Racial Issue in McKinney, TX is Only a Microcosm of a Bigger Issue

Racial Issue in McKinney, TX is Only a Microcosm of a Bigger Issue

 

This past weekend a video of a police officer mishandling a young teenaged black girl in McKinney, TX went viral. This video has, once again, sparked a heated debate about police brutality and racism in the U.S. Being a current resident in the Dallas area, which includes McKinney, I am very cognizant of the racial atmosphere in McKinney, which is why I was not surprised when that video surfaced. That does not mean that I was not immensely upset by what I saw, but it definitely did not surprise me.

What I would like to point out here is the fact that we must view what has happened in this situation as a microcosm of a much larger and enigmatic issue. Although it may be rarer in suburbia, it is a reality for many blacks throughout this nation, and it is a way of life for blacks who reside in inner city neighborhoods. The fact that there is a racial divide in the manner in which the details are being reported is also not surprising. No one ever wants to discuss race, and anyone who does is immediately accused of race baiting or playing the race card. The truth of the matter is that race is still a major issue in this country, pervading every area of existence, including work, marriage, sex, political environment, socioeconomic status, etc. Until we seriously engage this issue from a platform of truth, it will remain a festering problem.

I am a firm believer in taking care of home first, so I spend very little of my time attempting to convince white people that there is an issue. What I have learned is that many already know, but it is not in their best interest to admit it. The vast majority of those who don’t know are suffering from cognitive dissonance — a high level of discomfort that makes it impossible to accept the ugliness that goes along with this reality.

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I would rather spend my time engaging the imperative need to educate, inspire and empower my people in order to prepare them to build an infrastructure that is capable of sustaining economic fluidity, political influence and educational expansion for blacks in America and throughout the black diaspora globally. My focus is on empowering our youth through educational programs that are designed to inculcate into black minds the truth of our origins and the infinite potential associated with the sense of identity created through this knowledge.

As far as the incidents that took place this weekend, it is time for blacks to stop viewing these incidents as isolated anomalies. We must develop a mindset that will allow us to view the schematics and the machinations being used as a part of a systematic approach of annihilation. We must engage racism as a systematic issue instead of a personal one — learning how to distinguish bigotry from racism. Racism does not require hatred, and it does not take into consideration how one feels about another. It is a system that is designed to protect the interest of one group at the expense of others. And the less that a group is able to insulate itself from the machinations of this system, the more vulnerable they will be to the forces associated with these schemes.

The fact that blacks have no aggregate economic power is one of the most prevalent reasons that we consistently find ourselves in the crosshairs of the white supremacy system of racism. Actually, it is not only white supremacy that has victimized us. Asian racism has encroached the black community with a vengeance, and so has Arab racism. In fact, all other ethnic economic systems are benefitting off of the ignorance and economic instability of blacks.

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What happened in McKinney is simply a physical manifestation of the systematic issues associated with the race war that is taking place, and because blacks don’t understand the war, we become emotional at a time that we should be thinking and behaving rationally. Because of our natural proclivity to place an immense amount of gravity on relationship, we take what happens to us personally, and we fail to see it in its true light.

For whites, racism is not personal, it is simply the execution of a process that is necessary to protect their interest. Now, bigotry is personal, but it is distinctly different from the system driven racism that is wreaking havoc against blacks as a whole.

Look, if we want to stop the mistreatment of our children, the killing of our young men and the overall oppression of our people, we must come together in unity with the common goal of becoming economically autonomous. We must learn the value of practicing black group economics on a vertical level. We must also learn the value of ownership and control. Right now we own and control less than one half of one percent of this nation’s aggregate wealth. Additionally, we must vanquish the mindset of consumerism and adopt the mindset of product development and product generation. We must learn how to produce and sell far more than we buy. We are spenders, and every other economy is benefitting from that, except us.

We are exposed and vulnerable to the hostility toward us because we can’t stand on our own. Even when we want to stand up and speak out, we can’t, because our incomes are connected to the white system we need to speak out against. So, we find ourselves sitting quietly while we continue to be raped and ravished.

It is time for us to rise up and come together. Until now, disunity has been the thorn in our sides. We spend more time finding reasons not to unite and stand together than we do identifying reasons why we must unite. Put your differences aside and come together. Support the leaders who are willing to stand up and step out. Walk with them. Share with them. Speak of them. The divisiveness among our people has been one of the beachheads that this system has hung its hat on for 150 years. They have successfully divided and conquered almost every facet of our existence. The black family nucleus is almost non-existent. The black community has been totally disintegrated, and all that is left are black neighborhoods. Black men spend more time competing with one another than we spend standing together. Black women look for any reason to attack and degrade the black man. It is time for all of this madness to stop!

I am challenging anyone who reads this to stand up and make a commitment to become involved at some level. The first and greatest commitment has to be to the willingness to unite. ~ Dr. Rick Wallace, Ph.D.

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