Sun Stand Still: It's Time To Hunt
- Fred Chavis
- May 16
- 9 min read
Updated: May 21
Fred Chavis | The Liberation Movement
"The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to protect ourselves, then it's the government that should be charged with the crime, because we're only upholding a law that they've been unable to uphold." Malcolm X
On May 2, 2025, the world witnessed the kind of pain that can only be born from systemic neglect, generational oppression, and state violence.
Rodney Hinton Jr., a father in mourning, was charged with the aggravated murder of Hamilton County Sheriff's Deputy Larry Henderson in Cincinnati, just one day after police fatally shot his 18-year-old son, Ryan Hinton.
According to prosecutors, Hinton deliberately struck Deputy Henderson with his vehicle, overcome by grief after viewing police body camera footage of his son’s killing.
They labeled it cold-blooded, but they won’t say his son was gunned down in cold blood.
They won’t say Ryan’s life was stolen by a system that sees Black youth as threats, not sons.
This is not a case about right and wrong in the narrow, legal sense.
This is a case about what happens when the oppressed are pushed past the point of human endurance.
When a father, shattered by state violence, is told to grieve quietly while the badge walks away again.
This story is not about one man’s so-called crime. It’s about the crimes of a system that provokes rebellion, then acts surprised when the people finally strike back.
Rodney Hinton’s name now joins a long list of those who refused to suffer silently. And whether the state calls it murder or madness, we must call it what it truly is: resistance born of unbearable injustice.
Prey vs Predator
Most people are surprised to learn that I have a science background.
An "Animal Science Degree"?
What made you so revolutionary?
If you ask me, it all goes hand in hand. The way one treats the environment is a clear representation of how they feel towards the inhabitants that call that environment home.
Your environment determines your survival and adaptations.
I have observed one commonality across all ecosystems. The dynamic between prey and predator.
A principle that speaks to nature and nurture.
It is the nature of prey animals to know they are prey, hunted, and vulnerable.
They are nurtured in the sights, smells, and sounds of nearby predators so that they may prepare their escape.
Live to see another day.
Prey, whether in the wild or captivity, tends to exhibit the same behavior. They never lose that sense of "I'm prey".
Prey understand that at any moment they can end up in the suffocating grasp of a lion around their throat.
Predators are another story.
There is a stark difference between a predator animal in the wild versus one that has been living in captivity for some time.
A predator in the wild can never lose focus. They must always be vigilant, training, preparing, and patient.
A predator knows the terrain and all inhabitants. They know the nature of their prey.
Their survival depends on knowing how to hunt successfully.
A predator in captivity is different.
It is a beast that has been tamed. It accepts the interaction of those who provide its food. A tamed beast begins to lose the instincts they needed to survive in the wild.
They have food, shelter, and a home that does not move.
A tamed animal struggles to re-wild itself because it has not developed the necessary skills a predator needs in the wild to survive.
They depend on humans.
A tamed animal is still dangerous
This gets me to my two main points.
We, Black folk, have lived this life too long as prey, and some of us have allowed ourselves to be tamed.
We raise our children as antelopes to respect authority, and say yes, sir.
Black men tell their women to be silent, not to agitate the authoritative force.
We beg the plantation for bread and water.
It's as if we don't know who we are.
That's exactly what it is--we have lost who we are because we have been tamed to accept a system that deprives and oppresses us.
We have allowed this oppressive, anti-black system to erase our instincts.
It's time we remember, get back to training, and most of all--
It's time we remember how to hunt.
Concerning Non-Violence
To be nonviolent with an oppressive force that only understands violence would be to show up to a boxing match, expecting your opponent not to hit you because you ask them to.
You can only be non-violent with a foe that is non-violent with you.
You can only be nonviolent if your foe has a conscience that you can reach to persuade them to take a different course.
As Kwame Ture, formerly Stokely Carmichael, once said, "The United States has no conscience."
Throughout history, we were taught the lesson that a man who can withdraw or hold himself back is disciplined.
Whereas in certain circumstances this is true--you should not throw your life away because another man mean-mugged or stepped on your fresh kicks.
The contradictions come from those before us, who felt control of their instincts would protect their families. Silent while the white man raped and defiled our women and children.
The man who showed restraint in the face of violence suffocating that which they love most.
I've had to ask myself this question.
Why is it that many of the Black massacres occurred because of the so-called disrespect of white women?
Entire towns burned down because a white woman was said to have been touched or looked at by a Black man.
What about our Black women?
I have yet to hear of a white town burned to the ground for the abuse and disrespect of a Black woman.
Where is our response?
Our people are facing violence, genocide, and systemic oppression everywhere you look, all across this planet.
This is where you began to realize--the global hate of our people is real.
Yet, we have tried everything.
We have cried and begged for the end of our people dying.
We have marched and shouted.
We have prayed and worshiped with you.
Fought with you, stood with you, over and over again, and yet you have still hated us.
