STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

There is an overt historical and cultural agenda to distort the truth of the history of Blacks in America. for example, when there is talk about our "constitutional rights " and our rights under the bill of rights, the reality is, that for over the first 100 years of the U.S.'s existence, Blacks were not considered citizens. It was explicitly understood that "all men are created equal" meant white men. Blacks were property. They were a commodity. The Supreme court affirmed that "Negroes", not even free Negroes, could ever become citizens of the United States. They were "beings of an inferior order" not included in the phrase "all men" in the Declaration of Independence nor afforded any rights by the United States Constitution.

This sordid history of the governement's treatment of Blacks and all other minorities is, as demonstrated above, an institutionalized phenomenon. Repeatedly, examples can be found in legislative, presidential and judicial decisions where the systematized categorization of Blacks as a class of beings that have no rights, "that need be respected." is continually affirmed.

So when we look at governmental policy, public policy, social systems, the problems of the inner city, the inequitable distribution of resources, and the historical and ongoing disparities of the black community, we must view them within the context of historical institutionalized racism.

With the advent of the Civil Rights Act, this nation has sought to advertise itself as color blind. but the ending of overtly racist policy, as exemplified through laws and policy, is only one step in a journey of a thousand miles. We have been stymied at the point of rooting out overtly racist policy. the racist forces regrouped, and now they are pushing back against the battle lines to state boldly that the rooting out of racist language is all they are willing to concede. The racist actions will continue unabated. We can wipe the fungus and reeking slime off of the greco-roman pillars, but the septic infection will be allowed to flourish in safety deep within the sickly recesses.

Nothing has been done to make reparations for the hundreds of years of injustice. Despite the din of trumpet blasts and baited drum rolls announcing a new era in race relations, affirmative action, was the only policy implemented to rectify the historical inequalities and undue burden placed upon blacks. Within a decade, it was overturned for it was deemed as unfair for a student from power and priviledge to have to "compete" with a black student when consideration was made of the historical and ongoing injustices meted out to that individual and his family, stretching back 8 or more generations. The question put forth was, "why should this individual in power, with every possible advantage, who benefited from the hundreds of years of exploitation, have to step to the side even an inch for any black individual?" the courts, unsurprisingly, ruled that historical consideration of the black burden, in any context, would have to miraculously be conducted in a way that did not effect the present day individuals in power. To garner justice, we have to become an army of Ellison's invible men and women, represented through the "spirit" of the law, but barred from dwelling within our black flesh.

The argument for the ending of affirmative action ranged from being somehow in the best interest of blacks—that is they have suffered too much under racial categorization—to the argument that government and public contracts, the workplace and higher education are somehow not the appropriate avenues for intervention. And of course, to someone who is guilty and non-contrite, as are all those who reap the benefits of White Privilege, the bottomest of bottom lines is this: there will never be any avenue of consideration which will be allowed to slip by under the current institutionalized, racist power structure that will not be challenged tooth and nail, to the grave. The benefactors of White privilege will use their money, their courts and their lawyers, aided by their turn-coat army of hankerchief headed uncle toms from the mold of Rice, Powell, Thomas, Mc Whorter and Connerly to block every advance. In the words of Frederick Douglass, "Power concedes nothing without a struggle." And we may as well add, "Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!" -Thomas Moore

It should not be surprising that they would use their "justice" system to keep us alienated from our rights. This system is the same one they used to invalidate the claims of indigenous peoples in Africa, South America, North America and Asia. It is a law which recognizes one culture, one race, one religion, one God, and one man. The White man. The present day justice system is a conglomeration of the White man's material alchemy. It is what they have used to change what is ours, into what is theirs. And yet, through it all, in the perspective of sober truth, it is nothing like justice, something less than magic, and something more like a crime. No, we can not rely on this system, and it's corrupted legacy to quench our 400 year thirst one drip at a time. Their courts, like their sciences, their universities, their tools, weapons & economic systems are all controlled by the same mind. the same racist mind that is seemingly divided into seven areas, corresponding to the seven deadly sins. They have become a mechanized race that uses earth moving machines that turn up, turn out and gang bang the mother earth in a cacophony of diesel engines. All of these things are tentacles of the same beast. It makes no sense to distinguish between the tentacles, the suction cups, the mind, the skin and the belly. it is all The Cracken of White, world domination. Seemingly hell bent on ravenously engorging itself on the last sacred drop of the earth's breast milk. This creature is blood thirsty to practice infanticide on mother earths peaceful peoples, all the while smelting chains to place around her stuffed and mounted womb.

