GENERAL NIKKI X'S PLEA TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY

Once again I come to you with a personal plea to the black community to "Stop the Violence." How many times will we as a community wake up in the morning, turn on the television or pick up the morning newspaper to see or read about another black person being shot by another black person? I know I'm sick and tired of it!

There are too many guns on the streets of Cincinnati and too many people without proper permits walking around with them. The Black Fist as an organization has fought against the evil racial wickness of police brutality for the last 6 & a half years. We felt that was a job in this town that no other organization like the NAACP, Urban League or The Black Church was even talking about, let alone actually attempting to find a solution too.
So our organization was formed.

*****Fast Forward 6 & a half years later*****

Here we are in the year 2006, and we are having to redirect the mission and address the scourge of black-on-black violence. Let not there be any misunderstanding, along with fighting and speaking out publicly against police brutality we also spoke out & fought aginst the issue of black-against-black violence. We've held yearly "Stop the Black-on-Black Crime Tours," where The Black Fist would go into a different black community every Thursday from 4pm-6pm most time longer where we would educate on the social ills of low-income/impoverish life in within the black community and the toll it takes on the black family or lack therebof which in turn causes stress and the symtoms associated with just trying to make it day in & day out. We made no excuse for one black man or black woman picking up a pistol and blowing the brains of another all over the ground. NO! Because there is No Excuse. But there are several root causes that can place a big factor in why we kill each other for what seems like sport. And those root causes must be addressed.

What I am specifically dealing with here today is the fact that black folks are killing black folks and it has got to stop! It must stop! And it's got to stop NOW! If we are to ever survive as a race on this planet, in this nation, in this city, we can't keep going on as we are.

I personally don't have all the answers. AND NEVER SAID I DID. The Black Fist an as organization doesn't have all the answers. But guess what, we've stepped up to the plate 6 & a half years ago and done all we could on our own, sometimes with NO help and NO financial resources from the City of Cincinnati, or anywhere else for that matter. We've always used our own personal resources & finances to help our own.
We always felt it was our moral obligation as Afrikans living here in America to do whatever it takes by by any means necessary to preserve our own and fight for US!

But it takes not only The Black Fist-- it takes all of us.

Please black man talk to your wives. Black woman talk to your husbands. Black parents ESPECIALLY talk to your children. Black nation of Cincinnati talk to the elders. We need to gather wisdom and knowledge and pass it down to the children. I'm not just talking here to just be talking, I'm talking out of the wisdom and knowledge I've gained over a course of time from being on the frontline of street battle and the frontline of city government to see it from both sides of the aisle. And I still have a lot to learn. But the difference between myself and some within our midst is I am willing to listen & I am willing to learn.

BOTTOM LINE: The whiteman is bringing the guns and the dope into our black communities and the blacks of those communities are buying, selling & using the guns. The blacks of thoses communities are also buying, selling & using the dope. It's just the way of street life. Money IS the root of all evil. The traps & pitfalls are on every street corner of the hood. But it doesn't have to be.

Just because the DEVIL has been busy for the last 400 years making mental & physical slaves of a people he FEARS doesn't mean we as a people have to continue succombing to the wicked diabolic plan of the beast! Naw Black man & black woman, YOU & YOU ALONE are the only ones who can change your various mind set and stop being slaves. Your black children, from babyhood on up need to see positivity on all fronts and it starts within the black home, to whatever your particular religious/spiritual faith may be, carries over into the school systems, and subsequently into their everyday adult lives.

We need to know WHO we are and where we've BEEN, to get to where we SHOULD be. The whiteman don't give a damn about your little black children so let's get that straight right off the top. Only you black mother & black father can instill the morals, faith, principles, values, TRUE [black] education, self-love, black pride and self-esteem into your black child which will in turn spill over into love for THEMSELVES & their fellow brother and sisters. The last thing on their mind will be to kill another who looks just like them!

Is General Nikki X an expert on everything regarding the black community? Hell No! What General Nikki X can tell you she is, is a black woman who is sick and damn tired of hearing about the precious spilled blood of my black brothers and black sisters into the streets of Cincinnati and beyond. I have continously come onto this blog and various other media outlets, some big & some small, saying the same thing-- the same way for years upon years and I won't stop until somebody ANYBODY hears my cries about the problem of black-on-black violence!

I am only one woman with one voice and one mind. I choose to continue to do my part in the fight against the ungodly wickedness that's invaded our black community with a stronghold and threatens to never let go.

Before anyone and I mean ANYONE even attempts to comment on this subject I want them to think very long and very hard about this very sensitive subject and ask yourselves.....

"What am I doing to make the place I call home/black community better for my children or my fellow man?" ~ "How can I instill in my child-- black pride & black love so he/she doesn't feel it's necessary to pick up a pistol and blow another black man's/black woman's brains out?"

When we can answer those 2 simple/complicated questions, we will be half way there in answering the questions of why we kill one another and why we don't value and hold onto the precious life the Creator has given us. We must educate our OWN children on what's right and what's wrong at an early age NOT when they reach 14 or 15 years of age and at the point it may be too late. The whiteman, in his corrupt public school systems won't do it! The very man that will NEVER TREAT you right damn sure ain't gonna attempt to TEACH you right. They are OUR black children so we are obligated to the Creator & the ancestors to do it for OURselves!

For as the saying goes in one of my old favorite cartoons I used to watch as a child....."KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE!"
In our everday adult daily lives, "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!"

KEEP PEACE IN THE STREETS!!!
PRACTICE BLACK SELF-LOVE!!!
PRACTICE BLACK SELF-PRIDE!!!
LOVE YOURSELVES & EACH OTHER!!!

I'm tired of waking up in the mornings to hear on the news that one of US has smoked another one of US....."Aren't YOU tired too?!?"

BLACK POWER, EVERY HOUR!!!