We have a lot of intelligent angry voices in the Black Diaspora but very few strategist among them who understand how to fight or win a war. Our concepts of warfare, playing the "long game", or building a nation are lacking. Some of us are far too diplomatic and others are much too aggressive in our mindset. Both mentalities are recipes for a losing strategy that will keep us on the carousel of defeat in any long term physical, psychological, social, political, or economic conflict. I can tell just based on how some Black people see Killmonger as the revolutionary hero in the Black Panther movie and wrongly call T'Challa a sellout when he is the true hero that still tried to save Killmonger even at the end.
"It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on." ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
This shows me that many so called Black leaders have no true concept of military strategy or the burden of leadership when it comes to making tactical decisions to achieve liberation or peace. Like the fictional character of Killmonger, they are more emotional than strategic because of being prisoners of past trauma which has given them such narrow tunnel vision they can't see the glaring holes in their ideology. They also can't see or understand the burden on T'Challa as king to acknowledge past mistakes and fix them going forward. Killmonger had legitimate reasons for his feelings but he had a selfish, poorly planned strategy based on revenge which would have been just as damaging to his own people as to those he saw as their oppressors.
"Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life." ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
A "warmonger" or "monger" of any kind is a person who thrives on and creates constant conflict with no true desire for peace or stability because of the unending war raging within themselves. This person will destroy everyone to satisfy their short sighted goals, and is only loyal to themselves. Even among those I regard as friends & peers, I can see in spite of their brilliance or education they don't understand what it takes to actually win a conflict that involves an entire group of people trying to achieve a collective goal. This only convinces me more so that the Black Collective is ill prepared for a race war if it was to ever happen; God forbid. We would be quickly overrun if these types of people led us during such a conflict.
People who do the emotional thing over the strategic rationale thing will always lose and lead others into defeat as well. You cannot save an entire collective of people if you have competing loyalties among yourselves. You must prioritize the collective's causes in common over all other sub-issues or you will accomplish nothing and remain fragmented before being overrun by opposing forces because of your own inability to eliminate the divisions among you that create the confusion which will be used against you physically, politically, socially, economically, and psychologically. Every other cause among you must be secondary to the collective's primary goals, and then they can be addressed after those are accomplished.
The mentality needed to fight a large scale war or guerrilla warfare of any kind is far different than that of those seen as humanitarians, business people, activists, politicians and intellectuals. You must have a military mind that understands how to achieve victory without making foolish decisions that will embroil your people in endless conflict. Any person who allows their emotions or divided loyalties to override their rationale will never successfully lead or advise others during times of intense conflict. Strategies or ideas born out of emotionalism are always devoid of viable long term plans that bring stability.
"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved." ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Where emotionalism is the undergirding drive of any leadership their regime becomes a dictatorship or council of tyranny that is more brutal than the one people are freed from. If you govern like your enemy you just become your enemy. Some leaders are only good as teachers, social activists, and morale boosters within the collective, but are bad at actual strategy or governing. They are full of history, psychology, sociology, and spirituality but are terrible for conflict or long term engagements that require the mentality of what is known as a "wartime consigliere". They will get you killed much quicker than they can ever help save you out of a hostile situation so you can live to fight another day and in a better way.
"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting." ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Emotional intellectuals have a lot of fight in them because of their passion. However, they will always lose in the end or lead their people to total disaster because their only contingencies are to die in a blaze of glory or keep doing the same thing over & over again when the limited scope of their flawed plans fail; and they always do. Dying like Black ancestors who jumped from slave ships to avoid enslavement may seem courageous, but it only brings death and leaves no one alive to fight for the freedom of those still living. None of us are devoid of emotions when making critical decisions, but those who are disciplined enough to put their emotions in submission to their rationale are able to plan wisely & strategically to win any conflict. ~ Mr. Blaktastic
PSALM 144:1-2; "Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me."
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