New Revolutionary Orientation: I was recently radicalized, now what?!

Adam Jeus Inyang
5 min readFeb 17, 2021

New Revolutionary Orientation

Hosted by: SWXXT

Location: Community Center

“Hello!! Hello!! Welcome, welcome. Please take your seats. We are proud to convene our Umteenth Annual New Revolutionary Orientation!! Yaaaayy!!! I see some familiar faces!! Back again after that lil hiatus i see! No need to feel ashamed or embarrassed; many a revolutionary falls off their path. Be ye not deterred!! And for all my first-timers, it’s great to see ya!!

Now, let’s talk about what brought many of you are here; you saw the Judas & the Black Messiah movie. You researched what Fred Hampton Jr. is doing and you’re now making the trendy choice to, ‘Join the Struggle’! Well, alright!! Good for you!! In case you missed it, we have cookies and juice by the door. We hope you’re buckled in tight for this orientation. It gets rocky quickly.

New Revolutionary, know this. We are not impressed with your newfound interest in black liberation. We are not impressed with your blacked out profile pic or your radicalized posts on social media. We are not impressed with your ability to further expand the reach of the malicious media machine by spreading images of black people being lynched in the street in the name of ‘awareness’. We are not impressed with your lukewarm devotion to the bloody, selfless struggle that is the pursuit of self-determination. We spew you from our mouths; we know you not. Symbolism is void of substance and satisfies the simple need of pacification of the proletariat. If you are of thinking age and a movie released in 2021 about events that happened in 1969 are just now hippin you to racial and socio-economic inequality in America, you should be ashamed of yourself. If you’ve been able to sit and stomach all the disgusting, depraved RECENT acts of state-sponsored violence against people of color, particularly Black Americans, and not be moved enough to change SOMETHING about the experience of YOUR people until now, WE ARE NOT IMPRESSED.

Don’t use dat weak retort ‘everybody gotta be introduced sometime’. Like i said, if you JUST NOW lookin up and realizing the building on fire, you don’t get a medal for that. Now it’s on you to not fall back asleep and get reengulfed in flames… Well we hope you’re here to stay. Do stay. It only gets harder from here. The life of a full-time revolutionary will make you wish you were back to sleep in the blissful ignorance of subservience. It requires accepting the hard fact that everything you’ve been told about your experience on this planet is a lie. That requires a level of honesty and vulnerability that many people aren’t able to reach. They aren’t able to reach it because they lack the measured discipline and emotional incentive to reach it thru honest introspection. THIS AIN’T FOR EVERYBODY!! You can’t be serving the people without an equal devotion to self-development. A Revolutionary doesn’t assume any cap to the amount of knowledge necessary to effectively lead a people; and doesn’t scoff at a challenge to his or her revolutionary leadership. They instead validate their effectiveness as a leader through measurable results.

Too many people treat activism as decoration for their timelines. Too many people engage activism like it’s fashion week. That disturbs us, the unyielding few, the tireless, the revolutionaries. We are not impressed that you showed up to the party. What have you contributed to the narrative? What unique perspective have you contemplated? We don’t need more hashtags. We need innovative solutions. We need intentional separation. Anything short of deliberately working toward an immediate departure from this oppressive, predatory capitalist system, is working toward slavery and death. That hard line has to be drawn and you have to know what side you’re on.

Signs that you’ve chosen to cross the hard line:

  1. An incessant cynicism toward anything originating from the government
  2. An incessant annoyance with other people going about their lives as if the building isn’t on fire
  3. A disengagement with social media; almost contempt
  4. An increased interest in history
  5. Adverse reactions to “woke” niggas

There are many other indicators, but these are a few of the most common.

Accepting and expressing that this system is not serving you is SUPPOSED to be protected under the constitution of this illegitimate government. However, we find that many people who otherwise would be radicalized to reject this ineffective capitalist system, are terrified to utter the word ‘Revolution’. The sad part is that social media and the GroupThink Warriors now proudly do the state’s job of dissipating any efforts of the tired and oppressed to speak up about their suffering. Sheepism is cultivated and spread through our continued use of social media. Watch the documentary ‘The Social Dilemma’.

If you find contentment in your position in society and the way this social game is being played, then THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. If you are able to find exceptions within this system that you feel should be spared in the event of the afore mentioned revolution, then THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. Again, lukewarm devotion is like pissin in the bed to keep warm. The tainted idea of ‘compromise’ has the colonized making even more concessions to the colonizers. Blasphemy. We accept no compromise to the position of intentional separation and all roads to liberation lead through the dense forest of intentional separation. Harriet Tubman knew it, and nothing has changed in 2021.

What behaviour are you willing to change to realize true liberation for people of color in this country? What ‘luxuries’ are you willing to sacrifice?

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When you step back, you’re able to see the puppet master and more clearly see the strings he’s pulling with these ‘demonstrations of social unrest’. Don’t be a puppet.

So we’re gonna take a quick break. Any questions………??”

  • SWXXT

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Adam Jeus Inyang

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