Thursday, August 13, 2020

Talking Black and Sleeping White

              Christine Nix is a criminal justice professor but in another life she was the first black female Texas Ranger. In that position as a member of Company F stationed in Waco—she did a variety of investigations. From old-fashioned murder to political corruption to God-knows-what-else. She also served the State of Texas as a de facto Uncle Tom, not to be judgmental of her or her record. Accommodation in some way or shape or form—to the white power structure in Texas and elsewhere in these United States—aka, The Man—is a given of everyday life for black people. The question is not if, but how much? No matter how you slice it, Ranger Nix stepped over a proverbial line and became a “Tom”—although Uncle Tom is not actually the proper term for a black woman who allies herself with The Man. Males are Toms—not to be politically correct or anything, but officially and in precise terms of black liberation dogma, not to be dogmatic. Ranger Nix was a badge-and-gun carrying Aunt Jemima, for the State of Texas, up in God’s country, McLennan County, Waco, Texas. 

             During a radio interview with In Black America a few years ago, for example, Ranger Nix claimed that she was never treated with anything but respect by her peersPlease. There are two things to know about that. The Associated Press reported, years before the radio interview, that two white male Rangers were disciplined for calling her a bitch and a nigger and for criticizing her marriage to a white man. If Ranger Nix didn’t know about any of that, she was the worst detective in the world. Second, the two white men in question continued in the Ranger Service, no problema, that's the kind of people the Rangers are. Not to be judgmental. She said the highest praise another officer had given her was his willingness to go through a door, to serve a warrant, with her because he would know Christine Nix had his back. 

           There were also her own efforts to brand herself as a traitor to the race and the overall goal of black liberation, however. Not to be judgmental again. She spoke to In Black America about her pride in having attempted, back, years before in Company F, to get a black male suspect sentenced to death, not because he was black but because he was guilty. His color in a racially-challenged Southern court system being, apparently, immaterial to her consideration of his crime. She recalled in the interview that she was unsuccessful in “getting him the needle,” as Ranger Nix so quaintly put it. 

              It was in Ranger Nix's best interests after her service to the State of Texas to protect the institution of the Texas Rangers, who have traditionally been the Lone Star race police, not just hunters and killers of Bonnie and Clyde but also of niggers and Mexicans. 

            The Rangers were the ones who did the State of Texas’s killing, especially of Native Americans, not that that’s an issue here. The Rangers are, actually, the North American continent’s oldest and most racially-challenged police agency, Christine Nix served 10 years among the same group of almost exclusively white men that used to shoot across the border at Mexican civilians just for the hell of it and has, rhetorically-speaking, killed almost as many black people as fried food. Nix’s identity as a Texas Ranger—the first black female, lest we forget—became more important to who she is today than her identity as a black woman in the South has been. Ditto the first black male Ranger who also claimed that he never experienced any racial animus in the agency and who, critically, later worked as a private investigator in Dallas, in his post-Ranger career, trading heavily on his identity as an elite detective and cowboy, not no ordinary nigger. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 

           

             More recently there is David Armstrong—with Company B, outside Dallas. Company D is the most sketchy of the Ranger units, by the way. Each Company has its own personality, its own profile so to speak, its own rap sheet also. Company B in Garland, these were the guys—operating out of Garland then as today—running Jack Ruby, as a snitch, before the Kennedy assassination, and are considered more diabolical even than the guys in Headquarters Company of the Texas Rangers that covers Austin and keeps a protective eye on the Legislature and Governor. Anyway, Sergeant Armstrong of Company B is called in after controversial shootings of black people by police agencies, as an internal affairs service the Rangers provide to local law enforcement. As if David Armstrong’s presence at the scene assures a fair investigation from the State of Texas which it most certainly does not. 


