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May 10, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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The Moral Rubicon (Part 2)
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So now I'm going to show you these well-trained male Saxons, toilet seat complexion individuals, okay?
Disciples of white Jesus, okay?
So let's talk to them real quick and let's see what they have to say.
Uhuru.
Uhuru.
Do you owe reparations?
Absolutely.
Why you say that?
Wait, who is you?
Beryl Shepley.
Uhuru, Beryl.
Now, you owe me some money.
Okay, you owe me reparations.
Absolutely.
Why is that?
Because every freedom that I have and have taken for granted for my entire life has been made possible by wealth that my ancestors stole.
Uhuru.
Good.
Uhuru.
Uhuru.
What's your name is?
Jackson.
Uhuru Jackson.
You owe me reparations.
I do.
Why that?
Because I have benefited from the wealth that was stolen from you.
As have all my ancestors, the ones who owned slaves and the ones who did not, the Jews in, the white Jews in Hungary.
You better tell them the white Jews.
Say that again.
The white Jews in Hungary.
The fake Jews.
Yes, fake white Jews.
Fake white Jews.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So you unite with reparations.
Completely.
Uhuru.
Uhuru.
What's your name is again?
Jackson.
Uhuru Jackson.
Uhuru.
Uhuru.
What's up, Yohuru?
Yep, you heard him, y'all.
He's a huru.
Uhuru?
Yohuru.
Where you from?
Seattle.
He raised around all nothing but African people, y'all.
So he don't know nothing about being white.
He don't like white people.
Ain't that right?
All white people owe reparations, though.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Ain't that right?
That's true.
And what's your name is?
Prince.
Uhuru, Prince.
Uhuru.
Now, why you owe reparations?
Because as a white person, I sit on the pedestal of colonialism and slavery that built not only the wealth of this country, but the whole European world.
Therefore, all white people owe reparations, and we're coming to get it.
Uhuru, you better tell it.
Yeah, we're coming to get it.
Uhuru.
What's your name is?
Jesse.
Jesse, you owe me reparations.
Correct.
And I want it.
When do I want it?
Now.
When do I want it?
Now.
And you gonna get it for me?
Yes, indeed.
All right.
Why your reparations?
Because every opportunity and amenity I have has been at the expense of my black and brown brothers and sisters around the world.
Everything in this country is soaked, saturated with the blood of slavery, genocide.
Even the times that I've had to scrape for dollars in my life, they still bared the face of the slave master, genocidal maniac.
And I know full well that even the homeless white man on the street corner is going to get more.
He's going to get more head nods and ham sandwiches than the black man across the street.
So every white person, no matter how little you got or think you got, you owe money.
I owe money.
And like my brother Prince said, like my comrade Prince said, if you don't give it, we're going to come take it.
Come to take it.
Uh-huru.
And I've seen Prince take it, all right?
We buy a church across the street, and Prince ran up on this old white man.
What you say to the old white man coming out the church?
I asked if you want to hear the gospel of reparations.
Hey, Uhuru.
Uhuru.
What your name is?
Virginia.
Uhuru, Virginia.
Do I look good in this son, Virginia?
You always look good.
Thank you.
Now you got to hurry up because you got to get out the sun, girl.
You ain't got no sunscreen, girl.
We got to save your skin.
Hurry up, girl.
Hurry up.
You know the sun don't like you, girl.
Come on now.
Okay, every white person does owe reparations, and that is because we owe that money for the colonial oppression that our ancestors have, you know, done to African people, and it continues to this day right here in the U.S. Not just all over the world, but here in the U.S.
So all white people, no matter who you are, you do owe reparations.
You owe them right now, and you need to pay them right now.
Well, he's certainly not wrong on one thing.
He has these white people very well trained to enforce this regime of white guilt on them so that a bunch of white people who probably aren't from the upper classes can give a rich black kid money on the virtually unsubstantiated accusation that those white ancestors had privilege is incredible training.
But remember, this is all worth it in order to decolonize one's mind.
And it's probably necessary to prepare for the upcoming political revolution.
Decolonizing my mind, I'm reading an uneasy equilibrium by Omali Yeshetella.
Just learning about political revolutionary sides and organization.
Decolonize that match, guys.
So yeah, I know you're thinking it.
It does seem that Omali Yeshiatella is a black Sololinsky who happens to have a cult following.
