Shahid Bolsen on Black History Month

You know, you and I, we've been talking a little bit over the past few weeks about just Black History Month as a whole. Or I get to some of the the things I wanna just sort of like bounce off of you and and just engage in this dialogue. And I I'd love to hear your most unfiltered thoughts on just hearing the concept like a Black History Month out loud. Okay.

Well, I mean, the the whole topic is is is the whole topic of race in America is radioactive. And to talk about race in America is like trying to do is trying to is like trying to perform brain surgery while wearing a hazmat suit. And and and the patient is is on LSD and doesn't know that they need brain surgery and thinks you're a monster, thinks you're attacking them. It's a very difficult topic to to talk about, and I don't I don't think that's necessarily accidental. I think that they try to make this a very difficult topic to talk about.

But the issue of of black history month, subhanAllah. Well, look look look put it in the context of of of history overall. In in terms of the history of the people who decided that you get to have one month to talk about black history. The history of the people who decided that that that month, the month that would be dedicated to so called black history, will be the shortest month of the year. So talk about the history of this people, and you're talking about a history that is full of atrocities, that's full of criminal viciousness, and the the the character, the psyche, and the ethos of a people is comprised of their history.

Their history gives birth to or forms their psyche, their ethos, and their character. But when you're talking about America specifically, but if you're talking about America and the West generally, they have a very serious, what in psychology would be a split personality disorder, in that their ethos is completely different from their character and their psyche. Their character and their psyche is the product of their history, but their ethos is not the product of their history directly. Other words, what I mean is their their psyche and their character is genuinely the product of the atrocities that they've committed. It's genuinely the the product of the criminal viciousness and brutality that they have inflicted on others, including each other.

This actually exists in their psyche. This is a reality. The actual reality of their history does exist in their psyche and and exists in their character, but the ethos that they have built has been built precisely for the purpose of denying that history. The ethos that they've built has been built precisely to cover up their deeds, to cover up and to hide their actions, and to deny their actions. So this has created a a very fractured national psyche, a very fractured national identity, say, because your the the totality of your identity is like your character, your psyche, your ethos, and so forth, All of which is supposed to be congruent with your history.

With other nations, their history is made of their deeds, it's made of their actions, what they learned from it, how they developed from that, how they were affected by that, and what kind of people they became as a result of all of that. That's that's for other nations. For the West, and especially for America, everything that made them who they are is denied. Therefore, also who they are, they deny. And one of the major factors of all of this, of course, is race.

Specifically, well, not even race, but racism, white supremacy, and and the dehumanization of, so called black people, the dehumanization of Africans, and their treatment of them. This is all denied. And the worst thing you can do if you're talking about it as a on an on an individual level, if you if you anthropomorphize the nation as I'm doing, the worst thing you can do to someone who has a split personality is to confront them about their condition, because they've built their whole way of coping in the world, their whole way of functioning in the world is based on these two elements of their identity never meeting, never being reconciled, always being compartmentalized, and what they what what needs to happen is for it to be confronted, it needs to be reconciled, it needs to be dealt with. They're never willing to do that. So you you look at the the this reality of who they are, what they've done, and how they have built their the the psyche that they have, and then the ethos that they desperately need to maintain, put all of that as the context for Black History Month, which is your obligation in Black History Month, because this is an obligation that is being put on black people in America.

This isn't an opportunity. This isn't a celebration. This is an obligation being put on black people that you will agree to contain the totality of your history in twenty eight days in February, and what you will talk about during those twenty eight days in February is not going to make us too uncomfortable. Your obligation is that you will go along with the maintenance of our fake ethos, which requires you to be very very careful about what you say about our deeds and our actions and what actually our psyche is. And this is a manifestation of that psyche, of that dominating psyche, of that oppressive psyche that has built the whole the the the the this dominating and oppressive psyche that the ethos that they built is designed to deny and to pretend is not the case.