We must wake up our communities, the individuals within them, their advocates and leaders. The people in the community must take the responsibility for educating themselves and taking the fight to the people in power, be they council members, mayors, congressmen, senators or agency administrators. Through education and direct action, the people must be trained to shake off the sedentary effects of the White mans' psychological barriers of forms, procedures and beaurocracy and scheduling to demand their justice and to steel themselves to express their needs through a collectivized multi-generational struggle. There can be no compromise, no negotiation, no concessions, no discussions, only liberation and celebration and the steadfast, grim stewardship of what remains.

In the name of justice, we must be prepared to say If we can't eat, if we can't be educated, housed, employed, given access and made safe, then no one will eat, be educated, be housed, employed, be allowed acces or made safe. We must be ready to plunge the entirety of the earth into a new dark age of no technology, no machines, no trade, no financial markets. we must be willing to say that we will engage in a death dance and put our faith in God to resurrect this planet, in millions of years, to try again.. or perhaps on another planet, in another existence... but we will not submit to evil. we will not live, to serve. we will not breath only to choke or eat only to vomit. We must point and say collectively, "If them, THEN US." "if him, THEN ME.", "If his, THEN MINE." The struggle isn't individual. It's a struggle which takes the immediacy of our posterity into consideration. The urgency is the same urgency with which we take our next breath, or eat our next meal. it is the same reflexive muscular contraction of a mother leaping in front of a car to save her only child. If we can not leave a better world for our children, a world which is inclusive and purified through the destruction, of all systems of oppression, then there will not be a world, and there certainly will not be an oppressor left to survey the damage. Let the heavens fall if they are to be transformed into whorehouses.

Three hundred years ago, such a victory could not be possible. Death would surely be the outcome of any demands for equity and equality. When the European killing machine was lubricated and fully within it's foamy mouthed suicidal greed, no battle was win-able. Today, victory is at hand. The spoils lie a few feet away, but we must awaken and take up the mantle and seal the fate that our ancestors gave their lives for. Those in the struggle died in order to allow us to tread upon their bodies and sidle up next to their dreams, to embrace them, and to seize them, never to be relinquished again. Their bones are our weapons, our talking sticks, our wisdom teachers.

History has shown us that the needs of the community, will never be solved without the passionate involvement of the community. One of the important elements in the organization of the community to solving it's problems, is that they are given accurate information which properly contextualizes the issues that they face. Our struggle has two steps. First, We must exert our power, as individuals and collectively as a community to combat the propaganda war on one hand and the continual creation of harmful policies on the other. Second, we must secure a positive agenda of equity and justice and once created to defend them with our life blood. These steps go hand in hand. As we look upon our ravaged communities, our hungry bellies and minds, our damaged esteem and hopelessness, can we not say that there is no way we could not do better if we represented ourselves?

It is with these considerations and these goals in mind that The Woozy was created. We must have a base of solidarity, armed with right knowledge, right action and a historical perspective to avoid the traps and configurations of pre-emptive defeat.

The Woozy is the rallying point, the information center, one of many bases of operations from which like minded individuals may draw sustenance for the struggle. Either humans will be joyfully in communion with God, or nothing. We have not been born into a paradise only to dwell in a hell on earth. The promise of God will be fulfilled or let no man live, or indeed, no man will be capable of life.