18 Oct 95 16:34:05 -5 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 95 16:29:38 EDT From: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates) Reply-To: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates) To: Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies Subject: : Million Man March--AS VIEWED BY 1 BLACK MAN yES WE CAN CONDEM fARRAKHAN FOR PAST WRONGS...YES HE HAS OFTEN UTTERED AND SUPPORTED RACIST/ANTISEMITEC/HOMOPHOBIC/ AND FASCIST IDEAS...BUT THE MARCH WAS MUCH MORE THAN lOUIS fARRAKHAN AND THE noi.... As I watched with amazement the Washington space alloted for debate/discourse/ and demonstrations fill...the site of so many before..the historic March on Washington...and now this...filled with Black Men...some women...hope, dispair, trust, pain, looking for answers. Old and Young, rich and poor, professional illiterate. But always very very black. I too searched for answers...why this place, why this time, why these people? The answer: The Black Angustiae (angst) justaposing the Black Zeitgeist. the riddle: where do we go from i WOULD NEITHER EMBRACE WHOLEHEARTEDLY CAPITALISM NOR MARXISM...BOTH HAVE DEMONSTRATED NEITHER AN INCLINATION NOR MENTALITY TO EFFECTIVELY DEAL WITH THE BLACK SITUATION. iN EITHER CASE WE ARE DEFINED AS SUPERFICIAL, SUPERFLOUS, EXTRANEOUS AND CONSEQUENTLY EXPLOITABLES. tHE SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEM MUST COME FROM US...AND IT WILL BE SOME COMBINATION OF BOTH CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM...AND MUCH MUCH MORE. rEMEMBER, AS WE CONDEMN CAPITALISM, THAT MARX HAD NO SYMPHATHY FOR BLACKS...THEY IN HIS STRUCTURE WERE NOT EVEN CONSIDERED TO BE PART OF THE LUPEN PROLETARIATE...WHY SHOULD WE TRUST EITHER GROUP....AS EARLY AS DU BOIS THE MESSAGE OF SELF-HELP, COMMUNIY COOPERATIVES, ETC...WERE BEING CALLED FOR...fREDERICK DOUGLAS PAINFULLY DISCOVERED HOW CAPITALIST, ONLY CONCERNED WITH THE BOTTOM LINE (I.E. RIPPING OFF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE) COULD DESTROY BLACK DREAMS ...BUT THEN SUPREME LIFE AND CASUALITY/MOTOWN (BEFORE IT WAS SOLD) EBONY (BEFORE IT WAS SOLD) AND OTEHR BLACK VENTURES DEMONSTRATED THAT SOMETHING SUCH AS RESPONSIBLE CAPITALISM CAN COME INTO BEING..WHICH BENEFITS THE BLACK COMMUNITY.. AND ALL THIS ATTENTION TO lOUIS fARAKHAN...THE MOST DYNAMIC SPEECH CAME FROM AN UNKNOWN 12 YEAR OLD KID./...WHO CHALLENGE US ALL TO FIND NEW SOLUTIONS...WHILE WE STAND UP TO OUR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES.... AND THERE WAS SO MUCH MORE TO THE PROCESS.....THAT TOOK PLACE TWO DAYS AGO...AGAIN WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE...ARE DO WE JUST SIT HERE AT OUR TERMINALS AND CONDEMN/PONTIFICATE/EXTOL///AND OTHERWISE BS.....WHAT IS THE AGENDA///WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE...... here:::::::::------->>>>....>>><<<<>>>>>> well ya know the rest...and o yea...i still be me rodney c....