Let me start by apologizing for my use of the word nigger in this blog. I am not Quentin Taratino by any stretch of the imagination so my use of the word is not because I have some secret love affair with the term. In fact, when President Obama was first elected I promised myself I would eliminate the word from my day to day vocabulary all together. I couldn’t justify using that word in this day and age when an African American had risen to the highest political rank in the world. While not completely successful, I’d say that my nigger to day ratio has dramatically decreased to a single digit percentage. However when the term is appropriately applied when defining a behavior that is befitting a buffoon of color, I must tip my helmet and ask the readers of this blog their respective patience as I pontificate on another case of African Americans living down to the term of D.A.N. or dumb ass niggas. Secondly please keep in mind that I am speaking in generalities based on experiences so I’m not broad stroking the entire community but if the shucking and jiving songs makes your feet tap, then by all means, you’re that dumb ass nigga I’m talking about.
Having said that…
Unfortunately the societal handicaps that persistently mar the African American experience have made their way into the MC culture. An arrogant lack of knowledge about MC history has resulted in “new” traditions that boldly disregard a rich motorcycle history with pioneers and experiences that would behoove the contemporary nation of black bikers to be aware of. Yet, these things are disregarded because they’d get in the way of them rushing to the next fish fry, trophy party, bike blessing, coming out party or whatever other type of party the circus is creating to exploit the short pockets of their fellow biker. But like the helpless child or the clueless buffoon, too many of us accept what we are fed without asking questions.
Let’s logically break this down before we spiritually tear it up.
Many of us, if not all, are first exposed to bikers from pop culture. The image of the big bad WHITE biker on the Harley is tattooed in our brain and the initial reaction is one of envy or disdain. You embrace that immediate sense of badassim and freedom or you cling harder to your cage. How many times do you think a person is exposed to that image of the big bad white biker before that person finds out that there’s a black version of that biker? Is it days, weeks or in some cases, even years? To this day I get startled looks when I pull up on my Harley from black people. “ I didn’t know we rode those bikes.” So, it’s not unrealistic that even someone remotely connected to the community isn’t going to be exposed to black bikers until much later and unfortunately even after many of them come into the community, they voluntarily segregate themselves from big bad black bikers in an OMC because what was once a positive image (white biker) is now a bad image because of (black) face.
This is commonly referred to as the white is right disease that so many black people suffer from. While the shackles have been released from their ankles, wrists and necks it’s been rooted around their souls and brains. The mental enslavement is screwed on like a vice grip and thus they’re still slaves where it counts the most and in the MC community that slave mentality has resulted in The House Niggas Motorcycle Club.
The HNMC is made up of black or Hispanic support clubs of white OMC’s. This is not a criticism of any white OMC who has seen fit to build their nation by incorporating lackeys of color within their network. In fact, not only do I not criticize them for it, I applaud them for continuing a systematic and cultural history of slave to master dependence that worked incredibly well for the settlers of this country. In fact you know that famous saying, “Slavery gets shitdone” so to my white OMC brothers, I applaud you. It’s the slaves that I question.
I will speak in generalities that we all know to be reality. OMC’s are traditionally segregated. When these clubs initially formed the country was segregated so the clubs reflected society at the time so white outlaw clubs have remained that way to this day. That’s not to say the club collective is racist as a great deal of my biker brothers are white, Nazi tattooed, Aryan spider web sporting die hards but they’re following the traditions of the club and policy for these clubs is that no person of African American descent will, nor can ever, become a member of that club. That ostracization is based solely on race and not what bike they ride, their riding skill or anything to do with biking; they don’t want niggas in the club. The club essentially is MASSAH’s house. If I’m not being blunt enough I’ll try it again: BECAUSE YOU ARE BLACK, YOU WILL NEVER BE PART OF THIS CLUB.
However…
What you can do for Massah is wear a support patch. (Huh?) What you can do for Massah is come to our functions and make sure you bring all your nigger friends and spend money at our events and our club house. (‘cuse me?) Oh, by the way, when your nigger friends start acting up, we’re gonna make sure we send one of you niggers to police those niggers ‘cause we don’t want to get our hands dirty with you niggers (Nigga, what the fuck did you just say?)
So, in other words the rules of Massah’s house is clearly outlined and black support clubs of white OMC’s cheerfully follow those rules either not understanding that within the pecking order, they’re pecks and only there to take orders. Let me repeat that…”within the pecking order, they’re pecks and only there to take orders” They’re blissfully stupid and the freedom of stupidity provides an intoxication that dwarfs conventional alcoholic excess. If the OMC you are supporting with your brandishing of their patch and the spending of your green money at their white function won’t allow you to one day join their ranks, why exactly are you supporting them? Is it because the image of the big bad white biker you first saw as a child has cemented in your psyche what a biker is and thus you’re paying homage to that childhood fantasy? Are you so trained that you believe that white is right even though white is very much clear when it comes to what they think of you?
