We Don’t Need A Black Superhero!
By HHR | February 2nd, 2010 | Category: Featured, General, HHR Contributors, Opinion/Reviews | 2 comments
By Nadra Enzi
” We don’t need a ( Black ) superhero!” is friend Stephen Biko’s warning about reliance on big names running big game on the community. Preachers hiding behind many faiths sink fangs into wallets, purses and minds nationally. Activists with a talent for manipulation wrap authentic need around equally authentic greed.
Into this mess Stephen and I promote creating a Black superhero majority to loosen strangleholds from coast to coast. Waiting for the rich and shameless to have attacks of conscience means waiting in vain. Personal responsibility redirects power given to celebrities far and near. Injustice becomes a cottage industry for anyone cynical enough to play on legitimate grievances.
Pulling oneself up by the sneaker strings to champion yourself fires ” leaders ” anxious to keep you down. A Black community superhero mindset would knock alot of spokespersons from their pedestals. Into this vacuum steps millions of emancipated folks who can fight without marching orders from on high. Any emerging big names afterward would have a critical constituency on their heels.
This allows us to rebuild from the streets up instead of suites down. Leadership comes from individuals governing themselves. Self-government is a new concept regarding African-Americans. Someone else has always loomed over independence. Variously this ” someone else ‘ has been White and also our own peers. When someone is pulling your strings, color is secondary to the string pulling. Puppet masters looking like us are worse than outsiders whose abuse is expected.
We don’t need another Black superhero. Black History Month 2010 is dedicated to creating a superhero majority that’ll think for itself and send slavemasters of any color packing. That’s why a Black superhero majority is needed here and abroad.
NADRA ENZI AKA CAPT. BLACK promotes crime fighting and self-development. http://www.captblack.info and http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nadraenzi
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Superheroes generally have nemisis. Superman had kryptomite. Popeye was helpless as a newborn with Spinach. Spaceghost, a mere being without those powerbands. No in this day and time, let everyday people step up to the plate. After April 4, 1968, there was too much looking for the next Black Superhero, is it going to be Jessie Jackson, is it going to be Huey P. Newton, is it going to be H. Rap Brown or Stokely Carmichael, is it going to be Adam Clayton Powell or Charles Diggs or Shirley Chisholm? From this moment on, no more looking for “Mr. Goodbar” or “Miss Goodbar” The Black Superhero Factories closed up long ago.
Actually Popeye was helpless without his Spinach. Research shows me that kryptonite was Superman’s weakness. Everything else still applies. Ditch the Superheroes for everyday average Black men and Black women who are up to the task of liberating a race whom some have placed on life support.