            “I don’t believe that [the shooting] was reckless or criminally negligent,”Ranger Armstrong, following in Christine Nix's footsteps as the Ranger's house nigger, famously testified last year at the trial of white Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger. Who shot dead an African-American man in his own home after she entered the wrong apartment and was surprised to find a Negro living there. Remember now? “Based on the totality of the investigation and the circumstances and facts,” Ranger Armstrong explained to the court, hoping to get Amber Guyger a walk. In other words, not to be rude but to be descriptive, he’s a Tombecause the State of Texas keeps Toms on the payroll, often wearing Ranger’s starsin case of emergency. In the historical perspective, then, who is an Uncle Tom and who is not is particularly pertinent today, in these times of open revolt, post the murder of George Floyd. There is the officially designated other team, in this case The White Man and his mate, the recently-identified Karen, who has roamed amongst us unidentified lo these many years. Most to be feared are our own nominal allies, the race traitors who may look exactly like us but are pushing The Man's Agenda. Not to go all Critical Theory on you or anything.


           These Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemimas undermine positive change because it’s in their best personal interests to do so, not because it's the right thing to do. As one might explain as part of a critical race dialectic. As a practical matter these Uncle Toms can be just as dangerous as the damn Klan. Race traitors—Fifth Columnists, as they were called in the Spanish Civil War, are the Tio Tacos and Jemimas today. You can also say banana, if you are of a mind to, yellow on the outside & white on the inside, don’t forget the damn bananas, that's my view. In this most recent conflict, terminology is as important as ideology. 


         Uncle Tom has been known by a number of names throughout post-Civil War history, including the unisex handkerchief head which is not much used today but is unusually descriptive. One assumes that the first Toms were descended from house niggers during actual slavery but there's no need to go there. House nigger technically—in contemporary revolutionary usage, in my modest view as a liberated black man—describes a different dynamic altogether. The term Tom arose after Emancipation and can be used by the uninitiated for a unisex handkerchief head-like condemnation. We are not picky as a race. There’s also oreo—like the cookie but not capitalized, please. Whose usage relates to the popular cookie’s famous structure—black on the outside and white on the inside. But you already knew that.


        Minority police officers like Ranger Nix and Ranger Armstrong are particularly prone to becoming Toms, that seems clear. That’s a premise of mine actually, that black cops easily rationalize their betrayal—because they don’t think they’re sleeping with the enemy, “sleeping white” in the vernacular, they think they’re sleeping blue, you feel me? We digress. Some of these pigs have transformed their primary identity as black men and black women into primarily being cops, you know? One also hear the more colloquial pig, a term that it is my thesis is not really pejorative or not nearly pejorative enough. With ideology and terminology accounted for, we can now turn to what, it also seems clear, is actually the most salient factor in race betrayal today—sex—love and marriage. First, we must dispose of perhaps the oldest and most racist trope in American history, that of the “pussyhound” black male, obsessed with bedding white women. 

           

           We are occupied with bedding white women, that's true, but only for revolutionary reasons, clearly. Not merely to bust the proverbial nut, so to speak, instead in aid of genuine revolutionary purpose. 

        

           The truth can now be told. Through this more accurate lens, heroic African-American men have risked their lives to take down white chicks as well as white men. As part of a critical race dialectic. 

   

           These brothers can now be celebrated for their willingness to attack The Man—who controls the police, the army and the political process, who has most of the money and all of the Ivy League and most of American academia at his command. To attack the man on the only front where white guys have been vulnerable, for the longest timein the boudoir. Instead of being Uncle Toms, bowing before the superiority of white pussy—these so-called 60-Minute Men have been called “unfaithful” or faithless by our their fine black women. 


           But now the African-American player can be recognized by history for what he has done to white women in bedendowed with a big dick and revolutionary purpose60 Minute Men have managed so successfully to alienate many white female affections from white men, denying The Man a chance to spread his seed. This heightened sexual response to white women, much maligned even by our own sisters—has never been about mere sexual gratification. Perish the fucking thought, you feel me? Instead it can now be revealed as part of an effort to bind white DNA in order to deny procreative resources to Caucasian men. That is the ideological rationale in the mind of the liberated black male during a booty call with a white chick, married or unmarried, it’s like a reverse boycott and basically involves moving your hips. Far from being Uncle Tomstalking black and sleeping white in the revolutionary vernacularAfrican-American men have actually used BBC to strike a blow for equality. 

              

            This leads, however, in terms of revolutionary orthodoxy and in the interests of gender equality, women's liberation being part of our struggle for civil rights, to an examination of what appears to be a growing tendency of black women to partner with white men. Like the aforementioned Ranger Nix of Company F. Are these sisters merely Aunt Jemimas? 


