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“Wouldn’t you want to have more moderate elected Democrats than a nationalist, bigoted, far-right reality-TV-show host?” Day In and Day out Fox News is showing scary images of Protesters fighting with police, clouds of tear gas and people running through city streets in the middle of the night, all to make rural and suburban viewers, who are even more shut-in than usual, believe that American cities are war zones right now. Fox News is also blatantly lying to its viewers, blaming "radicals" and "antifa" for the scary images, and not telling viewers that in most cases what they're seeing is cops provoking conflict, often by chasing down, beating and tear-gassing peaceful protesters. As those who actually live in American cities can attest, they don't look like war zones, but pretty much like the same places they were before the pandemic and the protests (with a lot less traffic). Even when it comes to the protests themselves, despite some looting and vandalism back in early June, the vast majority of protests have been entirely nonviolent, at least as long as law enforcement isn't attacking protesters without cause.I had to update this paragraph because since I wrote this in mid August, more violence has come to cities in the form of militia and Trump rally supporters. If we want to see what America could have looked like had we taken action early all we have to do is look at our neighbors to the north. What the Canadian example does show, however, is what the United States could have looked like if the U.S. effort had not been led by malicious, self-seeking incompetents. Some Americans would still be getting sick; some would be dying. The disease would remain very much a problem to reckon with. But the worst would be over. Reopening schools would be feasible. Transit systems would not threaten the lives of their users. Economic recovery would have begun. Instead, the Trump administration and Trump-swayed governors have turned a crisis into a catastrophe—a catastrophe that continues to get uniquely worse in the United States even as it ebbs almost everywhere else in the developed world. In retrospect, the most humiliating fact about the coronavirus pandemic was that under responsible leadership and with some moderate amount of social cohesion, it was a highly manageable threat. Within less than six months of the first cases, it became apparent what to do. Almost everybody else In the developed world then did it. Almost everybody else in the developed world is now collecting the benefits of having done it. Donald Trump, following the imperatives of his own ego, refused to do it. He then imposed that refusal on the federal government, and encouraged it in Republican-led states, as Fox News hosts and Facebook posters applauded. It could have been otherwise. It still could be. But in July as in January, the biggest difference between the United States and the rest of the developed world is that the U.S. has the misfortune of having Donald Trump in charge. You can’t fix racism, or sexism, or capitalism, or poverty, or climate change or any of its parts, because they fit together as mutually reinforcing components of the whole. You have to get rid of the whole paradigm. I will attempt to sow the basis of re-inventing a paradigm and I will show that history and abuse of one descendant is exactly like that of another except for visual observance and recollection. In this I will use the basis of my content from Maggie Brito's The Black Panther: Symbol of Black Power in the Caucasian Paradigm But though the Black Panthers were militantly anti-racist, the party remained stuck within the Caucasian paradigm. Its intellectual members who articulated its manifesto and developed its philosophy drew upon the intellectual production of the paradigm, using the Caucasian conceptual framework of Marxism to understand the Black experience in the USA, as did several Black intellectuals of that era. The Black Panthers also created successful social programs in Black communities, such as health care, educational and food programs. As a result of their confrontation of racism in the USA, they were under constant surveillance and investigation by the FBI and the CIA. The purpose of the Black Panther Revolutionary Party was to defend Black communities from attack by Caucasian American police and armed forces. They wrote books, published a newspaper and taught in educational institutions. The 761st Tank Battalion, the celebrated Black Panthers of World War II, the Black American baseball superstar, Jackie Robinson, was a member of the 761st Tank Battalion. The image of the black panther represents Black power; it  bespeaks bravery, excellence and the willingness to come out fighting with every intention of winning the fight. It’s interesting that both the name and image of the black panther emerged within the popular consciousness in the USA – one of the most racist countries on the planet – in the year 1966 in the next following three years the most violent acts in America unfold. This makes me re-visit the image of the black panther within the Caucasian paradigm. It represents Black power, but where does it come from and what does it mean? The only recourse is for critical thinkers to take the time to learn an