Con or Conspiracy: Are They Really Out to Get Us?
“Them Alphabet Boys got us under surveillance” – “Soul Survivor”, Young Jeezy
The National Council of Black Leaders recently held a public forum called “The Conspiracy to Destroy the ‘Hood. “ When the first speaker, Dr. Afrika Shabazz revealed tons of information exposing a genocidal plot against African Americans, the panelists just rolled their eyes and snickered in disbelief. However, when Leroy Johnson complained that somebody had sent his voter registration card to the wrong address, they became outraged and demanded an immediate federal investigation into voter suppression…
Although, most people won’t admit it, we all believe in conspiracies. This world is too jacked up to be an accident. Americans have long grappled with alleged conspiracies, from who shot Abe Lincoln to whether or not Elvis Presley is still alive and working at the Wal-Mart in Memphis. The most interesting conspiracy theories, however, have centered around the ‘hood, whether it be a secret sterilization formula put in fried chicken, or clothing companies secretly owned by the KKK as Dr. Patricia A. Turner examined in her work, Heard It Through the Grapevine.
First, there’s the vote conspiracy.
A few years back activists sounded the alarm that the meter was about to run out on the African American right to vote unless somebody did something real quick. (I’m still not sure what that something was supposed to be?) This year, the panic term is “voter suppression,” as there is, supposedly, some master plan to stop Black people people from voting.
Newsflash! With our jacked up priorities, no secret plot is needed to keep folks from the polls. If Jay-Z decides to hold a free concert in Madison Square Garden on November 6, you can kiss 80,000 votes goodbye – automatically...
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