My name is Samuel Xavier. Also known as Brother Samuel. I'm a big and tall, good-looking young Black man living in the city of Brockton, Massachusetts. I'm a first-year student at Suffolk Law School in downtown Boston. Right now, I'm visiting the town of Detroit, Michigan. Along with the District of Columbia in Washington, Harlem in New York, Atlanta in Georgia, Oak Bluffs in Martha's Vineyard and now my very own Brockton, it's one of the Black Power Centers in the United States of America. Detroit is in trouble and I want to see what I can do to help.
I have been wanting to visit Detroit for a long time. I fell in love with Atlanta the first time I went there. It was so nice to see such a beautiful city in the hands of capable Black men and Black women. I visited schools which embodied African-American history, pride and achievement such as Morehouse College, Spelman College and Clark-Atlanta University. Lately, I've experienced an awakening. I truly love my fellow Black men and Black women. I want to support them any way that I can. In the past, I was often critical of Black people, my own people, and I didn't always try to see things from their viewpoint. I didn't always look at their circumstances. Now, I see the light. I want to do whatever I can to help the cause of Black political, social and economic progress throughout the world. Whether we're Africans, Haitians, Jamaicans, Cubans, Black Brazilians or African-Americans, we're all Sons and Daughters of Mother Africa.
At first glance, Detroit seemed like a beautiful city to me. I don't know what the fuss was all about. I mean, white people are always complaining about places going bad the moment Black people move there. They consider Detroit to be a bad city simply because it's Black-run and the majority of the locals are African-Americans. White people consider every Black-owned and Black-operated place to be bad. It's part of their hidden racism. They simply can't conceive of beauty and success on African-American terms. The moment many Black people or other so-called minorities move to a place, whether it's a city or even a country, white people staunchly oppose them. They try to stop their flow. And when that doesn't work, they flee by the droves. They're the ones opposed to racial diversity, not us. Black people don't mind white neighbors. White people hate and fear their Black neighbors. Why? Simply because it's their nature. The only time white people like having Black people and other so-called racial minorities around is when they dominate them in a racist, imperialist fashion.
Lately, there's been talk of shutting down the city of Detroit. Interestingly, the people clamoring for it are rednecks from states like Texas and whatever other socially backwards places where bigots still feel secure. I want to make this perfectly clear. Detroit is not shutting down. When I visited it, I saw a city in the throes of an economic crisis. Guess what? The all-white town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts is also suffering economically due to the recession. I don't see people clamoring to shut it down. Want to know which places have a lot of foreclosures? Every frigging place! Black towns and white towns. Everybody is frigging broke in today's America. Rich white people have lost a bundle of their money. And it's driven them out of their white enclaves and into poorer areas. They want to hold their noses high in the air but with their bank accounts depleted, they're forced to move to Black cities and Black neighborhoods. Such a crying shame. How the mighty have fallen. I guess white men and white women are starting to realize they're not invincible.
Black people suffer through the economy too. We bear the brunt of it. However, we're stronger than the pampered descendants of Europe's imperialists. We're going to come out stronger and better for it. We've endured much worse than mere economic recessions in the past. We know how to carve an empire out of nothing. Today, Black men and Black women are enjoying political and economic power the likes of which our ancestors could only dream of. We have a Black president. We have Black governors and Black senators now. This inspires our people, from the highest to the poorest, to keep our heads up during these economically trying times. Black people are used to hardship. We're used to enduring hell on earth. White people are used to having it easy. Those with easy lives are weak. Struggle is what helps any living thing build up strength. Black men and Black women embrace struggle and welcome adversity. White people flee from struggle. Whenever things aren't overwhelmingly in their favor, they flee.
How else would you explain the Republic of Haiti? It's the biggest example of White Flight in human history. For centuries, white men and white women ruled that small Caribbean island. They exterminated the Native American tribes that lived there. And they kidnapped Black men and Black women from Africa and brought them to the Caribbean to be their slaves. The Blacks on the island revolted, and slaughtered the imperialists who enslaved them. And the white people left the island in droves. Thus Haiti became the first independent Black republic in the New World and the site of the only successful slave revolt in history. Centuries later, white people still hold a grudge against Haitians for beating them at their own game.
For centuries, white men and white women ruled South Africa by oppressing the Black men and Black women that lived there. They came up with a system called Apartheid to keep the Black person down. Apartheid ended. A Black man became President of South Africa. For the first time in centuries, South Africa was in the hands of True Africans. Who are the True Africans? Black men and Black women. The imperialists began to leave South Africa in droves. Yet another example of White Flight. Like I said before, whenever things aren't overwhelmingly in their favor, they flee. I think someday soon they will flee from America. After all, they're about to become minorities in the glorious American empire they once ruled like demigods. Blacks, Asians, and especially Hispanics will become the dominant ethnic group in America. Minorities will become the new super majority. A proponent of diversity's dream. A racist's worst nightmare. It brings a smile to my face and a song to my heart.