ancient Kemetic language, the Mdu Ntr, and study the ancient texts. For without the methodological and ideological apparatuses, we cannot see the contrast supplied by the Caucasian paradigm. One of the most advanced civilizations was Kemet, a technologically advanced civilization ruled by Black pharaoh queens for millennia. The subordination of Black people continues to be perpetuated through the creation of socio-economic stratification according to racial classification, the stratification of people according to the shade of their skin, the conferring of honorary Caucasian status on People of Color, the genocide of Black people and People of Color, and the ignoring and invalidation of the Black presence on the planet. This process was executed by virtue of the creation of academies which promote the ideology of “race” as well as the creation of such academic disciplines as anthropology and social science, which legitimized the fallacy to such an extent that “race” is regarded as a normal, organic aspect of the human experience However, a perusal of historical documents would reveal race to be a recent invention. significant process in the paradigm was the privileging of the Caucasian and subordination of Black people through the creation of the socio-scientific myth of racism. Caucasian products are elements of modernity and proof of modernity, progress and advancement; and that whatever is deemed primitive is irrelevant. The widespread use of the Gregorian calendar which “starts” at 1AD prevents an accurate measure of the age of such ancient Black monuments as the Sphinx and the Olmec heads, and furthermore, regards such monuments as prehistoric. Furthermore, the idea that there are two historical timelines, one starting from 1AD and moving forward in time, and the other starting from 1AD and moving backward in time is ludicrous, but because the paradigm legitimizes this fallacy, people believe in it. The fact is we are not living in the year 2020. Both the planet and humankind are far, far older. Within the context of this analysis, textbooks present a simplistic narrative of the history of humanity, a narrative which traces “man” from primitive beginnings to a present modern condition, a narrative which does not give a true history of humanity. The aggressively marketed image, and the many, many versions of it, has effectively contributed to the acceptance of the fallacy of evolution. It’s the ideology which legitimizes the Caucasian paradigm, because it’s used to cement within people’s minds the notion that Africa is a prehistoric place and Blackness a prehistoric condition, and whatever we see of Africa today are remnants of that prehistoric condition – remnants of the past which exist alongside modernity and which will eventually cease to exist. This ideology is put forward in textbooks and aggressively marketed in schools. This depicts the history of humanity, a history in which both human and animal life on the plant evolved from primitive to modern forms, with the modern human form represented by the Caucasian woman, a modern human form which becomes a form of machine/artificial intelligence. This – gender transgression notwithstanding – is the ideology of evolution as put forward by scientists celebrated by the paradigm. It depicts the evolution of life forms, culminating in the image of a face of a Caucasian woman. It's premise and fallacy has its foundation in the ideology of evolution as Caucasian scientists have defined it A paradigm dictates what can be known and should be known, as well as that which is not known and should not be known. This alone is grounds for debunking the evolutionary theory The black panther is native to Africa and Asia and is said to be a solitary and fearsome nocturnal creature. Because black panthers are relatively rare, there has been superstition surrounding their existence. A melanated big cat, called a panther, is a solitary, fearsome creature. This is a consequence of any attempt to fight the paradigm from within the paradigm using the apparatus of the paradigm – we are beaten by the very weapons with which we fight If we are separated by color. Though the Black Panther Party was ultimately defeated because of the unrelenting aggression of the American state – itself a prominent ideological instrument of the Caucasian paradigm – its important work is critical to the global movement for Black empowerment. Appropriation of the Image of the Black Panther. The publication of the first Black Panther superhero graphic novel by Stan Lee, who was credited with creating most of the Marvel superheroes, occurred within the same racially charged milieu as the Black Panther political organizations. Lee said he created the series because of the absence of Black superheroes. The original Black Panther stories pandered to the racist stereotypes of the Caucasian paradigm, and it’s not surprising the original series was named “Jungle Action.” In 1972, the series got an upgrade. By this time, Lee had been promoted to editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, and another Caucasian writer in the Marvel production team, Don McGregor, along with Billy Graham, the Black artist credited with developing the image of Luke Cage, took over the series. McGregor said he felt the series was old-fashioned