[Marxism] Ted Hayes, Go Away

["John A Imani" <johnaimani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ted Hayes, Go Away
 

Ted Hayes, having nothing better to do, leads his "Crispus Attucks Brigade", of 
maybe 5 people alongside some thing called "The Millenium Panthers", back into 
Leimert Park, this Sat 9/29 at 11AM. trying to stir up trouble between black 
and brown people.  They will be joined by an odd assortment of wanna-bes, 
used-to-bes and never-wases.  And thus we will have the unseemly sight of a 
curious collection of mis-fits parroting the words of racist white Minutemen 
who, while sponsoring Hayes' forays, have decided after facing the wrath of the 
citizens of Leimert on June 23rd that discretion is indeed the better part of 
valor.



Their ill-spelled flyer, handed out at the rally for the Jena 6, reads "For 
Blacks and Blacks Only!!!" and "Black Unity Now".  And what are their points of 
unity?  Only vicious diatribes and slanders:  "Our home, the United States of 
America is under attack by Foreign Nationals who seek the genocide of Blacks."  
Right.  It was Mexicans who put us on the boats and sold us to other Mexicans 
when we (some of us at least) got here.  "Blacks are especially under siege and 
attack by citizen (sic) of foreign nations illegally within ours."   Yep.  And 
they lynched us too.  Wouldn't let us vote.  Or let our children go to schools 
with theirs, etc.  Them Damn Mexicans.



They say that politics makes strange bedfellows but this rag-tag assortment of 
coons and con men, of snakes-in-the-grasss and snake-oil salesmen, borders on 
the ridiculous.  Here, marching under a banner that reads "In Loving Memory of 
Our Ancestors & Reparations", at the (Fish always stinks from the) head of the 
march is Mr Hayes himself who affixed his name, scratched his 'X', at the 
bottom of a document by something called "The United American Committee that 
reads, in part, at  



"...black descendants of American slaves might more appropriately direct their 
demands for reparations to states of the Muslim world which first seized and 
enslaved their fore bearers."  
http://www.unitedamericancommittee.org/article03_05_2007.htm 



>From the Arabs.  Not from the descendents of the plantation owners and the 
>companies that benefited from slavery; not from the United States Government 
>whose Constitution from 1789 to 1865 allowed, aided and abetted slavery and 
>from 1865 until 1954 legally viewed blacks as "second class citizens" (Plessy 
>vs Ferguson) and to this day has yet to enact enabling legislation to enforce 
>the elimination of the doctrine of  "separate but (un)equal" outlawed by the 
>Brown Decision.  They ask for reparations not from the companies, corporations 
>and investors who extracted and continue to extract 'super-profits' from the 
>employment of black labor.  No from the Arabs!  Or the Mexicans!  From anybody 
>but Massah.  I swear it looks like these are nothing but what Malcolm referred 
>to as plain ole-time plantation 'House Niggers' masquerading, all painted up 
>in black-face, trying to pass themselves off as members of a "Civil Rights 
>March."

 

Ted Hayes, Go Away.  Our neighborhoods, in the main, are a mixture of black and 
brown.  Our neighborhoods, in the main, are places where blacks and browns get 
along trying to struggle for a decent life.  We've got enough on our hands 
without your poison.

 


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