FLASH
Shkruar nga Pamfleti
Every 4 years we are told: "change is coming" and then we are asked to wait again and again"...
I would like someone to ask us: how does it feel to be a gas station waiting for political supporters to pull over to make a decision?
I would like someone to ask how do you feel that even though politicians promise that we are together in this fight, they use our conflict for attention? To make us promises and then go to fundraising meetings?
Isn't it time, now, to refuse to be ping-ponged between those who are pro-genocide and those who dream of a day of retribution for our survivors? Can't we build a world away from those who dance to our music in clubs but turn us away at the entrance? Who is there when we cry out for help and share videos of our kills as if we were digital advertisements?
Why resign and assume the worst? Having waited for four years, promising us that indeed "change will come" as the Earth fades, Nazis are inspired, and presidential candidates openly challenge each other.
This time will be no different. It's either victory for the crowd that marched on the Capitol building with Confederate battle flags, or those who ask us to look beyond the platitudes that tell us "what we have in common." It's a battle between those who celebrate the reinstatement of castration as punishment in a system that disproportionately arrests and convicts people of color and those who pride themselves on "prosecuting the case."
The USA has shown that it is a country where a black left-wing candidate, before white liberals, is unelected. The brave few who speak out against ethnic cleansing abroad are hijacked from the scene by Super PACs.
As for the rest, if they speak for our liberation, it is openly shown by their surrogates that this is a ploy to get our support and that they will eventually "lean" towards the center.
US electoral politics remains hostile to black liberation. As racists bask in the possible return of a president who promises to be their "payback," no black candidate can win if they say a word about reparations for slavery, or agree that black lives matter, or do statements that are seen as sympathetic to the behavior of the Police. Criticizing the bloated budgets of the institutions that employ and protect the men and women who shoot us in our nightgowns and leave us to die on kitchen floors when we call for help is sad in a US political campaign.
Yet we are asked to be excited. Excited and happy for Eric Adams despite his fight to keep them locked up in prisons. Even for Barack Obama, despite his imperialist wars. Kamala Harris, despite her parents who walk with sharp minds and have "crazy" children.
Should such a system that punishes any black freedom agenda be rewarded with evil energy? Do we still have to admit that "progress is slow" when Nazism wins overnight? Should we agree to stand in fear as they speed into their motorcades? To be told that we should have hope in a society where elections cannot be won without appealing to racists?
Vote if you must! But this time, when we close the election chapter, we must turn our backs on a system that still sees our liberation as an obligation. Reorient our political identity towards a growing anti-colonial internationalism which, while promising to fight racism, does not protect and stand for our rights. This is not intended to raise a voice against lynching but to make those who would lynch hesitate.
We must not believe leaders who say every four years "This is our time", then say "We must wait longer". There is no more waiting for the democratic politician. None seek to be our "redemption." Patience has only led us to lynch mob rule. /Taken from "AL Jazeera", adapted from "Pamphlet"
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