           Are they race traitors too, just as so many faithless brothers have been accused? In the case of mixed couples in which the woman is black revolutionary lens can be used that allows us to identify the unfaithful, such as they are, just as women have said of black men, not to repeat myself. Not to say the word hypocrisy. Those who are more interested in achieving success by marrying it than in the progress of the black peeps, through The Struggle. Not to lay a guilt trip on anyone but these Toms and Jemimas must be identified and opprobrium heaped. What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose. The best example is taken from today’s headlines. Of the three black women who were seen as primary candidates for Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate, to be elected the next Vice President of the United States, none of the three chose to pair with a black man in her personal life. Which requires an examination of ideology, in the black liberation context, just as African-American men have undergone examination in the past for hitting all that white booty. Not to repeat myself.


           Would Barack Obama have been the Barack Obama we know if his wife was not Michelle Obama and instead a white chick? My premise is no. But Barack Obama belongs to a prior generation, though he is still a young man he’s kind of Old School, really, in this respect, what worked with him may not work now. Senator Kamala Harris and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice both married white men. Nothing in the professional history of the good Dr. Rice, whose ancestry is Caribbean, like Harris'snot slave descendants like Dr. King or Malcolm X or like me. Yet no evidence leads to an accusation of race betrayal. 


             In the case of Senator Harris her history as a prosecutor combined with her choice for the marriage bed might lead to further scrutiny, come the revolution. Pairing with Caucasians is not a single all-powerful consideration in black revolutionary ideology but must be viewed in a wider context, through various lenses. Sometimes it takes a cracker, like the white male Rangers who criticized Ranger Nix, to point it out. Biology also plays a part. 


             While noble black men like myself have been willing to risk the threats of white fathers, and even white husbands, in order to bind DNA from multiple white chicks—black women are often choosing one attractive white male candidate, to marry, and thus deny one or more Karens access to potential breeding stock. As part of a critical race dialectic of course. Whether intended or not. Whether this stratagem is in the best interests of civil rights remains to be seen. Which brings us back to the noble black man. Among the top of the ticket candidates, there is Kanye West, who is also married to a Caucasian but he has publicly expressed regret for his choice of a white wife. The assumption that he is ill does not mean he doesn't feel used by the corporation, Kardashian Inc. Nor can he be accused of talking black and sleeping white, which might be said, wrongly, of Senator Harris. The conservative Kanye is in fact talking white and sleeping white too. 


            Of the two greatest race traitors in American history, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, neither was talking black and sleeping white that we know. But the enormity of their crimes (General Powell for buying false intelligence and Secretary Rice for selling it) led to the deaths of tens of thousands of colored people and eclipsed anything except slavery that ordinary Toms have done here in the USA. It’s been policing however that has offered some of the most illustrative accusations of exploitation of people of color, by the pigs, in exchange for advancement. But “talking black and sleeping white” is certainly not only a law and order phenomenon, or a recent one, in historical terms. In summary while the revolution must be a school of unfettered thought, as Fidel Castro told us, it cannot be a school of unfettered action. There must be consequences. Cancel culture is a good thing. Because one has to take responsibility for one’s shit and keep one’s shit clean and aboveboard, or one might get cancelled tomorrowif you’ve behaved as a counter-revolutionary or a racist running dog, to paraphrase Mao, or a Uncle Tom or Aunt Jemima or Tio Taco to quote everybody else. Self-criticism is always called for. Why did you sell out and what did you get out of it are legitimate questions, in the correct dialectic. What we’ve seen the last few months is just the warmup for what must come, if viewed through a revolutionary lens.


            Come the revolution—if the revolution comes—there must be revolutionary justiceCancel Culture on steroids, you could say. Trials and sentences, perhaps time to spend in re-education in the countryside a la the Cultural Revolution or in Siberia a la Joe Stalin. You're not cancelling people for what they've done, you're outing them to make sure they don't do it again. Making sure that everyone knows they are responsible for their own shit, not to repeat myself. "Talking black and sleeping white." Should a defendant face such a serious charge before a revolutionary tribunal—we will allow an affirmative defense, a possible out. Those who are suspected of infidelity to the cause can claim radical purpose for sleeping with the enemy.