And make no mistake, these guys are politically active.
They're almost certainly embedded in the African-American communities that have been engaged in riots and protests ever since Ferguson.
See you to the ancestors.
I'm going to Ferguson.
Oh my god, you guys are going to Ferguson.
I'm so excited!
So I've been invited by the Uhuru movement to go to Ferguson.
Y'all, some sunflower!
Yo, y'all already know.
You already know.
Gazi don't play.
Gazi don't play.
I'm a flick off a little police officer, flick off a little pig, flick off a pig.
I'm doing it real fast because I don't want the cheer in the seat.
I'm a flick off a little pig, okay?
I'm a spray paint a little CNN truck, okay?
I'm about to turn up.
I'm about to turn up.
I might burn a little sun and jam.
Might burn a little sunton down.
Might burn a little trash can.
Might burn a little sun down.
I'm about to turn up.
We're about to get revolutionized.
The IC guys are the 18th and 19th.
I will be in Ferguson.
Now, I just want to be clear here.
As far as I can tell, the Uhuru movement is not very big.
Maybe a few thousand members at most.
But it is one of many small African socialist movements that seem to be taking root in black communities.
And I do think that because they are embedded within these communities, they probably have an influence disproportionate to their size.
I suspect that ideas that originate in small, very enthusiastic and committed groups probably get transferred via memes and protests to a larger audience than otherwise would have seen them.
And Black Hitler is very active.
As far as I can tell, he is a professional political activist.
Alright, y'all.
Hello, my name is Gazi Kozo, and I'm famous online for talking shit about white people.
But I used to be living in L.A., living that petty bourgeoisie life, you know.
I was, you know, a modeling agent, and then all these deaths started to happen.
Like the Trayvon Martin murder started to happen and Mike Brown.
And it was just like, I can't do this anymore.
I gotta do something for my people.
And it came to the realization that no matter how much education I had, how much money I had.
God, I bought a BMW cash, girl.
But none of that meant nothing.
Because at the end of the day, I was still a black person living in America.
Living in this illegal colony of America that looks at me as a criminal.
That looks at me as an alien, as an outsider, when I'm the reason this whole thing is even possible.
And Black Hitler absolutely sees everything that's going on with the Uhuru movement and Black Lives Matter in general as a revolution in progress.
Instead of complaining about this rebellion and this revolution that's going on, because it ain't gonna stop no time soon.
We're done signing petitions.
We're done walking with our hands up.
The rebellion is coming.
And he's not being hyperbolic when he says that.
He actually takes to the streets with his comrades in the Ahura movement and exercise their power over people, well, because they can.
That flag!
That ego represents your tech!
Wow, that really did sound like he was calling for some muscle, didn't it?
Surprised he didn't tell him that he needs to get out.
But you know what?
What's the problem here?
The guy he was oppressing was a white man.
Fuck white people, they're all racist.
That white man doubtless owed him money.
So that one is fine.
But the thing is, unlike all of these things, you end up with mission creepers.
The more power you accrue, the more power you want.
And so while Black Hitler may have started with good intentions to defend Africans from white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, he's now finding himself oppressing a Palestinian immigrant.
Because apparently this Palestinian immigrant called one of the ladies of the Uhuru movement a bitch, if you can believe it.
Did you ask her?
But this is her community.
You still don't have a reason to call her.
You don't have a reason to call her.
We're not here to go back and forth.
We want to rectify the situation.
We need a public apology.
Public apology for us.
Yes, you're in business.
You don't have an option here.
You don't have an option.
Yo, two actors need to apologize now before we shut it down.
He wants to be shut down.
Shut it down.
I got him shut down.
Don't work this building.
Then call this mother bitch and kick them out this morning.
And our problem is not to hit him by the way.
We apologize people.
They think they're going to come here and disrespect us.
Oh yes, now for the honor of the community, it's okay to persecute a colonized individual.
It's funny how these things go, isn't it?
and the guy actually did end up apologizing.
If you're not part of an organization, if you've been a part of the Uru movement, not just any organization, but the international people, Democratic, Uhuru movement, then you're cripping.
You just seen the power in numbers.
You just seen the power in our community.
You just seen the dry these pigs up out of here.
It's caused this man to apologize to our black African queen.
You understand that?
You need to join the Uhuru movement.
Hey, no, hey, no!
We are winning!
