Anti-Blackness as World Norm

Thoughts on Anti-Blackness as the norm in the world, asks “Do I Live in Your World?”

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DO I LIVE IN YOUR WORLD

We do not live in “a White man’s world,” and certainly not in the world of the racists and anti-blackness far and wide across this planet. Is this not what we are taught to think of ourselves, as Black people in this world, or in whatever country, or continent — even among our own? That, we are an intrusion, a people merely carried here or there. That, we live in the world of others, who can move and treat us anyway they like or please? Don’t we live in a world! We live in a world, and a grand universe that does not care about what little race or other rules over who. We should not bound ourselves to the racial dualities and “dual consciousness” with which the American sees all the world. . .sees their little neighborhood. That is not the mapping of the world. Those are just maps. We should and shall not bound ourselves to the limited ways in which we have been thus influenced and expected to think. If those of anti-black sentiment get in my way, then simply I will move them and step on their neck. I have never feared any people. Move through the world, not bound by these things, and weak men will abhor you and steep in their stupid assumptions, their little beliefs, their jealousies . . . they will destroy themselves. Yet, be on guard against their ignorance and evil, and know how to combat and crush them. Reflect back upon them their weaknesses and flaws, and their darkness. Move as terror, like the darkness of Space. Little men, little men, I do not live in “your world.” I will move in spite of you, not with a mighty audible roar, but with all pressures — tides, low, high and unseen through the loud and rancorous clatter.