Black History is the History of the Black Nation and Should Be Used to Support Black Nationhood

Black history is not "American History" as integrationist black liberals would insist. Black history is the history of the black nation, and it's struggles toward something better under colonialism.

There is a repeated statement during black history month that “Black history is American history: equate black history and culture with general American “culture” and “history”. This attempt is viewed as some sort of radical analysis on the part of integrationist black liberal, placing black culture and history at the center of the American story. This analysis does some good for black people in it centering slavery and oppression in the development of this country. But, this analysis also does some major harm: putting the black population as simply a different shade of “American” instead of being a separate distinct group of people.

This framing of the relationship between the black population and its history and the American population, which the mixed European population and its history ignores the fact that both histories are entirely different. The history of the black population in America is one of struggle for survival, death, oppression, and tragedy, while the history of the Euro-American population is one of relishing in the spoils of conquest, genocide, and general prosperity. We, the black population, do not benefit from the genocide of this country’s indigenous people, it’s imperial conquest overseas, or it’s industrial policy (we did not benifit from the new deal). We, the black population, have always been an underclass with traitorous black elites that collaborate with white capital. We are a separate oppressed nation trapped within the broader Euro-American Nation. The sooner we understand that we are an oppressed nation, the sooner we can get to free by using rational methods, instead of the irrational methodology supported by our integrationist black liberals.

What methods am I talking about? The integrationist black liberal would say that we should kneel in front of police, beg for our lives, and trust their bougie white liberal friends in power. Black liberals say we can simply vote our way out of oppression and that hard choices are not necessary. I am saying that voting does not work on its own and should be disregarded as our main strategy for seeking greater political power. Voting needs to be an auxiliary strategy in the conquest of black political power.

The last forty years have shown a serious decline in black politics. The black population has been demobilized and disarmed, we have the Black Liberation Army, Black Panther Party and Republic of New Africa provisional government. All we have is the “Democratic” party, which wants our oppression and the “Republican” party, which wants our genocide. Our conditions have degraded dramatically since the end of the black power movement, with intra-black violence remaining high, racial wealth inequality increasing, black consciousness being low and a community in fragmentation. This is all the result of the integrationist black Liberal and their liberal methodology. They failed to see the trends in this country’s industrial policy, it’s move toward free-market fundamentalisms and the post-industrial economy, they failed to understand the nature of our colonial oppression and the role blacks play in the economy and they fail to understand that white liberals they love so much will ally themselves with the white fascist in seconds if it is within their interest to do so.

I propose the methodology used by many other oppressed nations under the regimes of other peoples across the globe. Look at the Kurds in Iraq, the ethnic minorities of Myanmar, the Zapatista in Mexico, and the Chechens in Russia. We should think about three methods: armed opposition, ethnic electoral political organizations (see the Catalonians, Scottish independence party, etc.) and the creation of secure base areas.

Ethnic political organizations are organization whose main function is to be the representatives of one ethnic group primarily. The integrationist black liberal will say that we already have that in the Black congressional Congress. Any student of the BCC knows that they are ineffective and spend most of their time being coons for the democratic party establishment. They are also not a political party nor represent blacks as a whole but represent the bourgeoisie (upper class) blacks who have little to no connection with the majority of the black population, which is working class. Black America needs a genuine people’s organization whose goal is the liberation of black America from 400 years of colonial nightmare, not careerist puppets like Jaimie Harison.

Armed opposition is self-explanatory. No group of people have gotten anywhere without the creation of an army or some other group of armed men. This is the bare necessity for any nation to be taken seriously, especially one under colonial domination like the black nation. How this grouping used is completely up to the competency of its leaders and the material situation.

Base areas are a fundamental basic that our people lack. Our majority black cities, specifically in the south, should be centers of black revolutionary nationalism, our majority of black parishes/counties in the Kush area (along the Mississippi river) should be the Autonomous zones of black political power. As of now, they are areas of extreme political backwardness. Shreveport Louisiana and Jackson Mississippi have the potential to be the bastions of black political power that we need, but instead they are the hotbeds of white racism and fascism. It is largely through the work of the Democratic party’s black managerial class that we don’t have true black political control in areas that are overwhelmingly black spaces. The black democrats are in cohorts with white republicans and white finance capital to keep black cities cesspools of poverty, corruption and ignorance as they are now.

We need to move rationally and with discipline toward this goal, but this work requires a correct viewing of Black history at the history of the black nation and its colonial oppression. With a correct viewing of black history, it would be obvious to see that we are no different than any other “minority group” that exist and ever have exist. What is good for the Kurds, Chechens, Zapatista, Haitians, Catalonians, Irish, etc. is good for us.