by Tim Baldauf-Lenschen
White society has never given a damn about black life. Look at its colonialism, genocidal rampages, enslavement of entire peoples, systematic oppression through every institution, neocolonialism, mental enslavement through “education” and religion, economic manipulation etc. With that kind of a track record only a fool would think that white society will ever give a damn about black life.
This reality once again became clear during the aftermath of the recent murder of Michael Brown on August 9th, 2014–at the hands of the U.S. police state. It is no coincidence that there is no widespread public outcry about the shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old teen. His life as a young black male is seen as worthless to white society—-except when exploiting their labor. That is why we see more outrage about the justified rioting in Ferguson than about the murder of an unarmed black teen among white society. We know this to be true anytime white children are killed in school shootings, for example. Doubt is never cast over the actions or personalities of white victims, as they always are when the victim is black. It is immediately portrayed as a national tragedy by the corporate media, which fails to do so when black people are murdered, and instead even vilifies and blames the victims. U.S. police are not indiscriminately killing or arresting unarmed, innocent white people in white neighborhoods. If they were, white society would rise up in outrage and use its political, economic and racial power and privilege to ensure it ends immediately. However, when police indiscriminately kill unarmed black people every 28 hours, or lock up 1 in 3 black men over their lifetime to send them to work in nazi-like labor camps to produce furniture or chop meat in slavery, white society sees this as “business as usual” and is so blinded by its white privilege that it is completely out of touch with reality.
‘Whiteness is a disease.’ – Arthur Serota
White society is a social cancer. It exists and grows until it eventually causes death to every cell in the organism. It cannot exist without feeding off of its surroundings. Its only goal is its own prosperity and expansion – regardless of its devastating impact on the lives of its neighboring cells and ultimately itself. White society only cares about its own welfare and prosperity and will do anything – including murder, torture, rape, exploit, enslave and exterminate – to reach that goal. Its brutality, pathological nature and greed have no bounds. Though it is impossible to count every single African and indigenous life that has been lost at the hands of white society with complete accuracy, there is no doubt among many historians that this number is in the hundreds of millions.
How can the cancerous and deadly effects of white society be fought effectively? One thing is for sure: If cancer cannot be fought with cancer, why would anyone assume that white society will dismantle itself into a more just, humane and equitable society that values all human life equally?
History displays to us that progress in the fight against white domination and oppression has never been made without the shedding of blood. Slavery in the U.S. was not reformed merely with petitions, peaceful protests or by the good will of white abolitionists. Slavery in the U.S. was restricted to the prison system with the 13th amendment to make way for a more profitable form of capitalism partly because hundreds of organized slave rebellions were making that institution too costly – by taking white lives and destroying white property, which was built on the backs of African slaves. If we look at countries like Haiti – the first black republic – or any other country formerly colonized by Europeans, the common denominator that ended white colonialism was all-out organized resistance and self-defense. Sincere and progressive white people who want to bring an end to white supremacy’s evils need to join together and support resistance efforts of oppressed peoples under their guidance and leadership. However, history shows that they cannot and will not dismantle the devastating horrors of white society alone. Only the mass organization of oppressed peoples can accomplish true liberation from white domination.
Tim Baldauf-Lenschen is a correspondent and regular contributor for Your World News. Tim can be reached at tim.baldauf@gmail.com
