ALICIA BANKS
Radio Producer, Talk Show Host, DJ, Columnist

ELOQUENT FURY 

REVOLUTIONARY AFRICAN TRUTH   

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                  ON RIGHTEOUS RAGE:
          AN OPEN LETTER TO
          MY "BROTHERS"

As expected, I have received hostile reactions to my column on Jill Nelson. Cowardly men hate Jill, and me, because we dare to be honest and angry without apology. The following is written in response to these “brothers”. For the record, it is also written WITHOUT APOLOGY:


My definition of a real brother and a real black man, is Malcolm X. I revere Malcolm because he dared to be angry, and to use that anger productively as fuel for his eternal role as a global rebel. His anger was the key weapon of his legendary, fierce, and fiery verbal and political combat. His raging and victorious battles, and his beautiful dark skinned wife Betty (recently reunited with him in loving spirit) are his eternal legacies.

Malcolm's righteous rage was often slandered. Ossie Davis referred to that slander as he delivered a poetic and profound eulogy at Malcolm’s funeral, February 27, 1965, at the Faith Temple Church of God in Harlem. I quote: “There are those who will consider it their duty, as friends of the Negro people, to tell us to revile him, to flee even, from the presence of his memory. To save ourselves by writing him out of our turbulent times. Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this strong, controversial, and bold young captain...Many will say turn away, away from this man, for he is not a man but a demon, a monster, a subverter and an enemy of the black man. They will say that he is of hate, a fanatic, a racist, who can only bring evil to the cause for which you struggle...”

In an interview with Alex Haley (Playboy, May, 1963), Malcolm stated; “What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping from his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people do they hate him. That takes a lot of nerve.”

In a classic book entitled Malcolm X: Speeches at Harvard, by Archie Epps, Malcolm said: “...It is absolutely inhuman for a man to let a dog bite him and not fight back. Let someone put water hoses on his woman, mother, daughter and babies and not fight back. He is sub-human. The day he becomes human, he will react as other human beings have reacted.”

Sexist black men prefer that all women be nothing like Malcolm. They prefer that we be silent and not expressive. Smiling not angry. Cooing not crying out for revolution. As slaves to white supremacy, they prefer that sisters be chocolate caricatures of Miss Ann. She stood by and watched silently, or assisted, as white men abused black slaves. Today, many white women STILL stand by and watch, or assist, as white men wield Proposition 209, the welfare bill, the crime bill, biological warfare, chemical warfare etc... As always, their silence is CONSENT, their assistance is EVIL, and such collusion is WRONG!!!

Yet, their silence and support for evil white men is revered by weak black men who are arrogantly ignorant strangers to angry white women like Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dworkin, Gloria Allred, and Valerie Solanas. Such “brothers” dare to feel betrayed or “emasculated” exclusively by sisters like me and Jill. They have an aversion to our anger as they hypocritically, and simultaneously, dare to be angry with us. They ignore the racists who run this brutal world, as they reserve their anger exclusively for sisters. We are easier targets for their misdirected machismo.

Too many brothers expect sisters to suffer in silence. They expect us to quell our anger, by any means necessary. As females, we are expected to smile incessantly, even when where there is NOTHING to smile about. Angry white men express their anger daily via racism, sexism, police, and politics. Angry white women express their anger daily via elitism, feminism, and sex with black men. Angry black men express their anger daily via sexism, violence, and sex with white women. How dare ANYBODY expect black women to be emotionless androids in this mix!!! WE WILL EXPRESS OUR ANGER ALSO!!! HOWEVER WE CHOOSE!!! Our survival DEPENDS upon our doing so.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going, and the weak get evasive and rhetorical. Just as the slaves who were afraid to rebel or run said “Well...massa do be feedin’ us regulah...”, so do their cowardly kinfolk today say “Well...anger is unhealthy and roses still bloom...” Just as the world becomes worse than ever before, as more anger is evoked and inescapable everywhere, cowards decide that anger is “negative”. NOTHING is as negative as the causes of our collective anger!!! NOTHING is as negative as the New World Order!!!

I say NOT being angry is NEGATIVE, UNHEALTHY, and INSANE!  I have no ulcers. I have no delusions. I have no internal timebombs ticking away beneath feigned smiles. I have no regrets. My rage explodes regularly herein. If you cannot take the heat, stay out of this cyberkitchen!

Too many persons suppress their rage until it becomes unpredictable and suicidal. Too many Black men unleash their rage upon their random fellow Africans, while their real enemies blissfully exist. “Brothers” attack womanists like Jill and me, “brothers” conspired to kill Malcolm X, Huey Newton, and Tupac Shakur; but Pete Wilson, Jesse Helms, Newt Gingrich, Clarence Thomas, and Ward Connerly are alive and well. These “brothers” protest brutal police who beat their sons in private, but tolerate the peon drug dealers who poison their sons in plain view. These “brothers” NEVER bother Ken Hamblin, Larry Elder, or Rush Limbaugh with the venom they spew upon me religiously.

To these twisted, sexist fools I say: BRING IT ON!!! I would rather die than live by LIES, love anyone UNCONDITIONALLY, or stop telling the TRUTH!!! Wounds heal best in open air. Consider my weekly column electronic emergency care. Consider my radio shows oxygen via airwaves. I am proud to use my media as MEDICINE for what ails our REVOLUTION!

We are ONE! United we stand. Divided we fall. We share the same racial wounds. We SHOULD be allies ALWAYS. But, we are often ENEMIES. Why? Because we sisters heal our wounds in SUPERIOR fashions. We are WEARY with watching you infect your wounds and worsen ours.

The difference between niggers and Africans is that niggers deny the realities that Africans embrace, and we seek to rectify them. STOP EXCUSING our flaws! FIX them! The first step to any solution is to admit the problem.

For those “brothers” who have a problem with sisters because you prefer Miss Ann, go hang out with O. J. Simpson. He needs some company these days. I refuse to mimick Nicole for your comfort!!! Just as black kids sit together in cafeterias because they grew weary with the myths and madness of integration, sisters are WEARY with the myths and madness of SEXIST men. If we cannot be with real black men like Malcolm, we would rather be alone. To all of you court jesters posing as “African kings”, KISS MY ANGER!!! TWO TIMES ON EACH CHEEK!!!

For every single mother, there are MORE absent fathers! For every exhausted grandmother, forced to rear her grandchildren, left by selfish, abusive, incarcerated, or murdered children, there are MORE grandfathers who have been absent for DECADES! For every Black woman who dates white men exclusively, there are FAR MORE brothers who date white women exclusively. Whoopi Goldberg is bashed for dating rich white men, while O. J. Simpson is praised as some hero for marrying (and murdering) a teen-aged waitress who was a high school dropout.

I adore REAL black men. And , they love me too. They are friends, family, and heros who are NEVER haunted by the truths that I pen, because they live as shining exceptions to them. To those brothers who are my enemies, whom I disrespect and loathe with passion and glee: If the shoes that you find herein fit you, then lace them up and STEP OFF!!!


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