and racist. He and Graham revamped King T’Challa, created antagonist, Erik Killmonger and broke the mould of the typical comic book by using the graphic novel format. The series came to an end in 1976. The creation of the Black Panther superhero during the period of the prominence of the Black Panther Party had the effect of capturing the image of the black panther as symbol of resistance to racism in the real socio-economic space and re-placing it within a fantasy universe populated by Caucasian superheroes. If the symbol was unable to represent the final defeat of racism in the socio-economic sphere, it was brought, replete with racist stereotypes, fully within the control of the paradigm’s apparatus of representation in the sphere of the arts and entertainment. This reinforced the stereotype of Black people as ‘minorities.’ But the prolonged liminal situation of Black people in the Caucasian paradigm meant that the misappropriation of the image of Black power ultimately became the means of its liberation. The Black Panther story developed in complexity and its popularity grew when Black writers began to work on it. How Black Writers Reclaimed the Black Panther. From 1998 – 2003, Christopher Priest, Marvel’s first Black writer and editor was assigned to the creation of a new Black Panther series. Priest was deeply resentful at being typecast as a Black writer in what he regarded as a racist and sexist industry The typecasting of Black writers and artists within the graphic novel industry was a practice in which Black writers were assigned to stories about Black characters. Usually, the stories had low visibility and lacked prestige. This was the condition of the Black Panther graphic novel when it was placed in Priest’s hands. He’s credited with laying the foundation for the 21st century iteration of the Black Panther, for overhauling both the character of T’Challa and the kingdom of Wakanda, and for making T’Challa a more powerful superhero and an astute monarch and statesman. This enabled the Black writers to re-claim for their readership the image of the black panther as symbol of Black power. Such being the case, Black Panther, the movie, carefully built upon the insight of Black writers attuned to the Black aspect of their experience. Its dazzling success communicates a message about the consciousness of Black people at this time, such as the kind of knowledge we seek now, and what we expect of our artists, especially those who have been given much. The Political Importance of Black Panther, the Movie. For Black audiences, the movie was, at the very least, an opportunity to see themselves on the big screen in the same manner in which Caucasians have been portrayed Important Statements Made In the Movie. Coogler paid tribute on several occasions in the film to several important elements of the black panther symbolism. One was his acknowledgement of Kemet through the melanated big cat, not Sekhmet, but her sister, Bast, who Wakandans revere as creatrix. Why did the Wakandans prefer to worship Bast instead of her sister Sekhmet, who the Kemites regarded as creatrix, who was actually a big cat and who is more clearly the blueprint of the black panther? Maybe because Bast was tamer. Sekhmet’s uninhibited aggression was so great, even the gods feared her. Perhaps the Caucasian gods of the paradigm fear her too Killmonger was interested, as was the leadership of the Black Panther Party, in unleashing a revolution on the racist paradigm and rescuing Black people from the dispossession to which the paradigm subjected them Discourse between Killmonger and the thoughtful T’Challa, which echoes the intense debate which has been going on for a long time between the Black diaspora and the African continent. It’s impossible for Black people to assimilate into the Caucasian paradigm without seriously mutilating their minds and bodies, and mutilation is the price millions of Black people pay for attempting to assimilate. Body scars have many different meanings in the cultures of West Africa. In the Black Panther, each scar on Killmonger’s body represented a kill. Thus, the suggestion in the Black Panther story arc that a country on the African continent is the most resource rich country on the planet is allegorical; the idea that Black people control this resource is political. But how do Africans, both on the continent and in the diaspora, think about this? This is the crux of the discourse between Africa and its diaspora, and the answer to the question determines the future of Black people. A fitting end, and a perfect solution. That question opens up the possibility of the beginning of a new discourse between Africa and Black people throughout the diaspora. As such, the movie challenges all of us to facilitate a final destruction of the Caucasian paradigm. The paradigm can only be destroyed by knowledge. The question is raised by Black civilizations which really were not colonized by the Caucasian paradigm, we can find freedom if we prescribe to our own paradigm. It is hoped that a story about a real-life super rich Black monarch who ruled a real-life advanced African kingdom that in real life was untouched by the Caucasian paradigm will be financed by Black billionaires and will reach the heights of the allegorical film, to become an even