The Hard Truth – Where did the fight go?

6th February 2012   ·   0 Comments

By Min. J. Kojo Livingston
Contributing Columnist

There’s a cliché that says: “It ain’t the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

There’s a lot worth fighting about right here, right now in Louisiana and across the USA. Black people and everyone who is not rich should be on the warpath.

State workers and people who use government services are under attack and have been for some time. Governor Piyush “Bobby” Jindal has kicking their behinds for five years. Now he’s wants to mess with the retirement plans of all employees including those who have worked for decades in the system. This, after cutting staff, freezing hiring and raises and increasing workloads, especially on those who work in programs that he hates, like health and public assistance.

This week I was at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans with genealogist/activist Antoin­ette Harrell who is battling some serious physical issues. The place was overcrowded and understaffed. We’re talking an average eight-hour wait in the building we were in and an average 12-hour wait in the so-called “emergency” room across the street. Then a clerical person told us that 360 people in that facility were about to be laid off. They had already shut down the Detox Facility. The DETOX Facility is expendable?! The next day at Earl K. Long in Baton Rouge we got the same story about the layoffs.

People are going to suffer because Piyush Jindal disdains the poor. People are going to die because “Bobby” protects the rich from paying their fair share of taxes and then declares an economic crisis. People are going to be unemployed and underemployed because of his plan to gut health, education, welfare under guise of making the state “employer friendly.” Already state college students are experiencing delayed graduations because faculty cuts are eliminating critical classes for many majors.

So where is the state worker’s union? Where is their outrage? Where are the protests, press conferences or class-action lawsuits? How come there’s not a picket line in front of Jindal’s home everyday? Are state workers or students contacting or holding their state senators and representatives accountable for fighting for their interests? Are angry LSU patients doing anything more than cussin’ out staffers who are being kicked with the same foot?

Nope.

But it’s not just Louisiana that suffers from an overactive wimp gland. Blacks in Texas and Arizona let their state governments remove critical aspects of our history from the schools because it makes white folks look bad. (They really said this.)

Where is the fight in Black people today? Where did the will to resist go?

I believe there are many factors. some obvious some will sound like a kooky conspiracy theory. But don’t worry; there is nothing shadowy about the solutions that I and others propose.

The obvious and verifiable category includes among other things:

• Our absolute abandonment of our responsibility to pass our story, culture and traditions on to our young. Our tradition of resistance to injustice and oppression has been hidden from our children. The first generation that did this was naïve enough to believe that the institutions of this nation would do this for us. Succeeding generations have seen us go downhill culturally, economically and spiritually and have refused to step up.

• A diet which increasingly consists of artificial and unhealthy foods, beverages and chemicals. It is no secret or “conspiracy theory” that major food companies are “spiking” fast foods, soft drinks and cigarettes with chemicals that have no other purpose but to increase the appetite or create an addiction to that particular food. These foods make us lethargic at best and sick at the worst. It’s hard to fight when you’re only at five percent. What resistance can you put up when you brain is too clogged with dangerous chemicals to understand the strategic moves that are becoming more overt every day?

• An epidemic addiction to electronic media and entertainment. People who live in a “virtual world” have little time for observing or fixing what’s wrong with the real world. If they have a job it’s only so they can afford the next game, device or upgrade. There is no time for real relationships. The values expressed in the games become the values of the gamers.

• An educational system whose aim is to totally obliterate free, critical or creative thinking and turn people in to test-takers and doers of what they are told; to take the living tree that is a child and turn it into a piece of furniture.

• A national law enforcement sector that is bolder everyday in violently demonstrating its disdain for civil liberties, especially the rights to privacy and peaceful protest.

The less believable side of the ledger includes mass manipulation through various means. We know that the U.S. Army and other branches of the military have been experimenting with chemical, biological and electronic methods for controlling populations. In 1974 they admitted that they were working weapons that would only affect certain ethnic groups. Black folks’ intolerance for lactose was a big factor in those studies. By 1980 the Army had admitted to using the New York subway system to test biological weapons that could spread the common cold. If they admitted that much to the media, then how far do you think they have really gone? Here are a couple of the technological goodies that we know are available

• Subsonic mental manipulation – Your favorite department stores use these to encourage you to spend more money. The messages are broadcast on a frequency that you can’t hear as an external sound but seem to you as if they are your own thoughts. There have been lawsuits about this.

• Chemtrails—This is the one you might have trouble believing. Look up in the sky on a clear day and you will notice white trails made by jets crisscrossing at high altitudes above your city or town. There is an entire movement of people who are trying to find out what’s in the chemicals that are being disbursed into our atmosphere and therefore into our lungs and bodies. No branch of government, including the FAA will even discuss whose planes these are, much less what they are disbursing into the air.

My theory: The chemtrails are likely some potent chemical designed to increase docility and decrease memory function. I would bet that the chemicals are like arsenic which accumulates in your system until there is enough to make an impact. Why these two? It’s what I’m noticing in people wherever I go around the country; a disturbing docility, even among activists and people of all ages having trouble remembering things. (My excuse is age.)

Fortunately there are solutions to every aspect of this problem.

We’ll discuss those solutions in our call to action next week.

This article was originally published in the February 6, 2012 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper