Since the empire has completely broken with reality, there are now some individuals who think that they alone can inspire everyone to live segregated lives again. Despite decades of lies that people “could not see color,” it seems that enough individuals understand color and race very well, and are enacting their hidden selves in public. Unfortunately for them, real histories have slipped under the bottom of the gatekeepers’ portals, and nobody sees segregationists as anything other than terrorists continuing their spree on communities that could not care less about them. People knew that things were never equal but if they were honest, they would understand why they have demonstrated nonstop aggression against Black progress.
In segregated schools, people were given worse equipment, even with the development of the Department of Education, and teachers had to supplement their classes with contraband acquired from libraries and universities. On the contrary, many of the students still demonstrated better performance and more discipline based on their support systems refusing to accept mediocrity. By the time integration became more of a reality, there were already hundreds of professionals who had independently been enriching their segregated communities, which enraged the dominant narrative. Therefore, all that progress and unity was terrorized until people felt like there was no threat to bigotry that could be tangibly experienced by others.
Back in the 2000s, there was a term called “transit-oriented development,” and it was all the rage of people finally realizing, “Hey, maybe suburbs were a bad idea and we should put all the services in one place.” I was originally very enthusiastic about it, but the more I learned about “urban planning,” the more I realized that there was “transit-oriented development” in marginalized communities the whole time. BIPOCQ communities endured neglected neighborhoods, but still transformed them into desirable places–so desirable, in fact, that emotionally immature individuals started to become jealous of that capacity to turn “trash” into treasure. Eventually, the dominant narrative then decided to take over those hip communities and take from the long-term residents who did the hard part of redeveloping neighborhoods and building coalitions.
When legal segregation for theft needed better imaging, the dominant narrative hid the discrimination by using programming based on their own social programming from suburbs. No one needed to use highways or power plants to harm BIPOCQ because algorithms could be used to keep us in entry-level jobs without resources to sustain coalitions and communities. While the dominant narrative still used people from all over the world who easily did their work, they simultaneously extracted from the very communities where they refused to live, shrugging their shoulders at accusations of discrimination. Meanwhile, governments still protected the “real” communities, even to the point of maintaining resource-heavy planning patterns because of the “true” voices they were willing to acknowledge.
“Separate but equal” was never real because the dominant narrative could never keep its hands to itself. Beneficiaries and sycophants constantly told Black people that we were playing the victim, but they refused to engage with any of the documented history stating that they were the aggressors of physical, financial, and emotional violence. Now, everyone is dealing with the environmental consequences of selfish individuals who never heard a “no” in their lives, even as they constantly rejected the claims of autonomy of everyone else. Refusing to hear truth while demanding that people sustain lies is unhinged, and I personally believe that the violence is escalating based on the inability to reasonably sustain such lies anymore.
The truth is that the dominant narrative never built alliances, constructed areas specifically designed to exclude, but demanded that everyone support their point of view. I feel like this is one reason that people still move to suburbs and maintain a “freedom of association” narrative that says, “We refuse to engage, but we will extract.” The same people who fled those “urban spaces” are now surprised that growing water-sucking lawns and driving SUVs is making them hot, but refuse to change their behavior and coexist, rather than dominate. Unluckily for the beneficiaries and sycophants, no one wants to keep working to convince them because they have already extracted our resources.
Lies are always harder to maintain, and the biggest lie that the dominant narrative has maintained is that everyone wants to be a beneficiary or a sycophant. Most people just wanted to be allowed to live without interference, but terrible people do not enjoy calm. Because abusers thrive on chaos, they demand the right to harass everyone else, and make us beg for them to leave us alone. People can lie and tell others to build separate communities all they want, but those who look at the truth understand that it is only a matter of time before abusers get bored and start looking for something to “take over” again.
Chasing A Dying Empire 