Black Nihilism- Calvin Warren

Spiritual Hope: Martin Luther King Jr., most of his ideology is based in
spirituality and that God was directing his path, and I felt endangered by this
concept and felt that if you didnt walk a certain way that you were outside of Gods
will, hoping that the future generations will have a better world. I based my essay
off of Cornell Wests Marxism and its bases in Christianity. I wrote Black Nihilism in
asking the question of how the two can work together. In response to this kritik, it is
very fatalistic, Black nihilism isnt opposed to hope, it is opposed to a compulsory
vision of hope. Everyone hopes, even those who hope for the end of hope. Spiritual
hope, you can use it however you like, but you must use it, per our society, in the
ways of politics and if you dont you are considered to be a sinner, a stigmatism. My
problem comes in why we have to put our spiritual hope in politics. We have never
truly been freed by putting our hope in the political, which is why I say reject. We
have more slaves now than we ever had before. What has gotten better? All these
progresses like the 13th amendment and the Civil Rights act of 1964, but we still
dont have access to the progress we are told of. If you choose not to buy into the
narrative that things wont get better, you arent apathetic or a non-believer. But
rather a person that realizes that what you are being sold is actually poisonous.
There is no protect for the black body. It is even worse now that it was in times of
slavery. Back then there was a reason to keep the slave alive, but now there is no
value to the black live. I place my hope where they choose, I choose to place my
hope in the metaphysical and Christianity. There is no grammar for my hope, I cant
explain it to someone. Black nihilism isnt anti-hope it is anti-political hope.

It is possible for betterment of the life of blacks: The desire for lower mortality
rates is inside of the political. Infant mortality rates of black children are higher than
the death toll of Vietnam every day. We seek the political for solutions to problems
that the political itself produce and reproduce. The political is a bully, and it benefits
from the suffering of the victim, i.e. the black body. Cities have become depend on
the revenue of the prisons to empower that city. You can buy stock in prisons. Black
suffering is very lucrative to the political. The political wont alleviates the problems
of the black. The only possibility of emancipation is warfare like none other. If one
wants to hold on to that possibility that is all the power to you, but it will be violent.

Non-violence outside of the system that could lead to solvency in Political: I

dont think there is any solvency in the political. Even in the bible, it isnt supported
that something outside the political can solve the political. Spiritual hope can allow
us to live within our society. They put their hope in something outside the political,

even when their surroundings were all going against. Nothing is going to change the
political except the political itself.

What about the rest of the people of color in the political: Black nihilism
doesnt suggest that black men and women are the only people suffering within the
political. The world need suffering to sustain itself. The black body has had to suffer
the greatest amount of suffering. There is a reprieve in the political for other groups
of slaves. Haiti, the first black free state is still being punished and is one of the
poorest countries in the world. Blacks have had consistent suffering within the
political. Even Native Americans owned slaves and trade black flesh for capital.
Some native American reservations held their slaves even after the 13 th
amendment. Even the source of genocidal practices held black slaves. Other races
have suffered but they still have benefited from black suffering,

Which movements within the Political differ from good versus bad: Well who
is the we that is asking for change? The political has to produce and sustain black
suffering more than or less than, there is no bright line. . The form of black suffering
may change and disguise itself, but black suffering is still black suffering. The
solution is just a disguised form of the problem, there is no reason to put our hope
in solutions. There is no solution to the problem of anti-blackness. Black suffering
will not end. Political apostasy was not a solution but more of a stance toward the
issue. We can call out the issues but calling them out doesnt have solvency.

What is your conditions for slavery: Natal alienation, blackness, purely

blackness. That is the condition of slavery. It does not matter if youre a rich black, a
poor black, a professor who is black, you are a slave and your blackness determines
it. The condition of the slave is the inability to escape blackness. Being a slave is
when your condition is so that you cant escape. You cant escape your ontology.

Political Apostasy: There is no reprieve from antiblackness, but there is

endurance and that is where I reside. The way that I get through my day is my
ethical stance toward antiblackness. Every day I live knowing that there is nothing I
can do about the political.

Can non-black people understand antiblackness: I think that under your belief
this that epistemology can actually solve something. Epistemology cant solve
anything.

Violence: I think that this argument is silly, this rebellion will always be
coopted. They will always have more guns that you. You can shoot 1, they will shoot
20. A violent uprising will never have solvency. There is no solution. Look at Haiti,
did they really win? One of the poorest countries in the world, have they really won?
Uprising cant eradicate black suffering. It may provide momentary fulfillment, but
at the end of the day you are still going down.

What is to be done: IF your doing is predicated on eradicating black suffering,

your movement is futile. If your movement is based on improving black endurance,
then I could perhaps endorse it. Endurance and eradication arent synonyms.

Black nihilism on the China topic: Black suffering is a necessity of the World.
The global economy is based on black suffering. China uses Africas resources to
increase it hedge and sustain its economy. Africa has become a free-for-all for
countries all over the world. Colonialism hasnt changed.

Blackness and Leprosy: Benjamin Rush made this argument that blackness
was leprosy and that tearing down leprosy solves blackness, but noted that leprosy
spread to the wife of a black man. The solution is to destroy the world, but that
wont happen.

The black Queer: (Onticide: Toward an Afro-pessimistic Queer

Theory) . The black is not human. We have been knowing on the door of humanity
but it never is. Through law, Blackness is seen as a commodity. We have to
interrogate the qualities of human. If a black person is not human, how can they be
considered Queer. Describing a black body as a queer is the same as applying a
human quality such as queerness to an inanimate object.

Do you care if white people read Black nihilism: Sure, wonderful. When I was
in graduate school I interned for a black womenism author, who told me a story of
her time during the civil rights movement. There was a white woman walking
alongside the blacks during their struggle for rights in the 60s. She suffered right
along with them. She went to the doctor, for she was having pain. The doctor asked
her if she had black people related to her in her family. She rejected this, yet the
doctor asked over and over again. She asked the doctor why he kept asking and he
informed her that all of her symptoms of pain were characteristics of black women
during the time. The moral is that black suffering can be experienced. She
experienced what it would be like to be black, but she still had enough white
privilege that could allow her to flee to Germany, something not afforded to the
blacks.

What do you mean when you say that the Political wants to maintain black
suffering: I dont mean to say that they want to maintain black suffering so much as
to say that they need black suffering. Where would the world be without Africa,
without a weaker power that it could mold and control and take for its power. No
one gives a fuck about Africa, they dont care about black people in prisons, they
need these things to get rich from them. Black suffering provides and provided the
resources for gain throughout the world. Someone has to do the dirty work, and it
has been delegated to the black body.

Why would you say that blacks in positions of suffering have it worse than
other races that experienced the same problem before or during the same time as
them: I dont say that anyone is a slave, but that if you re black you are a slave. It is
an ontological condition. No other race has this ontological condition. The condition
of the new born black is under that of its father, but it was changed when they
entered America as slaves, so that they gained their condition from its mother, so
as they could never stop being slaves. The law says that you are a slave forever.

What about people that are mixed, are they dead as well: Well the law says
that if you have one drop of black blood, you are black. If a police officer intent on
killing you says youre black, you are black. If you are identified as black, you are
black. Dont get me wrong, there were blacks that passed as white, they used it to
escape blackness. Oh but if someone found out, you were black.