Beloved Ancestor Malcom X Wasn't Soft On Community Crime.

 

















Beloved ancestor Malcolm X is one of 'the' great influences of my life.

His call for community control echoed in my ears when I began what I call 'safety creation' (combination advocacy and consulting) in response to crack cocaine insurgency of the 1980s-1990s destroying my community and Black America nationally.

As with the 1980s 'DopeBusters' of the same Nation of Islam Brother Malcom left years earlier, 

https://youtu.be/TV7ZQgmcIAw?si=Ead6FYf0llsCy-J-

I also felt mobilizing on behalf of my maternal grandmother and other widowed senior citizens was my duty as a Black man.

Decades later, it's still my duty, though now I contend against an ideology that misplaces sympathy toward those waging war, literally, upon our community.

It's so unlike this crowd scene from 'New Jack City,' a 1991 anti drug film by director Spike Lee that offered a glimpse into today's fentanyl-fueled future:



My favorite image of beloved ancestor Malcolm X, peering through the blinds with his carbine at the ready, is our ultimate stance against community crime: one good Brother verses bad ones (in cahoots with hidden outside forces) to protect 'self,' meaning individually, family and communally.

He wasn't soft on community crime. No speech of his justified murder, rape, robbery nor burglary. He demanded better from us than destructive activity.

And we must demand better from violent traitors to our safety today.

You can't carjack your way to liberation.

Cap Black.
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