Which one is it?
I really would like to know because as a man of color in this country with an education and the support and love of my black and white brothers, I cannot understand how a black man would willingly place his neck underneath the boot of another man who clearly doesn’t see that man as his equal based solely on the ignorant premise of race. If a white man came up to you now with shackles and said, “Y’know I miss the good ole days” would you start clapping your hands, shucking and jiving and put those restraints around your wrists and happily go pick cotton?
If the answer is no then why are you as a black MC supporting a white OMC?
When my relationship with the OMC wasn’t what it is today, I considered which OMC the organization I was previously with should consider. The first criteria and thankfully was agreed upon by all was, “If any part of the OMC requirements for their own membership excluded a brother based on race, they are not the OMC for us.” In other words, if they didn’t subscribe to the philosophy that brotherhood has no color, then that’s not a true brotherhood. That point is not debatable. Not only would they never see us truly as brothers, but we’d never see them as brothers as well and that’s not our idea of support. How can you call yourself a support group to an organization that will not support your membership within their ranks based exclusively or firstly on your race? That is illogical. That’s like starting a black women’s health clinic but only for light skinned black women but they’ll employ darkies to work there to take care of the redbones.
Does that shit make any sense to you?
If the answer is no, then ask yourself how can a black MC be a support club for a white OMC? It’s a slave mentality that isn’t shared by the other side of the tracks. I have never come across a white support club of a black OMC. I’m not saying there aren’t any out there but in all my travels I’ve never come across it and if anyone has, I’d ask that they please share that with us. I’ve actually been contacted by white start up clubs wanting to know through my contacts if they could be placed with a white OMC in their area. I recall specifically informing them that there was a mixed OMC not too far from them and they politely declined saying it was their preference to go through their white OMC. I respected and understood that and made the connection but it made me think. There was nothing racist about them wanting to go through their white OMC. In fact, I thought that was the normal thing to do. Why would a white club want to be a support club for a black OMC? That’s illogical. It doesn’t make sense. In fact what kind of dumb fucks would do something like that?
Oh wait…we would.
Every club is different but some rules like everyone in a motorcycle club owning and riding a motorcycle should be quite simple. When a club decides to become support for an OMC, part of that clubs decision should be predicated on the notion that this OMC would not only accept our members into their own ranks should our members decide they want to do that one day, but this OMC would take the time to train, school and accept us to quite possibly joining their ranks one day as an option. In other words, you don’t join a minor league baseball team saying, “I NEVER want to make it to the majors.” Forgive me for describing any club outside of an OMC as minor leagues but to make my point I must. You become support for an OMC with the possibility of joining that OMC one day but if that OMC that you so proudly wear a support patch of says you will NEVER be good enough to join them based on you being a person of color, then you are truly a dumb nigga and it breaks my heart to say that, only because I mean it from the bottom of my heart.
Do you hate yourself so much that you cannot possibly fathom taking direction and learning from a face that looks like your own? Is it such an incredulous idea to think that the black OMC has members that are just as well versed, if not more than the white OMC? Do you hate yourself so much that you’d refuse to break bread at the table with your brother choosing instead to eat like a dog from a bowl of scraps out in the backyard?
Maybe it’s me but when someone tell’s me I can’t sit at the table with them when they’re eating dinner, I kinda get insulted and when your white OMC Massah tells you that you can wear his support patch but you’ll never be allowed to join his club, he’s telling you that you’re not good enough to eat at his table.
Again, let me repeat this so no one gets it twisted. I do notcriticize the white OMC’s for having black support clubs. It actually makes very good sense for them to do that. It expands their nation and power of influence in a sector that traditionally they’ve had very limited, no interest or limited ability to extort. While keeping their good feet out of the sand pit, they ask the darkies to play in that pee crusted sandpit of black MC’s and the white OMC reaps the benefits.
It’s sorta like picking tobacco ain’t it or is it picking cotton? Tell me Mr. House Nigga MC, is it picking cotton or is it picking tobacco?
So, now that we’ve established that Massah’s house is Massah’s house where do the niggas exist in Massah’s house? Well, based on what I’ve seen and experienced the nigga’s get to come to Massah’s house and support Massah at his functions, the niggas get to spend money at Massah’s house and most of all, when there’s a problem with the darkies the niggas get to police their own people for Massah; that way, there’s a black face doling out white justice and laws. It keeps Massah’s hands clean.
Did you know there are three official kind of house niggas as defined by the urban dictionary?
They are as follows:
· A black person that does their best to please white people even if it means disowning their own racial identity.
· -a black person that sucks up to the white man for benefits. From slave times where the house nigga would get to work inside the house as opposed to picking cotton out in the hot sun.
· The house nigger, as defined by Malcolm X, is the slave who imagines himself to be thought of as kin by his master because they live in the same house.
So, I’m curious Mr. House Nigga MC, which type of house nigga are you?
Please support your local BLACK OMC.
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