and the other function produces. They both understand what needs to be done to make “E Pluribus Enum”: many out of One/One out of many, harmony and peace through love for each other.  Please, misguided Blackwoman, tell me what powers does a Goddess have that an Earth doesn’t? And tell me how that word “Goddess” distinguishes itself from God or incorporates the terms, Wisdom, Culture, Equality, Unknown and Cipher into her mathematics? Or are we rivaling for the use of the seven now? It sounds like a female pimp “snow job” that will bring you nothing but female companionship and loneliness from lack of male company.    

Today, unlike any other time in our chronology, Black reality mimics more of Western society. I thought that having Knowledge of Self is about recapturing our culture but I even hear Black women nowadays saying that they are Black Feminists -even though the Black woman’s benefits were only the byproduct of the White feminists getting their way in American society.  This is the same as the residuals that Black men get from what White men orchestrate in American society. We are not the originators of the chauvinism that America has, we do not make the rules here.  We are subjected to them, just as the Blackwoman is. One of the things we must knowledge, as in Ferguson and other cities throughout these United States, is that our people have been subjected to police brutality and random travesty of justice, every time the economy goes awry. America’s business is business and in a capitalist society its interests are who and what it chooses to capitalizes off of.  Those who need charity are on the bottom rung in a capitalistic system. Our politics of looking for someone to supply jobs and rights must change. What this means for our women is to stop looking at us as the authors of the evils experienced in America. In many ways, we are subjected to the same evils in this White male dominated society called America.

This society is currently under turmoil from a state of ambiguity that started back in 60's from the Sexual Revolution that White America started. As said previously, this is par for the course of America because Europe had alternative lifestyles in their culture for thousands of years, we didn't as a norm. We also didn’t embrace rugged individualism. We teach that “civilized means to teach knowledge and wisdom of the human family of the planet earth” (2/1-14). We are very different from the Whites and their form of civilization and we must always knowledge that. As the Father said, “We are not pro-Black or anti-White”, we are about pro-right-eousness. Standing separate as individuals does not create families nor hold families together. This stuff America is currently going through is not right for us. The principles of our culture does not produce such an outcome. Our issue is that we have to knowledge their culture because we live in America and use that knowledge for survival. Yet we must embrace our culture and leave this trick knowledge that the West possesses, alone. It is leading us astray because it is nothing but devilishment.

What the world needs is love. What that means is everyone is looking for someone to care for them, the way THEY WANT THEM to care. Some want that care as a co-sign, whether they are right or wrong; whether they are doing something wack or experimenting with something they will live to regret.  As parents, guardians and youth advocates, we can’t show love like that. If we see that our child is falling for sexual ambiguity, it is not our position to support something in which our years of experience and observations tell us is a bad choice and levying our precious ones open to abuse.

Peace,

Allah Universal Lord Life Justice Shabazz

The Nation is All Wise

and

Does Everything Right & Exact

Part 1

In order for this to be possible, that is, a nation to be all wise and doing everything right and exact, it must have a group of people who observe our endeavors and experiences in life—study them for what they really mean—the significance and implications; and make decisions based upon such things.  This means you must look backwards to move forward.  Today, most live for today and disrespect most which has passed; this is not wisdom—it is folly; but what a fool believes and sees, no wise man has the power to reason away what seems to be.  If you are meeting a man who is coming back from a winding road that you are about to travel on, it only makes sense to inquire about the experience before embarking.   Some people have to put their face in manure to know that it is poop.  We are not those types, for we have learned the truth of this place, its intentions, its’ deceptions, its’ hoodwinks and Tricknowledge—but most of us do not distinctly think of America as a Western culture and how it was set up—sometimes diametrically opposed to Eastern and Central Asian culture.


There is nothing intrinsically evil about having a difference in opinion, perception or world view than others; but it becomes a crime when you try to force that view on others, whether they want it or not.  This is the main obstacle here.  Because as Black people, we were brought here against our will, forced to work for another people for no wages for 308 years—then released without repatriation or state assistance to make it on our own.  There have been two civil rights movements in this country, one in the first year of Emancipation or 1863, and one in 1963, one hundred years later, and though we marched and protested, we still did not get the freedom that we marched for.


Most significant is what happened in the Segregation Era (Whites and Colored only), within the United States; wherein “Separate But Equal,” was the slogan and the two wouldn’t dare mingle.  There was the “Citizen Council” or “KKK” (Klu Klux Klan) and the general attitude of Whites was not to concern themselves with Black things, or things that were not in their direct interests.  During this time, there was Negro League Baseball and Black Wall Street. During this time, there were advances made by Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee Institute, Marcus Garvey and the UNIA or Universal Negro Improvement Association, the Nation of Islam had another perspective than the one currently shown, and the Black Power Movements were just “a telephone call away.”  The significant thing was Black owned businesses, Black owned Hotels, and although Black Entertainers performed in White establishments, they had to lodge in Black areas among the locals or stay in Black hotels.  We had our own, we frequented our own, and we looked out for our own interests—mainly because we had no choice.  Not all of us were on board with this, due to the self-hatred and self esteem created during that vacuum called “enslavement.”  There were many people put under slavery during the course of history or our chronology, but none devastated so by the lost of their language—as the Blackman experienced in America.  We did what we had to do and were being rather successful at it, but for many—our eyes were on seemingly greener pastures.