The the ethos that they built, of course, is not as oppressors, but as liberators, not as enslavers, but as saviors, as redeemers, not as punishers. The ethos that they built is the complete opposite of what their history shows they are and what they've been. And obviously you can you can never change, can never become even the the aspirational ethos, because that's all you can call it, the American ethos, is an aspirational ethos at best. That's that's giving them benefit of the doubt that that they aspire to be liberators, they aspire to be redeemers, they aspire to be saviors, they aspire to be good and righteous and freedom loving and and and fighters for justice and so forth, defenders of rights and all of that. We can benefit of the doubt say that they aspire to be that, but when you are applying it to yourself as if you are that, and as if there's any evidence whatsoever that you are that, then you'll never be it.

So even if it's an even if it even if it is an aspiration, if you're claiming that you have already achieved it, well, then you never will achieve it. But but they they they put Black History Month, a parenthesis in the year when when the the totality of the African American experience has to be contained within this twenty eight days, and it has to be palatable, and the whole purpose of it is actually to celebrate us for giving you Black History Month. You know? And the same goes, really, the same goes for all of these in my opinion, anyway, my unqualified opinion, the federal holidays, like, gave they just gave it to Juneteenth, I think, last year or the year before.

So within the past few years, it's become a federal holiday.

Federal holiday. Right? MLK Day, Martin Luther King Day, and so on. To me, this this is absolutely from from again, my opinion, this is absolutely grotesque. The federal government granting these holidays or establishing these holidays to me is like the killer coming to the funeral of the one whom he killed and giving flowers to the widow.

Right. That's what these holidays represent to me, in my opinion. And I'm always reminded when when when Black History Month comes along, or when there's Juneteenth, or when it's Martin Luther King Day, or what have you, I'm always reminded of that scene in twelve years a slave, where the slave master, the Michael Fassbender character, arbitrarily in the middle of the night drunk decides to wake up all the slaves and bring them into the mansion, bring them into the the the plantation house and have them dance. And and they know that what's expected of them is to pretend to be happy, to celebrate, to dance as he, as the master requires, so that he can feel that he's a very magnanimous, very generous, very beneficent master, and how dare they not have fun, how how dare they not show their absolute rapture at the great generosity of their of their great white master. And it's it's the most, in my opinion, it's the most grotesque form of oppression where you're forcing someone not only to do something your pleasure, for your enjoyment, and to make you feel good about yourself as an oppressor, but you also require them to smile while they're doing it.

You require them to pretend to be happy and to pretend to enjoy it and to to to it it makes an absolute mockery of all human emotion. It's to me it's quite vicious. And and I think that, again, with regards to Black History Month, I I think that it's important to to see it in the overall context of the history of, American society and Western civilization overall, and also to see it as what it is, which is, the white power structure in America obliging black people in America, with regards to what they can and cannot celebrate about their history, what they can and cannot commemorate about their history, and in fact also, that's an important word that I just said, celebrate Rather than mourn, rather than lament, rather than blame, rather than accuse, rather than, seek justice, celebrate your history. Don't don't bring the party down by reminding everyone about how terrible everything has actually been in this country for you and how bad how terrible, this country has been to you. Celebrate your history, be proud because if you're not, then then you're doing a disservice to other African Americans, you're doing a disservice to black people.

If you don't this is our only opportunity, we've only got these twenty eight days to talk about how great Harriet Tubman was, to talk about how great Frederick Douglass was. We've only got these twenty eight days to talk about inventions that were invented, innovated by black people and so on. Let's talk about

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Precisely. Precisely. Let's talk in these twenty eight days, this is the only twenty eight days we've got. Let's try to stick in as many black achievers as possible and and and not talk about the fact that just surviving in and of itself is an achievement, and let's talk about why that is.

Yes, sir.

That's my opinion. Unfiltered. This this is why this is why I began by talking about you have to you have to put all of this in the context of the the the split personality disorder that the West has and that America has to understand that like, for example, what you're talking about. Like like a Mother King Day or Juneteenth or Black History Month, And then the way that those holidays are or or rather what sort of activities, what sort of commemorations are designated for those holidays. You're always told that this is empowering, and so we have to talk about again black achievement, you know, outstanding African Americans, success stories and so forth, and heroes, and so on.

