Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The Black Conscious Community's Reality Check

You would think that black people who have tuned out the mass media, and were turned off from the illusion of white supremacy and its institutions and have came into a state of awareness of black consciousness would be proud to be part of the so-called black conscious community. Yet, black people who have entered into this stage of enlightenment are having to constantly assess themselves and those within the black conscious community.

The world of black consciousness opened to strong willed black people who wanted a change, to step away from victim consciousness and to prosper with the idea that the black conscious community was where they "fit in" are now questioning the very existence of the black conscious community. The coining of the term and the foundation it sits upon is under constant scrutiny today.

On the surface are questions such as what is the latest topic? Who is debating who? And who is exposed as an agent of white supremacy? While at the root of the black conscious community are questions such as who created it? Who is running it? How do we keep it in check? What is the difference between it and Christianity? Where do African morals, rituals, and rites of passages come in? And what is black supremacy?

What we call the black conscious community has played a platform in distinguishing black people from those who have not realized themselves as black supremacists to those who have. Many caught in the matrix of still seeking to identify the black conscious community have yet to realize that what they call the black conscious  community is what we make of it.

That the black conscious community is under the microscope should be evidence that those black people that are evaluating it are also assessing themselves. When you realize yourself as a black man or black woman as a life giver, what the black conscious community is or is not becomes less of an unknown and more of what was a stepping stone for you to reach a steady stream of consciousness better known as black supremacy.

Black people within the conscious community have been giving the reality check it sought for. Black nationalism, black love, black militancy, share black, live communally, etc. Black people who have experienced the short-comings of the black conscious community can now decide whether they want to revert back to white supremacy, materialism, and capitalism; continue to play around with their idealistic views of black consciousness or to be realistic and face black supremacy as a proven, effective and time tested reality.