We Remember Document
Dividers
These are axes of fragmentation that the system amplifies to prevent unified resistance.
Divider
Description Systemic Function
Class Wealth and material hierarchy divides those who could unite under shared oppression. Keeps elites as buffer intermediaries.
Religion Splits through theology and sectarian identity; moralizes hierarchy. Converts obedience into virtue.
Region Geographic/territorial separation localizes struggle. Destroys cohesion, breeds localism.
Politics (Ideology) Party and belief divisions; left vs. right, reform vs. revolution. Channels anger into controlled opposition.
Gender Weaponized through patriarchy and feminist counter-reaction; seeds mistrust. Breaks family and interdependence.
Identity Race, ethnicity, sexuality, class markers atomizes collective solidarity. Converts culture into market segments.
These are the axes of fragmentation of Black America.
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Power Blocs
The Internal Centers of Influence
These are organized interest groups that act as power poles within the internal landscape.
Bloc Nature Orientation
The Boule Elite gatekeepers professional class intermediaries. Loyal to institutions and capital.
The Sisterhood Feminine solidarity bloc often reformist or liberal. Controls moral narrative.
The LGBTQ+ Bloc Identity-based solidarity bloc with cultural capital. Leverages social activism
The Underground Dissident intellectuals, outlaws, and radicals. Operates outside institutional channels.
The People Working ordinary class, unorganized majority. The base
Pan-Africans (Afrocentric) Cultural restorationists seeking global kinship. Symbolic and cultural unity.
Pro-Black (Nationalists) Lineage-centered autonomy and sovereignty bloc. Political and separatist unity.
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Internal opposition
Reactions Shaped by Survival
These are symptoms of internal distortion, each one is a behavior a reaction to pressure from the system
Type Motivation Function
Collaborators Seek safety or gain through collaboration Maintain external control internally while benefiting from the imposed structures
Divesters Withdraw from collective identity and obligation. Dissolve cultural integrity
Tethers Emulate BA through phenotypical conflation for access and/or opportunity. Conflate lineage and lineage based narratives while promoting and/or gatekeeping theirs. Redefinition.
Infiltrators / Saboteurs Enter to destabilize from within through allyship while benefiting from participation Spread confusion and distrust.
Proxies Manifestations of unhealed trauma. Serve White Supremacist through proxy by validating racist beliefs
Reflect internal decay; diagnostic.
All internal antagonists are different forms of collaborators
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External opposition Architects of the System
These are the external powers that shape and exploit the above divisions.
Type Behavior Goal
Colonizers (past) / Occupiers (present) Territorial and psychological domination. maintenance of the colonial structure through redefinition Control through governance.
Appropriators (Hijackers / Culture Vultures) Extract symbols, styles, and labor for cultural profit. Erase originality; commodify identity.
Extractors Drain resources, wealth, and intellect in the Black community profiting from economic disadvantages without investing into the Black ecosystem. Economic exploitation and parasitism
Dismantlers Dismantle black structures, institutions, networks and communities Dismantle black sovereignty and foundations
Conscripts Enforce orders of higher powers, willingly or not. Maintain the Systems reach.
Internal and External antagonists both mirror each other’s behavior as they are reactions to the same environment and system. They’re reacting to the US colonial structure. All these forces, internal and external, are reactions to a central structure of domination.
Imagine Black Power as a river. The Dividers are the artificial banks and dams artificial lines drawn by the system to control and redirect its course into identity politics. They don’t create the river they simply restrict it, redirect it, and sometimes split it into smaller, weaker streams so it cannot flood the landscape with its full strength. Dividers are the lines drawn by the system to aggregate and divide us.
The Power Blocs are concentrated areas where the water has been pooled along those lines.
The Internal and External antagonists are byproducts of prolonged manipulation of the water currents.
Black America was a city under siege and thus these behavioral patterns developed. It is Racial Occupation.
The Black Messiah, whether it’s centralized through charismatic influencers/leader(s) or its decentralized through sociocultural movements, will have to first placate the power blocs to work in unison through coercion or through diplomacy, consolidate Black Power to restore the Legal, Economic, Political, Social, and Cultural infrastructures, (LEPS) thus healing the wounds while stimulating a closed looped ecosystem restoring Black America to what she once was: A proud nation of virtues women and honest men. Once things are well defined and alliances have been forged, we can then pivot and face our truest enemy. The colonial structure. A dying empire.