Now don't get me wrong, I don't think the Uhuru movement is going to be taking over anything anytime soon.
So while they might bill themselves as revolutionaries, I really don't think there's anything to worry about.
But I do think it's very interesting the journey that these people seem to go on to get to the point to want their revolution.
And I think Ghazi Kotzo is emblematic of an archetype of a certain kind of upper class activist who finds no satisfaction in their wealth and feels the need to find something higher.
Flamboyant aristocrat who becomes a traitor to their class by becoming a charismatic populist is the life story of some of the greatest men in history, so I think it's interesting to note that this appears to be a path to power that many people are adopting now.
Of course, Ghazi Kozu is not one of those great men and he's never going to have any significant political power.
The important thing to note is that this is now a path to power.
Before, it never was.
You could never really get away with being some sort of populist demagogue for political purposes, because you need a great deal of discontentment and resent.
If people haven't been disenfranchised, you cannot enfranchise them in your cause.
But thanks to the internet, it's very easy for people to find a cause to enfranchise themselves into, because they want something to believe in, some way that they feel they can be making their lives better.
I don't think there's just one cause for this, and I've got no doubt that there are just hundreds of factors, but I do think some of the major ones are undoubtedly things like the economic downturn, increased immigration, the militarization of the police, and the lack of political representation that the common person has due to the effect of money on the American political system.
I think these factors are encouraging people to go and look for and find charismatic speakers who have wealth and access to resources and connections like Ghazi Kozo to speak for them.
I mean this guy has nearly 50,000 YouTube subscribers and the Huffington Post tried to hire him but he refused on the grounds that they're white.
And I really think that this is the effect that Donald Trump is tapping into.
It's not that people are voting for Donald Trump's policies.
It's that they are voting for what Donald Trump is doing to the people in charge.
He is doing what no other politician will do.
He is airing their grievances.
And it's the same with Ghazi Kozo and the support he gets from the Uhuru movement.
I think we're arriving at the point where excuses no longer work and that the people in charge are going to have to start being honest about what is happening.
And I think that's a very good thing because I think that is the reason so much pressure has been building up in society.
So with that in mind, let's finish with looking at why Black Hitler felt the need to get involved with the Uhuru movement at all.
What they call what woke him.
And let's assume that what he's telling us is true, because I don't think he's really been holding back on his beliefs so far, so I don't really, I don't really think he would be holding back on his beliefs now.
I don't know if I'm going to post this or not, but I just wanted to make a video saying thank you to you guys because when I first became conscious, like it was really bad for me.
And like I was so depressed and like I cried like every night.
And like I know a lot of people always ask me like what made you conscious?
What made you conscious?
And when I really got it, like it was so fucked up, y'all.
It was so scary and I really get it.
We're so fucking empty.
We have no idea.
We are just these people that they freaking took from another fucking continent and then just scooped us out of everything that was ours.
Our history.
Our spirituality.
Our everything.
Our beingness.
They scooped it out and pushed in whatever they wanted.
And we're just out here just doing what?
Knowing what?
Saying what.
Every fucking thing that we are now is because of them.
I'm a product of fucking the people I hate the most, the people that did me the most wrong.
And I hate it.
I hate it.
I hate that I talk like this.
I hate that I fucking even talk their fucking language.
This ugly ass English.
I hate it.
So as much as I or anyone else might hate Black Hitler, and as much as I find his views repugnant, I can't help but feeling slightly empathetic here.
If this is an honest account of his feelings, I mean, I've never felt the kind of self-loathing that this person feels.
I've never, I've never once thought to myself, God, I hate what I am.
I've never had an existential crisis like that, and I don't really know how I would deal with it.
I mean, I would like to think that I would handle it better.
That I wouldn't decide to choose like a race of people and declare them the enemy.
But I don't know that I wouldn't.
I mean, I've never had this kind of existential crisis, so I don't know what it feels like.
And that's what this is all about.
This is all driven by emotion.
This is all driven by emotion.
Reason has become something that is just simply not a priority.
Everything gets twisted to fit the narrative.
And it doesn't even matter if things are true or not.
It just doesn't matter.
And I think that's why we're seeing the rise of fake hoax attacks on black protests.
I mean, they just know that this is something that exists elsewhere.
And therefore, it doesn't matter if they don't happen to have a convenient example.
And because it's all based on emotion, it's fine to simply ignore the reality about something if it's something you love.
