Why My Black-ness Matters.

Simple people often suggest, when being challenged on racial issues, and/or we ourselves feel we're being interogated over our blackness, &/or passivity towards black issues the real cliche statements like, "we're all human beings"

 "I'm a human being" & "race isn't real"

(etc) 

This argument, (as we know) is null and void because it often fails to include historical and/or current political context, which provides us with a much more accurate indicator of set people/persons quality of life in set society, and so without (context) places us in a highly problematic 'I woke up like this' world, rather than the reality which is, we are all products our own particular History, power or powerlessness, and so positioned by our own or others present day political and economic decisions.  

Dismissing race, will have you feeling as if you can escape your blackness by simple assimilating &/or integrating into society.  Not true - & very dangerous. 

The world you live in dictates it, very much worth ruminating over what, to you, constitutes African, Caribbean, Black culture, what defines you as a Black person?

— and why it's even important? 

The very nature of 'identity', demands a particular behaviour, visual representation or lifestyle to help authenticate it to the other. (Culture) 

If there's no exclusivity &/or consistency to a behaviour then those people are either fickle or lost, which leaves said person highly impressionable, and so presents an opportunity for vultures to circle your isolated carcus, enter your mind and proceed to manipulate your way of life to their advantage.  

It's not always a question of how we perceive  ourselves, but how we are perceived by those more powerfull than us whom we generally depend on to govern the politics of our Black lives. 

Our culture is a organisational and defensive mechanism.  

Do you know why the Asian man values and rarely compromises his culture, because he understands the politics of the world, the politics of power, domination and acculturation, the agendas of ignorant & insensitive people that don't value anything other than money, with no respect for anyone elses interpretation of nature, but his/her own, and so despise the Asain man praying to an Asain god, or wearing a Turban, or a Burqa, because now the outsider can't feed him/her a value system that teaches the Asain man out of 'respect for another' and into the ideal of 'compete with each other'

 (Strategy & principle of Capitalism) 

Any one so devout to a particular culture are whether consciously or subconsciously tied into an ideal of socially and economically progressive beliefs, that support the prosperity and power of those people. 

— and so are less likely to be manipulated & conquered. 

True 'Blackness', African Carribbean culture, supports the maintenance & progression of OUR people first. 

Not because we are anti anyone else, but by way of irrefutable history and present evidence indicating they were anti US first.

 - Being your black self is totally subjective, as long as it inclues something we all generally understand to be OF US, and/or unapologetically supporting the progression of Black people. 

Study your ancestors, update the blueprint left to us. 

For if we love black people, our culture, our lifestyle, should set us up in a way we become natrually inclined to do according to the maintenance and progress of our people. 

This is the foundation of our rightful claim to freedom, respect & self determination. 

Peace, Love & Black power. 

- JayKast