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January 25, 2008 by Marc Lamont Hill
I’m not a hunter but i am told, that in places like in the Arctic, where indigenous people sometimes might hunt a wolf, they’ll take a double edged blade. And they’ll put blood on the blade, and they’ll melt the ice and stick the handle in the ice,
so that only the blade is protruding. And that a wolf will smell the blood and wants to eat, and it will come and lick the blade trying to eat. And what happens is when the wolf licks the blade, of course, he cuts his tongue, and he bleeds, and he thinks he’s really having a good thing. And he drinks and he licks and he licks, and of course he is drinking his own blood and he kills himself. Thats what the Imperialists did with us with crack cocaine. You have these young brothers out there who think they are getting something they gonna make a living with… They getting something [so] they can buy a car, like “the white people have cars, why can’t i have a car?” They getting something [so] they can get a piece of gold, “White people have gold, why can’t i have gold?” They getting something to get a house, “White people have a house, why can’t i have a house?” And they actually think that there’s something that’s bringing resources to them, but they’re killing themselves just like the wolf was licking the blade. And they’re slowly dying without knowing it.That’s whats happening to the community, you with me on that? That’s exactly, precisely what happens to the community. And instead of blaming the hunter who put the damn handle and blade in the ice for the wolf, what happens is the wolf gets the blame. Gets the blame for trying to live. That’s what happens in our community. You don’t blame the person, the victim. You blame the oppressor. Imperialism, white power is the enemy, was the enemy when it first came to Africa and snatched up the first African brothers here against our will. [It] is the enemy today, and thats the thing that we have to understand.
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12 Comments
1. PP wrote:
The same thing can be said about hip hop
January 25, 2008 @ 1:25 pm2. Rodman L Singleton wrote:
Ditto John. Its a very compelling dialogue, until you carefully scrutinize the parallel it draws between the wolf and the black man. I have the ability to reason. History has made it palpibly clear who the architect of our oppression is. However, when do we start to address personal accountability for our demise? How long will we continue to prop ourselves upon THIS crutch? To me, to continually restate the role of the our oppressors is a tacit statement of defeat and helplessness. Sure the spoils of easy money are tantalizing to me, but I see the forest for the trees. We need more resolution dialogue in lieu of revolutionary rhetoric that only functions to stimulate emotion rather than thoughts for solutions.
January 25, 2008 @ 1:26 pm3. Nubian King wrote:
Great quote. The fiend (not the dealer) is a good comparison to the wolves. Crack turns you into an animal. The fiend is not human and has little control over themselves.
January 27, 2008 @ 6:18 am4. wouldn't you like to know? wrote:
#12 it’s cool..no love lost…
#14 well said…
peace.
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