That's just okay to these people.
It's the emotional investment in what they're doing and what they're talking about and the thing they believe is more important than the reality of it.
I mean, listen to this next bit.
Like, y'all always ask, like, what made me conscious?
It was like a snowball effect.
But the one fucking thing that put a crack in my world is they took my friend, y'all.
Like, the fucking pigs took my friend.
They took my fucking friend when I was a fucking teenager in high school, and all he did was he was out of the curfew.
He was out after curfew.
And these cops killed him and lied to us and told us that he somehow fell out of the car when they were driving to the prison and got hit by an 18-wheeler.
That's what they told us.
And then when I went to school, literally he died on a Saturday.
They killed him on a Saturday.
I went to school on Monday.
And they didn't give my friend no moment of silence.
And I was like 14, y'all.
And I went to that fucking white-ass principal and I said, hey, why didn't y'all do a moment of silence for my friend Mark?
And let me tell y'all first about Mark.
Like, he was this football player guy who watched out for me.
This little sissy ass gay kid.
And he was the most popular guy in the school.
He was six foot whatever football player.
But this school did all this craziness to make sure that he played for our school.
That's how great in football he was.
And he saw me getting picked on and decided to take me under his wing because he said I looked like his little brother.
And basically I wasn't picked on by nobody.
And they fucking killed my friend.
And when I asked that fucking white principal, why y'all didn't give my friend no fucking moment of silence?
That fucking principal told me at 14.
We don't give Bob the silence to criminals!
The shit!
I'm not a fucking edible!
My friend was not a fucking criminal!
Was I on curfew!
And he gave a bomb a silence!
Now, I of course don't have any further information about the case of his friend, assuming that that's even true, which, again, I've got no reason to believe that it's not.
But it is probably a story that's repeated across the United States on a regular basis, where you have a young man who is black and goes out and apparently breaking a curfew, probably gets in some trouble, gets picked up by the police, and there's an altercation and the black man gets shot.
This is something that happens.
It's not necessarily racism.
Sometimes it might be, but I'm sure most times it isn't.
And we know this because most of the people who get shot are holding a weapon.
Now, I'm not in any way trying to defend or accuse the police or Ghazi in any of this, but the fact that the principal said that they don't give a moment of silence to criminals makes me think that this might be a case like that.
And so when Ghazi says, well, my friend wasn't a criminal, well, maybe to the best of Ghazi's knowledge, he wasn't.
I mean, everyone has to start somewhere.
And even then, he's probably not going to have been a criminal to Ghazi, the surrogate big brother who protected, in his own words, a sissy from being bullied in the playground and looked after him like he was one of his own.
You would be mad to not think he would have a massive attachment to a person like that.
And so, if that person was to then do something wrong, they're never going to believe that it's on the person who did something wrong.
Especially if that ends up getting them killed by the police.
I mean, every time, surely they're going to blame the police.
So, I think in a lot of ways I'm starting to see Ghazi as a bit of a tragic figure.
Kind of like a Byron or an Alcibiades.
Someone who's genuinely, and, you know, you've got to give him his credit.
He's engaging to watch.
I hate him.
He's annoying, but he is engaging.
And he is clever.
He's intelligent.
You can hear him talking to people.
He does his videos in one take.
All in one go without really pausing at all.
He's absolutely brilliant at performing.
And he clearly has a talent for leadership.
I mean, wherever he goes, he is the one giving the speeches at the protests or leading them in song and dance and going around commanding people a la Melissa clique.
You know, he is a natural leader.
He knows what he's doing.
It's because of his intelligence.
It gives him a force of personality that he otherwise would not have.
And I've got no doubt the fact that he was a bullied sissy boy in school made him this way.
And the loss of his friend gave him a cause.
And like I said at the beginning, I think he's a good case study for the sort of people who join these things.
Why they do it.
You know, because it's easy to write them off as being stupid or crazy, but they're not.
And, you know, many of them are actually really intelligent.
They're just desperately looking for something.
And like many dissatisfied aristocrats throughout history, they try to find what they're looking for in the adulation of the people.
I think Gazikozo is actually kind of an archetypal Byronic hero.
And I've got no doubt that a lot of self-loathing informs everything he does, which is why he has to justify everything that he's doing.
For example, like to the Palestinian man.
Because again, like with all social justice warriors, they've crossed the Rubicon.
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