[black and white photocopy cut out of Malcom X (civil rights activist).
Caption: Any human being, anywhere, is well within his right to do whatever is necessary, by any means necessary, to protect his life and property, especially in a country where the federal government itself has proven that it is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of those human beings.]

[men·dac·i·ty \-da-sǝ-tē\ 1: the quality or state of being mendacious 2 ✦ : an untrue statement made with intent to deceive : LIE
✦ fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, prevarication, story, tale, untruth, whopper—more at LIE]

As a kid, I remember this phrase being used in the tune of a sort of declaration of war against white people and other times straight up FTW.

I mean, you name it: ole boy "Super Black," the T-shirts, the photos of this genius with only that 4 word phrase, "By any means necessary," written on the front.

I remembering being in juvenile hall and noticed what looked like a ripped up magazine, and one of the pages had the above 4 lined paragraph statement on it. All 4 lines, not just the 4 words.

And I was shocked by the first 4 words of the portion of this comment that I had never seen before or even knew existed. "Any human being, anywhere,"

I will concede to admit that as an adult I slipped back into the mindset of hatred of most non-black people, and yet, proud to announced my second recovery about 13 years ago. Good to be back.

In fact, it was this comment by our own genius Mr. X that reminded me of the lesson he taught me that day in a juvenile detention center cell.

I believe and teach that every human being has the right to self-defense.

The translation for me is super clear:

1. "No group or individual person has the right to mistreat me, cause me harm, or treat me less than human."

2. "I am not a slave to the supremacy ideologies of no other man, no matter what color his skin is, not even if his skin is black."

3. "Self-defense doesn't constitute a declaration of war against all non-black people, specifically all white people, and if I must choose my friends carefully, I also maintain my right not to choose enmity."

4. "What is human can only be defined by nature and not by the megalomaniacs of our species. It doesn't matter where they roam, in a government agency, in our communities, or in some prison yard, and sometimes those individuals occupy each at the same time."

5. Never allow people to paint or draw me in the image of their imagination. I am also human.

With respect to the time and climate of the Untied States from which our wise elder spoke, I recognized that he had the presence of mind to not say Black or Negro in this comment because he had an understanding that human beings come in multiple shades, intellectual, mental, social, and sexual orientations, and that the federal government itself has proven that it is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of those human beings.

It greatly disappoints our youth when we fast forward to 2017 and the federal government, our communities, and prison yards remain enslaved to hang ups that continue to stagnate our progress towards peace and equality. Straight up.

I'm not one of the same religious faith as our beloved prince of the earth that spoke these words, however, how can I not love a person that put everybody on blast when it comes to who's really being viewed as non-human?

For us to continue to move toward becoming a true unity of One, it would behoove us all to recalibrate our own personal dispositions on the issue of what is equally human and denounce idealized supremacy.

By: XZYZST New Generation Rising!

Portrait of a Nigga
(song)

I've been cast out
from your society
Right or wrong
good or bad
I'm your enemy.
Can't fade the truth
and I don't give a fuck
extermination youth

Black male suspect
victim's descriptions
got those demons fearing me
on a millimeter killin' spree
Now you can cut your finger on the crease of my dickies
high as fuck
only got my mind on my crew
"NO LUV" bangin' in my shit on them thangs
a nigga do what I gotta do

I am your portrait of a Nigga
This is a portrait of a Nigga
You're lookin' at a portrait of a Nigga
You made me a portirat of a Nigga

By: XZYZST