Katt Williams found not worthy by LLCO

Katt Williams, you are a typical American kkklown

Katt Williams, you are a typical American kkklown

(new-power.org)

Katt Williams is a Black comedian whose star has risen in recent years. He is a favorite on cable shows such as Comedy Central. He has gradually become a representative of the next generation of the genre. He is seen as hip and edgy. Until a few days ago, he was one of the comedic darlings of many “far left” activists in the United States, who are always oh-so desperate to stay hip. Last week, he went even too far for them. Last week, Katt Williams performed in Phoenix, a hotbed of racism and White nationalism. In an exchange last week in Phoenix, Katt Williams echoes the worst racism of the Minutemen and Tea Party, American fascist organizations. Katt Williams bullied a Mexican audience member from the stage with a racist and pro-American barrage. Katt Williams even goes so far to lead the happy audience-turned-mob in a chant of “USA! USA! USA!” and in singing the “Star Spangled Banner.” Katt Williams says:

“That’s what I ask all my Mexican friends.. since ya’ll seem to like it over here a lot… It appears to me, ya’ll like it over here… A LOT… If ya’ll had California and you loved it then you shouldn’t a gave that muthafucka up. You should’ve fought for California goddamn it since [sarcastic tone] you love it… You think I am dissing Mexico, but I am defending America. Are you Mexican? Do you know where Mexico is? No this ain’t Mexico. It used to be Mexico, muthafucka and now it is Phoenix goddamn it! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! Fuck you back, muthafucka… pinche cabrone. Do you know where you at, nigga? USA! USA! USA! USA! I don’t give a fuck! This is my hood nigga! Fuck him!.. Muthafuckas think they can live in this country and still be allegiance to another fuckin country. If you live in this country, then you love America, muthafucka… Do you remember when White people used to say go back to Africa? We’d have to tell them we don’t want to? Well, if you love Mexico, bitch, then get the fuck over there… [Sings the American national anthem] Oh say can you see, by dawn’s early light…”

The patriotic audience was worked into a pro-American, anti-Mexican frenzy by Katt Williams. They gave Katt Williams a standing ovation.

The facts. In his tirade, Katt Williams claims that Mexicans never fought for California. Actually, the United States invaded Mexico between 1845 to 1848 in order to steal Mexican and Indigenous land, but also to — wait for it — extend slavery. It was necessary to annex more land in the southern region in order to extend the slave states in order to keep the ratio between slave and free state even, in order to keep the Missouri Compromise. According to one source, there were 25,000 Mexican casualties in the war and 13,780 American ones. This figure does not include civilian deaths that happened as a long-term result of the conquest. Most victims were Mexican and indigenous peoples. Not only did thousands die then, they continue to die to this day.

This occupation and theft of land was part of the process of what was termed “Manifest Destiny,” the belief that America, and White civilization, had a duty to conquer and rule all the lands from coast to coast. This belief was used not only to steal Mexican land and depopulate it, but also to wipe out countless Indigenous civilizations in the greatest land theft and genocide in history. The same White supremacist justifications that were used to steal Mexican land were also used to justify the enslaving of African peoples. Racist rhetoric, such as Katt Williams’, was also used in subsequent depopulation campaigns. Similarly, the rhetoric is used to justify the endless wars by the United States against the Third World. Similarly, it is used by the police against Black and Mexican communities within the USA. Katt Williams, you are Uncle Sam’s jester.

Just because people migrate here, they are not obliged to “love it,” as Katt Williams, echoing the Klan and Tea Party, states. For the most part, peoples of the Third World migrate to the United States because imperialism has ravaged the Third World. The wealth of the First World is connected to poverty in the Third World. Mexicans, and others, migrate to the United States to survive. They are willing to risk their lives crossing deserts, willing to risk incarceration, willing to risk extortion by mafias, willing to endure racism and terror, in order to survive. The fact that so many millions come to the United States is not a testament to the greatness of the United States, but to its errors. At the same time, it is true that those who come here enter the First World. For the most part, they become part of the system and aspire to advance themselves within it. They integrate into the First World. They, unfortunately, do come to “love it,” or at least become comfortable enough not to challenge it. Their proletarian memory fades.

It is no surprise that Katt Williams’ racist tirade was received with loud applause from his, mixed Black and White, audience. The mass outburst of American nationalism and racial hatred helps show that it is a myth that Blacks in the United States are a revolutionary social base just waiting to be tapped, just as it is a myth that poor Whites are. It is no surprise that Blacks share many of the same attitudes as Whites on the subject of migration. The claim that Blacks, Whites, Chicanos, and even Mexicans within the borders of the United States constitute a significant social base for revolution is false. At present, in the United States, the handfuls that can be organized around national liberation or pseudo-socialist programmes (or real communist ones, for that matter) are numerically insignificant. They are anomalies, just as the handfuls of Whites who are willing to organize around pseudo-socialist programmes (or real communist programmes, for that matter) are. Generally speaking, this is why, in the First World, it is better to just organize anomalies across the board — Black, White, Mexican (within the US), etc. — rather than playing to mythological or unreliable and insignificant social bases. First World populations on the whole already receive more than their fair share of the world’s social product. The lives of First World peoples, on the whole, are not sustainable. To tell them they deserve more fans the fires of imperialism and fascism, even if it is disguised in “left” rhetoric. This is why it is important to put the Leading Light Communist, altruist demand front and center without pandering to social-imperialist economism. We must demand that everyone serve the people, but on a global scale. Appeal to the best in people, not the worst. Appeal to their highest and best aspirations for a better world for all, not their narrow and self-centered ones. Appeal straight to all anomalies in the First World with the carrot of a totally new world and altruism rather than dangling economic carrots in front of First World peoples. The latter, the trademark of First World populism, is an imperialist demand in disguise. The Leading Light was the first to really understand global class in the contemporary era. Pantherism is important to learn from, but Pantherism is the past, not the future. It is time to look forward, not backward. Follow the Leading Light all the way. Be the Leading Light.