Because it's it's empowering and it's positive and what the idea is that what black people need, what African Americans need, what everybody needs is positivity. So let's not focus on the negative and what have you. But it's it's inescapable. The very fact that you have sandwiched this topic in, again, the shortest month of the year demonstrates the extent to which this population remains contained, remains suppressed, remains repressed, remains marginalized, remains sidelined. And then, like I said, this is why it reminds me of that scene in in the film.

You know, if you haven't seen the film, there there there's a scene where the the slave master just I I can't remember what what prompted him or if anything prompted him, he just got drunk and decides to go into the slave quarters, and he wakes everyone up arbitrarily and forces them all to come into his mansion and do a dance, and pretend that we're all celebrating together or what have you. And don't you dare be negative. Don't you know, this is your opportunity to be positive. This is you know, don't don't bring down the mood, just put on that party hat and eat some cake, and don't bring everybody down by talking about how terrible it is that you've got twenty eight days to talk about this. You know?

That's what that's what these things mean. The the point of all of these types of activities, the point of all of these types of holidays, all of these events, as with everything else in that society. The point of it is to maintain the compartmentalization of this split personality, to never bring these two elements of the personality and these two elements of the identity into what would what should be reconciliation, but would would be conflict and confrontation, which would cause a complete meltdown. If they actually are have to confront that their ethos, as I said, their ethos is a completely fabricated illusion that does not that that only is connected to their history in so far as it exists to deny their history. It only exists to cover up their history.

And so, Black History Month, Martin Luther King Day, the the scrubbing from history of Malcolm x, and many many many others. All of this is for the same purpose. It's to maintain the separation, the the the compartmentalization of the reality of what America is, and what America was, and who they are as a nation collectively. Obviously, I I leave room for there to be individuals who somehow are able to save themselves from this radiation that that that has poisoned the entire society, black and white. But as a as a collective, as a nation, the sickness is there, and you have to keep this separate because the the the reality of who they are, what they've done, and who they are as a nation is completely unrelated to the ethos that they have created for themselves.

It's completely unrelated. They're they're they're strangers, one one from the other. The the the ethos that they've that that they've created, the character that they have invented doesn't exist. It's a fiction. The American character is a fiction.

It's a fictional character because the reality of who the of who America has been is one of the worst villains in human history, And the the the character that they've created is a hero. And so everything that they do, like a Black History Month or Martin Luther King Day or so on and so on, The the the reason that that is established, the reason that it is given, and the way it is managed is for this purpose. To keep the ethos safe from the reality, to keep the fiction safe from the from the truth, to to never let the never let the two meet, because, you know, if they meet, it would be a catastrophe. It would be a psychological meltdown of of the entire nation. All of this, you you also have to understand, you know, reframe it as this is the white power structure in America, basically affirming and admitting, we are never going to integrate your history into history, into the teaching of history, we will give you this time to talk about it because it will never be integrated into our story, into the into the totality of our story, into our telling of actual history.

We will even be we will even have a apartheid in our telling of history. There's a black history and then there's history officially. It's not called white history. There's black history and then there's history. And we're never going to integrate your story into our story.

You know? This is this is history is whites only. Black history is black history, segregated history. And same with women. We're never going to integrate your story into the totality of the story.

Because this story exists to maintain the fake ethos. This story, this history is a myth, and in that myth you have no role because your actual role in reality, in the reality of the history of what we have done destroys the myth. So you can't be in there. You can't be in the history that we tell, but we'll give you a month to talk about your history, but that's just a way of saying you're never gonna be in the total history that we talk about. So it's it the whole purpose is to maintain this this segregation of of the American narrative.

There is only one prospect for change. Only one Sure. In America. There is only one prospect for change, and that is Islam. That's the only prospect for change.

There is nothing at all, zero, that is contained within the cultural civilizational toolbox of that society that can fix it. There is nothing. Everything that's in their toolbox will only make the situation worse. And every time they go into their toolbox, they do only make the situation worse.