Do The 'Hustle'

"What they refuse to accept is that they can't use the hustle on educated people the way they've used it all these centuries on uneducated people.  For example, educated people know the power of culture --"
"But, in a certain sense, we're not talking about their culture -- maybe about a feature of it.  We're talking about just another fly-by-night dance.  Uneducated people dwell on fly-by-night crap.  Look at how many centuries they've been going through changes on their hair, calling it 'their' culture, taking features from Anglo culture and placing 'black' in front of them: 'black' Jesus, 'black' Christianity, 'black' English, 'black' --"

"I'm getting to that.  'Do the hustle' was more than just a physical dance, it was also political.  Educated people had said centuries ago, 'Let's take these uneducated, culturally dead people and make ourselves rich, hustle them'; and after being hustled for generations by the educated, the uneducated looked to the people of the pulpit for leadership.  These pulpiters realized from the beginning that although 'hustle' had an unsavory connotation they could take it and embellish it into a gold mine.  Once these uneducated, poor people lured educated, rich people to 'doing the hustle' on the dance floor, these pulpiters hypnotized their followers with, 'God is on our side; it's our obligation to defend the civil rights people of the poor in all things and especially those who need help rationalizing violence in the streets.  The pulpiters realized that most of the followers didn't know the meaning of such words as 'rationalize', but used such words to intimidate the followers.

"Even before ashes of the first rioting throughout our country had cooled, the educated people made the connection between the pulpiters and their followers and the rioting.  'We will not tolerate this violence in our society, in the most powerful country in the world', the people blared throughout the land.  They knew, however, that they were hesitant and late in declaring it; they imagined hearing the pulpiters and their followers whispering among themselves, 'Stockpile more matches and bottles of gasoline '."