violence!!! according to who?

When it comes to violence, I have to ask myself what pushes someone to the point where they have to resort to violence. I see violence as a byproduct of the inequalities produced by the system we live in today. At the head of this system is the economic mind of a beast that isn’t fully aware of its own place in the world. Its always trying to expand and create new ways to generate more money. Yet, it has no inkling to whether or not it is running to fast or to slow. The beast can’t feed, clothe, or bathe itself. All it can do is expand and grow. The question that comes to my mind is what does the beast do when it can’t expand anymore? It screams, yelps, and cries in a crisis, but to me all that crying means its time to die. Yet, all it has to do is cry loud enough so that the state hears its voice. The state knows its little beast needs to be helped, so the state works franticly to find a solution. Well the last time the beast was sick, end of the 1960s, the state came in to help at the expense of the American People. LBJ, REGAN, NIXON, THACTHER, and Pinochet pride themselves on helping tend to the beast of capitalism.

What is lost in all the glory of these heads of state is what happened to the people that were suffering in the belly of the beast? Well neoliberalism came in as a laxative for the beast and it shitted us out of its ass. My family was forced to leave Detroit because the quality of life had deteriorated to nothing after manufacturing jobs went overseas. My mother’s first husband was active in trying to turn back the effects of unemployment in the community but the state couldn’t have this. One morning he was picked up on robbery charges and murdered in his cell. I believe it’s a lie to say violence is on someone’s own terms. The cops, who murdered my mothers husband, were being directed by a state who did everything it could to break apart social solidarity. The effects of neoliberalism and the break up of social solidarity is best described by African People's Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela, who sums it up best in his imagery between arctic wolves and the black community.

I'm not a hunter but i am told,
That, uh, in places like in the arctic,
Where indigenous people sometimes might, might, hunt a wolf,
They'll take a double edged blade,
And they'll put blood on the blade,
And they'll melt the ice and stick the handle in the ice,
So that only the blade is protruding,
And that a wolf will smell the blood and wants to eat,
And it will come and lick the blade trying to eat,
And what happens is when the wolf licks the blade,
Of course, he cuts his tongue, and he bleeds,
And he thinks he's really having a good thing,
And he drinks and he licks and he licks,
And of course he is drinking his own blood and he kills himself,
That’s what the imperialists did with us with crack cocaine,
You have these young brothers out there who think they are getting something
They gonna make a living with,
They is getting something they can buy a car,
Like the white people have cars, why can't i have a car?
They getting something they can get a piece of gold,
White people have gold, why can't i have gold?
They getting something to get a house,
White people have a house, why can't i have a house?
And they actually think that theres something thats bringing resources to them,
But they're killing themsleves just like the wolf was licking the blade,
And they're slowly dying without knowing it.
Thats whats happening to the community, you with me on that?
Thats exactly, precisely what happens to the community,
And instead of blaming the hunter who put the damn handle and blade in the ice
For the wolf,
That what happens is the wolf gets the blame, gets the blame for trying to live,
Thats what happens in our community,
You don't blame the person, the victim,
You blame the oppressor, imperialism, white power is the enemy,
Was the enemy when it first came to Africa,
And snatched up the first African brothers here against our will,
Is the enemy today,
And that’s the thing that we have to understand.

So instead of being viewed as a community of people working together, we were singled out and made into these competitive beasts waiting in the shadows to fuck someone up. I talk to old people and they say when someone brought a knife to a fight that was bad. Now guns are a common place. I don’t make sense to me. Would violence have rose if we were left alone without the affects of neoliberalism. I see the violence in my community as a new imperialism set out to kill the very last one of us, like the colonial powers tried to do in post-colonial Africa. Violence is a coordinated event where the state has driven someone to their limited and they are forced to do what they can not to be fully taken by the system. The real violence is in the heads of state, the American government, laws, polices, and white imperialist.