Friday, July 29, 2022

My Father A Buffalo Soldier

by Kenny Anderson

My father Jack D. Anderson recently turned 100 years of age on July 13, 2022. Next month my father a veteran will be honored at the 3rd Annual Tuskegee Airman MC Cookout. I knew my father was in the U.S. Army during World War II - growing up he didn't talk much about his military experience.

What I didn’t know and just learned that my father was in the all-Black ‘Buffalo Soldier Division / 92nd Infantry’ the only African American infantry division to see combat in Europe during World War II fighting in the Italian Campaign.
My father raised in racist 'Jim Crow' Mississippi told me he understood clearly that he was fighting for a country that was racist, separate, and unequal; that he was fighting to defend democracy in Europe but was denied civil-rights and voting-rights in America.
However my father said he felt he had a duty to fight the larger global threat of Hitler’s white supremacy ‘Nazism’; that he was proud to be fighting against Nazism in the tradition as a Buffalo Soldier.


Buffalo Soldiers
The Buffalo Soldiers were an all-Black ‘segregated’ infantry that fought in the U.S. Army from 1866-1944. The carnage of the Civil War had severely depleted military troop numbers; the Army needed more men, and it needed a new way to organize them.
On July 28, 1866, the Army Reorganization Act authorized the formation of 30 new units, including two cavalry and four infantry regiments "which shall be composed of colored men."
During the Civil War approximately 186,000 African Americans served in the Union army in the U.S. Colored Troops. Black soldiers served in volunteer cavalry, artillery, and infantry units, but the opportunity to serve as regulars in the Army was not afforded African Americans until after the Civil War.
Due to the Army Reorganization Act about half of the Civil War Black Troops took the opportunity and signed on to serve as regulars in the new restructured Army. For the first time in history, African American men were now considered "regular" soldiers.
Black soldiers could now serve their country and further their quest for equality in the institution that they thought would give them the best opportunity to do both – the U. S. Army. This U.S. army reorganization laid the foundation for the proud tradition of the all-Black "Buffalo Soldiers."
The Buffalo soldiers began their military campaign as the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry spending much of their time in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Indian Territory protecting citizens, mail and supply routes and battling hostile Native Americans, and outlaws. It was during battling Native Americans that Black troops got their name “Buffalo Soldiers”.
Historians say the name Buffalo Soldiers was given to Black soldiers by Native Americans because of the Black soldiers’ thick dark hair that resembled the fur of a buffalo and they fought so valiantly and fiercely that Natives revered them as they did the mighty buffalo; thus the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry adopted the Buffalo as their symbol.
The 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments also served in the Philippines in the early 1900s. Despite proving their military worth time and again, they continued to experience racial discrimination.
During World War I and World War II the Buffalo Soldiers became the segregated 92nd Infantry Division (92nd Division, WWI). The Buffalo soldiers during World War I were mostly relegated to defending the Mexican border.
During World War II the Buffalo Soldiers 92nd Infantry Division was the only African-American infantry division that participated in combat in Europe the other units were used as support. The all-Black 92nd Infantry Division was part of the U.S. Fifth Army fighting in the Italian Campaign to the war's end in 1944.

"Buffalo Soldiers Song"

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Black Male Effeminization as Oppression

by Matthew Quest

A major tool of those who subscribe to white supremacy, according to Black female psychiatrist Francis Cress Welsing, is the perpetuation of Black male passivity through encouraging effeminization, bisexuality, and homosexuality. Welsing believes this is "a problem of epidemic proportions amongst Black people in the US."

Homophobia in communities of color is rampant to the tenth power of the white mainstream. Why? Because the struggle for human rights against white supremacy has been disproportionately explained as the need to achieve "manhood" rights, from the period of the slave trade to the present.

Welsing believes homosexual patterns of behavior are simply expressions of male self-submission to other males in the area of "sex," as well as in other areas of economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, and war. 

Black male oppression is defined as forced submission and homosexuality is its highest expression. Welsing defines "primary effeminacy" and "secondary effeminacy" to distinguish white causes of homosexuality from Black ones. 

Primary effeminacy is a self-derived response by whites to their genetic insufficiency, causing a negation of self-reproduction due to disgust with their own genetic weaknesses. Secondary effeminacy (Black male homosexuality) is consciously imposed on the Black man by the white man for the purpose of destroying the Black family. 

Welsing attempts to propagate a patriarchal concept of the Black family, which is curious, since it is Afrocentric conventional wisdom that there was no patriarchy in traditional African societies.

Welsing does have a concept of gender roles being environmentally conditioned. However, a continuum would not represent qualities such as aggression and nurturing as universal that all humans can embody. Rather, the author clearly believes that in the process of the Black man taking on homosexual tendencies, he is acting like a woman. She is firmly against this as illustrated by the following examples.

From her work with incarcerated Black males, Welsing concludes that, as they have been broken by the system and forced to submit to an authoritarian environment, prison is the epitome of white supremacy. Black males are "feminized in jail" in the following ways: They are given orders by men to whom they must submit; they wait passively to be fed three meals a day by men; and finally, they have sexual intercourse with men.

Welsing, in an attack on cross dressers of the "Flip Wilson/Geraldine" variety, implies that a real Black man wouldn't wear earrings or bracelets. How can an African-centered critique of white supremacy discount the earring and bracelet wearing Masai warriors or the "Mau Mau," just two of many examples of "manhood" in resistance?

The author, angry with the American Psychological Association's relatively recent repeal of their former opinion that homosexuality constitutes poor mental health, prescribes a distinct position for Black people. Black psychiatrists must understand that whites may condone homosexuality for themselves, but we as Blacks must see it as a strategy for destroying Black people. 

Welsing argues that homosexuals or bisexuals should neither be condemned nor degraded, as they did not decide that they would be so programmed in childhood. The racist system should be held responsible. Welsing believes the task of professionals who concur with her should be proactive treatment and prevention of homosexuality among Black people.

Monday, July 11, 2022

Police Shootings A Color Contrast

"When it comes to police deadly shootings an unarmed Black man is viewed as a violent killer and an armed white male mass murderer is viewed as non-violent, thus two different endings: Black men are shot and killed on the street while mass murdering white men are arrested and taken into custody alive." - CNK

Monday, July 4, 2022

Black Man Killed By Police in Akron, Ohio

 "In the end the largest mass protests in U.S. history in response to the racist police murder of George Floyd did not result in no national police reform! The mass protests resulted in a national Juneteenth Holiday that was never the focus from jump street. The Juneteenth Holiday was 'pacification' and irrelevantly presented as progress while Black men are still being shot down in the streets by police. " - CNK

Rapper Biggie Small rapped a verse “Another one just like the other ones”. Yes another Black man was recently killed of course ‘justifiably’ by police like thousands before him.

Jayland Walker a 25 year-old was killed by Akron (OH) police fleeing from his car after officers attempted to pull him over for a minor traffic violation. Autopsy records show that eight officers fired more than 90 rounds at Walker with more than 60 striking his body; there were wounds on all sides and parts of his body from head to toe.

Before Walker, back in May a fleeing unarmed 26 year-old Black man Patrick Lyoya was fatally shot in the back by a white Grand Rapids (MI) police officer.

Black Men Is Juneteenth Pacification or a Holiday That Provokes Us to Become Freer?