The statement that Diane made that "White people love playing 'divide & rule’. We should not play their game,” is fundamentally flawed and self incarcerating because not all white people are the same! What should have been said is that white supremacist ideology has within it an agenda of divide and rule that is adopted by people across the racial spectrum, who wish to identify with the dominant ideology within Britain.
This agenda of divide and rule operates through the postmodern, post-colonial, diasporic universe of fragmentation and flux, which poses an important question regarding African peoples, which is, does an organic African consciousness exist? This question is heavily influenced by what I call 'the racist double game'. The racist double game uses the old racism or crude pigmentation racism as a close ally which is centered around the ideology of essentialist racial traits as delineated/coded by a historical white supremacist vernacular. 21st century racism conspicuously denounces this old racist ideology of essentialist racial traits and in so doing, attempts to remove from consideration the possibility of an organic, dominant African worldview that could provide the agency necessary for a Pan-African project of solidarity, a oneness for those humans who are conscious of it.
I believe that it was with reference to this dominant African worldview of oneness, as the basis of black radical resistance to racial injustice, that was ascribed to black people living in Britain, when the term "the black community" was used during coverage of the Stephen Lawrence murder trial and the perspective from which Diane Abbott perceived the term 'the black community', which was rebuked by the commentator whom Diane responded to in a succession of tweets.
What it is important to understand is that the racist, essentialist racial traits ascribed to racial groups by a white supremacist historical vernacular, has been done through the limitations of euro-centric consciousness, which cannot hope to realise the realities of these racial groups without receiving organic intelligence from such groups. Therefore it needs to be understood that there is no problem with an ethno-geographic historical group of peoples having organic essential principles that are part of their worldview, which transcends the confines of race. The problem is with the confines of race, a european invention, created for the purposes of power and control, which has postulated and organised essential racial traits in a perverse hierarchy through a white supremacist historical vernacular.
Ultimately, it is in the spirit of the humanitarian project for peace and equality globally, that we should try and understand that humanity transcends racial boundaries and that it is 'ideology' that is the distinguishing factor as to whether we are positive or negative regardless of race.
One Love.
I believe that it was with reference to this dominant African worldview of oneness, as the basis of black radical resistance to racial injustice, that was ascribed to black people living in Britain, when the term "the black community" was used during coverage of the Stephen Lawrence murder trial and the perspective from which Diane Abbott perceived the term 'the black community', which was rebuked by the commentator whom Diane responded to in a succession of tweets.
What it is important to understand is that the racist, essentialist racial traits ascribed to racial groups by a white supremacist historical vernacular, has been done through the limitations of euro-centric consciousness, which cannot hope to realise the realities of these racial groups without receiving organic intelligence from such groups. Therefore it needs to be understood that there is no problem with an ethno-geographic historical group of peoples having organic essential principles that are part of their worldview, which transcends the confines of race. The problem is with the confines of race, a european invention, created for the purposes of power and control, which has postulated and organised essential racial traits in a perverse hierarchy through a white supremacist historical vernacular.
Ultimately, it is in the spirit of the humanitarian project for peace and equality globally, that we should try and understand that humanity transcends racial boundaries and that it is 'ideology' that is the distinguishing factor as to whether we are positive or negative regardless of race.
One Love.
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