Murder does tend to upset people, you know!

Self-explanatory

 

By Stanley Collymore

 

What truthfully are you playing at my Black brothers

and sisters and particularly those of you who are

young enough to be my sons or daughters?

Have you actually taken leave of your

senses in freely opting to spew out

your pointless and uncontrolled

anger in this murderous way, and as you evidently

have done leaving me personally in the process

and as a fellow Black person myself, and I’ll

gamely venture a guess feeling about this

matter as strongly as I do, that you will

realize I’m not alone on this one and

with no replacement choice nor any

other rational option left me but to honestly,

unambiguously and unapologetically say

it’s absolute insanity and a conflicting

aspiration what you are deliberately

doing by spitefully depleting the

ranks of your own Black kind

by additionally and evilly, to

my mind, engaging in this

reprehensibly depraved,

unlawful and entirely

self-defeating task,

in plainly a most

ill-determined

lethal way I

must say?

 

This is no pointless criticism or any gratuitous

denunciation of you on my part encouraged

by stereotypical and sinister conceptions

that others take to heart and idiotically

have of you my inherent sisters and

brothers due to the colouration of

your skin and respectively your

racial origins: what they quite

euphemistically and bluntly

derisively refer to as your ethnicity but we all

know perfectly well what they really mean,

and how in these deep-rooted and firmly

held prejudices mutually underpinned

by them they haughtily, falsely and

deceitfully claim in their perverse

opinions of you, individually as

well as generally, that you’re

irrefutably and inescapably what you are,

as it’s unquestionably all consolidated

in your biological genes and equally

obviously sub-standard DNA; and

therefore explicitly making you

inferior to them in every way!

And consequently there’s no

real possibility of you ever

accurately understanding

far less so satisfactorily

or permanently coping

with this unique and

cancerously Black

ongoing malady!

 

Nothing of course could be that further from the

truth either commonly or specifically where

Black people are principally concerned.

Furthermore, your general attitude to

life itself noticeably reinforced by

your persistently feral, materially

anti-social and disturbingly

worrisome behaviour all of which are markedly

compounded by your accursed disposition

towards committing inexplicably stupid

and ferocious murders which neither

singly nor collaboratively do owt

positive, as is most manifest, to

even minimally suppress the

roaring chorus of justified

vilification aimed at you

but most vexatiously in

that vicious crossfire

indiscriminately too

pursues the broader

Black community

that is in no way

either involved

with or linked

to your illicit

conduct and

delinquent

activities.

 

So please do hear me out and let me honestly say

that although I’m not in any way insensitive to

the variety of problems that on a daily basis

you’re forced to face and routinely endure

from those who constitute the majority

elements within our population and

by and large collectively with the

official authorities specifically

of the said country in which

you too were born in and is also home to you but

quite disgracefully it’s you who are uniquely

made to feel from birth like strangers who

neither rightfully belong there nor much

less so should ever be conferred with

the common courtesy or more aptly

the equitable opportunity to play

any constructive role in it; and

when detrimental insults like

these are then injuriously reinforced by

perceptibly unequal and excessively

created stop and search crusades,

widespread discrimination in

schooling, higher education

possibilities, standard job

applications and racial

profiling intended to

guarantee that you

more likely than

not deliberately

would be their

select target

to naturally,

bigotedly

and alas

for you

not the

one to

gain!

 

Then additionally as they also conspiratorially planned

to have you instead end up in jail and for much longer

periods of time, unsurprising and routinely so, for

comparable offences perpetrated by their white

Caucasian criminal kind, it’s dreadfully hard

I wholeheartedly accept for you being the

visible and innate legacy of the several

centuries long Transatlantic Slavery,

incessant black male emasculation

and the 21^st Century entrenched

mindset of white supremacist racists, coupled with the

horde of empire loyalists and the ongoing ravages

of unchecked pseudo-colonialism to rein in this

subliminal and hugely provoked anger which

you clearly feel. But I do believe that there

are other and more constructive avenues

to remedy these harassing problems;

and turning this pent up anger of

yours, through gratuitous acts

of murder, on your fellow

Blacks is definitely not

one of them, and also

most categorically

not the answer!

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

8 April 2016.

 

 

Author’s Comments:

This is not only personal but is coming from a fellow Black, as you are. So I’m not going to mince my words and will tell you like I see it is! It’s among the easiest things in the world to mindlessly use a knife, take another person’s life and in the process of doing that think you’re actually big for doing so. Well you’re wrong my friend, you aren’t and all it actually does is to show how gullible you really are to the criminal propaganda of the street. How very little or no value at all you place on human life including your own and what a waste you’ve made not only of your victim’s life but your own as well when with some reasonable forethought and a completely different approach to both these lives, yours and the person you chose to kill, could have with basic commonsense combined with critical deliberation been positively turned around in a fashion for the good of yourself, the society you belong to and overall humanity itself. But if you can’t or don’t want to see that then perhaps you’re bound for the right place if you aren’t already there: jail and possibly even on death row.

 

And if that’s all the recompense you’re going to repay your dear Momma for carrying you those 9 months and 2 weeks and the agonizing pain she experienced giving birth to you combined with all the people who love you and have tirelessly endeavoured to let you know this while you were growing up from the state of babyhood, through your pubescent years and into young adulthood, then with that kind of blatant ingratitude on your part in gratuitously indulging as you are in your criminal behaviour all I can say is that you have a very serious problem to which you must quite urgently attend.

 

I’m not preaching at you but simply suggesting that you take stock of your life and realize that there are other more constructive ways to conduct your life. So let me be absolutely frank and honest about this and categorically state that I’m not asking you to be the willing target of other people’s wrongdoings whatever these are; nor am I suggesting either that you gratuitously turn the other cheek in relation to what they’re doing; but even so I‘d like to implore you to do what my beloved and wise maternal Grand, and we all know how important and prized grandmothers are in all Black communities, who has played an instrumental role throughout my own life told me.

 

When you see trouble coming your way she said, give it a wide berth and walk away from it; if it should follow and continue to stalk you in spite of your doing so still keep on walking away from it while intelligently maintaining a keen eye on what it’s up to she advised, and only if the person or persons involved refuse to heed this pragmatic and sensible response of yours, then arrogantly on their part interpret your conciliatory gesture and actions as a sign of cowardice or weakness, or wilfully opt to misinterpret them not as restraint on your part but fear instead and consequently is/are about to attack you, should you act in self-defence with every resource at your command. That way you’ll have a moral right and hopefully even in this discernibly bigoted western society where it’s the white Caucasian man or woman that controls both at home and significantly too in other countries that idiotically let them dictate what happens there, you’ll have the law on your side. Adding astutely that even criminals and especially those with nous don’t pick fights that are utterly pointless since with them it’s all about hubris; and deny them that and they’re like a rudderless boat all at sea. So believe me when I say that their pride alone won’t let them willingly fall into the position. Now my friends it’s entirely up to you!

Reviews

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

How deliberate and telling of the truth that lays in wait for most of us, good read.