Liberator 1.2
Where Is Marcus Harcus?
words: Brian Kasoro
 

On September 11th 2001, a tragic thing happened in this country. A man attempted what most would call suicide. He took matters, of which he was most dedicated to, into his own hands. He took his passion for people and channeled it into a goal: the destruction of evil and corruption, and the rebuilding of love and truth. The “suicide” that most view this man’s acts as, were in fact revolutionary on his part. They took courage, and a faith in god that many do not have. The suicidal revolutionary act of this man was simple. According to Marcus Harcus, he was “called by the creator” to run for mayor.

Truly, Mr. Marcus Harcus was brave in his attempt to straighten out the city we live in. Unlike many others, Marcus’ campaign seems to have been funded only by the backing of god himself, as oppose to the evil spirits of dead presidents. Perhaps every path Marcus took on his road to candidacy took on a revolutionary spirit. Not only did he denounce the political funding practices of most politicians, he declared himself completely opposed to politicians in general. Marcus Harcus officially declared that, in a world of politics, he is not a politician. In his own words, the prospective mayor states, “all politician means is ‘professional liar’.”

Because Mr. Harcus took such uncommon stances in his run for the mayor’s office, he not only lost the respect of the “established” establishment, he lost the support of his own. During the Harcus campaign, all African American press establishments seemed to favor the black puppet figure of Sharon Sayles Belton as oppose to the young uncorrupted and seemingly incorruptible Marcus Harcus. Meanwhile the established institutions of the Star Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press seemed to have forgotten that the mayor’s race consisted of more than four people. At virtually every debate, the only people whose voices were heard in their entirety were R.T. Rybak, Sharon Sales Belton, Lisa McDonald, and Mark Stenglein.

Do our leaders have to have formally held a position for them to be recognized as serious candidates? When a person has been in the system prior to being elected for a position in the system, there exists a great probability that the individual has been conditioned into the systematic thinking of that system. This conditioning greatly lowers the chances of new candidates, with new ideas and unconditioned thoughts ever breaking into the “political societies” that form not only within city hall, but also at the respective forums and community meetings of “leaders” from Black, Indian, White, Latino, and Asian communities. Representatives of this republic, in which we live in, should be complete instruments of the people, and the fact that an individual such as Marcus Harcus was not advertised to the people is preposterous. Mayor Rybak, Lisa McDonald, Mark Stenglein and Sharon Sales Belton should all have been standing on the corners of our city blocks with signs reading, “Vote for Marcus Harcus.

One of the large issues in our city is that the establishment has become paranoid of the possibility of new faces completely abandoning the work they have done while they have served our communities. Paranoia causes doubt, and any man or woman who speaks the truth of god will tell you that doubt cause lack of faith. So, we have leaders who are paranoid of loosing years of work, and young faces trying to break on the scene and bring the purity of innocence and unconditioned thinking back to our political offices and our leadership positions. Our current leaders doubt the abilities of the youth (which is a natural occurrence) therefore, they lack the faith to stand out on the corner with “vote for Marcus Harcus” signs. In addition, those who control the people’s perspectives with the information they disseminate, are not leading the people correctly. These media outlets should be inclusive of the “unestablished”, always, while upholding their responsibility by attempting to deny support to the unrighteous established.

With the power of the media in today’s world, the ‘hands off’ ‘look-the-other-way’ philosophy of the media is not right. The missions of institutions shall adapt to the times in which they exist. Understandable is the “neutralness” of yesterday’s media. This country’s existence is based off paranoia of tyranny and misuse of power. The founding father’s ran from a tyrannous king and developed all kinds of ways of which to stop it from happening again. But the real power is in the people, and not in the system. As we see today, the prevention of a tyranny does not prevent unrighteousness. Only righteous people can prevent, or destroy that.

Those who sponsor forums, debates and publish profiles, should take their power and influence and use it righteously. These groups are paranoid of the power they wield, so they let it sit, which benefits the “established establishment”. The stagnation of the system and of information keeps revolutionaries silenced to the people’s ears.

Where is Marcus Harcus? He was nowhere to be found during an important period of this cities history. Was Mr. Harcus hiding? Or was it that he was not being seen by those who had the power to tell the people all about Marcus Harcus. Harcus is not the answer, he represents something much larger. When Mr. Harcus has made his contribution to the system and the people begin to sense his thinking becoming too conditioned and out of touch, it will be expected that he too be seen standing on the corner with a “vote for (young righteous revolutionary)” sign in his hands.