You continue to oppress, defile, and murder our people.
The only people asked to be nonviolent are Black people.
There comes a time concerning nonviolence when it is not a viable solution.
Frantz Fanon explained this phenomenon in great depth in The Wretched of the Earth (suggested reading).
Fanon did not glorify violence. He exposed the hypocrisy of those who condemn it when it comes from the oppressed, while ignoring the centuries of violence used to create the conditions we live under.
The oppressed will feel conflicted, an urge burning. The urge to be free, to have humanity, and to live life with dignity.
Eventually, that rage explodes. A new man is born. A free man.
The oppressor teaches the oppressed violence.
Just like any good student, the oppressed apply the lesson to their life.
There is no greater teacher of violence than the United States.
It's important to understand we do not glorify violence or see it as the only means to liberation.
We see violence as part of the strategy. The willingness to be violent to protect our families and communities.
The Liberation Movement will not condone the raising of livestock but the nurturing of revolutionary warriors.
We must defend our homes and communities.
Our people.
To defend your territory is not strictly violence; it is self-defense.
The organizing of comrades to defend our land, territory, and homes by any means necessary.
Sometimes you must go on the hunt to ensure there are no invaders or threats to your land.
If any men amongst us will not die for freedom and the liberation of their families, let them return to their master's house.
We need men of war and revolution. We can no longer accept the violence and death imposed upon our people.
We must prepare for war is upon us.
A War is Waging
I find it funny how people have become disillusioned to believe freedom can come without blood.
In all of history, I have never learned of a war between the oppressed and the oppressor that did not require a fight.
The United States is the most violent country on this planet--yet we view all other uprisings across the world as isolated.
A war is waging, and the United States will pay for its sins.
The oppressor has failed to acknowledge its transgressions, change their ways, or heal the wounds it has caused while inflicting new wounds on the oppressed.
We, as Black people, now say it is time for the United States of America to repent and prepare for its judgment.
What we see today is a Godly Revolution, and what Godly revolution has not required violence by Godly men of war and valor.
The Holy Bible is a bloody book that speaks to the oppression of our people.
From Moses to Joshua, to Gideon to King David--much blood has been spilled.
From the Haitian Revolution to the Nat Turner Rebellion.
We are at war.
For any man whose freedom is suppressed is at war to be free.
A revolution led by God will require men of war and valor to rise in faith.
Our God is a God of War, and our God is the God of the Oppressed.
Like the story of Joshua taking A.I., Judges gives us another chapter of blood and judgment. One that is said to be the most sinister of the bible verses.
A Levite's concubine, a woman, nameless in the eyes of the world but seen by God, was raped and murdered by men from the tribe of Benjamin.
And when the Levite called for justice, he acted.
He cut her body into twelve pieces, sending the pieces to the different leaders. Not out of cruelty, but out of desperation, to force the people of Israel to confront what had been done.
The other tribes rose in horror and demanded that Benjamin turn over the men who had committed the atrocity.
But Benjamin refused.
They chose loyalty to wickedness over accountability. They protected the rapists, and in doing so, declared war on righteousness.
And so war came.
If you are critical of Rodney Hinton Jr.--keep that same energy towards the system that broke his heart, destroyed his life, and forced him to seek justice he would not have received through your courts.
Sun Stand Still: It's Time To Hunt
We must:
ORGANIZE
SEIZE BACK THE LAND
PROTECT THE LAND
BUILD ON THE LAND
This is the most important piece to total and complete liberation. We must organize in a way that educates the people on who they are, systemic oppression, political education, and how we dismantle an oppressive system.
It will take disciplined men and women of valor.
Once we have the people organized, we can focus on seizing the land.
Without land, we have nothing but a moment. Protests and marches mean absolutely nothing without land.
Obtaining land allows us to have infrastructure on which to build.
Full Black Autonomy.
“It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderers behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel, or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish.” George Jackson
When we have land and begin to build our economy---
We must protect it.
Now we are speaking to community self-defense.
We must be able to defend our territory.
We must do so in a way that makes it known, police are not welcome in our communities.
White racists are not allowed on our land.
The way the enemy watches and surveils us--we too must always be vigilant to the oppressor's moves and ways.
We are speaking of guerrilla warfare tactics in our communities to protect our people, for who knows the streets better than we do.
For community self-defense to work, comrades must be conscious and prepared to respond.
Let it be known, across this nation, Black people are rebelling.
If you dare to touch our women, hurt our children, we will respond.
We will no longer be nonviolent with an enemy that has been nothing but violent to us.
It's time for us to hunt.
By hunting, we choose to build up the land for our use.
By hunting, we mean this:
"We acknowledge your violent ways, and so we will protect our people and communities by any means necessary."
The Liberation Movement will take the head off the giant, for God is with us. Let the sun stand still: it's time to hunt.
For God I Live and For God I Die.
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