Integration, was an illusion created during the Civil Rights Struggle, wherein forced busing and housing was imposed on the White population by so-called “conscientious Whites,” but this did nothing to destroy the attitude created by slavery: “That Blacks were three-fifths of a man and were to be considered along with livestock and other such property.”  And of course, this privilege was only for those who could afford it; creating the “looks like we made it/I’m special” attitude among some Blacks.  Needless to say, Westerners are very resistant to change, and have problems with accepting anything other than stereotypical views of others.

What I am saying here is that today we are still living in a segregated society that appears to be equal:  This is a multi-cultural society, yet it is amalgamated in its cultural perspective—it is one dominant culture with all other cultures being sub-cultures.  The interests of those other cultures are to be considered by the dominant culture or majority, whereas all other peoples are its minorities.  In a capitalistic society, any people who are not generating income and therefore not self-sufficient, shall be the least concerned or regarded—that’s just actual facts.  You cannot expect your interest to be protected by another people who do not think like you—and more centrally, if you are not about the business of recapturing your culture, you are accepting the European and pseudo-European way as the standard of high civilization.  If this is not, then you need to explore these other perspectives mentioned here and decide for yourself which makes more sense: Just don’t do the research using a pseudo-Western brainwashed mentality.  Learn to look at things from both sides of the equation.


What has happened since the 60s has had a great affect on how the 90s and thereafter has become.  You have to look backwards in order to spring forward; you do this every six months when you set your watch, so why not construct your moving forward by knowing where you’ve been?  Let me start out by saying that the greatest pimp of women ARE women.  A pimp’s game is a woman’s game in reverse.  Everybody plays games, it’s just that a good game is one where everyone mutually benefits and a bad one is where one makes himself rich at the expense of others.  In the 60s, Black woman were not down with the Feminist Movement; that was for disgruntled White women who were not content with their role in Western society, Black women had their own agenda that could not be satisfied by White women pushing their agenda because we are distinctly different thinking people; besides Blacks were battling out of the White Segregation Era: How could they have a Black woman’s  interest at heart?  Since segregation, we have learned American ways, either unwittingly through indoctrination or as a matter of survival in a foreign land.  Foreign land?  Yes, foreign land, because it doesn’t regard us equally.  This is a culture and land in which the benefactors of its product are those who founded it and those who came here to exploit it; if you really study it—we are the ones who exploited by it.


Amongst the disgruntled White women of the Feminist and Sexual Revolution movements, were undercover lesbians, in key places, who were in key positions pressing their agenda. I say, “undercover,” because during those days most of alternative lifestyles were kept in the “closet.”  Roles in society were often referred to as arbitrary and viewed as genderless.  The nuclear family was considered as “man-made,” and one of their aims was the destruction of this type of family structure to make room for alternative lifestyle families.  So it is no surprise that 1990, 30 years later (one generation), we have single parent households, the emergence of adoptions by alternative couples, etc.  It is part of the outgrowth of the Feminist and Sexual Revolution, and as I said earlier, Black women during that time, did not consider White Feminism their fight, and certainly their were policies aimed directly at the Black family; especially in low-income areas, by Planned Parenthood and other organizational outgrowths of the Sexual Revolution spearheaded by White people in America.


The proper way to view this phenomena is that well-to-do White women did not like the way they were culturally being handled.  They voiced their concerns and started their movements.  The motivation had nothing to do with Black women and their struggles, it was for their own self interests. However, as time went on and they tried to solicit for Black support, the movement became resentful of the non-participation of Black women and unleashed an agenda directly at Black women and their families as a result of it.  Do your own research and you shall see. America is becoming more and more like its European model.  Their views on sex, gender, race are slowly but surely mimicking the lifestyle of Europe—much of which has been in France, Greece, Rome, Germany, England and Nordic society for thousands of years.  It falls under the Equal Rights umbrella, but here is the real people it caters to, and here are the real reasons and the real social class. How that effects others is of secondary interest, if of any interest at all.  Our people get confused, because they think being in America is the same as having the rights of an American while we're still fighting for Human Rights, Civil Rights and Equality.  The Equal Rights agenda today has little to do with the Human and Civil Rights agenda.  Those Human and Civil Rights in this country are non-White issues, fought by non-Whites or minorities.  We can no more look for the American society to fight for our interests, as we can look for one group of people to look after and protect the rights of another different group.  They are adapting the European model, and we are not Europeans.  Their culture is not our culture. Though we must observe it because we live here, it does not reflect the way we think, nor our core interests.  We must develop ourselves around our own model—and leave their ways to their own devices.

To be continued in Part 2...

Peace,

Allah Universal Lord Life Justice Shabazz