Black Excellence isn't Black Capitalism: Assimilation is Genocide
By: Jordan Mcgowan
Tags: Black Capitalism, Politics, Propaganda, BlackLivesMatter, Economy

Cover Art of Jax’s Black Capitalism Album

If a Black person wants to be a capitalist, ask them if they are willing to exploit Black people for Black capitalism Jalil Muntaqim

Black billionaires won’t save us. Black presidents won’t save us. Banking Black won’t save us. As Meghan found out, even your Black baby won’t save us. No, as Africans nothing can save us from the violence, the oppression, from the death of white supremacy. White supremacy is the ideology of European imperialism, whereas today Amerikkka is simply a reformed British empire. Assimilation into the colonial system comes at the expense of ancestors and Black and Brown Indigenous People globally. To resist the genocide of the people and the destruction of the earth is our only hope.

Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires, but what history really shows is that today’s empire is tomorrow’s ashes; that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit. Mumia Abu-Jamal

Human beings have existed for 200,000 years and it is not until the era of capitalist-imperialism we have seen the obliteration of the earth, her natural resources, and the ozone layer. Humans are not the reason the earth is on fire, it is these colonizers who have destroyed the planet. That is the byproduct of capitalism: constant consumption of resources and raw material. These imperialists have not only turned the earth into a commodity but they have turned Africans and other Brown Indigenous People into commodities to be bought, sold, and traded for capital gain. Brown Brothers Harriman, JP Morgan Chase, New York Life, Wells Fargo, all of these major multinational corporations built their wealth off the backs and blood of Africans, so why should we beg to be a part of that system?

Why would we believe that an ideology that has slaughtered our people and our homeland for 500 years would ever accept us? And furthermore, why would we want to integrate into a system like that? One’s personal gain or experience from assimilating into the said system cannot simply outweigh the very real reality of the masses. How can you call Jay-Z “Black excellence” because he is a billionaire without examining how he is profiting from exploiting the enslavement of our people through his investment into ankle monitor technology? What about all the children in the Marcy Projects who go to bed hungry, without medical care, or even homes? Wouldn’t it Black excellence to build programs to serve his hood? How are we so shocked and disappointed that the royal family is racist but accepting that until the racism impacted her directly, Meghan Markle was willing to accept the perks of the royal family that has colonized and exploited people for thousands of years? How can you praise Barack Obama & Kamala Harris, who control the same government that launched COINTELPRO, with the same mouth that evokes the name of Chairman Fred Hampton and Harriet Tubman? Assimilation erases our ancestors’ resistance, assimilation is treason against the people, and The Continent, assimilation is actively participating in our genocide.

To those who ask what systems are better, ask yourself whose standards or values are you upholding? Rid your mind and heart of these European standards. How can the oppressor’s systems bring freedom? If we can divorce our thinking from that of the colonizers we stand a chance to unite and build a better way. Our collective history as Africans should provide the framework in which we view our need to resist imperialism. For example, Malcolm X is rejected by Amerikkka yet we know him as a revolutionary, the Black Panther Party has been vilified from its inception but Third World People all over the world recognize The Party as heroes to all oppressed people everywhere. Che Guevara, Kwame Nkrumah, Steven Biko, the list goes on but the fact of the matter is, anyone who has opposed colonial domination has been viewed as an enemy while in reality, they fought for the people and their right to self-determination. Yet Amerikkkanism and its ever indoctrinating propaganda convinces us that “Black excellence’’ is assimilation, not the collective freedom of the masses.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property. Assata Shakur

Black excellence isn’t Jay-Z making a business deal that allows him to become a multi-billionaire, Black excellence is community survival programs for the people. Oprah sitting down with the bewildered prince and princess isn’t Black Power, it’s propaganda. All of the celebrated “Black excellence” is nothing short of psychological warfare, trying to convince us to assimilate even more. We take symbolic victories, representation, and Black capitalism as wins and visible proof of how far we have come in regards to equality, but equality cannot exist on the plantation, there will always be an exploited class of Africans. That’s how neo-colonialism works. The illusion of inclusion through the propping of specific members of the oppressed class in order to sell the dream of assimilation has rendered us and our minds to the control of white supremacy. How can “Black excellence” be brought to you by the same companies who continue to exploit poor Africans on The Continent and throughout the diaspora? Black excellence is found in our resistance to the oppressor; Black excellence is our elders who have survived the torture or the carceral system and are still working and fighting for liberation not only for themselves but for all people. Black excellence isn’t Barack Obama becoming the first African president of this fascist colonial regime, it is the legacy of the Panthers, of Malcolm, of La Amistad. Black excellence isn’t assimilation, assimilation is genocide. Black excellence is the will to fight and resist, Black excellence is freedom and liberation, Black excellence is emancipation!