Corporate lynching

I know racism is real as a black woman in America. I have seen the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and so many others. I also know all about fear for my own children in that reality of overt violence. And these are consistent traumatic wake up calls to my mind of the racial disparities and injustice that still does exist. And, while those images are the violent depiction of the modern day lynchings we can relate to, many of us are getting lynched everyday in our social, political, professional and economic spaces. And the physical horror of lynchings have been replaced by more socially acceptable forms of terror in schools, businesses, and communities. It is nonetheless any less traumatizing when you feel the embodiment of the words nigger in action. An encounter with my own modern day corporate lynching awakened the grief and trauma of hundreds of years dating back to my ancestors. And this method of social and racial control meant to terrorize blacks has not disappeared, but is alive and well in the corporate and educational plantocracies of modern America.

My white bosses called an urgent meeting and asked that we close the facility for the week. They arrived in the afternoon with two black female house slaves to take notes and validate their justification for the terror. Accompanied by the white devil I had dared to consider an equal or truthfully in my mind my subordinate, smiling on - it was notably the best day of her empty pathetic existence mis-classified as a life They thought they brought an air of fear with their silence and somberness but it only smelled like putrid cowardice. And this intimidation tactic was meant for us blacks to not dare to look each other in the eye, especially among the elder field slaves. Because if we did look at each other we might emote emotions and a call to action. It was also used to force the angry black women and violent black men stereotypes to unfold to further justify their actions. And as the two niggers that dared to question the corrupt, racist and oppressive management practices of old school and styles of the two white Massas were led away, only an old negro spiritual could have comforted. We dared to think that in this twentieth century we could based on abilities, qualification and experience look our managers in the eye as equals much less express concern over racial treatment and mismanagement. Professional lynching masquerading as professional suicide.

1889 Onion Anderson accused of "Scaring a teen aged white girl and was Hanged from a derrick."

So without explanation or any due process we were offered the option of resignation or immediate dismissal. Escorted out like criminals, and joined those before us under that establishment that had dared to think themselves equal to their white racist superiors. Then those left behind looking out at the stench of our scorched careers with threats and stares demanding their forced submission or face the fate we too met. Dazed and trying to believe this unthinkable act brought no clarity just greater shock of the plantocracy reality nestled in the land of the free.

But the hurt that came didn't come from the killing of youthful exuberance of positive movement within a mismanaged organization. What stained our hope were the house slaves not qualified enough themselves to bring change, choosing comprising their own souls by selling their own out so they can stay stagnantly proud above a few. Their desperation to be above has set them up to oppressing others to have someone to be above while they keep the gate for Massa's behind.

"1904 Genera Lee Lynched for knocking on the door of a white woman's house."

Some of these house slaves profess religion, blackness and altruism to justify their own shame. While they have left nothing sacred not even their bodies, minds or souls. They are fully compromised racial gate keepers. Our ancestors had no choice and were forced to survive by killing many of their own but when choice prevails the worthless melanin still also remains shackled.

Old field slaves stand by never taking a stand in their own generation and now their numbers used to justify the racial oppression of their young ones. They are not upset about what evil was done but how the evil was done and easily swayed by the psychological rightness of whiteness. Maybe a good flogging or a less visible shaming lynching like dismissal would be more palatable to their old passive souls. But not a united stance present as they make way to enter the grave, never a unity that could have never been ignored. Divide and conquer 101 is the same strategy used today in many board rooms, and management offices. But my professional blood runs and gives life to those coming after me to be remind them that the social injustice of racism is alive and well and waiting to be toppled by them or to topple them by any means necessary.

"1908 Walker, David, his wife and four children were killed for using inappropriate language with a white woman."

So I await the post-mortem report of my alleged charred professional state, but can only find that the phoenix resides within me, and I actually can laugh as they dig character assassination pits to bury their rotting deeds. And a mixed crowd on the plantation standby to see the order retained. Where whites are exalted above blacks with their mouths filled with the lies that is all they can speak in the face of the passing of those that intimidate with confidence and intelligence. Never better, raising cursed generations and living in the lies of their own superiority which requires oppressing the weak, because we are not equal but actually because we are greater in their weak minds. And so just like many years ago in majority black areas in southern confederate states where many lynchings took place, so too the social and professional lynchings of individuals, communities and youth prevail today fueling a legacy of brain drain, cyclical poverty, violence and disunity among people of color - in other words racial subordination and segregation.

And this lawless element identified in negro people which justified lynchings many years ago is still emphasized today with after no due process, accusations will arise against the lynchee with no investigative questioning by other well thinking leaders because? Blacks are more likely to embezzle and steal, so made up accusations diminish our own worth in our own eyes in front of our own people and our own children in our own spaces. And the degeneration of our generations continues to be consumed by the fuel of the hate embedded in systemic racism that many unskilled, unintelligent yet privileged non-melanin managers enjoy.

"1886 Eliza Woods - Supposedly poisoning her employer. Taken from the county jail, stripped naked, hanged in the courthouse yard and her body riddled with bullets and left exposed to view."