WE HAVE SEEN THE ENEMY AND IT IS US

I was not planning on doing another posting so soon, but I just have to do so to let my emotions out.  I first saw a snippet of this video last week and like many people I was outraged by the comments of former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.  Today,  I came across the full video on Huffington Post and as I watched it  I was not outraged, but just deeply, deeply saddened.  In fact, there is not much that can move me to tears, but this did.  It is not the issue of torture that made me sad, but looking at another bright African American brutalized by the white man.  For me, I can only liken it to seeing someone lynched.  All that I see when I look at this video is the KKK tying the rope around the tree, sticking the innocent brother’s head in the noose, hanging him and just leaving the poor man to swing until some passerby comes along to find the body.

What I see in this video is Bush, Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld (the KKK) and their houseboy Gonzalez all sitting at home relaxing in their easy chairs and counting their millions of dollars and wondering what else they can do to screw people.  These are the people who made the decisions and got rich off of them and no doubt some of the masterminds behind the attacks of 9/11.  Then there is Condi Rice, a bright, intelligent, well educated, cultured, talented, beautiful African American woman.  Here is someone who should be revered, but to these crackers she is nothing more than a nigger (if that word offends anybody I apologize but this is an appropriate use for this word) to be used and abused.  All of Rice’s words can be summed up by saying,  “I just did what massa told me to do.”

So, now, Condi has to get out and earn a living because she does not have the millions that the white boys have.  Here is a sister trying to make a living and this is what she must endure.  Now,   one could say that with all of her education and intelligence she should have known better which is to say that she chose her path.  I am not going to deny that at all.  Yes, she did not have to serve as Secretary of State.  But, if not her, then who?  Maybe her presence kept the boys from doing real damage.  Maybe she really was not in on the decision-making as she seems to imply here.  Further,  she herself chooses whether to come clean or continuing telling the lies.  Either way she is screwed.

So, yes, I am saddened by this video – sad for Condi,  sad for the blight now on the legacy left by her parents,  sad for the blood that is on her hands , and sad for her being is the situation she now faces.  I am also angry at the white boys for abusing yet another of our sisters.  I just do not know what else to write.  May God have mercy on us all.