greater inspiration to Black people. The storyline, the depiction and aggregate outcome are an attempt at cultural incite to provide the viewer with an alternative narrative. By this I mean, Anit-Blackplotation. We see this similar aspect in historical form when recalling Native American caricatures. Recently, a professional American Football franchise released a statement that they would seek a new image and perhaps name for their team. Not unlike the original Black Panther, Native Americans are also cast as pre-historical figures from which academia only refers to in past tense. Many of the same tactics are used to subjugate a racial stereo-type within a Caucasian paradigm towards indigenous people of North America, as colonization and dictatorship overtook civilization. I use those terms to describe a paradigm that we don't prescribe to other than to describe how a authoritarian rule translates to western history. Like ancient Egypt and North Africa, we to have millennial dynasty kingdoms that modern culture still uses the practices & traditions of our ancestors, but conveniently casts aside the people of it's descent. Take the Bill of Rights or the Constitution of these United States and you find the elements of pillar society foundational corner stones of civilization much older than 1776. Democracy is a human right to provide consensus on how society ought to serve it's members. That is not a monarchy or a plutocracy, but independent mechanism to find balance between power and will of the people. The F.B.I was engaging in Rules of Engagement on Domestic Land for the purpose of dismantling a militant group much like they did with the Black Panthers, but this was an Indigenous group named the American Indian Movement or A.I.M. Before I can get into the socio-economic impact of what A.I.M did or tried to do, I have to point out that once again the paradigm attempts to portray our indigineous culture, as ancient or a culture of the past when in fact it is not of the past, it's very much living and alive today. A culture is made of people that are apart of the same ethno-centric group. In this case, we're talking about America, but in order for the Caucasian version of history to work, one must suspend reality and imagine America as a prestine un-touched natural state of land and only include Native Americans, as an after-thought. The truth is our anscestors have been living off the land since Time Immemorial and it is because of this fact that we are called Native Americans. Despite that science tries to explore a mythical Ice-Bridge theory, everyday new evidence is uncovered connecting the land and the people. So down at Wounded Knee, the sight of a historical massacre of un-speakeable gore, Native People we're gathered to pray. Just as they did before the encounter of the Army or the F.B.I. or any other para-military outfit, Indians sought spiritual guidance through gathering together in ceremony. The first Wounded Knee massacre was when Indians, mostly women and children along with elders we're shot for Ghost Dancing. At the Second Wounded Knee, A.I.M. attempted to provide security and escort to people because of the high tension with the U.S. government. Again, the people we're attacked for praying and holding peaceful protest on their own land. Just like the Black Panthers, A.I.M. was dismantled and through the attempt of un-arming the protectors, an F.B.I. agent or agents we're shot. This gave the government an alibi for attacking Indians on their own land and arresting A.I.M. members. We saw this same thing some fifty years later at a place called Standing Rock where people we're gathered to pray and protest an illegal pipeline for crossing their land and again the government stood by while local officials attacked un-armed, non-violent protestors. At that time, many people commented that it was a pre-stage setting that would eventually lead to all races and all nations being attacked by a state led police force. So here we are in Kenosha, Wisconsin or Portland, OR. The government is operating as a shadow force using local and out-of-state militia, as their instigators against non-violent an in fact, peaceful protestors who are speaking their mind and demonstrating against police brutality. This is not new and in Los Angeles, after Rodney King, I believe we witnessed the worst of it. The biggest difference we have today is that the president himself is leading the charge against the very people he is supposed to lead. There have been Bully-pulpit leaders in the past, but nothing so unlawful and hyprocritical as it is today. Abraham Lincoln once said, "The rule of a minority as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left." This fact or circumstance directly relates to the non-popular election victory by 3 million votes that the current president accepted in order to take office. It means that he is a minority ruler that does not have the support of a majority of the citizens. Because of that fact, he projects to be a strong-man or a leader of law & order when in fact he is just the opposite. People taking up arms to attack they're fellow citizenship is exactly what this man is perpetrating and it doesn't aling with our value systems or judicial proceedings in any way shape or form. It's prejudice and hypocritical!